#Im just making a note of this for myself for when I replay DA2

[bunabi]

I was so distracted by Natalene serving I didn't realize the coins all have Kirkwall heraldry on them 😭

Does that mean all currency in Thedas is/was minted in Kirkwall

You're telling me Hawke could have just broken into the national mint and printed enough money for the expedition

[girlb0yfriend]

well i finished da2 <33 gonna start inquisition tomorrow when i get home from work. finalish da2 thoughts under the cut

ok so . combat in this game was extremely boring for the most part. i had to do so many different upgrades in the little skill trees to get to skills that were actually interesting . and then i had to do it over again to get another interesting skill. and even then, those paled in comparison to the origins skills/combat. by the endgame, though, i was having a little fun.

the enemies and environments are suuuper repetitive in this game but i am definitely not saying anything new there. i will be happy to never run through the same 4 caves with the same 5 types of enemies materializing in waves tho <3

as for the companions, i ended up really enjoying them. i did miss being able to have a bunch of full conversations with my companions on the road, or at one camp, but i think this game made up for it by making my companions, for the most part... actually friends with each other, too. the banter is just better when they like... don't really Have to hang around each other for some world-saving responsibility, they just choose to . even though they annoy each other <3

for the first act, i pretty much just kept isabela, varric and anders in my party, and they actually really got along well which was a welcome change from morrigan and alistair's "banter" which was just them actually not liking each other lmao. and the things that netted positive friendship points for one of them, would at the very least not take away points from the others . because i couldn't bring myself to go the rival path for any of them DSJFLK

after the first act, though, i switched aveline in for a bit, and through that + doing fenris' and merrill's companion quests, i was able to boost everyone to full friendship level. and SDFKLS isabela and aveline's conversations were so fucking funny i ended up liking aveline. i also liked the quest where she was really bad at flirting that was endearing.

but i think my favorite details with the companions were how they would just visit each other <33 like i really liked going over to visit my bestie anders and seeing isabela getting treated for an sti. that truly made the world feel alive.

also i absolutely did not regret going with the isabela romance because i love her but . if i were to replay, which i may do at some point, i may go for anders. on that note, if i replay, i may play a mage because i'd like to see more of what carver is like.

my favorite quests were probably the one where hawke's mom died, every quest where isabela is important, the zevran quest where hawke gets to have a threesome with him and isabela, the one where hawke can play wingman to aveline, and the nathaniel quest. i do think a lot of the story and writing for this one was very strong, if it was encased in a lot of stale, repetitive gameplay.

very excited to see what inquisition is like, gameplay and story-wise. i was aware of a few things (from googling stuff about the other games and also from that one time like a year ago when larson broke down someone's bad dorian take in my dms) but there's also a lot i don't know so i'm looking forward to playing it.

i played a human warrior in origins, and you're locked as a human in da2 (and i was a rogue), so i think im gonna play an elf or qunari mage in inquisition. to spice things up a bit.