Dragon Age, anyone?

@Zardi: Thanks dear

I think what surprised me so much was, that this had never happened before to me.
I have played a few games with own characters, but it's the first time I got actually attached to mine and wanted to create something with them outside of the game.
The BJD shell I had to resist really hard, but I'm sure it might still happen someday

I think what annoyed me with Dorian (and I think Bull was a bit disappointing too, as far as I heard) is that everything came across so forced.
Like with Cullen you get your super sweet scene, and the cutest with Dorian was how my divine (Cassandra) assumed I would marry him.
I had told Dorian to go back to Tevinter, since Maxwell knows it's important to him, but Trespasser made it seem all "and then Dorian disappeared for two years without any contact, comes back, gives you a half-hearted hug and then distances himself again".
It fits both of them very well, because Maxwell would keep to himself and suffer quietly anyway too, but still.
After so much they went through and haven't seen each other for two years I expected a bit more, and the dialogue throughout Trespasser wasn't very intimate either.

And also the end slide makes it seem like the Inquisitor following Dorian like a puppy and living with the fact that he's Dorian's dirty little secret, with no chance of ever being full by his side.
Maxwell would do that, but it's still a bit of a one-sided, long distance relationship, and I doubt every other Inquisitor who romanced him would be willing to do to that.

Oh well, enough of that :'D

 

I actually fell into DA: I by accident when visiting @Ara and it turned out to be a really fun game to watch (I am mostly s.o. whose video games experience is limited to creeping over other people's shoulder and watch cause I am shit at anything more complex than Solitair) and I fell hard for both her Inquisitor and the Adoribull ship.

And uh, lots of it has to do with Ara's writing about him x'D

I'd love to do a play-through myself with a female dwarven inquisitor just for kicks but I doubt I will be able to deal with it for long before my own inability to play games will spoil the fun for me.

(I did however buy an Unoa Chibi to become a dwarf lady inspired by Dagna after we played DA: I last year)

 

@Zardi: I'm not sure if I have that letter, but I think I do.
I doubt though that two busy people manage to write every few days, and I like to believe that even their frequent letters where spaced out quite a bit.

And yes, when you ask him to stay he's only out for a short time...but when you ask him to stay he also acts a little miffed that you think you can just tell him to do such a thing.
I went through all options when that dialogue came up, telling him to go (albeit with a trembling voice) was what fitted Maxwell the most, so I sticked with that for my run.
But yeah, it felt so weird when he came back after two years and everything felt so forced

Probably unpopular opinion, but I am still sad the Inquisitor had no option to die during the end, not even in Trespasser.
At least for mine a heroic death would have been okay, knowing how he will probably live post-Trespasser makes me sad D:

Little spoiler: I doubt the Inquisitor will be very relevant in the next part, at the end of Trespasser they mention how everyone knows him now and that for their next steps they need someone who is still a stranger to the world.
I do think though that Dorian, considering they now go to Tevinter, will play a major role again.
Maybe Bull too, they were both insanely popular in Inquisition after all.

 

I might be weird (or at least not very romantic) in this, but I actually liked the implication that both the Inquisitor and the love interests other than Cullen and Sera had their own separate lives - it made sense to me that most of them are willing to make that sacrifice for the big picture. I liked that about the Warden references as well - I appreciated that Morrigan and Liliana would talk about their relationship (and in Morrigan's case their family unit) while still being willing to do what they needed to do on their own. I actually thought it was odd that a Warden who romanced Zevran meant that Zevran wasn't running favours for the Inquisition the way he is in a non-romanced import.

 

I'm such a dragon age fan! Dragon age four can't get here fast enough. I romances Solas on my second play though and because of that in getting a custom Solas doll.

 

Dragon Age is my favourite game franchise! Last year I moved to Canada and applied for permanent residency, and while I was waiting for the application to go through I wasn't allowed to work or go to school - so I spent LOTS of time playing Dragon Age. I played through the entire series 3 times!

My second Inquisitor was my favourite. He was so cute.

 

Oh man I love Dragon Age. I've played all of them once, and am in the process of playing all of them over again in order (the first time, I started with Inquisition, then Origins, then 2).

I also have a Dragon Age inspired Pathfinder session with my friends, and I'm going to make my first doll a physical representation of my character,! (My icon is a chibi version of him - he's a city elf rouge, traveling with a dwarven warrior and a Dalish mage.)

He's the distant ancestor of my first Inquisitor ... who may also be shelled into a resin body at some point.
Love me some pretty elf boys.

