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[Divine Justinia V]

Do you also want Vivienne to gradually cut her nails? For purely practical reasons, of course.

 

No way, I prefer them long. Like mini daggers.

[Kimarous]

What sort of character development do I want? I have absolutely no idea... I don't know who the cast consists of and what the games events are going to be. How are we to make expectations for factors we know way too little about?

 

I will say this: I don't want another Anders. By that, I mean "somebody who you have to keep around despite obviously becoming more unstable and eventually triggering a scenario where you wish you could have killed him (in-game) years before."

[Hrungr]

As they're not all going to be romance options, I'd like to see a companion who has a spouse and children of their own which you could visit now and again. And how the Fade events and the Inquisition affects them. I think it helps ground the game if you get a chance to relax with "normal" people once and a while and get their opinions on the events.

 

I'd also like to see companion(s) either have hobbies or unusual skills or talents or develop them over the course of the game. I like seeing companions who have fun/odd interests outside of combat.

[Cainhurst Crow]

Due to myself having a bit of an obsession with things being orderly, I prefer my character development to be somewhat incremental, occurring in critical stages or plot points. I enjoy characters starting out one way, going through situations, going into a period of self-questioning, finding an epiphany, and then coming out to their final stage of the development in the game. It's completely formulaic, I admit that fully, but it's what I kinda appreciate. I do have a lot of room though for what can go into those stages, and I'm willing to have some stages skipped, moved around a bit, or repeated as needed. Because as much as I like characters changing over time, usually softening the harder and more rough around the edges folks into decent people again, I do also enjoy characters who stay consistent as well, not changing really but more reorienting themselves to accomplish my goal. I like having both types of characters in the party because I feel it adds a bit of variety and interesting conflict to the story, if handled correctly.

 

Both mass effect and dragon age has characters from both camps, and I am torn between bringing up a mass effect or a dragon age example. For now I believe I will bring up a dragon age example.

 

Sten is the type of character who I would consider to have a, what I call, average character development cycle. He starts off distant and distrustful, slowly goes through trials and hardships with the warden, comes to a crisis point when he tells you about his sword, gains an epiphany or moment of clarity once he has his sword again, and becomes a different person by the end of it, regarding the warden in a completely new light, along with the outside world in general. He still remains the same character we know and love, but he has undergone some fundamental shifts in his personality and essentially softened up from his previous harshness.

 

Then you have characters like Oghren, who remain pretty much the same throughout the game campaign. I will say this now, I like Oghren, but he could get pretty annoying at times. His character development, was pretty much stationary, with him starting out as a drunk dwarf warrior willing to fight by the wardens side and ending as a drunk dwarf warrior willing to fight by the wardens side. But damn if there weren't moments throughout the game where you see generally what makes oghren a good character, that being his blatant honesty with both himself, the warden, and the world around him, even if that honesty is both vulgar and comedically idiotic at times. No better does this show then when you bring him to the ashes of andraste, and see just how brutal he is in assessing himself, and how he doesn't let the guardian get in an inch on him.

 

Of course, this can go easily wrong as well, so very, very, wrong, as dragon age two could demonstrate. However, I think that it just depends on the actual character and how thye are written, with there being positives and negatives to either one.

[Star fury]

I found her, and most of the cast of Mass Effect, for that matter, to be pretty dull. With the exception of Kaidan, Liara and Mordin.

 

 

LMAO. You probably liked his voice too.

[Mockingword]

LMAO. You probably liked his voice too.

I didn't hate it.

 

I was genuinely interested in his backstory, and disappointed that we didn't get much of it. But his relationship with Shepard is quite well-developed, I feel, especially if romanced.

 

I guess the same goes for Ashley, since they share content, but I nuked her ass, so I'll never know.

[KC_Prototype]

I liked the Miranda character development and story arch all the way until the less than satisfying romance in ME3(I can't forgive Bioware for that! I'm sorry, I just can't!) and I also liked Isabella's, Morrigan's and Leliana's so like those and we're fine.

[Snook]

"I am a cold-hearted ice queen. I hate friendship. I'm like a character development pinata. Crack me open damnit. Crack me!"

[JoltDealer]

Miranda was someone who hated, yet embraced her genetically engineered "perfection."  She believed that every bit of the person she was at the start of Mass Effect 2 was due to her father.  By the end of the game, she had finally learned that she was more than that.  I guess the easiest way to describe it, was that she learned she had a heart and soul that made her who she was.  Not one bit of her father's tinkering could have been responsible for that.  However, with that said, her character development was far from perfect.

 

As for character development in Dragon Age Inquisition, I think we'll be seeing plenty.  Bioware games always have well-written characters with their own individual plots that progress over the course of a game.  I would like to see more stories like Aveline's, who rose through the ranks and eventually found love and happiness once again.