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[TanyaT]

[quote]ladyshamen wrote...

I had to go and start a new game in
DA:O just to try and find Anders in the tower. I looked and could not
find him. Where is he. Little things like this drive me nuts! /quote]me too
I found him by accident, and now have no idea where! It's the only time I heard him and I wasn't listening out for him, I went back to make sure it was him (it was, I know that voice!) but he didn't speak to me again


[quote]ladyshamen wrote..

I too got the mod that lets your mage kiss Cullen. I also downloaded the Ser Gilmore mod. Maybe I have a thing for redheads. Mmmm... I hope they bring back more talk and romance in DA3. I love Bioware!![/quote]I don't have a thing for gingers (unless it's biccies or cake) but I do like a sensitive man and think Bioware have done brilliantly on that score.
If they leave romance out from any of their games, we'll beat them up - though not sure my man appreciates me getting so deeply involved

[Sobiepani]

Wow, nice to see someone in the universe is as crazy about DA as me.
I am generally a person that becomes strongly attached to worlds described in books and such. However if someone three years ago told me I'd fall in love with a video-game <b>this much</b> I would laugh at them. I got DA:O for my birthday from my best friend and I enjoyed it to maximum. Then I bought the two books by Mr. Gaider and I sank into the world of Thedas. There are only a few books I love this much that.

But allow me to ask, which game did you all like better? I have this little theory that people who get so obsessed with DA usually prefer DA2 (I personally do), because it's less an RPG about creating an army and more like "playing life" with all its ups and downs, year after year. I hope I explained it well, English is not my first language. ^^ So, as I absolutely adored DA:O and created about 5 <b>canon</b> (for me) Wardens, I am way more obsessed with DA2, with Anders, the Circle, everyone really. I compare world's political problems to the ones in Kirkwall and people to characters from the game. I can talk with my bff for hours about how mages should be free and what do we think Hawke (with Anders ofc) and the Warden (with Zevran ofc) do after the last game. Maker's breath, I really am a freak.

Also, I hate it sometimes how I am really worried about what happens next and what's with my favorite characters like for example Jowan. Not to mention ofc I have the whole story with new characters played in my head.

It kinda looks like a confession. But from what I've seen you're not that different from me so I guess nothing to be ashamed of. ^^

[TanyaT]

Sobiepani wrote...

Wow, nice to see someone in the universe is as crazy about DA as me.
I am generally a person that becomes strongly attached to worlds described in books and such. However if someone three years ago told me I'd fall in love with a video-game <b>this much</b> I would laugh at them. I got DA:O for my birthday from my best friend and I enjoyed it to maximum. Then I bought the two books by Mr. Gaider and I sank into the world of Thedas. There are only a few books I love this much that.

But allow me to ask, which game did you all like better? I have this little theory that people who get so obsessed with DA usually prefer DA2 (I personally do), because it's less an RPG about creating an army and more like "playing life" with all its ups and downs, year after year. I hope I explained it well, English is not my first language. ^^ So, as I absolutely adored DA:O and created about 5 <b>canon</b> (for me) Wardens, I am way more obsessed with DA2, with Anders, the Circle, everyone really. I compare world's political problems to the ones in Kirkwall and people to characters from the game. I can talk with my bff for hours about how mages should be free and what do we think Hawke (with Anders ofc) and the Warden (with Zevran ofc) do after the last game. Maker's breath, I really am a freak.

Also, I hate it sometimes how I am really worried about what happens next and what's with my favorite characters like for example Jowan. Not to mention ofc I have the whole story with new characters played in my head.

It kinda looks like a confession. But from what I've seen you're not that different from me so I guess nothing to be ashamed of. ^^

you do sound like me!
I am currently playing another game, which we're enjoying (spouse and I play together, I'm his third hand, tactician and memory), however what game do we suddenly talk about? yep Dragon Age. I've got him the books for part of his Christmas present, I want Alistair and Anders for mine!

I like both games.
I like that there was some resolve in Origins; the mix of back histories; vulnerabilities; and a happy ending - well I married/mistressed Alistair.
In 2 I liked the what ifs; the complexity of politics and background histories; the mage templar politics really helped the next run through of Origins as a mage; seeing that Cullen, in spite of heavy mistreatment by mad mages, still fought against Meredith and let us leave quietly; meeting Anders as a mage in Awakening; the emotional tugs built into our teammates' psyche etc
and the VAs are fantastic.


and yes, I write stories in my head all the time.
I think through what would have happened if I'd have been in certain situations where bioware didn't give us a come back when we'd upset our beloveds.
What happened with Alistair setting up a free mages circle, taking Hawke as an advisor and giving Anders a clinic of his own - the chantry are chucked down to just being another cult and have no political power.


all this and I manage to be a happily married middle aged woman, with a very good marriage (if you know what I mean!) a job I'm deeply involved with, and friends in the real world.
but I've not been able to involve myself properly in a book for months, and that annoys me.

so glad I'm not alone

[Sobiepani]

TanyaT wrote...

