A note about Morrigan and her mother: Keep in mind that the Devs have made an explicit point of telling players to NOT take what characters tell you to be canon fact. Even when they're not lying, you have to remember that just because they BELIEVE something to be true doesn't mean that it is.
I learned the hard way that you can accidentally progress a companion’s affection towards the Warden too fast via the use of gifts. At least faster than the story intended, so you get awkward interactions like Alistair surprised that the Warden cares for him even after both declaring eternal love for each other.
4GB patch might help you with crashing (video guide linked), also i'd try lowering the graphics and textures to medium ua-cam.com/video/GtDHfDoAs70/v-deo.html
@@kiki_maliki i had this patch from the start of the game but it started crashing in denerim so i additionally lowered the graphics and it helped. saying this just in case if one of the things doesn't work maybe they need to be done at the same time lol
You're doing the best lets play of DA:O I've ever seen!! You are so good at remembering information and paying attention! I would love to watch you play all three games! Love your channel 🫶
Thank you ☺️ reading at the beginning of each ep definitely helps me retain the info and my plan is to play all 3 games and then hopefully the new one but it may take a bit of time 😅
I'm so excited! I saw the thumbnail and had to laugh because that was my default squad for my favorite playthrough (also elf mage). I'm still catching up with your previous videos, but I'm loving your DAO playthrough so far, and I'm really glad you've been enjoying it!
Goldanna is the single biggest waste of money on the game. I feel like most people probably give her the 15 gold the first time, and then never again. 🤣 ... Mind, it's not like her bitterness is wholly unjustified. Given the power dynamic, I think its pretty unlikely that Alistair's conception was consensual. Imagine your mother dies in childbirth after being assaulted by a nobleman, his sycophants toss you a pittance to keep you from telling anyone about it. Then you spend the next 25 years or so just struggling to live the nightmarish life of a medieval peasant, until your technically-brother walks in wearing armour worth more than you've made in your whole life, throws you a handful of blood-soaked coins and demands a relationship. She's obviously an unpleasant person, *but* I'd like to think that there's a chance for Alistair and Goldanna to have a less fraught conversation sometime in the future. 😊
Yeah tbf I didn't think of it like that so her actions and feelings make sense and are justified but we know Alistair and he's a lil sweetie so it hurts to see him searching for a family that don't want him. It sad for both parties 😢
@kiki_maliki Except Goldanna is a shrew. She thinks she and all of her relatives should be in a mansion, wearing the finest clothes, eating the best food and being waited on by servants.
@@teejay9610 Dont Worry! Im Readying "Asunder" Right now and red all the other books that played before allready! :) So i know what you want to tell me! But her live is the same, so i still feel sad for her! She has a dead mother and a horrible life
The reason only Sten and Alistair's weapons come up when enchanting is because they have rune slots in their weapons - Leliana and Zev's weapons [that you have them using] don't have any slots. Later in the game, there will be lots of weapons you pick up with the slots:)
Hot tip - You can heal people by just clicking on Heal and then clicking on their portrait on the left side of the screen! That way you don't need to find where they are on the battlefield!
UA-cam recommend your channel and you do not disappoint! You're so funny and insightful I love watching you play one of my favorite game series ❤️ Hope you stick around til Inquisition! And Veilguard too!
i dont know if you did but there's a patch for dragon age to avoid crashing issue. Again, maybe you already did download it, the game is really buggy anyway
The Blood Mage compound has a high difficulty. Tossing grenades makes your rogues much more deadly, have Zev make a bunch to pass around. Acid is a good one to use.
Don't forget to use injury kits on characters that fall in battle to get rid of all those injuries. They're debuffs that can really mess you up if you have multiples.
Regarding your CTDs (crash to dextop): I highly recommend installing the 4gig patch and Qwinn's ultimate DAO fixpack and it should fix the game. No more glitches or CTDs at all! Hope this helps.
You are a mage and can only learn Mage specializations: Arcane Warrior, Blood Mage, Spirit Healer, Shapeshifter. Next playthrough be a Rogue and let Zev teach you Assassin
You dont have to be exacly rouge to learn assasin specialization from actual assasin like zev, the specializations unlocks are pernament for account not for playthru. However to use it you have to be that class and every class has 4 specializations as mentioned above.
@@ericpotter1961 you said next playthrough.... you dont need next playthrough to learn specializations from sracth. Secondly shes mage yes, but she can grab assasin on leliana or bard on zevran.
