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[Riona45]

Carmen_Willow wrote...
As for Dragon Age guys to romance, how about Nathaniel with a sense of humor (he was so serious)?

He had one, it was just very dry.

[errant_knight]

Pseudocognition wrote...

@Errant: I was going to comment on something like that. It doesn't really matter about the ages, its even kinda clever to leave it open ended, especially since ambiguity allows people to fit the character to their own preferences. But I found a lot of the characters to be in this vague 20s, 30s area that made it, well, not hard to pick a LI but hard to appreciate their hardships. If Zevran was maybe 22 and you condense all of his experiences into a short span of time, it means something different than if he was in his late 30s and he'd had a few decades to get used to and become jaded by the job. Can't pinpoint an age on that guy but he's definitely not 22.

Meanwhile if Alistair is 22 who cares if he's a virgin, so are at lot of 22 year olds. Maybe not 22 year olds that look like him, but you get the point. He's probably older but who knowwws.

Yeah, it's a whole lot more poignant if they're older. I mean, when someone who is around twenty tells you that they never thought they'd find love, you have to kind of roll your eyes, but if they're older, that's a lot more meaningful. I've always assumed the Zevran was in his thirties, and was always intended to be. Alistair seems to have beem written and graphically designed to be in his thirties, as well. Personally, I think the early twenties thing was a retcon of the character that happened when they did the big rewrite of him late in development.

[Pseudo the Mustachioed]

@Errant: In which case I wouldn't mind a character who was clearly younger, so my Hawke can get her cougar on. I didn't know about Alistair's retcon though, that's a bit meh. I'll always imagine him as good 28 or so.

[Riona45]

Does that really count as a "retcon" if the changes to Alistair's concept happened during development? After all, most characters go through changes before things are set in stone.

[errant_knight]

Pseudocognition wrote...

@Errant: In which case I wouldn't mind a character who was clearly younger, so my Hawke can get her cougar on. I didn't know about Alistair's retcon though, that's a bit meh. I'll always imagine him as good 28 or so.

Yep, me too. I should note that I don't have an issue with LIs that I see as being younger than my PC, in a more general sense.  Nothin' wrong with that at all. I just that I think older works better for Alistair, or for any character who's supposed to have a 'history' or have given up on somethings in life a unachievable. For some characters, it wouldn't matter. Nathaniel could have been young, and it wouldn't have made an intrinsic difference to the character.

[errant_knight]

Riona45 wrote...

Does that really count as a "retcon" if the changes to Alistair's concept happened during development? After all, most characters go through changes before things are set in stone.

Well, perhaps that's the wrong term, but the rewrite happened after they were showing the voiced character to test audiences, and getting a bad reaction to a bitter and untrusting Alistair. At least that's the impression I got. I suppose they could have shown people scripts, but that seems unlikely. That's pretty late, well past the concept stage. He was already graphically designed and voiced (we can't know this, but given his appearace and choice of actor, I think that's additional evidence that this is so), so.... I think that's a bit different than tweaking that happens in design, and apparently involved some pretty major changes. Of course, we'll likely never know exactly what those were. I'm very intigued by the idea that an exiled Alistair who might show up in Awakening would likely be much closer to his original character than the Alistair who appears in the game. I wish I thought we would actually have the oppoertunity to recruit him. It would be like being able to have an opportunity to relate to both versions. Very interesting, indeed!

Modifié par errant_knight, 26 octobre 2010 - 04:12 .

[Pseudo the Mustachioed]

errant_knight wrote...

Pseudocognition wrote...

@Errant: In which case I wouldn't mind a character who was clearly younger, so my Hawke can get her cougar on. I didn't know about Alistair's retcon though, that's a bit meh. I'll always imagine him as good 28 or so.

Yep, me too. I should note that I don't have an issue with LIs that I see as being younger than my PC, in a more general sense.  Nothin' wrong with that at all. I just that I think older works better for Alistair, or for any character who's supposed to have a 'history' or have given up on somethings in life a unachievable. For some characters, it wouldn't matter. Nathaniel could have been young, and it wouldn't have made an intrinsic difference to the character.

