50-70h O_o

*uck, I must get it !

I had the same problem and ended up getting the PS3 version. They play very differently though... there's some bugs on the PS3 version that I don't think are in the PC version. They are very minor and since I haven't played the PC I can't say for sure if they're fixed. But the targeting system in the PS3 requires you to select a target using the d-pad. If you're in a long room it's hard to target some of the people at the far end... which is important because they're usually the mages. Also another bug is every once in a while if I try to pause the game by opening the wheel it get's stuck and becomes reversed. So when I try to pause the options open up and the action continues and when I close it the action pauses with no option wheel....

Also... in my opinion if you like to run around with a big sword and kill stuff the console version is good. I have a feeling playing caster classes is better on the PC version, especially on harder difficulties with friendly fire.

That being said I think this game is amazing!!!!! There is a lot to do in it. I already feel that I've missed a lot... and it does seem like there's a LOT of depth between classes. I haven't touched rogues or traps etc in my current playthrough. I'm saving that for my second time through.

Yeah I must say, I think this one be my new huge-scale RPG. I can see me putting in more hours into this game than Morrowind (about 350 hours over a few years). I'm playing a Dalish Elf Rogue, and a Dwarven Noble Warrior. Not too far in yet, but it really is very fun. Man, I want to leave work and go play now.

I actually made a caster first (and have thus deleted her since I made some mistakes in spell choices) on nightmare mode and had no problems with friendly fire.

I have the Xbox version.

Amen brother.

I was in a hurry, since I'm starting my exams already (finishing some left overs... :/ ). But once I'm finished I'm going to complete it through and through, also on Bioware forums it seems like a lot of people are already starting developing some very interesting projects. One of them beeing recreating Baldur's Gate 1 + 2 in DAO engine. DAO Toolset seems like an immensly powerful developing tool, the fact that you can create ingame cinematics, model own creatures, weapons, voice act your own characters and write the story... Well with PC version of Dragon Age Origins, it seems like you won't need another game for a good few years.

BTW kudos to you for finishing Final Fantasy VII, I just gave up, that game was so offputting for me, since that day I wasn't able to settle on single FF game. Which is quiete interesting, since I really like DQ series.

same here

I chose Borderlands over Dragon Age. But I will get it on Steam maybe after I get Left 4 Dead 2.

@Darc, why play a game you don't like twice? That just seems silly. And I hope you don't play MMOs if your a questor (person obsessed with, or at least aiming at, doing every quest)

@Aragod, curious to what put you off about FFVII. It's not my favorite FF, but I thought it was well done, and had an interesting story (especially for the time).

I"m about 70 hours in to it an I've just finished getting the second race to join the Warden Alliance (my own name for it... unless they call it that later on). I'm playing through as a City Elf

Well I think that was the problem, I've played it after all those years downloaded from PSN, because all the talk that about how it changed RPGs at its time (which probably did).

I didn't like the setting, I thought it would be fantasy (final fantasy... you know association :), and I really can't stand FF combat system, maybe deeper in the game there are more things to it, but after 6 hours it was the same old and boring. I've played other FF games on NDS (well tried), but it's really not my cup of tea. Maybe I'm getting fed up with the japanese story telling, with all those incredibly naive characters and all the patos... The only JRPGs that have ever appealed to me were Fire Emblem (but that's mainly because of the gameplay, strategic rpg is my mana) and Dragon Quest remakes on NDS. Which is weired, since DQ and FF have a lot in common.