User blog comment:Masseffect7/Dragon Age: Inquisition/@comment-5194036-20141118233808/@comment-173.58.251.107-20141119013703

Well, there are many core differences, and some similarities.

Like the fact that Dragon Age has swords, gigantic stone giants, a beautiful Chantry girl turned teammate/lover turned spymaster, an axe-crazy witch who voices a similarly axe-crazy quarian, the former obsessed with having a kid and the latter obsessed with killing the geth, both Shepard's have minor "blink and you'll miss it" voice roles, and characters with symbolic names, The Warden, The Champion, The Inquisitor, let's see...who else has a symbolic name like that? The Shepard, The Archangel, among others. Oh, and shooty things.

But I do like how you have a larger team in Dragon Age as opposed to Mass Effect, there were times where I really wanted to go around with Wrex, Tali and Liara all at once in the original game, same going for Grunt, Miranda and Jack in the second game, and EDI, Liara and Tali in the third game. Guess Shepard is so good at their job they don't need the extra hand.