Dragon Age: Origins

Yea, I won't notice the big time distance between this and my former post, because it seems like that's the common way of blogging people x)
Anyway I played Dragon Age: Origins the last days, which I never played although it came out 2009 and everyone seemed to play it. I only heard good things about it.

But I have to say, as a long time Skyrim player, that this just doesn't catch me.
I'm a gamer who gives a lot of s**t on graphics. Meaning that I can walk around a game for hours and just feast on a beautiful landscape. But Dragon Age leaves me disappointed. Most of the landscape and environment textures and designs remind me of very old MMOs like Silkroad or Kal Online.

Not beautiful right? But then suddenly when watching cut scenes and dialogues, it seems like a decent RPG, when the DoF effect (depth of field) works correctly and you see the highrezz face textures of the characters.

 So I'm really indecisive about that and would enjoy the game nontheless, IF the gameplay would attract to me, but this also isn't the case. As soon as combats begin, the atmosphere of a RPG is gone for me because it switches to a more tactical Diablo/Hack&Slay view. You can also fight in 3rd person view, but that becomes counterproductive after a few hours when the combats get more difficult. So you click around, pause the game after every dead enemy and give new instructions to your party members. And although I'm playing on low difficulty, they die in my arms. So all I do, is to control the healer and spam the Heal spell on the tank. Yes, you can set rules for each group member, but that doesn't work how you want. It feels like a bad World of Warcraft for singleplayers.

Ok, I'm not doing any sidequest to gain more XP, because I just wanted to experience the story to play Dragon Age 2 after that and Dragon Age: Inquisition in 2014. But the Story so far doesn't catch me either. It's about some Breed coming over the world controlled by an Archdaemon, which you (of course) have to hunt and stop. Nothing special and new. But at least the dialogues are quite funny and sarcastic and the game gives you huge freedom in decisions.

I only played for 10 hours and hope that it gets better. But until now i can't understand the big compliments everyone gave to that game.