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[Qun00]

It's exhausting, honestly.

Arguing over this again and again in an endless loop that is ever supplied with more complaints.

Really, I just might create a The Inquisitor's Support Thread in the Story/Campaign section just to get some different opinions for once.

There are funny dialogue options, compassionate and soft, rude and blunt, etc. I've never found myself bored as far as interactions go.

Asskissing? What asskissing? Not long ago, I had my Inquisitor tell Dorian to quit whining when he was complaining about the lack of Tevinter lore in the library.

In some RPG games the protagonist is fully preestablished while in others it's a blank state.

DA:I's main character is a perfect blend where there is a clear background but you get to determine the details and how your character feels about it (all in game).

So, while I know that negative opinions unfortunately can't be kept out of this thread, I hope they won't be the only ones.

[JeffZero]

I'm not in love, but I was reasonably satisfied. The Inquisitor is nowhere on my list of grievances.

[lynroy]

I was quite pleased with my inquisitor's personality.

[phaonica]

No, you're not the only one. I think the Inquisitor's "personality" as far as both options for responses and the line delivery itself were fine. The Inquisitor's personality, to me, is not one of DAIs shortcomings.

[Lethaya]

I don't mind the Quizzy either. Satisfying works, yes. However, to be fair, I was a more invested in my (humorous) Hawke and my Shepard than I was in my Quizzy, especially early on in DA:I. Basically, there is room for improvement (though there always is). Criticism is fair, though I do think people can get a bit ah. Passionate? when it comes to their opinions. Runs away from them sometimes. XD

 

Personally, I enjoyed the writing and the dialogue wheel. I thought at certain points the voice delivery could be better, and the integration of the races in terms of dialogue options could have also used some expansion. Infamous Lavellan-not-knowing-Mythal-stuffs moment, here. But overall? It was good. Not fantastic, but not a horrible flaw that Bioware should be ashamed of or anything like that.

[CathyMe]

I actually liked that they solved the PC appearing bipolar if you didn't stick with only one dialogue option, and the personality wasn't bad overall. My only grievances are the lousy integration of races and the lack of acknowledgment of quizzie's beliefs by NPC

[Qun00]

I don't mind the Quizzy either. Satisfying works, yes. However, to be fair, I was a more invested in my (humorous) Hawke and my Shepard than I was in my Quizzy, especially early on in DA:I. Basically, there is room for improvement (though there always is). Criticism is fair, though I do think people can get a bit ah. Passionate? when it comes to their opinions. Runs away from them sometimes. XD
 
Personally, I enjoyed the writing and the dialogue wheel. I thought at certain points the voice delivery could be better, and the integration of the races in terms of dialogue options could have also used some expansion. Infamous Lavellan-not-knowing-Mythal-stuffs moment, here. But overall? It was good. Not fantastic, but not a horrible flaw that Bioware should be ashamed of or anything like that.

Yeah, there were a few moments where I thought the delivery could've been better executed, but I feel that it's the exception rather than the norm.

One of my favorite moments probably is the interaction with fake!Justinia in the Fade.

Inquisitor: You mean the demon Erimond was trying to bring through?

Justinia: Yes.

Inquisitor: It's nearby?

Justinia: Yes.

Inquisitor: Well... ****.

[Ashaantha]

I like my Inquisitor best out of the 3 games made.

[Lethaya]

@Qun00: That moment was golden, yasss! XD

 

As for delivery, definitely the exception. Given how many lines the Quizzy has (that is to say, they have a lot), only a handful stuck out to me as awkward. And I dunno if it was just because I got used to it or what, but I could swear those moments mainly occurred earlier in the game? Once things started to pick up with the story, I thought the delivery improved, really.

