My hopes for DA3 (shouldn't be too hard)

Gylf_Cloud posted...

I imagine the same would go for everyone else seeing as how EVERYONE who played DA2 made a witty/clever Hawke.

I know you're joking, but no, not everyone played a sarcastic Hawke. My Hawke used different personalities in different situations, and I doubt BW could properly predict which option I would've chosen in certain situations, so I'd rather they just keep their hands off my characters and leave them where they belong; in the past.

I also don't care much for cameos unless it actually makes sense for them to be there. BW themselves claim that the DA series is about the world/universe, and less so about the characters, so I really hope they won't awkwardly try to force old characters into their new games when it makes 0 sense for them to even be there in the first place.

Also, calling it now; Anders will be back whether you killed him or not. DG said dead means dead and Anders won't be back if you killed him? Well technically, killing Anders could've meant Justice possessed his body, so it wouldn't actually be Anders who returns from the grave, just Justice in Anders's body, and since they merged personalities and whatever, he'd still have the same personality, but it wouldn't technically be Anders. Would anyone actually be surprised if they pulled this? I think not.

I completely agree with the related party member bit though. It would be nice to have characters around who aren't complete strangers to one another for a change. Not that it would hurt the game if they didn't include this, but it might be interesting to see it play out.

What I personally hope for is a better use of the Friendship/Rivalry thing they had in the first two DA games. Even if Rivalry is said to just be agree to disagree and mutual respect and all that, it still very much feels like hatred to me when characters are outright hostile towards the PC and refuse whatever gift you offer them because of how disgusted they seem with you. The romances especially seemed awkward to me because the LI's are basically yelling and glaring and hating on the PC and then suddenly do a complete 180 and confess their undying love despite just telling the guy a minute ago how they represent everything they hate.

In DA2, telling someone you preferred tea over coffee was as offensive as selling someone's beloved sister to a known rapist. They need something like two bars where one represents love or hate, and the other represents agree and disagree, imo. It would lead to more variation in character interaction as well because it would have 4 different scenarios rather than two. Like and agree (the good old fashion like/friendship thing they had in the previous games), like and disagree (what rivalry was probably supposed to be), dislike and disagree (pretty much the hate thing in Origins) and dislike and agree, which could have characters dislike the PC as a person but stick around because they agree with his view on things.

I'd also appreciate more dialogue with companions. DA2 was supposed to take place over a course of 10 years as opposed to less than 1 year in Origins, yet I feel like I know the Origins crew much better than the DA2 companions because you had maybe 3-4 conversations with them in all those 10 years. I didn't feel all that connected to them, so killing them off or betraying them or whatever hardly had the impact it was supposed to have, because I plain and simply didn't know them besides "Fenris hates mages and was a former slave" and "Isabela is a pirate who likes sex and has some morals sometimes."

Disclaimer: This entire post is just my opinion, feel free to disagree.