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  • surrealitychecksurrealitycheck lonely, but not unloved dreaming of faulty keys and latchesRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Someone get me an image of Female Hawke high fiving Varric

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  • Rhan9Rhan9 Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Having finished the game with MageHawke, I'm glad how it all ended. Now, if I'm railroaded to saving the Chantry from the trouble that the beginning exposition says it's in during Dragon Age 3, I'll be pissed off.

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  • DashuiDashui Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    On the PC, is anyone else experiencing low dialog volume? I have it at max but I still have to crank my speaker volume almost to maximum to hear what they're saying better. Perhaps it has something to do with surround sound.

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  • KarKarKarKar Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Rhan9 wrote: »
    Having finished the game with MageHawke, I'm glad how it all ended. Now, if I'm railroaded to saving the Chantry from the trouble that the beginning exposition says it's in during Dragon Age 3, I'll be pissed off.

    This, so hard
    I want the next tevinter imperium

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  • BasilBasil Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    This thread doesn't need fan art, we can just point in Aimo's general direction.

    More dwarf dominatrixes than you shake a riding crop at.


    -Huh, come to think of it, I had trouble with the dialogue volume in act three whenever music came on.

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  • PancakePancake Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Golly, why does everyone hate the chantry so much?

    Some of the coolest robes are chantry robes.

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  • KarKarKarKar Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Hmm, I just realized
    I never ended up doing anything with the bone pit

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  • BasilBasil Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    You can wear em, too!

    I was happy to find that robe. Looked nice.
    Something of the Overseer, I think it was?

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  • Rhan9Rhan9 Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Pancake wrote: »
    Golly, why does everyone hate the chantry so much?

    Some of the coolest robes are chantry robes.

    Because they are massive hypocrites? They did have dapper robes in DA2 though.

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  • CapfalconCapfalcon Tunnel Snakes Rule Capital WastelandRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    So, yeah. Just finished up as MageHawke.

    Act 3 Finale
    I sided with the mages and was bros with everyone but my actual Bro and Pirate who ran off because she wanted to let the city burn to save her own damn neck when, as professional adventurers, we could totally just go hunt down the guy who was giving her shit.

    On an interesting note, I think if I had executed Anders, I think the population of mages in the city that didn't know blood magic would have been cut in half.

    srsly.

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  • SilpheedSilpheed Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    It might be a silly thing but I really love how badass the rock armor spell looks in this game. I love how Hawke gets encased in an actual armor of sharp rocks the moment a fight starts.

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  • AssuranAssuran Is swinging on the Spiral Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Z0re wrote: »
    To get off the topic of Mass Effect, I'm going to predict the rankings in which people will like characters,


    1) Varric
    2) Bethany
    3) Sebastian
    4) Aveline
    5) Carver
    6) Merrill
    7) Fenris
    8) Isabela
    9) Anders

    Though pretty much everyone except Varric is going to get a lot of hate I think. Sebastian and Bethany may escape because of how vanilla they are, but the hate for everyone else is going to go insane pretty quickly.

    My list goes like so:

    1.) Varric
    2.) Isabela
    3.) Aveline
    4.) Bethany
    5.) Carver
    6.) Fenris
    7.) Anders
    8.) Merrill

    I didn't get Sebastian, so I'm holding him off until I buy the DLC. Honestly though, the first 4 are all very close and the last 3 will never see my party again in playthroughs unless I'm doing specific achievement runs.

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  • BasilBasil Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Silpheed wrote: »
    It might be a silly thing but I really love how badass the rock armor spell looks in this game. I love how Hawke gets encased in an actual armor of sharp rocks the moment a fight starts.

    It's absolutely my favorite spell in the game.

    I was shocked when I first tried it out. Much more satisfying than a glowy magic bubble.

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  • Dox the PIDox the PI Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    My list goes something like

    1) Everyone

    2) Carver

    9001) Anders

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  • OldSlackerOldSlacker Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Near the end of Act 2, I suppose.
    For heaven's sake, why won't Hawke just slit the bitch priest's throat?

    EDIT: Oh, that went better than I expected.

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  • Dox the PIDox the PI Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    I know I've been playing this game to much because I'm reading everything in Varric's voice

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  • DashuiDashui Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Assuran wrote:
    I didn't get Sebastian, so I'm holding him off until I buy the DLC. Honestly though, the first 4 are all very close and the last 3 will never see my party again in playthroughs unless I'm doing specific achievement runs.

    I wouldn't feel too bad about not having Sebastian. He's not as great as I'd hoped.

    In any case, does anyone know when Merrill's quest is suppose to activate in act two? When did it occur for you? Damn thing still won't show up, and I should be at the point where it does. I hope I didn't get that bug.

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  • HozHoz Cool Cat Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    What happens if you bring your sibling on the expedition with you?

    I hope the answer is "they stay with you and get their own special abilities tree".

