the throwing knife thing is just hilarious. Even if you don't like Sera how do you not keep that dummy around knowing another scene like that could happen

@sterling: exactly i was trying to talk to him and then she does that,but then i was even more pissed i lost the items i had on her because she had purple stuff on her.ive probably never been that pissed before at a character in a game.bioware should get credit for making a character i hate that much,not because shes a bad character,but because i hate her.in a world where we like bad characters like vaas and handsome jack even thought you shouldnt,its great that theres a character i actually hate.

@sessh: @demoskinos: But you wouldn't be in that situation if she didn't stick her nose in it in the first place. She is a criminal, don't forget that. Also its not the first time she kills someone without your permission. But hey, that is what is so good about these games. Everyone plays them differently and there is a lot of things for each of us to do differently. Also I just don't like her as a character. As someone else explained in the other character topic, shes just a bad character. There is no real humor in her that I see. If not for me being a trophy whore I would have never even recruited her in the first place.

@sterling: I think she is charming. And I think its rad that she apparently doesn't listen to you there. She comes off as much more of an actual person with her own motivations than some puppet that you artificially manipulate by the choices you pick. And if you keep digging deeper you find out a lot about her you wouldn't suspect.

In the Awakenings expansion for Dragon Age Origins, I totally had Nathaniel Howe executed. Partially because my main character was a rogue and partially because my character was a human noble and his dad totally murdered my dad.

That scene with Sera has convinced me that I really should play more Inquisition. WHY ARE THERE SO MANY THINGS I WANT TO PLAY.

So, I played through this part tonight and discovered that it's not actually an all or nothing thing. If you have the Inquisition perk from the "Connections" tree that gives you additional conversation choices related to nobles, you get a special option that lets you confiscate his lands. He lives, and Sera is actually really happy with you. Everyone wins.

I recently wanted to replay DragonAge:Origins.

In my previous playthrough (~2012) I took in all the people and just made my party the people I wanted, as intended.

This time, the forced "faithful encounters" really pissed me off for some reason. "Oh you have to take in the dog, he's such a good boy" nope I don't have to and I won't, also it's the most useless "character" of the whole game. "The maker told me to join you" as if I care, you interrupted me dealing with the henchmen of the big bad, I told you I was annoyed by that and you just chose to ignore my opinion, fudge off (and I was planning on romancing that character before I started). "Oh I heard Grey Wardens are powerful, guess that wasn't true" well you can just rot in your cage then. I ended the playthrough-attempt after that, as I realized I won't get a party of four like that and the constant bickering of the witch and Alister (who already was annoyed with me because he couldn't take the dog) went on my nerves already.

To me, characters that are annoying enough, don't need to be part of my party. They can just leave. Especially when they are annoying in the first conversation you have with them, they don't even need to join. Why should I carry around dead weight?
As long as they write annoying characters into games like these, I will throw them out if I can.