OK, got to chime in here. I was still installing this game when I began reading this thread. I thought people were just over-reacting. Now that I have played it for about an hour, I understand - the control scheme sucks - no other word for it.
Bioware, what were you thinking? We want to play Dragon Age, not some MMO. Why can't I use the mouse to point and click, like I have done for your past two games? I keep hitting "space" to pause the game - because that's what literally hundreds of hours of playing the prequels taught me.
And what's with having to hold down the right mouse button to look? Did I miss "mouse look" somewhere? You know, where your character turns in the direction the mouse moves it, without having to hold down a button?
This game is unplayable for me. If they do not fix this, and fix it soon, this is the last piece of change Bioware will ever get from me. DA:2 was disappointing. DA:I is a disaster because they monkeyed with the controls. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
It sure looks to me like this was designed for consoles with no thought to PC users. I have never been so disappointed by a game, ever.
If anyone is on the fence about buying this; my recommendation is to wait until they fix it. If they don't; spend your money elsewhere.
Of course, if they allowed modding, we could fix it immediately... if they allowed modding.
I realize that sane, rational and informed critique is the best way to go; but right now, I am spitting mad. Mad because a game I have anticipated for so long, has turned out to be unplayable because someone made a very questionable design decision.
Insert here a long list of Anglo-Saxon, monosyllabic gutterals, describing in rich, graphic detail, the ancestry, personal hygiene and bizarre sexual tastes of whoever OK'd this choice...