#DAI -> DA2 -> DAO so u dont notice how glaringly bad the newer games are until later 😭

[theeflowerofcarnage]

there are somethings BioWare really got right in their previous games that I’d love to see be brought back, like the rivalry/friendship scale- literally SO many benefits!! Maybe its just a me problem but I always feel like im "being punished" for loosing approval w companions bc u do get closed off from their story-lines and they will leave u so I kinda turn into an approval whore n break rp a lot but not in Da2 - u can hate fuck ur way into a romance- the only way to loose them forever is by deliberate betrayal

1- Da2 will track how many sarcastic/diplomatic, or dismissive dialogue choices u picked and adjust ur characters tone accordingly so they feel like they have a real personality unlike the Inquisitor from DAI

2- Having quests related exclusively to whatever origin story you picked in DAO like for Warden Amell u get to experience life at the Ferelden Circle (magic school) n do the Harrowing (mini graduation) n all the people u meet there end up feeling really important to you later in the game when u have to choose between saving them or letting them die- There's this one war table mission in DAI where an Elf inquistor could kill off thier whole clan if they make the wrong choices and I wish there was something like that for human or like letters from home like Hawke gets at least??? idk

3- upgrading the Keep quests- In DAI u get some bullshit pick 30 elfroot to upgrade skyhold's gardens for what tho 😭😭😭??? It dont even look nice its just 4 pots w 1 plant growing in it at a time??? Nothing we do to the place effects Corypheus ability to attack us but apparently at some point that was going to be the case if they got more development. In Dragon Age Awakening I had to let the the city of Amaranthine fall to the dark spawn bc I left poor Anders & co undefended at Virgil’s keep and that one decision had far reaching consequences bc my epilogue had ppl ready to murder my warden for that!! the least they could've done in DAI was let us put a roof over poor Cullen's bed