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Message: <blockquote data-quote="zakael19" data-source="post: 9533977" data-attributes="member: 7044099">Can you tell me what meaningful choices/player agency was rife in Bioware/DA games in the past? I remember there pretty much always being an a) or b) choice (if that), or an "prick" / "less of a prick."Anyway, I loved DA:V once I got past the frankly painful starting couple bits (it really picks up once you get the full party). The combat is ME:A but with fantasy action primary stuff instead of shooting, it was nice and fun and smooth all the way through for me even if it gets pretty straightforward for a warrior (for comparison, I despise every bit of tactical combat Larian has ever done and don't care for their games at all because I find them tedious). Most of the times I ran into issues were not swapping builds around to take advantage of boss weaknesses (I wish yo could save builds), or the Red Zones of Doom getting lost in all the effects. Ability combos are fun to pull off, and a big part of effective combat.The story (and yes, this is a game that is Telling you a Story about <s>Friendship </s>Heroism that IMO feels like they were trying to tap pretty directly into the zeitgeist of CR style D&D play) has some pretty darn good notes, gorgeous vistas, and takes a really firm stand that intentions don't excuse evil & those who prop up evil deserve to get punched in the freaking face. Party interactions are probably teh most detailed I've seen from Bioware. Every companion has comments on every other one after they go through a significant companion quest line event, I know I barely scratched the surface of that. They figured out how to have companions go "so anyway where was I" if an exchange is interrupted by a combat encounter or such, and circle back to it (most of the time pretty smoothly!). There's always an impression that the companions are in fact adults doing crap when you're off doing something else; little notes hung up around the camp area, dialogues that allude to dinner dates/forest expeditions/breakfasts/etc.I will say the weirdest thing to get used to for me was the fact that your PC is a snarky jokester pretty much all the way through (they do get called out on it occasionally). Some genuinely funny stuff in there that never felt cruel or mean to the party members though. I absolutely lost it at some of the dialogue (oh Taash, you Tumblr denizen you).If you're the sort who needs your PC to be able to act like an prick (ME)/be a cartoon villain (BGII) to feel like the "narrative has depth" you're not going to like this; but it feels like it was pretty targeted towards the crowd that wants AAA game narratives to take a stance on sometimes evil is evil and we should work together for a better world.</blockquote>

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