Leelee posted:

I don't see how you *can* be a Qunari mage in this game- I mean, they cut off your horns and sew your mouth shut? Unless we learn more about some kind of mage underground in Par Vollen, I don't think this will be a class available to the qunari, unless they've already stated otherwise.

Nichael posted:

It'd be funny if he was, but he's stabbing just east of Kirkwall.


Maybe I'm misremembering, but the DA2 crew seemed to like each other. The only ones your party disliked were Anders and Carver, and they both kind of had it coming. DA2 even had scenes of the party members talking to each other without you, which was a nice feature that was carried into ME3. I was looking at some of the party interactions from DA:O. That was a group that largely seemed to dislike each other, but it made sense to an extent because they were all pretty disparate people, with little in common.

Leelee posted:

I believe those are all party members. David Gaider remarked as such on the picture that the elf was very in-character (paraphrase).

sassassin posted:

Why is Origin so reviled?

Dr. Abysmal posted:

I used Origin for ME3 and have no desire to use it again unless there's a game I really want to play that is exclusive to it (and as of now, Inquisition is not on that list). I haven't used it in about 6 months but back then it was pretty buggy and lost connection a lot. I also got locked out of the multiplayer because of an "invalid online pass" issue - the PC version of the game didn't even use online passes - and it took ages to get a service rep who actually understood what the problem was. Once I was finally issued a new Origin product key I had to go through the same song and dance since that broke my preorder DLC.

Naf posted:

I'm boycotting this game unless I have at least 7 gender identity/sexuality choices on character creation.

Dr. Platypus posted:

I'd be happy with a second two-handed sword model. It felt like I used the exact same one through the entirety of Origins and Awakenings.

Pretzel Rod Stewart posted:

I played both DA:O and DA2 a long-rear end time ago--is there any way for me to tell at a glance which choices I've made? Otherwise I don't see the point of the Keep; who memorizes every little thing they do in a game like this (besides my sister) or bothers to learn all this lore?

kingcom posted:

"This is how I dislocated two fingers."

necessary voodoo posted:

Is this what you're talking about? More at the source.

monster on a stick posted:

Designed specifically for cosplay?

Doublehex posted:

It was more like "Oh God, we are getting our charred asses handed to us on a silver platter, we have no idea what we are doing. Hey, didn't that Garrus guy actually fight these things? On dozens of occasions? And SURVIVED? I wanted his rear end in here yesterday!"

TheWorldIsSquare posted:

I thought it was Fenris who said it but I'm probably wrong.

Policenaut posted:

Bioware thinking about implementing Kinect and other motion crap into Dragon Age, waiting on how people like it first.

DrNutt posted:

Shouting at Garrus owned, dude.

pentyne posted:

Yeah, the curse of being a Warden is never mentioned past the first few minutes of DA:O. You get 20 years from the ritual at most, have to abandon all remnants of your life and follow the Wardens, and once you reach the 20 year mark you just head into the deep roads to fight darkspawn until death.

Lotish posted:

I haven't played the DLCs for these games, but have we ever met a Warden on the verge of his or her calling? It would be interesting to have to play with a character for a while, knowing that inevitably they are about to go into the deep roads and either die fighting or join the enemy. There could even be a timer in the game where if you haven't finished the adventure by such and such in-game month, the Warden is called to the Deep Roads and cannot be stopped; do you let them go or kill them yourself? If you want to see how that character responds to the end game and the like, you need to beat the game quickly.

If they join relatively young--twenty or so--then you're looking at your senior wardens being in their 40s. Fairly old by dark age standards but who knows how old that is in a fantasy setting.

Pick posted:

Impossible, he's not an LI .

Torrannor posted:

I have no idea and just said I did not use it or something like that.

If they take my suggestions they will put greater focus on romances!

Chickenfrogman posted:

Putting Varic in every spot is the only reasonable thing to do as he's one of the only things DA2 did right. I was glad I could four slot him for that survey.

