Dragon Age: OrANGE YOU GOING TO AWAKEN? - Page 2

DFM · 03-22-2010, 02:31 AM

What was your OC time?

Krylo · 03-22-2010, 03:12 AM

52.5 hours first time.

About 50 on my most recent.

Think I had a few 45ishes in the interim too, but that was without DLC and missing a few quests I got on my last one, so.

Roland · 03-23-2010, 02:34 AM

Jeez guys, I can barely run the first one as it is. I spent some time looking around and apparently I need a new graphics card in order for the game to not turn into molasses at even the lowest settings possible.

=/ I can't imagine myself playing the expansion for another... month or two. Which is like forever.

DFM · 03-24-2010, 12:46 AM

JUST BEAT IT

I sided with the Architect (Sort of, I guess) and decided to stay and defend the city, seeing as how I'd left Alternate Universe Alistair and the Incarnate of Justice to tag team the defense of Vigil's Keep. I think my character has this thing with achieving great worldly success at the expense of massive personal failure. I think I got the best world-wide ending you could hope for, Dark Spawn are almost universally and willingly retreating further underground with a chance that there will be no more blights, the city survives largely intact, rebuilt in a matter of days. The keep was slightly worse off, most of the soldiers there died but it held off the darkspawn and didn't buckle. The land hits a new golden age of trade and prosperity, yay for me.

But man I must have treated my companions like shit because they all got awful endings. I mean, some of them weren't awful but none of them were good. Like, Nathan quit the Wardens (Can you do that? I mean is that even possible?) after a few months and disappeared, his nephew took up the mantle later on, becoming a legendary warrior and redeeming the Howe name. Sigrun just kind of wandered off into the deep roads, looking for more darkspawn to kill and no one ever saw her again. The Elf Bitch stayed with the Wardens for a number of years, even overcoming her racism and saving a human town from the darkspawn without even making a snarky comments about weakling shems needing an elf to protect them. But one day on a deep roads excursion she thought she saw her sister, ran off, and was never seen again. Anders blasted the fuck out of the darkspawn during the siege and everyone said he was a hero and he was pretty happy being a hero and then I guess one day he got tired of being a grey warden too (Seriously what the fuck is with my desertion rate I've got maxed coercion you'd think I'd be able to like talk somebody out of abandoning their new life duty) so he ran off and since he wasn't a grey warden anymore (I don't know how that works still) the Chantry hunted him across the land but never even got close and he was never seen again. Justice got his head chopped off in the siege and nobody knows if that means he's dead now or what the fuck happened. The Darkspawn Disciple I let go struck off on his own and tales followed of a cloaked rider, a black phantom who would strike from the shadows and defend travelers and settlers from bandits and wildlife, became something of a folk hero. He also spread darkspawn taint wherever he went but nobody put two and two together.

On the other hand I sort of quit the grey wardens too because after a couple months at Vigil's I was like "Fuck this I'm a Queen and I'm married to a hot, sexy King. I'm off to sexy times." and rode back to Denerim where Alistair was waiting with his goofy, lovable grin.

I AM GOOD AT SNAGGING MEN BUT NOT INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS OR INSPIRING LOYALTY, I GUESS.

Mannix · 03-24-2010, 05:20 PM

how is the ending bit if you side with the townsfolk instead of the smugglers? I accidentally sided with the smugglers because I thought it would help me resupply the keep, which it didn't and it said that they grew in size and power until they totally bought off the city guard and took over the legitimate markets, driving out the normal businessmen.

also, everybody stayed with me in the end and it was pretty happy, except justice who got his head lopped off because i didn't do his loyalty quest and that elf broad got crushed by a segment of falling wall but they never found a body for the same reason. oh, and that dwarf rogue eventually just wandered into the deeproads after a couple of years to die in battle. everybody else stayed with the wardens permanently and were the stuff of legend; even the guards and that shepherd guy i spared and nathaniel's son as well.

did anybody find a way to talk the rioters down instead of having to massacre them?

I wonder how many different personal endings there are, as mine was i pretty much just rode off into the sunset, the lone badass.

