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Post by Ravenfeeder on Sept 21, 2016 18:38:50 GMT
My gut instinct was to say Warden, the Origin story giving them the best grounding. On reflection the the Inquisitor is actually the one to whom I've given more depth, who has better relationships with people and who just seems to have more. Hawke comes last by a long, long way. Not a particular slur on Hawke themselves, just associated with a shitty plot, a badly realised setting and hateful companions.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2016 1:52:37 GMT
My Warden, particularly my Warden Surana. I just fell in love with the personality I crafted for her. While I do feel some attachment to my Quizzes, its not as much as do the wardens. To me, when it comes to DA:I compared to DA:O, DA:I losses some connection between me and the Quizz after Haven, since after Haven you slog through a lot of worthless fetch quests and as BansheeOwnage said the Quizz doesn't have personal skin in the game compared to the Warden. Regardless of what warden you choose, they all have some personal stake in at least one part of the main quest. The human noble killing Arl Howe to avenge their family, both dwarves wardens have a stake in who gets the crown, both mage wardens having to deal with Jowen's shit again and save their old home, and so on. With a nice added bonus of confronting a ghost from their past at the Temple of Sacred Ashes. Their was something personal in their save the world quest for them, while with the Quizz...not so much.
As for Hawke, I've never played DA:2 so...
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Post by LFS on Sept 22, 2016 1:59:28 GMT
Inquisitor for me by a mile. Something about her completely captured my imagination, and she is a more fully realised character in my mind, with clearer motivations and drive than previous protags. My personal canon Warden Amell comes a close second. Though I enjoyed it greatly at the time, the lustre has worn off DA2 in general for me, so my first Diplomatic Mage Hawke gets relegated to third place.
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Post by Crim on Sept 22, 2016 2:03:39 GMT
My Warden, particularly my Warden Surana. I just fell in love with the personality I crafted for her. While I do feel some attachment to my Quizzes, its not as much as do the wardens. To me, when it comes to DA:I compared to DA:O, DA:I losses some connection between me and the Quizz after Haven, since after Haven you slog through a lot of worthless fetch quests and as BansheeOwnage said the Quizz doesn't have personal skin in the game compared to the Warden. Regardless of what warden you choose, they all have some personal stake in at least one part of the main quest. The human noble killing Arl Howe to avenge their family, both dwarves wardens have a stake in who gets the crown, both mage wardens having to deal with Jowen's shit again and save their old home, and so on. With a nice added bonus of confronting a ghost from their past at the Temple of Sacred Ashes. Their was something personal in their save the world quest for them, while with the Quizz...not so much. As for Hawke, I've never played DA:2 so... How'd you skip this? By choice or?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2016 2:52:20 GMT
My Warden, particularly my Warden Surana. I just fell in love with the personality I crafted for her. While I do feel some attachment to my Quizzes, its not as much as do the wardens. To me, when it comes to DA:I compared to DA:O, DA:I losses some connection between me and the Quizz after Haven, since after Haven you slog through a lot of worthless fetch quests and as BansheeOwnage said the Quizz doesn't have personal skin in the game compared to the Warden. Regardless of what warden you choose, they all have some personal stake in at least one part of the main quest. The human noble killing Arl Howe to avenge their family, both dwarves wardens have a stake in who gets the crown, both mage wardens having to deal with Jowen's shit again and save their old home, and so on. With a nice added bonus of confronting a ghost from their past at the Temple of Sacred Ashes. Their was something personal in their save the world quest for them, while with the Quizz...not so much. As for Hawke, I've never played DA:2 so... How'd you skip this? By choice or? When it came out, I heard some bad reviews about and decided to stay clear of it. I'm going to see about buying it soon, maybe this Christmas.
