Dragon Age: My playthrough, part deux.
By AndrewB 1 Comments
Continuing my incessant fascination with Dragon Age, I am now on my second playthrough. I just wanted to post some random observations.
- It's pretty awesome how differently the game plays out when you're using a different character. I'm a female, offensive-oriented, human mage (as opposed to my first playthrough male/elf/rogue). Besides a whole different "origin story" (and one particularly awesome one, considering it sheds a lot of light on other events that occur later on in the game, from a different perspective), your choice of what character you play has some nice little differences in the way people speak to you, and how you influence people.
Still, I'd intended to go into my second playthrough as a bitch of a character, choosing the more "evil" dialogue options. Unfortunately, I just can't play evil, and I wouldn't want to anyway, since that would mean half of the party members I care about/need would be too pissed at me to stay. -
If you've played the game, you'll understand why these men are standing around naked... - I'm finding the game a *lot* easier early on. This could be because having area effect spells is a huge boon at lower levels, or it could simply be because I now know the system, and what spells/abilities give you the best results. That said, I'm not in any rush to turn up the difficulty, as I'm finding it refreshing barreling through fights that I struggled with the first time, and I'm sure that the boss fights will be as frustrating as ever.
- I'm having a tough time deciding who to romance. I haven't read enough about the game to know, but I believe Allistair is an option, and I'd really like to go that route since Allistair is one of my favorite characters in the game. Lelianna would be my next choice, because I really regret missing out on her the first time (things went horribly wrong when, even though I insisted to Lelianna that she and I remain friends, she became jealous over my choice for Morrigan. I ended up not speaking to her again, just to avoid losing her or making her any more pissed off).
- I'm already plotting out what I'll do on my third run through the game, and that's scary. Even though I'm plowing through the game much more quickly, it's still going to be a long, long game, and I haven't let any game consume me like this since... well, actually, since Fallout 3, which I suppose wasn't too long ago.
