One thing I enjoy about these games are that they try to inject some morality into your choices. While some may argue the overall end result can be the same (you save the princess in the castle, whether you're a jackass or not) -- sometimes just the response I get from kicking the dog or petting it can make me chuckle a bit as I image my character in my head.

That being said, how do you play your characters - white shining night, the guy that kicks kittens, or somewhere in between.. or how else would you describe him/her? Obviously, replay value is high - so playing all the moral story-lines is quite possible... but then is there a way you choose a certain characters attitude as the game goes?

Like in Dragon Age, are you going to play the angry elf who's racist against humans for all the pains they have caused his people? So is it by race then? Maybe it'sa gender thing, do you want your female PC to seem like a femme fatale? Perhaps class, do you see the rogue as someone who needs to tread the line and choose the choices that get him the most loot? Maybe you want that certain 'Romance' and so you bend over backwards to fit whatever mold to get that particular scene? Or do you model it after your own personality?

"You want me to save that dude?"

"Yeah I'll give you get a little bit of good karma"



"You want me to slay that dude"

"Yeah I'm stinking rich I'll give you a shit load of cash."


You can normally tell the rewards from the way someone looks. And I just want a better reward.

I usually do what I would do in real life, which ends up as me being a knight in shining armor.

In Dragon Age, I'm gonna try to be an elf who gets all this shit but doesn't really care, but if the elf has to have some deep hatred for everyone else, I'll end up playing as a human knight dude.

do you get to chose your class though, I thought this game was skipping between characters and was basically giving you the run down

I usually play good on my first playthrough. The second playthrough I do everything the excate opposite of how I did it in the first.

Completely depends on the companions in a Bioware game for me. I'm usually the nice guy but BG2 all the fun characters were evil. Well I suppose having both Anomen and Jan was pretty damn amusing. But Edwin and Korgan were complete bad asses. I really hope Dragon Age gives you some colorful people to recruit.

For Dragon Age there are a few paths I plan on taking. The elf trying to prove his people worthy to a society that looks/talks down to them. A character that's paladin good. I'm also looking at playing a character (probably on my first play though) that answers the things the way I would answer them. Then the theif character that's indifferent. And then a character that's wickedly evil.