i don't mind many of the changes. hard difficulty is by far the way it should be played. being a pc fan of origins i think movement speed could be a little slower but what gets me the most is the blatant copy-paste of dungeons and caves. create a world with unique locations, something believable. wondering through the same area in *supposedly* different locations breaks the immersion. i don't mind revisiting locations, i like how the mining camp (bone pit) evolves throughout the game being different in each era. all the dungeons feel auto generated from only a few templates when you walk into them because they are all identical and the closed off areas are even still on the map. i do however like how years pass by between era's letting the story sink in an evolve, but the world doesn't evolve enough with it. especially true with the dungeon areas. i think this is the main reason why i will not replay DA2 like i did DAO. perhaps this was all due to limited space on console discs. if this is the case have the last era's on a second disc. baldurs gate was on 5 cds (with expansion) i didn't mind since it was so epic. if it would allow for the world to evolve without identical areas it would be well worth it.