Well to be fair that's really on the player. You can pace yourself if you want. I have a particular schedule worked out and just leave Mother Giselle standing in the hall
I wouldn't do that. She's been known to glitch, and some people never even get the quest because she never gives the letter. I would talk to her, get the letter, and then wait until you're ready to do the quest. Wait for everything else, but get the letter from Duck Lady as soon as possible.
Dorian ended up being one of my favourites as a character so im thinking of romancing him with my mage dude elf just because i like how real he seems as a straight guy should i worry about myself? ahaha
I did find that both Iron Bull and Cullen's romances were very well paced. I suspect Josephine's might be similar (due to how I imagine the LI content was designed for Cullen....just a theory though. Others who have done the romance could "yay or nay" this assumption. ). Of the eight romances, I have yet to try Josie's, Blackwall or Sera.
Josie was the LI in my first PT and I loved it exactly how it was (I prefer cuddling and being cute together to having sex, so that's a huge plus for me )
I wouldn't do that. She's been known to glitch, and some people never even get the quest because she never gives the letter. I would talk to her, get the letter, and then wait until you're ready to do the quest. Wait for everything else, but get the letter from Duck Lady as soon as possible.
I do hard saves quite often. If I saw that she glitched I would just go back in time. And since they fixed his quest issues in patch five or six I have had no problem whatsoever and I've done it numerous times since.
Part of the reason I don't want to start the quest is because it feels fake(er I suppose, since she is still standing there anyway), to be carrying around this letter, which seems time-sensitive and also adds a dialog option when you talk to him, to not mention it. The same applies with the amulet quest. When that NPC is present I just avoid going up to the tower via that path to draw it out.
It's also quite uncomfortable the lack of virgins, the only ones were Alistair, Merrill and Morrigan, all the others, well...poor Inquisitor, she/he didn't got one.
It's also quite uncomfortable the lack of virgins, the only ones were Alistair, Merrill and Morrigan, all the others, well...poor Inquisitor, she/he didn't got one.
It's also quite uncomfortable the lack of virgins, the only ones were Alistair, Merrill and Morrigan, all the others, well...poor Inquisitor, she/he didn't got one.
I think the problem with many of the romances in DA:I (as someone mentioned) is pacing, I'm not sure how the in game dialogue works, but it seems possible to go the whole game without having any companion comment on your romance (during my first play through, it occurred only once, and it was near the end game when I was in the Hissing Wastes). In my current play through I've had Bull mention it and Varric brought it up when Cassandra tried to question him about Bianca. I'm 90 hours into this play through; this time I've tried to mix up my party, and that might be part of the problem. I actually used Blackwall a bit more with Cassandra and they had some dialogue, he said nothing about the Cass and Inquisitor romance, apparently he says something rather neat to Cassandra that 'love suits her'.
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Moreover, if your romance is with Cassandra, it is contingent with who becomes Divine. This is tricky if someone is trying to a make a cannon play through, because you the player don't have the deciding vote in who becomes the Divine. Let's say you want Leliana to become Divine, and the romance with Cassandra to continue. The game takes variables and then it decides who is to become Divine, which means that if you mess up this one part in your 90 hour or more cannon play through, what are you going to do go back twenty or so hours to have a "better talk" with Leliana to get her picked instead? The game does not have an option that takes into account an opinion that is more neutral, if you conscript the mages, you can't for instance tell Leliana afterwards that you did it because "people who were part of a civil war should not get a free pass no matter how pitiful they look," that you would have done the same to the Templers and plan only to keep the mages until the sky is sealed and the enemy lies dead. Which would have served as the dialogue option that spread the points out a bit more evenly, between all three candidates. I think Bioware dropped the ball when it came to picking the Divine, especially considering the Cassandra romance. A bitter ending to a "sweet romance", will just make the whole romance seem bitter to the player (yes it is a shame, but that is how most people think), keeping in mind how the game picks the Divine, said system will make the player feel rather helpless in changing the outcome of the romance (unless they are willing to go back many hours, or start over), which is just asking to have the players react poorly to your game. I would never argue that Bioware writers change their writing, but I would argue that since RPGs, are a medium that have a great deal of agency (it is a major selling point in such video games) that they always give the player a clear 'out' from the "bitter ending". It would solve a lot of problems.
Josephine is one. Cullen may be one as well.
Where was it said Morrigan was?
She is not familiar to any normal behaviour, not even to shake hands, also, their only guests seemed to be Templars chasing them and she turns mad when Isabella offers sex.
Why is that uncomfortable?
All the characters are adults, after all.
Just my opinion, not big fan of promiscuous characters like Zevran, Isabella or Bull, is there anything wrong with that?
It's also quite uncomfortable the lack of virgins, the only ones were Alistair, Merrill and Morrigan, all the others, well...poor Inquisitor, she/he didn't got one.
I think Alistair is the only LI ever explicitly stated to be a virgin. It's easy to infer that Merrill and Josephine are, as well, but I don't think it's ever actually confirmed. No idea where you're getting Morrigan from.
Anyway, my Inquisitors generally prefer experience over innocence, so that's worked out well for them so far.
She is not familiar to any normal behaviour, not even to shake hands, also, their only guests seemed to be Templars chasing them and she turns mad when Isabella offers sex.
Just my opinion, not big fan of promiscuous characters like Zevran, Isabella or Bull, is there anything wrong with that?
She is not familiar to any normal behaviour, not even to shake hands, also, their only guests seemed to be Templars chasing them and she turns mad when Isabella offers sex.
