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[Slow Motion FTW]

I can't really put my finger on why I prefer human characters.

 

It does make me feel boring though.

 

This, this, this!

 

I restarted Origins so many times trying to play the game differently. I wanted to beat the game with each origin and with each race but I've only ever done it as human. Everytime I play as a dwarf or an elf, I immediately get the sense that I'm doing it wrong and, no matter how times I try to convince myself to try and play as an elf or dwarf, I always revert back to a human.

 

It's a shame I feel that way because I'm missing out on a different way to play the game. Sure, not much changes but there are references, dialogue and certain events I'm missing out on because I can only play as a human..

[Lucijenifer]

I can't help but feel that there's no reason to make a Qunari Inquisitor, considering they're Vashoth. It doesn't really open up any new avenues or allow me to explore the Qunari any further than I already have, as the character has no connection to them. It's just a differently shaped body belonging to someone with no connection to the rest of their race.

 

I'll admit, I'm guilty of falling into the human/elf preference that everyone else has.

[Gtdef]

I can't help but feel that there's no reason to make a Qunari Inquisitor, considering they're Vashoth. It doesn't really open up any new avenues or allow me to explore the Qunari any further than I already have, as the character has no connection to them. It's just a differently shaped body belonging to someone with no connection to the rest of their race.

 

I'll admit, I'm guilty of falling into the human/elf preference that everyone else has.

 

Exactly my thoughts when I heard that the Qunari will be Vashoth. I thought to give it a try because the Qun is one of the high points of the games but Vashoth either means that the Qunari will be a human with horns, or at best that it has some extra side quests. Not important enough.

 

Add to that that I think the protagonists in da games are written using a human archetype, I too don't see any reason to do it.

[NRieh]

 

It's a shame I feel that way because I'm missing out on a different way to play the game.

I don't see it as any sort of "shame". We are what we are and we love different things. As for DAI options - I'm still not sure that a human with a pickable background is any worse than preset races. You could've been (let's say) a merchant, a farmer, a politic, a mage or a templar. Now all those who play humans (whch are many) don't have a choice anymore, and those who love playing other races are also tied to the presets (like Tal Vashoth-only qunari, dalish-only elf etc.)

[Dean_the_Young]

People pick human because they are human?

[fchopin]

If i like the game then i try all the options out so it depends on how good the game is.

[Nefla]

If people pick human just because they're human in real life, I wonder how many people make fat/very skinny characters (in games that let you) if they are fat or very skinny in real life? Or in games that let you choose your approach to a situation like DE:HR, how many people try to convince the other party to leave peacefully or sneak around hostiles because in real life most of us would not go in somewhere guns blazing, we'd be like the shopkeeper that wets themselves when robbers come in. It just seems like a weird reason to me, I'm me in real life and my real life is boring. I don't want to be me in a game too

[SerCambria358]

I can't help but feel that there's no reason to make a Qunari Inquisitor, considering they're Vashoth. It doesn't really open up any new avenues or allow me to explore the Qunari any further than I already have, as the character has no connection to them. It's just a differently shaped body belonging to someone with no connection to the rest of their race.

 

I'll admit, I'm guilty of falling into the human/elf preference that everyone else has.

Who's to say the qunari character wont have very close ties to the qun through family? Who's to say that being qunari wont allow us to interact with Qunari opening up new info about their philosophy. There's too much we dont know to just declare that we wont learn anything because we're Vashoth

[Little Princess Peach]

I have no idea where you got that notion from I always always play as an elf/mage combo

and I like playing as a diffrent race makes the game seem slightly diffrent

[Oswin]

I love to create and experiment with different characters in both race, personality and gender. I have nothing against playing as a human, but I find giving me more races just gives so much more re-playability in a game I know I will run through a lot. 

 

Interesting to see that many people pick human's because of the 'I am human' factor. I've never really found myself feeling all too similar to my dainty female Wardens or Hawke. Give me a short, broad and sarcastic (with hints of aggression) dwarf and there I shall find my kin.

 

Personally I'm not a fan of projecting myself into a character (bits of my personality will always happen though). If I played every character as my true self, then nothing would get done, they'd always be angry and the Chantry would be thoroughly screwed.

Worst. Character. Ever.

[zambingo]

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The human Noble may have Access to marrying Alistair or Anora and become King/Queen, but I do not regard this as the best Ending. Especially since Alistair seems happier if he's unhardened and a Grey Warden. Why is it the best Ending and the best Content, if we make him do something he doesn't want and corrupt his Personality.

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Hardening Alistair isn't corrupting his personality. It's more akin to Alistair going from a youth to an adult in his thought process.

[Feybrad]

Hardening Alistair isn't corrupting his personality. It's more akin to Alistair going from a youth to an adult in his thought process.

 

Well, YMMV, but I felt it would be corrupting his Personality, especially in a Playtrough where I romanced him. His Naiveté and Sweetness are something precious compared to all the Cynicism Thedas has to offer. He loses that a little bit after being hardened and I always feel that that is a sad Thing.

[KainD]

I personally like to play more delicate males, and human default model when no body sliders exist are too beefy for my taste, so I play elves.

[badboy64]

I am gonna pick all races and classes first and decide what race and class if good for me after that. I only play females 99% of the time. BTW I am a 50 male gamer too.

