Dragon Age: Origins fly-by posting

[lexin]

Even on 'easy' (or 'casual' as the PS3 version calls it) some of the Dark creatures are hard. I just spent the best part of an hour beating up an ancient Darkspawn over and over again. I really began to think I'd never win. Bloody things.

There was a spider queen earlier, too, which was more of a problem than it should have been if casual was actually casual. I hate to think what it would be like on 'normal'. As someone on my flist said, I'm in it for the plot not to keep dying all over the place.

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[lexin.livejournal.com]

Oh, no! I didn't make bread this Easter, I bought it - and lived yesterday on toast and honey. Which was nice.

I'm still feeling my way with this approval thing. So far Wynne and Alistair think my mage character is the bees knees - but Morrigan isn't so sure, and obviously Zevren didn't like him. Not that it matters either way given the stuck-in-assassin-attack situation.

[cjk1701.livejournal.com]

Alistair is incredibly easy to become friends with; the problem is just avoiding him falling in love with you if you play a female. Morrigan can be won over with gifts and her personal quest (there's a handy gift guide at http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Gifts ). Zevran has two gifts that *really* matter, and a bit of flirting and sympathy go a long way (only then he'll try to get you into bed, male and female both). Sten responds nicely to firmness and all but outright insults, and Shale is... very odd. Better just give her the shinies to shut her up. Her personal quest gives quite a lot of approval, too. Oghren likes his drinks. A lot. Like, really a lot.

If you're planning on getting Awakening after, Oghren might be a disappointment. They've Al Bundy'd him even more in that one. But there's a *lovely* female dwarf companion in Awakening, to make up for it.

[lexin.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've really got to grips yet with the amount of chatting you have to do to the other characters. Maybe I'll get that right with the new character. I can see both of my characters giving in to Zevran if he tries to bed them!