If so, clear out your override folders, both in the main game folder, and also in your windows users game folder.

Hope that helps!

I love reading about what other people are doing in Dragon Age, I’m really thrilled with it as well. Even when it kicks my arse which has happened in a few fights recently (it’s like a reminder not to take the content too fast, but to slow down a bit actually).

I’d love to write more, but you get to a point where it’s quite difficult to avoid spoilers (albeit minor ones).

I’m a hot female dwarf noble – I don’t normally play women in computer games because … well … I don’t know … I suppose because of all the things Chas and I bibble on about in the blog. I guess I’m uncomfortable sexualising even an imaginary character for my own kicks in an industry already so rife with sexism – but anyway … I was just flicking through the possible options, waiting for something to jump at me, and I chose female dwarf by accident and she was *so attractive* – but in a genuine “would want to be” not “want to shag” (although I wouldn’t say no, I have to say) way – that I just had to be her. She’s got an amazing, characterful face, all stern cheekbones and slightly mischevious eyes. So from that moment on I was completely sold.

And I really *love* the dwarf noble background. It does a wonderful job of introducing you to the game, presenting you with some interesting moral / political decisions, and really making you feel like what you are (a dwarf noble). Also you get to have cross-caste romance with your second which, again, deepens the whole experience. By the time I’d been betrayed and escaped, I felt as though my character was completely fleshed out and ready to get on with the story – I had such a strong sense of who she was and where she’d come from it. *cheers*

I did male elf commoner as well (so to speak) and that one didn’t work for me nearly as well – it was quite generic “oh noes! you must savee your women from evil rapists” and I never really warmed to the character as a consequence, even though he was terribly pretty.

Sorry I’ve written you an essay here. But I am *so* enthusiastic about DA.

As far as the other characters go, I adore Morrigan – even if she is ridiculously dressed – but she hates everything I do. Everyone else quite likes me though. Alistair and I bond over our joint grief at having lost everything we loved, and try to keep ourselves going through exchanging witty one liners … I don’t think we’re headed towards romance though because I’m still pining for Gorim.

The other thing (sorry, no sign of wrapping up the essay yet) is I love the fact they’ve done something interesting with their dwarves – I like their quite rigid, quite unsympathetic social system and I like the fact they’re taken “seriously” as people, with hopes, fears, and loves, instead of fat comedic relief who do nothing but sound Scottish and drink ale.

Thanks for writing this by the way – nobody else I know is playing Dragon Age so my shared enthusiasm hath bubbled over.

She’s hugely fascinated by Morrigan, amused by Zhevron and Leliana, and has big issues with Sten and Alistair. But really, she has this big soft spot for Morrigan and tries to break her shell, mostly in vain. Puppylove!

So this sounds a great deal like a game I might like but the truth is that the visuals turned me off.