I thought Dragon Age was great and I even played it on a console, but it certainly didnt live up to the Baldurs Gate series. I still consider Thrones of Bhaal to be one of the best games Ive ever played.
I definitely had my complaints with Dragon Age, the combat engine was kind of behind the times. The way the attack Queues were implemented made combat clunky and it made a bad impact on tactical gameplay. The good thing is that they have chosen to fix that with DA2. From what i can tell DA2 seems to have worked on many of the annoying elements from the first game.
Non combat/engine wise, my biggest complaints with DA would be I just didnt like the structure of the story. Too much time spent going to the different cities gathering party members, I think that should have been limited to only being in the first segment of the game.
Step 1: Gather Party
Step 2: Kill Dragon
game over
They could have done better than that, but I did enjoy the party banter and some of the actual storylines werent bad either.
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