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Post by Tea Rex on Oct 18, 2015 23:57:41 GMT -5
oppyu's Very Subjective Companion Rankings (Across Origins, Awakening, 2 and Inquisition)1: Leliana 2: Varric 3: Iron Bull 4: Aveline 5: Cassandra 6: Merrill 7: Vivienne 8: Sera 9: Dorian 10: Carver 11: Bethany 12: Shale 13: Dog 14: Fenris 15: Morrigan 16: Cole 17: Blackwall 18: Sigrun 19: Isabella 20: Alistair 21: Wynne 22: Solas 23: Zevran 24: Nathaniel 25: Velanna 26: Loghain 27: Justice 28: Oghren 29: Sten 30: Sebastian 31: Anders Again, all of them are favorites, save for a very few (Sebastian. Velanna. Anders. Loghain. Fucking Anders). But my Favorite of favorites are Morrigan, Varric and Cole of their respective games.
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Post by Lady Bones on Oct 19, 2015 0:08:17 GMT -5
oppyu's Very Subjective Companion Rankings (Across Origins, Awakening, 2 and Inquisition)1: Leliana 2: Varric 3: Iron Bull 4: Aveline 5: Cassandra 6: Merrill 7: Vivienne 8: Sera 9: Dorian 10: Carver 11: Bethany 12: Shale 13: Dog 14: Fenris 15: Morrigan 16: Cole 17: Blackwall 18: Sigrun 19: Isabella 20: Alistair 21: Wynne 22: Solas 23: Zevran 24: Nathaniel 25: Velanna 26: Loghain 27: Justice 28: Oghren 29: Sten 30: Sebastian 31: Anders Again, all of them are favorites, save for a very few (Sebastian. Velanna. Anders. Loghain. Fucking Anders). But my Favorite of favorites are Morrigan, Varric and Cole of their respective games. WHAT ARE YOU STILL DOING AWAKE RESPONSIBLE ADULT
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Post by Lady Bones on Nov 14, 2015 17:26:49 GMT -5
I'm at Skyhold and almost to level 10 with my mage. I had built up a lot of Power before doing In Your Heart Shall Burn, so I was able to immediately open up a few of the new areas. I also intend to do Here Lies the Abyss fairly quickly, once I have the Power, and then be focusing on side quests for an extended period of time.
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Post by Tea Rex on Nov 14, 2015 18:12:16 GMT -5
That's my current ink, lookin foine. Seriously, she's the best looking chicka I've made in this game. Except maybe my ladyHawke, who is also hella foine. Tho she was always hella foine.
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Post by Lady Bones on Nov 16, 2015 2:41:46 GMT -5
oppy all along, @gordonfrohman and Tea Rex: What amuses me about the whole Warden/Hawke choice is that even if it weren't Stroud for Nudie, it wouldn't be a hard decision, as he'd clearly keep Hawke alive over Alistair or Loghain in a second.
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Post by Baron von Costume on Nov 19, 2015 14:52:50 GMT -5
Nudie's discussion of the Templar/Mage choice in inquisition brings up a quandary for me... I know I should pick the Templars next time through for variety but I just hate them so much, particularly DA:I's version of them where even if you sort of see the Chantry's point on Mages they're still fuckheads.
Oh well, got to play FO4 first once I pick it up anyway. Also I'm hoping for a DLC sale for DA for black friday to pick up the other two and finish my first run.
