Dragon Age™ Inquisition

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ALV Jun 16, 2024 @ 12:53pm
Which is the most satisfying romance to you?
Just curious.
Last edited by ALV; Jun 25, 2024 @ 5:03am
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ALV Jun 19, 2024 @ 5:35am 
Originally posted by Jamie:
Originally posted by ALV:
Just curios.
None. becasuse its not real.
Doesn't have to be real to be interesting or satisfying
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Queco Jones21 Jun 19, 2024 @ 1:36pm 
My only real choices, for roleplay, are Cassandra and Josephine. Between the 2, Cassandra's romance is the better option IMO.

Haven't personally done any of the others, but the funnest romance that I have seen would be Iron Bull's.

As to the best romance in terms of impact for the story? Probably playing as a female elf mage and romancing Solas. Again, I haven't personally done it, but I have seen the romance progression from others.
barzai Jun 19, 2024 @ 3:14pm 
Originally posted by Queco Jones21:
My only real choices, for roleplay, are Cassandra and Josephine. Between the 2, Cassandra's romance is the better option IMO.

Haven't personally done any of the others, but the funnest romance that I have seen would be Iron Bull's.

As to the best romance in terms of impact for the story? Probably playing as a female elf mage and romancing Solas. Again, I haven't personally done it, but I have seen the romance progression from others.

I don't mean to be nitpicky, but I'm not sure it's quite right to talk about romming Solas "...in terms of impact for the story..." since there can't be any such impact ex hypothesi.
Queco Jones21 Jun 19, 2024 @ 3:21pm 
True true, at least in the long term.

In terms of roleplay, if you play as the female elf you get a lot of interesting dialog and the betrayal at the end is that much more impactful, due to the relationship and the fact that you romanced one of your ancient gods…
barzai Jun 19, 2024 @ 4:55pm 
Originally posted by Queco Jones21:
True true, at least in the long term.

In terms of roleplay, if you play as the female elf you get a lot of interesting dialog and the betrayal at the end is that much more impactful, due to the relationship and the fact that you romanced one of your ancient gods…

On that we certainly agree! :-)
yourstudgrampa Jun 20, 2024 @ 11:28am 
Originally posted by Queco Jones21:
True true, at least in the long term.

In terms of roleplay, if you play as the female elf you get a lot of interesting dialog and the betrayal at the end is that much more impactful, due to the relationship and the fact that you romanced one of your ancient gods…

The female elf/Solas is my favorite romance in Inquisition. The lead up to it as well as learning some new things I didn't know about before was great. That and I'm a sucker for tragic hero/heroine stories.
Ezhnovex Jun 20, 2024 @ 12:53pm 
Can someone please explain to me why folks even care about this sort of thing? I am genuinely curious. I'm an old gamer and grew up reading books and watching movies before gaming became widespread. I never felt the need to self insert - It was easy enough to empathize, sympathize and simply relate to a character on a human level. This meant for me that it never mattered whether the character was male or female or even a different ethnicity, I could still understand because of the common human traits we all share.
barzai Jun 20, 2024 @ 1:40pm 
Originally posted by Raziel:
Can someone please explain to me why folks even care about this sort of thing? I am genuinely curious. I'm an old gamer and grew up reading books and watching movies before gaming became widespread. I never felt the need to self insert - It was easy enough to empathize, sympathize and simply relate to a character on a human level. This meant for me that it never mattered whether the character was male or female or even a different ethnicity, I could still understand because of the common human traits we all share.

Amen to that, brother.

...BTW, just for my own edification...how come your profile shows "0 Games Owned"? Not trying to be clever, just...genuinely curious.
Ezhnovex Jun 20, 2024 @ 1:46pm 
Originally posted by barzai:

...BTW, just for my own edification...how come your profile shows "0 Games Owned"? Not trying to be clever, just...genuinely curious.

