Dragon Age The Joyguard (formerly Hype Train) [Spoilers]

I have to admit I share some of your misgivings and not simply because of Andromeda, which in fact I've never played because my PC wasn't good enough to run it. I think back further to ME1 and our confrontation with Sovereign. Wasn't he just great.

"I am beyond your comprehension. I am Sovereign.” "My kind transcends your very understanding. We are each a nation, independent, free of weakness. You cannot even grasp the nature of our existence.”

Sounded good. I couldn't wait to find out what was behind that mistakenly arrogant machine that I destroyed at the end of game. Then we scroll forward to ME3 and apparently a race of giant squids asked an AI to develop a solution to the problem of organics developing AIs that will eventually kill them and it came up with the idea of having a load of AIs to kill off the organics just at the point where they were capable of inventing the AIs that would kill them and started off the process by killing the majority of the giant squids that had programmed it in the first place. Once you had got your mind around that convoluted and illogical explanation for the existence of the Reapers apparently I really shouldn't take the option of pulling the plug on the whole sorry business because the AI tells me it will just happen all over again. However, if you just take the nice central green path we can all be just the same as one another in synthetic/organic harmony. Whoopie! Yep, it turned out Sovereign was wrong all along. It was quite easy to understand once you got down to the nitty gritty. It made no sense whatsoever but that wasn't because my puny mind was incapable of understanding it.

Now Solas reminds me a bit of Sovereign. He burbles on a lot about why he is going to do what he is and how he really has no choice, which sounds a lot like the reasons he gave for his last big mistake but nevertheless thinks he is entitled to act the way he does by reason of his superiority of being. However, unlike Sovereign he claims that he won't tell us more because we might understand too well. If we are doomed anyway, at least come out and say it. Then may be we can come up with our own solution.

I just hope that when we catch up with him for our next controlled question and answer session, his explanation isn't going to be as daft as the Hologram kid's was.

I haven't given up on Lace Harding, yet...

Well I'm on my mobile, so..... 😛

#joking

A dwarf.

3 games with no dwarven romance.  It's so freaking odd. 

There are some of us who enjoy a grouchy, sarcastic git, you know?

I don't mind it in DAO. You're in an insane hurry running circles around a whole country on foot in that game. Obviously you end up spending way more time with your companions than with any local you may run into. There may be time for a quick flirt or a one-night-stand here or there, but you're not really in a position to stop for weeks and court someone in any serious way.

The other games don't have that excuse. All of them either feature the protagonist occasionally spending months or more in the same places, or instantaneous travel all over the galaxy plus access to long-range communication. Although the Mass Effect trilogy has the added excuses of each game individually not spanning a very long time, and the protagonist also not having an enormous amount of free time.

DA2 and Inquisition are definitely weird for not having it though.

I don't mind it in DAO. You're in an insane hurry running circles around a whole country on foot in that game. Obviously you end up spending way more time with your companions than with any local you may run into. There may be time for a quick flirt or a one-night-stand here or there, but you're not really in a position to stop for weeks and court someone in any serious way.

The other games don't have that excuse. All of them either feature the protagonist occasionally spending months or more in the same places, or instantaneous travel all over the galaxy plus access to long-range communication. Although the Mass Effect trilogy has the added excuses of each game individually not spanning a very long time, and the protagonist also being constantly on-duty and not having an enormous amount of leisure time.

DA2 and Inquisition are definitely weird for not having it though.

I would've liked if we were able to go back to the relationships we might've formed at the beginning of our Origin stories.  For example if a male city elf wanted to continue on with his arranged marriage at the end, or a female dwarf noble with Gorim, maybe not kill off Tamlen. They wouldn't have really been a romance option but it would've been nice for those who wanted to RP someone waiting for you once everything was sorted out.

I still get chills whenever I hear the Title drop for that game.

A dwarf.

3 games with no dwarven romance.  It's so freaking odd. 

There are some of us who enjoy a grouchy, sarcastic git, you know?

Sooooo what kind of romances are you all expecting?