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Originally Posted by keg in kc
The combat's my favorite in the series so far. By a long shot. DAO was a little too slow, DA2 was too hectic, although I liked it more than DAO. This is somewhere in the middle.
I play as a mage, however. I could understand it's maybe more frustrating for melee (talking on pc). Although I haven't had any issues on the few occasions where I've taken over Cassandra.
I see lots of bitching about the controls and UI on pc. I'm 16+ hours into it now, and have had zero issues with either. Although occasionally I do accidentally attack things since years of mmo and rpg play have conditioned me to think of the left button as part of movement, rather than attack. The tactical camera could be a little easier to use, but as I understand it's currently bugged on pc. We'll see after it's patched.
I can't really comment on the story, because I've barely started it. The hinterlands is so gigantic that basically all I've done is run sidequests for the last day. I saw in some video reviews where they were complaining about 'vanilla' sidequests like "kill x whatevers". I've run literally dozens of sidequests now and I've seen exactly one of those (collecting 10 ram meat for a hunter at the crossroads). There's been an escort quest (which was a little annoying, as escort quests generally are), fedex quests, a series of horse races, a quest that sent me into the deeproads, a quest that sent me to a desert temple (connected to the shard quest), quests finding constellations, all kinds of different stuff.
Not sure what people don't like. For me, this is (so far) the best Bioware game since KOTOR. But I'm barely at the beginning. Even though I'm 16 hours in. So who knows what I'll think a week from now.
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The right mouse button is part of movement if you want to turn with the mouse like any normal PC user would. The left is the auto attack button, which you have to hold down constantly to keep auto attacking. It's not that terrible if it was simply a single character action game. But it's not. And if it were, it needs better action. It seems like a bad console port and bad game design.
And then there's the search button ... I really always wanted to always have to run around spamming a button over and over again ... said no one ever.
I don't worry about the key bind layout because I have a razor orb weaver game pad, and rebinding keys is easy enough anyway.
But this game tries to be an action game and a tactical game at the same time and kinda fails at both. The AI scripts from DA:O were great. The AI control for this game blows. So it's difficult to set up your party to do what you want them to on their own, and the tactical camera mode is a ****ing disaster and pausing and switching between four characters for every single action they do is tedious.
So I just let the AI run wild and try to live with it.
I'm not very far into the game at all, and I may come to like the combat better than I do at the moment. But initial impressions are poor.
The story so far hasn't hooked me in any way. Might as well be the Charlie Brown Teacher talking during the cut scenes, as much as I give a shit about what they are droning on about.
I'm not totally writing it off. I'll give it more time and see if it becomes more satisfying.