She must be a Qunari fan, lol.
Anyway, I hate her outfit, but I'll get over it if she turns out to be interesting, which it seems like she might be. Having Maleficent as your mage in the party isn't exactly a bad thing, lol. Pretty cool actually, if she turns out to lean on the evil side.
Which appoach is better is certainly up for debate. But the awesome thing about origin stories was that it made you think, what approach would a person that grew up in certain conditions, being surrounded by certain people would take in situations they find themselves in thoughout the game. If there is no backstory included whatsoever, it takes all that away, leaving you with a pretty much blank Skyrim type of charater. Which is fine, because you can create a backstory all by yourself. I'm just not sure that's what I want to see in BW game, since there pretty much always was some kind of backstory available for your character. Even if it was a short Mass Effect stlyle one.
Exactly. I hope this wasn't another decision based on Skyrim, because TES is completely different. They can get away with this (even though I'd rather it change) because it's a sandbox game, whereas DA is more story based. You can't just take away shit like that that's been in the series already.
But which approach is better doesn't even matter, because again, Origins had both. Unless someone wants to bring up Skyrim vs Origins, which I'd again say they're two different experiences, though I'll always vote for having some sort of origin story in TES as well. It's just that TES can get away with it because it's sandbox, and also because they've never had them before.