I like both games.
I like that there was some resolve in Origins; the mix of back histories; vulnerabilities; and a happy ending - well I married/mistressed Alistair.
In 2 I liked the what ifs; the complexity of politics and background histories; the mage templar politics really helped the next run through of Origins as a mage; seeing that Cullen, in spite of heavy mistreatment by mad mages, still fought against Meredith and let us leave quietly; meeting Anders as a mage in Awakening; the emotional tugs built into our teammates' psyche etc
and the VAs are fantastic.

Exactly my thoughts, exept I prefer somewhat bitter ending to Origins. DA2 really seemed like a real world with people influencing others, changing (like Cullen) and all. I started another DA:O playthrough lately and I look at it totally different now. 

Wow, it is nice to see there are people like me. Also you have a wonderful family. I hope some day I will find myself a husband that would share my "passion" for favourite games and books. At least I have a friend I can talk about DA for hours. We don't see each other often and so we write gigantic e-mails to each other. About 80% of it usually contains DA. 

[Ponendus]

I think it's the companions and the writing. Always keeps me coming back for more.

[TanyaT]

Sobiepani wrote...

TanyaT wrote...

I like both games.
I like that there was some resolve in Origins; the mix of back histories; vulnerabilities; and a happy ending - well I married/mistressed Alistair.
In 2 I liked the what ifs; the complexity of politics and background histories; the mage templar politics really helped the next run through of Origins as a mage; seeing that Cullen, in spite of heavy mistreatment by mad mages, still fought against Meredith and let us leave quietly; meeting Anders as a mage in Awakening; the emotional tugs built into our teammates' psyche etc
and the VAs are fantastic.

Exactly my thoughts, exept I prefer somewhat bitter ending to Origins. DA2 really seemed like a real world with people influencing others, changing (like Cullen) and all. I started another DA:O playthrough lately and I look at it totally different now. 

Wow, it is nice to see there are people like me. Also you have a wonderful family. I hope some day I will find myself a husband that would share my "passion" for favourite games and books. At least I have a friend I can talk about DA for hours. We don't see each other often and so we write gigantic e-mails to each other. About 80% of it usually contains DA. 

you're lucky there. The only person I know in real life that plays these games is my Mark ... to think he got me into video games because he wanted a SNES, bribed me with a set of Le creuset pans and a huge French dictionary, then he bought a Zelda ...
my friends talk about the tv they watch and we listen blankly (apart from The Killing)

I do like a bitter-sweet ending, which is really why I liked DA2 I thought it was very brave of Bioware to do that.
origins has its bitter-sweet too. Either poor Alistair has to sleep with the hated Morrigan or lose his beloved ... OUCH! Seeing the funeral is a right tear jerker


right back to the real world of football supporter ownership ....

[ladyshamen]

De-lurking for a moment.  The people here who have mates/friends who game ARE lucky. The only boyfriends I have are IN the game-LOL  I did get one of my friends to start playing recently. She had watched her late son play, and was always interested, but not tried it yet. After playing at my house, she said she must get her PC fixed so she can get her own games going. My job here is done. 

[esper]

ladyshamen wrote...

De-lurking for a moment.  The people here who have mates/friends who game ARE lucky. The only boyfriends I have are IN the game-LOL  I did get one of my friends to start playing recently. She had watched her late son play, and was always interested, but not tried it yet. After playing at my house, she said she must get her PC fixed so she can get her own games going. My job here is done. 

I know how that feels. I have NO one amongst my friends or that games. My little brother does, but not the same games as me...
It is really lonely.

[TanyaT]

esper wrote...

I know how that feels. I have NO one amongst my friends or that games. My little brother does, but not the same games as me...
It is really lonely.[smilie]../../../images/forum/emoticons/crying.png[/smilie]

thank the maker for the interweb eh!

Modifié par TanyaT, 06 décembre 2011 - 02:21 .

[ladyshamen]

I'm currently playing both games. I switch back and forth. In DA2 I'm in the third act,my Hawke is married to Seb. In DA:O I just started a mage. And of course, kissed Cullen! Not sure who I'll romance with her. I almost can't resist Alistair. Bioware makes some great LI's!