 

@Zardi
Nope, I've been looking but haven't found anything I feel suits my inquisitor yet!
I'm torn between a soft/young face like the RS Song Im getting for my pathfinder character, or a more mature sculpt.
The latter is hard because I'd like all my dolls to be MSD or smaller, and I haven't seen many mature male MSDs


And I love that monologue -- I didn't get it in my playthrough, but I'd seen videos like that of it.
I definitely agree, female Hawke's is better -- but I also just like female Hawke more in general lmao

 

I think mage is probably the most fun to play. I really enjoyed the Anders and Iron Bull romances

 

@Zardi
Id say my favorite class is rouge, and my favorite romance (that I've done so far anyway) has been Morigan.
Shes such an interesting character, I romanced her my first playthrough because I didnt trust her and just wanted to know wtf her deal was. :P

 

I've played DA:I and DA:O both quite a bit, I liked DA:O quite a bit better, but always got frustrated because about half the mage skills and combos cause client crashing.DA:O did have quite a bit of long "dry" parts to it, but a lot of DA:I seems like it's just gathering... stuff.

In DA:I my main character was an Elf Reaver, romancing Sera

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But after picking up the game again, I rerolled a Human Rift Mage, also romancing Sera

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I think I'm liking mage better, I like the way she looks more, and reaver was, frankly, just too powerful to really enjoy the game.

 

DA:I is my favorite game. I want make a Cole bjd at some point

 

@MushroomSeeds
Oh man Id love to see a Cole bjd, with that big ol cute hat of his

 

I'm in the process of making Merrill and fenris dolls (they're unfortunately not bjds, though). I have them completely sculpted, I just have to make their wigs and paint on their faces.

 

I played through all the three DA games, those were fab times!
My fave was DA:I game, it's a really beautiful game and I enjoyed taking screenshots. I made a few characters but completed my playthrough just once and that was quite enough. Always ended up romancing Dorian :]
My canon DA:I character was younger and closely related to Dorian so it was an actual dirty little secret. It was a love love though, even though it ended in a bitter way.

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Dooorian's so hot. I modded his facial hair a little though.

My other DA:I character was a seeker (like Cass) and they had a love hate thing with Dorian, somehow broke up in the heat of it :] I didn't like that when I discovered there was no actual rivalry based relation like in DA:2.

And then I completed DA:O and romanced Alistair with a guy because I am a mod freak and I don't care.

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Yes Dragon Age, good yes! My probably ultimate game series if I'm honest. So many I love and adore but anytime I have time, my go to game is always DA of some kind. I may or may not be utterly obsessed. Ok so fine I am. lol

I'm entirely in love with DA:I but I do think my true love will always be DA:O what can I say? I love and adore Bull, but I am utterly and completely head over heels with Alistair. Can't count how many times I've romanced him. I love, love, love Anders and Cullen too for that matter. Hmmm I don't usually like blondes, what?! Anywho working on a Dorian one now, cause he's just too fun and honestly who doesn't also love Morrigan? I know I do anyway. XD

I so wanted to make dolls of Alistair, Fenris and Bull but alas the funds, other dolls and things got in the way. *sad face* Haven't long got Jaws of Hakkon and Trespasser so I have no idea what happens there, will have to get on with my game I suppose.

@noirobscur Holy woah Alistair looks amazing in your game! I must steal your game cause the mods you have are just fantastic. Please teach me where to get things like that because wow! Also your screenshots are just lovely too. I'm jealous in the best possible way.

 

@ArcaneDesires, I uninstalled them together with the mods, I think. So all I got now are the screens, I have an entire Flickr account stuffed with the screenshots from my DA games. As for this Alistair, he was a mash-up mod I made from some other mods found at DAO Nexus. If you check out, there might be newer and even better mods, probably. The mod that allows a guy romance Alistair should be def there.

 

Oh man, Dragon Age is my jam, you have no idea. I literally had to make a spreadsheet just to keep track of all my playthroughs. Though I have to say Inquisition was probably my least favorite out of the three, even though I love all the companions.

I do wish Zevran had shown up in Inquisition, but I guess since his VA was already voicing the Inquisitor it wasn't feasible or something. I just love the idea of him and Josephine driving everybody a little nuts by gossiping in Antivan.

 

Just jumping in here because I'm about 98% Dragon Age I'll have to find some screen caps, but my "mains" (who I play as, my girlfriend and I have a million characters) are TabrisxAlistair, Hawke twins- M!HawkexFen and F!Anders, and LavellanxCullen

My Minifee A-line renewal is my Lavellan mage Inquisitor and my girlfriend's (@Kobuuta)'s minifee Yder is her clan mate/dalish hunter/rogue default.
It's great to see other fans!

