Though Greg is also severely mentally insane and considered a danger to his children, its why they were taken away from him. So honestly we are better off. They can very easily find someone to voicematch. I bet if Steve Valentine wasn't Alistair it could work.
I heard the whole "I will harm them" claim, but is there any evidence this was ever said? I even watched a video about his downfall but this is never substantiated as proven to be said by him in what ive seen
Considering how I still can find people praising this game unironically, well...
Makes me wonder if they actually played the first games, especially the first one.
I think DA2 jump into a pool, but DA: I jumped imto a non-maintained one.
all the ACKSHULLY elves were gods and that one faggot you killed in 2 lived to become an ultra world ending threat shit is incredibly awful
I assume there were no plans for an immediate follow-up, since the Blight storyline was ended pretty conclusively with Origins, and the fallout was explored in Awakening. Following this up with more Darkspawn-related stuff would not have worked that well, since a Blight is something that only happens every few centuries. I think following it up with a smaller-scale story that was more or less about politics, with larger implications building up in the background, was actually a pretty smart move. I don't mind that they ramped up things again with Inquisition, but I think they should have kept to that, further explore the war between Templars and Mages, maybe adding a full-scale Qunari invasion.
Probably couldn't do it with a LARP, and definitely can't do it with the MCU bullshit, but with a franchise like DA, there is a solution to this problem. It's just that it requires decent writing, and a willingness to not have character cameos, and a constant flood of "hey, I know that thing" and that's simply to have appropriate time scales. You don't have the games taking place 10 years apart, you have another game taking place 100 years later with shit having moved on(and that's one thing that a lot of sequel writers can't get over) and then filling in the gaps with lore, journal entries, etc.
For me, it was with 2. I have no comment on the plot of 2 but the game play and tone changed from a top-down manageable party-based RPG to a personal PoV button masher where fucking speedlines showed around your character like a cartoon. I would have bought DA2 simply on the basis of Origins but they were kind of enough to release a playable demo that warned me.
Main reason why it's always a world-ending event is due writers mostly consuming slop where every villain wants to terminate the world. It's a pisseasy plot to write if villain just wanna destroy the world.
Were one of the shenanigans the Drachenschanze invasion?
That's certainly an option but it's a bit impractical since most people want recurring characters. I'm admittedly one of them, I'm still salty they dropped the HoF as a protagonist, even if I can't say what more they could really have done with him.
The Drachengame was more an ARG than a LARP.
Yeah, DA2's main plot is much more grounded than the other games.
Well that's kind of a problem then. You want stories that make sense without having a world ending event happening 3-6 times within the span of the lifetime of most characters within a setting, but you also want recurring characters. Unless you have some contrived nonsense of putting characters into some kind of stasis/magicsleep/time travel into the future/whatever, it can't happen.
Jumped the shark with 2.
Well, technically Hawke is a second cousin to the Human Mage Warden in Origins.