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  • DashuiDashui Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Hoz wrote: »
    What happens if you bring your sibling on the expedition with you?

    I hope the answer is "they stay with you and get their own special abilities tree".
    She gets corrupted by the Darkspawn blood, and if you don't have Anders in your party, she'll die. If you do have Anders in your party, she can become a Grey Warden and will then leave.

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  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Ok my money is really tight at the moment so pls forgive me for a question i'm sure has been asked a LOT

    i'm about to play the DA2 demo.

    If i like this demo, will i pretty much 100% guaranteed like the full game? And if I don't like it, will i near guaranteed not like the full game? or is it one of those demos where its vastly different to the actual game?

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  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Dhalphir wrote: »
    Ok my money is really tight at the moment so pls forgive me for a question i'm sure has been asked a LOT

    i'm about to play the DA2 demo.

    If i like this demo, will i pretty much 100% guaranteed like the full game? And if I don't like it, will i near guaranteed not like the full game? or is it one of those demos where its vastly different to the actual game?
    if you like the demo you will like the game

    if you don't like the demo, it's hard to be sure; it doesn't really represent the best of it

    depends on what you don't like I guess

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  • DemiurgeDemiurge Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Trying to get DX11 to work with dragon age. I just installed service pack 2 for vista but the DXsetup installer tells me I have the latest. Is dx11 a seperate download?

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  • Maz-Maz- 飛べ Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    I read somewhere that companions change their armor after you've romanced them.
    However, my Woman Called Hawke just rolled around the sheets with Isabela and she's still wearing her old outfit.

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  • OghulkOghulk Tinychat Janitor TinychatRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    My companions list is like so:

    1) Varric
    2) Isabella
    3) Anders
    4) Aveline
    5) Bethany
    6) Carver
    7) Fenris
    8) Merrill

    No DLC, so yeah.

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  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Elendil wrote: »
    Dhalphir wrote: »
    Ok my money is really tight at the moment so pls forgive me for a question i'm sure has been asked a LOT

    i'm about to play the DA2 demo.

    If i like this demo, will i pretty much 100% guaranteed like the full game? And if I don't like it, will i near guaranteed not like the full game? or is it one of those demos where its vastly different to the actual game?
    if you like the demo you will like the game

    if you don't like the demo, it's hard to be sure; it doesn't really represent the best of it

    depends on what you don't like I guess

    thank you this is exactly what i was looking for

    :)

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  • DashuiDashui Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Maz- wrote: »
    I read somewhere that companions change their armor after you've romanced them.
    However, my Woman Called Hawke just rolled around the sheets with Isabela and she's still wearing her old outfit.

    I think you might have to do more with Isabela than just roll around in the hay with her. You need it to be serious, although I haven't gone down that path so I can't be entirely certain.

    I did just romance Merrill this very second, and she got new, very impressive white armor.

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  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Dhalphir wrote: »
    Elendil wrote: »
    Dhalphir wrote: »
    Ok my money is really tight at the moment so pls forgive me for a question i'm sure has been asked a LOT

    i'm about to play the DA2 demo.

    If i like this demo, will i pretty much 100% guaranteed like the full game? And if I don't like it, will i near guaranteed not like the full game? or is it one of those demos where its vastly different to the actual game?
    if you like the demo you will like the game

    if you don't like the demo, it's hard to be sure; it doesn't really represent the best of it

    depends on what you don't like I guess

    thank you this is exactly what i was looking for

    :)

    Ok major thing I'm disliking.

    Right click+hold moves the camera around. I hate this. Leftclick+hold is much easier for me. However, swapping the mouse buttons actually swaps them in the menu too, which is ridiculous.

    Is there a way to make camera rotation leftclick+hold without affecting the other functions?

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  • DeaderinredDeaderinred Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Why does everyone hate anders suddenly? I liked him in awakenings..

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  • AspectVoidAspectVoid Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Why does everyone hate anders suddenly? I liked him in awakenings..

    Because in Awakenings he was a fun guy with a sense of humor. In DA2, he's a whiny bitch.

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  • RizziRizzi Sydney, Australia.Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Question about the expedition.
    So I didn't take Bethany with me, and she got templar-napped. If I was playing a mage and I leave Carver behind, what happens to him? Dude is seriously a dick, and I want something awful to happen to him.

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  • HaikiraHaikira UKRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Oh, never knew Anders was around before. Only completed vanilla DA. Though funny enough, I have the ultimate disc. Just wanted to catch up quickly for 2.

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  • AspectVoidAspectVoid Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Rizzi wrote: »
    Question about the expedition.
    So I didn't take Bethany with me, and she got templar-napped. If I was playing a mage and I leave Carver behind, what happens to him? Dude is seriously a dick, and I want something awful to happen to him.
    From what I've heard, he runs off and joins the Templars, which I guess is a pretty awful thing for him to do when (if?) you side with the mages.

