User:Vicious pink

About Me
I am currently a stay-at-home wife and mom who recently quit the workforce after 13 years of employment: 4.5 years as a US Army soldier and the rest as a government contractor. I'll be going back to school for the summer 2013 semester to study nursing. I was quite fed up with working for the government! I'm from Virginia but now live in Texas.

I played through the Dragon Age games backwards, starting with DA2 and then DAO. I suppose I'm one of the few who likes DA2 better, despite its faults. I really didn't give a hoot that I couldn't customize my companions' outfits or that there were only a handful of dungeons. Meh, whatever. I found the pacing of DAO a bit odd; I never really got the sense of urgency that the Blight was on top of my Warden. The game did not look very nice on the PS3 version, either. The combat was downright frustratingly sluggish at times.

I still like DAO, however, especially its setting in Ferelden. Everywhere you went you could feel the deep history of the country. I especially liked the Brecilian Forest and its ruins. I found the Landsmeet challenging and replayed that scene several times to attempt different outcomes.

For me, DA2's main fault was that I never felt that Hawke affected anything, whereas the Warden made plenty of game-altering decisions. DA2 wins for wittier dialogue and more engaging characters (aside from Alistair, who probably grows the most as a character in the entire series).