So say we all! Made life a lot easier.
I am doing a human warrior run-through now so i can be king and follow through with the morrigan romance. pack space is already far more annoying than i had remembered. in the middle of ostagar but will trot on over to the peak right after.
Felicia Day in Dragon Age Redemption.
I’m playing my second full playthrough (as an elf mage this time), and it’s not quite as obnoxiously slow as it was the first time around (or maybe I just know what to expect this time). Of course, I’ve also pretty much just been doing random mini-quests.
I think I’m going to try getting the ashes from the urn before I go to Redcliff to see if that opens up more options.
I’ not 100% sure, but I don’t think ashes place is open before Radcliffe. But, I’ve never tried. I don’t think a certain scholar’s house is open before Radcliffe.
(This should be in the spoilers thread I think.)
I visited his house and see Haven already. I think the quest first appears when you talk to the knight in the Lotherim chantry (might depend on if you looted the knight the bandits killed before you got there).
I have no frakking clue how I did it, but I just got both the Leliana and Morrigan romance achievements in one trip to camp. ;)
Not at the same time though? Unfortunately. d:
Haha! When I was doing my “get all achievements” run, I got 3 (I think it was Morrigan, Leliana, and then Zevran, in that order) all in the same “night”.
I can only imagine what my character must have smelled like upon leaving Zevran’s tent.
OK, I was able to get the ashes before going to Redcliff, but I couldn’t get to Eamon before dealing with the Demon.
Anyone got the DA2 demo yet. I tried to get it but apparently it’s exclusive to Gold members for a week. I guess I’ll have to wait. I guess I’ll have a chance to finish my DAO playthrough.
Well I played half of the demo and then stopped because I didn’t want to see any more of the story than I had to.
It is clear that this is a faster, streamlined and more console friendly version of Dragon Age than Origins. From what I’ve read, consoles were the lead platform during development of DA2 as opposed to the PC for Origins, and it shows.
Unfortunately, character customization was disable for the demo so I can’t comment on that, though knowing Bioware it will be just fine in the full game in a couple weeks.
I’m not sure I get the crying over the game being more “dumbed down” that a lot of people on the internet seem to be doing though. Things just move a much more brisk pace.
I played the demo as a rogue and my wife played it as a mage. We both found it quite fun! Also it was pretty great to see Kate Mulgrew reprise her role as Flemeth like 15 minutes into the game! She’s amazing.
March 8th can’t get here soon enough!
I was not excited about Dragon Age 2. I was angry because I would only get to play as a human, and why would I want to do that when I’m already a human and had the option of being an elf or a dwarf before? Basically, I’ve spent the past couple of months pouting.
I’m an idiot.
I spent a while playing the demo and squealed and whooped and got as into it as I did with the first one. As soon as my husband’s done with it (he gets first dibs, and I haven’t played Awakenings yet so that’s my chance) I’ll be playing it.
But if you finish it you get a sword!
Like, oh, my god! 
I’ll take my chances. 
I don’t understand that either because I think the combat is a vast improvement over DA:O. The combat is more action oriented, but it’s not dumbed down. The powers seem to be a bit more streamlined than the original but since there were so many that I hardly used I’m not complaining too much, although I think in the long run that may be something that annoys those playing as a mage.
I was playing a rouge and man did I love seeing my character jump all over the place and actually using backstab efficiently. I think they did a better job of improving DA between the two games than they did for ME because that game was dumbed down drastically between 1 and 2 on the RPG elements, this one doesn’t appear to be. I’m not complaining at all because Lady Hawke is just so frakking good looking and the combat is so fast paced I actually felt like I was making her fight instead of standing and swinging a sword around.
But you also have to remember that a lot of those fans complaining are used to the tried-and-true Bioware formula for RPG combat: click there and your character will attack until given other orders. With the exceptions of Jade Empire and Mass Effect, essentially all other Bioware games were like that. Or at least weren’t as action oriented as this one is.
All it is is different though, and different does not always mean bad. I look forward to trying it out, personally. Although, my only complaint is that it leapt from like three hits to kill a Hurlock in the first game and like 20 in the demo…it makes it seem arcadey and not as realistic. (Yes, I am aware a critiqued a fantasy game on realism).
Happy March 8th everyone!