I'm almost definitely going to pick this one up at some point. But, right now I've got no idea when.

It's a definite for me too, in about the same time frame. ;-) I am really digging the combination of story, graphics, and RPG engine for Dragon Age.
But I'm up to my armpits in underplayed games right now: Divine Divinity, Planescape Torment, World of Goo, Prince of Persia 2008, Civilization 3 Complete, and HOMM3. And a few more on the Wii and XBox. It seems that I like buying games, but don't have time to actually play them.

The console version doesn't have the tactical view either. It only has the 3rd person over-the-shoulder cam.

I knew there would be a reason that I really wanted to buy retail and not DD.

To this I can most certainly relate. I have so many games that I've barely touched on. Right now that even includes Mass Effect and Crysis Warhead which I picked up in EA Store sales. But it also includes Trine, Tales of Monkey Island and even Beyond Divinity (but I think I'll buy Divine from here and play that first). Plus a few more if I look around...
Yeah, I don't need to rush out and buy a full price title at the moment. I'll await a price cut or GoTY.

I've got the 360 version on order from a place on ebay so it only cost me $70 rather than $110. I'd have gone for the PC version myself but there's no way my laptop could run it, gotta get a job so I can afford a decent PC
Kotaku posted a brief but mostly positive review of the PS3 version:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2009/11/dragon-age-origins-review-tripping-the-blight-fantastic/

Looks solid but I'm not a fan of the control system -- going to wait for a sale. And, as someone else mentioned I still have Borderlands, Torchlight, and soon L4D2 on my plate. In addition to habitually playing TF2.

I'll take it. They sent me a "PLZ COM BAK" mail with a free 10 day trial a few weeks ago and might just install it again. I really should given I ran out and bought the collectors big box edition *sigh*

EA are experimenting again and all their new titles only have disc checks. It was the same with Need for Speed Shift. EA - Stepping away from the Evil, one baby step at a time.

What is DA/ME2? Mainly the ME2 part, I am assuming that DA is Dragon Age.

DA = Dragon Age
ME2 = Mass Effect 2 (no need for the MEPC this time, since they are going for simultaneous release last I checked)
Apparently the Dragon Blood Armor or whatever it is called has a DA version and an ME2 version. I suspect the lore and design will be different, but it is still nice (and will probably mean that I am going to pre-order ME2 for more DA toys).

Someone preordered the lovely EA Store version of the Deluxe game for me for my birthday, god bless 'im.

So, anyone played it yet? Is it really, as Marilyn Manson has constantly reminded us, "THE NEW SH******************T"?

I'm about 3 hours in and it seems to be pretty good. It plays like Baldur's Gate and basically feels like an updated version of it with some of the staple MMO elements like the hot-key bar and cooldowns. Graphics leave a bit to be desired but who plays these games for graphics? Animations themselves are welldone. Story seems pretty good and the backstory given through various codex entries fleshes out the world. It scales really well with requirements despite what the official ones are.
I'll update this if it changes at all. Plan to play more tomorrow when I'm awake.

I have only played a small amount (Human Noble origin story for a Male Warrior), but it has potential. I am going to have to fiddle around with the tactics and what not to set up AI, but so far it looks like only the player character (or whoever you have selected at any given time) will be micro-heavy, with the rest of the party using powers and what not as needed (or as set up with the tactics screen?).
And it is VERY gory, but so far it seems to work. Sort of like how previous Bonds never really got too messy, but Daniel Craig looked like what one would expect from brutally murdering a person with his bare hands.
TRIVIAL SPOILER FOR HUMAN NOBLE ORIGIN:
As an example, the Human Noble has a pet dog (I named him "Shaggy Dog" in honor of the series of books that seem to have heavily influenced the crap out of this game :p) that gets into the pantry. You go to flush him out, find a bunch of rats (an NPC even makes the joke that all quests seem to start with killing rats). Well, after the fight, the dog is covered in blood, the PC is covered in blood, and the NPC is pretty gored up as well.
END TRIVIAL SPOILER FOR HUMAN NOBLE ORIGIN
Still not sure what class I am going to go with (probably going to roll up a mage next, since I like controlling the PC, and battle seems kind of fast to be taking the tank off autopilot).

my standard BG characters were either dwarf warrior with high constitution dual wielding axes or hammers, or a thief type character, so I'll probably go with one of those two to start, probably an assassin, maybe duelist

Oh right. I do remember seeing some pictures of those shared armors.