Poll: Not ANOTHER Dragon Age II....

[SaunaKalja]

I played a human female warrior, specializing in two-handed weapons. Boy, what a mistake that last bit was.

 

[Latinidiot]

I play every origins story and I played the Dalish Elf warrior and A human mage through to the ending.

 

[Magicman10893]

I have varied a lot, although I have never played as a female dwarf. Most of my characters have been human males so I am going to pick that one.

 

[moosek]

I didn't play the first game.

 

[teebeeohh]

i wanted to play an male elf mage but for some reason i didn't consider facial hair and i never play a male character without it

 

[BENZOOKA]

in Origins I first played with a Dwarf male, didn't like the two-handed weapon system really, and switched to a dual-wielding Male Rogue, which is basically always my first choice anywhere, playing quite far. Then I had a long break with traveling around the country with work and wanted to make a new character, once I got back to the game: male warrior. One-handed weapon & shield at that. Got up to the Landmeeting, lost, was frustrated that I had to go through the long dialogue again, took a couple times to remember to get the dialogue choices right because at the first time it didn't go perfectly but just how I wanted, lost again with another character and then the game crashed a couple times or I just didn't feel like playing it at that time. And that's as far as I've got. It took me about 40 hours just to get on the Landsmeet.

I've always chosen male characters, if I have the chance, because I can relate a lot better. In Dragon Age 2 though, I absolutely disliked the look of the male Hawke, and the sound of him. So I chose the female Hawke, to break my tradition, and because I liked her voice and especially how the default female Hawke looked. I also happen to know a cute, funny girl with much more greater personality, who looks very much like the default character.

Even if I had the choice of having my character in DA2 to be elf/dwarf, I probably wouldn't. Perhaps an elf if I'd get him/her to look to my liking, but the lack of choices does not bother me in the least bit.

Using 40 hours to get to the Landsmeet isn't bad, the full game is meant to be about 50 hours long and the Landsmeet is pretty much one of the final chapters. I won't say more than that.

Thanks for telling that. I've been wondering if that really was the case, but could never found out without bumping into some spoilers.

I don't think it's awfully much either. But considering that I had already played with two characters and knew most of the quests, and other things, beforehand. Also, I probably spend half of that time in the party camp, doing things like thoughtfully equipping even the characters that I wasn't going to take into my party anytime soon. And perhaps even more time was spent, looking at the map to figure where to go first and in the party selection screen, trying to decide which characters to take with me (Oddly enough, in DA:O I went with the best tactical choices, and in DA2 I mainly picked the characters I liked best. About 30 hours and finish line not yet anywhere to be seen in DA2, I actually prefer the new characters). I also did all of the quests and picked every single plant there was, although never being one to care about 100% completion or achievements or anything like that.

But the only thing I actually meant to say was: Thanks, mate!

 

[Zhukov]

Female elf.

Female city elves get the best origin story.

 

[SpaceCop]

I've dabbled with pretty much all the character combinations, but I've only ever completed the game with male human nobles and one female dwarf commoner.

And hah, as far as the pretending to be a qunari goes, I did actually make a dwarf warrior with no beard, a dour face, and the white dreadlock ponytail. I called him "Li'l Sten", gave him a two-handed sword, and always picked brusque, dutiful dialogue options.

DAII's lack of racial options wasn't a big deal for me. I thought the trade-off to get a voiced protagonist was more than worth it. And the PC's race didn't make a whole lot of difference in Origins outside the origin stories. Morrigan is complaining about human society--my character tells her he isn't human--she says one sentence of dismissive dialogue and continues regardless. Oh, and I couldn't become royalty in a single line of epilogue text that one time. What a bummer.

And, I hate to say this, as much thought and depth as BioWare do put into the backgrounds of their games, DA:O is still pretty damn generic. The dwarven courtly intrigue and facade of honourability, and the elves' post subjugation Mary-Sue whining did move their fictitious cultures a half step away from their mainstream fantasy portrayals, but aside from some little details they're still pretty much barefaced trope adherents. Which is fair enough. But it did really make me appreciate Blizzard's approach more; keep fantasy races' root elements intact, but push their art directions and cultures further from one another to make really distinct, different cultures (which were then completely homogenized together in WoW, natch..). DAII does that a little better than its predecessor, especially with the new art direction--the greater focus on the qunari also doesn't hurt.

 

[CleverCover]

All of them.

I have a human female noble, a human male mage, a dalish female elf, a city male elf, a dwarven female noble, and a dwarven male commoner. Working on getting all of them through awakenings and at least two more need to go see Morrigan before I want those saves to go to Dragon Age 2.

