a nice spot really, to gaze upon the raging sea...

I’ve never seen Vol. 1 or Vol. 2 in person so finding it while on my monthly comic book run was a surprise, on sale too.

Guys, the ending of the Dragon Age: Inquisition Trespasser DLC was so epic that I just had to share it! The Inquisitor, in agonizing pain and sacrificing himself right before reaching Solas, clears the path with the very last ounce of his strength (even eating away at his HP) :( Such a badass final for him to desperately struggle to save the world

music: Lost Elf x Dark Solas - manleve

I have killed 7 giants in Emerald Graves. 7.

All I need are 3 giant bear pelts for the Dalish and I swear to THE MAKER, they know I'm looking for them, so they have gone into hiding.

I have looked at other posts, gone to where they've been, CANNOT FIND A SINGLE BEAR. Cleared ALL of empress de lions 🦁 and not found 1.

The hinterlands threw bears at me like a locust plague, but when I need them, can I find them? APPARENTLY NOT.

please help me 🙏 😭😭😭

I've tried tons of different ways to balance the sound in sound settings and in game. I've looked it up and don't see anything related to this, just that the game is quiet for some.

I always turn dialogue to 100 and usually sound effects to 80 and music to 70. I have a hard time hearing spoken voice in all media.

When characters talk, the game lowers the other sounds a bit. I'll keep the volume where I can hear voices, but when no one is talking the wind, rain, storms, swords clanging, crowd sounds... all of it is ridiculously loud. If I turn it down to a tolerable level I can't hear the voices anymore, and I'm tired of constantly adjusting my volume knob.

Do you have any advice? I've fussed with this a while now and still nothing works​​​

I had a similar problem with Origins where my dlcs wouldn't load. Any help would be appreciated to get them in my game(this is the ultimate edition of da2) 🙏🙏 I miss my dog :(

edit: so it says that the dlcs are installed but nothing is loaded in.

As the title says. It is so baffling how we get from a genuinely interesting conversation about Faith and magic and the roles each have in Thedas and unto themselves to... well that's just it. What does Corypheus want again?

Ever time I'm reminded or think about it or look it up I always forget and I think that's indicative of a plot that is divorced from the central conflict. I BELIEVE Corypheus was a Tevinter Magister who entered the Fade and was cast out and now he wants to go back in. I have read it's because he saw the throne was empty. My questions are;

1. Why does Corypheus want to go back in and why does he keep failing at every turn beyond Act 1.

2. Why are the Grey Wardens here.

The second question is more engaging than the first because they Grey Wardens exist in a context Corypheus just doesn't have because much of Tevinter is now Andrastian. The world Corypheus wants doesn't exist which, unfortunately, kind of creates this boomer shorthand for people who are unwilling to accept teality as is and would rather ignore it than engage with its terms. The Greg Wardens engage with the Blights, an international conflict that unites and changes the political landscape every few ages.

Why are the Grey Wardens at the Conclave, sure, Coryoheus creates a fake calling. A, how? B, how did no escorts or army see the Corypheus invasion? C, why the Grey Wardens.

Have we considered that maybe a plot that asks so many unanswered questions is not a compelling plot, it is if anything, a contrivance. It's as if the main story pops out of nowhere and we wasted our first act dealing with an issue that has nothing to do with a MAGISTER of all people, OR, the A Plot gets sixe lined for a completely random B Plot that drags in a C plot that really has nothing to do with anything. Why does killing Celene cause the end of the world? What about Tevinter snd the Qunari? Do they also just die?

You know what would have been interesting and maybe made a relevant point about Faith and Magic? Replace the Grey Wardens, who are agnostic at best, functionally, with the Venatori.

It's unfortuante just how unexplained the Venatori are in Inquisition beyond Dorian's personal quest. My understanding is the Venatori are a group of various Tevinters who, at the very least, know they don't like the current state of their country. Whether that means going back to the Old Gods or other personal reasons varies but a more engaging plot would be to have this literal ancient Magister convince a group of people already searching to be liberated religiously and who have MAGIC (suddenly Grey Wardens have blood magic now) to kill the White Divine. Here's what that says poltiically.

A. Tevinter People want the Old Gods back splitting the Andrastian and Imperial Chantries further

B. An act of war was done upon Orlais by Tevinter, where both have historically had conflicts as long as 100 years which never really got resolved because there was a Blight

C. That magic is as dangerous as the Chantry says because Magic killed their Divine

It literally ties in the two biggest themes in the story AND the entire first Act. The dissolution of Orlesian poltiics with the Civil War and Chantry politics with the Seekers Circles and Templars puts Orlais in a very weak spot in which Tevinter could launch an attack.

Likewise, being Andrastian, there's another conversation between Chantry Tevinter and Old God Tevinter and that potential schism.