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Post by Tea Rex on Nov 19, 2015 15:31:06 GMT -5
Nudie's discussion of the Templar/Mage choice in inquisition brings up a quandary for me... I know I should pick the Templars next time through for variety but I just hate them so much, particularly DA:I's version of them where even if you sort of see the Chantry's point on Mages they're still fuckheads. Oh well, got to play FO4 first once I pick it up anyway. Also I'm hoping for a DLC sale for DA for black friday to pick up the other two and finish my first run. I agree re: Templars, and also the devs were clearly pushing for players to go with mages. They're so sympathetic! You can walk around Redcliffe and ask opinions of the mages and discover that most are anti evil Tevinter alliance or even anti war, many are young and unsure, and you're introduced to Dorian before the quest begins. All you get from the Templars before you commit is Cassandra being weirded out by head-punchy Seeker Lucius, and Ser Barris stuttering that maybe head punches weren't necessary and helping the inquisition was. I'll say this, though - the Templar quest does a fine job of introducing Cole, explaining what he is by showing instead of telling, and making it more clear how he thinks and why. I liked Cole in my first play through all right, in which I went with Mages. But second play through is when I had him in my party at all times, and it's because of his character intro. And I'm glad I did - all the lore and extra tidbits I learned from his banter was choice. Also, he's the only one who truly unsettles that bitch Vivienne, and the only one who had Solas's number, even if he empathizes for the bastard. Cole forever, dudes. Thank you, Templar quest. AN ASIDE: that actually brings up my reservations about Cole's personal quest in my current play through. I decided that two main world states was enough for whenever DA4 comes out - an Elven warrior who sides with mages, is mostly jokey, and falls for Solas, and a religious but open minded human rogue who sides with Templars, is mostly kind and thoughtful, and falls for Cullen. In the first world, I made Cole human, because I've always made Cole human, because fuck Solas with a stick. But now I feel, as one of the only character quests with no "worse" outcome aside from Josephine, that I should make him spirit in this play through. But like, the idea makes me so sad. All the stuff he learned tossed aside to go back to what he was. And I'd like to reiterate Solas's stick fucking! But I've yet to play him as a spirit, and I'm awfully curious about the interactions that would happen. Should I go for it?
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Post by Baron von Costume on Nov 19, 2015 15:35:39 GMT -5
Nudie's discussion of the Templar/Mage choice in inquisition brings up a quandary for me... I know I should pick the Templars next time through for variety but I just hate them so much, particularly DA:I's version of them where even if you sort of see the Chantry's point on Mages they're still fuckheads. Oh well, got to play FO4 first once I pick it up anyway. Also I'm hoping for a DLC sale for DA for black friday to pick up the other two and finish my first run. I agree re: Templars, and also the devs were clearly pushing for players to go with mages. They're so sympathetic! You can walk around Redcliffe and ask opinions of the mages and discover that most are anti evil Tevinter alliance or even anti war, many are young and unsure, and you're introduced to Dorian before the quest begins. All you get from the Templars before you commit is Cassandra being weirded out by head-punchy Seeker Lucius, and Ser Barris stuttering that maybe head punches weren't necessary and helping the inquisition was. I'll say this, though - the Templar quest does a fine job of introducing Cole, explaining what he is by showing instead of telling, and making it more clear how he thinks and why. I liked Cole in my first play through all right, in which I went with Mages. But second play through is when I had him in my party at all times, and it's because of his character intro. And I'm glad I did - all the lore and extra tidbits I learned from his banter was choice. Also, he's the only one who truly unsettles that bitch Vivienne, and the only one who had Solas's number, even if he empathizes for the bastard. Cole forever, dudes. Thank you, Templar quest. AN ASIDE: that actually brings up my reservations about Cole's personal quest in my current play through. I decided that two main world states was enough for whenever DA4 comes out - an Elven warrior who sides with mages, is mostly jokey, and falls for Solas, and a religious but open minded human rogue who sides with Templars, is mostly kind and thoughtful, and falls for Cullen. In the first world, I made Cole human, because I've always made Cole human, because fuck Solas with a stick. But now I feel, as one of the only character quests with no "worse" outcome aside from Josephine, that I should make him spirit in this play through. But like, the idea makes me so sad. All the stuff he learned tossed aside to go back to what he was. And I'd like to reiterate Solas's stick fucking! But I've yet to play him as a spirit, and I'm awfully curious about the interactions that would happen. Should I go for it? I'm not at all a cole fan (my inq was a rogue and I could never pass up Sera weirdass banter or Varric hanging around as a second rogue) but I'll give him another shot when I do my second run likely as a warrior. That said Solas can eat it. As for the choice there, I kind of felt the same way. Though I didn't have a strong connection with him choosing to not turn him human would feel wrong.
