Guys, I still haven't started Trespasser but I have a question that I'd love answering: The tweet they released before Trespasser came out, the one that said we "may not be entirely satisfied but will be utterly intrigued", for those of you who've finished the DLC, how true does that tweet hold? Was it appropriate?
I'd prefer an answer with no spoilers, but if that's impossible then no worries. ^^
It's totally ok
. It's ok to be sad - fiction does that to people. I completely sympathise - had my best friend not stayed overnight the day after the DLC release, I'd probably be in a similar place.
Some advice: look after yourself in the two weeks before your boyfriend comes back. Treat yourself. Immerse yourself in something different, if that helps. Remember that you can always replay the game again, as well find art, fics, and other things fans have created
You're gonna be ok.
Don't feel weird or bad. You having feelings and there's nothing wrong with that. And sharing always helps.
And I like to think of the Solas fandom as a collective Cole.
We're here to listen, falon. And send virtual hugs.
Thank you...
I wouldn't worry about ever baring your thoughts with us, I think mostly we can all understand, even if just a little bit, how you feel. We all somehow let these characters effect us. Its supposed to. I'd be more worried about you if it didnt!Sorry for the rambling, I just don't know what to do... How do I continue just living? This game affected my life so much.
Guys, I still haven't started Trespasser but I have a question that I'd love answering: The tweet they released before Trespasser came out, the one that said we "may not be entirely satisfied but will be utterly intrigued", for those of you who've finished the DLC, how true does that tweet hold? Was it appropriate?
I'd prefer an answer with no spoilers, but if that's impossible then no worries. ^^
Go ahead. The DLC is amazing and totally worth it. You will not regret it, whatever you will think at the end
**Screens, minor spoilers for main game (is here anyone who doesn't know yet at this point? Well, anyhow), no spoilers for Trespasser, as I didn't really start it much yet.**
So finally finished my main game PT, just started Trespasser.
My daughter had grown very attached to Solas and Lavellan romance, somehow. Odd, at 9 years. But I digress.
My silent reaction to that scene was this.
So now just let's see, how the epilogue goes. It certainly got me hooked.
Gah... :/
I need someone to check something for me.
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Okay, I need you use this thread as my haven
It's okay. You will get through this. *hugs*
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The base game takes place over about a year or so, give or take. It begins in 9.41 and end sin 9.42 Dragon. Trespasser begins two years later.
I wouldn't worry about ever baring your thoughts with us, I think mostly we can all understand, even if just a little bit, how you feel. We all somehow let these characters effect us. Its supposed to. I'd be more worried about you if it didnt!
But I also think the best way to handle it is just...to handle it. Process your feels the way you would if it was real life, because to you and many others, it kind of is.
Time, chocolate, talking it out with us. It'll get easier. There are worse things in life to get really mentally and emotionally involved in and we're here for you.
Haha, that's true, a lot of worse things. I wish knowing that would've helped, gah the human mind is so troublesome.
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Guys, I still haven't started Trespasser but I have a question that I'd love answering: The tweet they released before Trespasser came out, the one that said we "may not be entirely satisfied but will be utterly intrigued", for those of you who've finished the DLC, how true does that tweet hold? Was it appropriate?
I'd prefer an answer with no spoilers, but if that's impossible then no worries. ^^
I'd say I'm very intrigued.
Okay, I need you use this thread as my haven
My boyfriend is abroad on vacation for two weeks and the feels kindda hurt me, but it's not the feels of "oh no that was sad" it's just my brain not wanting to accept the fact it is over.
Since the announcement of the DLC, I kind of made it my task to finish my Nightmare playthrough (I was at 45 hours), play the DLCs and then play the Trespasser.
I did manage, even if on a slight delay, but I put in the process side stuff in my life because I'm bad with patience and I obsess, when I obsess over something I rather be done with it to prevent it from affecting my life for a long term, so I usually dedicate myself to it. I played DAI throughout a day, everyday (it took me 150 hours that came from the last two weeks, I pretty much played 9-10 hours a day).
