@@colin-campbell The anchor came from the orb. He was trying to reabsorb the anchor into the orb so he could repeat his original objective. However, the magic does not work that way. Corypheus doesn't know how the orb works - it was Solas's, not his - so through ignorance and greed he blindly seeks to control the power, claim it and fails. Yes, every criticism of the Inquisitor in this scene is actually a hypocritical declaration by one deluded by his own ego.
Me looking on Corypheus after watching two elven gods from Veilguard: "Perhaps I have judged you too harshly" But damn his introduction slapped so hard
"I once breached the Fade in the name of another, to serve the Old Gods of the Empire in person. I found only chaos and corruption, dead whispers. For a thousand years, I was confused. No more. I have gathered the will to return under no name but my own, to champion withered Tevinter and correct this blighted world. Beg that I succeed, for I have seen the throne of the gods, and *it was empty.*" That's when I knew this wasn't any old darkspawn that could speak. This man tore the Veil and stepped into the Fade to find a darkness that sent him into a maddening search for godhood. He had the dreams of a god. And he was coming dangerously close to gaining the power of one.
The writer behind Corypheus' lines deserves some sort of award for having crafted such powerful dialogue. There are so many implications, inferences you can draw, speculations to ponder on, all within a mere 3 minutes. And none of it sounded at all like a cheap info dump of a speech.
"It is your fault, Herald. You interrupted a ritual years in planning, and instead of dying, you stole it's purpose."- Corypheus After Solas' reveal, this is so much more ironic, given that that is exactly what he did with Fen'harel's Orb.
fen'harel was especting corypheus died... but he was one of the primal darkspanws. he as not blighted, he as the blight itself (like the architect), thats why tried to meet the inquisitor, the bearer of the ancore... if i remember on the first blight dumat was defeaten and at the same year andraste was born... (like kiera with uthermiel) and thats makes me think there are a few "mortal who bear the souls of elder gods (sera, sandal, flemeth and solas)
Him and Uriel Septim VII from oblivion are my 2 favorite speakers in games. In the very short time uriel was in the game he had like a dozen quotable lines lol
My only gripe with Corypheus is the lack of interactions with The Inquisitor. I'm not saying multiple boss fights with him, just back and forth banter where they both justify their own actions and shit talk one another. They could have also done it so as time progressed, the inquisitor becomes more confident as he becomes more frustrated.
+LukaBlight69 They could have done what they did with Loghain.You Actually got scenes every time you completed a main quest where they showed you Loghain's reactions to the progress of the Warden and the civil war, showing he was slowly losing his grip. Here we barely see COrypheus after his reveal and then when we do see him we beat himto his goal and he flips out. That's all we get after his reveal.
+LukaBlight69 I agree with this completely. Corypheus is an amazing villain who's strong presence was overshadowed. When I first confronted him I l felt intimated, fear, and power. A man who's knowledge could shake the very foundation of the world and magic that could leave a scar in the hearts of everyone. I was upset when he barely made an appearance and he was reduced to a second rate villain who slowly posed zero to know threat as the story continued. Final battle felt more like a gangbang. The battle didn't do him any justice.
He was so brilliantly written. He had so much potential, but he barely felt like he mattered or had an effect on the world after this and it disappointed me so severely. Not to mention if you played the way I did you were overleveled when you got to his boss fight and he was a cakewalk. I couldn't agree more, I wanted another loghain. Another archdemon. Another grey warden.
Inq- "I am not afraid!" Cory- "words mortals often hurl at the darkness..." Lol Corypheus is so fucking cool. I think I'm going to start talking like him and using his quotes to respond to people in real life.
I can just see it now, in the middle of an office in the middle of the day.... "I have the gathered the will to be promoted to become your manager.. to champion this withered company and correct our blighted overheads. Beg that I succeed. For I have seen the throne of management... and it was empty."
***** That isn't the point. The voice acting was vastly different because they didn't know how to work the character right. Go back to the scene and you'll know what I mean. Same voice actor, different directions of how to display the character. If he was supposed to sound weak or feeble you don't need to sound like an decrepit old man.
***** I admire his design. I did not say I admired the way his character was taken in terms of storytelling. Bioware completely fucked him over and didn't make him something truly powerful.
It turns me on :3 if I could talk as my character I'd be all" yeah.. keep talkin baby :3 " I'd be pretty awkward for him. Lol ......... I'll leave now ...-_-;;;
This game is so underrated, sure it got game of the year, but people incessantly talk about how it wasn't that good, and only got game of the year because there were no good video games in 2014. Makes me sad, that this masterpiece of artwork is so under appreciated. It's a spectacular story, with great characters, incredibly well written and well made cinematic sequences like this one, and a GREAT soundtrack. The game world is so expansive, rich, detailed, and incredibly beautiful. There's no reason not to love this game. The combat is even good, I enjoyed far more than most generic RPG combat systems, it's very strategic and dynamic, it kept me interested in the game for a very long time. this isn't just the best game of 2014, it's one of the best video games ever made.
The reason why people don't like it is because it's supposed to be an rpg but it's more like an action game. There are barely any choices to be made and they have barely have any effect at all. The game is big, but empty.
