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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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