Krylo · 03-24-2010, 07:19 PM

I didn't get to side with either. I was going to side with the town guard, but had already taken the smuggler quest, and both sides got pissed at me.

And the rioters are kind of an enigma. There's all kinds of hidden details to that. The persuade check is impossible unless you do this, except for if you do that, and then for five hours on wednesday you have to face east and pray to the anti-mecca. It's the DA version of the suicide quest.

And there's a different personal ending for each love interest, plus depending on how you decided to spend your time after the game, by my understanding. So lots. Morrigan one is kind of bugged, though, but, amusingly enough it's an Origins problem, as opposed to an Awakenings problem. Morrigan technically breaks up with you if you've done the full romance and talk to her in the city of Denerim during the assault. Gets set to friendly. This is also the trigger to get the epilogue about her feeling regret/sorrow through your ring. However, because Awakenings checks to see who you were at 'love' with when assigning you an epilogue card, Morrigan romances get shit. I'm guessing a patch will fall through that makes you stay at love with Morrigan through the end of Origins soonish.

They all end with you disappearing after some number of years with the 'no one believed his/her adventures were over' hook, though.

Funka Genocide · 03-24-2010, 07:20 PM

fuck it I give up. Didn't even know this was out and you assholes have all ready beaten it, whipped it and made it say your name.

I don't even know why I bother anymore.

Jagos · 03-24-2010, 08:02 PM

Because it's your destiny as a Grey Warden, mortal!

Solid Snake · 03-24-2010, 08:28 PM

...Wait.

Why exactly is the woman naked, again?

Krylo · 03-24-2010, 08:28 PM

Because DFM downloads nude mods.

03-22-2010, 02:31 AM	#11
DFM Om Nom Nom Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 3,850	What was your OC time? __________________ [14:26] ManoftheRus: YOU GODDAMN SNEAKY DEE

03-22-2010, 03:12 AM	#12
Krylo The Straightest Shota Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: It's a secret to everybody. Posts: 17,789	52.5 hours first time. About 50 on my most recent. Think I had a few 45ishes in the interim too, but that was without DLC and missing a few quests I got on my last one, so. __________________ I am very tired.

03-24-2010, 12:46 AM	#14
DFM Om Nom Nom Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 3,850	JUST BEAT IT I sided with the Architect (Sort of, I guess) and decided to stay and defend the city, seeing as how I'd left Alternate Universe Alistair and the Incarnate of Justice to tag team the defense of Vigil's Keep. I think my character has this thing with achieving great worldly success at the expense of massive personal failure. I think I got the best world-wide ending you could hope for, Dark Spawn are almost universally and willingly retreating further underground with a chance that there will be no more blights, the city survives largely intact, rebuilt in a matter of days. The keep was slightly worse off, most of the soldiers there died but it held off the darkspawn and didn't buckle. The land hits a new golden age of trade and prosperity, yay for me. But man I must have treated my companions like shit because they all got awful endings. I mean, some of them weren't awful but none of them were good. Like, Nathan quit the Wardens (Can you do that? I mean is that even possible?) after a few months and disappeared, his nephew took up the mantle later on, becoming a legendary warrior and redeeming the Howe name. Sigrun just kind of wandered off into the deep roads, looking for more darkspawn to kill and no one ever saw her again. The Elf Bitch stayed with the Wardens for a number of years, even overcoming her racism and saving a human town from the darkspawn without even making a snarky comments about weakling shems needing an elf to protect them. But one day on a deep roads excursion she thought she saw her sister, ran off, and was never seen again. Anders blasted the fuck out of the darkspawn during the siege and everyone said he was a hero and he was pretty happy being a hero and then I guess one day he got tired of being a grey warden too (Seriously what the fuck is with my desertion rate I've got maxed coercion you'd think I'd be able to like talk somebody out of abandoning their new life duty) so he ran off and since he wasn't a grey warden anymore (I don't know how that works still) the Chantry hunted him across the land but never even got close and he was never seen again. Justice got his head chopped off in the siege and nobody knows if that means he's dead now or what the fuck happened. The Darkspawn Disciple I let go struck off on his own and tales followed of a cloaked rider, a black phantom who would strike from the shadows and defend travelers and settlers from bandits and wildlife, became something of a folk hero. He also spread darkspawn taint wherever he went but nobody put two and two together. On the other hand I sort of quit the grey wardens too because after a couple months at Vigil's I was like "Fuck this I'm a Queen and I'm married to a hot, sexy King. I'm off to sexy times." and rode back to Denerim where Alistair was waiting with his goofy, lovable grin. I AM GOOD AT SNAGGING MEN BUT NOT INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS OR INSPIRING LOYALTY, I GUESS. __________________ [14:26] ManoftheRus: YOU GODDAMN SNEAKY DEE