That's simply not true at all, plenty of incredibly heavy decisions to make, and lots of life, great story sequences, atmosphere, and characters. This game was an emotional roller coaster. I don't know what you played but if you think it had no life then it wasn't Dragon Age Inquisition. >barely any choices to be made? FUCKING blasphemy, "Wicked Eyes and Wicked Hearts" and "What Pride Had Wrought" are the 2 best story sequences of any RPG I've ever played. When Morrigan was in the Fade looking for her son and Flemeth had tricked her into being her puppet, and the outcome depended on you and the decisions you made in the last 2 Dragon Age games regarding both of those characters, AND the decision you had just made at the well of sorrows That's unparalleled videogame story writing right there. You think something like that is empty then you literally have no soul. lol I don't really know what else to say, what about that is "empty". There's no atmosphere in any video game I've ever played like that of the quest "Wicked Eyes and Wicked Hearts". The beautiful Winter Palace under the moonlight, shady Orlesian nobles all attending and conspiring. Lord Inquisition Trevelyan attending to save the day from a rumored Coup. so many shady characters to study. Deserted wings of the Palace full of dead bodies and blood stains and clue. Topped off with the awesome ball room dance and great character writing and voice acting all around. Who doesn't enjoy playing Sherlock Holmes while saving the world from a Tevinter Magister and Demon invasion, all at the same time? That's just praising the story alone, the game had great graphics, cinematics, music, combat, game world, and there was just so much of it all. Dragon Age Inquisition is the best videogame ever made by pure objective standards, not just RPGs. I do still like Baldur's Gate better though. There is ONE reason and ONE reason only that people don't like the game. One very unfortunate reason, the Hinterlands were borderline empty and basic and apparently some people are so retarded that they thought that was the entire game, I thought the Hinterlands were pretty lame too, but the rest of the game is fucking spectacular. If you don't like a piece of the game move on, that should be common knowledge by now in open world games. It would be like me saying Skyrim sucks because Riverwood is really lame and basic and has no life.
3:26 The nihilism in that statement is horrifying if you think about it for too long. It really helped to give Corypheus more "bite" as the game's principal villain. The way his story ended was admittedly a letdown, but holy SHIT, what a buildup.
Have to say this is the biggest "well, shit." moment i've had in gaming. The first time you're all alone in the game and then you get swooped by a dragon who looks like an archdemon who was the biggest threat in DA:O and then out comes the guy you killed in da2.
I play as a female elf mage, and when Corypheus first showed up, I couldn't believe how small my girl was compared to him. When my elf girl is in a cut scene with Iron Bull, she looks short. But, when Corypheus grabbed my girl in the cut-scene my elf looked like a child! It was like Brock Lesnar picking up a high school wrestler!
Date Masamune lol, the Architect would get destroyed. They may be the same thing (presumably) and somewhat wield the same level of power, but the thing that makes corypheus such a problem to deal with is the orb/loci that he has. The loci increases his power immensely. The only known person who could possibly match his level of power alone would be Flemeth.
Blazer Hell he didn't they would. He said that he would have liked to have seen it. Also, I don't think you have a tight grasp on Thedas' history and of the chant of light. The chant of light says that 8 magisters broke into the golden city physically by using blood magic in order to gain power and Corypheus claims to have done it to greet the old gods in person. The one thing that is clear about both stories is that they were cast out of the golden/black city as darkspawn, not that they created them/brung them to Thedas.
Blazer Hell but how you said it made it sound like the magisters created darkspawn. Which they didn't. Also, I dont believe that passage was being 100% literal. From my understanding/interpretation it is saying that they were cast out of the fade as darkspawn and as a result of that the world became tainted from their newly blight stricken bodies as a side effect. Im not trying to start a fight or trying to be an ass, I just misinterpreted what you said.
I love how despite the fact he failed at everything afterwards, Corypheus has such an epic introduction in this game and some of the greatest voice acting ever, it just didn't matter
Man, i can't stop replaying this scene. After finishing the Game i know that Corypheus was right all along. I've seen the Throne of the Gods, and it was EMPTY- FUCKING EMPTY. The man that was a High Priest, that believe in God for Thousand of Years, when he finally thought he would meet God, there was no God.
Except that's not the case at all. Chantry lore states that the Maker left the golden city when the magisters tried to enter, so there being no Maker there when Corypheus finally did succeed in entering is all accounted for...Maker just left and rules from somewhere else.
@@pietrpiepir6444 Thats assuming the chantry even knows what its talking about and is not making stuff up. Corypheus wouldn't have been expecting the Maker, this was before that religion even existed. He expected his god Dumat to be there but no one was on the throne. And the place was already corrupted.
@@AquilaGuard Not exactly. Corypheus entered the Golden City before the coming of Andraste, but not before the belief in the Maker existed. Remember, the Maker expected us to love Him at this point, so there had to be some form of religion that taught His name to us somewhere.
@@pietrpiepir6444 "Maker just left and rules from somewhere else" Wrong, the Maker just doesn't exist. The golden city was already black and empty. Yahweh and the Maker are omnipotent, but they just don't know how to exist. The creator of the veil was Solas, an elven god.
In my opinion this was the height of the entire game. The inquisitor is alone and utterly helpless against an entity who is infinitely more powerful than them and was the cause of the greatest evil unleashed upon the world. Fear, drama, intrigue, mystery, it's a perfect moment. Then after this the Inquisitor beats him at every turn and he goes out like a wuss.
I... hadn't actually thought of that. Bloody hell, we spent the whole game trying to kill the bastard and there is a chance we did all his work for him?! Fuck!