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Post by Hrungr on Sept 22, 2016 3:18:43 GMT
I voted for the Warden, but I like them all in different ways. The greater amount of RP options and playable backstory for the Warden fleshed them out more than the others, although being unvoiced was a bummer. If the Warden was voiced, that would be amazing. Plus, DA:O is fantastic, no pun intended. I love Hawke's lines, especially Purple!Hawke, and both voices are superb. Hawke is just so charismatic that I rarely mind that they're a bit less RP-able. So a bit like Shepard in that regard. The Inquisitor... Well at first they were easily my least favorite. A bit bland dialogue and backstory. The number of memorable or funny lines they had was much lower than Hawke, or even the Warden. Having a voice helps though. Combined with the main story not feeling overly personal, not really developing much or having a character arc, and not romancing anyone, it just made Quizzy the least interesting to me. <...> This largely sums up my feelings as well. Overall, the Warden's still my favorite as well. The Origin stories (which were all good) really helped lay an important foundation for the character before being swept off into the main storyline. And yeah, I also felt Sarcasti-Hawke was the most charismatic and had the most memorable lines of any the protagonists. The game was largely held up by the strong PC and companion banter. And while the Inquisitor was at the center of a lot of interesting events, like you, I felt they weren't very interesting themselves. Barely any memorable dialogue from the PC in this one. However, unlike you, I didn't find any of the romances particularly interesting in this one. But the game overall made up for it in other ways.
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Post by Dabrikishaw on Sept 22, 2016 4:39:02 GMT
I've yet to find a more enjoyable Dragon Age protagonist than the Warden, the Hero of Ferelden, The Commander of the Grey.
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Post by lynroy on Sept 22, 2016 7:55:25 GMT
Inquisitor for me by a mile. Something about her completely captured my imagination, and she is a more fully realised character in my mind, with clearer motivations and drive than previous protags. My personal canon Warden Amell comes a close second. Though I enjoyed it greatly at the time, the lustre has worn off DA2 in general for me, so my first Diplomatic Mage Hawke gets relegated to third place. Ditto to the bolded. The inquisitor is the only protagonist that I've actually bothered to create a back story for. I know a lot of people didn't like the blank slate, but I liked it more. It allowed me to create a character that really did feel like my character. The warden was great, but I felt the origins put a boundary on my role play. Hawke was just some guy I took control of for a small part of their life.
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Post by colfoley on Sept 22, 2016 9:53:46 GMT
Hawke is my favorite RPG protagonist of all time. So that is a given in. Though I am quite plesently surprised the Inquisitor is doing so well who is actually a pretty close second. Distant third, the Warden.
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Post by deadlydwarf on Sept 22, 2016 16:06:25 GMT
My Warden, particularly my Warden Surana. I just fell in love with the personality I crafted for her. While I do feel some attachment to my Quizzes, its not as much as do the wardens. To me, when it comes to DA:I compared to DA:O, DA:I losses some connection between me and the Quizz after Haven, since after Haven you slog through a lot of worthless fetch quests and as BansheeOwnage said the Quizz doesn't have personal skin in the game compared to the Warden. Regardless of what warden you choose, they all have some personal stake in at least one part of the main quest. The human noble killing Arl Howe to avenge their family, both dwarves wardens have a stake in who gets the crown, both mage wardens having to deal with Jowen's shit again and save their old home, and so on. With a nice added bonus of confronting a ghost from their past at the Temple of Sacred Ashes. Their was something personal in their save the world quest for them, while with the Quizz...not so much. As for Hawke, I've never played DA:2 so... You have to do DA2! It's not as good as Origins, but it's still fun. You'll be introduced to both Cassandra and Varric and will better understand their strange rapport in Inquisition. It makes you understand why they had the conclave at the beginning of DAI. Hawke is a fun character. In DAI, when your Inquisitor is thrown into the Fade with Hawke, it makes that nasty decision you have to make all the more personal.
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Post by eriador117 on Sept 22, 2016 16:17:04 GMT
Hawke is my favourite. It might be that I played that one first (lots of times, LOL!) and then I went on to play the first one and I didn't really connect with any of my Wardens. 2nd place for me would be the Inquisitor and then the Warden. I've never really got into Origins as much as the other two games.
