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[Ryzaki]

For a reason you hate her character then ignore every character development that happened.

 

Did I say she didn't develop as a character?
 

Someone call the presses people have difference preferences in character types!

 

(and I already said I actually preferred her development in Inquisition rather than Origins). Same with Leliana but I actually liked her in DAO too.

 

Seriously I don't like her. That's all there is too it. I feel she's written just about as well as the other well written characters in the series.

 

Not sure why this warrants "ooh you're ignoring her development." rather than realizing I did see it but just wasn't interested in it. All characters aren't going to appeal to everyone.

[blahblahblah]

Did I say she didn't develop as a character?
 

Someone call the presses people have difference preferences in character types!

 

(and I already said I actually preferred her development in Inquisition rather than Origins). Same with Leliana but I actually liked her in DAO too

[robertthebard]

What I have found is that there's no single companion that I "hate". Which was sort of surprising. I mean, there's one I'm not crazy about, but I don't have a dislike for any of them. In Origins, Alistair was my "goto" guy for "hate". I left him in camp barring plot devices, and ran him off as soon as possible.

In DA 2, I wasn't crazy about Fenris. But no where near the Alistair level. Now, while some of them aren't really "compatible" with what I want to do, or how I've portrayed my Inquisitors so far, there aren't any that I absolutely won't take any where with me the entire game.

[Aren]

i dislike Alistair he is just too stupid he cannot be compared to Cassandra, also is sarcasm is annoyng, Hawke and Varric are good in this sort of things.

Morrigan  and Alistair banters reminds me of 2 little child too stupid to simply stay silent.

The other companions of origins are some sort of mindless creature who need my constant precence to do somthing,who am I their father? I would like to see Riordan as companion he is the only adult character with Loghain and Duncan in origins.

[KatsKats]

I prefer the DA:O banter and most of the companions. I don't even get much banter in DAI. When I do, it keeps being the same things that repeat over and over. It's probably a bug, but it's hard for me to compare the two as far as traveling companions.

 

Anyway, from DA:O I loved Alistair and Morrigan. The banter between all the others was classic. There were a few characters that I didn't care for there, but on the whole, I liked them best.

 

I do love Varric from 2 and now, and Cass I think is great. Iron Bull is okay. Blackwell is meh, and Viv can be decent. I loathe Sera.

[Julia Luna]

Morrigan and Leliana aside I could say that yes, companions in DAI are way better than the ones in Origins

[Vanth]

It only recently occurred to me why I dislike (some of) the DA:I characters. They are just too ordinary. In order for them to be interesting to me they have to be in some exceptional circumstance, and it is not enough for them just to be members of the inquisition. I mean they have to have some sort of exceptional personal circumstance.

 

This was evident in the ME2 characters for example. Mordin had a huge guilt complex about the genophage; Thane was dying and wanted to reconcile with his son; Jack had been abused and experimented on, etc. In fact the boring characters, like Jacob, were the ones who weren't extraordinary.

 

DA:I had a cast of Jacobs, except for a few notable exceptions. Cole for example was a great character because of what he was, and his attempts to come to terms with it. In principle Solas should have been interesting but wasn't because his exceptional nature only came out at the end. But everyone else was actually pretty unexceptional and frankly dull. Vivienne for example was only distinguished by her link to the circle and the Orleasian court, but otherwise had nothing to distinguish herself. Similarly for Dorian, and Cassandra and Josephine. Iron Bull could have been more interesting but his exceptional nature (i.e. a Qunari) was never really explored. Blackwall we quite interesting but also intensely annoying for being such a self centred whiner.

 

If characters are not exceptional I would rather spend my time getting to know real unexceptional people.

[MindWeb]

Varric is great but he's from DA2. 

**** you! DA2 had great companions, Aveline was a stern, serious and yet still kind guardswoman, Merril was infinitely more interesting in cut dialogue and if you take the rivalry path, Fenris had some nice banter with a friendship mage Hawke, Isabela seems like a sex fantasy at first, but later opens up and develops some nice personality if she stays for Act 3 (also she has the best banter with Varric and Aveline), Sebastian was boring as ****, I'll give you that, thankfully the Keep gives you the option to remove him from the face of Thedas like an unwanted wrinkle, Varric was probably the least serious, but also a great guy to banter with in darker moments, Anders, while very anti-Templar, albeit with good reasons considering the state of Kirkwall, was hated for being angsty, but the guy had A ****** SPIRIT MERGE WITH HIS SOUL, of course he's going to jump to rash conclusions and do insane **** to get Justice when he has A SPIRIT OF JUSTICE INSIDE OF HIM!

[Jackal19851111]

Sten: "Congratulations, you got us further away from the door then when we started"

Zevran: "Have a little faith my large friend, I am a professional assassin"

Sten: "I would hate to see an amateur then..."

 

PURE GOLD lol

 

I dunno, DAO companions will always have a place in my heart for all the memorable laughs. I'll need a few more playthroughs in DA:I to get to know the characters abit more.

[Zundar]

Sigrun was one of the few bright spots in Awakening. It's just too bad that I can never find the enthusiasm to ever play it again.

The only thing that would get me to replay Awakening would be to actually do her companion quest. I missed out on it since it's bugged and I started a certain quest before I got her and then couldn't get hers.

[atamajakki]

Better than DA2, but much weaker than Origins and Awakening. I only really liked Blackwall, Sera, and Cole, with everyone else either being terribly boring or downright insufferable.

[Aren]

I prefer every set of companions ever over the DAO group. No one beats the DA2 companions though. Not even my beloved Dorian. They might have if the group had the same sense of companionship that DA2 had, but alas, they do not.

