Maker help DRAGON AGE ORIGINS THREAD

Maker help DRAGON AGE ORIGINS THREAD

Replayed the intro last week. Forgot just how much I missed that old Bioware style of branching interactions.

Reminder that WardenxMorrigan is canon. Lelianafags GET THE FUCK OUT

my man. I've been intentionally maxxing my relationship with Morrigan. Leilana has been benched the whole run.

Only Gragon Age I played was this + the expansion. Is it even worth it pirating the sequels? I heard the copy pasted dungeons will depress me and bore me.

kicked that bitch out of my party in the first town we went too, only edgy teens like her constant complaining

Being berated by Morrigan every time I didn't ignore the pleas of a dying innocent passerby was kind of a deal breaker for me.

Honestly, the characters in Dragon Age 2 were interesting enough for me to enjoy the game. The 2 major DLCs were also pretty good, and let you escape the city.
Dragon Age: Inquisition is a fucking atrocity.

Morrigan and Leliana are both complete garbage but for different reasons.

I almost forgot how bad the character models were.

What's the most fun origin/class? I've had Dragon Age on my backlog for years now. I was leaning towards a dwarf because fuck yeah dwarves.

it was kind of a turn on for me

I played a no prestige classes edgy mage with all the dark magic spells, without becoming a bloodmage. Then I played a dwarven rogue. I found I enjoyed playing the rogue more, but maybe that was because I always pick edgy spellcasters in RPGs, so it was a breath of fresh air.

I hate that the game constantly shames you for playing anything other than a good guy whole will bend over backwards to fix everything. Just let redcliffe die last night and after healing Bann Teagan everything was almost normal again.

playing a Dwarf Rogue, can confirm it's fun. Just be ready to get constant dialogue of people looking down on you (and not in the literal sense). You'll be subhuman

Always picking Morrigan for the sole reason of hearing Claudia Black's voice asking "Your desire?"
Fukkin buckets m80s

I think both are worth looking into for at least one playthrough, but both have a lot of issues compared to the first.

DA2 still feels vaguely like old Bioware to me deep down. There are some interesting characters, and they have a fun group dynamic that evolves and deteriorates for different party members as actual years pass in the story. But it's clear where it was rushed out the door, and the majority of quests boiling down to running down the same streets and empty coastline killing bandits really wears people down. I put it on easy mode almost immediately just to get through the combat quicker.

Inquisition almost had the opposite problem, in that it's much bigger and has a lot more environments to see, but all the quests and characters seemed to get less attention as a result. So there are some decent moments in the main questline, but a lot of side content just feels like MMO tier filler for the sake of filling a massive world with countless busywork quests.

Noble human.

City Elf/Dwarf Commoner>Dwarf Noble/Mage>Human Noble>Shit>Forest Elf

Both the originas themselves and how people treat you later on

if you played any dragon age past origins you contributed towards the downfall of bioware and gaming in general

Is the maker really dead?

Good

>mfw str/dex rogue

I pirated all DA games.
Heck, I have not paid for a game since 2006.
I do regret giving them a chance after DA 2 though.

A bit more party variety might have been nice for people playing as complete monsters, but I think it's interesting that there isn't really a morality meter judging you every step of the way. It's just your companions calling you out on what personally offends them.

>Just let redcliffe die last night
Aw, turning that town into a half-decent militia was one of my favorite subplots.

Was planning on doing two playthroughs though. Currently doing my "evil" run, if you can call it that. Second playthrough would be a messiah paladin or blood mage run.

Noble Human Male because you get to bang a qt elf from the get go.

True evil shit happens in only three instances, really(in a couple other cases, it's more of a matter which retard you should let off lightly)

I think human noble gets an interesting stake in the main plot because of what happens to their family and the actual investment with Arl Howe. But I have a soft spot for the mage origin story, and the way Jowan pops up again.

Plus mage healer basically lets me get away with any party combination based on what characters I think would be interesting to bring along at the time.

>Is the maker really dead?

Hah. For something to be able to die, it would have had to exist in the first place.

This should've been the OP, bait is the most effective way for a thread like this to take off.

Unless you play Knightmare, you can play with Archery Leliana, Sten, and Shapeshifter Morrigan and still win no matter your character(It's fine how good archery gets in Awakening)

>Shapeshifter Morrigan
God, why.

Human Warden x Morrigan, I might add. Everything else is just worse and feels wrong. If you want to play it worng, go ahead. Not my problem.

>three instances
I don't know, you can get away with a lot of backstabbing in Origins.

Kids you can sell to demons. Villagers you can sacrifice to slavers. Siding with werewolves.

Inquisition answered some questions and raised more.

>Lelianafags
No such thing. The dev who forced her into the other games for no reason was in fact a homosexual and had no understanding of what straight males would think of her and figured they want her back. Protip: No.

Will we ever see an RPG like Origins again? It doesn't have to be Bioware. I just miss expansive branching games like this.

Spbp

Friendly reminder that Dragon Age was never good.

Stop wasting time on worthless peasants.

Divinity 2 has just been released recently.

