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[Jayla]

Make sure your mesh settings are on Ultra.  And take a look at the tutorials and compendiums here: http://daimodder.tumblr.com/

 

I'll try that. I'm pretty sure everything's set to Ultra, but my drivers have a habit of "optimizing" my games for me. Thanks for the advice!

[Cee]

The details they put in the animation is pretty astounding. The animation department went wild on this scene. Subtle but oh so telling. It makes the character seem almost real... alive. He feels like such a labor of love from the whole Bioware team. Like... everyone's fanning about him as much as we do.

 

Edit : I fixed some really bad mistakes. I can't write and I'm not even drunk *sighs*

 

They really do care, and it comes through.

[Cee]

I know exactly how you feel. I've only seen it once too, through blurry eyes. I cried so hard. I'm 35..and I don't think my ex made me cry as much as Solas has..lol.

I've accepted that I'm a sensitive feels mallow and I'll be this way no matter how old I get. I am unashamed at the amount of squealing and crying I did during Trespasser.

[Jaderail]

This might sound weird, but I legitimately felt nervous/anxious the closer I got to Solas in Trespasser. Like I knew it was coming, I knew I was gonna see him and it was just so many feels. I've played every Bioware game, I've done all of the romances. I can honestly without a doubt say that Solas is the first romance where I actually felt what I imagine my character might feel in that situation. A mix of emotions ranging from actual anxiety, and even a little anger but mostly I just *missed* him. It's probably the most feels I've had for a character in any game or movie I've ever watched. It's an actual attachment. 

[Lady Lionheart]

Stumbled across more Solavellan songs... Not like I was purposefully searching or anything *furtively glances around.*

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[Moondreamer01]

@Midnight tea

 

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I can't find your post to quote it, but in any case, this : "He broke the dreams to stop the old dreams from waking. The wolf chews its leg off to escape the trap."

 

I agree with others when they say it references Solas and the raising of the veil. "He broke the dreams" when he separated the Fade from the "unchanging world" (as it's called in one of the codex). Doing so, he chewed off his own leg, hurting himself by losing part of his powers (like all elves) but perhaps also by staining his own hands with blood and wearing the burden of his guilt. The part that escapes me is this "to stop the old dreams from waking." If it was only "the old dreams" I would have thought Cole meant the evanuris themselves, as they were certainly old and the dream part could have references their spiritness, so to speak. But, "from waking"? The evanuris were quite conscious when he raised the veil, unless there's something we don't know. What does the old dreams reference then? What is it that Solas was so afraid was about to wake that he broke the dreams and hurt himself in the process? Cole is talking of something other than the evanuris. Titans? Dragons? Forgotten ones? Blight? I think it has to do with the Blight and the void, and possibly the Forgotten Ones.

[MayriyaNoori]

A thing:

http://www.kreebby.c...-solas-looks-at

Trespasser spoilers.

I don't know if anyone else noticed...

 

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But if you watch a low approval video of the ending scene with Solas.....the expression he has when he says "Doing so will most likely destroy your world..." is the same expression he has after you save his Wisdom friend and he turns towards that group of mages with total intent to annihilate them.

 

I think people with low approval Solas world states should be concerned. I think Solas in these worldstates is looking forward to destroying everything.

 

 

[Sable Rhapsody]

This might sound weird, but I legitimately felt nervous/anxious the closer I got to Solas in Trespasser. Like I knew it was coming, I knew I was gonna see him and it was just so many feels. I've played every Bioware game, I've done all of the romances. I can honestly without a doubt say that Solas is the first romance where I actually felt what I imagine my character might feel in that situation. A mix of emotions ranging from actual anxiety, and even a little anger but mostly I just *missed* him. It's probably the most feels I've had for a character in any game or movie I've ever watched. It's an actual attachment. 

 

Totally not weird.  I was a nervy mess leading up to Trespasser.  I thought I was ready for feels, and I was very not ready for feels.

 

Although part of those nerves were from not wanting his story to be over...and it isn't.  So now I'm caught between happy that the story's continuing, and that lingering nervy anxiety over the lack of closure.  WEEEEEKES

[Garnet]

I found a really touching comic.. (Trespasser Spoilers)

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I'm so emotionally unstable right now!   *hides under all the blankets*

edit: From sariplushies?

I think that's the original? I'm bad at tumblr!

[k_drake]

I've only watched the final Trespasser scene one time.

 

Thanks for sharing that post, it's nice to see the extra effort put in to make the romance a bit more special.

 

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I haven't been able to do Trespasser again yet.  When I came back to the game after being away for so long I didn't expect all of those Solas feels to come flooding back as hard as they did.  Embarrassing confession time; I was crying so hard the moment that conversation started that sometimes everything was blurry for me through the tears.  I probably wouldn't have known the differences if they weren't pointed out to me.  T_T ugggh I am a 34 year old why am I such a baby! lol

 

I actually get a bit anxious thinking about seeing that scene again.  I think it will be difficult for me on a non-romance Inquisitor.  I'm ok, but the hellspiral is still waiting in the wings for an opportune time to strike again!  That's why I've been starting new PTs and not going far with them.  Still sorting my feelings out.  It's so silly!  Listen I had 3 games to really bond with my Shepard.  She's my fave thing ever.  Shepard means a lot to me.  The end of ME3 was really hard for me.  But it never lingered like Solas does.