Agreed, it mostly doesn't matter, unless it does XD

Maybe it's my JRPG-riddled youth (or my actual youth) calling out to me but there's gotta be a 20 year old guy in Thedas who can swing a sword and is just crazy enough to want learn to slay darkspawn from a Slightly Older Woman.

Actually that could be interesting. What if you did get a party member who is too young for the field, shall we say, but determined to fight anyway, and the noble thing to do is actually to teach him/her what you know, keep him/her alive throughout your adventures, but then send him/her back to mommy before the final boss. ( I know this thread is about male LIs but come on, it'd be touching either way)

[Riona45]

errant_knight wrote...
Well, perhaps that's the wrong term, but the rewrite happened after they were showing the voiced character to test audiences, and getting a bad reaction to a bitter and untrusting Alistair. At least that's the impression I got. I suppose they could have shown people scripts, but that seems unlikely. That's pretty late, well past the concept stage.

Interesting.  Personally I prefer to see him as being in his early twenties, but I can also see why others see him older, especially if there was already so much "groundwork" for that.

I'm very intigued by the idea that an exiled Alistair who might show up in Awakening would likely be much closer to his original character than the Alistair who appears in the game. I wish I thought we would actually have the oppoertunity to recruit him. It would be like being able to have an opportunity to relate to both versions. Very interesting, indeed!

You mean "drunken" Alistair?  Yeah, I'd definitely have to check him out if he appears, even though that outcome didn't happen in my game (and if "normal" Alistair shows up, hopefully he'll have a good reason for not being with my Warden!).

[Zanaide]

Pseudocognition wrote...

Actually that could be interesting. What if you did get a party member who is too young for the field, shall we say, but determined to fight anyway, and the noble thing to do is actually to teach him/her what you know, keep him/her alive throughout your adventures, but then send him/her back to mommy before the final boss. ( I know this thread is about male LIs but come on, it'd be touching either way)

Well considering that we're talking about a 10 year game-span this time around, by the time you get to whatever final boss there is, the "young'n" would be 30 or close to and have 10 years of training.

I don't know how I would feel about the situation were it not for the decade involved. And that's assuming the story didn't go the "I'm trained so I'll just sneak off and try to kill the boss myself" route with the party member.

[Riona45]

Zanaide wrote...

Pseudocognition wrote...

Actually that could be interesting. What if you did get a party member who is too young for the field, shall we say, but determined to fight anyway, and the noble thing to do is actually to teach him/her what you know, keep him/her alive throughout your adventures, but then send him/her back to mommy before the final boss. ( I know this thread is about male LIs but come on, it'd be touching either way)

Well considering that we're talking about a 10 year game-span this time around, by the time you get to whatever final boss there is, the "young'n" would be 30 or close to and have 10 years of training.
 

Are we talking about a "young" party member who is in fact still a child (I'm wondering because of the "mommy" bit)?  With regards to that, the devs have said that they would be unable to sell the game in certain countries if it featured explicit violence against children (which would be bound to happen if you had a child party member).

Modifié par Riona45, 26 octobre 2010 - 02:04 .

[Pseudo the Mustachioed]

Zanaide wrote...

Well considering that we're talking about a 10 year game-span this time around, by the time you get to whatever final boss there is, the "young'n" would be 30 or close to and have 10 years of training.

I don't know how I would feel about the situation were it not for the decade involved. And that's assuming the story didn't go the "I'm trained so I'll just sneak off and try to kill the boss myself" route with the party member.

Ah, forgot about that. /takes idea and runs to a word document. Mu ha ha.

Ew, cocky overinflated sense of his own skill guy sounds annoying. You can be sure if I was writing that guy I wouldn't go that direction, blahhh.

Edit: I didn't mean child, I meant, well, if the trend is for DA party members to be older trained fighters, this guy would be in the 19-22 range without training in the beginning. But it's just an idea. I forgot about the decade timespan so the idea wouldn't work in this setting even if it was worth lifting an idea from a forumite haha.

Modifié par Pseudocognition, 26 octobre 2010 - 02:06 .

