Dragon Age 2

[victoriah]

oh dear  lol

[Tbone]

Well I finally beat it. Spoilers:


So I was kinda disappointed that the endgame triggered automatically before I could finish completing all my quests. I still had a few side quests and companion quests to finish up. A couple of things...

WTF Anders. He flipped out and blew up the freakin Chantry! Does that happen for everyone or only b/c I helped him with that Chantry mission? Oops!

My girlfriend from DA:O, Leliana, ended up being the one searching for the Champion and apparently "the Warden" is with him. Looks like they had a lovers' tiff...heh. Also, did anyone else get the quest with Alistair? It was interesting getting his POV of things.

I sided with the mages of course. All of my companions ended up on my side and no one died. Meredith being tainted by the idol was a twist I didn't see coming.

Definitely looks like the third installment will take place in Orlais. Prepare for all the french accents now!

Oh, also, I took off with Isabela to have crazy pirate sex!

[Tbone]

Also, out of all of my companions, Anders and Fenris hit on me the most. W...T...F...

[Duoi]

yes Tbone it happens to everyone.

[JazzyC]

I never actually got Isabella as a companion.  I assumed, like all others she would appear as a quest.  But apparently not.

I lost Fenris because I sided with the mages.  I lost Sebastian because (although I personally would have ran a knife through both of his eye sockets) I let Anders life because my character had her only relationship with him.  But I lost Anders because I told the bastard he had to run or I would kill the bugger.  Varric was just unselectable (though was in a cut-scene, or rather his voice was).  And my sister, well, lets just say the Taint didn't agree with her.

I had intended to play the game with only a full-female team.  That fell through after act 1 when I failed to "collect" Isabella and lost my sister.

[Tbone]

Who is Sebastian? I never got him. How was Varric unselectable? I thought for sure he was a mandatory companion since Varric mentions in his narrative that he joins up with the Champion.

My sister was my primary mage, and after the end of Act I, I could not find a suitable replacement. It's kinda lame that there's NO way to use her through most of the game.

[JazzyC]

Sebastian is the Exiled Prince DLC.  And it beats me why Varric was not selectable for the last part.  He was in he cutscene (albeit invisible).  So I was left with Aveline and Merril.

Sister was going to be my main mage too.  That being said.  Forcing myself to have Anders in the team, due to the budding relationship, was handy for the High Dragon fight.  His revive and group heal was very handy.

Still, should have ran a blunt blade through the bastard.

Hidden/spoiler stuff:
Oh, I got the Alistair stuff.  I imported my save, which had him as King with whatsherface as Queen.  The appearance of Leilana was cool too.

Bit annoyed the ending.  Despite siding with the mages I still had to kill a great many of them.  And when the First Enchanter decided to go all Blood Mage, I could have switched the game off.  
It felt like they had handed you a great choice then chucked in an ending that fit whatever you chose to do.  I mean, you end up killing both sides!

[victoriah]

ugh.  i've had zero time to play since i got it.  thanks for hiding spoilers =)

[Venlar]

I kept my whole party =p ha! Funny thing is the same thing happened in my first playthrough of mass effect 2 lol

[Subb]

Ah, but with ME2 the characters are ALL awesome (I LOVED Thane). There's a reason why I want Anders to die; he's a whiney bitch and so's Fenris.

The noobs.

[victoriah]

i got fenris last night.  he is kind of like sten.  i also downloaded the prince expansion.  i'm hooked now.  it's all i did yesterday (after my 8 hour video game party the night before  lol)

[Venlar]

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/2978-Dragon-Age-II

Best... review... for DA2... ever... lol

[victoriah]

so i never got sebastian, just a quest for him (?) which i completed.  idk i'm on ps3 maybe it's different.  ;(  i just got back from the deep roads, and while my sister was not my primary mage, i didn't take her with me.  so, she ended up being taken away to the circle.  oh well.  i am really annoyed how much homework i have this week and really want to play more !@#$%*#@

[victoriah]

if i had waited i would have known that i get sebastian later  

[victoriah]

i made win.  fenris left me because i let anders live.  but he was a rival anyway (?)  i gave isabella to the qunari  lol  bethany was selectable at the end but i didn't care at that point.  i first tried killing anders to keep sebastian happy since he has sick dps but varric was a fine replacement.  unfortunatley i couldn't play without anders anymore...
does anders do the thing at the end regardless if you don't help him with his side quests?