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[Tishina]

Yeah, that's part of the whole conversation about how the game peaks the tension at the Arbor Wilds, and then flops onto itself and drowns in a puddle of its own drool at the ending. I kept waiting for things to get big and bad and really dangerous and for that awful painful choice to present itself, or that DAMNIT ANDERS moment to come, or that suicide mission to utterly wreck you and kill off half your squad... but nah. You were never in any real danger of losing the game.

 

I'm not too scared of major world-shattering stuff happening on DLC, tbh. It never has before. I mean, the revelation of the Architect was major, but hasn't turned up anything yet; the revelation of Coryphalus was major, but it turned out he was just an annoying itch in your bum (you were in more real danger from Envy and Nightmare than from him), and those were the big game-changers of DLC we've had so far. The thing is not everyone buys DLC, even among the players who stay with the game after they beat it once, so doing crazy major stuff like killing the Inquisitor off on DLC would be super awkward. Comes next game, every casual player who doesn't follow the game closely post-launch would be left wondering, wait when did my Inquisitor die???

 

Also it kinda looks a little like BW's a bit scared of unhappy endings right now? For ME3 reasons, maybe. Kinda wish they had gone with the middle ground option, though. You can have unhappy endings, and you can have happy endings, but having only unhappy endings is depressing as hell, and having only happy endings is... kind of a snooze.

What, leaving someone behind in the Fade wasn't traumatic enough (especially for those people who went in blind and had both Hawke and a beloved warden with them?)

[Elven_Glory]

After years days of lurking in various Cullen forums, I have finally decided to speak.

Ahem.

Hi. 

[Cantina]

Yeah, that's part of the whole conversation about how the game peaks the tension at the Arbor Wilds, and then flops onto itself and drowns in a puddle of its own drool at the ending. I kept waiting for things to get big and bad and really dangerous and for that awful painful choice to present itself, or that DAMNIT ANDERS moment to come, or that suicide mission to utterly wreck you and kill off half your squad... but nah. You were never in any real danger of losing the game.

 

I'm not too scared of major world-shattering stuff happening on DLC, tbh. It never has before. I mean, the revelation of the Architect was major, but hasn't turned up anything yet; the revelation of Coryphalus was major, but it turned out he was just an annoying itch in your bum (you were in more real danger from Envy and Nightmare than from him), and those were the big game-changers of DLC we've had so far. The thing is not everyone buys DLC, even among the players who stay with the game after they beat it once, so doing crazy major stuff like killing the Inquisitor off on DLC would be super awkward. Comes next game, every casual player who doesn't follow the game closely post-launch would be left wondering, wait when did my Inquisitor die???

 

Also it kinda looks a little like BW's a bit scared of unhappy endings right now? For ME3 reasons, maybe. Kinda wish they had gone with the middle ground option, though. You can have unhappy endings, and you can have happy endings, but having only unhappy endings is depressing as hell, and having only happy endings is... kind of a snooze.

 

I have a whole host of issues with this game. Thus it is a love/hate relationship.

 

I felt as soon as "In your Heart shall burn" completed, the game's main story just, well fell flat and uninteresting. I still feel going to The Exalted Plains and doing "Wicked Eyes, Wicked Hearts" is pure torture.

 

Yes, I enjoyed DAO, very much. There has not been a game thus far that has trumped it from being on my list at number one.

 

Probably the biggest issue for me is not giving your character the choice: to die or not to die. However I wonder if they chose not to do this on account of the DLC: Awakening.

 

As for the choice in the Fade...it was stupid-plain and simple. Oh sure YOU can fight a dragon, or hell an Darkspawn magister. But a giant spider. Nope.

 

In my games, Al is made king, my mage is off doing whatever. Hawke is never sacrificed since I have Stroud next to me. The choice is pretty easy in who stays. Plus I don't think Anders would be too happy to find out Hawke died.

 

As for Cullen, the guy has been through so much sh!t, the death of the Inquisitor would push him over. I don't think he would deal nor handle it well. However if the choice of death was given, I would do it at least once just to see what happens.

[Cantina]

After years days of lurking in various Cullen forums, I have finally decided to speak.

Ahem.

Hi. 

 

Why hello there. Stop lurking and come, <pats the seat next to her> take a seat. Please enjoy our insanity and obsession in that which we call Cullen.

[CuriousArtemis]

I GOT MY FADE KISS!!!!!!!!!!!! .... but... the dialogue cut out As soon as the romance dialogue began, my inquisitor went silent. Talk about a heart breaker. But I guess I will replay the scene with subtitles. 

 

Siiiiigh. So close and so far. But still, better than nothing

[Elven_Glory]

Why hello there. Stop lurking and come, <pats the seat next to her> take a seat. Please enjoy out insanity and obsession in that which we call Cullen.

Well, thank you! I have been silently obsessing since DA:O. I started reading the forums long before I actually made a profile. I feel like I know some of you already.

