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[Mike Canary]

Obviously it's been a lot of time since most of us sat down to play Dragon Age Origins for the first time, and it's been a decent amount of time since the first time most of us played through Dragon Age II. One thing that I'm curious about is how all of our play styles may have changed in the past five years. I know that not everybody role-plays their characters as themselves (making decisions that you feel you would make in that situation) and that not everybody choses to be a warrior or rogue based on how they think they would fight in the real world, but for those of us who do play that way, how do you think your first play through of Inquisition will differ from Origins and II?

 

For instance, when I Origins and DA:II, I was a rogue because I was much smaller and thinner. Five years later (and several summers of working construction) I feel like I might have to switch to more of a warrior. My Origins character was a do anything to win and establish Warden power character, while my Hawke was a little more sympathetic and conflicted about the mage conflict. For Inquisition, I feel like my Hawke's interactions with Anders at the end of DA:II might have made me a little less on the mages side, and a little more unforgiving when it comes to the mage rebellion.

 

So, what do the rest of you Bioware-ites think? Do you think the characters you play have changed a lot from your previous incarnations? Have you moved from physical warriors to intellectual mages, or vice-versa? Have your opinions and reactions to all the conflicts in Thedas changed? And what (whether its a real-life impact or something in the lore of Dragon Age) has helped you come to these changes?

[Navasha]

I don't play avatars of myself ever in games.    I create unique and separate characters that fascinate me mostly.   I also never have a 'canon' character either.    I played through Origins about 17 different times with every class and personality I wanted to try out.    DA2 probably has about 5 playthroughs with different characters of each class and style.  

 

Hopefully DA:I is more on par with the experience I felt in DA:O.   If so, I will likely play every class and style again.    For me the Dragon Age world is a mix of alternate realities, where numerous Wardens and Hawkes have existed and every twist of the stories have been explored.  

[andy6915]

Well I don't in any way, shape, or form, base my characters on myself. I make up scenarios and roles and characters and then act them out. I see myself more as a script writer for my character than seeing them as me (with Bioware being the sometimes-overbearing-and-strict editor that makes me not always get to make my character do or say what I want, big problem in ME3 especially). This allows me to do any combination of characters playthrough to playthrough, of every gender and personality and class combination you can think of.

 

I suppose some things have changed though. First playthrough was a sword and shield male warrior in DAO. Now? I usually play female these days, and I only ever duel wield (even when I'm a warrior). I hate S&S and greatswords in DAO now, they're too slow and unwieldy for my liking. Only time I ever do S&S now is for my arcane warriors. And in DA2 I used to stick mostly to rogues seeing as they were my favorite class in DAO, but now I prefer warriors in DA2. I don't like how you can only hit 1 enemy at a time, which is much more annoying in DA2 since the game throws entire freaking mobs at a time at you. Not to mention I like being a front-line fighting rogue, but DA2 practically shoe-horns you into the role of needing to be underhanded in fighting. In DAO you could be a super dodging untouchable in a fight as a rogue, which can't be done in DA2 without spamming decoy. And seeing as S&S and 2-handed fighting are significantly buffed and faster and smoother and more fun in DA2, I actually enjoy those styles in that game unlike in DAO. Will be interesting to see how the classes have changed in DAI to make me once again change my mind on things fighting style preference-wise.

 

So my character's have always been very random playthrough to playthrough, but my taste in classes and fighting styles has become more refined and more to my liking over time.

[daveliam]

Yeah, I'm with the people who don't ever create "me".  Ever.  I like to do several playthroughs where I try different options and then create a "canon" playthrough for my import file.  I did the same thing with ME.

 

My 'canon' warden was a sword and board male dwarf noble.  He was "good" and fairly serious.  He romanced Zevran.

My 'canon' Hawke was a healer spec'd male mage  He was sarcastic.  He romanced Anders.

 

Not sure what I'll do with Inquisition, but I'm leaning towards a male qunari two handed warrior.  I'll have to wait to see though.  

