<a target="_blank" href="Spoilers for the whole of the plot of Dragon Age: Origins, whether needed or not here always best to preface with that lolOrigins was the first ever Dragon Age I played and the only one I've fully completed - and having gotten Veilguard discounted on the PS store I finally got the motivation to go back and play through the ones I hadn't (after loading it up and being very baffled at this bald elf man monologuing at me about things I happily have blanked from my mind to save spoiling the experience).I was going to start with 2 but it has been so, SO long since I played Origins and I always remember it being one of my fave fantasy games as a kid. Also I wanted that sweet satisfaction of a custom world state all the way through and when I last played it was before EA play on a dvd so yknow, no save data from aeons past. I've had a bit of a laugh comparing my childhood memories of playing the game to my current experience so I thought I'd just share!First playthrough I was a female city elf rogue, bless my lil self a lot of the grimmer aspects of that background flew over my head in a 'they've kidnapped me and my girlies because they're bad guys and that is all there is to it!' kind of way. This playthrough I was a male human noble warrior (I always always play dex-y races in fantasy games and always play sarky rogues and always play women- trying to just get out my comfort zone a bit and try new things) - and I swear either I've gotten worse at the game or I don't have the same patience that I did as a kid because it feels so much harder than I remember it being!I do remember I used to stealth everywhere. EVERYWHERE. I just thought it was really cool that I could slink my way past unnoticed and I obviously cared little for good strategy as a kid but hey! It was fun and that's what counts. I remember stealthing my way through the whole of the lair of the werewolf. I did not remember the dragon so that was a shock to adult me, and the point in the game present day where I stopped being cocky thinking "pfft I just finished BG3 and this game was a walk in the park 10 years ago, let's play on hard mode." - so when I hit the dragon I went down from hard to normal to easy real quick lol.I never used to bother with health potions or anything. How did I level up just stalking around everywhere?? How did I survive?? Wish I remember lol. I do remember turning off strategies because I used to pause the game every 5 seconds so I think I just micro-managed my way to victory.I disparage my lack of strat as a kid but apart from doing a couple tweaks to the tactics of my party members ('pls drink potions when you are nearly dead, Wynn only has so many heals in her at once- and bombard the weakest links so I can keep the tough guys occupied whilst you thin numbers') and occasionally micromanaging when things are particularly bleak (werewolf lair boss, and also those "For the fifth time, Leliana, please stop running into a room full of traps and getting swarmed by five buff soldiers to go hack at the archers behind them like you are Andraste herself just because I told you generally to stab first the weakest link which- is kind of my fault" moments. Oh my god orzammar was hilarious she was 500 miles ahead chasing spiders and genlocks round corners before I'd finished axing the group I was with) I just like being my shield-bashing, assault-loving guy and letting everyone else just hack away normally at their own pace. Again, not optimal strat, but my kinda fun!Another boss I did not at all remember was the Broodmother so that was a... jarring new* experience. Really fun to have forgotten something so terrifying and so cool. I MUST have defeated her though because the Caridin-Branka fight was in my mind when I hit Orzammar this time round and I was sort of expecting *just* that. I went in remembering an extremely long section of sneaking through ruins past deepstalkers which is funny to me now because the lair of werewolves isn't actually that big and my memory had it as being as long as the deep roads. Perks of playing again after playing as a kid who could not pick up on game queues pointing you in the direction of a main quest and thus getting hopelessly and enjoyably lost in the deep roads is they didn't feel quite as long as I thought they'd be, though I didn't remember any of the pre-emptive political shenanigans and admittedly was getting a bit frazzled by the time I got to Branka (though that's on me for telling myself I had a free evening and I could probably get all of Orzammar done easily within an hour or two. lol)I remember nothing of Haven and I get the impression that maybe after dealing with the first section of redcliffe I probably... yknow. Forgot that Arl Eamon needed his holy wake up powder and just trudged onto Denerim. But then given Alistair was king at the end of my first playthrough and Eamon seems kinda very important to the landsmeet action towards the end of the game, is that possible without saving Eamon? Maybe I did do it and miraculously forgot about that whole cool section. Can't see kid me getting past that bridge puzzle though, lol. And adult me had a far harder time than she should have finding out Genitivi had gone to Denerim and then 'gone near lake calenhad' it took all but 3 hours for me to forget that the section outside the circle was the docks on the