PrinceCanute Here's my theory: The younger gods that were at war with the Creators were the Tevinter gods. Solas locked them all away, except himself, Mythal, and The Maker. (There are theories from Origins' time that Flemeth is Andraste. Maybe Andraste and Mythal are the same spirit. The Maker could be another Elven god, the creator of the rest, like Cronus, Amun-Ra, Odin, etc.) Solas sealed all the gods away in the Fade to stop them from destroying the world. All that resulted in was elvenkind falling from grace. He wakes up and sees this and knows he has to right his wrongs, in whatever way he can. But as he said, he has to have Corypheus help him open the rift. Now he has Fen'Harel, Mythal, and Uthemiel in his body. He's powerful. He's gotta find a way to let the Elven gods out of the fade. In short, all Solas tried to do was stop gods from destroying elvenkind, and accidentally destroyed them himself in a way, and is trying to undo what he did. My whole theory's a bit longer, but I kind of lost it. Solas/Fen'Harel himself is not evil, but if he's an antagonist in a future game, it's probably Urthemiel's fault.
This game had flaws, some grating ones; even, but its moments like these that truly showcase what a masterpiece it is. Playing this for the first time was like watching a great movie in the cinema,
honestly, I wish this is where they revealed Corypheus first. If we saw the nemesis on the mountaintop, and just almost saw the Elder One, but couldn't quite make them out. And then we finally see him walking out of the fire with that dooming music. I would have felt the chill run through my bones.
As a Qunari I am usually above everyone in the game except for Iron Bull. But when this guy picked my character up, she looked small compared to him. Damn.
Poor Corypheus. A moment's distraction, and then...he's too late. He's ALWAYS too late. You can't help but feel sorry for the guy. He tries so-o-o hard to win. Ah, well. Give Corypheus an "A" for effort and an "F" for empathy.
That's David Sterne by the way, doing the voice of Corypheus, and he fucking *owns it!* His big, booming voice fits so perfectly with this character, commanding your attention and refusing to let go.
Thalmor Justiciar isn't it enough that the inquisitor became the ruler of a city-state with power to rival Orlais? After corypheus is dealt with the inquisitor is a saint/king/hero who has the largest army in thedas. Especially if you decide to recruit the templars and the wardens.
After Trespasser I was fucking done! You lose everything there is no way I solo'd the whole game on nightmare and killed everything there is NO WAY that was the ending
In dragon age 2, when I eventually played the Legacy dlc, Corypheus compared to how he is in Inquisition and how he is in legacy, his voice makes him sound so tired but also that there is something incredibly frightening about him....in Inquisition he has fully awoken, he is so much more himself and his terror has fully awoken..that's why I believe his voice is different between the two games!
I really want to use the line "Pretender, you toy with forces beyond your ken. No more. (...) Know me, know what you have pretended to be. Exalt the Elder One, the will that is (insert name here)." Like when someone takes your parking space or some irritating thing like that
Three minutes of dialogue, and you could dissect what it means for hours I think. Far as I understand, he was one of the tevinter magisters that invaded the golden city, from the chantry’s story about the origin of the darkspawn and the blights. He says he saw the golden throne but it was empty. Does this mean the maker doesn’t exist? Or maybe it means he did once but now he’s gone? “God is dead” so to speak. That’s Corypheus’ little plan. “God is dead, so I might as well be God.”
I like to think that the Red Lyrium Dragon is the same dragon Hawke killed in the mine in DA2, and Corypheus found it, later reviving it with the red lyrium.
Man, I just wish we could have got a small cameo of the Architect, who went down a completely different path. Would of been very interesting to see that confrontation
I don't know about what the numbers are for more recent games but Bioware stated that for ME2, it was something like 81% of playthroughs were male soldier so I think it's safe to assume that it's not a minority who play male.
The Harold of Andraste: "You came here for a fight but that's not what I kept you talking for! Enjoy your victory! Here's your prize!" *Badass!* Can we get a hell ya! For the Elf girl?
Too bad this guy basically ended up being the Team Rocket of the Dragon Age Universe, he just has Ls through the whole game except for the Haven siege.
Corypheus: "I will champion withered Tevinter and correct this blighted world! I will give this world the god and nation it deserves!" Dagoth-Ur (TES III: Morrowind): That is a dull and unenterprising ambition. You may mean well, but you lack vision. You are not worthy.
My only criticism is we didn't get more of him in this game. Outside this and the ending it was very sparse. Cause this scene and that speech was fire. I wanted more. Lol
One of the best games I have ever played. I remember playing this chapter and had to wake up early next day for work, but I kept telling myself "just a few more minutes" and so I ran the entire siege...
I don’t care what you think of this friggin game, this dude right here had some of the best goddamn lines I’ve ever heard a villain say in a video game! Amazing voice actor, and who ever wrote his lines deserves a bunch of awards.
I just watched the Dragon Age Veilguard cutscene (SPOILER) where you encounter the dragon attacking the city and you meet one of the gods... Holy shit, Veilguard is trash. Absolute trash. I immediately thought of this scene with Corypheus and it's night and day. I'm so sad and disappointed. We've waited 10 years for this pile of hot garbage.
A villain, thousand of years old, immortal, former human, with a magical dragon, who is after one of the protagonists of the story lays siege to their castle with overwhelming numbers and ultimately doesn't get what he wants. So similar, yet so different to Game of Throne's Night King. This is proper writing, Game of Thrones was a joke.
0:25 I'd like to point out that in this moment, it looks like a Crucifix is walking out of the fire. If that doesn't send a message on who this guy is and what he means, I don't know what can.
I kinda wish Corypheus had some Sinistar programming. Imagine if Corypheus could just show up at any time to try and stop you. That’d make him feel like he really means it when he says he will kill you even if you’re ignorant.
