User blog comment:James12708/Bioware Hasn't written themselves into a corner/@comment-4950455-20121110013520/@comment-2228120-20121110062254

"Schroedinger characters", LOL!

However, my own expectations for DA3 are pretty low not because of this but because of the general direction the franchise is now taking. The Mage-Templar conflict is about as interesting as football rowdies fighting; apparently, the devs totally missed that the huge success of the Legacy DLC was also due to the return to the Grey Wardens and darkspawn - to mystery. If mystery plays only a secondary part in DA3, like it did in DA2, the appeal will never be reinstated.

Which, again, gets us to the hypothetical ME4: the ancient evil is vanquished, it's mystery revealed. Not to fall into the same trap as DA2, you need a clearly defined antagonist, and some mystery behind it/them. I can't see this pulled successfully twice on a galactic scale, so the game will have to be centered around something else; the question is, if it "something" will hold the same appeal.