[Spectre Impersonator]

I'll be a qunari on the first go-around but lots of people play it more than once. Stats show the majority won't actually complete the game but surely there is still a significant portion who like to go through it again and see the differences another race, gender, and fighting class bring to the game (I can't be the only one). Besides, some people just like messing with the character creator. Most people in Skyrim chose Nord, I believe, but there were tons of other things to be and it was fun to mess around with different appearance possibilities.

 

I fully intend to play as every race, gender, and class at least once. Allowing us to combine these factors in different, unexpected ways makes it experimental and fun.

[NedPepper]

I'll probably be going human the first time around.  Mainly because I already have a character in mind, and human works the best for him.  But I will probably play this game many times, so having other races will make it much more interesting to play multiple playthroughs.

 Also, it kind of doesn't make sense to play a Qunari or a Dwarf  or a Dalish elf in the context of what we know this story to be. Maybe that will change once we know a little more.  But I just can't see why a dwarf or Qunari would be leading the Inquisition over a mage/templar war and an Orlesian Civil War.  Or even the Fade being ripped open and demons pouring out.  Seems like very human problems.

I remember in Skyrim playing as an Orc and it just didn't seem to work.  It felt forced.
 

[NedPepper]

Maybe it's because the sky ripped open, countless demons have been flooding the world, and you have to get the powers of the world (mages, Chantry, Orlais, etc.) to stop fighting each other and deal with the ACTUAL danger before it's too late? It's not like demons are only attacking humans, so all the other races just need to sit back, eat popcorn, and wait till humans are picked off so they can resume control of the world. This problem affects everyone, so the every Inquisitor of every race has something to gain from this.

 

I mean, for the Creators' sake. Dealing with human politics is just a means to an end. You don't have to care or feel personally invested to want to get them to stop fighting so you can get their help with a much bigger problem. In DA:O, does the Warden have to be a mage to feel motivated to solve the Broken Circle quest? Do you need to be a dwarf to feel motivated to settle Orzammar's succession crisis? A Dalish to solve the werewolf crisis? A human noble to want to end the Ferelden civil war and find a politically stable replacement for Loghain so the nobles will stop fighting each other and focus on the darkspawn? No! You need these people's help to fight the Blight, and since they're too busy fighting each other, you roll your eyes, solve it for them, then make them make time to help you.

 

I get the feeling it'll be similar with the Inquisitor.

I'm not completely disagreeing with you. In Origins, my favorite playthrough was as a Dwarven Noble.  Because out of all my characters, he was the only one I felt ENJOYED being a Warden.  It's all about how the races are implemented into the game.  I got value out of playing every race in Origins.  My Human Noble used being a Warden as a way to become King.  My Mage used the Wardens as a way to get close to Alistair in a Jafar like way of influencing him to benefit mages.  (Almost like what Morrigan seems to be doing with Celene.)  My city elf lost Alistair and ended up going off with Sten to join the Qun.  She was a more of a tragic character.  My point is that Origins gave you an organization to join that wasn't completely human-centric and allowed some role playing leeway.  I don't really now if Inquistion will allow that leeway or not.

And as a writer of fiction, I like to use analogues of characters I have created to role play (although after many playthroughs of Origins and DA2, I'm running out of characters).  The one I was saving for this game fits best as a human.  That's the main reason I'm going human first.  But, as I said, I plan on playing every race.  I'm certainly not opposed to race selection.

[In Exile]

I can't help but feel that there's no reason to make a Qunari Inquisitor, considering they're Vashoth. It doesn't really open up any new avenues or allow me to explore the Qunari any further than I already have, as the character has no connection to them. It's just a differently shaped body belonging to someone with no connection to the rest of their race.

 

I'll admit, I'm guilty of falling into the human/elf preference that everyone else has.

 

The rest of Thedas doesn't know that distinction. To them, you are qunari. Also, if there are any qunari we meet in game, to them you're an apostate. 

[Loup Blanc]

Because they are much, much easier to relate to. At least for 80% of players.

[Navasha]

There are a few ways people tend to approach making a character in RPGs.  

 

In the first camp, you have the people who like to portray themselves as the hero.   They will almost always pick human and the same gender as they are in real life.

 

In the second camp, you have the people who like to create a character that belongs in the story.   This is a fantasy character wholly separate from the player.   Usually the more exotic the better too, so they tend to pick non-humans.  

 

That is basically it in a nutshell.  

[RenAdaar]

When given the option in an rpg I never play as a human.  

[Mr.House]

Well, YMMV, but I felt it would be corrupting his Personality, especially in a Playtrough where I romanced him. His Naiveté and Sweetness are something precious compared to all the Cynicism Thedas has to offer. He loses that a little bit after being hardened and I always feel that that is a sad Thing.

I see it as a good thing, I need warriors, not babies.

[Warden_of_all]

Personally I chose female Dalish elf for my first run through of DA:O. I didn't play a human until my 5th and 6th run through. It felt natural to play the other races since I used to play Dungeons and Dragons a lot. I think the reason most people play humans to begin with is because they are familiar with them. Once they try the other races it starts to broaden their horizons. It is always fun to try new things in gaming so they get used to the game first then try something different.