Hehe i too ditched DA for MW2-biatch~

DA is a pretty huge and lengthy game, there are miss-able stuffs too, waiting for guides might be a good idea if you have no time to restart or multiple playthru.

Casters are only good for buff stacking (double haste ), friendly fire makes their AOE damaging spell not particularly useful... On my arcane warrior playthru, my party is mostly with 2 melee 1 archer, damn fun.

At normal or easy, any kind of party will be able to breeze thru with ease (maybe except against giant dragons). But at anything more higher... the party and character built become very very important, and the even more important thing is you gotta micromanage all the characters, change position, change tactics, ugh, very tiring.

I played about a quarter in nightmare, a quarter in normal and another half in casual

If you go for arcane warrior specialization, it's actually easier to play than warrior. Just precast all the buffs, then swing swing swing swing swing. Kinda boring actually.

ME1 got wat... inter-species-sex-intercourse lol, even more exposed than DA.

Yes, you can make out with zevran and leliana regardless of what type of protagonist you make.