Thanks for the reply. Now I'm really drooling, knowing that I might stand a chance at running it well at my native resolution.

Ahh yes, I know exactly what you mean now. It's the same reason here as to why I don't go into detail. The quests can indeed be played out different ways. Most of the main quests usually have at least 3 different ways you can go about them depending on your class and race pick. There's going to be a TON of replay value in this game. Consider each race will have it's own path you take, each class will play differently and get different quests. Now combine that with being able to play through multiple times making different choices with each class or race. I have a feeling this game will still be interesting on the 3rd time through.

I went with a female human rogue but I am not sure about the choice. 

I played BG/BG2/NWN as a rogue(NWN2 for an extremely brief, unsatisfying time).  I like the idea of the class but it may be time for a change.  I may end up switching over to a warrior or mage...  it will be interesting to see how all of the origins come together and intertwine.  I need to get all Val Kilmer on it and switch completely into a new mindset.  I'm going to go and tell my wife she needs to start referring to me as Mauxe, the dissatisfied and potentially explosive human mage with a giant chunk of a chip on my shoulder....

I just left the country and am back... so back to DA! Am at Redcliff saving the child... killing dead stuff. Already got the old Grey Warden Fortress back...

Well, on Redcliff I decided to go for the panoramic route (y'know, paying a visit to the mages and such) and I must say, I had to fight some of the best RPG bosses ever to finish it. I also did both DLC quests, fairly fun with interesting rewards for both of them, but I wish they had been longer, specially that of the Keep which didn't expand on its backstory as much as I would've wished.

Even though I wasn't really expecting anything interesting, I had to notice all the women in the game were wearing the same underwear.

*grin*

Anyway.  I love the game.  There was a repeating crash keeping me from progressing with my main character, but i guess I figured out how to stop getting it last night.  Yay!  I had started a bunch of other characters, but I wanted to go forth with my main.

Some of the out of the blue banter between your team can really surpise you.  I was wandering around, searching the countryside for something or other, when Morrigan and Alister start banter stuff that made me laugh so hard I had to stop playing. 

Oh, and just wait till Sten (Achie Bunker meets 300) starts telling the women in your party "Their place".

And what I'm really starting to both love AND hate about this game is when you make decissions about your party, quests, and this sides you take, well, there is really very little black and white, good or evil, so it makes it kind'a hard to choose.

I'm guessing you haven't come across some of the same choices I have. There are a lot of quests where you can decide to either help someone, not help them, or say you'll help them and then double cross them later. A lot of what I've seen where I'm at now could be boiled down to either "Good" or "Evil" depending on how you look at it. There are a lot of "Shades of Gray" though.

Tom Chick has a very good series of blog entried regarding DA.

Very good look at some of the strategy involved:  http://fidgit.com/archives/2009/10/dragon_age_pwning_ogres.php

Beat it, loved it. And is it me or does the elf leader sound like Tuvok? I know Janeway voiced Flemith.

You know what this forum could use? Spoiler tags. I've got so much to say about how great this game is, but I can't say it, out of fear of spoiling someone. I almost daren't read the other comments so far.

Game is great. Loving it.

It is indeed Tim Russ (he's in the "all the other voice actors" part of the credits).

Even though there is a couple of little things that are annoying it has an addicting pull. Just can't seem to stop playing it once I get started.

Has anyone else had the load times jump way up after it's been running for 8 hours or so?(yea it's that kind of addiction ). The load times will be about 5-10 seconds for the most part, then after a long session they will start to jump up to close to 2 minutes(especially if there is a cutscene after the load). Restarting the game fixes it, so it's only a minor annoyance. Probably telling me it's time for a break .

Its probably a memory leak, Mass Effect had the same problem (except that instead of running slower, the game crashed to the desktop instead).

And to those who've already finished it, I have a couple questions: first, what level were you at by the end of the game? secondly, is there any way to replay the game after you beat it, but keeping your old character's stats and items as in Mass Effect? and third, if there is such a thing, do you keep the 'unlocked' status of the specializations, or do you have to unlock them again through manuals and such?

Well hey if any of you peoples want to add me just for the hell of it, I'm over here http://social.bioware.com/42693/

Not too concerned whether anyone does or not, of course...but its neat to see other peoples characters (Of course, my char data doesn't seem to be updating at all, so the info looks old.)