Welcome to Thedas! Where Dwarfs, Elves and Humans lived together.

During the new kingdom, weird creatures called Dark Spawn have appeared and plan to conquer Thedas with their leader the Archdeamon, a dragon-looking creature who controls the Dark Spawn. But the Grey Wardens won't let that happen easily!

The Grey Wardens are the people who slays Dark Spawns, they get dreams and senses of the Archdeamon and the Dark Spawn. Only a few are wardens, but a sad tragedy happened to them during the recruitment. There are more untold stories of what happened, but only the hero of Ferelden knows for being a witness.

YOU CONTINUE! What was your ending and who were the people in your party!

no post for this already? jesus, this surprises me more than it should. I fucked shit up, killed the villians, saved the good people, did the ritual of not getting fucked at the end (strategic spoiler avoidance) and came away with Leliana. pretty much the way any story should go.

>>2 probably because there was already a thread somewhere.

>>3 meant no other thread, my search came up empty

My story was sad, I killed the old geezer woman and Zevran for stabbing me on the back during our adventure., I cheated on Leliana by romancing with Morrigan, I got morrigan Pregnant and let her slay the Archdaemon while my character weakens it. Once we have slain the Archdeamon I have looked for Morrigan and came with her to the world much wider than Thedas and the Fade.

Kumo, there are 6 possible endings, but only 4 has achievements/trophies.

>>6 huh? there are only really two big endings, the rest are all minor details that fall under. and i platted the game so...

Hehe, D:

Ha ha ha xD dragon age origins is awsome.. But the endings where not that diffent... For girls (like me) end up being with alister and become a queen.... For boys (like my dad) the ending is where just a normal happy ending... Or for most rare cases i can think of is some people let alister take his life to save every one from the dragon because they didnt want to put up with the fight with morgain (dont rember how to spell her name it was way to long) and alister to have a child.... But i cant blame most people for doing that... It was a living nightmare to go through just to make them have the child...

Man, this game is awesome. I can't finish it though. XD Too long!

>>9 lolz. the endings really weren't that much different, like i said there are really two major endings, and that's you all live, or you or Alistair die. everything else is just details.

anyways, since this is a "dragon age" thread...
D age 2 pisses me off because i need 1 more trophy to plat, but it's the stupid crafting resources trophy that glitches its ass off -_-

I liked origins, though DA2 fixed some major pet peeves of mine from it's predecessor. Like Hawk had a voice and your personality depended on how you answered.Also the new battle system (on xbox) was fast-paced and they didn't take forever to attack or drink a spell. The gliches are annoying but expected for a game this large. DA origins was still pretty awesome though, I loved morrigan (and her crow feathers that tie her to why she was named after the celtic goddess) Alister...... got annoying...... zevran was nice, liliana was awesome :3 So yeah, awesome game series

>>12 well, i dont think there were a ton of glitches, but the only reason it was so "large" was because it copy pasted everything environment-wise. but the stupid trophy glitch got me so pissed off. I went through 4 playthroughs and sis what needed to be done, it just never worked -_-

Overall though, i think the series was amazing, and they set it up nicely for D Age 3. looking forward to it

D-Age 3 will be the whole Thedas, not just Ferelden. :P
Also, it's not about the "Very" ending, about all details, like.... did you destroy the magi tower, destroyed one elves clan or w/e. I don't like the fast-paced battle of DA2, the unique thing about the game is it's tactical battle. D:

ive heard about skyrim has the same gameplay i dont know
but the graphics look awesome =)

>>15 say what?

>>15 Say fucking what?

>>15 I'd hate to be the one bursting your bubble, but this thread is on DRAGON AGE not SKYRIM. There's a major differrence between the two. Actually, no, not really...

>>19 "not really?" GTFO of this thread if you really believe that. EVERYTHING about the two games are different from one another aside from the basic class choices, but even then in D Age you can only choose one, whereas in Skyrim, you can branch out.

I just went back to origins again and started a new character, my first one to use a shield

Archer is pretty powerful in the late games. I had trouble playing with my warden on the early game but like I was doing 2 hits per second and each dealt 80 damage in the late game plus my skill did 300 and stuns everyone. *.*

Who is your favorite Dragon Age Origins character? >> Gotta choose two... Morrigan and Alistair.

*SPOLIERS*
What do you people think about Logain? I disliked him and thought that making him a grey warden was just punishment, and rather fitting too, but let Alistair kill him when he objected. I was somehow... dissatisfied. I had hoped to understand why he did what he did; for the longest time I thought he was a Pride demon, though that makes no sense. After reading this post:
http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/47/index/583297/1
I played the game again as Cousland and my perspective was changed. I started to notice little details in Logain's speeches - or should I call it interpretation? And I won the landsmeet with a landslide, as opposed to the first time where I failed, dueled him and felt he was a sympathetic, honorable, intelligent character. Cue my favorite character moment:
He DESERVED to die! He DESERVED justice! AND YOU MADE HIM ONE OF US!!
Logain was a great villain. I wasn't able to get him to tell me why he hated the Orlesians, but he was a reasonable character afterall. I don't think I can ever kill him again

>>23 I could.