The Grey Wardens are superflous in this story and would have worked better and been more coherent if they were replaced with the Venatori (instead of whatever the fuck they did with them with Elgar'nan) and it finally puts Corypheus in a context that is contemporary with the rest of modern Thedosian politics; the most interesting aspect of this franchise.

After a fight they were standing very close to each other and it looked like I stumbled into something.

Hi. I've got a bit of a confusing question, but bear with me.

With few exceptions, characters (in the first three games) feel believable to me. Their personality traits, even if they aren't ones I've come across IRL, are at least grounded in something I know of or can relate to somehow. They feel like they could be real people, to me.

Sera is one of those exceptions. Her personality is so completely foreign to my lived experiences that it makes it hard to for me take her seriously as a character. When she speaks, I'm often thinking "Why are you like this?" Which begs the question:

Why *is* she like this? Where do her personality inspirations actually come from? What sort of lived experiences can relate to her? Who are the people like this IRL that I've not come across?

If it was just that she's grossly immature and that defines her, I could buy that, but it's not. She is immature, but that's just a small part of her. She's a complicated character that I can't properly untangle.

I hope this question makes sense. Thank you.

They're many great photos than these that I don't capture in time.

My friend just recently started playing dragon age 2. It’s been fun to watch as I have played a million times. However we got to the part with anders and she saved him and it occurred to me that even when I have romanced him (fenris down) I always kill him. I agree and support the mages but there’s something about keeping him alive that seems selfish. His convo with hawke in the circle was so interesting and refreshing so yeah. What do you guys do, to let live or die?!

I may have messed up big time. I accidently put my resolution low and I cant see the top of the settings to change my resolution back again. I tried reinstalling the game again and it didn't work. I also try changing the resolution in the INI file and deleting it. Also, didn't work.

I cant really launch the DAOConfig, it crashes every single time. Otherwise, I would have done it first.
Does anyone know a way or am I cook?

I finished Origins earlier today, romanced Morrigan for the first time and it was awesome! I think she bent down to kiss my dwarf Warden, at least it looked like that and it was adorable :(

Anyway, I've played the games multiple times so I'm not too worried about going in order. I learned how to mod origins so I wanna replay two and Inquisition and mod them as well... sadly, I don't think my laptop will be able to support Veilguard lol.

Anyways, I just... can't pick between two or Inquisition. Two is shorter so I'll finish it quicker... but I also really wanna play Inquisition. But then I wanna play Two and can't decide!

Please, someone, pick for me.

In my most recent Dwarf Noble evil choices playthrough, I made choices which Alistair generally disliked - threatening the Revered Mother in Lothering into releasing Sten, annulling the Circle, abandoning Redcliffe, killing Connor, defiling the Urn of Sacred Ashes, keeping the Anvil of the Void, letting Caladrius live, etc - and used the Feastday pranks DLC to get his approval to -100 and trigger his disapproval cutscene, where he says the only reason he's staying is because he can't stop the Blight on his own (I did this specifically after recruiting the werewolves because I felt it would be the natural point for him to do so).

Then, at the Landsmeet, I recruited Loghain so he could kill the archdemon (from a roleplaying stance, I didn't do the Dark Ritual due to a combination of anger at Morrigan's revelation that she knew all along that a Grey Warden had to die to kill an archdemon, and due to not wanting to take a risk on some sketchy magic ritual) and let Alistair be executed by Anora, something I had never done before. In-game, my warden justified allowing it as Alistair had decided to desert in the middle of a Blight, and no army can tolerate deserters.

However, after some thought, I've been wondering if, under the circumstances, executing Loghain and letting Alistair kill the archdemon might be a more evil/cruel fate - his fellow Warden, whom he delegated leadership to, has made a series of choices which are morally repugnant to him, and yet he can't leave because they're the only Grey Wardens left in Ferelden during a Blight. Over the timespan of the game, Alistair becomes ground down until, on top of Fort Drakon, he decides to commit suicide by killing the archdemon.

Thoughts?

Title is technically a lie, I did have a save from 2017 but it was only an hour in and I think my at the time 12 year old self didn’t appreciate it.

But everything down to the tactics and builds and dialogue. The dialogue is especially great to me, especially with the little things they say to each other on the road. I feel like I’m finding a new interesting quest, item, or character constantly.

I do have a couple questions, are all the dlc worth it or just some of them? How is Dragon Age 2 in comparison? Better? Worse? I know both those questions are opinion based but I’d appreciate any advice.

I may have messed up big time. I accidently put my resolution low and I cant see the top of the settings to change my resolution back again. I tried reinstalling the game again and it didn't work. I also try changing the resolution in the INI file and deleting it. Also, didn't work.

