BoboTheMighty
SasqWatch
DA2 was very competent and enjoyable in its own way: story was very good, characters where unique and joy to work with, plenty of choices and consequences, brilliant combat, beautiful art direction, and high production values - only exception as already mentioned is recycling of assets in dungeons. But this is minor compared to the array of other solid features in the game.
Pure gold...all of it.
DA II was good more in segments ( Arishok, humor, banter) and did have a few improvements ( better tactics set up, better healing, companion skill trees, status effects class synergies...)
but overall simply incohesive mess, in every major aspect of the game: art and visuals, storyline and narrative themes, level design, mechanics, etc.
Still prefer it over mind-numbingly dull KOTOR.