Dragon Age Inquisition - Doomsday Cult Simulator

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  • @therotryzit
    @therotryzit วันที่ผ่านมา +39

    Having the Inquisitor give all the villains ironic punishments was the best part of this snorefest.

  • @geomease
    @geomease วันที่ผ่านมา +48

    I chose a Qunari female mage who embraced the mantle of Herald of Andraste, specifically so I could piss off and offend every single faction simultaneously.
    The qunari hated me for being an outside female abd mage
    The church hated me for being the herald of andraste and a ‘dirty filthy qunari’
    The templats hated me for being a mage
    The mages hated me for claiming to be the herald of the chantry.
    It was a fun run where everyone was pissed off at me but couldn’t do anything because I was too powerful.

  • @zakai-kaz
    @zakai-kaz วันที่ผ่านมา +45

    Your bashing of Sera is healing to my soul.
    That i couldn't get my elven mage to challenge her or at the very least shut her down on any of that self loathing bull in anyway that was substantial just lead to me utterly avoiding her recruitment every other playthrough.

    • @zakai-kaz
      @zakai-kaz 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      "Take your elves I'm just people."
      The fuck does she even mean by that.

    • @SuperPal-tr3go
      @SuperPal-tr3go 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      To be fair she does get better in Trespasser... when its revealed the Dalish religion is a complete miserable lie which finally allows her to sympathize with them because she doesn't have to worry about being objectively the wrong type of elf thus she has no reason to be insecure anymore. It's an incredibly fucked up way to go through character development but I kind of love it.

  • @Armaggedon185
    @Armaggedon185 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +65

    In regards to letting players pick their own race and background, even a little thematic consistency would help the story lots. Make the dwarf a fugitive. Make the human a poor nonbeliever. The theme of Dragon age is about oppressed people turning out to be the world's greatest saviors, in spite of what other people do or say about them, but the games haven't realized that yet.

    • @krankarvolund7771
      @krankarvolund7771 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      Yeah, even without going as far as Skyrim where your race is just a skin and two bonuses and have no impact on the story, you can at least reduce the impact it has on the story by giving everyone the same start as a fugitive or something, and just building on the race differences later in annex dialogue.

  • @Naoise012
    @Naoise012 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

    "Just because a hot older woman told you to."
    You do NOT want to know what I'd do just because a hot older woman told me to.

  • @eauxkei702
    @eauxkei702 วันที่ผ่านมา +55

    Unpopular opinion: Playing as an Andrastian human mage was the most fun I had in Inquisition. Playing as someone who was raised by a privileged, noble family of templars who fell into second-class citizen status the moment her powers surfaced was a blast to roleplay. I played into the pre-established background and ended up with a character who had to grow out of her self-hatred and become her own person. I struggled with parts of Inquisition, but playing this particular character helped me through it. Had way more fun with this character than I did with my elf, qunari, and dwarf.

    • @crimsonhawk9492
      @crimsonhawk9492 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      You get it!!!

    • @elcalabozodelandroide2
      @elcalabozodelandroide2 2 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      well yes ; that bc it is the only part that is better made

  • @justmeagain4662
    @justmeagain4662 23 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +10

    The fact that when you don't agree with Sera to disparage an important part of your heritage for the sake of your relationship with her, she just assumes you think she's not smart enough for you says a lot. It's honestly vile how she even tries to make you feel bad for her boomerang bigotry. "Waaah, so you're dumping me because I'm not elven enough for you?" Sera, *you're* the one dumping *me* because I won't let myself be emotionally blackmailed into being a bootlicker like you.

  • @karb__
    @karb__ วันที่ผ่านมา +31

    Babe wake up, new lily post

  • @anonlvl1957
    @anonlvl1957 วันที่ผ่านมา +29

    Female quanari mage is disney maleficent basicly
    And therefore best class

  • @Spectralgamer135
    @Spectralgamer135 วันที่ผ่านมา +31

    I always felt kinda bad for Sera, doesn't change the fact we still broke up when she demanded my Dalish mage forswear her gods. As someone who actively worships what christians consider to be pagan gods this isnt the first time I've heard that shit and it will never fly with me. But more to the point Sera reminds me of those folks who cozy up to groups that actively hate people like them and I wish we had the opportunity to point out that the humans she was so desperately trying to be like will never see her as a person, just a convenient means to an end to be disposed of when her utility is gone. The poor girl needs therapy but sadly thedas is still probably a few centuries/millenia from developing the concept divorced of religious context.

