I'm not sure who it was...Maybe Gaider, but someone from Bioware said that you weren't supposed to care about the first sibling death. It was merely a way to balance the classes and provide incentive to replay the game. You were probably supposed to care the second time around when the sibling you played through the game with on your first run died.
Agency and Choice: What DA2 Lacked and DA3 Must Have
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#27
Posté 06 août 2011 - 03:19
CrimsonZephyr
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Zanallen wrote...
I'm not sure who it was...Maybe Gaider, but someone from Bioware said that you weren't supposed to care about the first sibling death. It was merely a way to balance the classes and provide incentive to replay the game. You were probably supposed to care the second time around when the sibling you played through the game with on your first run died.
You know, that brings up another point: redundancy. It would have been nice to have an extra 2-hander or an extra mage. The skillsets for each party member were divided too inflexibly. Anders is a healbot, Merrill is a glass cannon, Aveline is a tank, Isabela is DPS, etc and that is all they will ever be. Compare this to DA:O where each character had at least an alternate viable build. Then, come the endgame where party members start dropping like flies, having Bethany around to heal because Anders is dead sounds pretty good, or having Carver around because Fenris ditched you.
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#28
Posté 06 août 2011 - 03:35
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The Male Human Noble is my favourite origin in DAO because of the Landsmeet part. I used my family's connections to turn the Bannorn against Loghain, arranged my marriage to Anora, spare Loghain to gain the loyalty of his armies, get Alistair exiled and completely ruin Eamon and Loghain's plans for my personal benefit and it is awesome. That one sequence where everything comes together and I get put in charge of Ferelden's army as Prince-Consort makes everything else in the game worth it. Even more than killing the Archdemon, that is the one epic moment of triumph that I look forward to when I play DAO.
Hawke never gets anything like this. Hawke never uses his/her money, status or title as Champion to achieve anything. The game teases that Hawke could become viscount in Act 3, but it never happens in the game. There's no moment where Hawke uses his political connections to support the templars against the blood mages as Kirkwall is being torn apart by abominations and demons. There's no moment where uses his status and popularity to rally the population against the corrupt templars and bring hope and freedom to the mages.
There's just one decision where you decide which faction you're going to wipe out. And then the faction you support turns against you and you have to kill them all anyway.
Hawke never gets anything like this. Hawke never uses his/her money, status or title as Champion to achieve anything. The game teases that Hawke could become viscount in Act 3, but it never happens in the game. There's no moment where Hawke uses his political connections to support the templars against the blood mages as Kirkwall is being torn apart by abominations and demons. There's no moment where uses his status and popularity to rally the population against the corrupt templars and bring hope and freedom to the mages.
There's just one decision where you decide which faction you're going to wipe out. And then the faction you support turns against you and you have to kill them all anyway.
