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[Zwomann]

I am just a somtimes gamer - and I love the game - the graphics were good enough for me, I liked the theme (don't get into the space theme ones too much), liked the gameplay (I am a mother of 4 and constantly get interrupted so I love the pausing ability),  I think the voices were *awesome* - and I am TOTALLY in love with Alistair... lol       I know - I am lame.    :-)   They could double his dialog and I still would want more! I smile everytime I think of the line "I haven't had the pleasurrreeeee..." lol    Gosh, I can't wait to get home and find time to play tonight!

My only complaint is that there should be more ways for happy endings... (spoiler) ... it should have let others besides human nobles end up with him and no one important dying. I mean - I spent how many hours of my life in this game - I want to feel good about it. This is my entertainment when I can claw my way away from the responsibilities of my life - I can't WAIT until I can find time to play the game for a few more hours.

I am not to the ending yet - only just got to Denerim. I wanted a wallpaper of Alistair and did a google search and when stuff like "Alistair dies" and "Alistair rejects you" comes up I freaked and HAD to click on the spoilers - I found out about the ending and started OVER as a human noble. I would have been LIVID and not even considered an expansion pack if I would have gotten one of those nasty endings with my mage after like 100 hours of gameplay...  I know - lame - but I need romance SOMEWHERE - lol. It was unexpected and TOTALLY damn delightful. That's part of the reason why I LOVE LOVE LOVE the game and not just say "It's a great game".

Anyway, I didn't think I could love a game more than Fable, but Bioware got my attention. I will really follow their stuff now. I hope someone at Bioware reads this and takes it as a consideration in the future. There has got to be others that feel the same way about allowing more happy endings...

[David Gaider]

SusanStoHelit wrote...
But ... the real issue here is that for most of those posting about the lack of a happy ending - they want that ending with Alistair and Morrigan. Because those are the two 'favourite' romanceable characters, insofar as I can tell, anyway.

That's my impression as well. Some people seem to want a happy ending, no strings attached and nothing unpleasant involved in achieving that happy ending, with the romance of their choice. I get the desire behind wanting it -- but as far as I'm concerned there are plenty of "happy" endings. You are a hero, ending a Blight before it even truly began, and there are romances that do continue on just fine.

Not every romance can have a happy ending? And there's no way to be completely happy with no dark clouds on the horizon? Well there you go. This is not romantic fantasy -- which is what that notion is, regardless of whether there is an actual romance involved it is still a romantic ideal. And that's part of the point. We wanted our ending to be powerful, and memorable, and while I understand perfectly that some people simply want escapism that's just not what this game is meant to deliver.

Now, that said, am I saying that every ending ever for Dragon Age must be bittersweet? (Because that's what I would call the over tone of the endings.) Not at all. Different stories will no doubt hit different notes, because we'll want to try different things. I will say, however, that we could have gone a lot darker had we wished to -- the potential is certainly there -- so I'm by no means promising happy cloud fun times from here on in.

Modifié par David Gaider, 02 février 2010 - 04:29 .

[David Gaider]

Sabriana wrote...
Alistair is a former templar, he could threaten the Chantry to shut up or be exposed. He could also just overrule the Chantry, and dismember their army somehow. The nobles would be another thing, but perhaps her hero-status would help. However, even that could all end in civil unrest, lickety split.

Indeed. Even if people didn't actually think the PC was controlling the King's mind (or the minds of his opponents), the idea that it could happen would be too much to swallow. And there's nothing about the Chantry to be exposed, incidentally. The fact that templars take lyrium isn't well-known, but it isn't hidden. The Chantry would be leading the nobility in their charge (and with the Chantry goeth the common folk).