Dragon Age: Origins

[Swiss Mercenary]

I think the idea behind the writing was to add more realistic choices that the player can take, rather than just the "Luke Skywalker or Darth Vader" options. But if you simply wipe out the "Jedi" path, you alienate a very large segment of the audience. Most people playing through RPGs want to play a moral character, and if you don't let them, or make every choice an impossible moral dilemma, you're going to end up with a frustrated audience.

-Jester

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You don't necessarily have to wipe it out - but then you have to either justify that option. Off the top of my head, I could think of a few ways to do so - but instead, everyone just assumes that the demon won't kill anyone while I'm traveling to the tower.

What ends up happening, is that the dark and gritty themes have a brilliant set-up, but mediocre follow-through.

The temple with the urn was a good example of that. You either need to pass a persuasion check to get the good outcome, or you get a choice between two bad outcomes. All three are realistic.

Well, except for the part where I didn't kill the dragon. And despite my best efforts to convince the scholar that opening the place up for tourism is a bad idea, it didn't occur to my PC or anyone in my party to mention that little detail. That and the death traps. But that's nitpicking.

Once again, I'm not that far into the game - I may be seeing the exceptions to the rule, here.