Comments on: Oh my Maker, like, Alistair is such a hottie!

By: Sydney

Sydney — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 04:26:27 +0000

I too have a weird crush on Alistair. He’s not even my type and I find him occasionally creepy (like answering yeeees? every time I try and talk to him) and sometimes a little whiny. But it’s that sarcasm and the virgin character. I agree, I feel embarrassed to fit so easily into the stereotype, but then again, I unashamedly love equally Garrus and Kaidan Alenko from Mass Effect. Alenko is the wallpaper for my iPod.
It’s the nervousness that I find wildly sexy, the corruption of the innocent. It hurt me to ‘harden’ him, but how else would I be able to hang onto him later on as a lowly elf? But oh how I’d love to lick a lamppost, and I also love that we now have that as a saying.
I actually do like the weird treatment of a morality system in this, though I do find myself rejecting ‘the Maker’. It’s like they keep dropping hints that the religion is a giant cult that got out of hand but don’t let you act on it. I’m kinda pissed that Morrigan won’t let you do anything good even if it ends up helping us in the long run. She’s like Jack in Mass Effect, the token sociopathic sex symbol bitch.

By: Weekend sendoff: Here come the dwarves

Weekend sendoff: Here come the dwarves — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:10:01 +0000

[...] screw staid and mature. Although there will be no Alistair to encounter, I’m still excited. The system is clearly designed to get players of the [...]

By: Maybe Egon was right

Maybe Egon was right — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:02:38 +0000

[...] change depending on your actions, they are no mere choose-your-own-adventures. Little moments, like Alistair interrupting an important scene to wonder why I never told him I’d been betrothed once [...]

By: Julia

Julia — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:50:34 +0000

Ah, don’t be embarrassed about crushing on Alistair. You are right – all straight women and gay men feel this way. He is the perfect man. If you have any doubts about this, David Gaider said he was inspired by Xander from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Malcom Reynolds from Firefly when writing Alistair. Somewhere between Xander and Malcom sounds just right to me.

Have you “hardened” Alistair yet? I just love saying that. It sounds so naughty.

Alistair and Dragon Age forever! At least until tomorrow, when I start playing Mass Effect 2.

By: Joey

Joey — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:07:48 +0000

After I laughed, I decided you might have something there — maybe M. Night Shyamalan should work on a Bioware game! As long as the good folks there could say things to him like “No, that’s a terrible idea, try again” when necessary.

And thanks for the backup on Alistair. I’ve since learned that apparently many women and gay men find him attractive. Which means now what’s embarrassing is that I fit this stereotype.