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man, I hated Alistar and Oghren was defiantly one of my favs, so I'm glad he's back but why wont they all return? | |
.... Oghren? You know, if I wouldn't read the news on here I would've ended up playing the game going "Wait, who is this dwarf? Am I supposed to know him?" Compared to Oghren, Sten radiated personality. | |
Oghren was a horribly boring character whose only upside was his personal quest. Lucky I didn't have to speak to him again after that... | |
This intrigues me a bit. I never used Oghren, but I feel has a bit of potential. Origins just didn't seem to have a great place for him as I see it. | |
I found him pretty useless. Alistair made a better tank. And drunken dwarfs aren't as funny if you have them with you all the time. | |
Oh No, give Ohgren some credit Sten is FAR worse than anything in that game... Although saying that as soon as I got Ohgren I never once used him... | |
Same... | |
Ugh... I hope they bring back Morrigan someday... I think she's one of the best characters in a game anyways. | |
Well, they have to keep Morrigan and Alistair for Dragon Age 2 after all.. | |
Sten wasn't so bad after he opens up to you. Plus his sword searching quest wasn't too bad. | |
Alistair could be dead by the end of DAO. It would be hard to write a story involving him that didn't use ME2 shortcuts (and they would be shortcuts) Morrigan is clearly more of a villain type by the end of DAO. Either she's run off because you refused her Dark Rite, or she's run off to have a Demon Baby. Either way, she's more of a villain then a character you could bring back as a player character. But yeah, Oghren? *sigh* I preferred Zevhran's humor | |
Well, I found him okay. especially when he's having a go at his dog for stealing his pants (trousers, goddamit! You're a dwarf!) even when you didn't have the dog in your party.
Well, Zevran can also be dead, so I don't really think they'd give him a major role. | |
I just loath dwarves. they are so boring... and short... and beardy. I won't play a dwarf and I won't have a dwarf on my party out of principle. Does that make me racist? | |
fair enough :P Hey, who CAN'T you kill in DAO? I know you can kill Wynne and Leliana... can you kill Oghren? Is that why he was picked? Because even if you side with the golems, he doesn't attack you, he just laments his wife's choices that led to her death | |
Ill miss Leiliana... she made me happy. As a side note, Zevran ended up turning on me later on in the story. Is this a random type thing or was it because I never really used him and built his approval up? Just curious. | |
Yes. You're a terrible person. On topic, Oghren wasn't the greatest character, but he was better then some. Oh well! I'll take him over Sten or Wynn. | |
I feel like he was certainly the weakest of the characters. Hell, Rabbit had more personality. | |
Wynne was great for the interplay she had with the other characters like how Shale would always call her Elder mage which she hated, and Alistair would ask her to sew up the holes in his clothes. It was great. | |
your dog right? | |
My roommate and I actually loved Oghren. On his file, said roomie actually replaced Alistair with Oghren. Alistair wound up getting executed when Loghain joined the party...yeah, my roomie's character was a bit of a prick. | |
Shale's a DLC character, makes it hard to build a story around her. | |
it's just as hard to build a story around a drunk dwarf who after brankha hardly seems to have any motivation? but anyway that's why i said one of the others... seeing as it takes place in orlais leilana would've been the obvious choice | |
Well, he is one of the only two (yes, two) companions who can't be killed, so it makes sense that way. So no matter how you play the game Ohgren will still be alive at the end of your play through. The only other character guaranteed to live is Morrigan, but it seems Bioware has bigger plans for her. I liked Ohgren. Sure, I never used him outside the Dwarf questline, but that was due to his boring warrior class type, not a flaw in his character. | |
Um, the Escapist? | |
Yes, yes it does. | |
**SPOILER WARNING** From the official FAQ: 1.9 - Which Dragon Age: Origins NPC will be returning? Besides Oghren who plays a large role in Awakening, there are cameos and returning characters. For companions you'll potentially meet Loghain, Wynne, and Alistair depending on your decisions in Origins. | |
I think Leiliana or Xeveran would have been better choices honestly. | |
I'll take a drunk dwarf over a psychotic bitch or an elf which continues to try to sleep with me even though I've made it quite clear that I'm not interested. Bugger off Zevran. Also, typo in the title ;> | |
the only one i really wanted to stay was shale. he was friggen hilarious. leiliana would be good too, but i rarely had her in my party. | |
Spoiler alert! ha. But Oghren is pretty much the only character that is mandatory to get AND impossible to kill. With the emphasis on story and coherence, he seems like the obvious choice. Either lady would be polarizing, the dead characters would be non-canon, and optional/DLC characters would unfamiliar. Plus, story-wise, even if you never ever had him in your party, it still makes sense that he'd come hang out with you, if for no other reason than that's where the party's at. | |
How about you bring them all back and bump the party size one or two slots. If the choices you made in origins reflect new gameplay then it would be a real dumbass move to not include Morrigan. The most unresolved character story ending of them all... | |
*Raises Hand* I used Oghren at the end... That being said, I don't see why he should be the only one. He was just there because I had a burning indifference towards the other characters. Buts still, I wish we would see some more of them in Awakenings. Nevertheless, still excited as hell. | |
ok when can we have a non biased news report? Its ok to have an opinion but really if you are gonna report the news do so unbiasedly and save the opinions to a second post or something. I think drunken dwarfs are awesome so Im good with the news | |
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Ohgren Available In Dragon Age: Awakening
For the Awakening expansion to Dragon Age, BioWare said that one party member would be back from Origins and that character is ... Ohgren.
Hey, I like drunken dwarf berserkers as much as the next guy, but, really, BioWare? That's who you're bringing back? Sure, there were a few extra laughs when you played Dragon Age using Ohgren, and his mandatory quest line through the Deep Roads was entertaining at least. But I don't think anyone would call the tough little guy a "player favorite." If you were paying attention to the video introducing the character Sigrun, you could see Ohgren's burly body kicking Darkspawn ass but I don't think anyone anticipated that he'd be returning as a party member. Does that mean we won't see a return of Morrigan or Alistair to the party? We're stuck with a dwarf who hates the outside and is drunk more often than not?
It appears that Ohgren has gotten his act together a little bit for Awakening, due out on March 16th. This is pulled from the BioWare website:
Am I the only one who doesn't like this move? Do you know anyone who used Ohgren through to the end of the game? There were just so many better options out there like Sten or Shale. Perhaps that's why BioWare chose him, now that I think about it. An interesting character that was underused in the first game. Ok, if that's why, then maybe I'm on board.
But I don't have to use him.
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