Dragon Age

So after almost a year of my wife telling me I should play dragon age I got it off steam yesterday and figured id give it a decent go.
I had played it briefly before as a mage character using my wife's copy but for some reason it didnt appeal to me.
I created a combat rogue and so far am having a lot of fun with it, it sucked up about 8 hrs of my day yesterday :P
I still cant get over how awesome the graphics are in it I love the visual art style and all the outdoor landscapes and structures are beautiful.
It's given me some inspiration and I think my next map after Elevator Evacuation is going to be an outdoor fantasy environment in UDK where i'm thinking I might make a bunch of fantasy props myself to get my skills up in 3d studio max again.

But in the meantime my gears of war level is coming along pretty well. Ive fully blocked out the first encounter and despite a few cover glitchs it seems to be working well. I will post up some gameplay footage of this area in the next few days when i've ironed out a few bugs and can drag myself away from dragon age :P.

Long as I keep telling myself im playing dragon age for level design research its ok ;)