Honestly, him moving through the smoke and flames would have been way more amazing if they did not show him before that point during the mountain shots. Just having him being revealed for the first time during that shot with the smoke and flames would have been such a big shock on top of the epicness from the scene.
-Know me, know what you have pretended to be. -Exalt the Elder one, the WILL that is Corypheus.. You will kneel. -You will resist, you will always resist. It matters not. -What marks you as "touched", what you flail at rifts.. I crafted to assault the very heavens. -I once breached the fade in the name of another, to serve the old gods of the empire in person. I found only chaos and corruption, dead whispers. For a thousand years I was confused.. No more. -I have gathered the WILL to return under no name but my own, to champion withered Tevinter and correct this blighted world. -BEG that I succeed, for I have seen the throne of the gods, and it was empty. He gets such badass lines
"Pretender. You toy with forces beyond your ken. No more.Know me, know what you have pretended to be. Exalt the Elder One! The will that is Corypheus!" - fap fap
Two greatest speakers ik in games... This badass...and Emperor Uriel Septim VII from oblivion (i think hes the 7th in his family...correct me if im wrong.)
To be honest I wish they had done a bit more and better with Corypheus and his army. Playing the game, though his corruption had a big presence, it felt like encountering him and his again “oh noes another bad guy *kills in single combat.”* To me he fell for the trap many villains fall for and failed to feel like a genuine threat. He just felt like another big bad to triumph over. A great example of a villain done right, for me, at least, is the Reapers. With Corypheus you encounter him only precious few times and you can always triumph over him and his minions. He didn’t seem to be very dangerous, and his armies never really made an impact wherever you encountered them. With the Reapers, from the get go you saw how dangerous just one of them was, and a whole world’s worth was making ready to kill you all, and they come sooner than you expect. You see them chasing you down when you trespass, you see them killing left and right, you see worlds become inaccessible as you progress. You are forced to muster every drop of power in the galaxy to even barely win through at the end, and even in so doing you are forced to sacrifice loved ones even being a paragon. Even you, the almighty player, are almost killed in game by these monsters. They feel like an apocalyptic force, but to me Corypheus just felt like he was exaggerated. Anyway, just my opinion.
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"Beg that I succeed, for I have seen the throne of the gods...and it was empty" DAAAAAAANNNNNNGGGG
That it an EPIC line :D
What was with the weird magic use at 0:58? It didn't really seem to accomplish anything...
@@colin-campbell The anchor came from the orb. He was trying to reabsorb the anchor into the orb so he could repeat his original objective. However, the magic does not work that way. Corypheus doesn't know how the orb works - it was Solas's, not his - so through ignorance and greed he blindly seeks to control the power, claim it and fails.
Yes, every criticism of the Inquisitor in this scene is actually a hypocritical declaration by one deluded by his own ego.
Yo spoilers dog
@@ip-sum heheh spoilers would be about the Dread Doggy
Me looking on Corypheus after watching two elven gods from Veilguard: "Perhaps I have judged you too harshly"
But damn his introduction slapped so hard
"I once breached the Fade in the name of another, to serve the Old Gods of the Empire in person. I found only chaos and corruption, dead whispers. For a thousand years, I was confused. No more. I have gathered the will to return under no name but my own, to champion withered Tevinter and correct this blighted world.
Beg that I succeed, for I have seen the throne of the gods, and *it was empty.*"
That's when I knew this wasn't any old darkspawn that could speak. This man tore the Veil and stepped into the Fade to find a darkness that sent him into a maddening search for godhood. He had the dreams of a god. And he was coming dangerously close to gaining the power of one.
The first time I played this game I immediately paused after this cutscene so that I could find it in youtube and watch his monologue again
@@codysodyssey3818Same
After veilgurad this dialogue is good enough to make you cry....god i miss good writing
The writer behind Corypheus' lines deserves some sort of award for having crafted such powerful dialogue. There are so many implications, inferences you can draw, speculations to ponder on, all within a mere 3 minutes.
And none of it sounded at all like a cheap info dump of a speech.
it just sounded cheap in general, cheap words for a shity villain from a DLC no one cared about...
It's pseudo-intellectual babble at best.
Too bad that the character itself was usef badly
Maybe if you weren't paying attention through the cutscenes.
@@colin-campbell Screw you. That "throne of the gods" line fucking OWNS.
Corypheus barley gets any screen time in this game compared to most characters, but DAAAAAAMN! He steals every fucking scene he is in!
Thats because The divine used a surge of plot power to kick the orb from him.
He does chew that scenery and we will hold onto every word
What stellar voice acting can achieve.
"It is your fault, Herald. You interrupted a ritual years in planning, and instead of dying, you stole it's purpose."- Corypheus
After Solas' reveal, this is so much more ironic, given that that is exactly what he did with Fen'harel's Orb.
fen'harel was especting corypheus died... but he was one of the primal darkspanws. he as not blighted, he as the blight itself (like the architect), thats why tried to meet the inquisitor, the bearer of the ancore...
if i remember on the first blight dumat was defeaten and at the same year andraste was born... (like kiera with uthermiel) and thats makes me think there are a few "mortal who bear the souls of elder gods (sera, sandal, flemeth and solas)
@@Raezaroth . Sera is just stupid.
@@Raezaroth Sera?? Andruil?
He's so quotable lol... BEG THAT I SUCCEED, FOR I HAVE SEEN THE THRONE OF THE GODS, AND IT WAS EMPTY!