It has become a habit, I knew it'd be hard to say goodbye, for some reason I really get attached to player characters, the only other game that made me feel like that is Mass Effect, I was depressed for days. It is like the process of grieving lost ones, I remember how it felt when my friend died in real life or when my ex broke up with me, it is feels the same, it feels like I'm grieving their lose.
When somebody leaves, either by death severing you from their life, it is the realization you won't see them, won't joke with them, won't be smile with them or cry with them that creates that hole my heart that takes weeks or even years repairing. So you grieve, it hurts not being suddenly able to connect with them anymore...
The reason this happened to me in Bioware games is because they develop characters so, so much, almost everybody got something to offer you, they all feel real, in ME & DAI Garrus felt real, Mordin felt real, Legion felt real (a freakin' robot, I cried so much over him), Wrex felt real, Cassandra felt real, Dorian felt real, Solas felt... too real.
I think the fact I have no real life friends save for my boyfriend "helps", since I feel like I just lost a bunch of people, even if they are pixels.
I probably sound weird to some, but I've been always been able to overly sympathize with people and fictional characters, I'm a vegan hippie that cries at the end of almost every movie, I cry at the end of a good book or a good anime as well, it means it's working, it's mean the writer created characters deep enough for you to connect with... I just take it a lot harder than the rest...
My boyfriend and I live together and he hasn't been around from Wednesday (vacation), so it's very empty in the house, this quietness on a weekend after I finished the DLC sort of amplifies how much I miss them all...
When I first finished the DLC I was calm, perhaps from lack of sleep but most likely because I didn't even start digesting the idea it is over, for good, for several years at least. It was sad saying goodbyes to everyone, but I didn't cry, I just went over here and posted a few things and went to try and get some sleep in the middle of the day, but then the DLC plagued my dreams, certain characters, Dorian, Solas, Cole. My mind searched for even more answers, and I awoke after only sleeping for 3 hours after over 24 hours with no sleep. I felt a knot in my heart, like that black hole that pops up there when you break up with someone...
And then I came here, now I can't stop the tears and I want to play just so it won't feel as bad... After ME3 I had my boyfriend, he thought I was being weird when I cried into his shirt but he still hugged me, now I got no one to comfort me.
It makes me feel better to write this here, even if no one ever reads because it helps me untie the knot in my heart, the physical hurt isn't as bad now...
But how do I make the tears stop?
I need a real life Cole.
Sorry for the rambling, I just don't know what to do... How do I continue just living? This game affected my life so much.
What does it say about me as a person when it's 8 am on a Saturday and I wake up and immediately roll over to grab my phone so I can check the forums.
Nothing good, probably.
That's what I did, except replace phone with laptop and 8am for 11....because I was up watching someone stream Trespasser until 5am and needed to witness her reactions at a few things.
Guys, I still haven't started Trespasser but I have a question that I'd love answering: The tweet they released before Trespasser came out, the one that said we "may not be entirely satisfied but will be utterly intrigued", for those of you who've finished the DLC, how true does that tweet hold? Was it appropriate?
I'd prefer an answer with no spoilers, but if that's impossible then no worries. ^^
I've seen many different reaction to the DLC, but for myself, I'll say that he is mostly right. I wasn't quite satisfied as the ending is open to a continuation in the next game, and I'm not quite sure if intrigued is the word I'd use. Hyped would be more exact 
Thanks for all those replying, I'm out of likes, so I'll try to walk on the comical route instead
Sorry for the rambling, I just don't know what to do... How do I continue just living? This game affected my life so much.
I will echo a lot of people that has already replied, but I think a lot of us feel absolutely the same way. It had actually taken me several days of complete denial to get to this point. I have re-watched one of the videos today and broke down crying. Also this has never happened to me in my life ever! I never get emotional over movies - everyone is pouring tears - I feel mildly touched, never to this extent with the books either (although there are a couple of books that made me upset for a few days, like realizing I will never get to find out how Chronicles of Amber will finish), and no video game EVER had touched me the same way as DAI did. And outside this community, people are starting to think I am slightly crazy lol, for being as effected by the end of the game as I am. Even my friend who is playing the game at the moment and went through her own hellspiral with ME, doesn't understand what I am going through.
