To iterate the type of connection I speak
Morrigan - As most who would be reading this sub-forum know, in origins, morrigans was a troubled woman full of conflicting emotions regarding what her mother taught her to feel and what the warden opened her to feeling.
For me, she conveyed feelings of pity and remorse for what she had unjustly endured, which triggered a want to show her the world isn't as drab as her mother had made it out to be.
Further down the line after learning about that business with flemeth, I wanted to be her Aegis, to stand between her and the world as Harvard did with maferath. But not out of some sense of righteousness or because I wanted to kill some demon but because after all the immersive talks and comradery, I had grown to love her as sister.
Post-flemeth somethings off about the character... her dialogue tends to drown out those feelings more and more as the character doesn't really refer to... Au well I'm going off topic... anyways.
Everyone else in origins Sten, oghren, alistair, leliana, ect didn't convey those family bonds for me.The emotional connection never went past loyal comrads or romantic partner.leliana does make a comment on how she's found a new family with the warden and her comrads but there was no trace of family there.
In short whoever wrote morrigan was onto that familia feeling I speak of but they dropped the ball mid-to post game.However there is a powerful scene which was written by gaider and cut from the game (can't understand why) which conveys that sisterly love between morrigan and femwarden spectacularly.
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Dragon age 2 - Bethany just proves that such emotional bonds can't be made, they must be forged.Whether friendship or rivalry, I never loved bethany.She was a very well written character, don't get me wrong but she lacked that certain depth where 2 people are ready to sacrifice everything to protect one another.
Bioware tried to force that at the end with a warden bethany, but she'd been gone most of the game, we hadn't struggled together so I didn't care at that point.
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Kaidan/Femshep - brother/sister
Kaidan/Femshep - platonic goodbye - The brother/sister love portrayed between these two friends showed me what deep emotionally compelling writing really was.There simply are no words to convey the emotional storm that pulls you with these two.Better than any romance I've expierenced in a bioware game and I play them mostly for that aspect.
I don't want more best friends in Da3, I want a family, and not one through blood but one I can earn myself via my companions, but I doubt Da3 or any rpg anytime soon will sate my emotional demands in their writing.I'm hoping the writers of the DA team have it in them but one character (that got botched) in 2 games isn't leaving me alot of hope.
Modifié par Emzamination, 12 novembre 2012 - 11:09 .
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but really i agree with you nice post.
your co-worker, c) ally because of a common goal, d) LI, e) friend. Dialogue should be nuanced enough to choose different paths that lead to one or another. Problem is so far we get the insane party banter (some are great, but lots are sooooo childish). I'd never see most of them realistically happening. And then most of the convos just lead to friend/rival and nothing in between.... with much of the deep stuff happening when your companion becomes an LI.
