Do you have a favorite unscripted moment from DAI? Something that wasn't a story moment, banter, dialogue, romance, etc.?
I was still early in the game when I beat a group of templars in a tough fight. In this fight, I knocked a guy off a cliff for the first time (awesome) and used jar of bees for the first time (the best inventory item of all time?). I had maybe 75% of my potions left, and continued on to another tough fight that knocked me down to maybe half my potions remaining.
Afterwards, I decided to try and scale a relatively sheer cliff to reach a nearby oculus before heading back to camp. While I tried (and failed) to make it up, I was attacked by bandits. In the middle of that fight, a bear (my first) came out of nowhere and attacked both sides. After that fight, I was down to maybe 1/3 of my remaining potions, but I was so close to that damn oculus! So I found the proper path up the mountain.
On the way up, a bear came charging down towards my group - but it was chasing wildlife, so I let it go. I finally reached the oculus at the top of the cliff, but the instant before I started to use it some enemy lurkers appeared out of nowhere and did some serious damage. Now down to almost no healing/regen potions, I was finishing up the fight when...that freaking bear came back and decided to take us all on. I spent my last everything beating the bear, and finally - finally, finally - got to the stupid oculus.
That was the moment when I knew I was in love with this game - the mix of fun fights, the random encounters that seriously upgraded some low-level battles into crazy free-for-alls, the way eliminating healing spells/fully healing out of combat made me strategically consider every move. And that's WITHOUT taking into consideration the traditionally excellent BioWare storytelling, characters, and lore.
Submitted November 25, 2014 at 03:24PM by Trennam http://ift.tt/15ruOAU
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