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[emeraldembers]

Dragon Age: Origins is eating my life EVEN IN THE ENDING AREA.



Okay, I've not completed the final dungeon yet, but there's a... there's a reason. A terrible, terrible, very silly reason.

... I'm regretting killing Loghain.

I've finished killing the two darkspawn generals and I'm standing outside the gates to (presumably) the final dungeon and I can't go any further. Because I killed Loghain. AND I FEEL GUILTY even if I may have laughed until I felt a bit ill when I chopped him and his blood splattered all over his daughter and DON'T EVEN LIE YOU KNOW THAT WAS HILARIOUS.

It's just... his voice. And the fact he died a noble death. Also, HIS VOICE.

GODDAMNIT SIMON TEMPLEMAN, WHY SO AWESOME?

I feel like I killed Kain from the Legacy of Kain series (also voiced by Simon, for those not in the know) and that is Bad and Wrong and I'm going to have to go back and not kill him. SORRY ALISTAIR, I know I've put you through enough already with the becoming King and sexing Morrigan up and everything but, well, it's Kain's voice. I can't kill Kain's voice!

I'm glad I still have three saves (one pre-sexing Alistair. OH SHUSH, I WOULD BET MONEY ON IT THAT AT LEAST ONE OF YOU GUYS HAS ONE TOO), because I'm so going back for more.

I think there's also the fact I don't really want this game to end. I'm going to miss these characters so much it's hilarious, I've seriously been going "I LOVE YOU KISS ME" at Alistair at every possible opportunity, and getting teary-eyed whenever Morrigan says anything to me, like, ever, and I JUST LOVE ALL OF THEM, ARGH. ALL OF THEM. I'VE NEVER FELT THIS ATTACHED TO AN ENTIRE GROUP OF PEOPLE SINCE, LIKE, DIGITAL DEVIL SAGA, AND MAYBE NOT EVEN THEN.

I need the expansion and the Mass Effect games like air right now. RIGHT. NOW.

Comments

[lightindark7.livejournal.com]

Don't be killing Kain! Lol Simon Templeman is made of the win, with awsome sprinkled on top :D

[emerald-embers.livejournal.com]

I have two saves now ;), the "Kill Loghain and make happy sexytimes with Alistair" save and the "KAIN VOICE KAIN VOICE EEEEEEEEE" save.

[lightindark7.livejournal.com]

Phew!

[gembat.livejournal.com]

If you like Alistair, then you made the right decision RE: Loghain. On the other hand, apparently Loghain is ~*amazing*~ for conversating (not so much for tanking). I don't actually know first-hand, though, as I've still never quite managed to not kill him. DAMN YOU, ALISTAIR. STOP BEING SO PERSUASIVE WHAT WITH YOUR WIBBLY EYES ETC ETC.

Also there's no reason you have to stop playing JOIN ME IN PLAYING OVER AND FUCKING OVER. OMFG I HIT THE CHARACTER LIMIT THE OTHER DAY IT WAS LIKE MY XBOX WAS SAYING "SARA, GO OUTSIDE AND STOP PLAYING THIS FUCKING GAME" BUT I DIDN'T. I DIDN'T, AND I ALSO WON'T.

Aaaaaanyways, I'll just leave this here: swooping_is_bad

PPS: Mass Effect is like a whole different animal, and not everyone else likes it as much as I do because it's a lot less RPG and a lot more FPS, but there are still amazing characters, and the story is EPIC AS SHIT and the fact I haven't played the sequel yet is KILLING ME INSIDE.

And Awakening. Yes. Do it. If for no other reason than NATHANIEL FUCKING HOTASS HOWE.

[jenova.livejournal.com]

And Awakening. Yes. Do it. If for no other reason than NATHANIEL FUCKING HOTASS HOWE.
THIS.

Glad you're enjoying, luv XD Loghain is a tough decision... I actually didn't kill him the first time, found out lots of neat things about him, then thought really, really hard about how I wanted the story to go for this character, and went back and killed him. T_T Sigh~

And yes, absolutely nooooothing wrong with repeat playthroughs with new characters and new romances, la~

[emerald-embers.livejournal.com]

XD I survived, I've got two saves now so I can natter away to Loghain on one save (HE IS SO AMAZINGLY FASCINATING OMG) and on the other STILL GETTING SEXYTIMES WITH ALISTAIR WOOOOOO.

Thanks for the notes on Mass Effect though; I think I'll grab the first one, seeing as it's dirt cheap atm anyway, and if it's not my thing, I'll not bother with the second. I'm intrigued, though!

And, yeah, I suspect Nathanial Howe may go on my to-do list, so to speak ;). What's terrible is that since I've had my change of heart regarding Loghain I'm suddenly starting to crush on him. WHAT HAS SIMON TEMPLEMAN'S VOICE DONE TO ME?