[raziel1980]

ladyshamen wrote...

I'm currently playing both games. I switch back and forth. In DA2 I'm in the third act,my Hawke is married to Seb. In DA:O I just started a mage. And of course, kissed Cullen! Not sure who I'll romance with her. I almost can't resist Alistair. Bioware makes some great LI's!

As of Friday, after work... i too will be playing both games( as well as quite a few others). I think you know about all of my characters ladushamen.

I also have the same problem in that most of my friends don't the same games I do, or atleast they haven't tried them yet...which is a surprise considering they all love RPGs like Mass Effect and Dragon Age... 

[TanyaT]

ladyshamen wrote...

I'm currently playing both games. I switch back and forth. In DA2 I'm in the third act,my Hawke is married to Seb. In DA:O I just started a mage. And of course, kissed Cullen! Not sure who I'll romance with her. I almost can't resist Alistair. Bioware makes some great LI's!

much as I really fancy Seb, those eyes, that accent (never Scots never fails to make me wobbly) I can't stand his preaching and his Lordshipness ... but then I'm a rampant atheist in real life.
Always prefer to romance Alistair, not just because he's loveable but the game feels flat when I don't.

Talking of Alistair ... yesterday I was wandering around Sainsbury's; getting very frustrated at screaming kids who want their sweeties NNNNNNNOOOOOOOWWWWWWW, old girls dithering over this offer on crap or that offer on naff, and I shut myself off in my world and wondered what Alistair would be like in a supermarket .. decided he'd be like an over excited puppy
ooooh oooh ginger biccies on a BOGOF get those, oooh tea buy one get another half price YES, oooh organic courgettes 50p off etc
but Alistair you don't like courgette!
but it's a bargain!

[ladyshamen]

raz, you and I are serious game addict's ! This is how I deal with the stress of RL.

TanyaT, I'm trying to finish the game with each LI. That explains Seb. And a Scots accent? One of the many reasons I love Ewan McGregor.Now if he ever did VA for Bioware, I'd melt. LOL at shopping with Alistair!

[raziel1980]

ladyshamen wrote...

raz, you and I are serious game addict's ! This is how I deal with the stress of RL.

TanyaT, I'm trying to finish the game with each LI. That explains Seb. And a Scots accent? One of the many reasons I love Ewan McGregor.Now if he ever did VA for Bioware, I'd melt. LOL at shopping with Alistair!

Bolded: That we are...

On the subject of romances...well, i can say this from my PS3 playthroughs of both games...that as far as origins goes it was for the women either Alistar or Leliana depending on how I felt about that character...and the men dated Leliana and Morrigan( if I was a human noble, which I mostly played as, I usually went from one of them to Anora at the landsmeet because as far as I was concerned my warden deserved to be and needed to be the king for all the hell he had to put up with in defeating the blight). I never actually romanced Zev, maybe I'll let one of my elven fems take him on the pc. DA 2...well, everyone is in play there EXCEPT Anders...this being because I mostly don't like him( his actions in Act 2 during his quest and Act 3 during his quest and at the end being the biggest contributors as well as the fact that I don't think he should have been in my game..since he is dead on some of my awakening files( done through the gibbed dragon age save editor).

[ladyshamen]

raz, I put off romancing Zev for a while because of his personality. However, when I did have a PC romance him, it turns out he is very sweet and dedicated. I was surprised at some of the things that happen. My straight males romanced Leliana.  If anyone wants a challenge, download the Ser Gilmore mod. ( for DA:O ) You don't get 'sexy time' with that man right off. And, some of the flirting lines are too funny!
Things like this are what's wrong with the romancing in DA2. There's not enough going on with your potential LI's. Just IMO. I want my campfire back!
                                                               

[raziel1980]

ladyshamen wrote...

raz, I put off romancing Zev for a while because of his personality. However, when I did have a PC romance him, it turns out he is very sweet and dedicated. I was surprised at some of the things that happen. My straight males romanced Leliana.  If anyone wants a challenge, download the Ser Gilmore mod. ( for DA:O ) You don't get 'sexy time' with that man right off. And, some of the flirting lines are too funny!
Things like this are what's wrong with the romancing in DA2. There's not enough going on with your potential LI's. Just IMO. I want my campfire back!
                                                               

You are correct...my biggest compalint about the game from a story perspective is ACT 3...outside of the DLC( which I save til then since dialog has people referring to you as the champion of kirkwall at that point)...this is clearly the worst act in the game, IMO. 