 

Quite the fan of the Dragon Age franchise here, have my roommate to blame for that.

Currently playing through Inquisition for the first time myself, but I have seen pretty much everything of it when said roommate played so spoilers are perfectly fine. The ones I have played as is a female noble dwarf warden, a female mage Hawke and a male dwarf rouge inquisitor.

As can be seen I am quite fond of the dwarfes in Dragon Age, I think mostly cause I personally find the other conflicts revolving humans, elfs, mages and templars and what not is a bit too much to handle.

I think so far Origins feels closest to being a favorite, most likely cause it was the game I played through without actually knowing a lot of what would happen. But I can't really pick one as a faveorite game cause I did enjoy all of them!

 

Dragon Age is one of my all time favorite video game series. I've played Dragon Age 2 to death, and modded it to kingdom come and back.
My main Hawke was a warrior woman I named Hathor. Vehement mage supporter, designed her to look Egyptian and gave her green and gold eyes. I also played as a mage and went through one game as a male warrior and coded it to look like the Arishok. Found out that code broke when Hawke starts appearing in the Amell family home.

Inquistition I've had the most fun with so far. My first Inquisitor I played as Orsino, if he survived the events of Dragon Age 2 and took to hiding among the Dalish of the Marches. Bioware has said that with the right choices he was meant to survive, but some higher up decided at the last second that they needed another boss...

I love the history and culture of the series, and it was great to finally get to play as a Qunari in Inquisition. I'm actually planning on building some of my dolls around my 'Orsino survived' scenario. My first doll, who I recently order from Miro doll is going to be a Dalish hunter named Falhen. Orsino, who will also be a doll at some point, spends a couple of years with him avoiding detection wandering the rural and wild areas of the Vimmark Mountains and the Planasene Forest.

I may write a proper story about it some day. But yeah, Dragon Age is a big fav.

 

My favorite part of Dragon Age: Inquisition is watching my name scroll by in the credits.

Also Cole. Cole is adorable and spoils ALL THE MOVIES. :B

 

I absolutely adore the series, I started playing Origins first. Had no idea what I was doing first but got the idea. I love playing as Surana but I have head canons of the gender of all of the playthroughs. I normally play a rogue Hawke as a sarcastic playthrough as it just suits him. Dalish elven mage for Inquisition even though I can't play Trespasser

 

I'm putting together a doll of my favourite Inquisitor Lavellan His head (Withdoll Ash The Elf Hunter) is out for a faceup now and I've commissioned Beyond Wonderland to make a set of the formal wear for him. I'll be painting the anchor on his hand. It'll be a few months before he's all put together but I'm excited!

 

My little Inquisitor just got home from his faceup :3

 

I adore Dragon Age. I liked all 3, Origins, DA2 and Inquisition. My favorite characters in it were Zeveran, Ogran, Dorian and Varric. I will admit I cried and yelled no when Duncan died. I've still got some of them loaded on my new computer along with tons of mods. And I adored Varric so much that I can usually spot his voice actor Brian Bloom in other games and even cartoons/animes. writing this makes me realize just what a big old nerd and fan girl I really am.

 

Oh man, I started DAI like a week ago and absolutely blasted through it. Female human warrior, and romancing sweet baby Cullen. I also made a male character because DORIAN OHMYSWEETJESUS My brother lent me DA2, so I'll likely get swallowed by that, too.

I'm fighting the urge to make my Dollshe fashion Amanda the set of armor my Inquisitor wears, because I'm already so far behind on her actual character's stuff (she's my paladin from World of Warcraft, who I based my DAI character on...).

Like I needed another fantasy RPG obsession

 

omg! when DAI came out I didn't leave my house until I finished the whole game (which the main plot was surprisingly short and this was minus work lol) when the downloadable content came out I was so excited to play them because it meant more story. I absolutely was in love with DA2 though, Fenris is one of my favorite characters along with Verric and I loved the witty humor and remarks you got while playing the story well worth the replay.

 

I loved DAI and DA 2, I'm really stoked for DA 4. I can't wait to meet our new companions. My fav romances in DAI were Josephine and Dorian, and DA 2 Fenris all the way.

 

My Lavellan has his formalwear now!

 

@solitary agent Oh that's so adorable! You did a great job!! I love it.

Just saw this thread... I love Dragon Age. I've played them all. Romanced Fenris, Romanced Dorian... Romanced the Bull. LOVE.

 

Oh, I wish I could do that well myself! It's commissioned from Beyond Wonderland

 

They have a thread here and are on Facebook as well!