lake which is ESPECIALLY daft given it is very explicitly called that, which I'd have remembered if I had just skimmed my cursor over it - and it wasn't as if I had access to wikis or IGN guides when I was playing back in t' day!I remember my party being Alistair, Morrigan and Loghrain because I was a sucker for funny companions and didn't have the attention span to appreciate the rest.This time round I've gone with Alistair, Wynn and Leliana because they fit my character's energy the most, though I think my ideal lot now on a me playthrough would be Morrigan, Leliana and Zevran.First time I romanced Alistair, made him king, and took a 'nobody has to be a martyr we can take this bad boy down together' approach to the archdemon- which I now do and don't feel bad about. The dude does not want to be king lol, though I'm sure I remember him being good taking up the role, best rulers aren't necessarily the ones who want to rule, yadayadayaThis time I have romanced Leliana and really loved her backstory I can't believe I never dived into any of that before! I'm going to keep with the 'no sacrifices please' route as much as I can and whatever that looks like (I don't. remember. and current playthrough I've just done my wardens jailbreak and told Anora 'ok you prob do deserve to be queen I'm with you' so I still have the alienage and the landsmeet which will be interesting as a not-city-elf) purely because I'm interested to see reference to Alistair as a grey warden during this era in the later games.I'm super excited for the end boss because THAT, my friends, was the impression Dragon Age Origins left on my mind most distinctly that carried through the years... I remember I got so excited because it was the biggest mob I'd faced and with so many allies and whenever I've recounted it to people when talking about the game I remember being like 'man that dragon was so huge I had to zoom all the way out and even then it barely fit on the screen!' - is that true? I guess I'll find out. If not I'll be less disappointed and more very amused at how exaggerated my memory made that bit for me. Like imagine I'm thinking it's gonna take up basically my whole screen and it's actually just a bit bigger than the one in the ruins, haha. Anyway I love this game deeply, I love what I have played of the others and it's been so fun to see how I play RPGs now vs how I did as a kid and to see how memory distorts your perception of things in cool ways!" title="Experience playing for the second time as an adult vs playing for the first time over a decade ago as a kid">full image</a>
<strong> - Repost: Experience playing for the second time as an adult vs playing for the first time over a decade ago as a kid</strong> (<i>from Reddit.com, Experience playing for the second time as an adult vs playing for the first time over a decade ago as a kid</i>)
<br><blockquote> Spoilers for the whole of the plot of Dragon Age: Origins, whether needed or not here always best to preface with that lolOrigins was the first ever Dragon Age I played and the only one I've fully completed - and having gotten Veilguard discounted on the PS store I finally got the motivation to go back and play through the ones I hadn't (after loading it up and being very baffled at this bald elf man monologuing at me about things I happily have blanked from my mind to save spoiling the experience).I was going to start with 2 but it has been so, SO long since I played Origins and I always remember it being one of my fave fantasy games as a kid. Also I wanted that sweet satisfaction of a custom world state all the way through and when I last played it was before EA play on a dvd so yknow, no save data from aeons past. I've had a bit of a laugh comparing my childhood memories of playing the game to my current experience so I thought I'd just share!First playthrough I was a female city elf rogue, bless my lil self a lot of the grimmer aspects of that background flew over my head in a 'they've kidnapped me and my girlies because they're bad guys and that is all there is to it!' kind of way. This playthrough I was a male human noble warrior (I always always play dex-y races in fantasy games and always play sarky rogues and always play women- trying to just get out my comfort zone a bit and try new things) - and I swear either I've gotten worse at the game or I don't have the same patience that I did as a kid because it feels so much harder than I remember it being!I do remember I used to stealth everywhere. EVERYWHERE. I just thought it was really cool that I could slink my way past unnoticed and I obviously cared little for good strategy as a kid but hey! It was fun and that's what counts. I remember stealthing my way through the whole of the lair of the werewolf. I did not remember the dragon so that was a shock to adult me, and the point in the game present day where I stopped being cocky thinking "pfft I just finished BG3 and this game was a walk in the park 10 years ago, let's play on hard mode." - so when I hit the dragon I went down from hard to normal to easy real quick lol.I never used to bother with health potions or anything. How did I level up just stalking around everywhere?? How did I survive?? Wish I remember lol. I do remember turning off strategies because I used to pause the game every 5 seconds so I think I just micro-managed my way to victory.I