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  • Fizban140Fizban140 Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2011
    According to PA anyone who isn't cheery all the time or cracking jokes in a whiny bitch.

    Anyways is there any way to get the loading screens as my desktop? These things are amazing.

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  • RizziRizzi Sydney, Australia.Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    AspectVoid wrote: »
    Rizzi wrote: »
    Question about the expedition.
    So I didn't take Bethany with me, and she got templar-napped. If I was playing a mage and I leave Carver behind, what happens to him? Dude is seriously a dick, and I want something awful to happen to him.
    From what I've heard, he runs off and joins the Templars, which I guess is a pretty awful thing for him to do when (if?) you side with the mages.
    What a dick. Gonna kill that little shit.

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  • WinkyWinky rRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Z0re wrote: »
    Decoy wrote: »
    Finally finished the game. Clocked in at 36:45 and at level 23.

    This is super small but the only thing that really confused me at the end was
    I romanced Merrill, got the kiss before the big fight at the end, but Varric's ending speech said, in a very "audio changing to a new file" voice, that Isabella is the only one not to leave my side.

    Either way, whatever.
    If you hit a certain friendship trigger with Isabella after you do most of the Romance with Merrill the game glitches the ending a bit.

    Merrill in general has quite a few glitches surrounding her story and stuff, and the devs said they were working on it.

    Oh, I didn't realize that was what it was, I was just under the impression
    that Hawke ended up leaving Merrill and went to be a swashbuckler on the high seas like Isabella talked about.

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  • MyDcmbrMyDcmbr PEWPEWPEW!!! America's WangRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    1) Varric
    2) Isabella
    3) Bethany
    4) Aveline
    5) Anders
    6) Merrill
    7) Fenris
    8) Carver

    So I made it to the end of act two and
    Isabella! Why did you do me so wrong? I lurved youuuuuu!! Also, is there a way to keep your mom from dying? I killed the guy with the funny name before, if I had let him live could I have saved my mom?

    Anyway, things are going well. Oh and to who ever it was that told me to bring Isabella for The Long Road... totally totally right. That was hilarious.

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  • DashuiDashui Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Son of a bitch! Fenris' companion quest isn't triggering in act two, and I'm nearing the very end of this act. Does anyone know how to trigger it? I've been nothing but supportive of the man.

    Edit: Oh, I just have to travel somewhere outside of Kirkwall with Fenris in the party. Problem solved!

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  • BionicPenguinBionicPenguin Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    MyDcmbr wrote: »
    1) Varric
    2) Isabella
    3) Bethany
    4) Aveline
    5) Anders
    6) Merrill
    7) Fenris
    8) Carver

    So I made it to the end of act two and
    Isabella! Why did you do me so wrong? I lurved youuuuuu!! Also, is there a way to keep your mom from dying? I killed the guy with the funny name before, if I had let him live could I have saved my mom?

    Anyway, things are going well. Oh and to who ever it was that told me to bring Isabella for The Long Road... totally totally right. That was hilarious.
    No. I let the guy live and she still died. That quest was really well done. Made me go D:.

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  • FiarynFiaryn Omnicidal Madman Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    So, I did the Merril romance.

    It's...well to be blunt, even more half-assed and terrible than the usual RPG romance. I said all of two romantic lines in the game and now I'm back at my house and...oh, hi Merril. I guess we're in love now? Sure. Sure why not.

    Related: All of Hawke's romantic lines come across as insanely creepy. The VA just cannot work it at all.

    Oh well. At least I got A) An achievement and B) Merril has sweet new armor.
    Fizban140 wrote: »
    According to PA anyone who isn't cheery all the time or cracking jokes in a whiny bitch.

    Anyways is there any way to get the loading screens as my desktop? These things are amazing.

    To be fair, Anders says some really dumb stuff. Like when Fenris comments that some (SOME, not even making a blanket FUCK ALL MAGES STATEMENT) truly deserve tranquility Anders says "Yeah well how about we make all the slaves tranquil then they wouldn't have to worry about dreaming of freedom!"

    What the fuck Anders

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  • SzechuanSzechuan Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Fiaryn wrote: »
    So, I did the Merril romance.

    It's...well to be blunt, even more half-assed and terrible than the usual RPG romance. I said all of two romantic lines in the game and now I'm back at my house and...oh, hi Merril. I guess we're in love now? Sure. Sure why not.

    Related: All of Hawke's romantic lines come across as insanely creepy. The VA just cannot work it at all.

    Oh well. At least I got A) An achievement and B) Merril has sweet new armor.

    It might just be the personality clash between a man in (at least) his thirties and an elf with the mentality of a 14-year-old.

    Edit: Curse you and your edits, too! I keep Anders around for healing and buffing but his attitude is a little annoying sometimes. I really like that about the characters, though. Hawke can sway them a little bit but he can't magically force everyone to come to an understanding; some people have biases that can't be overcome.

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