I liked Dragon Age for the characters and story telling, but I agree that the dungeon grinds got tiring. I did find it more emotionally involving than any other RPG I've played recently - some of the decisions near the end were really tough.
If only you could take the story-telling of Dragon Age and combine it with the gameplay of DKS and the dragon combat of Drakan you'd have the perfect RPG
(for those who don't know it, "Drakan - Order of the flame" let you burn scenery and ground troops from the air. Watching armies of goblins flee in abject terror was one of those OMG gaming moments).
