Dragon Age Ending Sucks.

[Soviet Heavy]

Warning: Thar be Spoilers
Not that the story ending is terrible, but the execution I felt was awful compared to the rest of the game.

Up until just after the Landsmeet, the game was a blast, highly polished, and fully realized. But after you head for Redcliffe to hold off the Darkspawn assault, everything seems to fall apart. The giant hordes of weakling darkspawn eliminate any of the tactical choices earlier in the game, since each one can be killed with a single hit.

The battle for Denerim is no better. What was a challenging tactical RPG turned into a slug fest with zero tactics, hundreds of weakling enemies, and an easily exploited final boss battle.

The story elements were okay, but Riordan's sacrifice was barely noticed apart from a prerendered cutscene. Morrigan's dark ritual was basically just a get outta jail free card, bearing little emotional impact whatsoever. Either you did it and had a battle mage for the last fight, or you didn't and you were down a member.
Next to no moral choices, but rather a string of "go here and kill this guy" quests linked together to make it seem like you were moving forward.

And this is without counting the bugs. After a quite clean main campaign, the amount of bugs that appear during the finale are staggering. The troop system gives you troops with moronic pathfinding, items disappear, enemies can damage you while you do nothing to their health. Health bars disappear, spells don't cast properly. It goes on.

It was really disappointing to see the ending of the game so marred as it was.

 

[twistedheat15]

ya the final battle kinda felt like someone was drawling a big epic battle painting, then their arm started to get crapped and they finished it off with stick figures in the background. It felt rushed like they spent so much time on the rest of the game they forgot to put in an ending, then just winged it for the deadline.

 

[Judgement101]

It's better than Fable III's

Spoiler

You kill a bug creature and SAAAAVVVVEEEE THE WUUUURLD! (I'm not joking that is literally the end)

 

[Sniper Team 4]

I thought you meant the actual ending. You know, that joke of text that tells what happens, but for some reason doesn't tell what happens to the people you care about i.e. you TEAMMATES!

Agree on Riordan's role. I was expecting someone to find his body and go, "Well, we're screwed now." Morrigan's ritual unnerved me (mainly because my character was in love with Alistar), but the second playthrough I did it. Now that we know Dragon Age 2 isn't really going to be effected by Dragon Age, I guess it doesn't matter.

I actually liked, to a point, being able to crush entire armies of Darkspawn with one hit. Made it feel like a real battle for a change. I do understand your point though. Compared to the rest of the enemies in that game, the final battle was way too easy.

 

[A-D.]

Some Spoilers here...

The Game felt like two Things, Baldurs Gate 3 and a homage to Lord of the Rings, really, replace that first Battle against the Darkspawn where the Wardens get wiped out with Osgiliath, or Minas Tirith...or Helms Deep for that matter, same bloody Idea. The Game was good, the Quests challenging and most of the Content towards the End was very neatly done. However here is the Issue, while the Ending became rather easy by comparison, you could explain that away with "Well, my Character is so strong now that he can tear through the Darkspawn empty handed and not get a single scratch." The Endings however, arent.

The Problem is thus, while you are aware that when choosing a Army you literally have to make a moral grey choice, except for the Humans which are pre-determined and the Mages or Templars, because they are more a direct moral choice. All the others, mainly Dwarves or Elves/Werewolves are basicly a good/bad Decision. If you choose the Golems, the Dwarves sorta fall on hard times at the end. If you pick the Werewolves they end up getting exterminated anyway, why? Why give us the Choice if those Endings are painted Black and White anyway? Might as well not bother at all then, a Choice has not to result in either totally bad or totally good, how about Grey? Wasnt that sorta promised? Well they didnt deliver.

 

[mad825]

If you pick the Werewolves they end up getting exterminated anyway

"If The Warden killed the Dalish the werewolves will be respected for a while due to their part in stopping the blight. However as time passes they fail to completely suppress their violent instincts and eventually attack nearby human settlements leading to the humans gathering in force to finally wipe them out for good. But when said armies march all they find are abandoned camps. The Lady of the Forest and her followers disappeared."

read it again.

 

[SecretAlienMan]

really the y'all thought the ending was too easy? Damn, I must suck cus it took me three tries to bring down the bloody archdemon...

 

[Spinozaad]

The ending is the kind of ending you get when developers, beforehand, make it part of trilogy. And, as a side-note, why always the trilogies? Because it's a fantasy staple? Meh.

If the game truly had been polished, you would have had a closed experience with only a few minor unresolved plotlines.

Now, everything is still open.

And that's a bummer.

 

[SarcasminBloom]

I agree. I took down the Arch-demon on my first go, but that Troll at the beginning...10 tries. The ending needed better pacing in both story and difficulty level.

I was also really angry at the actual ending.

Spoiler

I was totally in love with Alistair, and when I learned that my only choices at the end were to either die, kill Alistair or have crazy Morrigan babies, I was pretty angry.

 

[CAPTCHA]

I enjoyed the ending. I was playing as a real arsehole though and took great joy in tormenting Alistair. So when I took the Morrigan ending and Alistair was wondering why I wasn't dead it put a smile on my face because he seemed so secretly disapointed. Ha ha ha, fuck you Alistair yuo don't get rid of me that easily. Now sit back and watch the locals praise my heroic actions. You might be king but I'm going to be your general. We'll be together a long time Alistair. A long, long time. muhahahahahahah...

 

[A-D.]

"If The Warden killed the Dalish the werewolves will be respected for a while due to their part in stopping the blight. However as time passes they fail to completely suppress their violent instincts and eventually attack nearby human settlements leading to the humans gathering in force to finally wipe them out for good. But when said armies march all they find are abandoned camps. The Lady of the Forest and her followers disappeared."

read it again.

Then i got the full bad one i think, because i recall having a Ending where they actually get killed. But eh, its still a bad ending considering the Option to even have them in the first place.

 

[zombiesinc]

I was disappointed with just about everything after the Landsmeet. I'm also getting sick of how often some games these days seem to take a long time to reach a certain point, then end up throwing you into a situation where you can't turn back, or do anything aside from finishing the game.

Spoiler: This recently happened with Fable III.

I had absolutely no idea I couldn't do anything after becoming King... until it was too late. >.<

Ugh, don't even get me started on Witch Hunt...

 

[mad825]

I was also really angry at the actual ending.

Spoiler

I was totally in love with Alistair, and when I learned that my only choices at the end were to either die, kill Alistair or have crazy Morrigan babies, I was pretty angry.

it's called an dilemma, they are suppose to make you feel like that and I personally see the Morrigan way the lesser evil...I hope I'm right...