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[Arius23]

Enough already with the flaws of DA2.  Let's help the writers out by praising some of our most favorite quests.

Just off the top of my head, hooking up Aveline with Donnic was absolutely brilliant (as well as hilarious if you bring Isabella along).  In the same regard, the quest for Isabella where you have to pretend to turn her in and slap her around was equally as entertaining.

As far as great dramatic writing, I thought the entire quest where you must escort the Qunari mage outside of Kirkwall and confront his clan was engaging and ended beautifully.

What were some of your favorite quest and writing moments of DA2?

[Nathan Redgrave]

In general, the writing was always good. Any given sidequest could be pointed out and most would say it was well-written and maybe even interesting as a stand-alone sideplot, if it's one of the longer ones.

When you zoom out to examine the story as a whole it gets patchier, but on a quest-by-quest basis, I don't have many problems with it.

[Pandaman102]

Oh, Avenline's courtship quest, hands down. I even kept a save right before starting that quest so I can do it again with other party members in tow.

[MKDAWUSS]

The Qunari storyline was pretty good.

[Naitaka]

I thought the quest where Meredith have you hunt down those apostate was pretty awesome. It was the few glimpse we actually had into why mages in Kirkwall resorted to blood magic. I don't get why Bioware like using rape as a plot device so much though. I think that showing the corruption within the Templar Order/Circle was definately something they've done well in this game, but honestly, not everything have to be about rape...

[Alexein]

i agree with the OP, there are bad quests, but there are certainly good ones as well.

As much people hate the implications... i actually really liked the final quest cutscenes where orsino and meredith are arguing over the search for blood mages (just before anders blows up the chantry).

Orsino makes several good points and meredith also comes off as reasonable, especially when she says not to brand her tyrant if no better way was available.

Cullen was remarkably well-done throughout the whole game, he's more sensible and well-adjusted than most of my companions. Since DA:O Cullen has matured all around, getting balls, a brain, AND a heart all the same time.

Ok.... so that wasn't really a quest, but it's still good writing.

Modifié par Alexein, 23 mars 2011 - 04:44 .

[Naitaka]

Alexein wrote...

i agree with the OP, there are bad quests, but there are certainly good ones as well.

As much people hate the implications... i actually really liked the final quest cutscenes where orsino and meredith are arguing over the search for blood mages (just before anders blows up the chantry).

Orsino makes several good points and meredith also comes off as reasonable, especially when she says not to brand her tyrant if no better way was available.

Cullen was remarkably well-done throughout the whole game, he's more sensible and well-adjusted than most of my companions. Since DA:O Cullen has matured all around, getting balls, a brain, AND a heart all the same time.

Ok.... so that wasn't really a quest, but it's still good writing.

Yah, I really like that scene as well, which also make the scenes in the Gallow make even less sense. Imho, they should have had more unrest after the Chantry went up in the red pillar of doom. Have a crowd gather around the Chantry out for blood, mages then defend themselves with magic sparking an all out conflict, then Meredith's call for the Rite of Anullement would have made much more sense. Heck, where did all those mages came from right after that scene anyway? I don't remember seeing mages roaming the street of Kirkwall before that night.

Modifié par Naitaka, 23 mars 2011 - 04:48 .

[Alexein]

What i REALLY liked about the game in general was Companion-specific responses. Like when aveline threatens the smugglers in the beginning, or talks down a guard in the hanged man.

My all-time favorite is when you have mage-hawke and varric in "act of mercy" and Varric convinces the templar that Hawke is "First enchanter hawke from the circle of ferelden".

I would have high-fived varric right there.

[MadMoskus]

Aveline's "The Long Road" was damn funny. Varric's "Haunted" was scary enough to be good. And both "Best Served Cold" and "Gamlen's Greatest Treasure" were worthy of praise. Also the entire Qunari invasion thing.

[MingWolf]

I enjoyed the Qunari one too.

I also enjoyed Merrill's quest to fix the mirror. I hadn't exactly counted on the outcome when the keeper came and confronted her. I just wish her quest ordering weren't so bugged

[RPGamer13]

Sophia Dryden, just because that character is voiced by the same woman who voiced Emma Honeywell in The Last Remnant.

Anything involving Isabela, she has the best party banter with the other characters to me, especially when she is dealing with Merrill.

[nranola]

Alexein wrote...

My all-time favorite is when you have mage-hawke and varric in "act of mercy" and Varric convinces the templar that Hawke is "First enchanter hawke from the circle of ferelden".

I would have high-fived varric right there.

HAHAHA! I will have to remember bringing Varric along next time! That is PRICELESS!


All the good ones have already been mentioned so I won't repeat. xD

In addition, I also liked the quest when you search for Wilmod and Keran, particularly the scene with Idunna the "Exotic Wonder of the East". Snapping out of a blood mage's spell is very satisfying~

[Naitaka]

Wayward Sons with Varric and Fenris, convince the slavers, and THEN kill them anyway. THAT is priceless.

[Alexein]

"Night Terrors" i think was really good i thought. especially feyneriel himself who wants to be made tranquil so he doesn't have to experience the nightmares.

It really made me think, cause up until then i thought "It would be so badass to be a mage" but then after seeing the kind of torment he went through it really made me think that mages aren't all that awesome. Nevermind being templar hunted... just sleeping can be scary. I thought it was a great expansion to the dragon age canon.