HenessyHero posted:

Sten also knows his fade dream's not real but he tells you that he's just playing it out to humour the demon until the Warden shows up . Dog you just wake up by patting it

While I also remember that I liked Morrigan's suggestion, honestly, Arl Eamon ends up being one of your biggest supporters against the blight in terms of actual military aid and in terms of his expertise at politicking. Sten's in the wrong there imho, but mostly because he doesn't know that humans will often devolve into arguing about how to fix a leak on sinking ship instead of just, you know, fixing it.

The Sharmat posted:

He's still totally ok with banging a mage though, isn't he?

Pick posted:

You have to go into the texture files .

DrakePegasus posted:

According to the bigass lore book, homosexuality is actually pretty well-accepted, if typically not talked about. The exact extent to said tolerance varies region to region. In Tevinter it's actively encouraged to the slaves by their owners, to keep their scarcity value.

Penakoto posted:

Yeah, this is it here, if you have too many slaves then revolt becomes a possibility. Civilizations with huge slave populations, like the Romans, dealt with it often.

Barudak posted:

Sure but at the same time having a massive slave population that provided them with their food so they could produce warriors of excellent quality and surprisingly sick burns was how they gained such dominance. If the Tevinter Empire characters were written with half of the quality of ancient Laconic Wit* I would never tire of exploring it.

Also, the Sacred Band of Thebes which ultimately is what militarily crushed the Spartans is history's greatest and gayest fighting force.

*Seriously, look these up, they're nothing but ice burns in a sentence or less. It is a land of people with humor so dry that the British look like an ocean.

Sleep of Bronze posted:

Your Gay Uncle posted:

Frankenmom was worth 5 dollars, I've never laughed as hard at a game as I did when she toddled onto the screen.

Torrannor posted:

Although I knew by then how the game ends, I felt much less uncomfortable with romancing Anders than romancing Merrill. I had that creepy feeling that I should be locked up for seducing a child. Rivalry-romance Anders, that arc plays out much better than the friendship-romance.

Edit: DA2 haters alerted to a heretic trying to play through the DA2 blasphemy! Already recommending to uninstall the game! You guys are quick.

Leelee posted:

I kind of love how characters call out my sarcastic Hawke out on her bullshit. I'm playing a mage, so I have Carver, who just told me that "you make a joke of everything". It's just sort of satisfying to play such an rear end in a top hat character.

I've never actually played a blood mage, so I'll have to try it this time.

Leelee posted:

If you all HAVE to pick- which romance do you go with in DA2- Isabela, Fenris, Anders, Sebastian, or Merrill.

(Death is not an option).

SgtSteel91 posted:

Merrill

Yeah, I went there. I like Merrill. Anyone got a problem with that?

steakmancer posted:

Actually thought Fenris had a good origin/background for a character except they made him too whiny and contrarian.

Carver was the best DA2 companion because he's basically a sniveling little brother archetype and had all the characteristics encapsuled within that archetype.

KittyEmpress posted:

I think the closest it does to justifying and conveying the danger is with Flemeth in the first game - an abomination (maybe?) who has learned to shapeshift into forms that make her as formidable as creatures known to destroy nations on their own.

The boss from the top of the mage tower was pretty good at conveying it too - you got to see what could happen if a powerful spirit entered a mage instead of a weak one.


But yeah abominations are way too common and easy to defeat for how scared the world are of them. The Grey Warden cuts through over a hundred by the end of DA:O, and Hawke cuts through probably as much or more.

Torrannor posted:

And you can be a blood mage all day long without anything bad ever happening. Even Merrill never did anything too horrible, the whole thing with the keeper and the pride demon could be construed as being the keeper's fault.

Mymla posted:

I'm not gonna say they look bad, but it looks a little bit weird to have almost photorealistic faces and plastic hair. But then, that's kind of been a thing in Bioware games since like Mass Effect.

Universe Master posted:

You apparently have to dedicate enormous amounts of GPU power to get long flowing hair right. Just look at the recent Tomb Raider game and its "Tressfx".

Stroth posted:

Brian Blessed

Generic American posted:

You know, I really want to like this character because she is Orlesian as gently caress and I love it. That said, however, I can't help but hate her already, because that hat is an abomination and a travesty to all things fashionable, and should be set ablaze.

mitochondritom posted:

This just sounds like a set up for making a load of skimpy armour and shouting "LORE" when people call them out on it.