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[Orian Tabris]

Between the ages of 19 and 29. At least at the start of the game.

[Henioo]

25

[The Hierophant]

Filament wrote...

BouncyFrag wrote...

I just want this:

+1

(Obligatory Auron post)

[grumpymooselion]

If we're going to be starting at level 1, or some low level, the protagonist shouldn't be middle-aged or higher. It never makes sense to have a 'supposedly' well aged character who needs to level up to figure out how to put on his pants. Having gotten that old, but having next to no experience, makes zero sense. Zero sense.

This is why RPGs tend to work better with younger protagonists ranger from their teens to twenty-somethings. It makes more sense that they're still learning and growing in experience. Every time I see someone make an aged, wise looking character with a long white beard in a game that starts off at level 1 and can't even use a basic ability I cringe. I really cringe.

The absolute last thing I want to see is the main character be in their 30s, 40s, 50s or older. Again, it makes no sense to have a character so old that never, ever, starts with the experience that would be associated with that age. Having a character in his or her 30s/40s who is level one and doesn't even know basic abilities is completely ridiculous, and it takes me out of the setting so hard I get whiplash. Suspension of disbelief is absolutely destroyed when you make a 50 something character, that's, say, a mage and has been in the circle for years but doesn't know more than one or two absurdly basic spells. Ridiculous.

If you're going to start us out at level 1, with very basic abilities, make the character a teen to a twenty-something. That's the only way I'll buy the character not knowing basic abilities and skills, and even that's stretching it.

Topsider wrote...

KainD wrote...

Topsider wrote...

I
wonder how many people would play a character who is 50+ years? Ageism
is one of those "isms" that rarely gets mentioned - sexism and racism
are the usual suspects - but a reasonably young and attractive protag is
expected, especially female. No wrinkled war veterans or old
battle-axes, please.

That's because people want
to make their OWN characters from scratch. 50 year old would have a huge
preset life with a very preset character. 

I doubt
people make attractive young characters for that reason alone. Maybe the
protag is a 50 year old farmer that never fought a battle in his/her
life? They would be starting from scratch.

No, it's about appearance - it always is really. Everyone wants their character to look 'nice'. I'm guilty of that myself.

If the farmer is 50 years old, and has no experience, something is very wrong and it makes even less sense for them to be doing anything like the Warden or Hawke did. Not to mention making nearly zero sense that people would listen to him.

Modifié par Janan Pacha, 21 mars 2013 - 12:24 .

[aphelion4]

Preferably young, early twenties. :3

[omgodzilla]

What if they made the game span over multiple years? ALOT of years, not just 10 like in DA2. What if you started off as a noob in your late teens and by the end of the game, you're a hardened veteran in your late 40s? As the game progresses, you see your character aging, kinda like what they did with Ezio in Assassin's Creed.Its probably too complicated to implement a system like this but it for me it would be the most ideal solution.

Or I guess they can probably just give us multiple backgrounds/origins with atleast one where the PC is an older person. Maybe they could also give it a unique default model, or it could just be the same default model as the other origins with the added addition of wrinkles, scars and greying hair.

The thing is, I don't just want a guy that simply looks like he's old, I actually want characters in the game to acknowledge his age and experience. I wanna be the wise old wizard in the group for once...

[DragonAgeLegend]

Does this matter? We get to change how they look anyway, so we can make them look whatever age we want (almost) I'm sure they'd act maturely anyway.

[Topsider]

Janan Pacha wrote...

Topsider wrote...

KainD wrote...

Topsider wrote...

I
wonder how many people would play a character who is 50+ years? Ageism
is one of those "isms" that rarely gets mentioned - sexism and racism
are the usual suspects - but a reasonably young and attractive protag is
expected, especially female. No wrinkled war veterans or old
battle-axes, please.

That's because people want
to make their OWN characters from scratch. 50 year old would have a huge
preset life with a very preset character. 

I doubt
people make attractive young characters for that reason alone. Maybe the
protag is a 50 year old farmer that never fought a battle in his/her
life? They would be starting from scratch.

No, it's about appearance - it always is really. Everyone wants their character to look 'nice'. I'm guilty of that myself.

If the farmer is 50 years old, and has no experience, something is very wrong and it makes even less sense for them to be doing anything like the Warden or Hawke did. Not to mention making nearly zero sense that people would listen to him.

Experience does not mean skilled in combat. A farmer would know how to farm, not kill Darkspawn - even if he/she is 50 years old. No different to someone who's 20. But the older person would get more respect and be listened to, unless the youngster is a noble or something. That happens in the real world too.