I guess. She still strikes me as someone who has been with a couple partners though.
But anyway, I was mainly just trying to point out that Dragon Age: Inquisition offer at least one virgin LI. Bioware has done that for as long as I've played their games.
KOTOR: Bastila
Jade Empire: Can't remember which one, but it's been pointed out
What's the fun in virgins anyway? Virgin is another word for "inexperienced noob who is going to have no idea what they're doing and are going to give you nothing but crappy sex until they get more experience". I don't understand why people and fiction always talk about how great virgins are, not when virgins are about as skilled at sex as a dog is at building a computer. Having sex with a virgin is only worth it if you really do love them enough to deal with them being really bad at it the first few times, the feelings you have for them gives you enough patience to accept a certain level sexual incompetence. Like Isabella says, sex when right is the best feeling in the world but sex done wrong can make you sick... Well, virgins are pretty much perfect examples of "doing it wrong". Have sex with someone who's got some experience under their belt can give you an actually-good time, they know what they're doing and have skill enough to be fun. Say what you will about sl*ts, but at least they know what they're doing once the clothes come off. Virgins on the other hand are as clumsy when the clothes come off as a toddler who's taken their first steps at walking.
I think Alistair is the only LI ever explicitly stated to be a virgin. It's easy to infer that Merrill and Josephine are, as well, but I don't think it's ever actually confirmed. No idea where you're getting Morrigan from.
Leliana tells the Inquisitor that Josephine is an innocent when it comes to those matters.
What's the fun in virgins anyway? Virgin is another word for "inexperienced noob who is going to have no idea what they're doing and are going to give you nothing but crappy sex until they get more experience". I don't understand why people and fiction always talk about how great virgins are, not when virgins are about as skilled at sex as a dog is at building a computer. Having sex with a virgin is only worth it if you really do love them enough to deal with them being really bad at it the first few times, the feelings you have for them gives you enough patience to accept a certain level sexual incompetence. Like Isabella says, sex when right is the best feeling in the world but sex done wrong can make you sick... Well, virgins are pretty much perfect examples of "doing it wrong". Have sex with someone who's got some experience under their belt can give you an actually-good time, they know what they're doing and have skill enough to be fun. Say what you will about sl*ts, but at least they know what they're doing once the clothes come off. Virgins on the other hand are as clumsy when the clothes come off as a toddler who's taken their first steps at walking.
Well, I can see the appeal in a virgin. For a male, anyway. Not everyone likes the same kind of thing in the bedroom.
You can pretty much teach them exactly how you like things without prior experience getting in the way.
And if there is love involved, I suspect there would be some sense of pride in being someone's first. A privilege if you will. You have been chosen above all others to be given something that the giver may hold dear to them.
*shrugs*
Just another way of looking at it.
And trust me, there are plenty of people that are promiscuous and are still a big pile of crap when it comes to sex.
I am sorry if this is already a thread, I am sure it is, but I had to contribute. I am disappointed in the lack of romances in this DA game. The only options if you are a straight dude are Cassandra, Josephine, and Sera.
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I like Cassandra but Josephine is also the only option if you want to play a gay female character, so that sort of takes away from it.
Funny how people ignore that Sera is a lesbian when talking about the lesbian romances.
And Sera is fugly as hell. I mean, the only female elf we get in the game and it looks like she was hit with an ugly stick at birth. Weak. If you play as a gay guy all you have is Dorian. One option, one.
Also Bull, but don't let facts get in the way here.
If you are a straight female all you have is Iron Bull or Cullen.
Also Solas, but don't let facts get in the way here.
That is it. I feel like Bioware has done so well with romances in the past and they just got lazy for DAI.
I feel like you just got lazy with your research and fact checking.
I got the mockery in the comment, right, I let you "normal" people discuss away.
More on topic, after Origins, males have less romance options, while a female elf has nearly twice.
Oh, no, putting virginity on a pedestal is statistically normal, but that does not make it a healthy psychological, social, phenomenon. The opposite can been seen in all manner of countries, one needs not even look at the theocratic ones that make it policy.
And if there is love involved, I suspect there would be some sense of pride in being someone's first. A privilege if you will. You have been chosen above all others to be given something that the giver may hold dear to them.
Oh please. You make it sound as if you (not you specifically, "you" in general) are some prophesied chosen one destined to deflower the fair maiden, as if virginity is a *thing* that you can hold in your hand with tangible value and worth. No, the reality is that whoever you were with arbitrarily decided through no actual method of deduction or line of reasoning that you (again not you specifically) were just pretty or handsome enough to want to see naked, which made them work up the courage (either by sucking it up and taking the risk or with some help from drugs or alcohol) to ask you if they can rub their genitals with yours.
7 billion people on this Earth, neither the virgin nor the person taking the virginity is special, and the act of the virginity being taken isn't some sacred ritual. No young people in any developed country actually cares who they first have sex with. People will tell you they want to wait until marriage or whatever other rationale they have, then they turn around and go to a w***ehouse or a college party or another respected establishment to get their cherry popped, because people are hypocrites who don't hold themselves to the same standards that they hold everyone else to.
And now I look forward to the internet date doctors telling me that I'm jealous, lonely, and bitter because I don't hold any value in their precious virginity or their weird fetishization of said virginity.
It's about time someone made a thread about this subject. It has been ignored for far too long.
there was already a thread, but it was on the feedback and suggestions section which is pretty much dead, along with the rest of sections excluding this and the Off Topic