Comments | astolat: omg talk to me about Solas

astolat

omg talk to me about Solas

Dec 04, 2014 08:49

I just finished my first Inquisition playthrough (as a female elven mage, romancing Solas). I love how this plays out with a Solas/Lavellan romance going (although I'm even more super mad about the party banter bug, however, because it's clear that I would have gotten so much more depth about Solas if I'd been hearing all his commentary. :'( I ( Read more... )

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nausicaa83 December 5 2014, 18:29:02 UTC

I literally just finished it, and oh my god. My brain still has to process everything. I'm so, so glad I decided to romance Solas on my first playthrough, it made the ending even more powerful to me. Also I loved their dynamic so much ( ... )

nausicaa83 December 5 2014, 19:14:40 UTC

Oh, and I just found this article that's pretty critical of the ending, and I must say it does raise some good points.

astolat December 5 2014, 20:14:51 UTC

Yes, I completely agree -- the battle with Corypheus was totally uninteresting and didn't feel right at all. The whole "boss fight" mechanic is tired anyway and here was exceptionally so. I read that article too, that's the one that says that Corypheus should have attacked Skyhold itself, which is absolutely right ( ... )

nausicaa83 December 5 2014, 20:34:19 UTC

Wow, those are all amazing ideas. I can picture that final battle so clearly in my head, it would have been mindblowing. Me, I was shocked when we didn't get to fight him in the Fade. That seemed the only logical setting, and I thought it was implied all along. While I really liked The Last Piece, I think we should have kept that stage for Corypheus instead. All that talk of him hating the Inquisitor for stealing from him, all that personal hate, surely it should have led to some one-on-one stage of the final battle, with the party members rejoining you one after the other! And he should have had multiple forms too. The Fear Demon was a much better final boss!

I agree, though, that last bit with Solas was what made the ending for me. While the credits were rolling I was feeling so detached I actually checked my phone! I remember my first time with the DAO credits, two lines of This Is War in and I was sobbing. Big tears of happiness for having saved Ferelden and having done that wonderful journey. I felt nothing like that this time. ( ... )

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cathedral_junki December 8 2014, 17:24:31 UTC

Solas huh? I'm An Iron Bull fan. Oh god, so fantastic. I hope the fix the banter bug soon, the silence is driving me crazy!

laura47 December 11 2014, 08:14:46 UTC

some more party banter work arounds, the Val Royeaux one seems like it might be working for me, I've definitely never heard that music before!

http://forum.bioware.com/topic/525267-party-banter-silencenear-silence-glitch-thread-update-1130-an-up-and-coming-new-workaround-and-an-op-design-edit/

katma December 19 2014, 06:40:25 UTC

Hi *waves sheepishly*! I'm an almost perpetual lurker, but none of my friends have finished DA:I (or romanced Solas), and I have so many feels and theories that I just need to talk to someone about. So you can imagine my excitement when I saw that you were playing AND you romanced Solas ( ... )