In DA3's case, assuming our protag is the Inquisition leader, does a twenty year old make sense? 

[Neoleviathan]

I would like seeing a player character in their 40-50's. I think it'd fit alright, plenty of powerful elderly people even in Dragon Age so don't see why a middle aged person would be any less combat efficient than a character in their twenties. And with a name like Inquisitor I think it would just look right. We'll probably get the option in character creator atleast. But it should create the potential for some awesome voice actors to come in, and the potential for the types of lines they could have the character say. Would be good.


 Good voice actors are the best reason to support older characters. Imagine if they brought Martin Sheen back to voice the Player Character? Epic! So many that would be good.

Modifié par Neoleviathan, 21 mars 2013 - 08:57 .

[Fredward]

Topsider wrote...
In DA3's case, assuming our protag is the Inquisition leader, does a twenty year old make sense?

If the Inquisition is a newly created thing and the protag did something suitably awesome then yes. Or maybe he/she was born into power and privelige and got shoved into the position and now has to prove him/herself. But I think a good halfway point is 25-28 cuz then the protag isn't so young that it makes absolutely no sense for them to be in charge of anything and while they would still have some backstory it wouldn't feel like most of their life is over and there's no going back to change it.

[Chaos Lord Malek]

If we are to lead Inquisition then at least 35+. If we are nobody at the beginning, then it doesn't matter much.

[DarkSpiral]

Hm.

The starting age will probably be late 20's, early thirties at most.
What I'd really like to see is the character actually grow older. Granted, we have no clue how much time is going to pass in DA:I. But its a little "bell and whistle" I would enjoy.

[HolyAvenger]

Old enough to know better, young enough not to care.

[otis0310]

Old enough to be able to drive a car. Young enough to still be able to drive a car.

[SgtElias]

I think the protagonist's age should be (where possible) determined by the player. I usually start pairing characters with random bits of backstory anyway; if I have to alter it when the game presents me with info, I'm usually pretty cool with that.

So, if I wanted to make a character in their 40's or 50's, I'd have no problem creating a backstory for them, under some circumstances. This would have been difficult to do in DA2, but not impossible.

I always play characters between about 19 and 30, but that might not always be the case. Especially after I actually turn 30.

[Fast Jimmy]

otis0310 wrote...

Old enough to be able to drive a car. Young enough to still be able to drive a car.

As long as my character can be crazy enough to steal a car and drive it off a cliff, then that's all that matters to me.

[MichaelStuart]

I would like to be able to choose our age the same way we choose our gender.
If this is not a option I would prefer playing as a old character for once.

[Little Princess Peach]

I would like to see the pc grow in age as the story continues but alas I doubt Bioware could pull it off

[K_Tabris]

The option was given to us in DA2, so I don't see how this will be s problem for them if they incorporate something like the Black Emporium again.

[Fishy]

KainD wrote...

Topsider wrote...

I wonder how many people would play a character who is 50+ years? Ageism is one of those "isms" that rarely gets mentioned - sexism and racism are the usual suspects - but a reasonably young and attractive protag is expected, especially female. No wrinkled war veterans or old battle-axes, please.

That's because people want to make their OWN characters from scratch. 50 year old would have a huge preset life with a very preset character. 

Such things work outside RPG's, like.. Starcraft 2 for example, both Raynor and Kerrigan, main characters are in their mid or late thirties, and are mature, but you don't roleplay them. 

Hmm . Raynor is easily mid forties actually. Kerrigan is younger.. Shepard age range seem to be reasonable .. Young enough to shape his story and old enough for some experience behind his belt.

Modifié par Suprez30, 21 mars 2013 - 01:00 .

[Harle Cerulean]

I think that depends entirely on how many stupid questions our PC has to ask. If they're doing things like asking city elves "So why do you live in the alienage if it's so dirty and poor?" then I hope they're no older than eight or nine, because that's about the experience range where such a question stops being understandable and starts making me wonder if someone hit my PC on the head very hard and gave them permanent brain damage.

Modifié par Harle Cerulean, 21 mars 2013 - 01:15 .

[Jessihatt]

I think most people want an age similar to theirs.
Personally, I'd want a early 20s protagonist (in my last month of being a teenager).

I wouldn't want to play as mid 30s or older, purely out of choice, but if it was the only option, I'd still play. Obviously:P

Modifié par CommanderJessica, 21 mars 2013 - 01:18 .

[Bekkael]

HolyAvenger wrote...

Old enough to know better, young enough not to care.

Bekkael wrote...

Old enough to know better, but young enough not to care.

It seems we share similar views on the matter.