Well, that's it folks... the warden is gone. We might get a box of text every game, I was damned excited with Weekes taking over because we wrote some of the best stuff in Origins, I hoped he'd respect the legacy of the series.
"The honest answer is, I wouldn’t want to go back to the Hero of Ferelden. I think the hero had a freaking awesome story — you had chance to die heroically, or you had chance to survive and ride off into the sunset with their lover.
But remember when you all asked for Hawke to come back, how are you people feeling about that now? So i’d say be careful what you wish for. If we brought the hero back, I'm not sure it would be a happy story.
Thing is the warden's still going. Investigating the calling and the source of the darkspawn, that means the other magisters, slumbering archdemons, broodmothers and darkspawn. A return to the dwarven cities, maybe even Kal Shirok. Sounds like a hell of an adventure, and we're not going to get to see it.
The warden was a great character, with a few dialogue tweaks the HoF could be played alongside a new PC option. He deserves better then to be on adventures we only hear about told in codex entries.
I get what he was saying about hawke, there's been technical issues, and it's hard making a PC into an NPC. That doesn't mean we should never get to see our favorite characters again. Like Alistair and Loghain, in some games the warden is dead, but there's a whole lot of living ones, and it sounds like any hope of seeing them again is gone. And just because Bioware didn't quite pull it off once, doesn't mean they should never try.
Kind of sucks. I don't want to meet my companions for the first time in every single game, I'd like to play a main character for once on dragon age with reason to care about what he's done before. Somehow if Mass Effect had taken this approach, I think it would have been 20x more forgettable.
Truly, truly disappointing.
A dead warden could be replaced with a new pc warden, who'd have different introductions to old characters and not be called the hero of ferelden. It's pretty doable. And it would just be one more way to replay it, more dialogue, more to see. And how cool would it be to take the only wardens, rebuild them in a modern CC with 10 years on them?
And our decisions would actually MATTER. Like my meanest warden killed leliana at the urn of sacred ashes, and in DAI she comments about it, but how tense would it be if they actually met? THAT's what I want to see, I'm sick of just hearing stuff second hand. That same warden stabbed morrigan after she abandoned him for turning down her ritual.... no new PC can hash that out. That's the kind of story we're missing. And I have 5 other wardens, 2 of which are recent, all with completely different effects on their worlds.
A new character is never going to meet morrigan after stabbing her at the eluvien. He's never going to be recognized by oghren or shale or king harromont/bhelin. There's always a new warden option if you want to meet them for the first time again, but the hero would have special dialogue... it's not as if the warden said anything, so a selection of new voices would do the job... but he/she deserves better than to be written out and forgotten, never to be seen again.
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