sami jo wrote...
I don't think anyone is claiming that Origins was perfect, only that it felt like there was more opportunity to converse with and get to know your companions at your own pace. Origins covered roughly a year of time in the middle of a crisis that your Warden was trying to resolve. It would make no sense to stretch a personal quest to get to know a companion out. The problem is that DA2 is pretty much nothing but companion quests and fed-ex quests. All I am suppose to do is get to know my friends and wait for the world to blow up. In that context, with people I am suppose to have been close to for close to a decade, potentially even in a romance with for a number of years. I would certainly hope that the companion quests were more involved. The problem is that they aren't nearly involved enough to give the impression of a close relationship spanning a decade. Codex entries updating me on the last three years of someone's activities does not substitute for a conversation. Yes, Mr. Gaider, those long expository conversations you seem to dislike so much did serve a purpose.
I'll be honest... I completely ignore the seven year thing because that just feels very poorly implemented in my opinion.
As for whether the companion quests are involved enough, I did feel that they were, enough so to make me enjoy the companions in the same level as I did in Origins.
I don't blame people for wanting to have the "long expository conversations" back, I certainly wouldn't mind them one bit. But speaking stricly from MY point of view, I didn't need them to feel connected to the DA2 companions in the same way as I felt connected to the companions in Origins.
tmp7704 wrote...
I think i've learnt more about ME2 companions from their talks than from these, in retrospect.
Eh, I can safely say I don't feel that way. But you're right, some of the convos in DA2 are pretty meaningless. That's not to say I didn't enjoy them.





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