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[Xilizhra]

While Meredith definitely needed more screentime in Act 3, I still prefer Act 3 simply because we all understand the issues in it, and that understanding was never left out of the game. In Act 2, the trouble is that while there are boatloads of reasons to actually work against the qunari threat, none of them are adequately brought up. You can never sympathize with that one elf about qunari cultural imperialism, never worry about the Saarebas and about the fate the qunari would inflict on all mages if they won here, never contemplate if Kirkwall could just be used as a stepping stone to larger conquests in the Free Marches. And the only way to actively side against them is practically an easter egg and only available to one personality type, something that was never a factor in any other choice.
Additionally, while I quite like Petrice as a character (and in voice and appearance, admittedly), she spent too much time talking about "eternity." The whole religious fanaticism angle was already used in the mage/templar conflict, and shouldn't have been the only focus here. Her line about you having not seen what the qunari had done to their conquered northern territories should have been expanded upon instead, and given the other side of the qunari problem some more real reasons for existing.

[dragonflight288]

Hmmm. You may have a point about the religious fanaticism. I can see a more political movement by the nobles scheming against Dumar and Meredith, thus giving Merdith more screen-time in the political arena, as these backstabbing nobles try to provoke the Qunari in an attempt to discredit Dumar. Only, they let it go too far and end up killed because they underestimate the Qunari War Machine.

[Xilizhra]

It's true, the nobility never does much in this game.

More than anything else, with so much of this game being about mages, I wish the Saarebas thing had been better explored.

[TEWR]

The nobility are lemmings.

And Act 2 should've connected to Meredith's (and only Meredith's) zeal and fanaticism by using the Saarebas mages. Have her think that the way they control their mages is great and ask them if they deal with abominations. The Arishok could say that every once in a while it happens unexpectedly, but very rarely.

[Xilizhra]

That'd be an interesting angle to add, certainly. If she ever left the Gallows to talk to anyone, at any rate.

[TEWR]

to be honest, I actually don't even mind Petrice's fanaticism. It's that she and her group of zealots were the only ones working against the Qunari. I would've tried to make her work with the nobility. Both political and religious groups working to oust the Qunari.

Modifié par The Ethereal Writer Redux, 14 août 2011 - 05:53 .

[Xilizhra]

I liked Petrice, I just wanted her to say more about what the qunari actually did. As it is, only codex-readers really pick up on it.

[TEWR]

that seems to be a major problem with the game. It relies far too heavily on the codex.

[Xilizhra]

The Ethereal Writer Redux wrote...

that seems to be a major problem with the game. It relies far too heavily on the codex.

Especially with the Enigma of Kirkwall. Huge plot point, never directly brought up.

[TEWR]

indeed. You only get a few tiny glimpses into the Enigma throughout the game, and that's in Sebastian's Act 2 quest.

I found it funny that a codex in Legacy tried to explain the Enigma of Kirkwall codex by saying Corypheus might be to blame. Or something like that if I'm remembering correctly.

[miraclemight]

It tried to blame the high number of blood mages, sadistic Templars and generally insane people of Kirkwall on Corypheus' presence...

Personally, I would like it more if it turns out to be caused by the high amount of Lyrium in water or in the land - Anything but Corypheus. No matter how powerful and ancient, he was once a man. And a man is not as unknown or enigmatic as an Old God or a strange magical substance to the players.

Let's not make a magister someone like Sauron please, okay?