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[Xilizhra]

New protagonist. Maybe have the Inquisitor as a cameo, but in my opinion, the Inquisitor was fundamentally the weakest protagonist in the series, caught in a worst-of-both-worlds situation between Origins and 2, and I don't really want to spend any more time with her.

[Elista]

I want a new character and then, all four heroes playable in DA5. A cameo in a mission in DA4 where you take control of your Quizzy would be cool too.

I would like a new one in DA4 because I hope that playing a Qunari will be more relevant than it was in DAi. I really want to play a Qunari but it doesn't make much sense in the current game, so... go for a Tevinter slave !

[maxernst]

I opted for a new protagonist with an Inquisitor cameo for continuity, though the dual protagonists idea is kind of interesting.  I find it striking that there isn't a larger number of people who want the Inquisitor back, because when DA2 came out there were a LOT of people who seemed to want the Warden back.

 

And I hope that the different possible character backgrounds should all fit well into the story and matter.

[Hanako Ikezawa]

Inquisitor or Dual Protagonists. Don't want just a new protagonist and definitely do not want Inquisitor to have a cameo like Hawke. They butchered Hawke and do not want the same to happen again with Inquisitor. 

[Former_Fiend]

I'm not against the dual protagonist concept in general; a lot of my favorite games have had multiple protagonists and worked well. Legacy of Kain: Defiance, Rise of the Kasai, and more recently, GTA V have all been good studies in how to do it well.

 

But I don't see how it could work with Bioware's structure for their games. The key to it for me is that the protagonists need to have a very stark contrast with each other - visually, in terms of personality, and in terms of abilities. If one is big and strong, the other needs to be slim and quick. If one is cool and collected, the other needs to be hotblooded. That kind of thing. 

 

And with as much control as Bioware gives us, I just don't see a way that can work. We can make it work, certainly, but we can also end up with two protagonist that, whatever their backgrounds, are basically clones of each other.

[Eivuwan]

The number of new responses have slowed to a crawl. Looks like these are the final percentages.

[Xilizhra]

Do people really like the Inquisitor enough to want to spend more time with them? For those who do, I'm curious as to why.

[AresKeith]

Do people really like the Inquisitor enough to want to spend more time with them? For those who do, I'm curious as to why.

 

Because they liked playing as them? 

[Eivuwan]

Do people really like the Inquisitor enough to want to spend more time with them? For those who do, I'm curious as to why.

 

It's not so much about liking the inquisitor. I think it's more about players who feel strongly about Solas (whether it's love or hate). It just won't feel the same to redeem/defeat him with a new character.

[jlb524]

Do people really like the Inquisitor enough to want to spend more time with them? For those who do, I'm curious as to why.

IDK myself...I'm so done with the Inquisitor.

Or, the Warden for that matter.

[HurraFTP]

Do people really like the Inquisitor enough to want to spend more time with them? For those who do, I'm curious as to why.

 

Of course!

Why?
This game gave me  plenty of room to imagine my character and the writing and voice acting were neutral enough to not contradict what I was trying to RP at every corners.

I really enjoyed the game a lot.
I like the slow pacing of the evenements, letting me time to adjust to what just happen and thinking about what will come next.
Because of that, my Inquisitor has become the more fleshed out of all my characters in a Bioware game. I've spend a lot of time thinking about a lot of details about his life, his childhood, his taste, his hopes, his fears...

Also, the theme of the game was "faith" (not only in a deist sense) and it was far more easy for me to come up with something personal than, for example, in ME3 and the "sacrifice" theme.

By the way, I was playing a qunari and i keep reading here and there how they don't fit the story and... I don't know, I'm a bit weird or something but I was happy that the game let me play as the "wrong whatever", to paraphrase Sera.
It's makes me love him even more.

In short, I was able to put a little bit of myself in the world that Bioware has create and it was an enjoyable experience.

So...yeah, I want more if possible...
 

edit: double post...sorry!

[NoForgiveness]

Do people really like the Inquisitor enough to want to spend more time with them? For those who do, I'm curious as to why.

1) Voice. I used Alix on my first run and she was amazing. Lots of good emotions to connect me to my character. That's coming from someone who was dreading Ser Cauthrien 3.0(barf)

2) Hawke's personality was basically either nice, funny or angry and that was really as far as your choices went. But those personalities were also extremes. You were really nice, really funny or really angry. That didn't really leave room to hop around and still be believably in character. In inquisition that was dialed back to make them more(but not completely) neutral. So then when the emotional responses come along, your character can have any reaction and it would be believably in character. For me, this meant that instead of my character being nice all the time with maybe some angry responses now and then(like Hawke) she could be sort of a mix of cold and nice with a dash of anger but could also smile and laugh as Sera's accomplice.

