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I thought about this topic a bit more and:
My biggest reason for playing as a human would be that they are neutral spectators in the conflicts
I think you just described perfectly why I don't want to play humans.
I don't want to be a neutral spectator that sits back and watches other people care while mine doesn't. I want to be challenged, invigorated, and impassioned when I role-play. I want to explore other fantasy cultures from the perspective of someone in it, not sit back and watch from the perspective of an outside. I want to feel personally invested in the conflicts around me, not passively sit back.
If I want to neutrally sit back and watch conflict without feeling personally invested, I'd watch a movie. Movies are a neutral medium that requires people to just watch. Games are a very interactive medium, and role-playing games (generally) have you create a character whose shoes you walk into as they explore, interact with, and change aspects of a fictional world. If I'm going to play a character who's part of and creates changes in a fictional world, I want to feel as invested as possible, not just feel like my character is going through the motions because the script says so.
Like the Human Noble in DA:O he visits all these different places the Dalish camp, Orzammar but he isn't really personally involved in themIts more like a clean slate in most matters where there are several parties involved and he gets to know both of them on a neutral basis
BO-RING!
At least in my opinion.
In contrast by choosing a Dalish Elf you have this huge backstory and you basically have to hate humans and like the Dalish or as a Dwarven Noble you have to give a **** about Orzammar and the politics there and as a Qunari Vashoth you also have this whole culture historyand If you play them more normal like a Human well whats the point then( meaning that as a Dalish Elf you don't give a **** about the Dalish)
Hell even as a Human Mage you are deeply invested in the Mages vs Templars conflict
Not necessarily. You're more emotionally invested because you were born and raised among this culture, but you don't have to feel passionately involved in it the way the game says you should. You don't have to "hate humans" or love the Dalish, you don't have to give a **** about Orzammar politics (especially since both origins ended with you nearly being executed by your society at large), and involve you . I think a huge part of the fun is looking at these cultures and values, create a character from it, and explore how this culture affected your character and affects how they feel about it and others today.
Besides, it's not like if you play an elf, dwarf, or mage, you suddenly feel more invested in every conflict than you do as a human. Dalish might invested in the Dalish and possibly other elves, but not also Orzammar, the mage/Templar, Ferelden politics, etc. Dwarf to Orzammar but not Dalish, mage/Templar, Ferelden politics, etc. None more than a human noble who feels invested in avenging their family and sorting out Ferelden politics, but doesn't care about other cultural conflicts.
Actually, now that I think on this, isn't it a tad hypocritical? If you play a human noble, doesn't that mean you're required to feel sad when the Couslands die, want to regain your family's privilege, hate and want to get revenge on Arl Howe, and give two shits about Ferelden and the politics therein? And if you play Hawke in DA2, doesn't that mean you have to care about your family, have to feel sad when the first sibling dies, have to want to regain the family mansion (****** greedy Leandra), have to feel torn up when Leandra's killed, have to care what happens to Kirkwall since you're now a privileged noble living in Hightown, etc?. And since Hawke's father was a mage and has one mage sibling, doesn't that mean you're required to feel invested in the mage/Templar conflict?
It's not like the Dalish, Orzammar dwarves, and mages are the ONLY ONES with some personal investment in the things you encounter in-game. And it's not like they necessarily have more personal investment in more cultures than the human noble (unless you're an elf, I guess) since being part of the Dalish, Orzammar, Circle, etc. is any more than being part of the Ferelden human nobility. Every character from every background has some connection to said background and culture. Unless you want to play an emotionally detached sociopath (which you can do with any character of any race), odds are there's some faction in the game your character is supposed to feel some connection to.
I personally just can't connect to the Andrastian human culture or human nobility.
I suppose thats why I always pick a human warrior, Picking a Human Mage is basically like another race with way too much baggageSo a Human Warrior or Rouge (it doesn't really matter in terms of story) is the right choice for me
I know that again like in Origins (where I always picked human noble I tried the others but never even went to Lothering) I will miss much of the replay value but what can you do?
I'm sorry, I'm not trying to be offensive, but I just don't understand how apathy and detachment is a good thing.
Why go through a game if you don't care about what's going on around you?
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