Crushed Dreams and Dragon Age Talk

The weather where I live has been pretty horrible of late.  We had a huge snowstorm and have had subzero temperatures the last couple of nights.  As a result of this weather I haven't had to go to work (one of the perks of being a teacher--snow days!) and have been trapped indoors doing much more gaming than I would normally.  I have been really hoping that the snow days would coincide with the release of Dragon Age:  Inquisition so I could park myself at the computer and play all day rather than for a few scant hours in the evening.  I got the magical phone call this morning that school was cancelled and was super pumped!  Inquisition is out--I can play all day!  I sprinted into my computer room and happily booted up my computer and logged into Origin--then my soul was crushed.  I could have sworn that it said that Inquisition was released at 9:00 P.M. last night.  The simple answer is no--it's 9:00 P.M. (Pacific time--12:00 Eastern) tonight.  Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar.  -20 to reading skills.

(The rest of this post contains spoilers about the Dragon Age series.  Read at your own risk.)

Now that I've finally gotten over my disappointment and lack of reading skills I want to write about Dragon Age as a series.  I'm totally in Dragon Age mode at the moment.

1.)  Favorite party member from the Dragon Age series
--For general utility I would pick Morrigan.  Her magic skills were always great in my Origins playthroughs.  Combine her freezing skills with a warrior and you get chunks of frozen bad guys all over the battlefield.  Morrigan pretty much disagreed with all my actions though so she and my hero weren't exactly BFF's.  I always liked Aveline too.  Doing her quests to woo Donnic was humorous and just totally different from other companion quests.

2.) Funniest party member
--Alistair was always saying something that made me laugh.  The banter between he and Morrigan was great.  I still like to stick those two in my party so I can listen to them insult each other.

3.) Least favorite party member

Sten.  From comic book cover.

--Sten.  I just don't get the qunari.  Their culture is so strict and they seem so much like crazy zealots.  Trying to have a conversation with Sten was always extremely painful.  There is one golden moment with Sten that involves him revealing his adoration of cookies.  That is about the only time I like Sten.

4.) Favorite class
--I like them all.  The combat in DA2 was so cool that I found it really hard to choose.  I like mages for all their awesome big spells and ability to crowd control and AoE things down.  In DA2 my favorite class to play was a rogue.  All the disappearing and popping up behind foes and stabbing was way too enjoyable.

Tomorrow I'll be enjoying some Inquisition and will hopefully find some new characters to love or hate.