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[BlueMew]

The dwarven politics and caste games tend to annoy me, but elves are fun. You don't *have* to have the huge racial chip on your shoulder, esepcially when playing a mage. And I'm not interested in looking muscled in plate armour or tall and leggy anyway...

[Sattva]

A Cousland 98% of time (the rest is just for checking the other plot lines)



Personally, I find the Cousland origin moving and I'm completely comfortable with it.

However, IMO, the PC does not have the dialogue options appropriate to a noble. Both male and female nobles just do not say certain things provided in their dialogue options; their speech pattern, IMO, would be at least a tad different from other characters in the game...



Dalish female elf is mildly nice, she is a cute squeezable petite (pardon me, ladies, if you get offended somehow). Dalish - because I like their lifestyle, except that I would shut them up for good, for their whining is tiresome.



Dwarves - just to get the appropriate achievements. I'm a visually-oriented person, and these guys and gals make me shudder. I played them only twice (1 noble and 1 commoner) and never got past Ostagar.

Oghren, however, as a companion, is very much fun.

[ezrafetch]

I usually play humans, but when you play the Origin story approximately ten billion times, you start to tire and look somewhere else. As it is, I'm working through with a City Elf Rogue and it's been going rather swimmingly. I can't bring myself to start a dwarf, though.

[OriginsIsBest]

Yes, I do, but still I like having an option to replay the game as a different race. The fact that its being forced on me, just because Bioware decide to make a fantasy action game.

[Jacks Smirking Revenge]

If male elves had a female elf romance they would be my preferred race/origin especially in DA:O. I'm native, and I love how the Dalish and City Elves are based on the traditional and assimilated native cultures. I so wish Lanaya was a LI.



Right now my canon character is a human because the only two female romances are both human.

[Janni-in-VA]

Hmmmmm, I usually play either elf or human. I think I've played about the same number of each. (I'd have to go check my character folder and see.) I've only done two dwarf playthroughs, and only finished one of those. I do find the overly long arms a bit off-putting, but the female faces can be really wonderful -- beautiful high cheekbones and big doe eyes. I've added a mod that adds presets to the character creator, so I usually don't have a problem with creating a character I can live with. I'll take a preset and then tweak a little here and there until they're just the way I want them. Oddly enough, the only one I've had problems with is when I was trying to creating a male elf mage; I tried three times, then just went with a human character. I don't mind the more slender elven build; I like the wiry strength of an elven body. I do wish they were just a tad taller, but I'll live.

[Orlomm]

I usually play a human.

With Elves the leg/arm length to torso ratio is just weird looking to me.

I'd play dwarves more but since the two female LIs are both human it just seems weird.

[RVallant]

I play as a human mostly. Elves are awesome as are Dwarves but my personality doesn't suit the Dwarves and I cba being an angsty racist elf.



Still, I would have fallen over romancing a female elf companion in an instant.

[biomag]

I can't help but for me dwarfs and elves are just sideshow characters at DA:O... no real appeal for me. I especially can't play dwarfs, their whole race always looks more like a joke.. I loved most parts of the "Paragon of her kind" story and many dwarfen NPCs, but playing as a dwarf? No longer than to finish both origins.



Elves... well... city elf was kind of a fun, but with DA:O completely failing at giving you a feeling of the origin you be playing after the first hour, it lost all flair afterward and felt like a regular elf/human/whatever.



Dales... to whiny for me. Yes, I understand their background and all, but I can't stand people always whining about their past. Especially for DA:O they didn't feel like they would care about the blight.



Also both elven races lacked facial hair and males looked strange overall. Didn't like them. Back at Morrowind on the other side I loved playing dark elves (still my favorite elven background) and at table tops I had elven armies in two systems (Rackham's Confronation-story was really cool, especially the "high elves"), but I guess that was based on their elite-heavy armies and tactical appeal than background.

[phil10]

I always choose a human character and i agree that it is a connection you have with the character. I think it is because obviously you are human and you relate to the character more and also maybe sometimes feel that your character is a representation of you. So you give it a name you would choose and fit its skills (Warrior, Mage or Rogue) to suit you and to show who you are.

[Armasil]

I played an elf since the beginning and I can't say he looks like wimp. He sure is shorter, but in no way he is less badass than a human. I prefer playing "pretty boy" characters and I found it easier to create one from the elven race.

[Haexpane]

I don't play dorfs, and the elfs looked like short humans so I had no choice in the matter.



In other games



Euridte (one of my fav Everquest races, great for Shadowknight roleplay)

Troll (Warrior or SK EQ1 old skool)

Dark Elf (Necro, or SK or Enchanter EQ1 , EQPS2)

Half Elf (EQ1)

[Addai]

Jacks Smirking Revenge wrote...

Right now my canon character is a human because the only two female romances are both human.

I don't get why this matters.  Morrigan seems a very natural fit for a Dalish PC, for instance- she even says she has more in common with them than humans.

[Addai]

RVallant wrote...

I play as a human mostly. Elves are awesome as are Dwarves but my personality doesn't suit the Dwarves and I cba being an angsty racist elf.

Who says you have to play an angsty racist elf?

[Axekix]

Addai67 wrote...

RVallant wrote...

I play as a human mostly. Elves are awesome as are Dwarves but my personality doesn't suit the Dwarves and I cba being an angsty racist elf.

Who says you have to play an angsty racist elf?

You don't have  to, but the origins pretty much set you up to play one... unless you're a mage.

[llothes]

humans ive played eleves and dwarves but humans can be all classes and elves are short along with the dwarves and it just feels more natural being human

[Armasil]

I am kinda short so it felt natural to play as an elf ;D

Ok, I wonder... can anyone liking humans for they looks show me a human that he/she thinks looks better than my handsome elven Templar? (no character mod, 100% default appearance options used) ;P

[13Dannyboy13]

I usually go with elves, or any other non-human race at least for the first character or two. More than that though, it really comes down to what class the character will be, and what bonuses each race gives, though in this game there really aren't huge differences in race abilities.

[Lasombra74]

Humans & Elves & always female. I never saw the pull to play a different sex.. akin to being lesbian I suppose lol. For the many mmorpgs I have played. This is only the second game and char I have gotten to play with swords and knives. I grew to love my Cousland rogue right out of the gate. I normally play mages/healers. The blood the gore the decaps! Made my heart soar..



I know I know I am one sick puppy. Thank you EA & Bioware!



I tried to play dwarves, but they are just too stocky & short. I have never met an attractive dwarf.

[yangthecat]

I still haven't played a dwarf, I just can't get into them. I play elves as much as I play humans, both genders, and have no problems getting into character. Some of my elves have been strongly anti-human, but not all. The game does give you that dialog option, but you don't have to take it, just as you don't have to take the 'I'm a selfish jerk' dialog option the is also always available as a dialog option for all races. I love the background DA created for elves, making them an oppressed minority, but I wish there had been other ways of expressing that outside the origin story so that you felt it mattered. Some unimportant NPCs will make comments about your elf, but the important ones, like Eamon or Loghain, will treat you the same as a human noble, and that is hard to believe given the state of the world. But, it's understandable, it would have been difficult to make the story that different for the different origins.
While I would have liked a female elf LI, I wasn't bothered about having my short male elves with the taller human women.

ETA: love for Armasil's elven templar. 

Modifié par yangthecat, 17 septembre 2010 - 01:06 .

[Armasil]

Thanks, yangthecat. I feel pretty connected to him. He is my first and last Dragon Age character after all! Heh, well, from the beginning I knew I will be playing an elf. Always played them in pen-n-paper RPGs, played one in BG and prettymuch every other game that had elves as a playable race.