The Character Romance thread (Official)

I liked DA2 Anders's characterization. To me the issue was, as David Gaider suggested at PAXEast, that the player couldn't go on that journey with him. I wish it had been a more gradual experience or something.

There is still some of DAA Anders in there, but it's just rare to see.

However, I'm sure that players for whom DA2 was their first DA experience (and there were many) don't have that issue, so they look at him differently.

This is something I tend to do with sagas that have a good amount of characters, I love when a tv show, game, book, comic whatever, have this group of friends that love each other despite their differences and fight evil together!!!


I blame Buffy 




I know this is not as pretty with some Bioware characters, but I'm a dreamer! 

Actually, I was someone who started the series with DA2. I had tried DA:O, but, and I know this is a heretic's opinion, I think it has the worst combat out of the whole series. I can play the game just fine now, but eight years ago, having never played a traditional fantasy RPG before, the gameplay had me lost and I stopped like 5 hours in.

In my opinion, Anders was a good character from the perspective of someone who'd never seen him before. I didn't really like him, but I understood him and I thought his downwards spiral was quite interesting to behold (especially in the differences in small things like the banter between the acts, where he grows less jokey and more gloomy with each passing time jump forward). A lot of Anders' changes between games can be handwaved with him having taken in Justice and the two of them accidentally tainting and twisting each other's personalities, but how satisfying one finds that explanation may vary.

Having gone back, I'm actually maybe the only person who is more upset about the changes they made to Justice. I like Cole, but Awakening's Justice is still my favourite Fade spirit, and that makes it a bit sad to me many now just consider him the bad ghost that ruined the Anders character.

This is us rn.

My friend got me into DA2 first, went into it blind and of course, instantly loved Anders whilst taking an instant dislike to said friends favourite (who I was forced to kill at the end because I never took him anywhere because of his opinions, oops. I did give him a chance in later playthroughs but I'm still... salty) I played DA:O and then DA:A after and didn't have the issues a lot of people who played those two first, had with DA2 Anders. I will defend what he did, and pro Mage freedom to my dying breath. The fact Bioware constantly seems to try and act like the Templars are innocent and the Mages are evil (because they totally shouldn't want freedom from their abusers, right?) drives me crazy.

I just hope they don't continue with the 'look, mages are evil!' if we do go to Tevinter in DA4, because ugh.

that would make the best tshirt!  I'd wear it everywhere!

I only spare Anders, along with telling him to take a hike from the final battle, with the hope of him being told off by the mages and for him to be seen as a madman rather than a martyr.

Leliana is the one true Divine. I worship at her fashionable shoed feet.

Always go for Leliana, even if it does seem worthless considering at the end of Trespasser the Circles are somewhat reinstated regardless of who you pick.  

You all have a very good taste for the Divine.