Which is why I love this thread and the peeps that hang out here And reading posts like your makes me feel better because I know that I am not alone in going through this. OK, let's cry together *hands a tub of ice-cream and tiny optimism flag*
I've seen many different reaction to the DLC, but for myself, I'll say that he is mostly right. I wasn't quite satisfied as the ending is open to a continuation in the next game, and I'm not quite sure if intrigued is the word I'd use. Hyped would be more exact
It wouldn't be Dragon Age if there wasn't a thousand different reactions to the endings. A single unified voice would be more worrying. 
I was wondering if it was similar to the infamous "lots of speculation for everyone" that ME got, but it doesn't seem to be. That's reassuring anyway!
I just want to give everyone such a big hug. The power of fiction to transport us and just makes of FEEL things, is such an awesome thing. I've also had trouble coming to term with the fact the adventure is over, at least for now. It's like seeing old friends moving away. The heartbreak over Solas doesn't help either, even with the hope of more in the future. You guys though couldn't be a better group to talk to and, together, heal.
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Thanks for that. I would have never found that part if you hadn't told me
But are you sure that's the codex? Cause the guy here says he played speed runs picking only these 4 codexes and he got the option http://forum.bioware...-of-trespasser/.
Well I'm off to replay the Darvaarad now since the last piece of these codexes is there, and then I will see if something happens.. If not it means I did miss that other one in the Deep Roads. But I remember reading it so maybe not
--snippy snips--
My silent reaction to that scene was this.
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So now just let's see, how the epilogue goes. It certainly got me hooked.
That Sera screenshot is just so completely perfect and applicable to so many situations. Makes me want to play an angry!Lavellen.
Okay, I need you use this thread as my haven
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I will echo a lot of people that has already replied, but I think a lot of us feel absolutely the same way. It had actually taken me several days of complete denial to get to this point. I have re-watched one of the videos today and broke down crying. Also this has never happened to me in my life ever! I never get emotional over movies - everyone is pouring tears - I feel mildly touched, never to this extent with the books either (although there are a couple of books that made me upset for a few days, like realizing I will never get to find out how Chronicles of Amber will finish), and no video game EVER had touched me the same way as DAI did. And outside this community, people are starting to think I am slightly crazy lol, for being as effected by the end of the game as I am. Even my friend who is playing the game at the moment and went through her own hellspiral with ME, doesn't understand what I am going through.
Which is why I love this thread and the peeps that hang out here
Thank the... Eh. Ehhhhhh...... Maker Creators Fen'Harel Solas for this thread. If it weren't for him I would've had no place to vent...
My boyfriend looks at me weirdly and then goes on telling me how much he loves me after I cry over video games, I think he actually likes that quirk in me.
Nobody else knows, even though I have two "friends" who played the game 
(they are my boyfriend's friends).
(And oh god one of them hates Solas, called him pretentious and ugly and said his only virtue is being intelligent, he has yet to play the DLC and I was actually upset with him after that :<
He's not uglyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. I get the pretentious part though)
By the way pretentious Solas
Okay, I need you use this thread as my haven
My boyfriend is abroad on vacation for two weeks and the feels kindda hurt me, but it's not the feels of "oh no that was sad" it's just my brain not wanting to accept the fact it is over.
Since the announcement of the DLC, I kind of made it my task to finish my Nightmare playthrough (I was at 45 hours), play the DLCs and then play the Trespasser.
I did manage, even if on a slight delay, but I put in the process side stuff in my life because I'm bad with patience and I obsess, when I obsess over something I rather be done with it to prevent it from affecting my life for a long term, so I usually dedicate myself to it. I played DAI throughout a day, everyday (it took me 150 hours that came from the last two weeks, I pretty much played 9-10 hours a day).
