The Old Guard (Ye Olde Cullen Thread v4.0 + gen discussion)

Man, maybe I am just riding high on these herbal anti-anxiety supplements I've taking but it's like lately I'm all about playing the shit out of this game and doing what I wanna do and just, like, enjoying it?? I am playing my second m!solavellan playthrough for no reason other than that I enjoy it, and afterward, if I still have the bi-cass mod (I think I do, on my other laptop) I maybe will play a f!adaar x Cass playthrough cause why not??? It is a pairing I always wanted to play. And I was even thinking of downloading the bi-Blackwall mod cause whydafuq not

What is happening to me I even had an urge to go back to my nomodded Bullmance cause yeah I really really love Bull, truly, and he'll be my canon.

oh noes!!! somehow the computer gods heard you... 

Hopefully it shorts out. PC problems aren't fun to deal with.

Yeah I'm sure he will be able to fix it, just don't know how long it could take... weeks maybe I just wish it didn't happen during my break. I've been waiting for months to just be able to sit down and do whatever I want all day. And now I have no TV, no hulu, no netflix, no youtube, no video games, no nothing lol Yuck!!! I may go to work and bring back my work laptop and hook it up to my TV so i can at least do the video streaming stuff. 

Yeah no other game has given me trouble like DAI. I've even completely uninstalled and reinstalled a few times. And then after a particular update the cut sceens stopped being so smooth and are now very choppy, so the lips don't really match the dialogue. Not looking forward to MEA and how that's probably going to utterly break my otherwise fairly new (2014) computer.

Missing the Cullen romance so need to start a new game......Hmmm Mage or Rogue? Archer or blades? Elf or Human? Those are the major decisions I need to make before I start the game.... romance choice... there is only one. Love the romance with Cullen. Love his character's evolution.

I find Iron Bull and Solas to be an amusing combination. 

Oh, and I've noticed that you've been spelling Thedas wrong. An easy way to remember, as told by a dev, is that it is short for The DA Setting: shortened to The DAS. The name just kind of stuck.   (Sorry for being Spelling Police!)

Edit to add: Glad that your computer is all better!

I used to run Fenris/Merrill/Anders team all the time on DA2.. they did kick-ass as well, but the banter was worst. Either Fenris and Anders fought with each other or bullied Merrill.

Haven't yet encountered as bad combo in DAI. Maybe that's because characters are quite snarky at each other and might hurl insults, but nobody is down-right hostile at least.

She's not actually forced on you. (Unlike a certain someone from another game that I won't mention.) You are entirely free to not recruit her.

Agreed I love her. I wish she had been even better integrated into the game, along with Blackwall, Dorian, Bull (Trespasser helps), Sera, and Cole. They are all great characters and EXCELLENTLY voiced (I've gotten off FPJ's back and actually really enjoy his work for Bull). It's just that characters like Cassandra and Solas were given closer ties to the main storyline... guess you could call them the Alistair and Morrigan of DAI lol And Varric would've been totally irrelevent if it weren't for Hawke; I do appreciate how they worked Hawke into the storyline but the warden quest seems a little out there... I don't know, I guess I wish whatever you ended up doing with the mages, templars, and wardens would actually affect the game in some way.

But yeah, adore Vivienne! Surprisingly. Wasn't expecting to love her as much as I do. But everyone has their own individual tastes and that's okay

I know, that's why I said she is not memorable as I did not recruit it her once. Because she doesn't have anything to say that sticks. Your Inquisitor's responses are forced to be of a simpleton's when interacting with her just to make her appear snarky and badass, because really she is not. And then she proceeds to succeed in what she wants either way. Its just bad writing. She is not even that good. The other two mages are naturally more snarkier than her when they need to be and show much better magical might than a planned charade in a party. And they do so without developers forcing others around them to be fools.

This became more obvious in the DLCs. She is probably the most disconnected character in Descent and Jaws and Hakkon and taking her over Dorian in Trespasser is just a big NO due to how much more interaction Dorian has with the story and Qunari. Really, don't take her with you on the DLCs, she doesn't have anything memorable to say.

1. Solas
2. Dorian
3. Cassandra
4. Cole
5. Varric
6. Iron Bull
7. Blackwall
8. Vivienne
9. Sera

This makes me happy because I think Solas and Dorian are going to appear in next DA game and romancing them is going to have a greater impact than rest of the characters. At least I think so.