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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9534956" data-attributes="member: 18">Not much more - that's almost everything major, and most of it's stupid and selfish rather than an kind of meaningful choice. In many cases it's outright a worse choice, gameplay-wise, than the other choice. So this idea that this is &quot;meaningful choice&quot; is pretty funny. It's not. It's just having a few perverse and destructive options for no particularly good reason.And you can see the step away from the demented options in DAO which I mentioned. Using blood magic isn't even necessarily evil, it's just ill-advised/risky. Blood mage is a subclass in the game, for goodness sake, and it's not a secret evil one! Being a Blood mage doesn't have any bad consequences for the ending/Hawke even. So I'm mystified as to how you think that's an &quot;evil&quot; option.When can you &quot;massacre an elven tribe&quot; btw? I don't remember that at all and I've played through DA2 quite a few times.Not anywhere near the number nor sheer blood-thirsty-ness of those BG3 offers though. And I don't think DA2 does actually have much that matches even fairly basic evil stuff in BG3. Mostly it's sass.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9534956, member: 18"] Not much more - that's almost everything major, and most of it's stupid and selfish rather than an kind of meaningful choice. In many cases it's outright a worse choice, gameplay-wise, than the other choice. So this idea that this is "meaningful choice" is pretty funny. It's not. It's just having a few perverse and destructive options for no particularly good reason. And you can see the step away from the demented options in DAO which I mentioned. Using blood magic isn't even necessarily evil, it's just ill-advised/risky. Blood mage is a subclass in the game, for goodness sake, and it's not a secret evil one! Being a Blood mage doesn't have any bad consequences for the ending/Hawke even. So I'm mystified as to how you think that's an "evil" option. When can you "massacre an elven tribe" btw? I don't remember that at all and I've played through DA2 quite a few times. Not anywhere near the number nor sheer blood-thirsty-ness of those BG3 offers though. And I don't think DA2 does actually have much that matches even fairly basic evil stuff in BG3. Mostly it's sass. [/QUOTE]

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