In Exile wrote...
You mean like being part of the greatest noble family in a kingdom, seeing it all raised to the ground [...] Only to have to rebuild your name and legacy
Rather than keeping the name and legacy you got simply for being born? Yeah, such a hardship.
Also, the whole "slaughtered family" is
such an over-used cliche that I can't even pretend to be invested. Even if I could, Cousland is not the only person to lose family and livelihood (not even by Howe, who also butchered and enslaved most of the Denerim Alienage), yet there are so many in Thedas who never had privilege to begin with, who still lose everything and never have the chance to regain what little they lost (since the law tends to look the other way for minority groups like mages, casteless, elves, slaves, etc. the way it never would for nobles), so my sympathy is still limited.
So I don't understand what you're complaining about, other than you want your humans to have pointy ears.
I don't want humans. I find humans bland and boring. I find human nobles insufferably annoying.
I find the two emotional hooks that BioWare uses to try to get players invested in their human nobles (slaughtered family and loss of privilege) to be uninvesting and unsympathetic. As I said, the old "slaughtered family" cliche is so over-used that I can't bring myself to care. As I said, I have so little sympathy for the privileged that I find the "lost privilege and need to regain it" scenario unsympathetic. Yet, they've shown up twice in both games and will likely appear again.
If pointy ears were all it took to be an elf, I wouldn't care as much. If elves had the same history, culture, and socio/economic position as humans, I wouldn't care as much. However, elves have different places in society and I like seeing the world from their perspective. I like the elves' society and culture and I like exploring their place in the world. I also like exploring dwarves' perspectives and (as I said earlier) I would LOVE the chance to explore the Qunari/Tal-Vashoth perspective.
You don't see what I'm "complaining" about? Let me make it clear: I love how DA:O gave us the chance to explore the perspectives of different characters from different racial, cultural, and socio/economic backgrounds. (The city elf happens to be my favorite, but I never would have known if I wasn't given the option to explore different origins.) However, I was disappointed and annoyed that they chose to dash the races and origins in favor of rehashing the same old "noble human loses privilege and family" formula for DA2. I am disappointed and annoyed that they will likely bring the formula back instead of bringing back the exploration of races and origins for DA3.
What's more, I am disappointed that they will be bringing back a race and likely an origin that we've already gotten in two games (because it wasn't original the first time), rather than exploring a new race or origin that we have not gotten get. We've all had the option to be humans; and elves and dwarves, (some enjoy them more than others), but not the Qunari/Tal-Vashoth. Many players are very interested in playing a kossith in addition to or instead of a human, but we only have the option to be a human (which we've already done before and which many aren't interested in) and not a kossith (which would be new, different, interesting, and worth exploring).
However, as much as I would love a kossith, I would just settle for getting elves and dwarves back. Because when all is said and done, I'm just not interested in human protagonists. I loved playing elves and dwarves, and I would love getting the chance to play them again.
Is that clear enough for you?
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