  • @bussing666
    @bussing666 วันที่ผ่านมา +18

    I feel so called out because my first character was a qunari mage and I had a fun time as him

  • @XainRussell
    @XainRussell วันที่ผ่านมา +18

    Honestly I hadn’t even thought about the treatment of Elves in different fantasy settings until Dragon Age went out of its way to treat elves like shit in such a blatant and explicit manner. I come from a predominantly D&D themed background when it comes to elves, and in most settings for those games Elves, and most player races in general, aren’t treated as any significantly more powerful or special than Humans. I think pulling a Tolkien and making elves a more powerful race isn’t that big a deal because they were basically just the Fae and that’s the Fae’s entire deal, to be the otherworldly force that could help or hinder on a whim or if you’re just polite enough.
    I’ve always sort of preferred keeping player races on the same even keel though, when fantasy racism isn’t baked into the setting, because then it doesn’t linger and fester when either A) the player(s) won’t do anything or B) the player(s) CAN’T do anything about it. In regards to Dragon Age, the suppression and subjugation of Mages and Elves are the most interesting conflicts to engage with, and yet the writers are desperately trying to jingle keys in your face to try and get you not to think about it.
    Also yeah, that fucking ball where you had to schmooze with nobles was torture, and having no good result come of it made it feel like such a waste of time.

    • @Estarile
      @Estarile 5 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Honestly the only time I've seen an response to Tolkein's elves that worked was Pratchett's elves. And that was A: fully intentional, and B: was done by playing up the fae origins of the elves.

  • @spectre1300
    @spectre1300 12 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    8:55 Aww. I like Dwarves, Good ole classic Stumpy Grumpies

    • @arthurcreatio7798
      @arthurcreatio7798 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

      Rock and Stone, my brethren!

  • @bleakautomaton4808
    @bleakautomaton4808 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

    The treatment of elves in some fantasy is pretty crap. Not as much as the whole "no POC in medieval times so therefore not in fantasy media" garbage. It does suck.

  • @mikailaturkleson7472
    @mikailaturkleson7472 วันที่ผ่านมา +10

    I got Inquisition for free from a sale on Epic Game's store but even then I can't help but feel I would have been better off not bothering. I barely started the Hinterlands on my own because the gameplay was just soul sucking and none of the companions were grabbing me. After watching Lily record for Inquisition every step of the way, I am definitely not going to bother with this game again. SWTOR has less MMO bullshit than this game and that's an actual MMO.
    Also, I used to think Sera was cute before I saw what she said about other elves. I feel ashamed.
    Also Also, yes. I did draw 7:45 XD

    • @jaspervanheycop9722
      @jaspervanheycop9722 18 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      Inquisition came out, or rather was developed during, an awkward time for RPG's, when everyone had to be open world and have some form of multiplayer integration. I'm happy that's over, I got really sick of having to play 50 hours at least of side content every single RPG (and no, "just skip it" isn't valid, you'll end up getting a very hard endgame).
      Also the Hinterlands clearly was where most of the development time went, and it's still a chore. The other areas are just the Hinterlands again but with a different biome. (the same big hub area, endless wastes with some side fluff, optional giga hard side boss setup) If you bounced of there, it's probably just not your game (it wasn't for me either, but I still finished it since back then I didn't have the disposable income to buy more than 2 games a year...)

  • @Valeria-pf3xy
    @Valeria-pf3xy วันที่ผ่านมา +15

    Definitely agree about the humans being the "good at everything" race in fantasy and sci-fi because it's boring compared to what other races are allowed to be: interesting. Throughout all the editions of DnD, all other races get a variety of traits that make them stand out amongst others, but humans get to be customizable as their special thing, which means they get nothing other an extra feat and more skills. If humans were allowed to be more interesting, they would be good at throwing and endurance running, because that's what humans in real life are good at evolutionarily.
    Maybe we'd also get some focus on cultures that rely on human runners to deliver messages and/or on sports based on throwing things or lasting for long periods of time that humans just excel in compared to others. Probably would look more akin to non-European cultures, but that's just ludicrous.

    • @jaspervanheycop9722
      @jaspervanheycop9722 18 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      That's like the one thing I really like about GalCiv's lore. There the humans are inventors, innovators and diplomats, they clearly have their own shit going on and aren't just the other races minus whatever intersting traits they have. Nor is it just another Humanity Fuck Yeah story, the Humans get wrecked by their open attitude and experimentation all the time. (Also I like how for once the outlook on humanity is cooperative rather than machiavellian/space fascist)

  • @RorschachRaccoon
    @RorschachRaccoon วันที่ผ่านมา +9

    Idk. I feel like DAI did give me some chance to affect the world for the better. By making Leliana the Divine, you're able to disband the Circles in favor of the College of Enchanters which are just schools with political sway and no real opposition if you don't recruit Vivienne. By the end of the game mages, elves, dwarves, and qunari are at least officially accepted by the Chantry if nothing else and as far as I know, the institution of the Templars and the Seekers had completely died out because of my choices. It's possible even the Dalish elves got a better shake with Leliana's inclusivity amendments compounded with making sure Briala became an ambassador during the Winter Palace. It wasn't perfect and left a lot of things in the air but for the most things were remarkably better than when they started back in Origins.