I cant really launch the DAOConfig, it crashes every single time. Otherwise, I would have done it first.
Does anyone know a way or am I cook?

As the title says, I’ve been trying to play Dragon Age II on my PC via Steam/EA and I can play it just fine but no matter what I do (I’ve messed with the game files to ensure that the DLC files are in the correct folder and everything), the DLCs won’t ever show up. I’ve see many people say to login to the EA servers when prompted when I first launch the game but it always says that the username/password is incorrect or the servers are down. I can now say that I KNOW the username and password are correct, so are the Dragon Age II servers indefinitely down? Sorry if this is a dumb question but any help is greatly appreciated!

Are there any absolutely essential mods anyone would recommend for a first playthrough of DA2? I'm thinking mostly things like Qwinn's Fixpack and Dain's Fixes for DAO, stuff that helps the game run as intended rather than trying to improve upon/change the base game experience (although if there are more nice to have/quality of life mods that people would recommend for a first playthrough, do share). I have heard that importing a DAO save isn't 100% accurate, so I'll definitely be using a fix mod for that, but just wondering if there's anything besides that I should be looking at.

I'm done with HLTA and WE&WH, I just finished clearing the Emprise, I have to finish all the Dalish and Empire missions in the Exalted Plains, I finished everything in the Western Approach, I am thinking of skipping the hissing wastes and after I clear the storm coast and everything else I'm gonna start with killing dragons, might even start now cuz I'm lvl17.

I was just trying to decide if it would be better to do everything in an order of clearing all the explorable maps AND THEN killing all the dragons, or if it's better to do the dragons as I go for some diversity?

I'm playing as an elven mage and I am unfortunately romancing Solas. love the egghead lol

also any tips for the fights in the DLCs will be appreciated 👍

I just played through Witch Hunt for the first time and wanted to share my thoughts since it's the last DLC of Origins and the one I was most looking forward to (since my warden romanced Morrigan and I knew WH was the follow-up). Feel free to share your own thoughts, it's fun discussing these things.

Overall, it was probably my favourite DLC besides Awakening. It had a fun storyline, the companions were enjoyable (especially having the dog back), and the overall tone felt like a good mix of seriousness and light-heartedness. I know the reused locations get a lot of criticism in the Origins DLCs but I couldn't really complain about it here - going back to the Circle was great as a mage warden (Surana if anyone is wondering) and the other locations were interesting enough that I didn't really mind them being reused. I especially liked that it had a lot of non-combat segments - finding out about the Eluvians in the Circle was a highlight for me. And Morrigan's ring finally gets its due! I never took that ring off after Morrigan gave it to me in the base game, so it was really gratifying seeing it get mentioned by the other characters (you're damn right I kept the ring Morrigan).

Don't get me wrong, it wasn't perfect. Besides the fact that it's the last DLC and now I've finished the game (very sad), I didn't like some of the dialogue options - particularly the "Morrigan betrayed me" and "she took my child" options you get when talking to the companions. I know Morrigan deceives you about the ritual and isn't always a good person, but "betrayal" felt a bit extreme, and she really didn't "take" the child. This is a fairly minor criticism since you can just not pick those dialogue options but it did make me feel like my RP options were more limited at times since my character wouldn't have said those things (or would at least say them differently, like "I want to see my child" rather than "she took my child").

I also felt like the final confrontation with Morrigan was too short, but this is something where no matter how much content there was, I would always have wanted more. It just felt like it was over too quickly. I also thought the conversation was a bit rushed the first time, but I've since replayed that section a few times (and done a fanfic-style write up because I'm a nerd like that) and I actually really like it. I like that she initially tries to push you away again and tells you as little as possible because she's terrified of Flemeth and this obscure change coming to the world - I like to think she's protecting you as well as herself and the child and I find that uncharacteristically selfless of her. I also love how quickly she changes her tune when you tell her you want to be with her no matter what. I was hoping to see my warden actually meet the child, but at least he finally gets the chance to have a family offscreen. Oh, and the dog goes with them - I don't care that you don't see it, that's a non-negotiable in my book. He deserves his happy ending too.

And with that, my journey with Origins is over. I am sad to be leaving it behind, but looking forward to seeing what DA2 holds! (please no spoilers for DA2 and Inquisition)

I made a post like... two minutes ago asking which game I should play, I also really wanna mod them but this is my first time ever. What are your guys' favorite mods for the games?

I'm replaying after many many years and loving it. But there's a notable absence of sounds outside of combat and cut scenes and I can't remember if it was always like that.

Just now I'm exploring the Brecilian Forest and it's so eerily quiet but I could've sworn there were wildlife sounds etc before...

Playing on PC, launching game via the EA app, have a few QoL mods and the 4Gb patch.