It has become a habit, I knew it'd be hard to say goodbye, for some reason I really get attached to player characters, the only other game that made me feel like that is Mass Effect, I was depressed for days. It is like the process of grieving lost ones, I remember how it felt when my friend died in real life or when my ex broke up with me, it is feels the same, it feels like I'm grieving their lose.
When somebody leaves, either by death severing you from their life, it is the realization you won't see them, won't joke with them, won't be smile with them or cry with them that creates that hole my heart that takes weeks or even years repairing. So you grieve, it hurts suddenly not being able to connect with them anymore...
The reason this happened to me in Bioware games is because they develop characters so, so much, almost everybody got something to offer you, they all feel real, in ME & DAI Garrus felt real, Mordin felt real, Legion felt real (a freakin' robot, I cried so much over him), Wrex felt real, Cassandra felt real, Dorian felt real, Solas felt... too real.
I think the fact I have no real life friends save for my boyfriend "helps", since I feel like I just lost a bunch of people, even if they are pixels.
I probably sound weird to some, but I've been always been able to overly sympathize with people and fictional characters, I'm a vegan hippie that cries at the end of almost every movie, I cry at the end of a good book or a good anime as well, it means it's working, it's mean the writer created characters deep enough for you to connect with... I just take it a lot harder than the rest...
My boyfriend and I live together and he hasn't been around from Wednesday (vacation), so it's very empty in the house, this quietness on a weekend after I finished the DLC sort of amplifies how much I miss them all...
When I first finished the DLC I was calm, perhaps from lack of sleep but most likely because I didn't even start digesting the idea it is over, for good, for several years at least. It was sad saying goodbyes to everyone, but I didn't cry, I just went over here and posted a few things and went to try and get some sleep in the middle of the day, but then the DLC plagued my dreams, certain characters, Dorian, Solas, Cole. My mind searched for even more answers, and I awoke after only sleeping for 3 hours after over 24 hours with no sleep. I felt a knot in my heart, like that black hole that pops up there when you break up with someone...
And then I came here, now I can't stop the tears and I want to play just so it won't feel as bad... After ME3 I had my boyfriend, he thought I was being weird when I cried into his shirt but he still hugged me, now I got no one to comfort me.
It makes me feel better to write this here, even if no one ever reads because it helps me untie the knot in my heart, the physical hurt isn't as bad now...
But how do I make the tears stop?
I need a real life Cole.
Sorry for the rambling, I just don't know what to do... How do I continue just living? This game affected my life so much.
It's very okay to feel sad - you've devoted a lot of time to this game and to the fantastic characters in it, and you'll miss them. That's completely normal and understandable, and a feeling shared by many here But while DA may be over (for now, only for now), the Solas thread (best thread, I lurked here for ages before posting) remains, which is a marvellous thing xx
With 150+ hours logged into Tiger's playthrough, I'm in the same place. Like you, I have zero non-internet friends outside of my hubby. Years ago I moved to be with him and have since drifted apart from just about everyone I knew. But, I've always grown overly attached to characters I create, and the pixel peoples they become close to. Right now, I feel like I just can't get over it all.
I have piles of other games to play. I have an MMO character needing her daily grind that I've neglected for a week because of the new DAI content, and am still neglecting right now because I'm just not ready for Tiger's story to be over. I have things to marathon on Netflix. I have a Tales game needing finished. I'm in the middle of a good book. Instead of doing any of those things, I sit in my chair and brood about the things that happened, and keep refreshing this page. I made an unlisted tribute video I posted a few pages back, and even though it appears to have been overlooked, I keep replaying it myself. Over and over. All the views are mine. :3
I really hope the powers that be are reading comments like this, and realizing how much of an impact this entry into the series made on some of us. And how some of us feel desperately in need of more.
This may be clinical, even. Believe me, you are not alone. It's a good thing the blanket fort help group here is free of charge.
It's very okay to feel sad - you've devoted a lot of time to this game and to the fantastic characters in it, and you'll miss them. That's completely normal and understandable, and a feeling shared by many here
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