disparage my lack of strat as a kid but apart from doing a couple tweaks to the tactics of my party members ('pls drink potions when you are nearly dead, Wynn only has so many heals in her at once- and bombard the weakest links so I can keep the tough guys occupied whilst you thin numbers') and occasionally micromanaging when things are particularly bleak (werewolf lair boss, and also those "For the fifth time, Leliana, please stop running into a room full of traps and getting swarmed by five buff soldiers to go hack at the archers behind them like you are Andraste herself just because I told you generally to stab first the weakest link which- is kind of my fault" moments. Oh my god orzammar was hilarious she was 500 miles ahead chasing spiders and genlocks round corners before I'd finished axing the group I was with) I just like being my shield-bashing, assault-loving guy and letting everyone else just hack away normally at their own pace. Again, not optimal strat, but my kinda fun!Another boss I did not at all remember was the Broodmother so that was a... jarring new* experience. Really fun to have forgotten something so terrifying and so cool. I MUST have defeated her though because the Caridin-Branka fight was in my mind when I hit Orzammar this time round and I was sort of expecting *just* that. I went in remembering an extremely long section of sneaking through ruins past deepstalkers which is funny to me now because the lair of werewolves isn't actually that big and my memory had it as being as long as the deep roads. Perks of playing again after playing as a kid who could not pick up on game queues pointing you in the direction of a main quest and thus getting hopelessly and enjoyably lost in the deep roads is they didn't feel quite as long as I thought they'd be, though I didn't remember any of the pre-emptive political shenanigans and admittedly was getting a bit frazzled by the time I got to Branka (though that's on me for telling myself I had a free evening and I could probably get all of Orzammar done easily within an hour or two. lol)I remember nothing of Haven and I get the impression that maybe after dealing with the first section of redcliffe I probably... yknow. Forgot that Arl Eamon needed his holy wake up powder and just trudged onto Denerim. But then given Alistair was king at the end of my first playthrough and Eamon seems kinda very important to the landsmeet action towards the end of the game, is that possible without saving Eamon? Maybe I did do it and miraculously forgot about that whole cool section. Can't see kid me getting past that bridge puzzle though, lol. And adult me had a far harder time than she should have finding out Genitivi had gone to Denerim and then 'gone near lake calenhad' it took all but 3 hours for me to forget that the section outside the circle was the docks on the lake which is ESPECIALLY daft given it is very explicitly called that, which I'd have remembered if I had just skimmed my cursor over it - and it wasn't as if I had access to wikis or IGN guides when I was playing back in t' day!I remember my party being Alistair, Morrigan and Loghrain because I was a sucker for funny companions and didn't have the attention span to appreciate the rest.This time round I've gone with Alistair, Wynn and Leliana because they fit my character's energy the most, though I think my ideal lot now on a me playthrough would be Morrigan, Leliana and Zevran.First time I romanced Alistair, made him king, and took a 'nobody has to be a martyr we can take this bad boy down together' approach to the archdemon- which I now do and don't feel bad about. The dude does not want to be king lol, though I'm sure I remember him being good taking up the role, best rulers aren't necessarily the ones who want to rule, yadayadayaThis time I have romanced Leliana and really loved her backstory I can't believe I never dived into any of that before! I'm going to keep with the 'no sacrifices please' route as much as I can and whatever that looks like (I don't. remember. and current playthrough I've just done my wardens jailbreak and told Anora 'ok you prob do deserve to be queen I'm with you' so I still have the alienage and the landsmeet which will be interesting as a not-city-elf) purely because I'm interested to see reference to Alistair as a grey warden during this era in the later games.I'm super excited for the end boss because THAT, my friends, was the impression Dragon Age Origins left on my mind most distinctly that carried through the years... I remember I got so excited because it was the biggest mob I'd faced and with so many allies and whenever I've recounted it to people when talking about the game I remember being like 'man that dragon was so huge I had to zoom all the way out and even then it barely fit on the screen!' - is that true? I guess I'll find out. If not I'll be less disappointed and more very amused at how exaggerated my memory made that bit for me. Like imagine I'm thinking it's gonna take up basically my whole screen and it's actually just a bit bigger than the one in the ruins, haha. Anyway I love this game deeply, I love what I have played of the others and it's been so fun to see how I play RPGs now vs how I did as a kid and to see how memory distorts your perception of things in cool ways! </blockquote>
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