(Cheers for the comm link - once I'm done with the game I'll head on in to go OOOOOOOH at people)

[chibicidangel.livejournal.com]

oh dear god. I'm so glad I'm not the only one loosing my life to DA:O. So very glad.

I got it from my roommate's uncle...and...dear god...I haven't touched WoW in about two days now.

[emerald-embers.livejournal.com]

IT'S EVERYTHING I EVER WANTED WOW TO BE

Although I miss fishing :(

[laryna6.livejournal.com]

When I finished Tales of the Abyss I immediatly started a new game+ even though it was the middle of the night. And then on that playthrough I was messing around doing sidequests and cooking for hours and hours until my PS2 WITH THE MEMORY CARD WITH THAT SAVE FILE ON IT GOT STOLEN *coughs* Sorry for the caps.

You know a game's good when the plot is so gripping that on the first playthrough you can't just can't leave it long enough to go do sidequests (Digital Devil Saga) or you do random sidequests and stuff not for the gameplay but because you don't want it to end. Especially not since the ending means my second favorite character ends up Deader Than Dead and my favorite character, the deadpan snarker, has a face like somebody killed his puppy in the end cutscene. Which just should not happen. *wibbles*

[emerald-embers.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I know what you mean about sidequests. So many games of mine I don't touch the sidequests until I get to the very end because I want to know what's happening next so much, but I get to the ending and suddenly I don't want to finish because I don't want the game to be over XD.

It's funny how many of my games I've never actually finished, actually.

[laryna6.livejournal.com]

I started keeping a list of games I've beaten, with notes on how throughly (for instance, how many endings & what sidequests remain) & how far through the incomplete ones are. It gave kind of a an incentive to actually finish the things, to have a tally. I'm currently at 24 beaten, with completions varying from 'everything because there isn't that much' to 'barely anything,' and of course 'everything except the Futomimi battle because I <3 'Mimi-san & Chiaki's an idiot with logic holes you could fit a few worlds through.'

[veridium-falcon.livejournal.com]

I spared Loghain on one of my more recent playthroughs, and now I'm afraid that I'm never going to be able to bring myself to kill him again. XD

And LOL, I don't have a pre-sexing Alistair save. WHY. WHY DIDN'T I THINK TO KEEP ONE.

[emerald-embers.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHA I GET TO SEX ALISTAIR ANYTIME AND YOU DON'T, HAHAHAHA

That's the danger of saving someone's life. YOU MIGHT LIKE THEM TOO MUCH TO KILL THEM LATER.

[veridium-falcon.livejournal.com]

RUB IT IN WHY DON'T YOU. D:< XD <3

[emerald-embers.livejournal.com]

IS THAT PERMISSION?

*RUBS ALISTAIR AND MY CHARACTER'S SEXYTIMES ALL OVER YOU*

*REPEATEDLY*

[debb.livejournal.com]

I spared Loghain just recently, one for curiosity's sake, see what he had to say and two the achievement award on the 360. *is addicted to getting achievements*
But my mind went the same way, I couldn't kill him because of Kain's voice and his "daughters remain six years old" before he dies does not help matters. At least for me it doesn't.

[emerald-embers.livejournal.com]

OH MAN HIS DEATH SPEECH D:

I'm glad I kept separate saves because seriously, he slew me ;_;, I started feeling guilty pretty much there and it just grew and grew (though laughing at Anora getting sprayed with blood delayed the blow for a while).

Moreover, when you start talking to him? Man, it's not fair. He's so AWESOME. I mean, yeah, he did Very Very Very Bad Things, but...

...

... damnit, Kain really could persuade me that all kittens are evil and need to be slain. VOIIIIIICE.

[debb.livejournal.com]

His death speech gets me every. Damn. Time. I can never be the one to kill him, I leave it to Alistair, which last time screwed my plans of putting him and Anora on the throne since she was all "Hell no" so I went "Sod you" and put him on the throne.

Loghain is awesome. I was surprised how much approval I got from one conversation with him by just being civil to him. And he's got a few interesting things to say anyway.

After sparing him this time, I know I'm going to have bother killing him again. If nothing else, if you do spare him he turns up in Awakening.
...And this is making me want to load up my save with him there just to play through those bits again.

[planet-rain.livejournal.com]

ARGH AND DOUBLE ARGH. I made Alistair sex Morrigan so he would live, then took great pleasure in making Alistair kill Loghain.

That's the only ending I've done so far, I haven't kept Loghain (though I've been told what happens) and I haven't killed Alistair or myself - I don't think I could get Alistair killed! D:

But yes, although I'm a bit burnt out on playing the game, it is definitely my favourite game evar.

(And I don't have a save before alistair-sexing, d'oh.)

[emerald-embers.livejournal.com]

I think I could get Alistair killed.

I would, however, require icecream and tissues. LOTS of tissues.

It's really rather wonderful, isn't it? :D