03-24-2010, 05:20 PM	#15
Mannix Tenacious C Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 991	how is the ending bit if you side with the townsfolk instead of the smugglers? I accidentally sided with the smugglers because I thought it would help me resupply the keep, which it didn't and it said that they grew in size and power until they totally bought off the city guard and took over the legitimate markets, driving out the normal businessmen. also, everybody stayed with me in the end and it was pretty happy, except justice who got his head lopped off because i didn't do his loyalty quest and that elf broad got crushed by a segment of falling wall but they never found a body for the same reason. oh, and that dwarf rogue eventually just wandered into the deeproads after a couple of years to die in battle. everybody else stayed with the wardens permanently and were the stuff of legend; even the guards and that shepherd guy i spared and nathaniel's son as well. did anybody find a way to talk the rioters down instead of having to massacre them? I wonder how many different personal endings there are, as mine was i pretty much just rode off into the sunset, the lone badass. __________________ Dangerous, mute lunatic.

03-24-2010, 07:19 PM	#16
Krylo The Straightest Shota Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: It's a secret to everybody. Posts: 17,789	I didn't get to side with either. I was going to side with the town guard, but had already taken the smuggler quest, and both sides got pissed at me. And the rioters are kind of an enigma. There's all kinds of hidden details to that. The persuade check is impossible unless you do this, except for if you do that, and then for five hours on wednesday you have to face east and pray to the anti-mecca. It's the DA version of the suicide quest. And there's a different personal ending for each love interest, plus depending on how you decided to spend your time after the game, by my understanding. So lots. Morrigan one is kind of bugged, though, but, amusingly enough it's an Origins problem, as opposed to an Awakenings problem. Morrigan technically breaks up with you if you've done the full romance and talk to her in the city of Denerim during the assault. Gets set to friendly. This is also the trigger to get the epilogue about her feeling regret/sorrow through your ring. However, because Awakenings checks to see who you were at 'love' with when assigning you an epilogue card, Morrigan romances get shit. I'm guessing a patch will fall through that makes you stay at love with Morrigan through the end of Origins soonish. They all end with you disappearing after some number of years with the 'no one believed his/her adventures were over' hook, though. __________________ I am very tired. Last edited by Krylo; 03-24-2010 at 07:21 PM.

03-23-2010, 02:34 AM	#13
Roland Professional Layabout Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: A desert on and surrounded by mountains. Posts: 722	Jeez guys, I can barely run the first one as it is. I spent some time looking around and apparently I need a new graphics card in order for the game to not turn into molasses at even the lowest settings possible. =/ I can't imagine myself playing the expansion for another... month or two. Which is like forever.

03-24-2010, 07:20 PM	#17
Funka Genocide Sent to the cornfield Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Las Vegas Posts: 4,566	fuck it I give up. Didn't even know this was out and you assholes have all ready beaten it, whipped it and made it say your name. I don't even know why I bother anymore.

03-24-2010, 08:02 PM	#18
Jagos FRONT KICK OF DOOM! Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Howdy pardner... Posts: 6,399	Because it's your destiny as a Grey Warden, mortal! __________________ Copyright musings World ramblings Scifi stories

03-24-2010, 08:28 PM	#19
Solid Snake Erotic Esquire Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 5,563	...Wait. Why exactly is the woman naked, again? __________________ *WARNING:* Snek's all up in this thread. Be prepared to read massive walls of text.

03-24-2010, 08:28 PM	#20
Krylo The Straightest Shota Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: It's a secret to everybody. Posts: 17,789	Because DFM downloads nude mods. __________________ I am very tired.