Under what circumstances would you be happy to freely come to the conclusion that the RPG you just tried to play was actually pretty crap?
It does not take that much for a game to be crap for me. A personal sub 6/10 if you may. but games I don't like are not games I would always rate sub 6/10 if I were to rate them for others.
Things that can kill a game for me, that are not technical issues:
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Game feels overly repetitive. A game being repetitive and a game feeling repetitive are not always the same thing. Some games are able to get away with having little variety due to how that "little variety" is presented. Showering you with samey combat encounters is a good way for a game to end up feeling repetitive.
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Games that keep wasting my time. With this I mean games where you constantly have to wait for things. Be it because the characters move slowly, or because the game is turnbased and has long animations, or just a lot of running back & forth. I often find myself preferring no animations to the Final Fantays 7-style of doing things. Also, games that just keep having dead ends for no real apparent reason. Have you've played Menzoberranzan? You know all those empty rooms that you still have to go through because you need to look for keys and such? That sort of stuff also really bugs me.
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Poor writing. Poor writing is really more damaging to a game than a poor story, at least to me. I've dropped several games because the writing was bad. Poor translations can also be a major issue.
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"Unfair" things. Random death traps, spells that instantly kill your character after a failed saving throw, over-reliance of random outcomes where the difference between a good and a bad result is huge (like getting massive damage spikes), that sort of stuff.
And of course, things like general lack of balance, technical issues, bad stories and that sort of stuff can push a game into crap territory, but the above ones are the common culprits for me.
I won't start over the arguing on DA2 and DAO combats, but such post I answered had no reason to bring in DA2 combats and highlight them as sort of worst combat ever. Not mention that its in comparison of DAO and that many major RPG have much worse combats, is manipulation, just an occasion to spread hate on Bioware.
Hateboys make me vomit.
The problem with DA2's combat was not main combat system itself, but the encounter design being crap.
I find your last bit funny after you made a statement like this:
Dragon Age 2 awful combat, really? The Witcher 3 combats and Skyrim combats are serious vomiting crap in comparison. Can't believe the total lack of analysis skills people can have when it's about Bioware games.