DA fans, what do you think so far of the game?

Six hours in is obviously way too early to rate it, but you know what, fuck it. Five out of five! I only got four hours sleep last night (because that's how long it took to download) and sincerely attempted to take a nap today but it did not happen because I want to play MOAR DAV.

Not prepared to score it yet - but I am enjoying it a lot.

6 hours in, I'm in a very happy place.

I don't do ratings as I personally think they're silly.

I'm only up to recently recruiting Bellara, a couple hours in.

The combat is a pleasant surprise as I'm enjoying it a lot. My biggest concern is once I have everything figured out with my build set, will I still be entertained with the gameplay loops after doing them over and over for hours on end. I only see the companions as glorified abilities. Especially when I force them to use an ability, they sometimes teleport to get in range to use the ability which breaks my immersion. Although, since this is an action game now, I need to get used to it.

I'm not enjoying the dialogue at all, except the interaction between Solas and Rook. That was brilliant. With Rook I would say you are forced to be good, but not forced to be nice. At least not yet. Harding and Neve are really flat to me, especially Neve. Her introduction being so ridiculously casual and striking a pose with a building on fire behind her just feels odd. Granted, it also felt very weird seeing demons snatch up people right in front of Rook and Varric without any reaction at all. So I wouldn't call it a voice actor problem, but a writing and direction problem.

The game moves at an action movie's pace where things just jump so quickly that the characters don't even have enough time appreciate the events or the severity of it.

The environments are very nice - its just they feel a bit too designed around the mechanics/puzzles they wanted to implement. Maybe it's a leftover from the multiplayer.

There are so many quality of life menu options and User Experience that feels so good. Like when you find a new item, you can press one button and it brings up a comparison between your current option, then choose to equip it. I really appreciate how much effort they put in to it and I wonder who was responsible for it.

So far, I wouldn't call this an Action RPG, but an Action game with RPG elements.

Too early but it grabbed me immediately, like only BioWare games grab me. Continuing today soon(tm)

There are some odd audio thingies maybe not so clear to other people, but I hear some kind of doubling / phasing sometimes when someone is speaking and the camera moves - maybe a positional audio thing or maybe two overlapping slightly different in time speeches. Felt like the position was not resolved fast enough. Not sure, 3D game audio is not my expertise in audio department... but is my friends. Have to ask him if he plays the game and notices.
This is on PS5. It kinda feels like they mumble for a while to my ears. I have selected Headphones and use Sony XM3's with the PS5 controller wired to it, and XM3's noise canceling is on.
Anyway, this is just an observation, it does not affect so much but I noticed it. Another one is that.. uhm I'm gonna get whacked because of revealing this:

So far a 2 or a 3. While it plays alright and could be a decent action game, it is not feeling like a Dragon Age or really much of a Bioware game at all. The inability to talk to companions outside of scripted Moments so far is beyond baffling and there is far too much auto dialogue for a Bioware game. Even ME3 seemed to have less. And the writing has been… not great. There is no nuance or subtext. It’s written so a 7 year old could understand.

I also hate how this feels like a game from 2005 in its lineae design. Massive, massive step backwards from Andromeda, Inquisition, and even DA2. And the forced world state makes this world feel like it isn’t my Thedas. Reading a codex about the red lyrium idol from DA2 and it making a canon really pissed me the fuck off. Automatic point off the scale for that shit alone.

The combat itself us fine. But it won’t buoy the experience if the rest of the above remains as is. I really hope it improves, but I have not been impressed.

Series lack of money in addition to my big reservations led to not buying the game but I did watch several hours of a playthrough and so far it's interesting enough for me to want to keep going, so that's a positive right there.

So far it seems like a solid game, not bad at all, the biggest problem I have with it is that it feels like the "Dragon Age" title feels like an unwanted burden on it. If it was a new fantasy game with its own world and a similar plot but without Thedas terminology I think I would have been much more forgiving.

Maybe my impression is heavily influenced by my extremely low expectations, but so far it's not bad.

Since I didn't actually play, I don't want to comment on combat and how it runs technically.

Wow, a lot of perfect scores...I guess that makes it superior to TW3 or TLOU.

Through 3 hours the visuals are decent despite the pixar like style.  The game is not nearly as optimized as they claim...stuttering issues.

Combat progression looks cool but the enemies are rinse and repeat...not terribly difficult on the second highest difficulty.

The mains story is fairly decent thus far but the companion writing and dialogue delivery is atrocious, facial animations wooden...I wish there was an renegade interrupt to stuff a sock in Bellara's mouth. I dare say she's even more annoying than PeeBee.

3 of 5 and that's generous.

Not particularly, it's balanced out by the 1's. Average score on BSN is 3.3 from 29 votes which is a little on the low side. General impressions of the game seem to be a bit higher, at least in the 7.5 territory I think

Loved by it so far. Just started but I love my rook voice and appearance. I’m getting a dao version be with my dwarf choice and it’s far superior to inquisition

Looking at /r/DragonAge and even they are expressing doubts and criticisms regarding the writing. Not surprised there. The gameplay seems to be where most people meet in agreement. It seems to be an enjoyable experience for at least the first 10 hours. Some reviewers have stated that it becomes a tiresome slog after that period. Your mileage may vary. The top posts at the moment of this writing is "This game treats you like an idiot", "The Ogre in this game just looks stupid", "I'm disappointed", and "It's not just the dialogue that's getting me" over on Reddit. From the playthroughs that I've watched, the game's greatest sin is that it's boring. Opinions on companion writing vary but nothing really stands out as noteworthy. And interestingly, the main story appears to be average or slightly better. Putting all of this together it seems like Andromeda all over again minus the technical aspects. If I do buy this game, it'll be on a special.