Justifications aside, he screwed me over. No forgiveness - No one screws with the motherfucking Wardens.

I encountered Morrigan and loved her faithfully all the way up to the end, where she slew the archfiend for me and I ran off into the sunset with her.

Pretty much everyone but morrigan abhored me though. Especially Alistair - You can not even describe the amount of hate he had for me. Sometimes I'd pick choices I knew he wouldn't agree with just to piss him off. Same for Leliana really, I didn't like her at all.

My first run was either an archer or an assassin. my second run was whichever I didn't pick the first time. My team was myself, Morrigan, Zevran, and the golem from the DLC (Because fuck chickens).

My main complaint about DA:O was how high-fantasy it was. Each race had their own circumstances, true, but the main conflict led up to "you are the good guys, gather all the other good races and then fight the bad guys."

One side was decidedly good. The other was decidedly bad.

I don't enjoy that at all.

DA2 gets a lot of flack for being copy-pasted environments, and it deserves it - Because it's true. But what it did amazingly well was remove the "good and evil" distinction. You started lacking any overarching good, or overarching evil. Everything was a matter of perspective, so when you went into a fight - It wasn't because of justice.

It was because the enemies and allies you had made were distinctly you. Everything was a result of what you believed in. Whether the mages were a danger, or whether the templars were total asshats, or whether you walked the middle ground.

Whether your friends and team were more important to you than a city, or whether saving those lives meant more to you than protecting your comrads.

Even the Qunari, as stubborn as they were, you could respect their decision to do what they did - Because you got to know them. You got to know their culture, their beliefs.

DA2's story and interaction felt legitimate, and I personally found DA:O to be... just horribly disappointing in that aspect.

Eh, my character's ideals are too anime-like, I forgave Loghain and allowed him to help me.

I can't wait for Dragon Age 3, although I will dislike one thing about it, the fact that it will have multi-player, that shows that the fighting system will be less strategic.

>>24Yes! Yes Aya I wholeheartedly agree with your opinion of DA2. Few people do, sadly. The game tore me apart and made me sad multiple times and in the end i felt bitter, bitter, and amazed that a videogame could involve me to that extent. As Mage Hawke I sided with the templars after helping mages most of the game, and seeing how wretched and corrupted many of them really were. DA2 was about pain for me; Hawke endures so much and persists because I made him, and in the end i felt bad- I wish he had gotten a better slice of the pie.

But the thing I disliked about DA:O is how straightforward it was. Did any of you ever feel that half of the enemies were just plain retarded for attacking the party? It's like they were forced to do it by the game. I really liked Origins at the time; but despite the majority vote, DA2 was a cut better for me. It doesn't help that i finished DA2 in one fell swoop, yet took almost a year to get through the first one, what with moving and such things. DA2 just got you to care, and it questioned your beliefs.

Also, I was a bit of a whore until the endgame. I felt bad for mages and tried to help them, I thought Merril was crazy but encouraged her- i thought I could help her best by supporting her when every one else didn't. I thought Anders was crazy too; he didn't like me much. I tried to be friends with Fenris- I thought everyone would be much better off if we were all friends. Boy was i mistaken. I realized at the end that i should play according to what I thought was right. I must not have been taking the game seriously enought.

I've gone up in flames a couple of times since the game came out because of people bashing bioware unilateraly. The company can take the bashing, but they might shy away from that kind of personal storyline in the future; and it was something new for me.I was skeptical of the Dragon Age franchise, I was skeptical of DA2's combat style at first, but i only thought it was a pity that the enemies didn't use as many skills in DA2- made the playstyle different. But you can play DA2 over again more easily than Origins; it was more captivating and a deeper plot, where DA:O was more of a- yeah, a Lord of the Rings type thing- except that half the "allies" were retarded and failed to appreciate their only chance at life when it knocked on their door. No one wanted to help you help them. As if they had more important things to consider. Their "inconveniences" felt a little shallow. But DA2 was about one character; everything just swirled around you- sort of like life.

But, despite just saying everything I didn't like about DA:O, I thought the epicness was awesome. It was like being in Lord of the Rings. I liked the type of battles, I loved the thinking involved in fighting. It reminded me of KotOR a fair bit, actually. It's been a while since I've played though, and I haven't been able to finish it a second time. If you think well of the dialog in DA2, Origins comes out a little flat. Ah, but at the time...

You know I play games about a year or so after they come out. I return from a voyage and knew Mass Effect was out for 8 months already and was awed. By the main menu. I guess I felt it would be awesome.

They said they'd mix Dragon Age : Origin + 2's gameplay for the third installment of the series.