Talking about Metacritic reviews...this guy:
"Never felt the urge to voice an opinion on a game but it is only because I loved Dragon Age Origins so much I felt I had urge Bioware to change...
This game is not playable at this moment on the PC, the frame rates are very inconsistent and there are large amount of stuttering. I was running this game on GTX 780, I was getting 20-40 frames playing this game on medium setting which is just unacceptable, I was extremely impatient and went and bought a 980, frame rates are slightly better but cinematic locks the FPS at extremely low level (30) which a ton of stuttering occurs on both the 780 and the 980... I worked around the game to get the frames to 60 Frames during cut scenes but there is no work around for the stuttering and extremely unsatisfying framerates playing this game.
The game is extremely clunky, the combat has took a giant step backwards. You have to mass click if you want to auto attack because on console that's normal for them, but they forced it on PC users which makes no sense and restrict what you can do in game. It hurts my wrist just playing this game. If you're playing a warrior and you knock someone back and you're holding down attack button because your hand hurt, too bad now they're out of range and you're waiting out a long period of pointless animations. If you're playing a range class, have fun spamming click button like you're playing minesweeper or something
No longer can you click and move because that doesn't exist on consoles. If you click anywhere your character does their attack animation which is very long so you're sitting there wasting time. No longer can you click on loot to pick them up because that doesn't exist on consoles so you're forced to run up to them and click open button which is so daft as to why they decided this should be forced on PC players. (Btw if you miss click you're attacking and waiting out the animation again). Used to holding down mouse button to change your camera angle? Too bad watch this attack animation for couple seconds. Can't see the rift because it's bloody in the sky and you want to change your camera angle? Watch this cool attack animation.
Oh, the AI is stupid, have fun issuing the same command for your party over and over and over again because they have some kind of short term memory problem and refuse to do what's ordered. Telling your ranged character to get out of melee range they will run back into melee range because of unknown reasons. Revive teammates? Haha I rather auto attack! Thanks computer.
The menu is unsorted mess, have no clue what is going on there. It's DA:O style with fair amount of items, but unable to sort though as it uses a weird DA:2 menu.
Extremely disappointed on how this turned out, it was a fear I always had when Dragon Age 2 came out. It was still good and improved on some parts but you can see it was departing from what made Dragon Age great. I thought I can patch everything with technology, bought new video card, bought a new mouse, bought a controller (Game doesn't recognize controllers on PC for some reason). Severity disappointed"
Some of this problems seem specific to his hardware, drivers etc. but the stuff about gameplay and PC controls? Have to agree.
And this guy
They pulled a total Kingdoms of Amalur on this one. It was originally designed to be an MMO... and it shows.
If you were hoping for something like Dragon Age: Origins, this is not that game. It bastardizes a lot of it by dumbing down the tactics, skill tree/attributes (you can't even assign your stats anymore).
So all the metacritic bad reviews are not just trolling.
-Can't remap mouse buttons, extra mouse buttons not supported.
-Can't ''click to move''
-Can't ''click to loot''
-No screen-edge mouselook
-No mouseover ability tooltips on your action bar
-No key to select all party members at once
ANd this one, How come no on ementioned the PC Controls? Was part of the contract to get access to the game the fact that it had to be played with a controller?
Tactical camera 5 feet off the ground. Whats the point. We aren't playing to look at grass.
Click to move is gone. so you end up spending a prodigious amount of time trying to edge closer to the items you want to pickup when 1 left or right click should do it. The same goes for attacking when not in tactical camera mode. so unless you are playing ranged you are always in tactical camera mode which restricts your view, or you are missing your targets.
It is a pity because I was really looking forward to this game. This brings another issue to mind, how come all these game reviewers leading up to the launch never once mentioned these crap pc controls.
In a way, it does kinda feel like it was designed to be an MMO for consoles. Where you actually controlled a single character, just as in the Multiplayer portion.