Since I started DAI, I have also started to play DAO for the first time (should have done that long ago) and 12 hours into it.
I see children around places, such as the Dalish Camp or Lothering etc...
Even an Elven family you get to talk to about the Toll bandits at the bridge.
But I don't remember seeing any children so far in DAI.
I have only explored Hinterlands and Stormcoast, so maybe there are other zones where children are present?
Just curious why there are no children so far.
I was thankful I didn't have to listen to the usually bad child voices, personally.
Except for Kieran, who (no offense to the kid) kinda sounded like he was eating his recording device while speaking. Hm.
I just like seeing children around, to give me the impression that there are entire families around, not just childless couples. Reminds me of Oblivion, where there were no children either and I always asked myself: "Where do they keep their children, hidden in closets?" lol.
It just adds to the atmosphere, seeing actual children around and not just adults.
In Skyrim they finally added kids, made you feel like people actually had families.
That's my point basically.
Would you really force your children to trek all the way to Skyhold? Knowing how perilous it was to get there? Also what you see of Haven is obviously not the domesticated part, as you only see but what 5 or 6 buildings, of which all are some kind of business or allied quarters for the inquisition, so yeah you probably aren't going to see children running around a budding young army base.
Also you do see one child much later into the game who plays a minor story role.
Also in The Hinterlands while their bodies weren't something i paid close attention to, at least 3 npc were implied to be the child of another npc.
There is the boy who claimed he had the "dreams again" in regard to awakening to his mage power.
I don't think children should be a priority in terms of showing off what DA has to offer, the focus of the game is supposed to be the inquisition itself, and i doubt there is a place in such a organization for children. In a normal open world RPG where you expected to experience every aspect of life like marriage, and family, work, community, and so on the additional aspect of having children running about makes sense.
Skyrim did it but not well, there were only 2 models for kids in that game with 2 voices. DAO had only slightly better variances in models but still the same number of actors.
Maybe because in DA:I you don't spend much time in towns and cities? It is a bit strange, now that you mention it. Perhaps most have been evacuated because of the fade rifts?
you see alot of child sized skeletons
Considering the terribly tragic circumstances most of our NPCs seem to find themselves in I'm rather glad there weren't more children.
I played The Walking Dead. I can take it. *tough face*
I played The Walking Dead. I can take it. *tough face*
I'm eight months pregnant. My hormones currently can't
Understandable. It makes me squeamish under most circumstances too, and I don't have a parenting bone in my body. :S
People are quick to excuse the lack of children.
It's not about where people would take kids, it's about faking reality. Some kids in Redcliffe, Sahrnia and maybe even Val Royeaux would not have hurt anyone.
Maybe because in DA:I you don't spend much time in towns and cities? It is a bit strange, now that you mention it. Perhaps most have been evacuated because of the fade rifts?
This seems to be the most obvious reason. You spend most of your time exploring wild areas with either a war between mages and templars (early game), dragons (late game) or a civil war (several Orlesian sites). It makes perfect sense for families with children to seek shelter from this inside the cities. And since DA2 took so much criticism because it all took place in a city, there are almost no missions in cities now (except for a few small areas in Val Royeaux, which seems to be a religious/political center, so it makes sense for children not to be there either).
I was thankful I didn't have to listen to the usually bad child voices, personally.
Except for Kieran, who (no offense to the kid) kinda sounded like he was eating his recording device while speaking. Hm.
he looks and sounds alot like Oran from the Human nobles quest in Origins
he looks and sounds alot like Oran from the Human nobles quest in Origins
Disappointing tbh, I was hoping he'd look like his old da' Alistair.
Imagine Morrigan looking at that face every day. Priceless.
Thankfully missing.
Kids are great and all but usually done like meh in games with rubbish VA.
Since I started DAI, I have also started to play DAO for the first time (should have done that long ago) and 12 hours into it.
I see children around places, such as the Dalish Camp or Lothering etc...
Even an Elven family you get to talk to about the Toll bandits at the bridge.
But I don't remember seeing any children so far in DAI.
I have only explored Hinterlands and Stormcoast, so maybe there are other zones where children are present?
Just curious why there are no children so far.
They got around that whole pesky "childhood" thing by using magic to age people up as soon as they're born.
By not having children they avoid the "lulz why can't I murder kids?" crowd. I seem to recall this as an issue in one of the NWN games. People wanted to kill them, so they were made unkillable (and defaulted as so in the dev tools) and people whined, so they'd just not have them at all.
Yes but this game is not about murdering random innocents. You can't kill anyone except the bad guys, which is why I don't see how this works.
"Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks." Psalm 137:9
Or they were all sacrificed in a Tevinter ritual.
They don't want players to kill children like they do in Skyrim PC version thanks to mods 
btw How old is Connor in DAI ? He looks like a teenager in DAI..
Yes but this game is not about murdering random innocents. You can't kill anyone except the bad guys, which is why I don't see how this works.
They don't want to take risk...What if modder changes some code and makes all NPCs killable
They don't want to take risk...What if modder changes some code and makes all NPCs killable
I wasn't saying they should. My point is that if they added children it wouldn't change anything because adults can't be killed and neither would the children.
Well Blackwall says that he is building the griffon so that the children at the camp have something to play with so there are children, you just don't see them. In addition, Fiona says that there are children with the mages so it is likely if you side with the mages you also get the mage children which you never see.
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