Another thing i really liked was when you have bethany in the circle and then side with the *templars*. During the cutscene where you and meredith break through to orsino you confront him over quentin's actions and Bethany realizes Orsino was partially responsible for Leandra's death, then Orsino threatens to kill them all (including the champion) much to bethany's protests. Finally after orsino is ripped in two bethany wails over the body and hawke can step in and save her from meredith. I thought the whole sequence was well-done. Bethany's world comes crashing down, everything she thought she knew and the people she thought she trusted have either turned against her or gone insane. Unlike Leandra's death where i was just throwing tomatoes at the screen, I actually enjoyed watching this scene play out. I'm not sadistic, i didn't want to see bethany hurt, but the opposite, i felt more connected to her than in any other family scene.

[Camilladilla]

Shepherding Wolves, in fact the entire Sister Petrice quest line was awesome simply because Petrice was friggin awesome, but Shepherding Wolves gets major kudos from me. I loved that music they play towards the end when you're walking with the Qunari mage and trying to convince him not to kill himself.

Night Terrors, it's one of those quests that gives you a lot of insight to your companions. Also I like anything that had to do with the Fade. I'm one of those rare people who liked going into the Fade in DAO.

Haunted, your companions' reactions to the hauntings were pure gold and snarky Hawke's responses to Varric towards the end is one of my favourites. "Varric if you keep that thing, you'll go mad, I'll have to kill you and Bianca will be heart broken."

Also the Prime Suspect/All That Remains quest line is a no brainer.

[Felene]

Haunted. Night Terrors. Act of Mercy. The Long Road. Shepherding Wolf(SP?).

[Akron1983]

The one where I find a body of a dead chantry sister. I pick it up as an item. Return it to some random brother in the chantry and he says "Thanks! I've been looking for this!"

Modifié par Akron1983, 23 mars 2011 - 05:21 .

[Camilladilla]

Akron1983 wrote...

The one where I find a body of a dead chantry sister. I pick it up as an item. Return it to some random brother in the chantry and he says "Thanks! I've been looking for this!"

LOL

I always get a kick out of this. Especially because my Hawke's like "Look what I found, you're reason for living ;D"

[Alexein]

"Magistrate's orders" was pretty good, not top of the list but i liked it because it really had a moral dilemma... Do you kill a sick man to protect others? or do you lock him up because he's sick and thus not criminally responsible for his actions?

Even in our world here is a huge moral dilemma around this and the courts are dealing with this everyday. Props to bioware for showing it in game. Using the "demon" card worked out really well for the setting.

[Statulos]

I loved Varric's assault on Bartrand's house, especially the BS part.

And the follow up with the little piece of the idol was cool to. "Magic runs in your family, Hawke, you surely know about weird ****".

[turtlemh31]

my fav quest was haunted by far. That was a great quest. The Books that were flying around the library was a nice touch.

[Evolution33]

Sheparding Wolves was my favorite quest in the game. I also have to say that the way the entire family theme played out at the end actually influenced my final decision. I wasn't willing to take a side until absolutely forced to, and I only choose the mages because I wanted to protect my sister who was the only family I had left.

[Nathan Redgrave]

Naitaka wrote...

I thought the quest where Meredith have you hunt down those apostate was pretty awesome. It was the few glimpse we actually had into why mages in Kirkwall resorted to blood magic. I don't get why Bioware like using rape as a plot device so much though. I think that showing the corruption within the Templar Order/Circle was definately something they've done well in this game, but honestly, not everything have to be about rape...

Uh, at what point did that quest involve rape? I thought it involved a lunatic blood mage using his wife as a human sacrifice.

[Naitaka]

Nathan Redgrave wrote...

Naitaka wrote...

I thought the quest where Meredith have you hunt down those apostate was pretty awesome. It was the few glimpse we actually had into why mages in Kirkwall resorted to blood magic. I don't get why Bioware like using rape as a plot device so much though. I think that showing the corruption within the Templar Order/Circle was definately something they've done well in this game, but honestly, not everything have to be about rape...

Uh, at what point did that quest involve rape? I thought it involved a lunatic blood mage using his wife as a human sacrifice.

No no, I mean through out the game. Alaine was raped...the girl in Ander's quest was raped...the Tranquil walking around the court yard in the Gallow was raped...just off the top of my head. Not to mention Anders talked about it many times when you discuss Templar abuses in your conversations with him.

The fact that quest DIDN'T involve rape was the precisely the reason I liked it. It's actually much more revealing of the mages' motivation than "You'll be the naught apprentice and I'll be the Templar torturer"

Modifié par Naitaka, 23 mars 2011 - 06:08 .

[_Aine_]

Arius23 wrote...

As far as great dramatic writing, I thought the entire quest where you must escort the Qunari mage outside of Kirkwall and confront his clan was engaging and ended beautifully.

I agree whole-heartedly on this.  You have no idea how many times I replayed that one, trying to recruit the mage though.  lol  Dang it.  I liked him.  Actually the Qunari involvement in general was my favorite series of quests. 

Oh, and in general, most of what Varric says is snarky and fantastic.

Fenris has some insightful moments too.  

It is full of great writing actually.  

Modifié par shantisands, 23 mars 2011 - 06:25 .