Originally Posted by DoctorNarrative 
I do not agree about the city versus country… I find DA2 too confined. That might have a lot to do with the repeated areas though. If there were more places to go and later chapters had unique content I might not mind the one city thing as much.
That's I think also a problem of the short development cycle I mentioned. This is IMO one of the core problems with the game. It was just a rush job. Granted, this rush job is still better than a lot of other games, but it remains a rush job.