+Denny Kaleal LOL I say that line around the house a lot! xD
+Denny Kaleal i can this whole scene in my head :)
+Denny Kaleal IKR
Him and Uriel Septim VII from oblivion are my 2 favorite speakers in games. In the very short time uriel was in the game he had like a dozen quotable lines lol
My only gripe with Corypheus is the lack of interactions with The Inquisitor. I'm not saying multiple boss fights with him, just back and forth banter where they both justify their own actions and shit talk one another. They could have also done it so as time progressed, the inquisitor becomes more confident as he becomes more frustrated.
+LukaBlight69 They could have done what they did with Loghain.You Actually got scenes every time you completed a main quest where they showed you Loghain's reactions to the progress of the Warden and the civil war, showing he was slowly losing his grip. Here we barely see COrypheus after his reveal and then when we do see him we beat himto his goal and he flips out. That's all we get after his reveal.
+LukaBlight69 I agree with this completely. Corypheus is an amazing villain who's strong presence was overshadowed. When I first confronted him I l felt intimated, fear, and power. A man who's knowledge could shake the very foundation of the world and magic that could leave a scar in the hearts of everyone. I was upset when he barely made an appearance and he was reduced to a second rate villain who slowly posed zero to know threat as the story continued. Final battle felt more like a gangbang. The battle didn't do him any justice.
He was so brilliantly written. He had so much potential, but he barely felt like he mattered or had an effect on the world after this and it disappointed me so severely. Not to mention if you played the way I did you were overleveled when you got to his boss fight and he was a cakewalk. I couldn't agree more, I wanted another loghain. Another archdemon. Another grey warden.
Kind of an issue with evil superbeing final bosses.
if only Coryp forces at least attempt to storm Skyhold.
"You missed!? How could you miss? He was five feet in front of you!"
Let's give David Sterne due credit, his voice is freaking bad ass. So much authority in every word.
+ShadowSamuel Butthurt much?
+ShadowSamuel Well he say his voice and writing is cool. Not the chracter itself.
Corypheus in DA2: looney old senile grandpa
Corypheus in DAI: BAMF
In Da:2 he just woke up from a long slumber so of course he's gonna seem looney.
Inq- "I am not afraid!"
Cory- "words mortals often hurl at the darkness..."
Lol Corypheus is so fucking cool. I think I'm going to start talking like him and using his quotes to respond to people in real life.
+Denny Kaleal
"The Anchor is permanent. You have spoiled it with your stumbling!"
"Know me... Know what you have pretended to be... Exalt the elder one.. The will that is Corypheus.."
"I once breached the fade in the name of another, to serve the Old Gods of the Empire in person... I found only chaos and corruption!"
If you exist. if you ever truly existed, aid me now!
I can just see it now, in the middle of an office in the middle of the day....
"I have the gathered the will to be promoted to become your manager.. to champion this withered company and correct our blighted overheads. Beg that I succeed. For I have seen the throne of management... and it was empty."
The writing for Corpyheus is so perfect. His design and personality reminds me a lot of the Didact from Halo.
I think the other way around he was in dragon age 2 which came out before halo 4
vlad the impaler He was totally different in the second Dragon Age. Had none of his ambition and power, and his voice was that of a feeble old man.
***** That isn't the point. The voice acting was vastly different because they didn't know how to work the character right. Go back to the scene and you'll know what I mean. Same voice actor, different directions of how to display the character. If he was supposed to sound weak or feeble you don't need to sound like an decrepit old man.
***** I admire his design. I did not say I admired the way his character was taken in terms of storytelling. Bioware completely fucked him over and didn't make him something truly powerful.
***** Well we can pretty much say the same thing about almost every villian in vedeo games, comics, movies and history.
his voice...just his voice...I'm melting.
+Vicky Fisher and the music of course. I love his theme song!
It turns me on :3 if I could talk as my character I'd be all" yeah.. keep talkin baby :3 " I'd be pretty awkward for him. Lol ......... I'll leave now ...-_-;;;
i wont lie his voice gives me arousing chills. -purrr
The GALL! :D
This game is so underrated, sure it got game of the year, but people incessantly talk about how it wasn't that good, and only got game of the year because there were no good video games in 2014. Makes me sad, that this masterpiece of artwork is so under appreciated. It's a spectacular story, with great characters, incredibly well written and well made cinematic sequences like this one, and a GREAT soundtrack. The game world is so expansive, rich, detailed, and incredibly beautiful. There's no reason not to love this game. The combat is even good, I enjoyed far more than most generic RPG combat systems, it's very strategic and dynamic, it kept me interested in the game for a very long time. this isn't just the best game of 2014, it's one of the best video games ever made.
I agree man. I love this game so much. I am on my tenth play through now.
The reason why people don't like it is because it's supposed to be an rpg but it's more like an action game. There are barely any choices to be made and they have barely have any effect at all. The game is big, but empty.
I disagree entirely with that.
Justin Crawford Fair enough. It's a great game for me, just not the rpg I was looking for.
That's simply not true at all, plenty of incredibly heavy decisions to make, and lots of life, great story sequences, atmosphere, and characters. This game was an emotional roller coaster. I don't know what you played but if you think it had no life then it wasn't Dragon Age Inquisition.