 

So, for me, "my character" is actually three different characters who are all different.  Plus, I've played several other versions of these characters (a human mage warden; a female dwarf rogue warden; a male warrior Hawke).  I don't see the characters as an extension of me at all and that's what I kind of like about it.

[yullyuk]

i try and place myself in the situation and base my decisions through the games based on the information i have on hand and what i think is right, so asking how my character has changed is like asking how ive changed in the last 5 years, if thats what you want to know i can say yes, i have changed, ive become abit more broad minded and less everything is right or wrong, everything in dragon age can mostly be justified in some way or another, but its down to perspective on the events to make a decision when it presents itself

[MarchWaltz]

In Bio games I always play my own avatar. I make the character look like me and I RP the decisions and such.

 

With the Mass series this worked out, but with Dragon Age it wouldn't work since I would have a me Grey Warden, a me Hawke, and now a me Inquisitor.

 

SO, I just have a different Warden (Queen Serena, super duper good person), Hawke (Nické, protective big sister who doesn't fluff things up, very direct. Sided with Templars) for my first play-through for Inquisition.

[Aremce]

My characters have never been "me" ... but they do have changed over the years. Five years ago I would only create extreme characters: They were either perfect heros, complete monsters or totally bipolar just to please everyone. They had no more personality than those three types. But time went by (and I probably grew up) and now I'm putting more thought into my characters. I still don't do "me"-playthroughs, but I guess I do project parts of me into them in order to create them in a (to me) believable way - they aren't me, but while I play I kind of am them, if that makes any sense haha. They are now more fleshed out, have a set of personality traits, morals and believes that are all much more in a grey area rather than black and white (some do have black and white mindsets, though). And that's also why I have more female than male characters, I still find it more fun to assume the role of another female.

(I must add that my Wardens have more nuanced personalities than my Hawkes. I pretty much followed the tone wheels with my Hawkes because that made them more consistent - I still really love hilarious!Hawke, but I'm looking forward to creating more ... distinctive characters in Inquisition.)

 

As for races and classes, those decisions only depend on gameplay and story. I have found out that I enjoy combat the most as a mage (dual wielding rogue - or warrior in Origins - as a close second), but I will re-evaluate this in Inquisition by trying out all classes one by one. My first playthrough will probably still be a mage, because that's what I'm most curious for, story wise. Curiousity is also the reason why I'm always more excited for non-human races.

[aetheldod]

Nope ... I always end up going two handed female warrior who likes to do the right thing but is very cruel against the perceived enemy.

[SofaJockey]

I never play 'me'...

In any case I don't usually get the 'baldy guy with glasses' option in the character creator 

 

Probably more experimental now and a bit more patient.

[KC_Prototype]

They don't.

[drake heath]

I never play some self-insert character in RPGs.

 

That's boring, why would I waste an opportunity to write a new character by making it myself? I'm myself all the time.

[TanithAeyrs]

In the past I have often played a paladinesque canon character who is a bit naïve to start with- it gives me a good way to explore the world and a reason to ask obvious questions just to see the dialog options.  I usually play a rogue (think Robin Hood)  first play through just because I prefer that play style, but I generally get around to trying all classes and races. 

 

This time I'm planning a more pragmatic character first - more consistent with Garrus' ruthless arithmetic than paladinesque virtues.  Just seems more fitting for the older Dalish rogue I have planned.

[The Noir Rose]

Since DA2 I always act like Sarcastic Hawke to annoy people in real life, thanks Bioware 

[Kimarous]

At most, my character might have an approximation of my face and my in-game choices being based on my honest personal opinion - anything beyond that would be head-canon fluff details. I don't really alter class or playstyle to fit myself in reality - I just go with what appeals to me the most.

[TheGlen]

I want to make my qunari from the pen and paper rpg at the start.  Snarky, observant and a really good baker.  Sadly, I don't see how the third trait will translate well into the game.

[Giltspur]

I do play myself on first playthrough and different sorts of characters that seem interesting to me on subsequent playthroughs (partially informed by what I feel I missed on first playthrough).  And the playstyle I most identify with is the crowd controller mage.  I'm a nerd that likes to manipulate things and neutralize an opponent's strengths.  Well, the last part is a stretch.  I lead a peaceful life and don't have any opponents to speak of.  But if I did...