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Post by Nudeviking on Feb 13, 2016 22:52:06 GMT -5
So I beat Dragon Age yesterday afternoon some six months after Dragon Age: Origins was on sale on the Playstation Network for like $5 and I was like, "People on the TI seem to like that one...let me check it out." Thousands of darkspawns, banditos, hamburger helper wizards and demons were slain across three countries. The world was saved twice, and kind of ruined once. Several lovely ladies were romanced. And now? Now I wait, like all of you. It is not a good feeling. As the credits rolled on Trespasser I laughed at the hilarity of what was being said, but also felt a twinge of sorrow because I knew that I wouldn't be able to put "the next one" into my Playstation, mutter, "Shit...an update that will take 3 hours to download," and then three hours later start playing the next installment of what has become my favorite video game franchise.
I should probably do some final thoughts on a game series I probably spent over 300 hours of my life playing, but instead I'll just do a short random list of favorites and least favorites...
Favorite/Least Favorite Game: Inquisition / Dragon Age 2 Inquisition was pretty much the best in the way it was set up, the scope, the companions, the plotting. It was all pretty much excellent. Dragon Age 2 had a lot of stuff that I liked (the rivalry system for companions is a thing I wish they kept), but one game has to be the worst and Dragon Age 2 was it for me, mainly because Act III of it was kind of a mess. As a prelude to Inquisition, Dragon Age 2 does its job, but as a stand alone game I found it to be lacking.
Favorite/Least Favorite Hero: Hawke / The Grey Warden Everything about Hawke is fantastic. Good hair, great voice actress. She was the best. You all probably know this already seeing as how you discussed how I would clearly have chosen Hawke in that Fade level of Inquisition no matter who else I ended up with down there...though maybe that was because of my vocal hatred of Alistair and Loghain. As for the Grey Warden, she was alright, but she seemed more a video game character than later heroes due to the lack of voice acting, which at the time was fine, but when compared to later installments makes her less awesome.
Favorite/Least Favorite Companion: Leliana / Solas Leliana is a hard act to follow. A few have come close to being equals...Dorian, Iron Bull, Sera...Anders, but ultimately she was and still is the best companion. The early parts of Inquisition made me question this somewhat, since she had gone from a sweet woman with a dangerous skill set to a borderline sociopath, but after her companion quest she turned it around again and went back to the Leliana I knew and loved from Origins. As for Solas? Fuck Solas! For real, fuck that guy. Having played through all the games I thought it would take a lot for someone to usurp Alistair's rightful throne as the worst companion, but Solas did so to the max. Like there is such a huge gap between how much I hate Alistair and how much I hate Solas it's not even funny. Like even if Alistair ends up joining Solas in some future game via being a half-elf or whatever, I still will not hate him as much as Solas. Solas is pretty much the biggest douchelord who ever douched.
Favorite/Least Favorite Couple: Inquisitor & Sera / Hawke & Merrill The Inquisitor and Sera felt the most real in how they ended up together to me so I give them the nod. Hawke & Merrill was kind of the opposite, not to say I disliked it, it's just, again, someone has to be the worst.
I'm toying with the idea of replaying some/all of them, but kind of feel like it would be cheating to do so. All my choices would end up being made not because that is the choice I would have naturally made, but because either "that was the opposite of what I did last time," or "that will get me a different playstation achievement than whatever I last did." Across the entire playthrough I only reloaded after seeing the outcome of a choice twice...maybe three times. Once (or twice) because in Inquisition on the PS3 there was a bug where sometimes the dialogue wheel wouldn't actually pop up so I ended up picking a choice that I didn't really want to pick, just because the arrow starts in the middle or whatever so by attempting to open the dialogue wheel I ended up picking something I didn't really want to pick. This wasn't any fault of my own so it doesn't actually count. The only other time I reloaded was in the Landsmeet or whatever in Origins, because things went way too far and somehow I ended up killing Alistair and getting Loghain in my party, two things I didn't want to do...I just wanted to kick Alistair out of my party and not have Loghain, but that wasn't happening, so I reloaded and made him become a king instead.
