Playing a nice Hawke broke ME. Granted, some of it was the storyline resonating personally with me (losing one's entire family, not necessarily DARKSPAWN DISEASE AND ZOMBIES, but by the end I had broken down in actual tears twice.) I'm not normally one to cry, but like you mentioned, I got in my Hawke's headspace.
This time around, I am playing a sarcastic but nice Hawke, and it's a lot less painful. Well, except when I choose "I'm not ready for this kind of commitment" and she tells Anders he wasn't good enough in bed to keep. But the pain is totally different.
My canon nice DAO character died at the end because she was too emotionally exhausted to outlive Alistair. My selfish Warden went off and happily saved Amaranthine (and according to sidequest events in DA2, destroyed most of Ferelden. Holy crap. Nothing she touched was left unscathed.)
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Playing a nice Hawke broke ME. Granted, some of it was the storyline resonating personally with me (losing one's entire family, not necessarily DARKSPAWN DISEASE AND ZOMBIES, but by the end I had broken down in actual tears twice.) I'm not normally one to cry, but like you mentioned, I got in my Hawke's headspace.
This time around, I am playing a sarcastic but nice Hawke, and it's a lot less painful. Well, except when I choose "I'm not ready for this kind of commitment" and she tells Anders he wasn't good enough in bed to keep. But the pain is totally different.
My canon nice DAO character died at the end because she was too emotionally exhausted to outlive Alistair. My selfish Warden went off and happily saved Amaranthine (and according to sidequest events in DA2, destroyed most of Ferelden. Holy crap. Nothing she touched was left unscathed.)