I so feel for ya on the Denerim crashing experience. I couldn't even make it to Ostagar... I'm a long-time DA player (and certified lore freak, lol) who had been wanting to replay Origins and DA2 this summer (been doing multiple replays of Inquisition since January), but I owned both on the Xbox 360 and the disc drive died for it last year. After realizing PC was really going to be my only viable option, I jumped on the Steam Dragon Age sale, buying 'em up immediately. While my laptop isn't a gaming laptop, it is relatively new and I figured I should have zero problems playing a 15 year old game....yeah, not so much. Just to get through the mage origin took hours and hours of trouble-shooting, looking up every guide on how to get Origins to work on a modern computer ...and once I did I couldn't even load into Ostagar. Apparently Ostagar and Denerim are the two maps with the biggest memory issues (the PC version of the game has a never fixed memory leak) and I spent probably close to 20 hours over the course of the week trying to get by on the bare minimum settings with every fix ...and couldn't even make it to the meeting with King Cailan. Just turning to see the bridge at the beginning you cross with Duncan crashed it at the same point every time, lol. Thankfully, I've already played the game several times (Origins is my least favorite of the three, but I've had 2 memorable full playthroughs and tried out each origin) and, while I was kinda excited to try a new build, I'll just get my Origins refresher through your eyes. But my story doesn't have a sad ending. Dragon Age 2 (for a long time my all-time favorite game because of the characters and storytelling) is working well so far. Only one crash even on much, much higher settings and am already much further into the game...and only did one slight tweak after that crash and haven't changed anything since. Have been thoroughly enjoying your reactions and look forward to your journey into my favorite story world in all of media.
@@trackblaster4627 I think the reason is that the game sometimes has issues with the operating system - it was developed for Windows XP and older Windows versions.
Kiki, I recall you saying that you applied the LAA patch. Did you also set the Windows compatability setting to Windows 7? DAO was never envisioned with modern PCs and consoles on mind.
Such a bummer you have to worry about crashes all the time. 😭 But omg Denerim has so much going on for such an old game I’m amazed!! Just got to the part where you Fireball some attackers and it reminded me of your Burning Man era too lol.
Yeah luckily I downloaded the patch and it helped out ☺️ Honestly fireball is literally my favourite thing to use, any excuse to use it and I'm there 😅
lol i don't think i've ever actually played wicked grace with isabela lmao I usually just spend some special alone time with her lahaha it was cool to see the game too
I love Alistairs sarcasm and humour he's just naturally funny, but Sten kind of surprised me, I didn't think I'd like him so much so maybe Sten 😅 (and Alistair of course)
i suggest putting some more points towards constitution so you might not die as quickly especially in battles with lots of enemies! also i suggest if your inventory is full or nearly full to clear it out immediately before doing more any more quests it will lead to less frustration lol
FYI, it's pointless to try to learn warrior or rogue skills during this playthrough. You're a mage, you can't learn any specialization outside of that profession: blood mage, arcane warrior, healer, shapeshifter. You can unlock them for companions to use, but not on this character. And no, you don't give any of these skills to your companions just by unlocking them. You have to set that for them in the character menu.
you still can use this specializations for your rogue/warrior companions so i don’t think it’s completely pointless also could be useful for future playthroughs
@@daria-oq3mn I literally said that in my comment, although granted my wording was a bit clumsy. Try reading the whole thing. I'm saying she can't learn it FOR HER CHARACTER.
Just in case you find this helpful at all: "echelon" = "esh-uh-lon." "teyrn" = rhymes with cairn. Think "tare" but with an 'n' at the end. "Val Royeaux" = "Val Roy-oh." Orlais is France, and they're not subtle about it, lol.
Also, she needs to reduce threat to her, which is why warriors have talents to increase threat to them. Mages are "glass cannons" and if surrounded by strong melee characters, it's certain doom. Also, Leliana should be using bow skills with a bow, and Sten should have a 2 handed weapon. Having a rogue, and 2 Warriors with her mage character would lessen how often she dies. Warriors should be aggressive and mages and bow wielding rogues should be ranged. Kiki needs to really go through the tactics screen so she doesn't have to constantly heal her companions. And never use the "defensive" tactic, because your characters will just stand there if not attacked. 🤷🏼🤣
@@tortillaman972 and as for leveling up - Mages - Willpower, magic , and a little in constitution. anything else isn't helpful. Rogues - Dex and cunning, a little in strength and a little in Constitution but dex and cun are priorities. Warriors - strength and Constitution, a little Dex for sword and shield warriors.