 

Ok so it's been like forever since I replied in here? Ergh, I totally can't believe I didn't reply back. I totally found those mods though, romancing the now totally gay Alistair is go! lol Sorry I just had to see it and it's kinda adorable. My fav ship will probably always be my very first Origins character, a City Elf who was broken hearted when she pushed Alistair to become king and obviously couldn't be involved with him any longer.

But hey, that's what the PC version and mods are for! Wish it was possible to have mods on console though, console DA is my jam.

@solitary agent Wow your Inquisitor is adorable! What an awesome faceup and I love the formal outfit too! It looks great. This makes me happier than you could believe. Seriously, great job on getting all the stuff to put together a DA bjd, everything looks so good!

Everyone here is making me want to play again though. I think I should totally start a new save tomorrow now. I never finished my Dorian one, maybe I should start a new one. Hmmm...

 

Hi everyone!
I've played through Origins countless times. It's my favorite game in the series, honestly. Right now I am playing through Inquisition with my Dalish rogue, but I do have a previous character that's a Dalish mage that I sort of... stopped playing for awhile. I am really enjoying playing as a rogue right now, and I plan on going back and giving my mage a shot. I loved playing a mage in Origins, and it was my go-to in DA2 but... I don't know. I guess I was just really disappointed with the specializations and skills in Inquisition lol. :c Nothing quite had the same flavor; I liked to go arcane warrior/battlemage/keeper and the closest is knight-enchanter which is... honestly... kind of meh for me? I don't know. I am bummed you can't go multiple specializations anymore, though u__u

My current save files right now follow the adventures of my Mahariel warden, though. She's one of my "big three," along with my Tabris (rogue) and Surana (uh, mage, as you can guess lol). I really love elves. :'D I've played all of the Origins multiple times, though; my favorite origin stories is probably Tabris and both of the dwarven origins, though.

 

Gonna revive an old thread here because I've been on a Dragon Age kick the past week and need to gush about it with people. I'm replaying Origins (my favorite despite some of the... less than desirable aspects *coughdeeproadscough*) and I'm actually working on making my female Dalish Warden into a doll as well as Tamlen and Leliana. My Warden, Ariathari Mahariel, is in the mail, just ordered Tamlen, and Leliana I'm waiting a bit on. They're going to be a Resinsoul Xi, Sui on a human body, and a Ya.

I honestly think Leliana has to be one of my favorite characters, she's just so cool.

 

Mmmm, Dragon Age. *looks pointedly at avatar* That's Warden Emmael Tabris there...

I really loved Origins and DA2. Origins because it was the first choice/consequence heavy RPG I played, and the story was very compelling at the time. DA2 has to be my favourite - I liked how it did a more realistic and complex take on the relatively conventional Origins. Inquisition was a good story, but somehow I found it not as good as the previous two - story didn't seem as moving and I just didn't gel with any of the companions. Maybe I'm seeing Origins/DA2 through rose-coloured glasses?

That said, I really enjoyed all three - story and gameplay both. I played two storylines: a main canon with all male characters making mostly cooperative/peacemaking choices (unless really provoked), and an alternate canon with all female characters making grimmer choices. I still think fondly of those charas...

That's great! I'd love to see pictures when you've shelled them.

 

I feel like I'm in the minority who didn't really like DA2 that much I think it was because Hawke didn't feel like my own character the way my Warden did. I think I just really didn't like how in DA2, and in Inquisition actually, you were never certain what your character was going to fully say and it broke my connection to the characters. I still liked DA2 to an extent, but just not the same as Origins. However, DA2 gave us Varric and I love that dwarf.

I will say though, I fell hard for Solas on my first playthrough of Inquisition. My heart shattered during his romance.

 

I liked Warden and Hawke the most. In fact, I really liked working within the limitations of Hawke's characterization (having an existing family and all), seeing how I can push him/her personality and choices in interesting directions, while staying true to the videogame canon.

True, the conversation wheel vs actual voiced lines can deviate somewhat. I rationalized it as a guide to motivations/moods instead of verbatim speech, and headcanoned a lot of the nuances. (For one, my Hawke pardoned Anders and let him live and stay with the group -- not because Hawke condoned Anders' actions, but to deny Anders the luxury of being a martyr and to make him do penance by living with the consequences of his actions. No way that kind of nuance was provided in the choices.)

I haven't met anyone who dislikes Varric. XD He's the only "normal" guy (maybe alongside Aveline) amidst a bunch of tortured companions, both in DA2 and Inquisition. I was a bit disappointed with Inquisition Varric though, don't think he was as colourful and sprightly as he was in DA2... though yeah, probably my rose-coloured glasses at work, haha.

