OK, got it (Xbox One)! Waited till 1.07, which came down the pipe already rolled into the game. Immediately went to Alternative Movement, and it seems very natural with a controller. Game is beautiful, but it's taking me a while to feel comfortable with the control scheme after months in DA: Inquisition. Combat is going to frustrate me for some time. The strategy is very different, and coordinating blocking/parrying with evades and attacks is not coming together just yet. Playing on normal/standard difficulty, and I'm going to resist restarting on Easy.
Technically, it's a big step up from DA: I. A big part of that are the load times, which are much better than I expected. They are just about inconsequential except when reloading from a save file. The streaming is nearly flawless so far. Day/night cycle looks terrific. Horse behavior is every bit as good as DAI's, and does it one better on the galloping--which is a PITA to maintain in the DA game.
I've been playing since mid-day (and it's now after 9 PM), and I've barely scratched the surface. So much is unfamiliar. I could never get into the 2nd game, and I never had access to the 1st. I have a feeling the assumption is that the user has some familiarity with the past games. That's just not the case here.
