I finally finished Dragon Age.

[prisoner__24601]

I kind of feel like I just ran a marathon or something. I have no idea how you all ended up beating the game so damn quickly, because it took me like 90+ hours to finish it (and I didn't even do everything). True, probably 20 of those hours were spent with the game idle and me afk chasing after the anklebiters or making dinner or whatever, but

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[rose70]

Yay, someone else to discuss it with! Heather and I have been alone until now

[prisoner__24601]

After I picked Anora there was definitely some game goofyness. For one thing, at one point Alistair started talking about how people keep looking at him because he's their king and I was all WTF? But that seemed to be the extent of it. Everyone else seemed to go with it the rest of the time.

I think maybe it took so long because I just suck at combat. I played on normal (which seemed more like hard to me), and parts of the game were rather difficult for me. During several main battles, I kept dying and I had to reload a lot.

The banter was really fun. I kept swapping people out too just to see what they'd do. My husband is playing too, so I get to see some of the stuff I missed (he seems to be much better at triggering it than I was). I don't think I'll play through the rest of the game again to catch stuff I missed. I think I'll probably just go to you tube and find the banter I didn't get.

[rose70]

It might be a bridge thing, because I noticed that near the bridges in Lothering and Redcliffe Village too.

[prisoner__24601]

I'm guessing that people hate Anora because Alistair can marry her and she gets to be Queen (if you choose that route), but their character can't (unless you play human noble). But I might be wrong about this. I haven't poked around enough to tell yet, but I'm just getting that vibe that the Alistair fangirls are going to hate her.

I liked her too. She's pragmatic, intelligent and self serving, and she and Alistair make sense as a royal couple. If he hadn't been so adamant about not being king, I probably would have insisted that they get married.

[singblueeyes]

Yeah...what can I say. I loves me some Alistair. Might have something to do with the fact that I married a sweet, shy, slightly awkward hottie...heheh ... but, in the end, it was Alistair's ability to rip the heads of darkspawn that thawed my cold little heart. Seriously...I tanked this guy out, and when the entire party went down, I could keep the game rolling as he cleaned up the mess.
Although, I completely agree on not making him king. He doesn't want it. He's pledged his life and death to the wardens. There's someone perfectly qualified to do the job.
As for Sten romances...after hearing this http://video.aol.co.uk/video-detail/sten-and-morrigan-party-banter-dragon-age-origins/858093100 my dwarven tank is ALL OVER THAT. Want nOW!!! LOL

[prisoner__24601]

OMG! hahahahahahaha. I die. See, I want to be all pissed at Bioware for putting an obvious Canderous type in the game, and then they do shit like that, and it makes me forgive them. I loved the dialogue with him about cookies and the Leliana/Sten banter about picking flowers and "kitten training" too.

Yeah Alistair totally does kick ass in the game. When he's all tanked out, he's really useful. Plus he gets all the cool finishing moves, which I have to admit, kinda hot, lol.

[prisoner__24601]

Also, I have to ask, but is it just me or is the majority of the Alistair romance fanfiction, Alistair/Cousland (the human noble?)? It seems like it is, and I'm wondering if it's because everyone played human female nobles or if it's because they desperately wanted the Queen ending and that's the only way to get it.

[singblueeyes]

*shrug*...mine's all elven mage, cuz then I can make it as fluffy as I wanna with the inherant knowledge that it's all gonna be filled with TEH PAIINZZZ later.

[singblueeyes]

Ohh...also...about Anora...my rage wasn't 'fangirlish' rage...it was "Did you just betray me and call me a kidnapper???" rage...very different thing. *glowers*
LOL

[prisoner__24601]

Oh yeah. When she betrayed me the first time, I was like "OMG THAT BITCH IS GOING DOWN!"

But then I decided that I didn't want another super tough fight so I reloaded and gave up. After that, she kind of grew on me because it's interesting to see someone that pragmatic and self serving in a game.

[trojanphoenix]

For me the Alistair thing is all about THE VOICE. Yep, shameless fangirl here.

[prisoner__24601]

I have to say that I thought the Alistair voice actor did an absolutely fantastic job bringing that character to life. I really did like him as a character, but I just kept seeing him like some kind of little brother.

I think maybe it's because it seems to me that Alistair isn't a guy that's grown into his manhood yet. He's still awkward in his own skin, he's still unsure of himself, etc.. if that makes any sense. And while I find that compelling in a character, I just don't find it particularly attractive in a romance. So I just couldn't get into him and enjoy the romance the way I did with Carth in KoTOR.

But I'm just really glad they got away from Carth clones and did something different. They definitely deserve credit for that - I just hope we're not going to see Alistair clones in the next ten Bioware games, lol.

[singblueeyes]

"I just hope we're not going to see Alistair clones in the next ten Bioware games, lol."

Have you SEEN the voice-acting awesomeness that's lined up in ME2...no...no AListair clones there...*squee*

[prisoner__24601]

No I haven't. I guess I should check it out. I need to replay ME before the sequel comes out, since I lost my old saves when I wiped this computer awhile back.