 

[Lunar Templar]

i had a female city elf that wreck all kinds of shit
found a mod that let you dual wield great swords
it was, pretty much over after that, even the arch demon got curb stomped

 

[Erzengel]

Female City Elf Rogue, because I liked the origin story (Try to rape my character? You DIE.) and being able to convince Allister to a) make the alienage a bannorn, and b) keep her on as a lover, even though the court would find this scandalous.
I did play as many of the other combinations. Human Male Mage, Human Female Noble Warrior (Marry Allister, but then it's not nearly as controversial as my city elf), Female Dalish Elf Rogue, Female Dwarven Noble Rogue, Female Dwarven Commoner Rogue...
But my City Elf was the one I imported to DA2 first.

 

[Laser Priest]

I played once through the full game as a male human mage, and hated the melee combat too much to finish a playthrough as anything else.

Plus, I found no reason to be a female.

 

[cainx10a]

Male Human Mage, because the magic animation were among the best I have seen in this type of RPG. I personally despise the animations in DA 2, even Star Ocean The Last Hope seemed to have a much better magic animation and effect that this game.

I didn't mind the melee combat in DA:O, coming from neverwinter nights, I was glad to see animations to denote blocking and the like, rather than watching my sword go through an enemy only for the DnD math to result in a Miss

My second character was a Male Dalish Rogue/Archer, and archery with the ranger specialization class was sweet as well.

 

[Agayek]

In Origins, I am almost always a male human noble. I also like the Dwarf Noble origin, but everything else is just sorta meh. I especially dislike the Dalish elf opening.

 

[Mikeyfell]

I played through as all the races but my favorite was Female Elf... because I'm that shallow....

Anyway I was pissed that there wasn't a Quanari story

 

[E-Penguin]

in Origins I first played with a Dwarf male, didn't like the two-handed weapon system really, and switched to a dual-wielding Male Rogue, which is basically always my first choice anywhere, playing quite far. Then I had a long break with traveling around the country with work and wanted to make a new character, once I got back to the game: male warrior. One-handed weapon & shield at that. Got up to the Landmeeting, lost, was frustrated that I had to go through the long dialogue again, took a couple times to remember to get the dialogue choices right because at the first time it didn't go perfectly but just how I wanted, lost again with another character and then the game crashed a couple times or I just didn't feel like playing it at that time. And that's as far as I've got. It took me about 40 hours just to get on the Landsmeet.

I've always chosen male characters, if I have the chance, because I can relate a lot better. In Dragon Age 2 though, I absolutely disliked the look of the male Hawke, and the sound of him. So I chose the female Hawke, to break my tradition, and because I liked her voice and especially how the default female Hawke looked. I also happen to know a cute, funny girl with much more greater personality, who looks very much like the default character.

Even if I had the choice of having my character in DA2 to be elf/dwarf, I probably wouldn't. Perhaps an elf if I'd get him/her to look to my liking, but the lack of choices does not bother me in the least bit.

Using 40 hours to get to the Landsmeet isn't bad, the full game is meant to be about 50 hours long and the Landsmeet is pretty much one of the final chapters. I won't say more than that.

Thanks for telling that. I've been wondering if that really was the case, but could never found out without bumping into some spoilers.

I don't think it's awfully much either. But considering that I had already played with two characters and knew most of the quests, and other things, beforehand. Also, I probably spend half of that time in the party camp, doing things like thoughtfully equipping even the characters that I wasn't going to take into my party anytime soon. And perhaps even more time was spent, looking at the map to figure where to go first and in the party selection screen, trying to decide which characters to take with me (Oddly enough, in DA:O I went with the best tactical choices, and in DA2 I mainly picked the characters I liked best. About 30 hours and finish line not yet anywhere to be seen in DA2, I actually prefer the new characters). I also did all of the quests and picked every single plant there was, although never being one to care about 100% completion or achievements or anything like that.

But the only thing I actually meant to say was: Thanks, mate!

No problem! I hope you get to finishing the game. It's totally worth it.

My first character never finished the game; he was stuck somewhere after the Landsmeet. I picked the game up again a year later, and is now on my third play-through.

Have fun!

 

[psicat]

First a Human Female Noble Warrior (Loved ending up Queen/Consort at the end), then Human Female Mage(Loved that I basically get to play as her cousin now in DA2), finally a City Elf Female Rogue (Definitely My favorite origin story in DA:O).

 

[DarkhoIlow]

Human Noble(my first 2 chars),Dalish Rogue,Dwarven Noble rogue.

I imported my second human noble after finishing Dragon Age Origins with expansion and DLC's included.

 

[Dr. Pepper Unlimited]

....after WonderCon

Oooh, just bought my ticket for Wonder-con this evening. Very excited! ^_^