 

In DAO, my first mage had blue face tattoos.  As a result of those tattoos, I wanted him to use runes and probably frost and nature magic as well.  My first combo was the cone of cold (or winter's grasp) + stonefist combo.  That never got old.  I also liked knocking people down or paralyzing people with runes--as that was just something I had envisioned for my blue-faced character.  Also  knocking people down with fireballs and earthquakes.  More crowd control needed?  Very well, crushing prison.  I resisted using mass paralysis and mana clash because I was powerful enough as it was, and I liked to feel like I had more to do.  Once Awakening came around, Keeper spells and crazy stats made for some real hilarity.

 

By the time DA2 came around, my favorite cross-class combo was cone of cold + some Varric finisher.  The use of cone of cold to setup a combo was an obvious callback to one of my Warden's favorite moves.  They were kind of related after all.  Ultimately though Hawke was an Elemental/Force/Creation mage that liked to manipulate things with Force spells.  (And Merrill would bring her own CC with, if I recall correctly, Horror and Petrify.  Much like Morrigan was the Warden's constant mage companion, Merrill was Hawke's.) 

 

I expect the new controller spec will be Rift Mage and that I'll build my playstyle around whatever I think is cool about that spec.  And I'll continue to use whatever knockdowns, knockbacks or CC's Bioware makes available to me.  And I'll probably always have a second mage in my party to provide assistance, but I doubt it will always be one character (as it was with Morrigan and later Merrill).

[Nimlowyn]

Hm, well, I've only been playing Dragon Age since October 2013, but I'll answer anyway.

 

I don't have a self insert playthrough for DA:O. I only have (completed) self-insert playthroughs for DA:II. I grew up on JRPGs, and only started playing Western style RPGs in 2002, so I never even thought to self insert myself into an RPG until DA:II. I was also only interested in playing rogues until I decided to try a mage in my second playthrough of DA:II. Now I'm planning on my first character in DA:I to be a mage. I was also never interested in playing a human character until DA:II (the only reason why my planned first character for DA:I is not human anymore is because I saw Maleficient, hehe). 

 

I have no plans to self insert myself into DA:I (in my canon I'm Hawke afterall!) but I'm definitely planning my human and mage runs, so that's different. 

[BubbleDncr]

My first playthrough of DA:O was the first RPG I ever played. I was so bad at it - I remember all the bosses that I struggled to beat, that on my most recent playthroughs I'm ashamed to have had such a hard time. 

 

But I think now, I'm mostly smarter about how to interact with companions. Even though my first playthrough, companions were a large chunk of what made me love Bioware games, I honestly only go far enough in their affection/companion quest lines to do Morrigan and Alistair's quests. So now I think I'm a bit wiser about how to get along with all my companions better, to see more content in the game - which kind of results in my characters being more personable, nicer, and eager to please. 

 

I also like to play mages more often, because they're so OP, but also cos of the mage struggle to fit into the world is more interesting to me than just some random warrior or rogue. 

 

But I still love being a Dalish elf. 

[Tajerio]

I don't exactly play myself in DA games, but my characters never make decisions that I myself don't believe I would ever make in that situation. This tends to give me enough room for a lot of replay value, since I can justify multiple different choices for most decisions in the games. There are a few I always do the same way, though--I can never annul either of the towers, for instance. I tried it in DA2 just to see what it was like, and I felt so terrible in doing it that I reloaded from the decision point and started over.

The only exception to this is the romances. I like seeing the (relatively trivial) added content, so I do them now and again, but if any of the DA LIs were real people I wouldn't touch a relationship with any of them with a standard issue 10 ft pole.

[deuce985]

I was initially an angry oppressed elf that wanted to murder knife everything in sight. Now I'm just a little more calm. I'll probably play a mage first as I usually go warrior but not this time. As for personality, guess I'll be a sweetheart first time through. Let the murder knife rest on my belt for a future PC to use.