He’s an interesting companion with a unique flavour to him, but the fact that he’s a rogue so long after you get Varric (so you’re already used to Varric’s mechanics in the party), Varric is charismatic+interesting (so you want to bring him because he’s a cool dwarf who says funny lines and has a cool crossbow), and Cole’s personal story/personality is about helping people not hurting people all make it hard to justify dragging him around on missions.
Which is a shame, because conceptually I really like the awkward nerd that he is. He’s a great NPC, but I’m not sure he’s a great party member.
Varric is an excellent character to hang out with. I like him a lot. It’s weird that by the end of the game I found that I was taking the OG crew around with me everywhere instead of using anyone else.
For a while I was running Bull, Blackwall and Dorian but then I got rid of Blackwall because he’s a bad man and I love Cassandra and I had to sub Bull out for Varric to open doors and wanted Solas on the team because I was doing too much elf related stuff and needed his input plus barrier synergy.
I really haven’t taken advantage enough of the other party members.
You don’t need metapicks when you’re a Knight-Enchanter
It’s definitely easy in party-based games to just stick with the ones you get at the start. I ended up doing basically that for my Origins replay I did - basically didn’t touch Zevran, Wynne, Shale, Oghren or Sten except when doing their personal quest stuff.
I did switch up more for Awakening (final team was Sigrun, Velanna and Nathaniel).
I understand mechanically they can’t have me running around with 10 party members or whatever for so many reasons but man does it suck that the best way to experience some of them is via Party Banter [complete] | Dragon Age Inquisition [5:35:51] on youtube dot com, especially when that video (understandably) doesn’t have all the locational banter/comments.
It’s always been a big flaw of the Bioware RpG System. Same problem with the KotOR games as well, lots of great characters but how much do you actually use them other than talking to them on the Ebon Hawke between missions.
Also who you take with you depends so much on your own class. So by playing a mage in every entry I miss out a lot with Morrigan because I never take her along with me because I already fill that slot.
Same with Merril in Dragon Age 2.
When I find a group with good synergy that’s locked in for the game, even if another better character comes along.
you’d think that by now that i would have remembered. but he’s in a really secluded area of skyhold, came into the story super late and has no real involvement with the main story so goes completely unnoticed most of the time
Yeah I know, and Rainer was a bad man, that is no question. What he did was horrible and wrong.
But the man we know and meet as Blackwall has strived to become a better man, and I think ultimately is a good man in the end of it. He does want to face his past and seek justice for his crimes.
off to the grey wardens once this is all done so he can stop larping as one and actually walk the walk