 

Though also, to be fair, I've yet to experience all the voices, so I feel a bit bad judging them all as a whole, here, heh! XD Mainly referring to the British female voice, which was my favorite, but as I've the most experience with it... welp. Woo crit. :B

[Qun00]

@Qun00: That moment was golden, yasss! XD
 
As for delivery, definitely the exception. Given how many lines the Quizzy has (that is to say, they have a lot), only a handful stuck out to me as awkward. And I dunno if it was just because I got used to it or what, but I could swear those moments mainly occurred earlier in the game? Once things started to pick up with the story, I thought the delivery improved, really.
 
Though also, to be fair, I've yet to experience all the voices, so I feel a bit bad judging them all as a whole, here, heh! XD Mainly referring to the British female voice, which was my favorite, but as I've the most experience with it... welp. Woo crit. :B

By the way, you mentioned Lavellan and Mythal.

Isn't that avoidable? I usually try not to ask about anything my character is supposed to already know.

[Lethaya]

I think it might be? Honestly I can't recall. XD But I do think they could have given a Dalish origin some unique lines there or something. Maybe simply removed that specific line option? Like I said, room for improvement, but still good overall.

 

I think I asked it because the wheel was more along the lines of "Where are we?" or "What is this place?" (well, that, and I'm a junkie for information, I guess) but the dialogue itself seemed pretty... confused about the whole Mythal deal. Rather amusing considering my Lavellan had Mythal's vallaslin! XD

[Korva]

I like my character. Yes, some of the dialog options are bad/unsatisfying, and others are made bad by having to gamble on the POS dialog wheel and getting a completely different "tone" than I was going for (clueless instead of thoughtful, insulting instead of supportive). But for the most part, I'm definitely satisfied, and in fact I like my Inquisitor more than I did my Warden.

 

Like others, I have my issues with the game, but the Inquisitor's personality isn't one of them. If anything about the Inquisitor is unsatisfying, it's the (almost) complete lack of care and interest for her from the NPCs, which means many potential big RP moments utterly fall flat because nobody gives a toss what she thinks or feels -- but that, sadly, is an old problem with Bioware's writing and not limited to this character.

[KCMeredith]

I'm the baddest ****** in Thedas and the dialogue choices were fitting for the most part. Seeing other characters tremble in fear (as they should) gives me more pleasure than hunting down mages.

[Patchwork]

Overall I was satisfied with the Inquisitor's personality, there was some blunders and while the world views and knowledge did seem defaulted to human -I couldn't express dalish views about the Beyond and Fade creatures for example- I do understand that catering to 6 races and 3 classes isn't easy so I'm not that bothered by it.

 

With Hawke I sometimes felt locked into a personality type because I didn't want my numbers to fall and my Diplomatic!Hawke to become Snarky!Hawke. I still played around with the responses to suit the situation but I was always aware that a personality switch could happen if I wasn't careful, that's not something I had to worry about with Q.   

 

By the way, you mentioned Lavellan and Mythal.

Isn't that avoidable? I usually try not to ask about anything my character is supposed to already know.

 

No, it's part of the auto dialogue with Morrigan about the Arbour Wilds.

 

If it was avoidable players wouldn't be so annoyed about it.

[London]

I hated my inquisitor. He was such a dork. For example - playing tricks on people with Sera had me wondering why she would want to hang out with him. He is like Thedas' Urkel. I should have made him an elf as there is no way someone with his personality has that male model body.

And the Bear puns....totally something I think the inquisitor would say! In real life I would be rolling my eyes along with Cassandra. Even his backstory (all two sentences of it) seeped in social awkwardness - like when he said he had a crush on a Templar but it didn't go anywhere. Go figure. Who would have wanted him? During Dorians personal quest when the Inquisitor said he had sex before - I didn't believe him. I think he made it up to sound cool in front of others but I was not buying it.

I can't think of a moment where I found him to be cool. Like in the Fade when an elderly lady stays back so Urkel Travelyan can run away. -.- Maybe it's because I had the British voice and found him to be such an annoying character I would pick the Crying icon for his dialogue choices whenever I could. It's no wonder he surrounds himself with an almost completely unlikeable group aside from Cass and the advisors who have no choice but to be stuck with him. I was half expecting Varric to beg to leave with Hawke - I know I wanted to and would have been fine if the story diverged there and I got to be Hawke again.