Don’t know if you’ve done it yet, but the game requires an unofficial patch to work in modern PCs. I think they call it the 4GB patch. That will take care of 99% of the crashes and glitches.
@@kiki_maliki It's on Nexus mods and it works on both versions. My initial copy was too on EA. But now I use the Steam version. Still working as intended.
Remember Isabella. Certain weapons have enchantment slots, only if Leliana and Zevran are equipped with weapons with enchantment slots can you give them an enchantment. I believe the 35 deep mushrooms you had you got rid of when trying to make inventory space in soldier's peak, I believe your words were something like "I don't need these, I can collect more" 😄
Lol you know there are other ways to know she's cheating in the card game and if I remember if you have enough cunning you can make her slip up without your teammates to tell you she's cheating
A note about Morrigan and her mother: Keep in mind that the Devs have made an explicit point of telling players to NOT take what characters tell you to be canon fact. Even when they're not lying, you have to remember that just because they BELIEVE something to be true doesn't mean that it is.
I learned the hard way that you can accidentally progress a companion’s affection towards the Warden too fast via the use of gifts. At least faster than the story intended, so you get awkward interactions like Alistair surprised that the Warden cares for him even after both declaring eternal love for each other.
I took learnt this the hard way 😅 the sudden interactions were very surprising and I felt quite sudden
We are completely fine with side quests.
4GB patch might help you with crashing (video guide linked), also i'd try lowering the graphics and textures to medium
ua-cam.com/video/GtDHfDoAs70/v-deo.html
Thank youuu! Yeah I did lower them to medium but that did not help at all 😅 so hopefully this does
@@kiki_maliki i had this patch from the start of the game but it started crashing in denerim so i additionally lowered the graphics and it helped. saying this just in case if one of the things doesn't work maybe they need to be done at the same time lol
You're doing the best lets play of DA:O I've ever seen!! You are so good at remembering information and paying attention! I would love to watch you play all three games! Love your channel 🫶
Thank you ☺️ reading at the beginning of each ep definitely helps me retain the info and my plan is to play all 3 games and then hopefully the new one but it may take a bit of time 😅
@@kiki_maliki yayyyy!! Take your time girl!
"Setting the house on fire", you are very entertaining Kiki.
It's so fascinating seeing someone experience the same emotions we did playing the game for the first time!
I'm so excited! I saw the thumbnail and had to laugh because that was my default squad for my favorite playthrough (also elf mage). I'm still catching up with your previous videos, but I'm loving your DAO playthrough so far, and I'm really glad you've been enjoying it!
Aha great minds think alike, it's pretty good squad tbf 😊 and I'm so glad you're enjoying the playthrough!
In the dwarf noble origin that merchant was your bodyguard and right hand man
Goldanna is the single biggest waste of money on the game. I feel like most people probably give her the 15 gold the first time, and then never again. 🤣
... Mind, it's not like her bitterness is wholly unjustified. Given the power dynamic, I think its pretty unlikely that Alistair's conception was consensual. Imagine your mother dies in childbirth after being assaulted by a nobleman, his sycophants toss you a pittance to keep you from telling anyone about it. Then you spend the next 25 years or so just struggling to live the nightmarish life of a medieval peasant, until your technically-brother walks in wearing armour worth more than you've made in your whole life, throws you a handful of blood-soaked coins and demands a relationship.
She's obviously an unpleasant person, *but* I'd like to think that there's a chance for Alistair and Goldanna to have a less fraught conversation sometime in the future. 😊
Yeah tbf I didn't think of it like that so her actions and feelings make sense and are justified but we know Alistair and he's a lil sweetie so it hurts to see him searching for a family that don't want him. It sad for both parties 😢
@kiki_maliki Except Goldanna is a shrew. She thinks she and all of her relatives should be in a mansion, wearing the finest clothes, eating the best food and being waited on by servants.
I still give her the 15 gold!!! Because even if she is a beast.. im sad for her.
@kiki_maliki erm... Don't feel too sad about Goldana....if you end up reading the Dragon Age comics or novels, you find out stuff/spoilers.
@@teejay9610 Dont Worry! Im Readying "Asunder" Right now and red all the other books that played before allready! :) So i know what you want to tell me!
