So, 1EK, are you angry at the group because all of its members aren't what you expected them to be? Let us indulge in an exercise: 1EK migrates to, say, France. Would he bash all the Frenchmen after some two years because not all of them are artsy wine-sipping moustache and beret wearing folk?
Dude, the Codex isn't a homogeneous group. There's a bunch of loosely defined factions here. Dragon Age was a source of controversy all the fucking time, with some people defending it (myself included), some people criticising it and some people bashing it on principle due to some features it exhibited - or just being a Bioware game. To cut it short - business as usual.
I, for instance, liked the game during my first playthrough. It was only during the second one that some of the flaws started to glare at me - and it was because I knew the game quite well by then and saw how limited it actually is. Take Sten for example - at one point at the camp he casts doubts at your ability as a leader and suggests he might oust you from leadership. I never expected it to happen, sure - the game was designed in a way it was pretty obvious it wouldn't support anyone else in charge than you. I did think though that it is possible, given low influence or poor dialogue choices, that you might have to duel Sten or that he might leave you if you delay going after the Archdemon for too long. Same with Flemeth hunting Morrigan, shriek ambushes at the camp etc, etc.
The game was good at creating illusion of a reactive and punishing world. It could fool you only if you had no foreknowledge of the game though, but it's still something praiseworthy. Now, I'm not surprised to see that you can't enjoy it seeing as how you had two years to read up on it, see all the praise and criticism it faced. By now you probably know the game much better than many people who actually finished it. Why did you even bother playing it now? I wouldn't if I were you.
I still think that the game showed promise and it was massive incline given how crappy Mass Effect 1 was. Combat at Nightmare was quite challenging and fun for the most part (and still is unless you throw the balance out of the window by finishing DLCs or using DLC items), the party characters were pretty well written with a few notable exceptions (such as Oghren who was derp, especially after how awesome the dwarves were shaping up to be or Wynne who was just plain boring). The archdemon was an extremely poor villain but you realised that only when reaching the end-game; most of the time you were just waiting for the twist that would show some hidden connections or some other motive for the Blight in general than mindless destruction - plus the game focused you on subplots, making the blight more of a constant hindrance than something you concentrated on. My hopes for Bioware were relatively high after DA and ME2.
Funny that I thought about leaving multiple times too anyway. The reason for my semi-retirement and a sharp drop in posting is kinda different, it was all about posters like you who would get butthurt, vindicative and abusive all the time, even if it isn't conducive to well, anything. The "hardcore codexers" always claim it's about intelligent discussion and critical thinking but when it comes to actually discussing something they're always the first to start ad hominems and devolve everything to a dull "no u" game of contradiction mixed with insults - and when you tell them to lay off they claim superiority because you apparently 'couldn't take the heat'. To top it all, the insults and verbal sparring often lacks finesse and is just boring and predictable to behold; hence I don't even bother to jump in the, say, TW2 discussions since there's always a hardcore codexer in the underbush who'll eventually come in and pull everything to the intellectual gutter filled with strawmen, baseless generalisations (QTE!!!1! CONSOLE UI YOU CONSOLETARD). Ad nauseam ad hominem et absurdum et curva. Then there're also the trolls and idiots (or people masterfully claiming both titles, like Ch1ef who had mercifully left) who get even more annoying than the hardcore ones.
Well, most relatively sane people don't join internet forums to achieve mastery at handling verbal insults but to exchange info and opinions related to their hobbies or interests. If you're expecting folks to treat video games as an ideology you're likely to be disappointed.
It's a travesty of great art to even put it in the same mix as video games. Whoever plays video games, shouldn't take them nor him/herself seriously, which is exactly the way Codex works these days. Hence, what Serious_Business said. Screw you.