[Cantina]

I know this!!! Some fanfics are way better than published books.

 

 

 

Sadly true. Trying to get through the Twilight books, (Yes, I read them and watch the movies-don't judge me ) was about as much fun as having my teeth drilled with a rusty jagged spoon.

[Tishina]

I GOT MY FADE KISS!!!!!!!!!!!! .... but... the dialogue cut out As soon as the romance dialogue began, my inquisitor went silent. Talk about a heart breaker. But I guess I will replay the scene with subtitles. 

 

Siiiiigh. So close and so far. But still, better than nothing

Pictures!!

[Rabbitonfire]

I didn't even romance the guy in the game but... I just had a dream about cuddling a red lyrium crystal that had Cullen's reflection, then coy cuddling sleeping Cullen, then attempting to do the deed but my friend saying "get a room", but we couldn't find a room because every room was occupied.

My feelings are confused either from not getting to have a wet dream because of dream c0ckblocking or dreaming about a character I never romanced so had to no prior feelings towards the drug-recovering commander.

[CuriousArtemis]

I do think it was much easier for a male Warden to go along with it than for a female warden in a relationship with Alistair.

 

Gentle reminder that it was pretty fcuking traumatizing for a gay male Warden in a relationship with Zevran who couldn't convince Alistair to do it LOL

[riverbanks]

lol! It's funny how different things are triggering for different people because I found the Blackwall romance personally very triggering, and you love that one.

 

Which is ridiculous, because in real life I would tell a guy like him to walk the second he opened his mouth to say hi. But, for some reason, in this game I find this jerk and his self-serving horsesh♥t charming as hell. Heh. He is 100% certified trash, and I'm right there jumping into the dumpster after him.

 

But yeah, it is curious how things affect different people in different ways. I feel about the Solas romance exactly how you feel about Blackwall's, probably even worse, as it's the kind of thing that makes me leave the thread when it becomes all about him, but everyone knows half the fandom is all over that guy. It's interesting how we can get ticked in different weak spots by things that are completely innocuous to other people.

 

I do think it was much easier for a male Warden to go along with it than for a female warden in a relationship with Alistair.

 

Absolutely, yeah. The one world state I have where the ritual was done is with my only male Warden, where it was no issue at all because it was his choice, not someone else telling him to sleep with Morrigan against his will. The picture becomes completely different with a male Warden, and for that one playthrough, doing it was really a no-brainer.

 

eta, because Artie makes a good point: my male Warden was bi, and his relationship with Zevran was very loving but also very chill about sex with other people (Zev did sleep with Hawke and Bela years later in that world state), so it wasn't as big a deal for this male character as it might have been otherwise.

[CuriousArtemis]

I am trying to reply to a post by Owlfruit ... but it seems to have been deleted. WHAT. o.O

[Cantina]

I GOT MY FADE KISS!!!!!!!!!!!! .... but... the dialogue cut out As soon as the romance dialogue began, my inquisitor went silent. Talk about a heart breaker. But I guess I will replay the scene with subtitles. 

 

Siiiiigh. So close and so far. But still, better than nothing

 

But is it real?

 

What if Solas whipped out his "staff" in The Fade. Would it be real? Would the sex be real?

 

Would your character who thinks she is "polishing his staff" in The Fade be really just sucking the knob at the end of her bed in the real world?

 

So many questions.

[CuriousArtemis]

Pictures!!

 

Oh, I got them, and SQUEE THAT KISS!!!! I knew you had it in you, you old bastard!!!

[Cerulione]

After years days of lurking in various Cullen forums, I have finally decided to speak.

Ahem.

Hi. 

 

Welcome!

[riverbanks]

What, leaving someone behind in the Fade wasn't traumatic enough (especially for those people who went in blind and had both Hawke and a beloved warden with them?)

 

Oh no, that was the most emotionally traumatic moment of the game of the game for me - even if it did give Loghain a fitting ending for his song, I was so not emotionally prepared to make that call, and I cried for years before I could actually bring myself to click the dialogue option.

 

....pity that was like 3/5s of the game in for me, and from that point on nothing else of equal emotional wreckage level ever happened again. T'was some very weird storytelling pacing there.

[Cerulione]

Sadly true. Trying to get through the Twilight books, (Yes, I read them and watch the movies-don't judge me ) was about as much fun as having my teeth drilled with a rusty jagged spoon.

 

A (not very) funny story: my roommate back in College used to worship Twilight. She wrote fanfics about that & I beta'd several. Let's just say that I really love her fanfics, it was real good. Much much much better than the original IMO.

 

I GOT MY FADE KISS!!!!!!!!!!!! .... but... the dialogue cut out As soon as the romance dialogue began, my inquisitor went silent. Talk about a heart breaker. But I guess I will replay the scene with subtitles. 

 

Siiiiigh. So close and so far. But still, better than nothing

 

Pictures! Bwahahaha!