But her live is the same, so i still feel sad for her! She has a dead mother and a horrible life
Keep isabela in mind lol. Who knows when and where she might show up next 🤭
The creepy laugh is a girl name Sara who is a companion character in the third game
The reason only Sten and Alistair's weapons come up when enchanting is because they have rune slots in their weapons - Leliana and Zev's weapons [that you have them using] don't have any slots. Later in the game, there will be lots of weapons you pick up with the slots:)
Hot tip - You can heal people by just clicking on Heal and then clicking on their portrait on the left side of the screen! That way you don't need to find where they are on the battlefield!
UA-cam recommend your channel and you do not disappoint! You're so funny and insightful I love watching you play one of my favorite game series ❤️ Hope you stick around til Inquisition! And Veilguard too!
Honestly I have sympathy for his sister a teenage girl with no family and only a coin to her name must have had a horrible life
i dont know if you did but there's a patch for dragon age to avoid crashing issue. Again, maybe you already did download it, the game is really buggy anyway
Watching you play that game reminds me how much I loved it when it first came out! Such a good game!
The Blood Mage compound has a high difficulty. Tossing grenades makes your rogues much more deadly, have Zev make a bunch to pass around. Acid is a good one to use.
Don't forget to use injury kits on characters that fall in battle to get rid of all those injuries. They're debuffs that can really mess you up if you have multiples.
Regarding your CTDs (crash to dextop): I highly recommend installing the 4gig patch and Qwinn's ultimate DAO fixpack and it should fix the game. No more glitches or CTDs at all! Hope this helps.
I will definitely look into this thank you 😊
As the story progresses more areas of the City will become available to you.
Fun fact. That scene with his "sister" determines if Alister is more aggressive/upfront or passive. There is a similar quest with Leliana.
You are a mage and can only learn Mage specializations: Arcane Warrior, Blood Mage, Spirit Healer, Shapeshifter. Next playthrough be a Rogue and let Zev teach you Assassin
You dont have to be exacly rouge to learn assasin specialization from actual assasin like zev, the specializations unlocks are pernament for account not for playthru. However to use it you have to be that class and every class has 4 specializations as mentioned above.
In this playthrough Kiki is running a mage. The mage cannot learn to use specializations that are for a warrior or rogue...thank you very much!
@@ericpotter1961 you said next playthrough.... you dont need next playthrough to learn specializations from sracth. Secondly shes mage yes, but she can grab assasin on leliana or bard on zevran.
I so feel for ya on the Denerim crashing experience. I couldn't even make it to Ostagar...
I'm a long-time DA player (and certified lore freak, lol) who had been wanting to replay Origins and DA2 this summer (been doing multiple replays of Inquisition since January), but I owned both on the Xbox 360 and the disc drive died for it last year. After realizing PC was really going to be my only viable option, I jumped on the Steam Dragon Age sale, buying 'em up immediately.
While my laptop isn't a gaming laptop, it is relatively new and I figured I should have zero problems playing a 15 year old game....yeah, not so much. Just to get through the mage origin took hours and hours of trouble-shooting, looking up every guide on how to get Origins to work on a modern computer ...and once I did I couldn't even load into Ostagar.
Apparently Ostagar and Denerim are the two maps with the biggest memory issues (the PC version of the game has a never fixed memory leak) and I spent probably close to 20 hours over the course of the week trying to get by on the bare minimum settings with every fix ...and couldn't even make it to the meeting with King Cailan. Just turning to see the bridge at the beginning you cross with Duncan crashed it at the same point every time, lol.
Thankfully, I've already played the game several times (Origins is my least favorite of the three, but I've had 2 memorable full playthroughs and tried out each origin) and, while I was kinda excited to try a new build, I'll just get my Origins refresher through your eyes.
But my story doesn't have a sad ending. Dragon Age 2 (for a long time my all-time favorite game because of the characters and storytelling) is working well so far. Only one crash even on much, much higher settings and am already much further into the game...and only did one slight tweak after that crash and haven't changed anything since.
Have been thoroughly enjoying your reactions and look forward to your journey into my favorite story world in all of media.
Great episode!
As for the crashes, the game is old. More recent DA games are stable.
Yeah, I think in total I had 20 crashes on my replay - 5 of which came from witch hunt dlc, DA2 only sometimes has launch issues
@@trackblaster4627 I think the reason is that the game sometimes has issues with the operating system - it was developed for Windows XP and older Windows versions.
Kiki, I recall you saying that you applied the LAA patch. Did you also set the Windows compatability setting to Windows 7? DAO was never envisioned with modern PCs and consoles on mind.
