Amazing game that is easily the best in the series, even though there are still some things that could be improved.

Was waiting for the GOTY edition after I played through it via EA Access.

You just described my experience.

I love Origins, played the whole thing multiple times. I love so many things in the world, and still, after 10 hours i was bored like hell.
I want to give another try someday, some games get better after a time (TLoU for example), but i agree that GOTYs last year were very misguided.

Unless i am forgetting someone, i would give the awards to Shadows of Mordor (for its nemesys system) or Bayonetta 2 (for being an overall better game than the others).

I am confused, how can you say it is the best in the series if you only played in EA Access?
EA Access give full games? Always thought it was just some hours.

Yes, EA Access grants you access to full games among other things. The hours you're referring to is a part of their service that allows members to play X hours (usually 12 I believe) of a game about a week prior to release.

as described above you can play trials for EA games that aren't even out yet. The trial is limited to 10 hours (of pure game time) and is basically the full game.

Everything that is in the Vault can be played for as long as you want (until the subsription runs out).
I put 80 hours in DA: Inquisition doing basically everything there was. DLCs aren't part of the Vault, even if EA makes some DLC available for free for their members, as in the case of Battlefield 4.

I'll get the GOTY edition purely for the DLC and only then when it hits ~20€.

Well if that's your view then yea don't play this game cause you wont like it. When I play games I only ever do stuff related to the main story I hate doing side quest that have nothing to do with the story. I don't consider it waste of money though cause I still got over 60+ hours from the game and I can only name a handful of games that have given me that much play time.

I don't think those side quest are 70% of the game. Yes it is a flaw in the game but it's the only flaw I can think of (IMO). When I played the way I advised you to I was able to get 60+ hours out of the game. That's more then most games can offer you for their $60.

Pretty much.

Wow how did it get GOTY when it released last year? Something I definitely fishy here

nah but seriously this is nice for people that haven't jumped in it and for people that don't support digital content.

Inquisition was a case of a good idea (quasi-open world) not implemented very well, It mostly had space for the sake of space. But I still like the game a lot. I hope my nightmare playthrough trophy will proc when I finish my current run, because my next two runs will need to be on an easier setting just so I can get through quicker. I pretty much always have to play each Dragon Age game with every class, and all races in the case of Origins and Inquisition, at least once.

Looking forward to my two-handed weapon wielding elf warrior maiden. She'll be the niece of my city elf two-handed weapon specialist Grey Warden from Origins.