Off Topic Discussion Megathread

[RobynDaBank]

Origins = 2 >>>>>> Inquisition for me. I liked 2 because of Fenris, Aveline and my jokey Hawke. Inquisition's companions are 99% a travesty. One dimensional characters. Sera ate my head off. Vivienne was at full odds with me. It nagged me that I couldn't do the content of a few people just because I didn't please them enough. Catherine, for example. I loved the rivalry system in 2; my Hawke was in an angsty relationship with Fenris, because she wanted to support the mages in their cause - well, not as far as a certain mage went towards the end... - and Fenris didn't like that one bit.

[Kolsykol]

Origins = 2 >>>>>> Inquisition for me. I liked 2 because of Fenris, Aveline and my jokey Hawke. Inquisition's companions are 99% a travesty. One dimensional characters. Sera ate my head off. Vivienne was at full odds with me. It nagged me that I couldn't do the content of a few people just because I didn't please them enough. Catherine, for example. I loved the rivalry system in 2; my Hawke was in an angsty relationship with Fenris, because she wanted to support the mages in their cause - well, not as far as a certain mage went towards the end... - and Fenris didn't like that one bit.

Honestly I never even finished Inquisition, I think I only rly played the first third maybe less then got bored and just forgot about the game ( I got to the castle and that was it basically ).
Origins tho is among my fave, 2 was a huge let-down but at least I finished it ( part of that was probably hype ).
It was clearly rushed tho the pacing was very bizarre and dungeons were copy-paste.

The companions were way better than what little I saw in Inquisition at least.
I actually kinda liked them in DA2, you had a pretty wide variety of different personalities.
In Inquisition even tho they were different I just remember them being very flat.

I really couldn't stand Anders tho, I dunno if this is when gay characters started to become something talked about I can't remember.
But I remember being really annoyed because of how obnoxiously it was written, even tho I kept rejecting him he kept wanting to get into my male Hawke's pants.
Basically you had to pick every bad dialogue option with him or the game would basically treat it like you're trying to romance him.

The tone really shifted pretty hard in DA2 I felt and it seems to have continued shifting.
DA:Origins was more gritty and a bit more down to earth, DA2 turned it more into a comicbook, it feels more like a Marvel movie.
I mean normally I'd be more open to a fantasy game like that but it wasn't what DA was from the beginning, it really felt like totally different people with a totally different vision took over completely after Origins.

[Misplaced_Marbles]

It nagged me that I couldn't do the content of a few people just because I didn't please them enough.

Me too. I always disliked how you need to have dissociative identity disorder in order to get all companion quests (except in origins where you can just give them gifts, which made the entire system arbitrary), which also means there's no conflict since everyone's your best buddy. Also, some of those dislike reactions (especially in origins. I still remember when you promise to save that old blacksmiths daughter in Redcliffe and Sten just starts spouting nonsense) seem to be there just for someone to disagree with you. There should have been some secondary respect system that doesn't require everyone being your friend to get the quests.