#URGH. i want to replay da2

[kirkwallguy]

i rly think DA's companions peaked with rivalries lol, like that can create such interesting dynamics, when rivaled these people are still following hawke and you can still romance them, Interesting!! THat's cool! why are they doing that, staying with someone who's disagreed with them the whole time or done things they find objectionable - you get different dialogue in cutscenes too, they react to how you treat them (thinking with Merrill you can just chose to not give her the thing to fix the eluvian and you get a different scene after the quest) You can be mean, you can support them or not and they respond to that, it feels like your choices are affecting the characters around you. (diff game but alistair confronts you about Isolde and if you killed her, the kid, or got help, i'd have loved more of that!! more characters going "hey this was fucked up of you, why???" or "I'm glad you handled this" and then you can talk about it more, the companions having Thoughts on your good or bad behavior and actions and voicing it!) also I think not being able to just chat with the companions was a silly choice, especially with the fact that rook can be a crow or shadow dragon etc, wdym we cant just talk about that with the gang??? ask for their thoughts on it all and they ask for rooks, rook could voice support or question what the group is and what they're doing (kinda like with Wynne and mage warden, you can talk about the circles and voice your dislike or support for them), rook could ask for more information and if they know they could share, or they won't if rook isn't a part of that group and it's all meant to be secret or something - and maybe if you ask again when they have high approval they'll tell you anyway cause they trust you, more opportunities for lore and worldbuilding as well as exploring the characters a little more??

idk im :/ rambling lol, i just really enjoyed how much you could say and do in other games, dav feels limited? And like nothing was perfect in the other games but I feel like there were so many more opportunities to learn about everything and the characters felt so much more involved? I do love that the companions talk to each other at the lighthouse like thats great we get to see those dynamics more outside of party banter!

i LOVE the rivalry dynamic and it really helps with each playthrough feeling unique, a hawke who is besties with merril is so different emotionally to a hawke who rivals merril, and it feels like there's a near-endless number of combos? also being able to push back on companions is something people have been complaining about a LOT in dai and dav, being able to spend the entire game disagreeing with a character and still see their entire story (WITH extra dialogue and sometimes entirely different cutscenes to acknowledge the fact that you don't have a good relationship?) it solves such a fundamental problem with relationships in rpgs and i don't get why it isn't more frequently used lol

and yeah i can understand if they wanted to save money not doing chats in the lighthouse (tbh. the inquisition skyhold dialogue options were just annoying and useless to me especially when you had to exhaust them to trigger certain quests), but it just feels like it creates a distance between you and the companions when they can all have conversations with each other at the lighthouse but you can't speak to them? it just feels like such an important feature for the genre and the only other game in the series that doesn't have it is the one that was made in like a year

[arcenergy]

🍀(that Isnt alistair) 🍪💥(abt anything)

🍀 if you could be any fictional character’s best friend/lover, which fictional character would you be?

cockblocking me on my own ask is that it? huh? is that it you little bitch? FINE THEN! it’d be zevran. he’s a tender lover. 

🍪 what did you want to be as a kid, and what do you want to be now?

urgh i dont remember having a specific career mind in path like ever as a kid except for being a camp counselor bc i went to a lot of day camps while my parents worked during the summer and some of my fave childhood memories are from there ;_;7. i also recall wanting to become a “video game designer” at some point during my life, along w/ being an artist on the more freelance side, but i was a kid and assumed every artist was a freelance one LOL. 

also one time when i was like 5 i told my teacher i wanted to grow up and become a flower and i still vibe w/ that. what an absolute fucking legend i was

now.....i dont know what i want to do with my life. i very much would love for it to be astronomy related, my most ideal career path that i could possibly take would to have the opportunity to look after space probes as they visit the far reaches of our universe before they finally turn offline for good and i get to see what they see. or working at an observatory, i would love to do that and work w/ the giant ass telescopes they have and hang out on top of a mountain at night. 

💥 what are some unpopular opinions that you have?

- ranch with those little baked pretzel sticks are really good and you CANNOT convince me otherwise 

- i......havent played da2 in nearly 2 years but honestly i never really liked fenris. maybe if i replayed i would change my mind. 

- the only reason id replay DA:I is so i could kiss josie on the lips. i dont care abt anyone else in the game

- dark souls 1 kinda sucks actually. it’s the best out of the dark souls series and is still amazing in its own way but it just isnt very replayable imho. none of the souls games really are. bloodborne? however? that’s some top tier shit but that’s not a dark souls game. 

- waking up in the morning (8-9am) is actually really nice, my sleep schedule is so shit that i fall asleep in the morning tho lol