I'm nowhere near as deep as a lot of guys and it feels like I've been playing for ages. I eventually had to leave the Hinterlands.
I'm a completionist in these sort of games but I was getting bored of the fetch quests.
Come to find out, Hinterlands is simply more or less a prologue level and the story picks up once you dip out. They had a huge thread on it on reddit.
I was
at killing 10 Druffalo to feed refugees. Just picked up Sera & Vivianne.
how does it compare to skyrim?
is it better?
Thus far, IMO, no. Skyrim was more magical to me, initially, from the time I picked up the controller.
From talking to dragons to being able to become a vampire or werewolf. Random, but there's no day/night cycle in this from what I can tell in this.
Skyrim just felt more epic and detailed, but there's a lot of detail in this, too. They're both under the same genre but they do different things well.
You have a lot more influence on the world in Inquisition and while the locations aren't as lore heavy on average, you still have a shyt ton to do.
More than you had in Skyrim.
And while you can't talk to EVRY NPC you come across, the relationship and bonds you can form feel 110% more organic here than they did in Skyrim.