I feel Dragon Age's problems are more about the gameplay then bugs, the only problem I remember encountering was the memory leaks, it would slowly start taking forever to load anything. As for the gameplay, there are lots of things that just make it too easy. Like being able to pull single enemies at a time, all you have to do is play a ranged character to discover this problem, so I have no idea how they let this pass.Then there's the fact that 90% of the enemies feel the same, they just run up and start bashing you. They have no special abilities to make things more interesting and challenging or their abilities just aren't a big enough threat to worry about. Not to mention all you need to take out the regular enemies is a single party member. A mage can run in, Cone of Cold, Living Bomb, then Stone Boulder (what ever its called) the Living Bombed target and the rest of the group dies with one or two hits. Then once you get Improved Living Bomb its just a joke. I can only think of a few enemies that had some interesting abilities that made it enjoyable to play.For example[spoiler] When you are in the beginning parts of the Werewolf Lair, there's a ghost of a kid speaking some old language, he disappears and your ambushed by 10 or so Shield Bashing Skeletons. The first time I played this part it caught me off guard and they Shield Bashed my group to death. Of course the next time all I needed to do was group them into the hallway and Cone of Cold them... [/spoiler] I was also a little disappointed with the bosses, few of them had any unique abilities to mix things up. The only thing that made them a challenge was they had a lot of health and some hit pretty hard. Instead of giving them abilities to use, they just throw some regular enemies in the mix, nothing some Mage CC can't handle. Lets not forget you can just hit them with a Hex or two and the bosses go down like nothing, I don't think we should have been able to use Hexes on bosses. Then there's the Potions that you can use every few seconds, so you don't need to worry about your heal being on cool down. Bosses are essentially just regular enemies on steroids.I wish they had made more bosses like [spoiler] The Poison Queen Spider(I forget the name). That fight was so fun if you didn't use Potions or Balms. You needed to keep one of your characters in her face to avoid getting hit with the spit attacks which really hurt, but she keeps going up into the webs and dropping back somewhere else in the room. I wish she dropped in more random spots though. Then there's the Spider adds, not just a regular bashing enemy, you had to make sure they didn't overwhelm you. This boss was the best in the game in my opinion. If they had made more that had interesting elements like this it would have been great. [/spoiler] There just aren't enough elements in the fights to make them challenging and enjoyable, what you do to take out one group of enemies will likely work for the next group, and the group after that, and so on. There are few fights where you need to actually stop and think, "How am I going to do this?". Like when fighting a group of enemies that has a Mage. They can be a serious threat if you let them just sit there and cast spells, so you have change your strategy to take them out first and avoid getting hit by their spells in the process, then you can take down the other enemies. Other then these gameplay issues, I think the game is great and I hope they address these issues in future games.Sorry for the wall of text, GS wont let me use Spoiler tags and Enter at the same time...
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