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Post by dragontartare on Sept 22, 2016 16:53:06 GMT
My Warden, particularly my Warden Surana. I just fell in love with the personality I crafted for her. While I do feel some attachment to my Quizzes, its not as much as do the wardens. To me, when it comes to DA:I compared to DA:O, DA:I losses some connection between me and the Quizz after Haven, since after Haven you slog through a lot of worthless fetch quests and as BansheeOwnage said the Quizz doesn't have personal skin in the game compared to the Warden. Regardless of what warden you choose, they all have some personal stake in at least one part of the main quest. The human noble killing Arl Howe to avenge their family, both dwarves wardens have a stake in who gets the crown, both mage wardens having to deal with Jowen's shit again and save their old home, and so on. With a nice added bonus of confronting a ghost from their past at the Temple of Sacred Ashes. Their was something personal in their save the world quest for them, while with the Quizz...not so much. As for Hawke, I've never played DA:2 so... When I started this series less than a year ago, I,too, almost skipped DA 2 because of the bad reviews it got. I'm so glad I didn't make that mistake. Despite its flaws, it is my favorite game of the series because the characters are so well done. Obviously not everyone agrees, but you should at least give it a chance. The DLCs are good, too, though you can wait until act 2 to get them if you like the main game.
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Post by Crim on Sept 22, 2016 17:20:24 GMT
How'd you skip this? By choice or? When it came out, I heard some bad reviews about and decided to stay clear of it. I'm going to see about buying it soon, maybe this Christmas. Defo pick it up, you'll get it real cheap now. It's my least favourite in the trilogy for many reasons but to better understand what's going on in the DA universe it's a must play. Has some great characters in it too, worth a look.
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Post by deadlydwarf on Sept 22, 2016 17:58:41 GMT
When it came out, I heard some bad reviews about and decided to stay clear of it. I'm going to see about buying it soon, maybe this Christmas. Defo pick it up, you'll get it real cheap now. It's my least favourite in the trilogy for many reasons but to better understand what's going on in the DA universe it's a must play. Has some great characters in it too, worth a look. And don't forget the DLC's, especially "Legacy." That will help explain a good part of what goes on in DAI. It's an uneven product, but the things that are good about it are really good. The companions are all pretty good and help round out your knowledge of Thedas and the Qun.
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Post by KaiserShep on Sept 22, 2016 19:12:10 GMT
Inquisitor for me by a mile. Something about her completely captured my imagination, and she is a more fully realised character in my mind, with clearer motivations and drive than previous protags. My personal canon Warden Amell comes a close second. Though I enjoyed it greatly at the time, the lustre has worn off DA2 in general for me, so my first Diplomatic Mage Hawke gets relegated to third place. Ditto to the bolded. The inquisitor is the only protagonist that I've actually bothered to create a back story for. I know a lot of people didn't like the blank slate, but I liked it more. It allowed me to create a character that really did feel like my character. The warden was great, but I felt the origins put a boundary on my role play. Hawke was just some guy I took control of for a small part of their life. I will say, having more control over who my Inquisitor is and where she came from served this protagonist exceptionally well. I really loved being able to establish how my character regarded her past and family, and allowed me to inject a lot of my own personal canon (fanfic?) that the game would never contradict.
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Post by colfoley on Sept 22, 2016 19:57:38 GMT
'So Inquisitor how did you get along with your family?' One of the best dialog options in all three games because it is subtle, its only one line, yet you can establish an entire back story behind it. It was like, well for me anyways, Anderson calling Shepard 'child' in ME 3. Because...well at that point I never played ME 1 so I did not understand their relationship. So I invented one.
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Post by KingDarious BBB on Sept 22, 2016 20:08:30 GMT
The Warden because he was able to get stuff done without speaking.
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Post by DarkKnightHolmes on Sept 22, 2016 22:26:09 GMT
The Warden.