  • @GenAqua
    @GenAqua วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    We'll see if Lilly does videos on Mass Effect.

  • @jaspervanheycop9722
    @jaspervanheycop9722 18 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    An exta point against Sera: holding your bow like that (25:10) shows she's a buffoon. Either she dislocates her shoulder or her bow is so pissweak it probably couldn't pierce the Inquisitors casual outfit. The Bioware animator still at "work".

  • @mj91212
    @mj91212 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    Another banger, thank you Lily! 😁

  • @itsnikkis
    @itsnikkis วันที่ผ่านมา +7

    Can I just say that using Thranduil as footage for your point about Elves was brilliant. Because yes, that man thinks he is better than you, and he is correct.

  • @dianehallmeyer8901
    @dianehallmeyer8901 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    Yay, a lily analysis video of something ive never heard of 😊

  • @jonasboel2473
    @jonasboel2473 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    Dragon Age put itself in a terrible situation. They want to make a story where you can put *any* protagonist in and the story is minimally impacted.
    It's often like that in these stories.
    BG3 act 1 solved this by being a hub of side quests and allowing you to completely skip it. Act 1 is the only act where you can just run through the entire thing.
    And the other two acts are railroads with two paths, and some optional side tracks

  • @CawfeeCakes
    @CawfeeCakes 15 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    I didn’t play a qunari until veilguard, and i fell so in love with her, but i STILL went back and made an elf. Because elves are superior, and i am helpless against such a notion.

  • @blacktoothlongwalker1037
    @blacktoothlongwalker1037 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Sera has strong feelings about her race. So she deals with it by ignoring the elf/human dynamic and focus on the upper/lower class dynamic. Thing is, it isn't one binary or another. There's multiple things going on, life is chaos. I've dealt internally with my own similar race issues, which is why I had to break up with her too. Liberating the oppressed really is worth a romance.

  • @hannahbranch7770
    @hannahbranch7770 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

    As a Christian, I actually feel very seen, because God being inherently chaotic is something that I embrace whole heartedly but the rest of my kind tends to get weirdly defensive about it. Like hun, I think that you forgot that in the old testament alone Yawah changed his mind about if sins should be generational mid covent.

    • @Estarile
      @Estarile 5 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      It really helps when you just don't take the old testament as settled history or a divinely dictated document. It contains truths, but it isn't historically accurate.
      That said. I cannot understand people who hear about Jesus's actions and don't understand God is chaotic. The rules are there for us, because God knows we freak out when They let us get more than a peak.
      God is Cthulhu who loves, cares for, and wants the best for humanity was not the conclusion I thought this comment would come to, but there it is

  • @laughingjack85
    @laughingjack85 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Humans are most likely a self insert character in most places. In my opinion though I think humans can be very interesting because then it's more of an exploration of the game and the world than the other characters who have baggage. My only gripe is that they should allow people to pick humans who come from various backgrounds and not just *noble human insert again* which would allow you to have the complex storylines similar to Dalish elves, city elves, dwarves, etc. P.S. I would like to see a world where humans are not the dominant race again tho

  • @SuperPal-tr3go
    @SuperPal-tr3go 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    I am interested to see what Lily says about Veilguard because that game falls into the trap of Inquisition and just drops the ball on any interesting social conflicts while shitting on elves even harder.

  • @elivenya-theautisticbookwy9638
    @elivenya-theautisticbookwy9638 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    Fun Thing is.....the elven gods ARE demons xD all of them got corrupted...so Sera had a point at the end...

    • @Zerathenezot
      @Zerathenezot วันที่ผ่านมา +11

      They are spirits taking mortal form. Though I'm gonna love the Veilguard video. Lily saying the Inquisitor is a door mat. Oh it's nowhere near as close as Rook is. The nicest nice who has ever niced.

    • @LilianOrchard
      @LilianOrchard  วันที่ผ่านมา +13

      The difference between a demon and a spirit is irrelevant. It's just what the Chantry calls spirits because they're idiots

    • @elivenya-theautisticbookwy9638
      @elivenya-theautisticbookwy9638 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@LilianOrchard well a demon is a sprit at its worst..so the point still stands...