Such a bummer you have to worry about crashes all the time. 😭 But omg Denerim has so much going on for such an old game I’m amazed!! Just got to the part where you Fireball some attackers and it reminded me of your Burning Man era too lol.
Yeah luckily I downloaded the patch and it helped out ☺️
Honestly fireball is literally my favourite thing to use, any excuse to use it and I'm there 😅
lol i don't think i've ever actually played wicked grace with isabela lmao I usually just spend some special alone time with her lahaha it was cool to see the game too
Yay! New episode out! I'm loving every one of them!
I'm curious, who is your favorite companion so far? Thanks for another great episode! :)
I love Alistairs sarcasm and humour he's just naturally funny, but Sten kind of surprised me, I didn't think I'd like him so much so maybe Sten 😅 (and Alistair of course)
Liliana is better to keep her distance make her primary weapon the bow and give her the bow skills and it will definitely help 💯🔥
I love your "Acting" And how deep you go in the lore and your Respect for it!!!!!!!!!! Cant stop watching your videos
I like how you fell into the side quests in Denerim. A lot to do here.
Honestly 😅 I didn't even plan on it it just kinda happened but the side quests are super fun too so I didn't mind 😊
i suggest putting some more points towards constitution so you might not die as quickly especially in battles with lots of enemies! also i suggest if your inventory is full or nearly full to clear it out immediately before doing more any more quests it will lead to less frustration lol
FYI, it's pointless to try to learn warrior or rogue skills during this playthrough. You're a mage, you can't learn any specialization outside of that profession: blood mage, arcane warrior, healer, shapeshifter. You can unlock them for companions to use, but not on this character. And no, you don't give any of these skills to your companions just by unlocking them. You have to set that for them in the character menu.
you still can use this specializations for your rogue/warrior companions so i don’t think it’s completely pointless
also could be useful for future playthroughs
@@daria-oq3mn I literally said that in my comment, although granted my wording was a bit clumsy. Try reading the whole thing. I'm saying she can't learn it FOR HER CHARACTER.
Great job in Denerim.
1:07:00 me trying not to backseat game 😭
Just in case you find this helpful at all:
"echelon" = "esh-uh-lon."
"teyrn" = rhymes with cairn. Think "tare" but with an 'n' at the end.
"Val Royeaux" = "Val Roy-oh." Orlais is France, and they're not subtle about it, lol.
When you transition to a new area, that's when the game fails to load and glitches.
Leliana preaching while stealing, lol
Isabela teaches a Rogue specialization
Your dying super fast because your not really upgrading your health
Also, she needs to reduce threat to her, which is why warriors have talents to increase threat to them. Mages are "glass cannons" and if surrounded by strong melee characters, it's certain doom. Also, Leliana should be using bow skills with a bow, and Sten should have a 2 handed weapon. Having a rogue, and 2 Warriors with her mage character would lessen how often she dies. Warriors should be aggressive and mages and bow wielding rogues should be ranged. Kiki needs to really go through the tactics screen so she doesn't have to constantly heal her companions. And never use the "defensive" tactic, because your characters will just stand there if not attacked. 🤷🏼🤣
@@ryandalbey77 facts
@@tortillaman972 and as for leveling up -
Mages - Willpower, magic , and a little in constitution. anything else isn't helpful.
Rogues - Dex and cunning, a little in strength and a little in Constitution but dex and cun are priorities.
Warriors - strength and Constitution, a little Dex for sword and shield warriors.
Don’t know if you’ve done it yet, but the game requires an unofficial patch to work in modern PCs. I think they call it the 4GB patch. That will take care of 99% of the crashes and glitches.
Yesss a few people have mentioned this but thank you ☺️
💯💯💯🔥
If you are experiencing frequent crashes, try to install the 4GB patch, if you don't have it already.
Heyyy, do you know if this is for Steam or EA? Because I have DAO on EA 🤔
@@kiki_maliki It's on Nexus mods and it works on both versions. My initial copy was too on EA. But now I use the Steam version.
Still working as intended.
Thank youuuu 🙃 fingers crossed this helps 😊
Remember Isabella.
Certain weapons have enchantment slots, only if Leliana and Zevran are equipped with weapons with enchantment slots can you give them an enchantment.
I believe the 35 deep mushrooms you had you got rid of when trying to make inventory space in soldier's peak, I believe your words were something like "I don't need these, I can collect more" 😄
Chocolate milk....😂
Lol you know there are other ways to know she's cheating in the card game and if I remember if you have enough cunning you can make her slip up without your teammates to tell you she's cheating