Dragon Age Dialogue and Missed Opportunities

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Dragon Age Dialogue and Missed Opportunities

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What are the dialogue options you really wish you had in Dragon Age? I mean, there's always going to be something you wanted to say, some angle, but well, still.

I'm playing as a Blood Mage and Spirit Healer who wants to embody the Necromancer concept, and I'm a bit sad that no dialogue trees include an option to just answer with maniacal laughter. I sided with Bhelen, but i wanted an option to remind him that it's just business, and if I had my way he'd be strung up by the boorazaka at the entrance to the deep roads covered in lichen dressing. I'd like an option to outright tell that dwarven evangelist, not just "I'm not religious" but "I follow a religion that your Maker considers heresy" or "You can take that chant of light and shove it up your urethra, you colonizing, monotheistic asswipe".

Rewatching SFDebris's review after finally defeating Loghaine makes me long for an option to threaten Queen Anorah with murder, even if the plot won't allow you to follow through. (Wouldn't it make things easier though if that two-faced backstabber was dead though?)

I'd also like more options to flirt with characters who aren't of the right orientation to be a romance option.
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For all the talk on how much bad mojo blood magic is, I don't recall there even being one scene a character speaks or confronts you about it if you jump into it yourself. So some dialogue and conflict from that would have been good. There's at least some chat in the KOTOR games if you go dark side.
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That reminds me, rather than saying to the Guardian "Jowain brought it on himself by being a blood mage," you should have an option to say "Jowain brought it on himself by being a dumbass who fails at everything".

Yeah. Honestly there should be more dialogue opportunities related to specializations. The most you get to do is ask about it from the person who teaches you.
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Playing again and annoyed that there are no opportunities for you to say "You're not even a templar, so what the hell, dude?" to Alastair when he's all apostate-huntingy, child-slaughtery, annul-the-circle-y.
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