Given the actress' name, I think she might actually -be- French. So... you know. That's probably her real accent., and not a fake one. :D
And I was a little leery of her character going in because I'd been watching the trailers and such on the official site. And they all kinda gave me the impression that she was kinda this exceedingly fanatical, over-religious psychotic redhead. Or, as Alistair puts it, "More crazy? I thought we were full up?"
So I wasn't really sure what to make of her.
But hearing her explain in her own words her religious beliefs and why she took up with the Warden's party... well... all that stuff really sold me. Plus, she's just adorable and funny as hell.
* Leliana: "You are very beautiful Morrigan."
* Morrigan: "Tell me something I do not know."
* Leliana: "But you always dress in such rags. It suits you I suppose. A little tear here, a little rip there to show some skin. I understand."
* Morrigan: "You understand I lived in a forest, I hope?"
* Leliana: "Maybe we could get you in a nice dress one day. Silk. No, maybe velvet. Velvet is heavier, better to guard against the cold in Ferelden. Dark red velvet, yes. With gold embroidery. It should be cut low in the front of course, we don't want to hide your features."
* Morrigan: "Stop looking at my breasts like that. Tis most disturbing!"
* Leliana: "You don't think so? And if it's cut low in the front we must put your hair up to show off that lovely neck."
* Morrigan: "You are insane. I would sooner let Alistair dress me."
* Leliana: "It'll be fun, I promise! We'll get some shoes too! Ah, shoes! We could go shopping together!"

holy crap 10 hours for the flash game? I did it in like 2...

Yep 10 hours. There was that bug i got with killing 4 ogres where i killed all 4 but show up as only 3. Then i unlock the achievement you get for beating a ogre with all your party at full health.My computer wanted to restart so it could put in updates so i save game. restarted the computer load save.
Only to see the achievement i unlock for beating a ogre with all party members at full health was gone.Then there was that part where i got near the end and force to reload for the web browser i used stop working on me.I said no big deal right i saved a few min ago.Wrong .The save didn't work and the one that did work took me back to the start of the runaround quest. yes luck hated me that day.

The quest where you have to kill the golems (Dwarf-land or what have you) is pretty rough. Those things take a lot of damage!

Well us UK gamers were diddled EA did an exclusive with a UK retailer called GAME and so no tin box or cloth map, but still the same price as everywhere else that DID have the tin box and map!!!!
Because of this, I won't buy from GAME any more, as it was arrogance in the extreme to have the Collector's Edition cut down like this, just because they 'could'!
I bought the game off Amazon.co.uk for �25 and bought the Collector's Ecition Strategy Guide for �12.78. This has an extra 100 pages of how Bioware put the game together and 20 pages of artwork. The artwork in the Strategy Guide equals the artwork in the Collector's Edition and the pages on how Bioware put the game together, with interviews, etc is equal to the 'making of...' video (which will be on You Tube soon I am sure!) and I fully expect the OST to be already on You Tube. This means, for my �37 (�3 less than the CE!) in one form or another I have the same 'add-on's'. All I am missing out on is the DLC.
The game is fantastic, and this thread shows it. One person say Morrigan left when he hired Wynne, someone else said that didn't happen to him, that tells me the first Morrigan didn't like your avatar very much so went. The second Morrigan liked the avatar more so stayed - maybe by the skin of the avatar's teeth!
Also, the person saying he got +10 for giving the mirror to Morrigan and then pointing out how her Mother broke a mirror she had as a child shows how well this game was put together.
The only thing I had to get used to was seeing stairs and not being able to go down them, or expecting to be able to walk up a slope - too much Risen, The Witcher and Oblivion!!! Was so glad it had a 'Walk' option though! Notice how many games don't have that any more?! Fine for outdoors, but I remember in The Witcher how stupid it was running around in an Inn, bumping into things!
EDIT: Oh - and wait until you get the Alistair rose conversation - funniest moment in gaming - including the Monkey Island games!

One of my favourite exchanges in the game so far

Speaking of Morrigan, the "tis" usage is a bit irritating.
It reminds me of the "m'lady" awkwardness in Star Wars Episode II.

I got to spend a bit of time playing it today..
I like it. When I get my new PC built, I am SO buying it.

I don't think they could have come up with a better choice than Claudia Black for Morrigan. Perfect casting, really.
I like it. The " 'tis" and " 'twas" actually seem appropriate for 'wilder folk' ;)
The 'pray tell' on Two Worlds, that was quite a different story...forsooth...

I'm loving this game. And I love Alistair. He dies a lot but reminds me a a bit of Minsc crossed with Sand.
ANd I could also listen to the Dwarves talking all day...
And Cone of Cold is grossly overpowered. Love it :)
Karl

This is easily my favourite game of the year, possibly even ever, No other game has ever managed to get me turned on with a mental image involving caramel pudding!

Agreed, it was very weak. It didn't even have a full colour manual.
I'm still enjoying the game, though. Some dungeons drag on a bit, and aren't very fun either (linear killfests, basically). But it's definitely a quality role playing game, thanks to the cool companions (agreed with everyone about Leliana), epic story and the sheer level of detail.
Risen is still my RPGOTY, though. :-)

I was very surprised at that, especially considering the .pdf manual is in color. At the very least, the CE manual should have been in color as well.

The story is just grand and the companions great - that's what keeps me playing it.
It isn't without faults though. The whole DLC handling is.... far from as it should be. Today I finally managed to get the stuff from my CE actually appearing on my download-list ingame. Still haven't seen Warden's Keep as an option to buy / download ingame. Still haven't seen the new chest in my camp, even though it's status is on "installed". Will check later this evening if the other downloads will work.
The character development seems to be a bit too deep for me. I find it hard to see which path you should take / what makes a good choice. I'm also not sure about balance. Seems you can easily gimp your chars. Just went through Redcliff and without a healer char, I'm stuck in the castle yard battle for good.
Risen? For me it's far from reaching GOTY or even putting a tent into DA:O. It's way too much Gothic 1 part 4. You don't want me to start on the combat / target system. :)