I never looked at walkthroughs or spoilers or anything because I didn't want to have those influence my decisions. You need merely look at my earlier assessments of Solas to know this is true. I also tried to have clean breaks between games. Like I personally hate Alistair, and the Grey Warden from Origins hates him, because she had reason to, but when he showed up in DA2 and Inquisition, Hawke was pleasant to him and the Inquisitor was kind of neutral towards him, because neither of those characters had reason to hate him, but it was a hard thing to do, and I think will be even harder to do on a second playthrough.
Anyway thanks Dragon Age. You were a good jam. I hope your next installment appears soon.
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Post by pairesta on Feb 24, 2016 9:07:41 GMT -5
I'm toying with the idea of replaying some/all of them, but kind of feel like it would be cheating to do so. All my choices would end up being made not because that is the choice I would have naturally made, but because either "that was the opposite of what I did last time," or "that will get me a different playstation achievement than whatever I last did." Across the entire playthrough I only reloaded after seeing the outcome of a choice twice...maybe three times. Once (or twice) because in Inquisition on the PS3 there was a bug where sometimes the dialogue wheel wouldn't actually pop up so I ended up picking a choice that I didn't really want to pick, just because the arrow starts in the middle or whatever so by attempting to open the dialogue wheel I ended up picking something I didn't really want to pick. This wasn't any fault of my own so it doesn't actually count. The only other time I reloaded was in the Landsmeet or whatever in Origins, because things went way too far and somehow I ended up killing Alistair and getting Loghain in my party, two things I didn't want to do...I just wanted to kick Alistair out of my party and not have Loghain, but that wasn't happening, so I reloaded and made him become a king instead. I never looked at walkthroughs or spoilers or anything because I didn't want to have those influence my decisions. You need merely look at my earlier assessments of Solas to know this is true. I also tried to have clean breaks between games. Like I personally hate Alistair, and the Grey Warden from Origins hates him, because she had reason to, but when he showed up in DA2 and Inquisition, Hawke was pleasant to him and the Inquisitor was kind of neutral towards him, because neither of those characters had reason to hate him, but it was a hard thing to do, and I think will be even harder to do on a second playthrough. I had this philosophy too, so I understand. However I did replay the first two parts in the past year and I can say that taking that approach does open up the game more, introduce you to parts you didn't even know existed. I can't recall specifics, but I do recall in some of your writeups for the first two parts where me, Tea Rex, and a few others were exchanging knowing comments because you had missed something. My second playthrough really made me appreciate DAO alot more, since I kinda blazed through it the first time. And, while I haven't played it yet, it sounds like Inquisition is alot "bigger" in that you couldn't possibly get it all the first time through. But you do seem alot more an intuitive player than I am, where I really rigidly stick to my vanilla playing personality and miss some pretty huge things, so even on your first playthroughs, you got alot more than I did.