 

Right?!?  Like, what is it about this experience that's causing it to be so poignant?  Is it because the cinematics are now good enough that I'm fully engaged and my brain is processing the romance as if it were real?  WHAT IS EVEN HAPPENING RIGHT NOW.   

[midnight tea]

Totally not weird.  I was a nervy mess leading up to Trespasser.  I thought I was ready for feels, and I was very not ready for feels.

 

Although part of those nerves were from not wanting his story to be over...and it isn't.  So now I'm caught between happy that the story's continuing, and that lingering nervy anxiety over the lack of closure.  WEEEEEKES

 

Also... the realization that we're going to have to anxiously wait years for DA4.... Uhhhhhh, I haven't felt this bad about waiting for something since the ending of last book from A Song Of Ice And Fire saga!!

 

(and I've nearly flung that book from a balcony when I reached the end and found out that it ends on A FEW excruciating cliffhangers!)

[Cee]

I found a really touching comic.. (Trespasser Spoilers)

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I'm so emotionally unstable right now!   *hides under all the blankets*

From eeblingtheshade

 

Oh, Solas.

[_Lucinia]

Right?!?  Like, what is it about this experience that's causing it to be so poignant?  Is it because the cinematics are now good enough that I'm fully engaged and my brain is processing the romance as if it were real?  WHAT IS EVEN HAPPENING RIGHT NOW.   

I think it's a perfect storm of good writing, amazing voice acting, and the cinematics.

 

Of course I enjoy the romance content in Bioware games.  Solas left me really questioning myself sometimes.  Not because I couldn't tell reality from fiction, or anything like that.  I wasn't living vicariously through the game.  Very happily engaged, been with my fiance going on 7 years.  I was constantly going 'what is WRONG with me, it's a game, I am happy with my SO.  Get a grip!' lol

[Uirebhiril]

I don't know if anyone else noticed...

 

Spoiler

 

But if you watch a low approval video of the ending scene with Solas.....the expression he has when he says "Doing so will most likely destroy your world..." is the same expression he has after you save his Wisdom friend and he turns towards that group of mages with total intent to annihilate them.

 

I think people with low approval Solas world states should be concerned. I think Solas in these worldstates is looking forward to destroying everything.

 

 

 

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I keep thinking of what it would mean if low approval Solas can't be talked down from his plan or whatever, and goes through with it no matter the efforts of the Inquisitor... which probably would happen regardless, at least to keep worldstates the same. But while Solas is totally responsible for the actions he takes, and none of it is on a hated Inquisitor, it'd be interesting to think that someone who didn't take time out to understand and connect with Solas helped to drive him that much closer to a bad ending. Blurring the lines. It would be grand. Sort of.

[MayriyaNoori]

Also... the realization that we're going to have to anxiously wait years for DA4.... Uhhhhhh, I haven't felt this bad about waiting for something since the ending of last book from A Song Of Ice And Fire saga!!
 
(and I've nearly flung that book from a balcony when I reached the end and found out that it ends on A FEW excruciating cliffhangers!)

I have been thinking about the terrible wait as well. I think I need to find some epic 20 novel fantasy series to dive in.

[Cee]

I think it's a perfect storm of good writing, amazing voice acting, and the cinematics.

 

Of course I enjoy the romance content in Bioware games.  Solas left me really questioning myself sometimes.  Not because I couldn't tell reality from fiction, or anything like that.  I wasn't living vicariously through the game.  Very happily engaged, been with my fiance going on 7 years.  I was constantly going 'what is WRONG with me, it's a game, I am happy with my SO.  Get a grip!' lol

 

BioWare's teams do a really good job of making the characters feel like real, relatable people, even in worlds of extraordinary circumstances. And that care is a huge strength. 

[Oswin]

This might sound weird, but I legitimately felt nervous/anxious the closer I got to Solas in Trespasser. Like I knew it was coming, I knew I was gonna see him and it was just so many feels. I've played every Bioware game, I've done all of the romances. I can honestly without a doubt say that Solas is the first romance where I actually felt what I imagine my character might feel in that situation. A mix of emotions ranging from actual anxiety, and even a little anger but mostly I just *missed* him. It's probably the most feels I've had for a character in any game or movie I've ever watched. It's an actual attachment. 

 

Weird? I was a bloody wreck. Not just for Solas, but for the whole DLC. I've become so attached to my quizzies

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I LUFFS THEM. So happy they aren't dead 

The poor Inquisitor gets a lot of stick for being a boring character, and maybe it's because I created such in-depth headcanons but they have become my favourite DA protags. From such bright eyed, naive beginnings into really solid characters... Who I made to look a tad haggard for Trespasser because those two years have been trying 

 

 

I am stupidly attached to them now. I'll be that person, making all the 'WHERE ARE THEY?' threads like all the big HoF fans. 

