Weirdly (and probably controversially), I genuinely do think that the best part of DA2 was how your choices end up being meaningless.
It's almost a deconstruction of WRPGs. Every time it gives you a chance to influence events, something happens that takes that decision out of your hands. Hawke isn't a leader deciding the fate of a kingdom- he/she is a bystander, watching powerlessly as events way beyond their control spiral into chaos. There's no good vs evil, no villain to fight, just tensions that have been simmering for so long that all it takes is one little spark to ruin everything, and we know from the framing device that the war is inevitable and no matter how hard you try there's nothing you can do about it.
It's something that, AFAIK, no game has done before, and I love it. It's just a shame that watching it all unfold involves so much repetition.
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