I had a horrible time relating to this character. My HoF, Hawke, and Shepard I adored.

[AWTEW]

I actually liked that they solved the PC appearing bipolar if you didn't stick with only one dialogue option, and the personality wasn't bad overall. My only grievances are the lousy integration of races and the lack of acknowledgment of quizzie's beliefs by NPC

 

They didn't solve it, imo they made it a hundred x worse. I'd rather have a bi-polar personality, than a neutral one: aka no personality.

[BansheeOwnage]

DA:I's main character is a perfect blend where there is a clear background but you get to determine the details and how your character feels about it (all in game).

So, while I know that negative opinions unfortunately can't be kept out of this thread, I hope they won't be the only ones.

See, where you see "perfect blend" I see "hybrid with the strengths of neither." To me, they tried to take what was good about the Warden and what was good about Hawke and make the ultimate role-playing protagonist. The result was disappointing, however. It's not as good as the Warden because you can't role-play as well, and it's not as good as Hawke because it's so much less passionate (and I don't blame the VAs.)

 

To me, the Inquisitor was okay. Just my least favourite of the 3. I try to like her though, I'm trying to be positive, since that's what we're stuck with for now. I'm glad you were satisfied though.

[AresKeith]

See, where you see "perfect blend" I see "hybrid with the strengths of neither." To me, they tried to take what was good about the Warden and what was good about Hawke and make the ultimate role-playing protagonist. The result was disappointing, however. It's not as good as the Warden because you can't role-play as well, and it's not as good as Hawke because it's so much less passionate (and I don't blame the VAs.)

 

To me, the Inquisitor was okay. Just my least favourite of the 3. I try to like her though, I'm trying to be positive, since that's what we're stuck with for now. I'm glad you were satisfied though.

 

There's always room for improvement on it, since it is a step in the right direction imo

[Hanako Ikezawa]

I liked the Inquisitor's personality. The dialogue options that offered emotions were especially well done. I hope that is a feature that shows up in more Bioware titles. 

[Exaltation]

"Opinions are like testicles. You kick them hard enough, doesn't matter how many you got." - Varric Tethras

[BansheeOwnage]

I liked the Inquisitor's personality. The dialogue options that offered emotions were especially well done. I hope that is a feature that shows up in more Bioware titles. 

I actually thought the "emotional" dialogue choices didn't convey emotion very well. I found the wording didn't give the VAs much room to actually put emotion into them. Just my opinion though, I like them in concept.

[BraveVesperia]

I was fine with it. I do think Hawke had more personality, but that meant that sometimes you ended up seeming like Hawke has some disorder - angry one minute, mild the next, eccentric just after that.

 

I also remember how many threads popped up after DA2's release compaining about how Hawke had 'too much personality' compared to the Warden. It will probably be the same when DA4's released. Bioware will never be able to please everyone.

[Orian Tabris]

 

In some RPG games the protagonist is fully preestablished while in others it's a blank state.

 

For future reference, the term/phrase is "blank slate" not "blank state".

 

I assume you meant to use the term/phrase, rather than just saying that the protagonist is in a blank state until the player decides their character... if the way I worded that makes any sense.

[Dieb]

No you're not.

 

I agree that the Inquisitor is bland enough to make him an interesting guy in your head without much interference, the game just gives you tools and doesn't push too much - except where it needs to, in critical story moments etc.

 

The only slight problem for me was that the background of each possible Inquisitor is too established sometimes, but I forgot about it entirely by now.

[Merela]

I like my Inquisitor's personality. There is still room for improvement (there is always room for improvement) but it was pleasant enough to be able to be compassionate, then humorous, then flirtous, then stern, then friendly without the poor man sounding like he suffered from devastating mood swings.