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Min/maxing rivalry/friendship/paragon/renegade


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Both ME and DA2 have ethical scales that require min-maxing. In real life, people sometimes agree and sometimes disagree. People are sometimes benevolent and sometimes not so much. If you do that in a Bioware game, you wind up losing out... and usually you lose out on roleplaying, lose companions, etc.

Not saying this is a good thing or bad thing. But I did feel a bit peeved at losing Isabella in Act 2 just because I had roleplayed my Hawke's responses the way I thought was right, and not with regard to min/maxing the axis scales. But I guess many real people are this way too. Make a big impression or make none at all seems to be what's implied here. Just a different perspective: some real people are actually repelled by extremes and like something in the middle---I think it would have been highly interesting to have an NPC that left the party if either rivalrly/friendship got maxed.

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I think that a companion leaving Hawke after you did all of the side quests and had the senstive chats (and therefore maxed out in one direction)  would have ticked off many a player, no matter how true to life it may have been. There would be no sense of reward for expending that effort.

I vacillate between loving that a maxed scale meant I didn't have to worry about shifting loyalties (as in DA:O - I had a heck of time keeping Morrigan at 100), and finding it somewhat unsettling that some of the choices my Hawke(s) made didn't even evoke a batted eye or comment from whoever was in the active party.

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It's not really quite so extreme as you say.

In Me and ME2 my Shepard is paragon. That being said, She's done plenty of renegade things (like knocking out some kid who's in her way, or pushing a no good dirty merc out a window). She's still a paragon, with a high enough bar when it counts ;p

In DA2 you're going to lose people if you didn't bother to try hard enough. By being nosey you're going to irritate the **** out of isabela, because she doesn't believe in doing things "for the good of them". If that's who your hawke is, then push her rivalry instead of friendship. She'll stay, and be a better person for it.

If you're hawke's about making money and letting women, slaves, and mages be free.. she'll all but jump in your lap and offer a free dance ;p

Once they're maxed.. well think of it as a friend who's known you your whole life and KNOWS what kind of a dick you can be.. and still likes you anyway. Thus, they're not phased when you kick that puppy, because they knew you were going to do it anyway ;p