Well I played it on the PC, but I know what you mean. On my initial playthrough I found it mind knumbingly frustrating to the point where I took a break from it for several months. I never did complete that initial playthrough, when I did eventually go back again I started fresh with a new character. I also bumped the difficulty down to Easy.imnotparanoid said:Im on the 360, its not so much its hard anymore ( I went to casual) But when I was finding it tricky it really put me off, also its long as hell!canadamus_prime said:Are you playing on console or PC?imnotparanoid said:Dragon age orogins, its so bloody hard!
In any case, a tactic I found that usually works, if you know you'll be approaching a large group of enemies, halt your party at the maximum edge of the range of your longest ranged weapon. Then get out said ranged weapon and go and pick out any random enemy out of the big group and shoot 'em. That single enemy and maybe one other should then run over to you where you and your party can easily take them out. Rinse and repeat until the large group of enemies is a more manageable size. ...or nonexistent.
I'm playing it again now to try and get the last two endings and a few other things, and I've put the difficulty back up to Normal.
Seriously though, try luring enemies into ambushes. It works esp. for thinning enemy numbers.
Of course, at the same time watch out for enemy ambushes.