Completed it last night, a few thoughts:
- Lack of tactical view is annoying in bigger fights (like the Ogre fight).
- Easy to simply "let go" as described earlier in the thread due to the speed of the combat. Don't like that part.
- Unlike most, I had no issues with conversations/cut-scenes. It all looked, sounded and loaded just fine for me.
- Flemeth swooping in was pretty cool, but Flemeth herself looks.. strange. Her looks no longer fit her voice at all. Not even close. She used to look and sound like a somewhat crazy grandmother, now she looks like an older version of Xena sounding like a somewhat crazy grandmother. I found it almost as bad as the crazy witch in ArcaniA.
- I assume the dwarf and the seeker will be telling most of the story, and I assume they will be praised for doing so. However, I honestly feel the Leland/Halbeck thing in Alpha Protocol worked better, at least based on the bits and pieces we saw in the demo.
- Mages are still the ones to control. Set up the tactics of the Warriors/Rogues, and then manually control the Mages. However, I agree with curious - 60 second cooldown on healing?! Gee, thanks, it'll replace a health potion once every 60 seconds, the rest of the time you need to rely on potions.
- The art direction and overall look/feel of the world works. It's smoother and overall better than the original Dragon Age. Well, except for one thing: Darkspawn, Ogres included, look rediculous. They looked way better in DA: O.
- Like some others here, I experienced the glitch where skills don't trigger. Happened several times with the fireball. Selected the skill, picked my target, clicked the target and.. nothing happened. It always triggered the second time I tried though, so I never experienced it twice in a row.
Also, you could use potions in the demo. Just click the "quick heal" function in the bottom right corner. I actually had to use a few potions against the Ogre.
Anyway, it's roughly what I expected of the demo. Lots of combat, hardly anything story related. Nothing in it that'll stop my pre-order. I'm still expecting a solid game with a good story and some interesting characters.
Edit:
I'm going to give everyone a break and not comment on this
I'll just reserve my thoughts and contemplate how true they are once the full game is out, and I bother trying it.
Did you notice that Maylander?
Haha, I'll just sit right here and wait for the inevitable bashing later on. You're becoming predictable mate!
