Dragon Age Inquisition
I thought this game would probably tank the already-faint hope of me getting my book done on deadline and instead it is going to save me, because I have bribed myself: I don't get to play until I have written at least a thousand words. Result: have written seven thousand words in last seven days. WOOOO guilt-free gaming.
I would be romping around Thedas as we speak tbh, but I am at my mom's place for Thanksgiving. Hope all of you celebrating are having a great day too! <3 This morning there was parade-watching, then drive out, then all the food, and then ALL the desserts, and then it took 1.5 hours to get Hypatia to sleep because she had napped in the car and had also managed to get her hands on the giant dark chocolate disk off one of the tarts.
ANYWAY, I ended up doing a female elven inquisitor first (she has white hair and is a mage and is named Elsa because I pander to my small child) and I've been really enjoying a bunch of stuff.
NOTE: please do not spoil me for anything I haven't seen yet, esp romances and companion quests, since I can already tell I'm going to be doing more playthroughs. And if you are wondering whether it is safe to look at my spoilers, I'm at Skyhold, just finished the thing at Adamant, I have not done the Orlais court quest, and I am in the process of romancing Solas (and really enjoying that).
I've only just reached the second kissing bit, so don't tell me anything that comes after. :D I was debating who to romance, and I kind of didn't LIKE Solas very much, but he won me in that moment after the destruction of Haven and the singing where he was all, they're going to get down on elves again the second they know where the orb came from, which struck me as grim and right, and I felt like my Inquisitor after that would have been totally on board with him.
Now I have a story in me where after dealing with Corypheus, the Inquisitor somehow gets chased out/discredited (I wouldn't be surprised if this were an actual outcome, it feels like they're having lots of characters and codexes hinting in that direction, but I have no idea and DON'T tell me please if you do), and she decides she's going to go rescue the remnants of her clan and pull them together and essentially try and gather the Dalish and use the things she's learned, teach them and reclaim more of their heritage, and she asks Solas to come with her, and he agrees even though he's never thought much of the Dalish before her, and then off they go to change the future for the elves.
The one thing that's really frustrated me so far is that I literally had zero emotional reaction to the destruction of my clan, even though I was training to become the Keeper eventually and loved them enough to risk my life infiltrating the Conclave for them.
That's actually, spoiler-free, the main issue with all the DA games. They are good enough that the moments when they aren't good are really frustrating. Every so often there is a moment where I am all, OK, wait a second, my inquisitor (or character X) needs to have some kind of emotional reaction to this, and they don't. And if you NEVER got to have a reaction, you'd just fill it in yourself and wouldn't expect it, but because you like 90% of the time DO get to have a reaction, the handful of key moments where you don't is really immersion-breaking.
Or the thing where the dialogue paraphrases are too often misleading -- I hate it when I choose a response and then the actual reply is totally not what I meant, which I dislike especially in the companion conversations where it has an actual impact -- I'm totally fine getting disapproval when I actually MEAN for my inquisitor to disagree, but not when she's saying things she would not say! grump.
Anyway! Talk to me about Inquisition! What Inquisitors are you playing?
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I would be romping around Thedas as we speak tbh, but I am at my mom's place for Thanksgiving. Hope all of you celebrating are having a great day too! <3 This morning there was parade-watching, then drive out, then all the food, and then ALL the desserts, and then it took 1.5 hours to get Hypatia to sleep because she had napped in the car and had also managed to get her hands on the giant dark chocolate disk off one of the tarts.
ANYWAY, I ended up doing a female elven inquisitor first (she has white hair and is a mage and is named Elsa because I pander to my small child) and I've been really enjoying a bunch of stuff.
NOTE: please do not spoil me for anything I haven't seen yet, esp romances and companion quests, since I can already tell I'm going to be doing more playthroughs. And if you are wondering whether it is safe to look at my spoilers, I'm at Skyhold, just finished the thing at Adamant, I have not done the Orlais court quest, and I am in the process of romancing Solas (and really enjoying that).
I've only just reached the second kissing bit, so don't tell me anything that comes after. :D I was debating who to romance, and I kind of didn't LIKE Solas very much, but he won me in that moment after the destruction of Haven and the singing where he was all, they're going to get down on elves again the second they know where the orb came from, which struck me as grim and right, and I felt like my Inquisitor after that would have been totally on board with him.
Now I have a story in me where after dealing with Corypheus, the Inquisitor somehow gets chased out/discredited (I wouldn't be surprised if this were an actual outcome, it feels like they're having lots of characters and codexes hinting in that direction, but I have no idea and DON'T tell me please if you do), and she decides she's going to go rescue the remnants of her clan and pull them together and essentially try and gather the Dalish and use the things she's learned, teach them and reclaim more of their heritage, and she asks Solas to come with her, and he agrees even though he's never thought much of the Dalish before her, and then off they go to change the future for the elves.
The one thing that's really frustrated me so far is that I literally had zero emotional reaction to the destruction of my clan, even though I was training to become the Keeper eventually and loved them enough to risk my life infiltrating the Conclave for them.
That's actually, spoiler-free, the main issue with all the DA games. They are good enough that the moments when they aren't good are really frustrating. Every so often there is a moment where I am all, OK, wait a second, my inquisitor (or character X) needs to have some kind of emotional reaction to this, and they don't. And if you NEVER got to have a reaction, you'd just fill it in yourself and wouldn't expect it, but because you like 90% of the time DO get to have a reaction, the handful of key moments where you don't is really immersion-breaking.
Or the thing where the dialogue paraphrases are too often misleading -- I hate it when I choose a response and then the actual reply is totally not what I meant, which I dislike especially in the companion conversations where it has an actual impact -- I'm totally fine getting disapproval when I actually MEAN for my inquisitor to disagree, but not when she's saying things she would not say! grump.
Anyway! Talk to me about Inquisition! What Inquisitors are you playing?
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