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Have any of you managed to romance Isabela in Act 3? I mean, go from friends to lovers in Act 3?

I just did the second companion quest (No Rest For The Wicked) and she was all "You're the bestest friend I could ever hope to have!" and I was all "Take me with you on your ship, and get some more heart dialog options, ffs!" but then she was all "See ya, Hawke" and now there are no more dialogs.

Silly to obsess over something like this, I know, but games like this one has about zero replay value to me since I remember the storyline after one play. Sure, the dialogs might differ based on my "personality", but the story doesn't change, which means I'll know the outcome of every single quest before I do them, which is boring. So I want to get it right on the first time through, but here's the problem:

I checked the save games. I've got a manual save game in Act 2, but since I don't know where I missed a romance option, I'll have to start over from Act 1. Fun fact: From the beginning of the game to early Act 3, the game saves itself 300 times - but in one file. So if you mess up something halfway through the game, you can choose between rewinding to the previous auto-save, or to reload from the beginning, unless you manually saved the game before the 5-hour mark dialog.

Coupled with my quasi-eidetic memory, I'm stuck. I don't want to complete the game without romancing Isabela, but I need to replay the game from Act 1 to do it. And there is no way in hell I'm replaying this game from Act 1.

Edited, Mar 29th 2011 2:41am by Mazra

Ironicly even though he the emo king romancing fenris has been the most romantic storyline. It actually feels like dating instead of, flirt flirt, let's @#%^. Ok let's move in.

Do da do da.

Isabella and archer boy are left on my romancing list. Is it possible to romance Avaline before she goes with her lacky?

SpoilerEdit: I also find it funny anders always has something to say about who your dating when your not dating him in his justice quest.

Edited, Mar 29th 2011 12:36am by Laxedrane

I wish you could romance Aveline. She's and Varric are the only characters that aren't flighty...

I also wish that your other companions would do their own thing if you don't romance them. Like them getting with other companions (or non-companion NPCs). That way it doesn't feel they're just kinda sitting around, like they have lives.

Though the fact that you can run into some of them visiting each other is a REALLY nice touch, imo. Like Isabela teaching Merrill at the Hanged Man. :P

Bottom left, the one with the sheriff star looking icon.

Oh well, I'll just start a Warrior. The Champion gear does look awesome on the Mage, but the dress from the Black Emporium has better stats and LOOKS LIKE A DRESS!

Meh, I just read the guides over at The Dragon Age Wiki. Pretty much lets you know which quests to take certain companinons on and what to say in those quests to earn their friendship/rivalry.

Oh, no doubt, and I like doing it that way too sometimes. I mainly use the guides when I want a certain outcome (say I want to romance a certain character) and am stymied as to how to do it.

Hmm...I'm not so sure. I've been finding (particular with DA II) that my responses tend to fall all over the board. See, I always like to answer in the manner that I think I'd realistically respond, were I in the same situation. Even with that mindset, my responses have been all over the board in this game. Most often I respond with the humorous options, but I frequently pick the other ones if they seem more suitable to the situation. If I find that a particular NPC grinds my gears a lot, then I'll be more harsh with him. If I like them, then I'll treat them well.

I have to wonder if involuntary changes to your character responses might detract from the freedom of controlling the way that your character emotes. I'm enjoying the balance that DA II has right now...I'm free to respond with the option that best suits me, while the dialogue is occasionally spiced with a few involuntary responses.

It's just that my responses tend to go back and forth wildly. I don't know if I see a benefit to restricting that. It just strikes me as a cutting-back of freedom to role-play the way that I see fit. I don't think that one character worshiping me while another abhors me is a problem with the morality options presented to the player. If anything, it's a problem with the predictable and linear way that the companions react to my decisions. I think the way to address things is to add more, deeper options for responses, and for more subtle, well characterized reactions by NPC's and companions. Ultimately, companion feelings should not be on a linear scale between "friendly" and "angry". They should be deep and complex; more evocative of real human emotion.

Anyone else playing Dragon Age: Legends on Facebook? It's kinda fun. Pretty difficult as well, which is unusual for a FB game.

Plus you get a few nifty in game items for DA2 in the process.

Also, much like Mass Effect 2, female bad *** character is awesome. Far better than the male version. I highly recommend it. Especially as a mage.

The game should pick up on that, too, and have the party dialog while you're wandering the street reflect that.

Anders: "Hawke, will you be ripping someone's spine out of their **** today or merely cutting their ego with your vocabulary? I just want to know if I should wear my good shoes or not."

I just finished the game.
SpoilerI sided with the Mages and killed Anders, who I had been romancing. But I dumped him when he pulled the ******** at the end of his personal quest, with the whole "You don't want to know, because you won't like it, but if you loved me, you'd help me." Yeah, f*ck you Anders. There's nothing about love that requires me to be your slave. I've walked into f*cking sewers and dragon dens for you, and you're gonna pull that sh*t?

I knew the spoilers about Orsino and Meredith, so those weren't surprising. But I wish he would have talked more, and Bethany would have reacted.

My ending glitched and said that Anders disappeared with me. >:( I DUN WANNA BE HAUNTED!

VERY disappointed that there was no Fenris death scene. I know DA:O never had them either, but c'mon. Would it kill you to give them last words? Though I kinda feel bad--I try that hard to convince him. Which is unfortunate, because the wiki tells me I could have with my high...whatever I had (friendhsip/rivalry, that is).

DA2 Cullen is interesting. I never actually got around to doing an "evil" DA:O play through, so I never invoked the Right of Anullment. So my Cullen always flipped out, killed a bunch of mages, and ran. It really upsets me that it wasn't referenced ANYWHERE. And what happens if you made him knight commander of Ferelden? He's such a central character--he can't just not be there.

Still though, it was nice that he seems to have grown since the last game. He's not so "KILL THEM ALL" anymore. Granted, he's still a jailer, but a jailer that actually seems to care that his prisoners aren't getting sacrificed.

All in all, I definitely enjoyed the game. Though the ending definitely was a little too short. And it's depressing that every Mage in the circle seems to have died, despite me protecting them. And remind me again why we just had them scattered throughout the gallows? Wouldn't it make WAY more sense to have had all of them in the room with us?

ANYWAY, I'm gonna start a new playthrough now. Trying to decide what I want to be... There's supposedly a new patch coming out as soon as Sony/Microsoft approve it that will fix the Isabela/Sebastian stat reduction problems, so they are both romance possibilities. I was entertaining playing a Warrior, but I think I'm gonna go Mage, so that I can have carver this time around.