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Post by oyabun on Sept 23, 2016 20:45:05 GMT
1)Hawke 2)Inquisitor 3)Warden
1)Hawke for reasons already mentioned in this thread,is the more realistic PC.
2)Inquisitor because has a voice,no pardon 4 voices.
3)Warden
I think that overall DAO was a good game but it's protagonist was really lame.A silent protagonist with almost 0 facial expression and a personality that did not existed outside of my immagination was in some critical moments of the game really inappropriate and killed my mood:
-At the Landsmeet i was accusing Loghain without a voice to do so.
-In Denerim i had no voice for the final speech and so Anora/Alistair had to do it at my place...bah
-I was never allowed to properly tell to Morrigan to "go home" because I had no voice.
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Post by oyabun on Sept 23, 2016 21:08:01 GMT
The Warden. 6 Origins, any weapon to use, any armor to wear, most badass magic, wide range of personalities and motives were easy to RP. Badass magic what? Hawke had the possibility to be a force mage and that's a school of magic which is by far most useful than all the spec the mage warden had. The Inquisitor had the magic of the gods and even one as mentor so it's not even close..
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2016 21:25:27 GMT
The Warden. 6 Origins, any weapon to use, any armor to wear, most badass magic, wide range of personalities and motives were easy to RP. Badass magic what? Hawke had the possibility to be a force mage and that's a school of magic which is by far most useful than all the spec the mage warden had. The Inquisitor had the magic of the gods and even one as mentor so it's not even close.. No. Acrane Warrior. Spirt Healer (which is a spec that is greater in DAO than in DA2). I don't think you should be saying that - being an acrane warrior is super epic, it puts force mage to shame, because you get to wear armor, lol.
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Post by oyabun on Sept 23, 2016 21:59:47 GMT
Badass magic what? Hawke had the possibility to be a force mage and that's a school of magic which is by far most useful than all the spec the mage warden had. The Inquisitor had the magic of the gods and even one as mentor so it's not even close.. No. Acrane Warrior. Spirt Healer (which is a spec that is greater in DAO than in DA2). I don't think you should be saying that - being an acrane warrior is super epic, it puts force mage to shame, because you get to wear armor, lol. In terms of gameplay the AW is nothing special and actually is very slow,just a mage who is using magic to wear armors like warriors but that lacks all their skills. The force mage is by far more fast than the AW of DAO,combat in DAO was very slow especially for the mages.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2016 5:20:45 GMT
No. Acrane Warrior. Spirt Healer (which is a spec that is greater in DAO than in DA2). I don't think you should be saying that - being an acrane warrior is super epic, it puts force mage to shame, because you get to wear armor, lol. In terms of gameplay the AW is nothing special and actually is very slow,just a mage who is using magic to wear armors like warriors but that lacks all their skills. The force mage is by far more fast than the AW of DAO,combat in DAO was very slow especially for the mages. What about force mage abilities of DA:A? Yeah, but mages in DAO are far more powerful than mages in any other of the DA games... Seriously, it doesn't matter that their slow, their more OP than Mage Hawke could ever be.
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Post by Catilina on Sept 24, 2016 9:47:14 GMT
In terms of gameplay the AW is nothing special and actually is very slow,just a mage who is using magic to wear armors like warriors but that lacks all their skills. The force mage is by far more fast than the AW of DAO,combat in DAO was very slow especially for the mages. What about force mage abilities of DA:A? Yeah, but mages in DAO are far more powerful than mages in any other of the DA games... Seriously, it doesn't matter that their slow, their more OP than Mage Hawke could ever be. Oh, I am fully satisfied with my blood/elemental/force Hawke's destructive power...
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2016 9:59:50 GMT
What about force mage abilities of DA:A? Yeah, but mages in DAO are far more powerful than mages in any other of the DA games... Seriously, it doesn't matter that their slow, their more OP than Mage Hawke could ever be. Oh, I am fully satisfied with my blood/elemental/force Hawke's destructive power... I'm sure my Canon Hawke agrees with you
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