>barely any choices to be made? FUCKING blasphemy, "Wicked Eyes and Wicked Hearts" and "What Pride Had Wrought" are the 2 best story sequences of any RPG I've ever played. When Morrigan was in the Fade looking for her son and Flemeth had tricked her into being her puppet, and the outcome depended on you and the decisions you made in the last 2 Dragon Age games regarding both of those characters, AND the decision you had just made at the well of sorrows That's unparalleled videogame story writing right there. You think something like that is empty then you literally have no soul. lol I don't really know what else to say, what about that is "empty".
There's no atmosphere in any video game I've ever played like that of the quest "Wicked Eyes and Wicked Hearts". The beautiful Winter Palace under the moonlight, shady Orlesian nobles all attending and conspiring. Lord Inquisition Trevelyan attending to save the day from a rumored Coup. so many shady characters to study. Deserted wings of the Palace full of dead bodies and blood stains and clue. Topped off with the awesome ball room dance and great character writing and voice acting all around. Who doesn't enjoy playing Sherlock Holmes while saving the world from a Tevinter Magister and Demon invasion, all at the same time?
That's just praising the story alone, the game had great graphics, cinematics, music, combat, game world, and there was just so much of it all. Dragon Age Inquisition is the best videogame ever made by pure objective standards, not just RPGs. I do still like Baldur's Gate better though.
There is ONE reason and ONE reason only that people don't like the game. One very unfortunate reason, the Hinterlands were borderline empty and basic and apparently some people are so retarded that they thought that was the entire game, I thought the Hinterlands were pretty lame too, but the rest of the game is fucking spectacular.
If you don't like a piece of the game move on, that should be common knowledge by now in open world games. It would be like me saying Skyrim sucks because Riverwood is really lame and basic and has no life.
Corypheus' introduction in this game was brilliant. It's such a shame Bioware completely fumbled afterwards
3:26 The nihilism in that statement is horrifying if you think about it for too long. It really helped to give Corypheus more "bite" as the game's principal villain. The way his story ended was admittedly a letdown, but holy SHIT, what a buildup.
Sovereign vibes from Mass Effect
Have to say this is the biggest "well, shit." moment i've had in gaming. The first time you're all alone in the game and then you get swooped by a dragon who looks like an archdemon who was the biggest threat in DA:O and then out comes the guy you killed in da2.
I play as a female elf mage, and when Corypheus first showed up, I couldn't believe how small my girl was compared to him. When my elf girl is in a cut scene with Iron Bull, she looks short. But, when Corypheus grabbed my girl in the cut-scene my elf looked like a child! It was like Brock Lesnar picking up a high school wrestler!
I think he's supposed to dwarf even the qunari inquisitors so that he can hold them by the arm just as easily.
I love the strings playing in this part 0:25 - 0:32 . They're so light but yet gives such a frightening atmosphere o.o
timewasteland it's like the creator said he's baaaaaack and your like.....no fucking way
fr Trevor Morris popped off with dai
Anyone knows that theme name?
@@Th3_FoxRacoonCatIt’s the Elder One Theme
Definitely one of my favorite moments in the game
I would have loved to see the Architect attempt to fight Corepheus.
Date Masamune lol, the Architect would get destroyed. They may be the same thing (presumably) and somewhat wield the same level of power, but the thing that makes corypheus such a problem to deal with is the orb/loci that he has. The loci increases his power immensely. The only known person who could possibly match his level of power alone would be Flemeth.
Kyle Pask True, but we'd have some interesting banter between the two.
Date Masamune definitely. Conversing about the good old days back in the Imperium's prime.
Blazer Hell he didn't they would. He said that he would have liked to have seen it.
Also, I don't think you have a tight grasp on Thedas' history and of the chant of light. The chant of light says that 8 magisters broke into the golden city physically by using blood magic in order to gain power and Corypheus claims to have done it to greet the old gods in person. The one thing that is clear about both stories is that they were cast out of the golden/black city as darkspawn, not that they created them/brung them to Thedas.
Blazer Hell but how you said it made it sound like the magisters created darkspawn. Which they didn't.
Also, I dont believe that passage was being 100% literal. From my understanding/interpretation it is saying that they were cast out of the fade as darkspawn and as a result of that the world became tainted from their newly blight stricken bodies as a side effect.
Im not trying to start a fight or trying to be an ass, I just misinterpreted what you said.
how far we have fallen
the writing, the voice acting, everything about Corypheus is badass
And of course the music
Back here after veilgaurd.
I love how despite the fact he failed at everything afterwards, Corypheus has such an epic introduction in this game and some of the greatest voice acting ever, it just didn't matter
"......and you used the Anchor to undo my work, the gall!"
*google* *translate*
"you got the balls to fuck up my plans by using that Anchor"
4 people disliked this video.....the Gall!
Archangel the Stylish It matters not!
Coming from the Veilguard, I do miss the gravity of this antagonist presence
"Exalt, the Elder One. The will that is Corypheus"
Man, i can't stop replaying this scene. After finishing the Game i know that Corypheus was right all along. I've seen the Throne of the Gods, and it was EMPTY- FUCKING EMPTY. The man that was a High Priest, that believe in God for Thousand of Years, when he finally thought he would meet God, there was no God.
Except that's not the case at all. Chantry lore states that the Maker left the golden city when the magisters tried to enter, so there being no Maker there when Corypheus finally did succeed in entering is all accounted for...Maker just left and rules from somewhere else.
@@pietrpiepir6444 Thats assuming the chantry even knows what its talking about and is not making stuff up. Corypheus wouldn't have been expecting the Maker, this was before that religion even existed. He expected his god Dumat to be there but no one was on the throne. And the place was already corrupted.
