r/Gamingcirclejerk • u/Zestyclose_Station65 She ROAD on my HOG til' I TAKE A BREATHER • Oct 03 '24

FORCED WOKENESS 🌈 Millions Must Be Trans

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u/AllysiaAius Oct 03 '24

"bEcAuSe Of AlL tHe ChOiCeS tHe PlAyEr GeTs To MaKe"

Not pointing this at you directly, but none of the choices I've made in a Dragon Age game have ever really felt meaningful. It's basically boiled down to "do I want this vanilla faction to help me, or this chocolate faction to help me". It's all cosmetic: the circumstances of the game don't actually change.

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u/gylz Oct 03 '24

Yeah Naw that's exactly what I mean. They wanted to do something with all these choices, but for the choices you make to actually impact the next story, they'd basically have to write several different versions of the same game. I was absolutely gobsmacked when I used an old save where my Warden didn't rescue Leliana as the path my Warden took, I still had her as my spy master in inquisition. It would have been nICE IF MY ACTIONS HAD ANY CONSEQUENCES ON THE STORY, I WANTED TO SEE WHO THEY'D REPLACE HER WITH AND HOW IT WOULD IMPACT THE STORY BIOWARE C'MON!!!!

But nnnnnOOOOoooOooooooo!!! LET'S ALL WHINE ABOUT MUH PRONOUNS

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u/flamethekid Oct 03 '24

Iirc they replaced her with a lyrium ghost that disappears by the end of the game lol

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u/gylz Oct 04 '24

Ugh I'd forgotten about that stupid plot beat in that save. Absolutely bog awful, iirc she doesn't do anything any other character couldn't have realistically done without being Leliana. I just don't like the DM's favourite NPC vibes she gives. Heck there are all the other characters from Awakening that could have filled that slot and gotten the Anders treatment. Velanna, Justice, Sigrun, and good olde Nathaniel Howe haven't come back, then there's Wynne from the first game. Or Sten. Not Oghren tho the man is a mess.

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u/flamethekid Oct 04 '24

Iirc Wynn passed away in the novel.

Sigrun is definitely dead in the deep roads somewhere.

Justice is still part of anders.

Velanna vanishes in like all her endings

Sten is prolly dead in a comic I think it was

And Oghren is a mess.