3) Race selection because elf.

4) Trespasser spoilers, in case someone is in here without having played it for some reason.

Spoiler

She's an armless ****** badass how is that not ****** awesome?? That makes her like this...

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[HurraFTP]

+ 1 (for your post as a whole and this part in particular)

 

4) Trespasser spoilers, in case someone is in here without having played it for some reason.

Spoiler

She's an armless ****** badass how is that not ****** awesome?? That makes her like this...

Spoiler

[Alejandrawrr]

Generally I'd prefer the Inquisitor (/HOF which is definitely not happening), BUT considering it seems we're going to a new region (Tevinter) with a completely new conflict, it makes sense that we have a new protagonist for DA4. Either a dual protagonist, or if DA4 will be entirely about the Tevinter conflict with the Elven stuff on the backburner (like DA2) then the Inquisitor can come back to finish business in DA5.
 

I'm not against the dual protagonist concept in general; a lot of my favorite games have had multiple protagonists and worked well. Legacy of Kain: Defiance, Rise of the Kasai, and more recently, GTA V have all been good studies in how to do it well.

 

But I don't see how it could work with Bioware's structure for their games. The key to it for me is that the protagonists need to have a very stark contrast with each other - visually, in terms of personality, and in terms of abilities. If one is big and strong, the other needs to be slim and quick. If one is cool and collected, the other needs to be hotblooded. That kind of thing. 

 

And with as much control as Bioware gives us, I just don't see a way that can work. We can make it work, certainly, but we can also end up with two protagonist that, whatever their backgrounds, are basically clones of each other.

 

While I understand your point, keep in mind you do control your character's personality, to an extent. I've had zero problem distinguishing 3 of my Inquisitors from each other, even with the significantly diminished freedom of choice compared to, say, DAO (or even DA2). So there's nothing stopping you from, in the event of dual protagonists, just making your new DA4 protagonist different from your Inquisitor.
 

Do people really like the Inquisitor enough to want to spend more time with them? For those who do, I'm curious as to why.

From a roleplay perspective, I'm pretty much running out of character concepts I want to play as, and for continuity's sake I don't want to keep creating the same character over and over. Not to mention tired of getting attached to my characters, only for them to vanish forever. Additionally, it feels the Inquisitor has unfinished business given the whole Solas stuff... It would feel cheap if they didn't get to experience the handling of that story arc, and were instead off in lala land/missing/whatever.

[actionhero112]

New protagonist. 

This game stops being dragon age as soon as it breaks from the new protagonist every game model. It becomes less about the time period and more about the inquisitor, which weakens the story overall. 

[Eivuwan]

New protagonist. 

This game stops being dragon age as soon as it breaks from the new protagonist every game model. It becomes less about the time period and more about the inquisitor, which weakens the story overall. 

 

Dragon age is whatever the writers want it to be. Focusing on the same protagonist for 2 games isn't that big of a deal. Many people want the inquisitor to go on to the next game because of the Solas relationship and not necessarily out of love for the PC. Besides, what is so special about a new player character anyway? Warden, Hawke, and Inquisitor can be played the same way with just the background being different.

[Nixou]

From a roleplay perspective, I'm pretty much running out of character concepts I want to play as, and for continuity's sake I don't want to keep creating the same character over and over

 

 

Here's a hint: take a chart of archetypal personality types, and use them as the basis for your characters.

For instance my Warden was an unapologetic Commander (motto: "I'm the strongest person in the room so either you do as I say or you get crushed, literally"), my Hawke a very unlucky Defender (motto: "I'll fight to the death to protect my loved ones! I'll fail half the time... but I'll fight!"), and my Inquisitor's a one armed Consul (motto: "In the name of Andraste... Could you all please refrain from burning the world down? That counts double for you, Solas"). Since the sequel bait involve Tevinter, chances are that my next PC will be a classical Protagonist type.

[midnight tea]

This game stops being dragon age as soon as it breaks from the new protagonist every game model. It becomes less about the time period and more about the inquisitor, which weakens the story overall. 

 

 

I disagree - the story won't be really going anywhere, nor leading to any satisfying conclusion if it's constantly dispersed, by cutting plot threads, decreasing scope, removing past protagonists and characters and overall returning to square one when it comes to the place of hero in story (basically, keep repeating "from zero to hero" formula ad nauseam).

