So I started playing Dragon Age Origins...

[prixmium]

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My best friend started watching some anime stuff I had recommended off and on for five years this year. She finally understands what I am referencing and what I have spent my life doing.

It wasn't simply an opportunity to return the favor of becoming initiated into something important-to-her and foreign-to-me, though that was a bonus, that I started playing this game. I certainly wouldn't have done it so quickly if she hadn't been kind enough to purchase it for me when the Steam Sale was happening.

I've started with the Human Noble Origin and I am a rogue.

I'm playing the game on "Easy" and it was still confusing and overwhelming at first. I think I'm starting to understand the combat system, but the only game I have ever played that involved a lot of hot-bar clicking and cool-down management was WoW, and I played WoW for a few months in 2009 or 2010 and not very consistently. At first, I didn't know how often I was allowed to save, either.

My best friend guided me through getting some mods that makes everyone look a bit more natural and gives you a lot more options in character creation, so I don't know to what extent the improvements influence this opinion because I've never seen the straight-up vanilla game, but I think that so much of the game plays like a cut scene that I was afraid to tap escape and try and save for at least the first hour of the game. I still don't save often enough, and if I mess something up but don't die, I often have to replay hilarious amounts of the game.

Anyway, I don't know about how I'll feel about Cullen, ultimately, or Fenris for that matter, though I have more hope for him, but I saw this meme and the first one is 1000% true for me.


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Just from his name and the very first moment I saw Alistair in Ostagar, I kind of thought he was going to be a jocky, arrogant jerk, but that could not be further from the truth. My character and I love him so much.

"Bad things happen when I lead. We get lost, people die, and the next thing you know I'm stranded somewhere without any pants."

I really couldn't care less about spoilers for something I'm engaged in but which will take me a long time to complete, so the fact that I know you could make him king made me assume that he did not know that he had some birthright to it. Turns out, he knew! And I just crumble a little bit inside knowing that.

Maybe I should talk about my Warden, too, but at this point I'm getting tired and don't know if anyone even knows what I'm going on about.

They could have beautiful babies if only being Wardens didn't make that difficult and unlikely:



Screenshot is mine. I really should take more...

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[singedsun]

oh exciting! Alistair wasn't for me, but I do love that original game so so much.

[dorchadas]

I wasn't a big fan of Dragon Age Origins, but I know a lot of people who love it, so I hope you keep going and keep posting about it. I'm curious to see where this goes.

[prixmium]

I'm open-minded to eventually playing a different character and choosing one of the other romance options or whatever, but I had kind of picked him beforehand not knowing ANYTHING about him, including what he looked like so it wasn't that I was being shallow. It was just that my best friend was advising me about which might be the most beginner-friendly origins, and human noble was one of them, and she told me that if I thought I might want to romance the guy who can become king that I needed to be a human noble otherwise it was sort of tragic. And I honestly didn't even know who she was talking about, but I was like "well, okay, I'll do that one then," because she told me that the origin was sort of court-intrigue-y in a way I might like.

And now we're here.

[prixmium]

Thanks for the comment!

I like it so far, but at first the way you play it was a bit over my head. I am getting... okay at it, I guess. We killed Flemeth today.

[dorchadas]

That's pretty far, isn't it‽ I don't remember exactly (and I know that you can pick quests in different order), but I feel like I did that halfway through the game.

[prixmium]

I'm probably about halfway through the actual plot. I'm not entirely sure? Steam says I've played for 61 hours, but a more accurate count is probably 50 or so since there's quite a bit of time spent alt+tabbing out to do other things and going back to it.