Something you would like to change in Dragon Age 2

Having just finished a PT of DA2 yesterday here are somethings I would change:

1) Carver and Bethany both would've lived at least until the end of Act 1. I love to play as a rouge and while I've played Hawke as a mage Carver is a character that I never know outside of dialogue from him in Act 1 and dialogue about in the rest of the game after he's dead. It's hard for me to care about him (or not like him), because I don't know him enough to form an actual opinion. Keeping alive in act 1 and if he goes with you along or if you leave him and Bethany in Kirkwall then he's the one the sells Bethany out to the Templars and she is forced into the Circle and he becomes a Templar obliviously Bethany is angry about this sees both of her siblings as untrustworthy and if the PC is mean to her she starts using dark magic and Carver does feel guilty about it and realizes what he did was wrong and the two of them come to blows in the climax with the PC Hawke in the middle and depending on how you treated them they both can live or die or one survives. If the twins are in the Circle you can still use them for certain quests in acts 2 and 3 (not all quests just some) and you can visit them in the Circle. If you take one and Anders then that one becomes a Grey Warden and the other can join the Circle by choice and if you take them both into the Deep Roads you can save one but one will die.

2) Some quests should have more consequences in Act 1 Hawke gets the Magistrate's orders quest where she is hired by a powerful Magistrate to capture an escaped serial killer who kills elven children and is the magistrate's son, and there is an elven merchant who wants him dead because he thinks he's killed his daughter (she survived). My idea if you kill the magistrate's son, you make a powerful enemy in acts 2 and 3. At the start of act 2 you talk to Varric about Hawke's plans for the future which are: protect my family, start a business, go into politics, or get a title. And lets say you choose to start a business (lets go with a store) if you need to find an empty store in Lowtown that is perfect and because you killed the magistrate's son the elves are more willing to work for you and the merchant has some business contacts to get you some great items for your store but the magistrate has sign off on the deal and he doesn't because you murdered his son and now you have to figure a way around him to get your business started maybe the people in Lowtown the elves, humans, dwarves, and maybe even the qunari rally to Hawke's side because of the help you've done for them and the Viscount over-rules the magistrate (and if you're in a romance with Merrill or Fenris and open about it and you free and give the elven slave you rescue during Fenris' loyalty/romance quest the elves see Hawke as an ally). Spare his son and it's the other way around. You can also do similar things if you decide to go into politics or petition to get a title.

3) I would make Legacy and Mark of the Assassin only playable in acts 2 and 3. This is just my opinion but I feel like Legacy works better in act 2 and Mark of the Assassin works better in act 3. Tallis being a qunari agent and Hawke becoming the Champion of Kirkwall because of driving the qunari out of Kirkwall and killing their leader. I also would have the weapons and armor for the warriors, rouges, and mages be available from the Black Emporium because it makes more sense that stuff should be in a store not in a chest in your poor uncle's home. The rings, belts, and necklaces for Hawke and their companions would be in a chest in your poor uncle's home.

4) I would also add some more quests in act 3 the weapons and armor of the Champion. Hawke gets a custom made set of armor and weapons but after the battle with the qunari and with no viscount the City Guard and Templars stretched thin most of the armor and weapons are stolen except for the gauntlets and Hawke has to track down the thieves and get the weapons and armor back. I feel like this sort of an unofficial quest in act 3 with the armor lets just make it official.  If you Aveline and Donnic together we would see them get married and while they're on their Honeymoon the Coetrie, Carta, and Thieves Guild have a major gang war that Hawke has to stop allowing Hawke to get wipe all the gangs or keep one in power. In Act 3 Hawke, Varric, their LI, and Aveline are invited to Hightown ball that turns into lock room murder mystery with no weapons and armor Hawke and company must solve the case. This would be an excuse to see the characters in different costumes Isabela in slinky black dress, Merrill looks like a princess, Anders in a suit, Fenris in a tuxedo and so on.

5) A second sex scene. I'm going to use Isabela as example but all of them could be used. When you first have the sex scene with her instead of the bit with the knife Hawke would try to get her on her back and she just wags her finger no. Hawke stops and the scene continues and fade to black, in the dialogue after scene she would make mention that her husband would force himself on top of her when they had sex after his death she swore that she would always be on top of her partners during sex. When you lock in the romance in act 3 there would be a second sex scene more like Merrill slower and more sensual and this time she lays down on her back and lets Hawke be on top of her during sex. This would show that Isabela not only loves Hawke but trusts them not to hurt her during. This doesn't need to be graphic sex scene but showing a more intimate and vulnerable side to Isabela. You can do similar things for Fenris, Anders, and Merrill as well showing how they've have changed and grown as characters as a result of their romances with Hawke.            

      

Jealously, greed, lust, fame, and power can be make a lot of people betray their families.

Carver Hawke whose father, twin sister, and older sibling were all apostate mages joining the Templars a group who have been called "the jailers of mages" can be seen as betrayal of older sibling of his family, now too me personally, that is unforgivable betrayal.  

- More different areas outside the city, like in DAO.

- give the game the name: Dragon age champion.