 

This works for titles like The Elder Scrolls, with nearly entirely self-contained story... which Dragon Age titles aren't. Even if they're not connected with same protagonists, DA overall offers a much tighter story, happening in a specific, relatively short period of time and rather deeply connected with things that happened in past games.

 

And it's rather obvious from how things are shaping up that the devs have a clear idea as to where the story is going and want to, at one point, give it a very definitive end - and they seem to want to accomplish (and very logically so) by tightening the story even further and indeed making it more about specific characters. Teraspasser also makes it rather clear that whether there will a new protagonist, the main driving force in overarching story arc (whether it will be concluded in DA4 or later) will be the Inquisitor trying to stop Solas.

 

Why? Because Solas openly threatens to destroy the world, but also has a personal relationship with Quizzy no new protagonist can match - this relationship (whether positive or negative) was built through entire DAI, and the cat wolf's out of the bag already, so there's really no point repeating the process now.

 

That's not to say that there won't be a new protagonist - there likely would be. But we should likely prepare ourselves for Quizzy to get a significant role in DA4, because by dedicating themselves to stop/kill Solas they effectively became essential to the plot... and therefore yes - it's still Inquisitor's story, whether people like it or not.

[Moirin]

New protagonist. 

This game stops being dragon age as soon as it breaks from the new protagonist every game model. It becomes less about the time period and more about the inquisitor, which weakens the story overall. 

 

Having one protagonist return as protagonist for one more game in a series of (so far) four games in order for that protagonist to tie up loose ends (Solas) does not make Thedas stop being the protagonist of the series!

[Homeboundcrib]

Having one protagonist return as protagonist for one more game in a series of (so far) four games in order for that protagonist to tie up loose ends (Solas) does not make Thedas stop being the protagonist of the series!

Yes this is what I was trying to say, I don't know if it was on here or another tread lost my marbles lol. You can still explore a new world meet new people, places and all that while still playing as the inqusitior. Hope we get that chance

[StaceysChain]

Do people really like the Inquisitor enough to want to spend more time with them? For those who do, I'm curious as to why.

 

Yes, for the same reasons HurraFTP and NoForgiveness have given. As for DA4 I'd rather have a dual protagonist - the new DA4 one and the Inquisitor. That being said, if Bioware only give us a new PC then I want them to be similar to the Warden/Inquisitor - a character who's race, personality, opinions and (most of) background I as a player can choose. Hawke never felt my character - he/she felt like Bioware's character that I was given temporary control over, which became even more apparent to me in DAI. As for a quizzy-cameo - I'd rather not thanks. Bioware couldn't import Hawke properly for a lot of players and I think it would be impossible for them to import the Inquisitor considering players had more of a free reign with that character.

 

The only way I could see a quizzy-cameo working is:

1) He/she appears in the opening cutscene of the game, telling the DA4 PC what's at stake and ordering them to go to Tevinter

2) His/her voice is heard speaking to Dorian via his crystal

3) Letters 

[ZhengAn]

I'm kind of torn between:

Why I'd like inquisitor as protagonist: Solas arc, as mentioned a thousand times in this thread

Why I'd like a new protagonist: mainly because the tevinter background of da4. In the past, we always play as supressed mages. Imagine how exciting if we could play some sort of noble magister in tevinter. Or elf slaves. That would be an entirely different experience.

Dual protagonists seems to be a possible solution, but we all know it's really difficult to acheive a successful one, and really easy to ruin the game if not handled properly.

Though I know it's impossible, I'm still day dreaming we could play as the inquisitor, at the the same time, we are able to choose a tevinter background/identity. Maybe the inquisitor is require to fake their identity, act as a spy or something when entering tevinter?

[Marika Haliwell]

Inquisitor !

[actionhero112]

Having one protagonist return as protagonist for one more game in a series of (so far) four games in order for that protagonist to tie up loose ends (Solas) does not make Thedas stop being the protagonist of the series!

Did we ever tie up loose ends with the warden or  with Hawke? We got a cameo appearance, but we'll never really play again with either of those characters. Is the Inquisitor somehow entitled to an extra game when they are not? 

 

No. Every game that features the inquisitor as the protagonist after this game makes the series more about him/her, and less about the time period. Just like Mass Effect is Shepard's story, that turns Dragon Age into the Inquisitor's story. It weakens the other game's stories retroactively, as well as future protagonists. 

 

You may not like this, but it's true. Even one game upsets the balance. (Especially when there are only 3 games out currently) Passing the torch is the right thing to do here.

[Qun00]

4 options and the votes still are evenly divided.

Wow.