 

I was worried what would happen to them, to their companions. I kept having to stop playing to get up and walk around because the nerves were so bad I had stomach ache 

I did manage to calm for a while, but when I knew the final stretch was coming and I was about to finally find Solas. 

Yeah, heart was beating out my chest.

This is why I had to rewatch the scene so many times. I was in too much of a state the first time to take it all in.

 

I probably shouldn't play these sorts of games when I suffer from such a nervous disposition.

 

Totally worth it though.

[k_drake]

I think it's a perfect storm of good writing, amazing voice acting, and the cinematics.

 

Of course I enjoy the romance content in Bioware games.  Solas left me really questioning myself sometimes.  Not because I couldn't tell reality from fiction, or anything like that.  I wasn't living vicariously through the game.  Very happily engaged, been with my fiance going on 7 years.  I was constantly going 'what is WRONG with me, it's a game, I am happy with my SO.  Get a grip!' lol

Yeah, I felt (feel) the exact same way.  I'm not harboring any delusions in the clinical sense (well, not about romancing Solas at any rate), but I'd just like to know why I /care/ so much.  I know it's not real, and yet in terms of cognition, I'm processing it as if it were.  As you say, it can be rather disconcerting.    

[Garnet]

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I have grown really attached to my quizzys too! This has probably been discussed to death by now, but I think the Inquisitor won't be the main protagonist of the DA4. (Because of the "My adventuring days may be over..." line.)

I think they will have an integral part in it, however. *really hoping!*

[MayriyaNoori]

I really can't find enough versions of this song for Solavellan.

 

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[k_drake]

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You're... really asking the wrong person.  I would never be in Solas' position because I'm not that kind of person, I don't have that kind of moral compass, and I would not do the things he's doing. I can barely tolerate it in other people. 

 

While my Inquisitor was also the leader of a large organization (because the game said so), she wasn't a cold, ruthless, calculating dictator who used and discarded people for her own purpose, who pushed her views on others, who expected complete obedience from people working under her and then immediately killed them for stepping out of line or disagreeing with her philosophies. (Celene's death was the only ruthless action, but then she wasn't a friend or ally to the Inquisition and she had directly caused the death of thousands of elves to secure her own power before that, so... even though, I imagine my girl was so horrified and disgusted with herself that she vomited all night and was ill for a weak--sweating and shivering and barely able to stand being in her own skin--and never did anything close to that bad again.)

 

"He had to kill his friend because he saw them as people." I don't care who you are, that's cold. (He really couldn't have imprisoned him or tried to reason with him or something? Death was the only solution and it had to be right that second? I didn't tolerate that from Leliana, and I won't tolerate it from Solas if I could talk him out of it.)

 

In a way, your excuses for his actions are just making it worse because now I'm finding him more detestable by the sentence, and hating Solas is the absolute last thing I want to do.    

 

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I think part of the problem is that Solas is operating under the Concorde fallacy.  He has already put so much into achieving his goal that he feels obligated to keep giving more, even though it's clearly a bad idea.  This kind of "pathway-dependent" thinking has gotten people into trouble before, and Solas seems to be no exception.  I also think that he does things like kill Felassan and desert Lavellan (after being like, "I'm gonna kill you, too, btdubs.  Have fun with that!  Okay, baiiiii.") because he feels like the pain it causes him are fitting punishments.  To which I'm like, IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT YOU, SOLAS. Then again, his biggest flaw has always been his pride.

[Cee]

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I have grown really attached to my quizzys too! This has probably been discussed to death by now, but I think the Inquisitor won't be the main protagonist of the DA4. (Because of the "My adventuring days may be over..." line.)

I think they will have an integral part in it, however. *really hoping!*

 

My hope is that might be just a statement made to be heard in public.

[Garnet]

My hope is that might be just a statement made to be heard in public.

Ah! That might be so.

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Because she's totally going to go bonk some sense into her Elvhen God boyfriend...

[S.W.]

I think it's a perfect storm of good writing, amazing voice acting, and the cinematics.

Of course I enjoy the romance content in Bioware games. Solas left me really questioning myself sometimes. Not because I couldn't tell reality from fiction, or anything like that. I wasn't living vicariously through the game. Very happily engaged, been with my fiance going on 7 years. I was constantly going 'what is WRONG with me, it's a game, I am happy with my SO. Get a grip!' lol

I feel you here. I'm quite happily single - no interest in dating, really, and won't be for a while yet. I don't quite have the conflict of interest that you have, but I'm always surprised to find myself so emotionally connected to a character not as an outsider, someone looking in going 'aw, they're cute,' but as myself.

I suppose it's the roleplay element coming in. It's quite weird - I think, after replaying that scene six odd times, I can finally watch it without my stomach churning or my heart fluttering. I've been affected outside the narrative of the game by this - I was majorly hellspiralling this time last week, unable to sleep until three hours after I had finished. But at the same time, when term starts in two weeks, I'll be able to let go like nothing's happened. Life will go on. I mean, it's just a game after all. It's weird.