@@AquilaGuard Not exactly. Corypheus entered the Golden City before the coming of Andraste, but not before the belief in the Maker existed. Remember, the Maker expected us to love Him at this point, so there had to be some form of religion that taught His name to us somewhere.
@@pietrpiepir6444 Either that or the Chantry religion is full of lies.
@@pietrpiepir6444 "Maker just left and rules from somewhere else" Wrong, the Maker just doesn't exist.
The golden city was already black and empty.
Yahweh and the Maker are omnipotent, but they just don't know how to exist.
The creator of the veil was Solas, an elven god.
Corypheus was a cool villain. Voive actor did an amazing job
I remember seeing Corypheus... and I was like. "Hey... You're that guy! GODDAMIT"
hahahahah 100% my reaction
I was like "BUT I KILLED YOU!!"
PeriPeridot As soon as I saw the body outline, I was like “Hell no, he is back O_O”
I get chills when the dragon shrieks at you as the music is blaring. The dragon says what Corypheus does not.
Unfortunately Corypheous turns into a Saturday morning cartoon villain after this
In my opinion this was the height of the entire game. The inquisitor is alone and utterly helpless against an entity who is infinitely more powerful than them and was the cause of the greatest evil unleashed upon the world. Fear, drama, intrigue, mystery, it's a perfect moment.
Then after this the Inquisitor beats him at every turn and he goes out like a wuss.
What about the ending showing the dread wolf. Those two scenes for me are some of the best in gaming.
i wish Coryp forces at least attempted to storm Skyhold.
my heart stops for a moment, everytime cory shows op. the music does wonders
Corypheus really was a badass villain.
Was? He could still be alive. You never knock out his health bar and only send him into the Fade, right where he wanted to go.
I... hadn't actually thought of that. Bloody hell, we spent the whole game trying to kill the bastard and there is a chance we did all his work for him?! Fuck!
PrinceCanute Now you know how Solas feels.
What do you think Solas is gonna do now? Given that we sort of know what he is.
PrinceCanute Here's my theory: The younger gods that were at war with the Creators were the Tevinter gods. Solas locked them all away, except himself, Mythal, and The Maker. (There are theories from Origins' time that Flemeth is Andraste. Maybe Andraste and Mythal are the same spirit. The Maker could be another Elven god, the creator of the rest, like Cronus, Amun-Ra, Odin, etc.)
Solas sealed all the gods away in the Fade to stop them from destroying the world. All that resulted in was elvenkind falling from grace. He wakes up and sees this and knows he has to right his wrongs, in whatever way he can. But as he said, he has to have Corypheus help him open the rift. Now he has Fen'Harel, Mythal, and Uthemiel in his body. He's powerful. He's gotta find a way to let the Elven gods out of the fade.
In short, all Solas tried to do was stop gods from destroying elvenkind, and accidentally destroyed them himself in a way, and is trying to undo what he did.
My whole theory's a bit longer, but I kind of lost it.
Solas/Fen'Harel himself is not evil, but if he's an antagonist in a future game, it's probably Urthemiel's fault.
That reveal of the golden city not being the makers throne gave me chills.
This game had flaws, some grating ones; even, but its moments like these that truly showcase what a masterpiece it is. Playing this for the first time was like watching a great movie in the cinema,
"The will that is Corypheus" that is powerful
honestly, I wish this is where they revealed Corypheus first. If we saw the nemesis on the mountaintop, and just almost saw the Elder One, but couldn't quite make them out. And then we finally see him walking out of the fire with that dooming music. I would have felt the chill run through my bones.
As a Qunari I am usually above everyone in the game except for Iron Bull.
But when this guy picked my character up, she looked small compared to him.
Damn.
yeah coryphues played basketball in high school he's like 6'1,he was the MPV when they went to the state championship.
He used his magical powers to become the tallest person of the world
FUN FACT: Corypheus is a Greek word ("Κορυφαίος") αnd it means: top, leading, best, awesome ..
Poor Corypheus. A moment's distraction, and then...he's too late. He's ALWAYS too late. You can't help but feel sorry for the guy. He tries so-o-o hard to win. Ah, well. Give Corypheus an "A" for effort and an "F" for empathy.
It's not easy to have that senile grandpa attitude but still act like a badass. So yes an A for effort.
That's David Sterne by the way, doing the voice of Corypheus, and he fucking *owns it!* His big, booming voice fits so perfectly with this character, commanding your attention and refusing to let go.
Wish Corypheus would of had more screen time, was pretty much a showstealer every seen he was in.
I wish the inquisitor had the choice to finish the "will that is corypheus" and become a god
Thalmor Justiciar isn't it enough that the inquisitor became the ruler of a city-state with power to rival Orlais? After corypheus is dealt with the inquisitor is a saint/king/hero who has the largest army in thedas. Especially if you decide to recruit the templars and the wardens.
Godhood is my ultimate goal
+Mr. mistery Until Trespasser DLC.
After Trespasser I was fucking done! You lose everything there is no way I solo'd the whole game on nightmare and killed everything there is NO WAY that was the ending
Play Divinity Original Sin II then.
In dragon age 2, when I eventually played the Legacy dlc, Corypheus compared to how he is in Inquisition and how he is in legacy, his voice makes him sound so tired but also that there is something incredibly frightening about him....in Inquisition he has fully awoken, he is so much more himself and his terror has fully awoken..that's why I believe his voice is different between the two games!
I really want to use the line "Pretender, you toy with forces beyond your ken. No more. (...) Know me, know what you have pretended to be. Exalt the Elder One, the will that is (insert name here)."