Not sure why you aren't seeing it. My profile has always been public, since 2004. I own hundreds of games. Not including other platforms and even hundreds more on original discs.
Metallicus Jun 20, 2024 @ 2:33pm 
Originally posted by Raziel:
Can someone please explain to me why folks even care about this sort of thing? I am genuinely curious. I'm an old gamer and grew up reading books and watching movies before gaming became widespread. I never felt the need to self insert - It was easy enough to empathize, sympathize and simply relate to a character on a human level. This meant for me that it never mattered whether the character was male or female or even a different ethnicity, I could still understand because of the common human traits we all share.

There is a difference between reading a book and actively making decisions and choices in the story. Books we are along for the ride whereas games we are the protagonist.
Ezhnovex Jun 20, 2024 @ 2:49pm 
Originally posted by Metallicus:

There is a difference between reading a book and actively making decisions and choices in the story. Books we are along for the ride whereas games we are the protagonist.

That's actually incorrect. You are not the protagonist, you are acting on behalf of the protagonist. Making decisions yes, for the character but you are NOT the character. You don't actually experience their life and feel what they are feeling directly - it's a very interactive story. So, yes it is still very much like reading a book or watching a movie - you are just more actively engaged in the story telling process.
Metallicus Jun 20, 2024 @ 3:00pm 
Originally posted by Raziel:
Originally posted by Metallicus:

There is a difference between reading a book and actively making decisions and choices in the story. Books we are along for the ride whereas games we are the protagonist.

That's actually incorrect. You are not the protagonist, you are acting on behalf of the protagonist. Making decisions yes, for the character but you are NOT the character. You don't actually experience their life and feel what they are feeling directly - it's a very interactive story. So, yes it is still very much like reading a book or watching a movie - you are just more actively engaged in the story telling process.

When I create a character I create myself and act how I would in the situations presented so essentially it is me playing the game. Other people may approach their games differently, but this is how I choose to play with games I purchase. I try to avoid games with female protagonists since I never enjoy them. We all enjoy different things so you do you and I will do me. Life works best this way.
Ezhnovex Jun 20, 2024 @ 3:17pm 
Originally posted by Metallicus:

When I create a character I create myself and act how I would in the situations presented so essentially it is me playing the game. Other people may approach their games differently, but this is how I choose to play with games I purchase. I try to avoid games with female protagonists since I never enjoy them. We all enjoy different things so you do you and I will do me. Life works best this way.

What you said doesn't affect the fact that what I said was correct, period. Just because you like to make your character look like yourself, my statement still stands. No offense to you personally, but folks who tend to feel the need to "see themselves" in everything suffer from varying degrees of narcissism. So, the upside of my view of the reality of story telling mediums means that I can enjoy stories in spite of the fact that the character shares nothing with me visually/physically - In fact, that's the whole fun (and point) of it - ESCAPISM. For clarity this has nothing to do with the current insanity in social politics. This is simply the reality of story telling. Seems like lots of mentally unwell folks are not able to separate the two. Again, I'm not implying you fall into this category. I'm just stating some unbiased facts on the matter.
JC Jun 21, 2024 @ 11:00am 
Sera, especially if you play a Mage as she doesn't like them, it's a rather interesting romance over coming that aspect. Josephine. hearing about her family, she gets a lot deeper.
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ZenienSight Jun 24, 2024 @ 12:51am 
Cassandra, 100% hands down- I really like Dorian's too in the sense that if you two don't work out, he still keeps close as a friend.

Cassandra's so stereotypical of that strong, warrior female who's secretly a hopeless romantic and I love it. When she smiles, it's like a perfectly warm, autumn day. I know she comes off antagonistic (rightfully so) but she's never unreasonable and when romantically involved, ugh. She's just such a comfort character. The fact that I can be weak and vulnerable with her, and also stupidly corny, she's my personal dream-soul mate.

Although, I have to say, Solas' romance is very spicy and if you know, y'know but he's the most story-centric romantically. From a writing/story standpoint, he's the most 'satisfying'.

Least satisfying romance for me was Blackwall. When I romanced him, I started to understand (albeit a snippet) the female gamers' attraction of "I can fix him" men.
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