Fuck. I'm really far into the game, playing on the PS3. Can someone tell me if the Xbox version is the same, using the d-pad as your only means of selecting enemies/scenery. It wouldn't be a problem if it actually worked. If you pointed the center ring of the radial menu at an enemy and pressed UP, then that guy should be selected... be he isn't. This is a huge problem when you're surrounded by 5+ enemies, have no idea what's what, and just want everyone to attack the same target. It also seems that the closer the enemy is to your character, the harder it is to highlight him. It really gets frustrating when I want to highlight some giant demon that is standing almost on top of me, and my guy can't seem to find him. I tried inputting some tactics: Attack the enemy that Alistair is attacking. But no matter how I adjust the tactics slots, my group still likes to attack the first thing they see.
 
I don't know. I am playing in Hard mode, so maybe that explains why - after my tenth death in a battle - that these fucking controls start to get to me. Anyone else run into this problem? And is the PC version really as easy as just clicking them? Or does that get hard as well?

When you pause the game with the radial menu on the 360 you simply place the enemy you want to target in the retical and then press the left stick button and it will lock on to that enemy. you can do this with your party members as well, or you can just have party members set to lock on to leaders target in the tactics menu. I just switch to a different character while paused that has a better vantage point when a character is too surrounded to lock on. If not, then the worst you have to do is to back someone up and do it which takes 2 seconds. For a console RPG, this game is pretty brilliant. I hear the PC version is even better.

Also, I'm not sure about how it works on the PS3, but on the 360 if you press RB+LB it will select all of your party members at the same time so you can issue a command for all of them to attack one particular enemy.

Is there a way to tell who an enemy is targeting? Say there are some ranged (specifically archers) that are popping off shots off a non tank and I want to get him CC but not another archer cause he actually is targeting a tank. I can't seem to see the arrows very well.