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[quote]CalJones wrote...
I want a blokey bloke. Alistair is definitely "a guy" but needs a lot of hand-holding. No offence to him, he can be very sweet, but I want something a bit more rough and ready. More of a throw you on the ground and do you sort of bloke.[/quote]
Know what I want? I always play female. And it drives me insane that the friendship dialog with male/male is better than male/female friendship. I want that equalized. As a female friends with Alistair is dull, there's no interaction past the standard questions. I want more friendship dialogs as the friend zone increases in approval.
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Is there really such a big difference between female and Alistair and male and Alistair?
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If you're not romancing him? No, personally, I don't think so. Same with Leliana, if you make clear you just want to be friends it's pretty much same-ish. But I must admit it's great fun to have Leliana as a friend and have her make fun of you and Alistair.
Funny, I am actually female and I've kind of had my fill of 'blokey blokes' in games for some reason. I like a nice combination of hand-holding and sarcasm. For inventing Alistair I've almost forgiven Bioware for BG2

Er, btw, "throw you down and do you" sounds suspiciously like Oghren :0