[TanyaT]

Zev's lovely to romance, very dedicated and sweet. Had him with both male and female.
Played once where I dumped him for Alistair, and he was very understanding, much more than the others had been ... a man of the world I guess! but obviously hurt.
He'll always be my second choice.
I never ever romance Morrigan, she's mean.

I missed being able to snuggle my squeeze in DA2



On the shopping line ... Merril would hate supermarkets, too crowded and what do people need all this stuff for????!!!!!

Morrigan would get excited about naff cheap mirrors, then be snippy forat the checkout for the suggestion she can't pack her own shopping

Isabela would draw rude things in books, and nick all the condoms

Sebastian would complain they weren't selling bibles, nor did they buy from his estates

Fenris would see most of the ready meals as mage production using slaves

Leliana would see it as a soulless place and go off to the town's local market

Ohgren would drink through the booze, chat up all the short women, belch over the fresh food, and beat up the checkout staff for making him pay

Sten would slowly taste all the cakes, and place the biscuits too high for fat kids to reach

Wynn would be practical and buy just what was necessary plus some really decent wine, but not like the place

Zevran .. well the workers would all be smitten by his smile, accent and lovely words, then they'd notice the security guards were gagged and bound in the toilets and all the valuable stuff was nicked (aided by Izzy)

Anders would be all angry about the exploitation of the workers (in the
stores and those producing the stuff) ... I think I'd help him blow up
Tescos

And Alistair <3 see above

[ladyshamen]

TanyaT- you make me laugh! I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks, "what would (insert character) do here, in this situation,ect.? I make up all kinds of stories in my head. Too bad I suck at writing.

[TanyaT]

ladyshamen wrote...

TanyaT- you make me laugh! I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks, "what would (insert character) do here, in this situation,ect.? I make up all kinds of stories in my head. Too bad I suck at writing.

If my head was connected to a recording device ... but would I want to share it all?

I'm now fretting over what they'll do to Alistair (if I read the snippet of the book I'm giving my man for whatevermas right), Bioware like to chuck us into deeply emotional situations.


Spouse was out on a ****** up last night (tiz the season) so what did I do instead of parcel wrapping and card writing? start a new game of Origins ...
I think I need to join DA Gamers Anonymous

[TanyaT]

ladyshamen wrote...

TanyaT- you make me laugh!

I do? wow!
thank you

[CuriousArtemis]

Fenris complaining about the mage production of ready made meals made me snort out loud LOL I rolled my eyes ... same way I do when I'm playing DA2 and he makes some huffy comment about mages ... AGAIN... LOL

Yeah, I'm obsessed, too. I recently started my fourth "official" playthrough. I have a couple others I started but probably won't finish, but I know I'll finish this one. I've another playthrough where I'm romancing Anders for the first time, and I'll probably finish that one, because I've developed a soft spot for the boy. In fact, despite always romancing Fenris, it was Anders who seems to tug at my heart the most ... maybe it's because *I* would more likely go for Anders, whereas my dashing Hawke can't resist his Fenbear.

[TanyaT]

I'm playing Origins again ..... my lunch hours are vanishing under darkspawn, evil plots, and Alistair's kisses

[ladyshamen]

A kiss from Alistair can brighten any day! I've seen movie's where people get 'sucked' into a book, I want to get sucked into game!

Fereldan, take me away !!!!

[Bayz]

For me is the consecuences of my actions what keep me coming, It kinda makes me want to screw up even more sometimes just to see how stuff burns and goes to hell...

Also the fact that I can decide (In Origins) the kind of character I want to play giving me more freedom of form, that kept me coming a big deal.

It's all about replayability that make games duhhh...replayeable

[TanyaT]

Bayz wrote...

For me is the consecuences of my actions what keep me coming, It kinda makes me want to screw up even more sometimes just to see how stuff burns and goes to hell...

when I know I'm going to do something that goes against everything I am in the real world, I always do a big save eg accepting Loghain into the wardens ugh that felt awful, really could not live with that, reloaded and got Alistair to kill him

I really want to get an old me back though, and play through slowly, but there doesn't seem to be a way. Typical that that was the only time I've started a game and not had a First save



back on the shopping front ...
buying cheese for the Christmas break from our farmers market,  tasted again ( freebies!) the  'WORLD CHAMPION CHEESE 2010' I prefer Roquefort myself, but got Alistair some anyway ...

then I had a Bambi burger, I'm sure Merril would disapprove ....