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Post by Nudeviking on Feb 25, 2016 16:58:12 GMT -5
I'm toying with the idea of replaying some/all of them, but kind of feel like it would be cheating to do so. All my choices would end up being made not because that is the choice I would have naturally made, but because either "that was the opposite of what I did last time," or "that will get me a different playstation achievement than whatever I last did." Across the entire playthrough I only reloaded after seeing the outcome of a choice twice...maybe three times. Once (or twice) because in Inquisition on the PS3 there was a bug where sometimes the dialogue wheel wouldn't actually pop up so I ended up picking a choice that I didn't really want to pick, just because the arrow starts in the middle or whatever so by attempting to open the dialogue wheel I ended up picking something I didn't really want to pick. This wasn't any fault of my own so it doesn't actually count. The only other time I reloaded was in the Landsmeet or whatever in Origins, because things went way too far and somehow I ended up killing Alistair and getting Loghain in my party, two things I didn't want to do...I just wanted to kick Alistair out of my party and not have Loghain, but that wasn't happening, so I reloaded and made him become a king instead. I never looked at walkthroughs or spoilers or anything because I didn't want to have those influence my decisions. You need merely look at my earlier assessments of Solas to know this is true. I also tried to have clean breaks between games. Like I personally hate Alistair, and the Grey Warden from Origins hates him, because she had reason to, but when he showed up in DA2 and Inquisition, Hawke was pleasant to him and the Inquisitor was kind of neutral towards him, because neither of those characters had reason to hate him, but it was a hard thing to do, and I think will be even harder to do on a second playthrough. I had this philosophy too, so I understand. However I did replay the first two parts in the past year and I can say that taking that approach does open up the game more, introduce you to parts you didn't even know existed. I can't recall specifics, but I do recall in some of your writeups for the first two parts where me, Tea Rex, and a few others were exchanging knowing comments because you had missed something. My second playthrough really made me appreciate DAO alot more, since I kinda blazed through it the first time. And, while I haven't played it yet, it sounds like Inquisition is alot "bigger" in that you couldn't possibly get it all the first time through. But you do seem alot more an intuitive player than I am, where I really rigidly stick to my vanilla playing personality and miss some pretty huge things, so even on your first playthroughs, you got alot more than I did. I know that at least with Origins the bulk of the stuff I missed was either "If you do A then B is impossible," or "Your approval rating must be this high to ride this quest," type things and to do either would ultimately require me to deliberately make unnatural choices with a couple minor and one major exception. The minor ones all stem from the fact that I didn't realize persuasion was the most important skill until the final chunk of the game so ended up fighting it out and/or dooming teen dwarf moms to a lifetime of poverty. Were I to replay Origins, I'd probably max out persuasion as quickly as possible to talk classist dwarf dads out of being assholes and stuff. The major one is Alistair (aka Brodude Heroman). I found him annoying but didn't outright hate him until he turned on me and wouldn't tell me how to Templar. This was the result of a single decision I made because the game itself is really vague. Of course I speak of using blood magic to save a kid from a demon (and killing the kid's mom in the process). The game makes it seem like time is of the essence and if you are a newbie and don't look at walkthroughs it seems like you have to choose to either kill a kid or do blood magic. You can also apparently leave and get wizards to help you out of the tower. I would probably go with this option on any subsequent playthrough and thus probably end up not hating Alistair and doing his companion quests. Sten and Ogrum's quest? Yeah those I'll probably never see.
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Post by pairesta on Feb 25, 2016 17:07:25 GMT -5
The major one is Alistair (aka Brodude Heroman). I found him annoying but didn't outright hate him until he turned on me and wouldn't tell me how to Templar. This was the result of a single decision I made because the game itself is really vague. Of course I speak of using blood magic to save a kid from a demon (and killing the kid's mom in the process). The game makes it seem like time is of the essence and if you are a newbie and don't look at walkthroughs it seems like you have to choose to either kill a kid or do blood magic. You can also apparently leave and get wizards to help you out of the tower. I would probably go with this option on any subsequent playthrough and thus probably end up not hating Alistair and doing his companion quests. Sten and Ogrum's quest? Yeah those I'll probably never see. Yeah, the saving the Arl's wife and kid quest really pissed me off when I learned about the third way to solve it. It isn't at all intuitive, and I, too, thought that time was short and so going to the mages' circle would be impossible. Sodding sod the dwarf's subquest doesn't amount to much, though maybe I biffed it on both playthroughs. Just a little more understanding of him. Sten's quest does net you a pretty nice sword, though.
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Post by pairesta on Jul 21, 2017 13:00:14 GMT -5
So I got Inquisition about a month back. I'm playing it, it's a timesuck, but I'm not really all that engaged in it. When I stop playing, I don't think about it, and sometimes days will pass before I pick it up again. It doesn't have its hooks in the me the way, say, Skyrim does, even on my third playthrough, or the Fallout games.
I know it took some shots for being vague and unclear at the beginning what you're supposed to be doing and why, and maybe that's it. But there's still stuff happening where I'm realizing I just figured it for the first time, and honestly, it should have been more clear at the outset.
