The Character Romance thread (Official)

They're not going to have the Warden depicted in the game because they could be dead. That is final word from Mike Laidlaw, who has said it several times.

Even so, to answer your question, not a problem at all for me. Bye Warden. My Inquisitor is my favorite character.

Now... If it came down to my Inquisitor making the choice, he would sacrifice himself to save pretty much anyone. He was prepared to die sealing the Breach; it's his mentality. If my Inquisitor had to sacrifice Dorian to save the world, he would do that too; this is also his mentality, and I even wrote a fanfic about it. He would be devastated and broken, but he would do it. (This is assuming I didn't have some other choice.)

Choosing between Inq and his LI is very easy for me. I don't feel very attached to Inq or the warden either. My warden is dead in all playthroughs and I am content if Inq is dead. On the other hands, I really like Dorian and Iron Bull. So yeah my Inq will sacrifice himself to protect his LI every time.

The only Bioware PC that I feel strongly attached to is Hawke.

I think out of all the protagonists the one I'd be most attached to is actually sarcastic Hawke, because that is best Hawke. After that between the other two, I probably would have to kill off the Warden.

I don't know as I would say that DA:O is unfairly held in high regard, but I would say that I think DA:I gets a lot of hate it doesn't deserve.

It definitely was. These are strangers to the Inquisitor, so it seems highly likely that the player is going to base their choice on their own emotion, rather than Inquisitor roleplay.

I honestly hope they never have a choice like that again.

I'm actually kind of the opposite in that I don't really like it coming down to "You can make choices but these are the right choices to get the best outcome".

I'm not strictly speaking always for a lose/lose scenario(except in the suicide mission, I think it should have been impossible to keep absolutely everybody alive) but I'm more so for scenarios where there isn't a clear superior route. At least when it comes to major choices.

I liked Legion's loyalty mission before ME3 reduced it to a number. It basically asked "Would you rather effectively brainwash the heretics to your side or kill them?".

in any case, i'm ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN bioware will find a way to make us feel the agony of choice.

first they force a lovable character on us

and 20 hours of gameplay later you suddenly get

Catching up with the thread but agree with all of that, forever salty about Blackwall at least. (Though that aside, I'm happy to find another person who has Koth as their game husband. XD)

i still remember smiling to myself when arranging dragon keep and choosing loghain for warden... aaah what i fool i was :/

This is how I feel about the Inquisitor. I don't really care if he dies, so whatever. lol I would easily save Dorian. He has more narrative potential going forward, anyway. He could get a cool upgrade to Archon or something, but DA protags are basically worthless after their one game.

I'm a straight woman and actually feel that playing a woman is more important than playing my real life sexuality... Now, I didn't get into games until much later in life than many of you likely did, but I did start by playing RPGs with female protagonists - kind of by accident, actually. I was looking for something story-driven, and ended up trying out Morrowind because it was what my computer at the time could handle, I'd read it had a good story, and the other games I looked at only had the option to play a male character so I went with that one. And it was great! Because while I didn't grow up playing games, I did grow up not liking a lot of things made 'for girls' because I couldn't relate (I was never a 'tomboy' in the classic sense - I like pretty clothes and loathe sports, for starters...) but found most books/movies made 'for boys' which had the subject mater I was interested in (think science, horror, adventures, fantasy that wasn't all about princesses and such) even less interesting because the girl characters either weren't there at all, or were mostly only present to give the boy someone to save or fall in love with. I wanted the girl to do the saving and discovering and adventuring (and falling in love)! Those story where that happened (like the Labyrinth, for example) were something I treasured a lot.

So it was awesome to get to play games with a female hero who got to do that. And frustrating to learn those were this rare thing, and I had to do research to figure out if it was even included. Because the female option didn't appear in the marketing or sometimes even the product description. I've since branched out and will play games with a male only protagonist but they have to really grab my attention some other way - story, setting, and so on. But I'll never play a male character given a choice. Even when I say I will I end up loving my female protagonists too much to want to play anything but different versions of her... Like I was determined to do a Scott playthrough - but it's likely not going to happen!

As for game romances, being straight in real life, I'm pretty much only interested in male LIs. But I'd romance a female character with a female protagonist (if I liked her enough and she were available as a lesbian option - truth be told it hasn't happened yet) before playing a male character to romance anyone - and if I did play a male character he'd be gay, because I'm just beyond uninterested in rolling a dude to romance a girl. I find the idea super unappealing, where a same sex romance of whichever gender would be alright - not my preference, and I wouldn't feel as invested in it as a romance for a straight female, but I'd likely enjoy if for the story.

Reflecting on it, maybe it's exactly because while growing up I read so may books and watched so many movies where the hero was some dude who got his romance with a pretty girl and that was like the end prize or whatever. Not to say I don't still enjoy those stories - but when I'm playing a game, were I get to choose my own adventure, so to speak, that's the last plot I have an interest in making happen.

meh, i don't care much for dao or warden either way, but i agree sarcastic hawke is the best hawke. the line about chantry owing her an apology because fade looks nothing like makers bossom still gets me every time.

inky is not that funny but i love my inkies more than hawkes actually.

and of course, when i say unfairly i mean that mostly in comparison to dai. but it is just my opinion.