We get experience points and accumulative rewards that our vital to achieving our end goal. It's a mutually beneficial exchange.

Haven't heard much about it. Are the characters interesting?

What happened, how is it 2009 again?

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>Metathinking
There are no XP, in-universe there is just time you wasted on some hobo that can't do anything by himself and will run into the next problem 10 seconds after you left and doesn't know what to do because he started relying on people with a helper syndrome like you

Yeah. I had to replay it after I gave up on DAI. Shame what they did to the franchise:
-Dialogue that is more than emoting
-Characters with depth.
-World building the right way: telling stories instead of showing you wast and lifeless landscapes
-Competent storytelling
-A story that had different endings
-No gender-politics
- etc.

'tis cold in my tent

First time playing through it, and almost don't want to do a good guy run. It's just too fun being self-centered in this rpg

I love this game but have avoided the sequels forever. Can anyone summarize II and Inquisition's storylines?

Just don't kill the dog or I will haunt you

>Be City Elf or Elf mage
>Get to Dalish
>Hello my brethren!
>FUCK YOU FLAT EARS!

>human noble cleaving your way through the dungeons to fuck up Howe for betraying you

The character gets the same result I get, if you play them that way: good feelings and a healthy soul.

Immoralfags please leave

You get the most loot and best girl by being a douchebag too

2's worthelss protagonist fucks up and awakens an ANCIENT EBIL and pretty much achieves nothing else except for irrelevant stuff in his/her shithole of a city and DA:I's protag happens upon superpowers per pure chance and uses them to defeat said ANCIENT EBIL with it and the help of his inquisiiton, most of them think his powers are god given but they are wrong.

2
>Qunari Invade Kirkwall and Mages and Templars fight
Inquisistion
>An achient evil mage rises you create an army to defeat him then Qunari try to invade again

>Hawke goes to some shitty city in the middle of nowhere
>Hawke's brain problems ruin the city, start a world-wide war between templars and mages, and unleash an ancient evil that got into the golden city
>some time later, Cassandra decides to reform the Inquisition, even though the new one has nothing to do with the old, and they fix Hawke's mess
>also, qunari want to behead everyone and elven gods are the fucking worst, period
That about covers it.

>excellent Inon Zur
>shitting on W3's OST
Too far.

Yfw she got docile by Inquisition because of the Warden's hard dicking.

That dialogue in Inquisition regarding on how she misses the Warden got me rock hard.

Unpopular opinion man here I think Inquisition has the best cast of all the games.

Replaying the first game and realizing no one but first 3 you meet really has anything to say or has any plot relevance.

>Wasting the little time you have to prepare for the archdemon to stroke off your own ego
I hope you at least sacrificed your Warden in that case.

But people pay you for jobs. She gives you shit even if the moral thing to do is pragmatic.

The Redcliffe blacksmith will freely equip you and the entire town against the darkspawn if you simply offer to keep an eye open for his daughter, but she gets pissed that you didn't just shank the guy.

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>About to become a goddess if DA4 is to ever happen
>Still doesn't believe in them

What puzzles me is that she keeps me from tapping Isabela when she's the one who deliberately says that we're just friends with benefits and there's no strings attached when we first had sex. Had to reload and take her off from the party at that time. Nobody's keeping me from slappin that ebony ass.

A man of refined taste

It somehow feels rushed in redcliffe, in other parts of the game you could explain motives behind good guy-actions that made her agree but in redcliffe this is entirely missing even though it's probably the part where that applies the most that helping is the better option even if you play a dick.

Honestly, I think DA2 has the best cast as far as giving everyone different motives that all tie into the main theme of the main conflict in different ways.

Origins is the most developed cast, but everyone's in it for the same clear-cut reason. If we stop the archdemon, we don't die horribly. So while they have interesting individual stories, Alistair and Morrigan are the only ones vital to the main end-plot.

I don't hate Inquisition's cast, but I think a lot of their character arcs end just as they start going somewhere interesting. Cassandra and Solas are the only ones with much vital plot relevance if I recall. Everyone else is just kind of hired through the Inquisition for grunt work.

DA:II
>Some Felerden hobo flies from the blight to a nearby city state, cause he has relation there. He arrives broke, and the guy that was supposed to help him has pissed away all his money
>The Beresaad show up with the Arishok and camps out comfy in the harbor. Everyone is pissing their pants because no one knows what they want.
>Through hard work/cunning/ruthlessness the Ferelden refugee works his way out of the gutter and becomes a respected member of the populace. Has his first encounter with the Arishok
>The local Chantry starts to agitate people against the Qunari
>The Hero goes into the Deep Roads on an expedition and comes back rich as fuck. He is elevated to the nobility.
>The incompetent local ruler's son is killed by a Chantry agent for converting to the Qun. This pushes the Qunari to the brink of rebellion for disrespect.
>Some minor atrocities occur, the Qunari take over the city, the Hero kills the Arishok and becomes the Champion of Kirkwall.
> Anders blows up the Chantry and starts the mage rebellion. The Hero either sides with the mages or with the Templars kill the other side then disappears. Continentwide the Circles of Magii rebel.
>Battlemage.jpg