Maybe it's time I realize that the Dragon Age series just hasn't worked for me, since none of them really stand out in hindsight. Origins was good, but needed more polish, then 2 scrapped all of it to start over and was very dissatisfying.
PS Is there no way to load the world state into the game? All I've read is you have to go to the Origins page and modify it there by answering a bunch of questions. It doesn't just find and read your world states from the other games like 2 did?
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Post by pairesta on Jul 21, 2017 14:02:26 GMT -5
So I got Inquisition about a month back. I'm playing it, it's a timesuck, but I'm not really all that engaged in it. When I stop playing, I don't think about it, and sometimes days will pass before I pick it up again. It doesn't have its hooks in the me the way, say, Skyrim does, even on my third playthrough, or the Fallout games. I know it took some shots for being vague and unclear at the beginning what you're supposed to be doing and why, and maybe that's it. But there's still stuff happening where I'm realizing I just figured it for the first time, and honestly, it should have been more clear at the outset. Maybe it's time I realize that the Dragon Age series just hasn't worked for me, since none of them really stand out in hindsight. Origins was good, but needed more polish, then 2 scrapped all of it to start over and was very dissatisfying. PS Is there no way to load the world state into the game? All I've read is you have to go to the Origins page and modify it there by answering a bunch of questions. It doesn't just find and read your world states from the other games like 2 did? I'm on the same page as you. While I freaking loved Origins and got sucked into its world, I've completely failed to get interested in Inquisition after three solid attempts at playing. I think it's the combat system; Origins had similarities to Final Fantasy XII's combat while II and Inquisition have combat that feels more like a gimped action game than what I apparently want RPG combat to feel like. Oh I HATE the new controls. A month in and I still attack something when I want to use or activate it instead.
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Post by Baron von Costume on Jul 21, 2017 14:34:47 GMT -5
Inquisition runs on a different engine than Origins and II did and therefore isn't capable of reading savefiles from those games to generate the world state. This is evidently true on all platforms, last-gen, current-gen, and PC. The website questionnaire is therefore the only way to import your world state, unfortunately. That's actually the only reason I have an EA Origin account; all the other EA games I like are still available on Steam. For the record this really isn't true. The engine has nothing to do with it, there's no reason they couldn't have written a tool to extract the game state data from your old saves other than time. As is increasingly usual with EA owned Bioware they didn't spend the money for that little touch.
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Post by Baron von Costume on Jul 21, 2017 14:44:25 GMT -5
For the record this really isn't true. The engine has nothing to do with it, there's no reason they couldn't have written a tool to extract the game state data from your old saves other than time. As is increasingly usual with EA owned Bioware they didn't spend the money for that little touch. That's interesting, I had no idea. I feel kind of sheepish for swallowing the EA company line now... Don't get me wrong, the fact that the first two games share the same engine makes it totally totally easier, I mean given DA2 started life as an expansion pack they would have just grabbed that code from the other DLC anyway or more likely there's just some sort of world state object hard coded into it. From a programming standpoint though all you'd have to do is know where the various state values are in the save file but to give EA a little credit it might not be all their fault: A) It was long enough from the original origins design period (and that part of design is usually pretty early) that the original programmer is likely long gone from the company. B) Said programmer might have written really obtuse badly commented code that made untangling it into a serious project so they just decided it was too pricey in time/$$$. Absolute worst case they could have easily put out a small patch for DA:O/2 that adds an "export savefile for inquisition" if they realllllly wanted to.
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Post by pairesta on Jul 23, 2017 11:22:33 GMT -5
It really bugs me and is one of the chief things that takes me out of the game. The first two, for their faults, still gave a sense of consequence to their actions, bad choices, loss, etc. I've had a couple moments in game where characters show up who were dead in my continuity, or mentioned as dead but alive in my continuity, and it angers my nerd blood right up.
