I feel that the effort that goes into making the origin system would be much better spent fleshing out backgrounds for custom characters instead.

There's a reason why DA:O's actual origin system (which is more of a background system), along with DA2's personality-based responses such as Sarcastic Hawke, were always far better received than DOS2's origin system. The only praise I've ever heard for it generally revolves around slightly backhanded complements that amount to seemingly being forced to use it in order to get the best experience out of the game. I'd go as far as to say that DOS2 was successful despite the origin system.

I mean there's a lot of people who think DOS2 was a brilliant game. In every conversation I've seen about people explaining why they love it, the Origin system never comes up.

Last edited by Saito Hikari; 19/08/21 07:32 AM.