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[ransompendragon]

It took me 98 hours and 30 minutes from November 7 to January 18! Holy cow. And I didn't even do half the side quests. Dang real life getting in the way of my gaming. Plus I feel like I *should* replay the end because I so wanted to get there I turned it down to easy.

Highs: Origin story, I did dwarf noble. This is a compelling reason to try a new character to see the other origins and might up the replayability.
Dialogue. Duncan. Dog (should have his own slot). Party based ! - much prefer my rpgs that way.
Most of the story line although as with most games the main quest stretches credibility (it took me all that time and the epilogue tells me I finished the blight before it really got started???)
Morrigan, at first.  Sandal, of course. All the companions really, even the ones I don't like.
Turned based combat, tactical control (although it took me a long time to get the hang of some of it including the tactics menu).
Sensation of moral complexity. Companion "approval" although it seemed that as the game progressed they seemed to care less and less how I behaved.
Demons in general more interesting than darkspawn.

My shortcomings: too long to figure out the usefulness of sneak, traps, most rogue skills, usefulness of ranged weapons. Not reading the codex enough because I wanted to get through the story! Not triggering enough companion quests. Waiting too long to get shale. Not doing more of the side quests. Getting one of the landsmeet options where you have to fight everybody before dueling Loghain. (And having to replay big battles over and over and over bc of dying).

Lows: endless "dungeons" -- real frustrating when you don't have long periods of play time -- slog through and get to a boss but that isn't the end you get to do it all again and when you thought you made it to the innermost chamber/top of the mountain/deepest road you get to do it all over again. Only now you hardly have any potions, stamina, etc.
Stamina. Need restorative for this a little stronger than a deep mushroom.
No day/night cycle or sense of time at all.
Things in the journal like "Premium Content" and on the final save "buy more to play more but for stuff that takes place before the epic ending."
Poverty. I don't need epic loot but I think a penny and a lesser health poultice aren't much of a reward.

Overall: pretty damn close to "spiritual successor to BG" - 9/10

Thanks for reading, and now I will have a little less trepidation about looking in a spoilers forum.

cheers,
ransom

[ericsa]

98 hours? God damn, how did you manage that?

Glad you liked it tho I luv it too!!!

[Focaccia]

On my first playthrough i did 90+ hours too , now i'm doing my 3rd and 4th.

Though i have not tried anything beyond normal, I play the console version and found it very tedious to control the team and on normal itself big battles gave me trouble.

[ransompendragon]

Glad to hear I am not the only one who took so long! And who plays on the normal setting. Even with a better understanding of the mechanics I have no desire to turn the difficulty up--I want to play again to get more of the story!



@ericsa, don't know how it took so long in terms of hours. Like I said, I didn't even read all of the codex entries. Just slow I guess!

[ericsa]

We'll everybody plays at their preferred speed I think my first playthrough took arround 50 hours (playing on normal). Now I'm on my third and playing on nightmare, I've done pretty much everything except the landsmeet/archdemon fight and I'm at 38 hours I believe.

[Sarielle]

Just fyi, you CAN backtrack through the dungeons to a merchant if you run out of potions and the like. It's not convenient, but it can be done. Might help on your next playthroughs



Glad you enjoyed. You shared a lot of my pros and cons.