I am a good guy, the one you might call "Carebear" in an MMORPG, although I am not really everything this word stands for.
Nevertheless, in RPG-games like Dragon Age, on my first playthrough I am playing the main character as a kind of an impersonation of myself. Meaning my character is doing the things I would do and is making the decisions I would make. This always turns out to be the good way, the "paladin" way, helping the opressed, helping the poor, fighting against injustice, cruelty, evil and so on. The hero in shining armor.
Thus I am very disappointed with nearly all my available companions in Dragon Age 2.
Let's look at the details and how they worked out for me.
Varric: A very likeable guy I ended up being friends with and all in all the coolest and best companion in the game.
Aveline: I like her, although she is a little bit to anti-magic, at the end she is fighting crime and fighting injustice and even was contenc siding with the mages because she realized that not all mages can be held responsible for the bad things that some of them commit.
So, I like two out of seven companions. On to the next five.
Fenris: I can understand his motivations but he is blind for reasonable arguments and turns out to be a mage-hater throughout the whole game. Just in the last minutes of the game he turns away from the Templars and joins my side again, because he understands that mages are oppressed and similar to slaves like he has been all of his life. So I never had him in my party.
Sebastian: The opposite of Fenris. I never had him in my party because all mages are bad, yaddayaddayadda. Both, Fenris and Sebastian, are fanatics.
Anders: At first I could sympathize with him, as he is against the oppression of the mages and those exactly were my thoughts and feelings. And he is against blood magic and the same goes for me. But the more Vengeance takes control over him the more radical and fanatic he becomes in his beliefs and actions. I did not want to have him in my party but I ended up with him in my party nevertheless because I needed a healer. Of course I killed him after he blew up the chantry so that left me with no healer for the rest of the game.
Now, the other two companions and the straight romance options for a male Hawke.
Isabella: A lying, stealing, cheating ****. She was very cool in DA:O but in DA2 she disgusted me. She went to bed with an uncountable number of men and women, so why should my male Hawke even think of romancing her? Never. I never had her in my party because before she joined me I raised Varrics cunning so high that there was no need for another rogue for dealing with traps and chests. I told her to give the artifact back to the Quanari because this simply is the only right thing to do and as she ran off, I hoped to meet her again later in the game to courtmartial or kill her.
Merril: A blood mage. I despised her right from the start when she started using blood magic to open the passage to Sundermount mountain top. I never had her in my party and always looked for a way to send her away or kill her but both was not possible. All this crying by her was so pointless. I felt for the keeper when she died but I never felt anything for Merril and always hoped she would die.
So, yes, although in despising some companions Bioware managed to make them "alive" for me and feel something for them. That's right. But I hoped that I could (and should) feel about my companions in a positive way, not in a negative way.
Yes, Varric was cool to have as a friend. But I wanted to romance Aveline because she is the only woman who comes close to sharing my opinions and beliefs. But romancing her is not possible.
So the game as a game worked for me, yes, but the companions and the romances were a HUGE letdown for me!
Modifié par AmanoTC, 18 mars 2011 - 02:23 .
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