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Topic	Is it worth it to replay Dragon Age: Origins and II before Inquisition?
ParanoidObsessive 12/30/17 8:54:22 AM #35:	Megawizard posted... Since I've never played through Origins as a woman, and haven't played any of the games besides Origins for that matter, what happens? :o There's a part of DA:I where you have to sacrifice someone to a nightmare demon to escape the Fade. Your choice is basically between either Hawke, or a representative of the Grey Wardens who is determined by previous gameplay (Alistair if he's still a Grey Warden rather than king or exile, Loghain if you made him a Warden and he survived, or Stroud from DA2). Assuming you've played both DA:O and DA2 and formed anything resembling an emotional connection to your characters, it can be jarring when you're essentially being asked to choose between the boyfriend/husband of your DA:O character or your own DA2 character (who is probably involved in a romance themselves, and thus will be leaving someone behind if they die). (In my playthrough where that would have happened, my Warden ran off with Alistair and my Hawke had romanced Isabela, who tearfully begs you not to die or leave her at the end of DA2, so it's kind of obvious that she'd be utterly broken by Hawke dying. But a relationship with Fenris is equally kind of volatile that way. Merrill and Anders could probably deal with it better, but they'd still be pretty devastated.) For bonus points, there's a part where your Inquisitor basically gets a letter from your Warden mentioning Alistair and saying something like "I'm out busting my hump trying to find a way to cure the Taint, so you better not get him killed while he's with you, or else" - which implies your character from DA:O may eventually be coming to murder the shit out of your DA:I character if you sacrifice Alistair. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:893115587] in Is it wort... [t:76140655]...</cite> <quote><cite>Megawizard posted...</cite> <quote>Since I've never played through Origins as a woman, and haven't played any of the games besides Origins for that matter, what happens? :o</quote> There's a part of DA:I where you have to sacrifice someone to a nightmare demon to escape the Fade. Your choice is basically between either Hawke, or a representative of the Grey Wardens who is determined by previous gameplay (Alistair if he's still a Grey Warden rather than king or exile, Loghain if you made him a Warden and he survived, or Stroud from DA2). Assuming you've played both DA:O and DA2 and formed anything resembling an emotional connection to your characters, it can be jarring when you're essentially being asked to choose between the boyfriend/husband of your DA:O character or your own DA2 character (who is probably involved in a romance themselves, and thus will be leaving someone behind if they die). (In my playthrough where that would have happened, my Warden ran off with Alistair and my Hawke had romanced Isabela, who tearfully begs you not to die or leave her at the end of DA2, so it's kind of obvious that she'd be utterly broken by Hawke dying. But a relationship with Fenris is equally kind of volatile that way. Merrill and Anders could probably deal with it better, but they'd still be pretty devastated.) For bonus points, there's a part where your Inquisitor basically gets a letter from your Warden mentioning Alistair and saying something like "I'm out busting my hump trying to find a way to cure the Taint, so you better not get him killed while he's with you, or else" - which implies your character from DA:O may eventually be coming to murder the shit out of your DA:I character if you sacrifice Alistair. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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