This i must agree DA2 lack of place to explore, but the companion were perfect, true friends, because they are with you for many years not for a purpose or for a goal, but because everyone (,Sebastian,Aveline,Varric, Fenris, Anders ecc..) try to live like normal people into the city while all of them are in search of economic stability just like Hawke, they are with you (even Isabela) not for convenience or to achieve a great destiny but because they see in Hawke (love the sarcastic one)  someone to follow to change their lives.

DAO and  DAI   characters too  me are companion/allies WHILE  DAII there are only companions.

[Amirit]

To OP - no, not even close. And for me a lot of it is the lack of accents and underlining, character defining features. It does make out new companions look more like "every day people" - and some might like precisely that, but to me it's a lack of definition. Who is BW? A generally nice guy if a bit boring. What is definition of Cullen? A generally nice guy if a bit boring. How could you describe Solas before reveal? A generally nice guy if a bit boring. And so on. Sera is a bright spot - love her for that alone. But even Vivienne did not keep the promise to be much notable. 

 

No, DAO companions are unbeatable in every aspect.

[Darkly Tranquil]

Is this even a serious question? Origins all the way.

[byeshoe]

Hell no.

In orgins we actually learn and know about our companions. In the beginning they're all closed off because we're like strangers to them. so we get questions like, tell me about the grey wardens, what was the wilderness like morrigan? tell me about this area lelianna etc etc. as we get their approval up we're able to mess around with them via fun questions like "so alistair, have you ever banged?" "how are you feeling wynee? tired?" "hows the sky up there orghren?" we know the small trivial things like what's their favorite food, zevran's background and obsession with leather, their dislikes and future plans. just a whole lot of answers and we could be serious with them, jokingly or just "i see i see" we had more options in orgins on how to approach our companions verses in dragonage inquisition we can only ask them things like, why did you leave? what are your adventures like in the fade? who is red jenny? strictly business questions and once we have their approval up high enough they don't open up as well as the orgins crew. for cole.."so, i heard you been doing things" "what do you think about our crew?" that's it. can't even approach him about getting to know him or options like "have you ever wanted to be human, cole?" I would've liked a question like this as it's important later on in the game. I would've like to get the feeling or their character more besides i want to help people. i want to help the little people. i want to help my people. we have less options, very less and i understand this because of word budget. so because of this I don't really know my companions as deeply as I know the orgins crew. Inquisition they're with me because they wanna save the world, they'll stay by and what we do in the wilderness or outside affects if they like us

So 
Orgins > Inquisition in my opinion

[Amirit]

Really? The DA:O companions come off as emotionally damaged teenagers.

 

 

First, I think you are talking about DA2, second, even there it was far from your description, and third - you are entitled to your opinion, like any of us, but to me the art of presentation weather in theaters, books, movies or games - is to show and provoke specific emotions. It's an art of emotions. You fail to demonstrate\get emotions -  you fail in that particular art. 

[goofyomnivore]

I think I'll always be more fond of Origin's because they helped introduce me to Thedas. Alistair taught me about the Grey Wardens/Templars, Leliana Bards/Maker, Morrigan magic/apostate, Sten the Qunari, etc. I think they will always seem a bit more interesting than they actually were, and I'm not saying they were dull otherwise; I think DA:O had the best set of companions in any BioWare game (Inquisition included), but I know I personally overrate them a bit sometimes.

[Vilegrim]

Nope.

[ForgottenWarrior]

Yes.

[Commander Michael]

Alistair and Morrigan are still the best written characters in any DA game. Even if you don't like the characters, you have to appreciate the work and depth put into them. 

 

I personally also liked Sten, he was such a badass, especially when you selected him as your champion against Loghain in the duel. His delivery of the line "Finally." was amazing. Zevran was also very well written; I have no idea why people call him "too" comical or whatever. He had a really dark story if you actually listened to him. I just personally don't like how he was introduced as a character; no SANE warden would ever recruit him, in my opinion. Loghain was also a really good companion but you had to get rid of Alistair in order to get him.

 

My favorite in DAI is Cassandra.

 

As such, I prefer the cast of DAO over DAI.

[DarkSpiral]

Jeez, Captain Obvious you seriously want people to break out the pitchforks and torches, eh?

 

There were fewer NPCs in this game that I had to...learn to love, shall we say.

[Chrom72]

Hell no.

In orgins we actually learn and know about our companions. In the beginning they're all closed off because we're like strangers to them. so we get questions like, tell me about the grey wardens, what was the wilderness like morrigan? tell me about this area lelianna etc etc. as we get their approval up we're able to mess around with them via fun questions like "so alistair, have you ever banged?" "how are you feeling wynee? tired?" "hows the sky up there orghren?" we know the small trivial things like what's their favorite food, zevran's background and obsession with leather, their dislikes and future plans. just a whole lot of answers and we could be serious with them, jokingly or just "i see i see" we had more options in orgins on how to approach our companions verses in dragonage inquisition we can only ask them things like, why did you leave? what are your adventures like in the fade? who is red jenny? strictly business questions and once we have their approval up high enough they don't open up as well as the orgins crew. for cole.."so, i heard you been doing things" "what do you think about our crew?" that's it. can't even approach him about getting to know him or options like "have you ever wanted to be human, cole?" I would've liked a question like this as it's important later on in the game. I would've like to get the feeling or their character more besides i want to help people. i want to help the little people. i want to help my people. we have less options, very less and i understand this because of word budget. so because of this I don't really know my companions as deeply as I know the orgins crew. Inquisition they're with me because they wanna save the world, they'll stay by and what we do in the wilderness or outside affects if they like us

So 
Orgins > Inquisition in my opinion

 

I never thought about it this way, but I think you're right. I didn't really feel like I knew the companions at the end like I did the Origins companions.