    • @walabixha1746
      @walabixha1746 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

      ​@@LilianOrchardyeah this , Anders had a spirit of justice in dragon age awakening. But then then it gets called a demon of vengeance when that demon is actually wanting to do something against the chantry . You know , the people that oppressed Anders for the way he was born . It isn't even subtle

  • @Storm-crow13
    @Storm-crow13 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    You made a brief throwaway comment about magic the gathering and my brain started being annoying about it. MtG has a multiverse with countless worlds and a couple don't even have humans but many of them are dominated by European flavored humans, some are dominated by other flavors of humans, Some don't have species dominated cultures with humans mixed into every faction, and in some humans and former humans are the only type of people. But with a fandom who's opinion on the story is surprise about it's existence I'll take those few worlds.
    Also you are far more ethical than about how you think about the Inquisitor needing to trick the Andrastians. I relished in the opportunity to subvert their bigoted hegemony through trickery and make the inquisitor someone most of them hate on principle so I played a Qunari Mage with no qualms about tricking them

    • @Storm-crow13
      @Storm-crow13 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

      I just had a thought about Sera, she is a symptom of Bioware's insistence on subverting genre conventions. Similar to how Varric is the least dwarf-y dwarf they could make without making him absurd. They could not resist making an elf the least elf-y as possible and the result was Sera.

  • @Billpro25
    @Billpro25 7 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    Wow, the more I heard about WOW's storyline the more I am pleased I had never ever touched it.

  • @I.Simmonds
    @I.Simmonds วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I tend to let Selene die, and make Gaspard a puppet, I figured that was the least shit option.

  • @fern1009
    @fern1009 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Congrats on getting this one done Lily, it is no small feat! This game was stonking big.

  • @lanceshadow5582
    @lanceshadow5582 วันที่ผ่านมา +11

    "Elf, the proper way to play a fantasy game"!
    100% agreed elves are my default as well

  • @chartreusemaiden604
    @chartreusemaiden604 21 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    And Gaider who is the original creator of dragon age said himself, this is all about elves. Plus, I am human, I wanna play play elf in every game.

  • @pirateguy3521
    @pirateguy3521 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ Thanks Lily! 🔥

  • @troperhghar9898
    @troperhghar9898 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Inquisition was the only Dragon Age game i ever played and i still couldn't get through it

  • @Argronok0
    @Argronok0 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    If you played or know of the game Elder Scrolls III Morrowind, curious what kind of character you would play as in that game's world/setting.

  • @Venetheus
    @Venetheus 9 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Excellent video. Inquisition was a step down from DA2 but I did get a lot of enjoyment out of it. Roleplaying my tal vashoth Celia Adaar as an Andrastian was amazing because I managed to piss off everyone. (That and I really love the Blackwall romance with her)

  • @VALKRYSA
    @VALKRYSA วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Thank you for the video ! Would love to see an analysis of the crpg Divinity Original Sin 2 if you want in the future if you want :)

  • @alsaiduq4363
    @alsaiduq4363 12 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    30:54 The issue with this is that you end up alienating your players.
    If bioware had the balls to stick to one vision and commit to that, maybe we could have some semblance of themes.
    I disagree , Dragon Age could have both player choices and themes, they just need to figure out what they want to do first. Fallout new vegas lets you kill everyone yet you have themes that interconnected between dlcs and base game, even tackle the meta narrative of your character going from place to place and have huge impact the wasteland using Ulysses perspectives. I dont think is impossible for Bioware to do something similar.

    • @alsaiduq4363
      @alsaiduq4363 12 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Yeah, you're the courier, but you still have freedom to decide what you're.

    • @LilianOrchard
      @LilianOrchard  12 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

      The problem with comparisons to Obsidian, is their games are from the ground up meta narratives about RPGs and whatever philosophy book they were reading that week.
      BioWare does very specific character driven narrative, which often suffers under the weight of player choice.

  • @JackKielty
    @JackKielty วันที่ผ่านมา

    15:34 you must be true English born to understand

  • @EliseHyltin
    @EliseHyltin 12 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

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    • @LilianOrchard
      @LilianOrchard  12 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      No idea what any of that is

  • @Kalle_Demos
    @Kalle_Demos วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Inquisition was different from the first two games in good and bad ways. The game seems tailor made for an Elven perspective but I hated that the Mage/Templar conflict was largely explored in books and sidelined in the games. FYI, Wynn plays a large role in the book, dies and this is never mentioned once in Inquisition.
    Overall, for me, it worked. It’s what comes after or what doesn’t come after in Veilguard where things fall apart. Inquisition was set up as a part 1 of a finale. And well…yeah.

  • @viconpc9531
    @viconpc9531 วันที่ผ่านมา

    With Sara I just pair her up with a qunari and boom no more drama lol

  • @EggznBeansnMeat
    @EggznBeansnMeat วันที่ผ่านมา +1

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