Rant, rant, RANT

[scarylady]

OK, I'm about to have a serious Fenris-shaped rant here, so don't come in unless you're prepared.  Romance spoilers included >:

So, here I am, pretty much at the end of Act Three, and I stumble on a spoiler on the wiki that tells me I fucked up my Fenris romance a full Act ago and didn't even know.

Apparently I ONLY get to progress my romance with him if I fling coin at the slave girl in Act 2.  Silly me, I thought a job in a mansion might be a better, safer option for a naive girl who's never set foot outside the protection of her Tevinter masters, and Fenris certainly didn't seem bothered by my choice at the time, once he'd established I was paying her.

But apparently that's that.  No forgiveness scene, no make-up kissy face, no nothing.

So now, here I am, being told by him that he won't follow me into the final battle.  Apparently, his romance can convince him to change his mind. It seems that, despite believing myself to be his romance throughout everything, despite telling him that he had me when his sister turned on him, I don't get that option.

I'm fucking gutted.

I feel like my entire first run has been ruined by a single action, <i>where I didn't do anything wrong</i>.  What the <i>hell</i> were Bioware thinking?

Short of going back an entire Act, is there anything at all that I can do to fix this?  Because currently I'm wondering whether to just sack the run which - considering it's my first - will pretty much kill the game for me.


EDIT:  Problem solved, thanks to the lovely Sephiaz *blows her a kiss*
Just a technical note for the record, guys and gals, so no-one else falls into the same pit: apparently anything less than 100 friendship/rivalry does not = a relationship.  Which is BLOODY STUPID.

Comments

[nahtanha]

This thread has made me horribly glad that I'm completely uninterested in the romances for DA2. Aveline and Varric are my BFFs, and all the other chumps can suck it. The amount of metagaming required to get the romances to work is absolutely stupid. If you want to actually RP your character (*gasp*! Who on earth would want to do that in an RPG!) you end up with all the LI's being more or less neutral with your PC.

Perhaps I'm the chump for not wanting to play a mage. Once these bastards give me my sister back, I want an option to burn Kirkwall down behind me.