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So I've got an embarrassing number of hours played now, and all I can say is that this game is incredible so far. I've gotten the hang of combat now, including the tactical camera that everybody seems to hate, but I've found to be invaluable during things like dragon fights. The simple thing that fixed it for me was moving the camera so the angle is no longer top down - basically you can stay in third person mode with the tactical camera. Double click on character portraits to change perspective. It's actually pretty easy to control the battlefield, much easier than when I was trying to do everything looking down from above (since you can't pull the field of view very far back).
The story so far is amazing. The trick is, unless you're a grinder (which I am...), you need to get out of Hinterlands by the time you're level 4 or 5. Don't stay there just running random sidequests. Because you can spend dozens of hours there doing random stuff and never advance the story at all. But once you leave (you can always come back and finish stuff later...) everything really kicks into high gear. There are some tremendously emotional moments, and some very difficult choices to make. Even the romances seem to have taken a major step forward, at least with Cassandra, who for me was one of the most mature and well done romances I've ever seen in a bioware game. The character interactions in general (meaning conversations at Skyhold and the ensuing individual character quests) have all been very good as well.
Now, being a grinder, I'm still in act 2 despite about 60 hours of game time, so I have no idea what the rest of the game's going to bring. I'm clearing areas right now, and putting off going forward with the story. But to this point this is the best thing I've played in years. And I'm gonna hate not being able to play much this week.
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