I'm only 4 to 5 hours in but I like it. It gets out a lot of the shitty DA2 play and brings it back more to DAO. I'll also say there is a ton to explore. I'm still in the first area outside of Haven and I've got maybe half left to explore. I read a review the other day saying that the guy had put in 80 hours so far and I can easily see myself doing that. One thing I'm unsure of is just how difficult the game will be. I'm playing on normal difficulty with no friendly fire from the magic, but I haven't played much with my teams tactics yet. I also don't know how the AI difficulty will scale when the difficulty is changed. Basically I don't know if the AI will get smarter of if enemies will just hit harder and have more health. You definitely feel the EA influence with the war map and campsite checkpoints; it's very reminiscent of assassin's creed black flags (cool for me because I liked that part). The story/lore is still absolutely ridiculous in terms of the amount of it they have. If you were really into DAO (multiple play throughs and such) I'd definitely recommend it.