RangerSG wrote...
1) Nothing in the epilogue for the PC you romance says you're together all the time on every single adventure the rest of your lives with ANYONE. So please, even IF Ali/Leliana/Zev are not in the expansion, don't assume without knowing this means that they're gone, or dead, or your choices didn't matter. Unless they change the epilogues, that just is not so. And if they do, play it through with a new PC and leave that ending for the old one.
It's a major part of your characters story, and considering they say that they want the expansion to reflect your characters story and decisions from Origins it would seem like a rather glaring omission. I'm one of the people who likes the idea of moving away from the old party member's and creating a fresh batch, but at the same time I do think something that was such an integral part in your characters development in the first game should be completely ignored. It'd just feel odd that the man/woman you swore your undying love to a few years ago doesn't get a single mention let alone an a cameo.
2) Even IF the romance partner isn't joinable as a full party member all game long, there's nothing to say there can't be conversations or something else to allude to the relationship. It is a LONG leap from saying "This NPC is not in the party" to, "we're re-writing the story to trash your choices." Why do people insist that 1=2?
Agree.
3) Oghren is NOT confirmed. You can make a red-haired dwarf pretty easily. But even if he is, if you're going down the Deep Roads, who else would you take? From a story perspective, it makes sense. But we don't KNOW it's Oghren yet. So speculating without confirmation is pretty silly.
There's a screenshot floating in a couple of threads that show Oghren's face from a sideshot, combine that with the fact that Oghren is one of two character who you cannot kill, cannot chase away by a decision, and even if you refuse him, kick him out, or actually manage to make him hate you enough, all of his epilogues keep him in Fereldan with no vanishing act. He kind of makes the perfect character to bring back for a party member, easy and safe.
4) It does say something about the quality of writing that people are all wrapped up about losing their pixel romance partner.
And yes, Leliana makes me melt too. hehe But as long as I don't see what happened to Aribeth and Sharwen in HotU, I'll be fine. And given the amount of time invested in the characters of DA vs those two...I think it unlikely that your romance partner is going to be thrown into a ditch. Most likely you'll see them or chat with them or maybe even have to save them from a disaster, who knows?
I don't know, death and distress is always a good way to spicen up a story.
It'll be interesting to see if/how they incorporate some of these old companions and their romance if it was done. From a technological standpoint alone this expansion is going to be interesting to see, let alone the story and gameplay aspects.
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