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[NinjaCat]

This game could do with a stronger story, and stronger characters, as well. So I think it would be great with some DLC that deals with your Inquisitor's origins in some way. We need a substantial reason to connect with this person. What is his/her background, what was his/her upbringing like.. What happened on the way to the conclave..? I know you guys didn't want to go the Origins route, but my Inquisitor just feels like a soulless cardboard character. Imagine if DA:O started right after the the battle of Ostager, waking up in Flemeth's hut. Not very epic, am I right? This could be fixed to some degree with DLC, and add some much needed meat to the story.  

[PhroXenGold]

Only if it made your background actually have relevance throughout the entire game. That was alwasy the big problem with Origin's origins - once you got to Ostagar, the only difference was a few bits of dialogue here and there. Make race and background a massive part of the game, as it should be in a world like Thedas where racism and classism are rampant, and I'd be all for a DLC like this.

[NinjaCat]

I agree with you that there should be a bigger influence on the world, in regards to what race and sex you choose as your Inquisitor. But I could settle for some background story.  

[Gileadan]

I think the cardboard effect may be caused by the fact that there's almost no memorable line for the Inquisitor in the entire game. Even the "emotion wheel" leads to very little emotion, apparently. The Inquisitor can't scream and rage or make an uplifting speech or swear bloody revenge in a way makes people go pale. Everything that comes out of the Inquisitor's mouth seems pretty... tame. Calm. Never anything out of the ordinary.

 

Unless this dominant neutral tone were to drastically change in that DLC, you'd still have a cardboard, just with a bit more personal history.

[NinjaCat]

I suppose you are right. As is there is very little opportunity to role play.. Feels like the every is set in stone, with very little you can do to influence anything.   

[Dubya75]

Stronger story and stronger characters should have been in the vanilla game. A little late to try and fix that now. Not even a great expansion will achieve that because you'll still have to sleep through the main game.

[nightscrawl]

This game could do with a stronger story, and stronger characters, as well. So I think it would be great with some DLC that deals with your Inquisitor's origins in some way. We need a substantial reason to connect with this person. What is his/her background, what was his/her upbringing like.. What happened on the way to the conclave..? I know you guys didn't want to go the Origins route, but my Inquisitor just feels like a soulless cardboard character. Imagine if DA:O started right after the the battle of Ostager, waking up in Flemeth's hut. Not very epic, am I right? This could be fixed to some degree with DLC, and add some much needed meat to the story.

Sorry, I completely disagree. Having a character DLC would force the player to view the character in a certain way, even if there were dialog options. This includes relationships with family (if any), prior relationships (if any), prior conflicts and/or hardships (if any), and so on.

As much as I think the various Origins in DAO were great to play though, they were also limiting in the same way. To be honest, I found the Hawke method (I know many will disagree with this) to be more conducive to roleplay, because the game just dropped you in the middle of the action. You were left to come up with most of your history on your own, which I really appreciated.

The only thing I might go for is DLC leading to and surrounding the Conclave itself. I really think that the humans have the most reason to be there and the other races are a bit thin, so I think it would really benefit those especially to see some pre-Conclave content. However, even that might mess with some players' head-canons. You can't really with with this, IMO.

[NinjaCat]

Well I prefer the way Bioware used to do things, compared to the "The man with no name" approach. Guess I just have to accept that things are changing :/ 

[PhroXenGold]

Well I prefer the way Bioware used to do things, compared to the "The man with no name" approach. Guess I just have to accept that things are changing :/ 

 

They way they used to do things? What, you mean like, starting off as an orphan in Candlekeep?

[Lightpanda]

I agree with you that there should be a bigger influence on the world, in regards to what race and sex you choose as your Inquisitor. *snip*

You realize this would open up a hornet's nest here in the real world, yes?

[b10d1v]

There are several posts with similar lines of thought to bring out more consistent lore, develop a more engaging story, more decisions, more characters and often the HoF, how many of us were healers in DAO?  Hard to get around that zinger!  Someone should have brought up the inconsistency, QA should have caught it, but no a personality changed it.   So it might be said that the inquisitor's circle banned healing or that the shortsighted fool skipped classes, a jibe at the fool that did not think that through!

 

On the story, for engaging immersion folks have discussed how to improve the inter personal communications between characters, especially when a teammate has an issue.  Maybe Leliana was a bit chatty in DAO, but many liked it, and where are the questline triggers like Alistair stopping to tell you of this birth, that he was  Royal bastard, priceless!  Things like being out all day with Varric for him to say nothing about red lyrium and then in skyhold talk your ear off B4 you can get the quest.  It all comes down to putting resources on it.

[Salty Leliana]

I agree, with NinjaCat, we need more insight into the past of Inquisitor. If whole background stories are not possible, then at least let us handle "personal" quests personally, not through war table missions.

[Cyberstrike nTo]

This game could do with a stronger story, and stronger characters, as well. So I think it would be great with some DLC that deals with your Inquisitor's origins in some way. We need a substantial reason to connect with this person. What is his/her background, what was his/her upbringing like.. What happened on the way to the conclave..? I know you guys didn't want to go the Origins route, but my Inquisitor just feels like a soulless cardboard character. Imagine if DA:O started right after the the battle of Ostager, waking up in Flemeth's hut. Not very epic, am I right? This could be fixed to some degree with DLC, and add some much needed meat to the story.  

 

It's stated as text in the character creation menu and there is a lot of dialogue with Cassandra and Josie in Haven about your background and you get to pick it. 

[Sifr]

It's stated as text in the character creation menu and there is a lot of dialogue with Cassandra and Josie in Haven about your background and you get to pick it. 

 

But aside from a few war table missions, it never becomes relevant again... that's the problem people are having?

 

At least in Origins, you often were able to go back home at some point, the Mages were able to return to liberate or doom the Circle Tower, the Dwarves were able to go into Orzammar despite their exile, the Human Nobles were able to get revenge against Howe, the Dalish had to wait to Witch Hunt to revisit the Eluvian plot, but that still got revisited at some point along the line? We were even allowed to go back to revisit Ostagar and the site of the battle that changed everything for our characters?

 

Comparatively, who the Inquisitor was before the game started really does not matter whatsoever?

[Hanako Ikezawa]

Please no. I like the background being vague enough so I can at least kind of relate to my character. Having a DLC that goes "This is your character's past" would ruin that.