DA 4 Companion Speculation Thread (time for the new Scribbles and DHMG!)

i agree that it's difficult, but aren't we suppose to overcome difficulties? I mean, we are in 2020, next gen..

The rpg are stucked to 2020 for what concerns "importing choices from previous games".

It's time to try something more ambitious. And who better than bioware?

Btw,I loved the return of hawke, I really enjoyed it, from personalizing him to talking to him.

It gave me a lot of tension and fear that by making wrong choices Hawke could have died (in the end the choice was clear but I was anxious anyway). I don't know about the other versions, but the aggressive-pro Templar Hawke was very faithful to my old hawke. He did/said nothing that "my" hawke would have never done or said.
maybe he was not perfect, but not even during Da2 hawke always said / did EXACTLY what I would have liked him to do / say.
Not even the inquisitor.
The Warden much more.... but this is the weak point of dubbing, on the other hand.


I hope in a similar thing also in DA4, maybe with the return of the inquisitor.

The "auto-dialogue" works so far for my second Hawke, but it definitely did not work for my first Hawke.

Probably the biggest reason that I don't want any return of the Inquisitor to work the same way is because I choose the "save-our-friend-from-himself" option and I don't want my Inquisitor to be stuck in the save-Solas-no-matter-what-he's-done corner in the fourth game. For example, she has deal-breakers that would impact how she feels about him. Also, given that she romanced him, there's also how the developers would interpret their relationship, such as how she'd act including in any scenes that they might have together or even if she's just talking about him. It could really break her character and make any cameo go from something fun and meaningful to something that I'd hate. 

If the Inquisitor has a presence, Hawke-sized or otherwise, in the fourth game, I really hope it is player-controlled because you can't capture nuance through auto-dialogue. 

what kind of hawke was your hawke?

I guess it was paragon/honorable hawke.

I've notice that bioware lately has great difficulty in writing honorable, polite, "good" characters, they make them poor whiny morons.

A mainly paragon Shepard in Me1&2 was super ok, but in Me3 I had to switch to mostly renegade dialogue because they were the only ones where he didn't seem an emotionally unstable shy schoolgirl.

IMO they are much better at writing tough and aggressive characters, or funny/sarcastic ones.

Or maybe you're Hawke didn't fit because of his/her mages sympathies?

Aren't all full Paragon Shep playthoughs from ME1 to ME3 emotionally unstable schoolgirls?

I'll have a stab at answering that, as well, if you don't mind.

My first Hawke was the kind of character you describe: overall, she was a polite and kind sort with a touch of self-sacrifice. 

This scene is one of the major problems


Hawke volunteers to sacrifice herself against the Nightmare Demon (who she, for some reason, thinks is Corypheus) and she continue to insist on being the one to do, even when Stroud wants to do it, for, well, vengeance/responsibility. 

My first Hawke was a kind-hearted person who was willing to put her life in danger for others, however, she was not any of the following:
- She was not the sort to be the first to volunteer to die in a situation.
- She was not the sort to continue to insist after someone else volunteered
- She was not the sort to volunteer when she had people (Carver and Fenris) that she wanted to see again
- She was not the sort to be motivated by vengeance ("Corypheus is mine!")

It's a scene that works for my second Hawke only because he actually wants to die (doing something good) after he basically lost everything including Anders (whom he killed) and became convinced that even his sister would be better off without him. His line ("Corypeus is mine!") doesn't make sense because it's just an excuse: a way for him to pretend to himself that his death isn't just be a glorified suicide. 

I remember another major problem being the argument(s) between her and Stroud.

That's why I never played full on paragons (who are giant p🤬🤬ies), and Renegades (who are just 'meh').

That different method being "sitting on their ass while others do all the work." Yeah, that's totally not taking a back seat. 

So a general is sitting on their ass doing nothing while a grunt is the one who wins the war?

Mmmm it depends.
My hawke was bored and disgusted by the magician-templary issues, he would have preferred to stay out of it but - since they pulled him in by force - he chose to side with the established power, the status quo (mainly for selfish reasons, keep his wealth and titles). Maleficarum, blood mage.. not the best of people, anyway.
So... for him it makes sense not giving a damn about the question of the templar mages (already solved by the inquisitor) and focuses on the REAL global threat.

I suppose that if Hawke is a sort of paladin of the mage cause.. things are diffirent.

Still, dealing with corypheus make sense in any case.
What is the worst case scenario of the Templar Wizards war? Many wizards dead and imprisoned? Well, no good, but we can fin that.
The worst case scenario of the corypheus threat is... the end of the world.
Better to focus on corypheus first.

Finally, Hawke ready to sacrifice..
Why not. The survival of the inquisitor is crucial. If the Inquisitor dies there, everyone Hawke loves will die. The world will end. Hawke will die later too.

Hawke (mage or warrior, pro mage or pro templar) is in any case a brave, indomitable fighter, what should he have said?
"inquisitor, please send the warden to die, I would like to survive".
Maybe he hopes so, but he certainly can't say it.
Brotherhood, honor, camaraderie.
A cowardly and pussillanimous hawke would not be acceptable.