DAI:
>There is a bomming at a peace conference overseen by the Divine herself between the mages and templars. The Divine dies, but you surprisingly survive the explosion.
>Also, this tears holes in reality.
>Everyone suspects you, but you manage to close a one such hole and everybody is a-okay with you now.
>You go around exploring lifeless and empty maps with idiotic sidequests
>It is revealed that one behind all of this is a Tevinter magistrate. Not just any magistrate, one of the few who Desecrated the Golden City and made the Maker turn away from Thedas.
>You kill him
>It is revealed that one of you companions is non other than the Dread Wolf. He is horrified by what happened to his people and promises to return the world to a previous magicfilled state by tearing up the Veil.

Or even worse, siding with ELVES.

Is Bioware working on DA4?

I haven't seen anything new beyond that Destiny looking shooter that EA's got them working on.

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We just don't know. Last thing I heard, the DA team is still leaking with all of the leads leaving Bioware.

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I personally liked the idea in DA:II that a Hero doesn't have to go around an entire country/world, fight demigods to exalt. At heart I think Hawke's story is really good, but the game mechanics were changed so much that it almost entirely gutted that possibility. But the companions are still great!

DAI on the other hand is the polar opposite. You go around two countries fight a demigod and all the Marvel shit. They created huge maps with almost nothing to do but grind through. It's really lifeless. (If you played Darksiders 2 it's a good comparison). Most companions are either uninteresting, or tumblr fan-service. The only good addition was a disgraced Warden with a really dark past, and how this elven god remarks on the state of the world. Not to mention that the Last DLC upends the entire game because you now have someone who will do EXACTLY the same shit as the magistrate pulled in this one but it will be BIGGER AND WORSE for the world. It's basically a Marvel movie with the post credit scene.
Which is a shame because this still had potential story wise but they never truly elaborated on the fluff.

So?

You have a point there. Though they fucked big time with the romances that shat all over that and made them all the same.

Origins has the most likeable characters.

Inqusitions had the most realistic characters. So you end up hating half of them and thats alright, but not the best way to make a game I guess.

I formated my pc and forgot to backup my save... does playing it online save my progress? I hope I don't have to start it over again.

Siding with werewolves was morally good. Elf leader was a fucking faggot.

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I've been thinking of replaying this again. Should I make a mage, a mage, a mage, or a mage?

DA2 was absolutely destroyed by the stupid console inspired spell simplifications and the never ending "enemies sliding down the rope" respawning in every fight.

Even when Im doin an evil run, I still find myself on siding with the elves. The sudden genocide option is so out of place. There was never an instance where I get to express my hatred for.elves and then suddenly I get the choice to kill them all? Really gets the noggin joggin

Nah, you should definitely go with a mage instead.

>Yes. And also the caves/dungeon generation. I can not believe that Bioware was unable to write a proper Dungeon generator (like diablo or PoE) so that they wouldn't all look the same.

I hate nu-Bioware, haven't even touched DA2 or ME3, but I picked up DAI GotY for $10 and I'm really enjoying it. It feels nothing like old Bioware, and it is toally a single-player MMO. It's giving me strong Kingdom's of Amalur vibes.

It's good and engaging, but certain aspects are legitimately terrible. Most """quests""" are literally a single intro sentence and a single sentence upon completion. It's astonishing, it's literally worse than an MMO in that regard.

>want to try out a different mage build
>have to go through the goddamn mage origin for the nth time

Merrill! The cutest romance of all DA.!

I did the first time.

Second time, I fucked Morrigan, because I'd romanced her. Best outcome.

Yeah, but his people didn't all deserve to die for it. Compromise is easily the outcome.

YES!

>get to throw Jowan under the bus again
Worth it.

All knife-ears have it coming

I think you should give DA2 a go. It still feels like oldWare most of the times.
What in DAI reminds you of that forgotten gem Amalur?

>try to play this game again
>the whole story is about human privilege

The only viable romances in DA.

Wait, I always managed to get rid only of elf leader.
By the way, I liked that in DAII being a moralfag actually makes you murder whole elven village. Fucking awesome.

They definately are working at something within the DA franchise. Most likely DA IV but can also be some spinoffs. A author basically confirmed that he was writing some small snippets of text (codex etc) for Bioware and sent his work to them in march, combine it with Bioware looking for a lot of new devs etc recently i am guessing that the concept phase is finished with the announcement in the nxt summer

>Dwarf Commoner Warrior playthrough
>valiantly give my life slaying the archdemon
>huge ending scene of everybody jacking off to how fucking rad my dorf was, including an entirely new noble house being made in Orzammar for all of the downtrodden Casteless in my name

Dwarf Commoner is the best rags to glory story. It starts off strong from the arena fighting part and never really gets worse. Makes me kind of wish that Human Commoner didn't get axed, because it probably would have been cooler than Noble.

Too bad she's a dumbass

The singleplayer MMO design. The zone design and the sense of exploration. The crafting and whatnot is similar too.