I am really enjoying the spacebar pause game play. If the phone rings, I just pause no matter where in the game I happen to be and the game is waiting for me when I am done with the interruption. Its games like WOW and DDO that make it hard to handle real life. I made an elf thief and I feel like I am a bit under powered sometimes.  I have a code for Shale so if I get too discouraged I may restart with dwarves dark spawn warrior.  I have been able to beat down a lot of encounters but its close more than I would like. The characters are real flushed out in Dragon age. NPC’s talk to each other when you’re walking or running around and it keeps interested. So far I am thinking Dragon Age is a great game.