I just finished my first Awakening playthrough and I noted that you can basically refuse to let anyone join your party.
You can refuse to let Oghren join the Wardens. You can give Anders up to the Templars. You can let Sigrun wander off to the Deep Roads. You can just kill Velanna. You can execute Nathaniel. You can tell Justice you don't know what he should do.
I'm wondering if anyone has ever done all of that in one walkthrough and how the game turned out then.
I just finished my first Awakening playthrough and I noted that you can basically refuse to let anyone join your party.
You can refuse to let Oghren join the Wardens. You can give Anders up to the Templars. You can let Sigrun wander off to the Deep Roads. You can just kill Velanna. You can execute Nathaniel. You can tell Justice you don't know what he should do.
I'm wondering if anyone has ever done all of that in one walkthrough and how the game turned out then.
Why would you want to? The story in Awakening isn't interesting enough without your companions. With only the Warden, it would be a very quiet playthrough.
Why would you want to? The story in Awakening isn't interesting enough without your companions. With only the Warden, it would be a very quiet playthrough.
Yes, absolutely. I'd never want to. I was only wondering if anyone has, for whatever perverse reason. If someone is really into roleplaying, I can imagine playing a Warden who's either just that dumb or just that much of an ******* doing it.
Idle question, really.
I haven't done that. I might try doing that just for fun. I rarely talk with the companions and I don't recruit Anders or Justice
I did it once played all the way through with just me and Velanna but was tricky in places.
Well seeing how you have access to OP abilities (Mages's sustained spells), I can see people trying a solo playthrough even on Nightmare. But it's less fun on the story-side whithout your companions.
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did it onceplayed all the way through with just me and Velanna but was tricky in places.
You mean it was tricky as in it was just you and her temper. Gotta love that Angry!elf.
Well seeing how you have access to OP abilities (Mages's sustained spells), I can see people trying a solo playthrough even on Nightmare. But it's less fun on the story-side whithout your companions.
You mean it was tricky as in it was just you and her temper. Gotta love that Angry!elf.
I mean is was tricky with two Mages and no tanks. The final battle vs the dragon and then the broodmother was freaking tough. But we got it done. The spirit dragon was tough as well.
A few people do Solo Nightmare runthroughs of Awakenings after they do Origins ones. I remember reading someone who posted as he went doing this. Apparently the fight with the Baroness is the toughest bit.
Personally I didn't even finish my Origin Nightmare Solo runthrough. Ran out of patience. It's incredibly tedious and fiendishly hard until you get over the 'hump' and even then it's slow going. :-/
A few people do Solo Nightmare runthroughs of Awakenings after they do Origins ones. I remember reading someone who posted as he went doing this. Apparently the fight with the Baroness is the toughest bit.
Personally I didn't even finish my Origin Nightmare Solo runthrough. Ran out of patience. It's incredibly tedious and fiendishly hard until you get over the 'hump' and even then it's slow going. :-/
I dont believe people who say they complete DAO solo on nightmare without EVER changing the difficulty.
I mean is was tricky with two Mages and no tanks. The final battle vs the dragon and then the broodmother was freaking tough. But we got it done. The spirit dragon was tough as well.
The Broodmother fight is tough enough for me with a party of four! I beat Corypheus on Nightmare not long ago while replaying DA2. I kept dying until I remembered the pattern. Comparatively the Broodmother fight was harder for me because you're clustered with her and her minions.
Apparently you have a spot where she can't hit you:
Soloing on Nightmare sounds like a nightmare to me. 
In fact, the thought of soloing period makes me cringe. Not that I have anything against those who enjoy it, but for me, it would be boring. I love my companions (well, most of them) too much.
I think not recruiting anyone in Awakening would make it extremely dull. I actually just finished Awakening last week, and without the companions (I wish you could talk to them more!), I wouldn't have had anywhere near as much fun. I absolutely adored Nathaniel and Sigrun; loved the return of Oghren; liked Anders and Justice as separate entities (didn't see that one coming considering the annoyance that is Janders in DA2); and well, tolerated Velanna. They made the game more fun, even Velanna.
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