A pitty the camera is pretty horrible But the rest of the game is superb so far.

I've been playing 21 hours so far according to my "Acheivements", and it says I've completed 15% of the game and only explore 9% of the map .  Add to that the almost unlimited reply value (you could replay, what, 6 times easy?) and it's a LOT of bang for the buck.  I hear it's about 100 hours if you do every quest and explore every corner.

I give it an A- so far, and the "-" is just because the graphics are not "great", just kind'a good.

Read the official game forums, there are many "It's way too hard posts", but take it from me, those are all L2P people for sure.  My team has died once, and used one healing potion in about the last 3 hours of play.  Sadly, they just released a 1.1 patch that dumbs down the game because of the wine posts, which is crazy because I already turned up the level to Hard just so it was not too easy.

"Way to hard"  That is why I'm playing this game.  Maybe it is hard right now and I have to use 1000000000 health potions because my team is a bunch of warriors with a mage with no healing powers.  I figure once I get a healer things may become a lot more easier.   Guess I will wait and see, I keep killing everyone I see and pissing off my party members like no other with the exception of my dog.   Maybe I'm making it too hard on myself, but it sure is fun killing elves!

On impulse the game is about 300 NOK (norwegian kroner), in the shops here its 400 NOK. Since impulse Dragon Age is North America only, i cannot get it on impulse. But I sure aint paying 33% extra for it either. I might buy it when I buy a new rig in the spring.

Or you could buy it on Steam and pay _even more_. It still boggles my mind that they think it should cost more to buy a game online than in a store.

The battle part of DA is as L2P as Demigod; remember all the "This demigod is OP and I always die" posts at first.  This game is also, as one reveiw says, a Slooooow Burn; it's gets better and better as you play (and also as you learn to play).

BTW, there was also people posting 2-H weapon warriors are horrible; but NOT if you get a character that makes potions, and/or a healer, then they are killing machines.

Yeah my character is a two handed weapon character, and I drink potions like crazy, but can only make the light versions of them right now.   I am just licking my chops when I get a healer.  My 2-H weapon warrior does crazy damage though.

I like the difficulty.

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I'm loving it though. I always though Baldur's Gate could have used a higher difficulty level.

Tat, I don't think this is a "spoiler", but you can give Morrigan (is that her name?) healing eventially as she advances.  Also, if you ever go to any place that has mage characters (like the Circle tower) you might chose to add a mage/healer to your group.

Once you get the Tactics AI programming down, you almost never need to pause durring casual battles.  Challenging battles, well, I need to pause them most the time; babysitting is more like it, but that's one of the great parts of the game.

Many of the people posting "It's too hard" seem to be from the FPS type games, also, they want to level up as fast as humanly possible (why, in a game like DA, I have no idea), and just rush into mobs swinging and slinging spells, so planning and pausing and strategy are almost "deterents" to their fun.  Also, this game has friendly fire, which I'm seeing more and more is another reason people are dying; they are quite literally killing themselves.

I'll admit that I keep killing my melee characters with friendly fire (Walking Bomb is the most fun ability known to man, if perhaps over powerful), But as my party generally consists of two mages, an archer (rogue), and the lone two-handed weapon warrior it tends not to concern me.

This game kicks ass... Will be playing it alot until MW2 on 360... then I have to divide my time between them... Oh and Elemental too...

"You don't actually get your DLC."  Yeah, that was a problem for several hours on the first day of launch, pretty much because their servers were slammed and had problems processing everyone's keys and seeding the downloads.  By about 3 PM Eastern time, I had my content (collectors + pre-order), and the game only came out at around 1 PM.

I agree that they shouldn't have put the DLC quest guy in your camp (doesn't affect me with the DDE, though) if you don't have the DLC purchased or installed.

Oh, don't get me started on the DLC at launch stuff   It was like buying a great steak dinner; having the waiter bring it out, then, just as you start eating he says "Do you like how that salad, soup, and side dish looks?  Yes?  Well you can have it if you pay for it".  Grrrr.   They could have just added it to the game from the start for free if you ask me.  And having an NPC tell you all about an important quest, only to have him turn into a half used car salesman, half Morman doorbell ringer, was a really unpleasant moodbreaker.  It was like having Billy Mays pop into the game saying "Act now, and for only $9.99 you TO can have this great quest!".

There are a few whiners on the DA forums, but nothing like you see with pretty much every new game today.

Seriously - if you like story driven RPG's, or RPG's in general, or the whole DPS, Tank, Heal thing, pretty awesome game.  Best in game story I think I have ever played.  On first character about 40 hours in.