Unfortunately I didn't like the DAI companions nearly as much as the previous two games. They weren't bad; they just didn't have spark for me, romantic or no. My "main canon" Inquisitor ended up romancing no one -- which ended up working for his character anyway (Dalish xenophobia is hard to kick).

Romance aside, Trespasser was fantastic. I liked all its implications -- not just Solas but the backstory to the whole elven pantheon. Opens up a whole lot of interesting world/lore potential... although tbh I have serious doubts whether DA4 is going to realize all of that potential. (Let's not get into my growing disillusionment with DA and BioWare as a whole...)

 

2 is probably my least favourite just because I am so, so bad at the Friend/Rival system and I find it deeply stressful in an unfun way so there's a lot of googling going on.

I also intend to shell my main Warden as a doll though I'm nowhere near managing that.

 

Two was my favorite, followed by Origins. I'll echo with saying that DAI just fell flat with me. I can definitely see the EA influences seeping into the story, and while I think there are some good things about it. It's not enough to really make me excited about DA4. I'm feeling more...dread, I'd say? I have to play it because it's Dragon Age and it's my favorite game series ever. But I expect it to be terrible, I'm just waiting to see how bad.

I don't do well with open world games. I'm autistic, and they get very very overwhelming very very quickly and I end up playing a session or two before I just don't want to load into them at all. I only got through DAI because I was following the guide religiously but I still do not want another open world installment. I got very tired of the "visit this same place...AGAIN!" with DA2, but I would take it any day over the anxiety induced by open worlds.

I love the friendships, and the romances that Dragon Age offers. I adored Alistair in all his goofy awkwardness, and Fenfen will always have my heart. I romanced Cullen in DAI (and I was extremely excited that they brought this thread all the way from DAO and I got to!). I adored lots of the friendships and companions in DAI, like Sera and Cole (Cole is baby and I will protect him with my life) just...didn't give me the same romance tugs on heart strings Fenris did. But Varric is the character where I'm screaming at the screen going "Why can't I?!? JUST ONCE give me the witty dwarf with the ridiculous chest hair!!" I want to romance him so bad. So bitter he'll never be an option xD

Just all the options, building friendships and romances, and how your actions have consequences, and they carry over from previous games and just....please don't ruin this for me EA lol.

 

Apparently I had watched this thread but never replied? What the heck! I love Dragon Age I used to be super active on the old BSN under the same name as here. I agree with previous commenters that DA:I didn't land with me as much. IMO it's because it lost a lot of the morally grey choices, the darker aspects of the story and lore, didn't really add much in the way of new interesting lore/cultures/locations and was a lot of running around empty wilderness which isn't my preference. It of course has its good aspects, one of which was the much improved face CC and I liked the characters and VA as always. The doll in my avatar is my Inquisitor Lavellan :3

 

Inquisition was a weird amalgamation of you being the guy on the front line and you being the guy in charge of important decisions. With the Warden that's understandable because you're one of three in the entire country, one third of those is in prison until very late in the game but you're not that important in the grand scheme of things. But the Inquisition is supposed to be this massive organisation and you are supposed to be its leader because you're the only person in the world who can close the rifts.

So of course you're out there scouting out locations for camps and getting attacked by bears because that's not going to end up with someone having to inform the War Table that unfortunately the only method of closing the rifts is now in a bears stomach.

Then there are choices like Here Lies the Abyss which only mean something to the player if the player is familiar with Hawke and Alistair. To the Inquisitor they're Varric's friend and Varric's friend's friend.

Gorgeous game most of the time (I am still annoyed about Wicked Eyes and Wicked Hearts having like six total outfits for the entire Orlesian court) and with mods the character creator is great.

 

DAO will always have a special place in my heart and I'm happy to see that others in this thread share similar opinions on it and DAI.

 

It's ironic that this thread has popped up today because I am now a major step closer to having my main Warden as a bjd. I have purchased the correct body.

So now I just get to try and recreate Origins Warden Commander Armour on a 1/4 scale because that is my favourite armour overall.

 

That's awesome, congrats! What doll are you going to use for your Warden?

 

Bimong's 38cm fusion body and likely a custom sculpted/printed head. Although my Warden is human she's also very short and I want a lot of dynamic poses with her. 38cm is 5'0 on a 1/4 scale which is exactly her height and the fusion body is one of the best posers out there and strikes the right balance of looking like an adult while also not having large...tracts of land.