[Owlfruit Potion]

I am trying to reply to a post by Owlfruit ... but it seems to have been deleted. WHAT. o.O

Oh, haha, I hid it because I realized it was really a question for PM, but then I was like, "eh, I think [the thing I was asking about] is probably not really an issue" so I didn't bother you with the PM.

 

(EDIT: and just in case it came off wrong, I meant "not really an issue" as in "I shouldn't worry about it", not as in "you are making up that you're having this technical problem!!")

[Cerulione]

But is it real?

 

What if Solas whipped out his "staff" in The Fade. Would it be real? Would the sex be real?

 

Would your character who thinks she is "polishing his staff" in The Fade be really just sucking the knob at the end of her bed in the real world?

 

So many questions.

 

It all happens in the dream...

[Cantina]

It all happens in the dream...

 

So its Matrix sex etc...got'cha

[CuriousArtemis]

Oh, haha, I hid it because I realized it was really a question for PM, but then I was like, "eh, I think [the thing I was asking about] is probably not really an issue" so I didn't bother you with the PM.

 

Ahhhh I see Well what happened is I tried to play DAMP on the beta and it did not see my controller. So perhaps I should try single-player o.O

 

And y'all, omg... I replayed the Fade Kiss scene. I-I got tears in my eyes. It was hard to breathe for a second lol *NERD* It was like experiencing the Hawke x Fenris romance for the first time. I AM IN HEAVEN!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

EDIT: Okay gonna exit out the game and share/upload pics.

[Tishina]

Gentle reminder that it was pretty fcuking traumatizing for a gay male Warden in a relationship with Zevran who couldn't convince Alistair to do it LOL

Oh, didn't know it was a problem to talk Alistair into it when you didn't want to. Yes, that would definitely be a bad problem too.

 

Which is ridiculous, because in real life I would tell a guy like him to walk the second he opened his mouth to say hi. But, for some reason, in this game I find this jerk and his self-serving horsesh♥t charming as hell. Heh. He is 100% certified trash, and I'm right there jumping into the dumpster after him.

 

But yeah, it is curious how things affect different people in different ways. I feel about the Solas romance exactly how you feel about Blackwall's, probably even worse, as it's the kind of the thing that makes me leave the thread when it becomes all about him, but everyone knows half the fandom is all over that guy. It's interesting how we can get ticked in different weak spots by things that are completely innocuous to other people.

 

 

Absolutely, yeah. The one world state I have where the ritual was done is with my only male Warden, where it was no issue at all because it was his choice, not someone else telling him to sleep with Morrigan against his will. The picture becomes completely different with a male Warden, and for that one playthrough, doing it was really a no-brainer.

 

eta, because Artie makes a good point: my male Warden was bi, and his relationship with Zevran was very loving but also very chill about sex with other people (Zev did sleep with Hawke and Bela years later in that world state), so it wasn't as big a deal for this male character as it might have been otherwise.

Well, unless you were Artie, exactly. An extra problem for a female warden romancing Alistair, though, is that he'll be fathering a child with someone else that you can't never have, short of some serious intervention.

 

Oh, I got them, and SQUEE THAT KISS!!!! I knew you had it in you, you old bastard!!!

Does he ever!

 

You know, there's something a little...odd about us all wanting photos of each other's romantic moments...

 

Oh no, that was the most emotionally traumatic moment of the game of the game for me - even if it did give Loghain a fitting ending for his song, I was so not emotionally prepared to make that call, and I cried for years before I could actually bring myself to click the dialogue option.

 

....pity that was like 3/5s of the game in for me, and from that point nothing else of equal emotional wreckage level happened again. T'was some very weird storytelling pacing there.

Well, unless you're a solasmancer... (waiting to hear the sobs from R2s direction tonight...a point in the game I'm still dodging, lol.)

 

But is it real?

 

What if Solas whipped out his "staff" in The Fade. Would it be real? Would the sex be real?

 

Would your character who thinks she is "polishing his staff" in The Fade be really just sucking the knob at the end of her bed in the real world?

 

So many questions.

Real enough if you're both participating, lol.

[Cantina]

 

Real enough if you're both participating, lol.

 

Ahh yes, nothing like waking up covered in Fade ectoplasm. LOL

[Elven_Glory]

Ahhhh I see Well what happened is I tried to play DAMP on the beta and it did not see my controller. So perhaps I should try single-player o.O

 

And y'all, omg... I replayed the Fade Kiss scene. I-I got tears in my eyes. It was hard to breathe for a second lol *NERD* It was like experiencing the Hawke x Fenris romance for the first time. I AM IN HEAVEN!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

EDIT: Okay gonna exit out the game and share/upload pics.

I am honestly enjoying reading about you playing through the romance sequences for the first time almost more than I enjoyed playing through them myself. 

 

Almost...

[CuriousArtemis]

You know, there's something a little...odd about us all wanting photos of each other's romantic moments...

 

I'm dying. We're such weird pervs

 

Pics uploading...