Pros:
- Narrative
- Ability to control any character in your group
- Lots of banter
- Extensive Codex
- Fun combat
- Variety of enemies
- The fade
- Occasional badass kill moves
- A few very difficult and important choices
- Intriguing subplots
Cons:
- Dialogue can be excessive
- Can be annoying to run to the world map (fast travel) points
- Some dungeons make you backtrack way too far
- No way to change appearance after initial creation (I know there are mods that can do this, but it should just exist in-game)
- Some performance issues
- Would occasionally crash for no apparent reason
- Denerim would cause graphical problems and corrupt saves. Pretty simple fix (game needs to use more that 2GB ram) but it was very annoying until I figured that out.
Nitpickey:
- Some armor pieces do not show on characters wearing robes
- Somehow the game thought I romanced Leliana even though I never once selected a flirtatious dialogue option. Guess I shouldn’t have given her so many gifts. #TeamMorrigan
Rating:
- Story ********* 9/10
- Gameplay ******* 7/10
- Atmosphere ******** 8/10
- Overall ******** 8/10
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- Story (characters, narrative, depth, pace, role playing)
- Gameplay (mechanics, fun factor, level design)
- Atmosphere (graphics, environment, mood)