Quote Originally Posted by Kekvit Irae View Post
23 hours? Steam clocks me in at 26 hours, and I've just now completed
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the Arishok's quest to track down the thief of the poison plans.
Of course, I'm OCD when it comes to side and secondary quests. Leave no stone unturned.
What can I say? I move fast

I did however miss a number of things simply because they aren't glarringly obvious. I missed out on recruiting Fenris on my first go because I only did the bare minimum of side-quests in the first act. So i suppose you could say 20 hours is around the very bare minimum to expect on any given play through when you're ignoring half the content

Or how about one fight early on during a secondary quest which pits you against
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a revenant, two rage demons, a desire demon, an arcane horror, and a crapload of shades and abominations? All in the same room. I wiped so many times, mostly because, at that point in the game, I only had access ONE healer. Stupid Merrill and her "unique" specialization. I'm stuck with Anders for most of the game, unfortunately. At least Morrigan had the ability to choose Creation spells in Origins.
Don't even get me started on that fight. I will freely admit i've bumped the difficulty down a notch here and there when i spent a full hour wiping on the same encounter just to get by. These high end fights are just not fun. Well, some are. But most like the ones you and Khaan describe are not.

The only "bug" I've encountered so far was bad clipping on armor models (including my companions' armor). Hands should not be able to clip through your thigh when talking, nor should your butt clip through your chest armor.
It's toward the final act, but I saw a number of quests bugging and encounters simply not loading properly. Might be one-time glitches (wrong place, wrong time) but it really set me off.

Do agree on Interparty banter though. It's one of the highlights of the game.