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Post by pairesta on Jul 24, 2017 8:57:49 GMT -5
Well I had a patented Dragon AgeTM moment: I reluctantly took on a quest (In Your Heart Shall Burn) to advance the main plot, which in turn immediately closed a bunch of side quests I hadn't gotten to yet and now are inaccessible. No indication or warning that this was a point of no return, though I kind of suspected it was going to be. So now i have to work my way back to my last save before and keep grinding to get the other quests closed. Grrr.
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Post by pairesta on Sept 13, 2017 12:16:17 GMT -5
Finished the game last night and have been reading over this thread in-depth for the first time. I may go into Nudeviking's writeup next. Holy shit this is gonna be long. Anyways, major decisions: Sided with the mages Brought the Wardens in Celene is empress, gaspard executed Fought the elves (completely by mistake), let Morrigan drink from the well Lelliana is head of the chantry and does alot of great progressive things. Can't quite mentally reconcile her being a spymaster with this mother superior figure. I expect she'll be assassinated. Let Blackwall--my favorite character at that point--rot in jail. This is apparently something almost no one does or should do. Maybe it's national events right now but I'm in no mood to shirk justice for a friend. Other notes: Flirted relentlessly with Harding to the point where I looked up on line to see how to seal the deal and then was disappointed. I think I have a thing for DA dwarf women because I've thought all of them were adorable. Romanced Josephine, but Cassandra threw herself at me and I felt bad turning her down. Jesus, you guys love Cole. I never used him even once, and only because of that ridiculous fucking hat. Didn't have so much a problem with Solas, didn't understand the post-credit twist with him. Favorite after Blackwall was Iron Bull, though I too could not keep him alive. Apparently his constitution is laughably low. Dorian was pretty great as a mage. I feel bad for not including vivienne as much, especially with the re-spec option I wasn't aware of. But she was delightfully catty. But once Morrigan came back into the fold they seemed too similar. Could have sworn Sera was voiced by Lucy Davis, aka Dawn in the UK office, but was wrong. My party didn't talk much. Varric and Dorian kept having the same conversation about odds of the inquisition's success. Sera, Vivienne, and Cassandra together made for some unpleasant quarreling. Varric seemed underpowered compared to even Sera. By game's end Bianca was doing about 200 damage still while Sera had a bow doing 290, and everyone else's weapons were in the 300 range. I didn't mod his crossbow as much though, and really only figured out that I needed to about 2/3rds through the game. I never completed a mosaic, and didn't get all the shards. I finally just gave up because those doors are such shard hogs and it takes FOREVER to get them. Contra seemingly everyone else on this thread, I'm a fighter, as I am in almost any fantasy game I play. I went into the final fight at level 27, some 8 levels above the recommended level, so it was absurdly easy. Once I broke into level 20, the fights got alot easier. I played alot of the DLC without realizing it was DLC, including the Decent and Hakkon quests. Decent I tried at way too low a level at first and had to hightail it out of there, then try again. My playthrough was three months, pretty much the entire summer. The game opens up considerably once Skyhold enters the picture, and they really should have done a better job making that point clear. The game leans hard on its characters and it was those moments I liked the best; the card game with all of your companions, or the Orlais Costume Ball quest that was more about intrigue and politics. I was disappointed, even, when it turned back to hack and slash. But overall I still am pretty much where I was when I first mentioned it: I played it, it passed the time, but it just never got its hooks in me. All my complaints still hold: the controls, and the not being able to just load your continuity in from previous games. In rereading this thread Tea even tells me at one point I had a good setup from my DA:O and DA2 games for DA:I but I didn't do any of it, because I didn't know. From re-reading this thread I appear to be in the majority in that I really, really love Skyrim. Yes, the companions here are vastly better, and there's a nice twist to the usual "chosen one" plot in this game, but overall it didn't come together for me. Because I'd go so long between either playing the main quest or playing at all, it was really hard for me to understand the plot of the game and I'm hazy on details, even having just finished it.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2018 10:09:49 GMT -5
It seems like if Anthem bombs though, then bioware will likely be shut down before they really get that far into a new Dragon Age.
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