Stances

@GunpeiYaBoi, Dragon Age Inquisition. It was the first Dragon Age game that severely limited the number of skills you could have in your skill bar and use at any given time. It's a good game in its own right, but that was, and still is, really galling.

• The first game, Origins, didn't have a limit—if you reached the limit in your skill bar (expandable to the limits of the screen), you could still open the skill page and cast from there. But even then, I remember having like over 30 spells or so as a mage.
  
  
• The second one, didn't have that many actives or sustained abilities, but the new thing were enhancements to the skills. Then again, the slot bar comfortably accommodated it all with space to spare.
  
  
• Inquisition, the third one... had 8 skill slots. That's right, EIGHT (and that included the ultimate—yes, the ultimate didn't have its own slot). And you couldn't change or cast the ones that were not in your skill bar during combat, as if your character had temporary selective amnesia. There it was even worse though, since some enemies had high resistances to some elements, so if you specialised in that element, tough luck (it wasn't impossible, but really annoying) and that never got adjusted. There were some really sweet skills/spells that would've worked nicely in combos, but you had to forgo them because you had to slot stuff that was more direct and affected everything. So if you were a mage, you were basically f*ed not by the enemies, but by how the game was built. The fan(boy|girl) shills were calling it strategic (or that it was changed to accommodate controllers), I called it demented (and the controller part wasn't really true since the two prequels worked just fine with all of it).