Finished Dragon Age

[melchar]

After leaving it alone for months, I went back and finished 'Dragon Age' [with my female elf mage, got the good ending & survived]. The ending bits were fun & IMO there should be an 'acheivement' for watching the end credits of the game. ^_^

Starting 'Bioshock 2' now.

Comments

[melchar.livejournal.com]

That's adorable! ...and yes, Alistair deserves some smackage.

I have a tendency to play the all good sorts of character. Hmmm....no, not quite the right description. Ah! I play kleptomaniacs with a heart of gold: unable to overlook or ignore 'the shinies' as I go about saving the world.

[seawasp]

It's a shame, I really liked Alistair.

Maybe I need to play through as one who insists on being the ruler him/herself. "I did the goddamn work, now I'm the goddamn Batm...er, King!"

[melchar.livejournal.com]

The ending with my mage girl - setting Anora on the throne as queen - made me kind of contemplative. That royal line is SO doomed. As a solo queen, the notes post-game says she never marries/never has kids. Any male warden who would get the throne [Alistair or a male noble PC] are sterile.

If you go to the next closer relative, Arl Eamon, his only child is a mage ... and it doesn't look like Eamon is going to have another kid - though -that- would be something, at least.

Other than that, it's the Landsmeet and chaos. ^_^

[seawasp]

The PC could easily fix THAT bit. "I've seen everything, I've done everything. I can reason with you all. And if you won't LISTEN, I can WHIP YOU ALL. With my BARE HANDS. And all of your guards, too. AT ONCE.

"So we are going to be reasonable, and civilized, and we will WORK THROUGH our disagreements. Or we will go back to the Bad Old Days, and we will STILL end up doing things my way, but in that case a lot of you will be spending long and painful days with the healers. Choose. Choose WISELY."

[seawasp]

Which reminds me of two other things in Oblivion that annoy me:

1) Allies who INSIST on leaping IN FRONT OF YOU just as you swing your sword or fire off that spell, so that you kill them and suddenly it's all "Stop right there, Evildoer! Your spree is at an end!" and the Assassin's Guild contacting me because I'm a "cold blooded killer".

2) I was CHOSEN for this mission by your last Emperor before he died, I'm the frickin' Hero of Kvatch, the Archmage, the Champion of the Arena, [EDIT: the Divine Crusader, bane of Umaril the Unfeathered], the man who closed a dozen Oblivion gates BY HIMSELF, and the person who rescued Martin, brought him what he needed, held off the hordes of Hell, and was PART of the battle against Mehrunes Dagon and Martin-Turned-Dragon. (A) Just who else do you THINK should be your next choice for Emperor? and (B) Why do you all react to me in conversation as though I was still some first-level dweeb? If I *do* go berserk in your town, do you think anything short of the Nine Themselves can STOP me?