Another annoyance along those lines -- was my re-encounter with "Rhode". I would have wanted the option to dual her in non-dragon form, with the option upon hitting her with, what would be a fatal blow, to bring up options -- 1: to kill her, or the BETTER option, with Rhode providing some critical/key help down the line, to offer Rhode her life, to become an ally against the common foes, OR (at least) hold off her need to destroy me until the more dangerous threat(s) are dealt with -- like Damion and whoever else stands between us and peace for Aleroth, as well as a chance to prove to her that it was Damion who was the real Betrayer who mind-controlled the dragon who attacked the Divine, after which, if she still felt a need to slay me, then we could renew the battle.
Rhode being turned to stone and me having no way to save her. I had thought they were building towards some kind of reconciliation with her to defeat Damian. She was my mentor and just got thrown aside once in Ego Draconis and then goes off on a quest off-screen and has two seconds of an aside just as I'm confronting Bellegar and that's it.
When i first met Rhode, i half expected her to play a significant part in the story like the reconciliation story i mentioned.
Yea i'm abit miffed that all we got is a stone statue and almost no story with her
I expected to have to team up with Rhode in order to defeat Ygerna and Damian. Was shocked to see her in stone and not able to do anything about it (Even after siding with Bellegar.
im sorry if im de-railing the topic here but this is the first time i have seen this said by someone else saying this and i totally agree.
i thought maybe by the end of the game Rhode whould of changed her mind about dragons etc, but there is no mention about her after the vault, you cant even re-enter the vault after it, the ending made me so depressed and saddened, i even wrote an alternate ending that they could add in, here it is, stating from the end of the vault:
Upon choosing to side with either bellegar or Behrlihn, everything plays out as normal, before either bellegar or Behrlihn telleports you to the ministry, you to turn around to see Rhode limping around the corner, unfrozen becasue you got rid of bellgar, either way etc, THEN you get telleported to the ministry, talk to augustus etc, you can ask about Rhodes return and he knows nothing about it, but when you initiate the end game by talking to Zandalor, Rhode barges through the main door of the ministry (after Zandalor tells of his plan) she gets pissed about you, once again (as always) but you can say things like "Rhode this is not the time, Damian is right on our doorstep etc etc" so she insists on being on the zepilin, so she does, the cutscene starts with the zepilins flying away etc, and instead of it being Titus talking to you during the escort segment, its rhode, you do the escort segment and when the zeplin is about to crash, you catch Rhode on your back while flying and she slowly gets consious again, and then there is a really touching scene where you talk to her for a bit (we have seen talking dragons in the game talk before so why cant you talk in dragon form) and it makes her change her mind about dragons and dragon knights and she thanks you for saving her life etc, you fly her down to the ministry and gently let her down and she thanks you again etc, THEN you get telleported by ygerna and you do the boss battle, free the devine etc, then there is the end cutscene, but its different, instead of the divine, Zandalor and deodoras, its: Zandalor, The divine and YOU, not some character you have talked to once (deodoras), but itstead of it being on the main enterance of the ministry, its on a big balcony on a tall building (a bit like buckingham palaces balcony IRL) and after the divine waves at the crowd, you jump onto the balcony ledge, jump and shape-shift right at the last second barely scraping the crowd, and taking someones hat with your claws, everyones cheers, and as you fly away, and the camera zooms out, instead of there being a random cat being there, Rhode is sitting there watching you fly off, thinking and regretting slying all those dragons in her life.
THE END
i personally think that would be a lot better ending to the game and it would make me less sadface if this WAS the ending, and not this slap in the face they have given us.
if they ever do make another 3rd person RPG, i hope they do what bioware did with mass effect and allow you to import save and play as MY dragon knight again, without having to remake her, and you actually get to see rhode again, i neither think Dragon commander or orginal sin will be the sequel as they are set before the orginal divinity game, "Devine divinity" , so we may have to wait a while for a sequel, and i hope if they do make a sequal then it will continue the story of the dragon knight you built up in the 2nd game and not do what bethesda did with skyrim and have the next game set hundreds of years after the previous game.
I also feel that the games story is unfinished, im itching to load up the game again and finish the story by killing damian to put my mind at ease, but i know forwell i cant, sure it may be in a sequel but im itching to finish it while the plot is still fresh in my head, however i will not mind if i wait for another year or two for the ability to import save from the second game to the next as i would hate to make a new character, like what they did if you hit the "start new game flames of venagnce" button, and wisks you away to the character creation screen and just gives you a few hundred skill points to allocate, you see i have grown so attached to my character, even if i re-made my character, it would not be the same.
i also agree with Quazar12, being a dragon knight and the dragon form was the thing that made the game unique from your run of the mill fantasy RPG, try and name another RPG where you can shape-shift into a dragon at will?
i would hate to play as the divine as, as i mentioned earlier, i have grown so attached to my dragon knight and i do not want to play as someone else, thats like if in mass effect you play as shepard the first two games then on the third game they gave you control over Joker or another member of the normandy crew, that would be both depressing and unappealing
FF --- I don't think you were wrong -- everyone thinks that Ygernas was 'my' (dragonknight's) enemy...um. First off, who says I can only have 1? Second, I'm more pissed with Damion -- he destroyed my 1st hamlet 'broken valley'. My hatred for him runs deep. Third, Damion was the one who shoved his foot in my face and it was trying to find the means to defeat him that Ygernas came into the picture. If Damian "had not been", Ygernas never would have existed, i.e. destroying Damian would have removed Ygernas's cause for fighting against me. Damian was the one destroying the world -- it was him that needed destroying over all else.
i would of preferred to have gone into battle with damian, but i guess that's Larians way of saying "Hey, we are going to make a sequel" and until i read into it i did not know it was ygerna was was in your head in ego draconis and not talana as when the divine told you he was talking so fast i could not process what he was saying.
