Dragon Age: Origins gameplay and discussion thread.

[Monk]

That announcement makes me happy and sad. I'm happy because we get to go into the Morrigan story one more time but it makes me sad that such an announcement seems to suggest they want to tie up the Origins tale for good, including most of the characters from Origins.

Personally I would have liked there to be room for more Origins characters in the future but this doesn't seem to to be the direction Bioware wants to go in. Some things are also best left a mystery in my opinion; Morrigans story was one of those things. I think not knowing the fate of Morrigan added food for thought and added a welcomed unpredictability to the series. It would have also meant that there was a chance of the Origins story/events carrying right through the trilogy, I doubt this will be the case now.

Tying up the Morrigan plot thread was always on the agenda, but I sorta hoped we'd get a full game dedicated to it, instead of a DLC pack (however long it turns out to be). I'm actually glad Bioware is making new stories again (instead of the retreads we've gotten before) but... I kinda find myself hoping this is the last DLC for DAO. Not that I hate the game, but because this is getting ridiculous. Every time I put the game away and uninstall it, more DLC is announced.

If this keeps up i'm gonna end up in the same way I did with Fallout 3, complete franchise exhaustion.

[rajpoot]

This...is.....awesome!

Atleast that's what I hope. It's bittersweet. The $7 price tag scares me since this might not turn out to be the grand ending I'd been hoping for (actually there's no 'might'....for $7...this certainly won't be the grand ending I'd been hoping for). Still. Bioware is giving us an ending and that's what counts. It'll be nice to start DA2 without wondering where next will be see our Warden or Morrigan. For now...I'm hoping that they make this even better than Leliana's song. I mean Golem's of Amgarrak...'twas...disappointing.

And from the screenshots, it like we're getting our faithful old Mabari back. Yay!

[Beskar]

I think it will explain why Flemeth returns as a white-hair buxom twenties sorcess porn-star in DA2.

Interesting view of the trailer, with some 'hints' pointed out - http://www.gametrailers.com/video/gt...n-age-2/703595

Also, Dragon Age 2 comes out on my birthday. Is it fate?

[Beskar]

Right, I found out why Sten doesn't look like a demon and the one in the video does.

During the qun-ari war, the qun-ari took large amounts of the Thedan, integrating humans into their culture. Either using them as slaves and servants, or enlightening them to the Qun, and thus they were religiously converted. While all of Thedan eventually kicked the Qun'ari out, there were many left behind which over the generations have been following the qun, plus that island off the coast is full of Qun believing humans.

Sten is simply a human who has embraced the Qun.

[rajpoot]

Right, I found out why Sten doesn't look like a demon and the one in the video does.

During the qun-ari war, the qun-ari took large amounts of the Thedan, integrating humans into their culture. Either using them as slaves and servants, or enlightening them to the Qun, and thus they were religiously converted. While all of Thedan eventually kicked the Qun'ari out, there were many left behind which over the generations have been following the qun, plus that island off the coast is full of Qun believing humans.

Sten is simply a human who has embraced the Qun.

That's a more plausible explanation than some just having horns by chance.
So Sten is a hybrid....

[Beskar]

He might be purely human, just tall. People from the different areas have some sort of 'racial traits', so he could simply come from a darker skinned tall human place which was conquered and converted to the Qun.

Here is the source of this information

copy and paste of the more relevant bits:

To others they are heathens, worshippers of a strange religion that seek to spread it to “lesser” races by force.

It was a dark time for Thedas, with the nations of mankind being forced to once again unite against a common enemy… this one intending not to destroy, as the darkspawn did, but rather to conquer a land they saw as in dire need of enlightenment. The qunari proved themselves to be the most frightening sort of opponent of all: religious zealots.

They divided children from their families and sent adults to ‘learning camps’ for indoctrination in their religious philosophies.

For every tale of suffering recorded, there was another that tells of enlightenment from something called the ‘qun’. This is either a philosophical code or a written text, perhaps both, and some claim it may even be akin to the qunari god. Unlike the Chant of Light it governs all aspects of qunari life, both secular and spiritual, and the qunari are devoted to following its tenets strictly and without question.

one Seheran who converted reported pity for those who had not, as if the conquerors’ religion led to a sort of self-discovery. ‘For all my life I followed the Maker wherever his path may lead me,’ he writes, ‘but in the faith of the qun I have found the means to travel my own path. If only all my people could understand what it is the qunari offer us.’

Dealing with those of the local populace which had converted to the qunari religion proved difficult, especially as some of these had lived under the qun now for generations

Rivain was the only human land that embraced the qunari religion after being freed [Rivain is the sea-faring nation present in Dragon Age 2]

[rajpoot]

Witch Hunt Trailer; Seems like Morrigan is playing the antagonist this time.

Edit:
The Origins mabari has been confirmed as the final companion.
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