[habitat 67]

Josh Holloway (Sawyer from Lost).

That is all.

[Dhanik]

7 foot 300 pound juicehead gorilla who likes pickels.

[Special_Agent_Goodwrench]

An experienced "been there, done that" type of guy who runs on coffee and sarcasm. Mostly sarcasm. He's quite mysterious and hard to trust. Then again, most killers for hire and torturers are. Wild and energetic, he's quick to start a brawl or a confrontation with others. Especially those who tell him how to live his life. Otherwise he can be a bit lazy and goof off from time to time.

What he does value above everything else is family. He loves his mother and sisters and often receives letters and presents from them. Even if all he gets are terrible looking wool sweaters and hats, he'll still treasure them. He doesn't care who you are, disrespect his, or even your own family, and you'll have a very angry man on your hands.

He does not make any quick moves on women and waits for them to show any interest first. And even after that, he's very careful and gentlemanly (to his best ability). While he may not be as clueless as Alistair, he'd certainly have trouble on picking which flowers or which present he should get for Lady Hawke. Along with the right choice of words.

He'd be like: "Er, well then, now that you like me, and I like you, I thought I'd get you a little something."
Pulls out an ornate curved knife and tells you a long, grisly history about it
"So yeah. It reminded me of you. In a way. It's deadly and beautiful, and you're deadly and beautiful. And both of you look amazingly attractive when bathed in blood."
kicks some dirt on the ground, thinking on how ridiculously he sounded
"Yeah... I'll be in the tavern."

Here's my artistic interpretation of him:

He has very light btown, almost blonde hair color and piercing light blue eyes. (Not too keen on coloring my sketches) Oh and he has some very nice chest hair for those who are interested in that sort of thing.

[TheShadowWolf911]

Wishpig wrote...

I want the kind with boobs and no dong. LESBO'S FTW! Now I'm off to go cry and touch myself to pictures of nude Loghain covered in pig fat and chicken feathers.

'walks away slowly'

[Selenora]

I know its been said before but i would be ok with any type of a LI as long as theres an aditional conversation between them after they declare their love.

Ive never seen that yet in a bio game. (Well, actually i saw that but it was a mod that turned to be a whole campaign...........anyone here played "Dance with a rogue' mod of NWN1?)

I think bio should pay more atention to their fans coz there are ppl out there with very good ideas at least regarding the LIs

[Marrissa]

Not too complex, I just really, really want a bad-boy type.

Mmm, yeah.

[NamiraWilhelm]

habitat 67 wrote...

Josh Holloway (Sawyer from Lost).
That is all.

THIS


The only good reason to watch Lost

[rak72]

NamiraWilhelm wrote...

habitat 67 wrote...

Josh Holloway (Sawyer from Lost).
That is all.

THIS


The only good reason to watch Lost

Agreed, He's the Han Solo to Jack's Luke Skywalker (yes, I realy like Han Solo).

Edit:  Someone who is a manly man without being  horndog like Zev.

Modifié par rak72, 26 octobre 2010 - 06:42 .

[n2nw]

One of my fav romanceable characters was Valen (NWN HotU). He was a total bad@ss, he didn't trust you (but gave you a chance), and yet he was slightly self conscious. Cullen in DAO reminded me a little of that personality type, but of course, he wasn't romanceable. I'd love to have another Valen or a chance at Cullen.

[NamiraWilhelm]

Ser Gilmore made it out and he has the hots for femhawke? Please?

[n2nw]

NamiraWilhelm wrote...

Ser Gilmore made it out and he has the hots for femhawke? Please?

I could live with that.

[NamiraWilhelm]

I could happily live with that. What a lost opportunity he was.

[Josielyn]

Actually now that you mention it, Cullen was both well voiced and fun to look at. I do remember feeling disappointed when I found out he was not romanceable (even though he was obviously interested!). But life isn't perfect, I guess even RPGs have to have the experience of "rejection" in them. If everyone always said "Yes" right away, where is the fun in that? Where would your perspective be? People like something to work for so they feel like they earned it.

[Aermas]

Varric?