Dragon Age News Thread

The massive mansion was literally about to become empty? Leandra, dead, Bethany in the Circle, Orana starts hiding in the kitchen instead of being in the main hall starting act 3. Anders is obsessed with his cause and the clinic, so the relationship can only be one of negligence at best (but it's actually worse). If you're romancing Fenris/Isabella, they don't live with you. Romancing Merril, she's miserable and doesnt' want to live there. And now Bodahn, and by association, his son, just gave notice. I didn't care one way or the other about getting the mansion in the first place, that was Leandra, same for moving to Kirkwall in the first place. Kirkwall has always been an insane death trap. If Hawke is the only thing keeping the group in Kirkwall, and now there is no reason to be in Kirkwall for Hawke? I was ready to leave. The only thing tying Hawke to that place was her sister locked up in that Circle and finally even THAT ended. Thank goodness, sis, let's GTFO. Why would I not feel lonely in an empty house surrounded by odd ball servants? is that not the basis of several BBC dramas?  

All praise Lord Dragon.

Because DA is mentioned...

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I love how other shows are like, “Wink, here’s some content you can interpret as queer if you like,” and Steven Universe is all, “What up, giant gay stuff all over the place, here’s a Victor/Victoria homage in case you were confused.”

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What's sad is that some SU fans watched this episode and still tried to talk about how Pearl's feelings for Rose were platonic...

Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes
I mean, to be fair, some Mass Effect players thought that choosing to join Samantha Traynor in the shower was purely platonic, too, and were surprised and confused that it "suddenly turned into sex."

(This is why Dragon Age has heart icons.)

[HASH]DAT

Recently made a world state for DA:I I like to call “Bad decisions”. I try to play my Inquisitor as a total oblivious idiot (as much as the game allows anyhow). I swear, it has never been so much fun to play a character in my life. Getting to punch Solas was the most gratifying thing EVER (Especially since my first Inquisitor actually liked and trusted the guy). The worst part of it all is that poor, poor Josephine seems like she has some sort of weird chemistry with the him. I just might end up romancing her, but I feel so horrible for making her fall for the most douchiest person ever. I swear, I was totally going to make him either single or romancing Bull so he could turn on him in Trespasser. But just like in my first PT, fate throws a curveball and I end up romancing the character I least expected. Sometimes I think my characters have a will of their own and they just ignore my own preferences .

Anyway, sure my main canon world will mostly be good hero/choices, but that doesn’t mean that they haven’t made questionable choices and have to live with the consequences.

My canon warden went ahead with the dark ritual and let the architect live, both decisions I am still uncertain were “good” ending material. Granted seeing Morrigan as a mother made me happy in the end. It still doesn’t change the fact that at the moment the choice was made, it kinda went against my wardens idealistic principles and was a purely selfish choice that she undoubtedly will always question. Likewise with the Architect. Since she was a dwarf, she wanted to help her people so she let him live despite him being a darkspawn. For personal reasons she sided with Harrowmont, but in the long run I feel like Bhelen would have been the better choice and whom I will likely help in future “good ending” playthroughs. Heck, she even drank the blood in Vigil’s keep and let Avernus continue his research (ethically mind you, but it’s not like she’s keeping an eye on him).

Same goes for my Inquisitor and to a limited degree also my Hawke. Sure, we might feel obligated to do Anders’ personal quest. Still doesn’t change the fact that Hawke unknowingly helped him kill a bunch of people, maybe you even feel it’s justified. Heck, the way the romance mechanics are in DA2, Hawke had to sleep with Anders and then break his heart. Why? Because she was soft locked in a relationship with Isabella and I wanted her to be free to pursue Fenris instead. I had not expected to feel so bad afterwards, and I wasn’t even that fond of Anders in DA2. Sure, in the end it isn’t anything that matters outside of an RP perspective, but it’s still part of my Hawkes story.

Might not all be considered failures or evil choices, but (to me at least) they are morally grey choices that my PC might feel as personal failures or at the very least question for the rest of their life.

If it turns out that any of the choices I made will have a negative effect in future games, I am not going to retcon them just because I want a happy ending (With the exception of one thing and that’s more a matter of shifting the sadness to someone else). I’ll just have to deal with the consequences and hope I don’t get too sad when people bad mouth my old characters because they made a bad choice.

That was my mage!Hawke impression: she had lost Bethany, than her mother, Carver was with the Wardens, her lover preferred living in a dirty abanfoned mansion drinking wine than stayng with her (and that for...something like three years into the relationship?), her best friend Aveline was making her own family, and I never felt any of the other companions were actually that much dear friends anyway, since they had their night out without even enviting her.
I guess the occasional drink with Varrik was the only little happiness in her post act 2 life.

I didn't warm up to the DA2 companions much either. Aveline and Varric the only ones I really liked. I had a good impression with Carven, I liked the potential of the relationship developing from jelous to loving brother. But it never get the chance to actually develop.
My Hawke woild have gone back to Ferelden the moment the Blight ended.

was that your diplomatic tone hrungr? 😆😆

Purple Hrungr is Best Hrungr.

Hi, all - new thread up and running for the discussion of Tone Icons in DA dialogue.

bsn.boards.net/thread/15570/preferred-tone-icons-dragon-dialogue

Please take all discussion of that topic to this new thread. We can cope with some off-topic stuff in an "off cycle" games Twitter thread, but when it runs over an entire page, it's probably worthy of its own thread.

Thanks!

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[HASH]DAT

I wondered the same. Maybe it makes more sense after reading the whole review.

*reads review*
Nope. 

I thought this might be the case, but it's pretty clear in the game that he's Ferelden. If the reviewer played it, and it seemed like they did, they should have known that. Perhaps it was just a brain fart thing, or something. Happens to the best of us.