Like when someone takes your parking space or some irritating thing like that
Three minutes of dialogue, and you could dissect what it means for hours I think. Far as I understand, he was one of the tevinter magisters that invaded the golden city, from the chantry’s story about the origin of the darkspawn and the blights. He says he saw the golden throne but it was empty. Does this mean the maker doesn’t exist? Or maybe it means he did once but now he’s gone? “God is dead” so to speak. That’s Corypheus’ little plan. “God is dead, so I might as well be God.”
I like to think that the Red Lyrium Dragon is the same dragon Hawke killed in the mine in DA2, and Corypheus found it, later reviving it with the red lyrium.
Man, I just wish we could have got a small cameo of the Architect, who went down a completely different path.
Would of been very interesting to see that confrontation
I must be in a minority that always plays male characters
No your not
I don't underdtand men playing a female, it's far beyond me
I don't know about what the numbers are for more recent games but Bioware stated that for ME2, it was something like 81% of playthroughs were male soldier so I think it's safe to assume that it's not a minority who play male.
@@momskasha4803 I play female because I saw my Inquisitor as a female. Nothing more to it.
@@momskasha4803 It's very simple if you don't self-insert yourself into the game.
So thankful we got this before dialogue became "thhis guy goes hard"
The Harold of Andraste: "You came here for a fight but that's not what I kept you talking for! Enjoy your victory! Here's your prize!" *Badass!* Can we get a hell ya! For the Elf girl?
Too bad this guy basically ended up being the Team Rocket of the Dragon Age Universe, he just has Ls through the whole game except for the Haven siege.
man still goosebumps with this scene ...
Corypheus: "I will champion withered Tevinter and correct this blighted world! I will give this world the god and nation it deserves!"
Dagoth-Ur (TES III: Morrowind): That is a dull and unenterprising ambition. You may mean well, but you lack vision. You are not worthy.
My only criticism is we didn't get more of him in this game. Outside this and the ending it was very sparse.
Cause this scene and that speech was fire. I wanted more. Lol
One of the best games I have ever played. I remember playing this chapter and had to wake up early next day for work, but I kept telling myself "just a few more minutes" and so I ran the entire siege...
Love when you can just make him out as he's walking walking through the fire
"It is meant to bring certainty to where there is none. To you, the certainty that I would always come for it."
That is such a raw line.
I don’t care what you think of this friggin game, this dude right here had some of the best goddamn lines I’ve ever heard a villain say in a video game! Amazing voice actor, and who ever wrote his lines deserves a bunch of awards.
3:08 I'm sorry I don't remember him being like, 10 feet tall in Dragon Age II. Corphy been eating his Wheaties it seems.
Always eat your green vegetables! Then you can be like Corypheus!
I just watched the Dragon Age Veilguard cutscene (SPOILER) where you encounter the dragon attacking the city and you meet one of the gods... Holy shit, Veilguard is trash. Absolute trash.
I immediately thought of this scene with Corypheus and it's night and day. I'm so sad and disappointed. We've waited 10 years for this pile of hot garbage.
This voice for Corypheus is so much better than the one from Dragon age 2 dlc.
thank god they kept the same voice actor but made him sound intimidating unlike an old grandpa like in da2
A villain, thousand of years old, immortal, former human, with a magical dragon, who is after one of the protagonists of the story lays siege to their castle with overwhelming numbers and ultimately doesn't get what he wants. So similar, yet so different to Game of Throne's Night King. This is proper writing, Game of Thrones was a joke.
0:25
I'd like to point out that in this moment, it looks like a Crucifix is walking out of the fire. If that doesn't send a message on who this guy is and what he means, I don't know what can.
Nice attention to detail there
After playing DA2 and having the sinking feeling Corypheus escaped in the body of a warden I was shaken by his return in Inquisition.
This is up there with when you first meet Sovereign in Mass Effect for sheer badassness.
It wonder what it'll sound like if i play Sovereign's Theme at the same time as this video.
Damn i love Corypheus's theme song.. it sounds so Villainous :)
Damn, his voice is just amazing.
First time I heard this speech it gave me goosebumps wen he mentioned the golden throne
I kinda wish Corypheus had some Sinistar programming. Imagine if Corypheus could just show up at any time to try and stop you. That’d make him feel like he really means it when he says he will kill you even if you’re ignorant.
My favorite villain monologue
Every line he says changes the lore so much, and i love that
Honestly, him moving through the smoke and flames would have been way more amazing if they did not show him before that point during the mountain shots.
Just having him being revealed for the first time during that shot with the smoke and flames would have been such a big shock on top of the epicness from the scene.
got to love his voice !!
-Know me, know what you have pretended to be.
-Exalt the Elder one, the WILL that is Corypheus.. You will kneel.
-You will resist, you will always resist. It matters not.
-What marks you as "touched", what you flail at rifts.. I crafted to assault the very heavens.
-I once breached the fade in the name of another, to serve the old gods of the empire in person. I found only chaos and corruption, dead whispers. For a thousand years I was confused.. No more.
-I have gathered the WILL to return under no name but my own, to champion withered Tevinter and correct this blighted world.
-BEG that I succeed, for I have seen the throne of the gods, and it was empty.
He gets such badass lines
Now that, is how you enunciate with impact.
Far from perfect game but writing and voice acting is excellent.
i like the fact that the first part of his name is Cory so i can't help but see him as the evil me and the hero as the good me
My first reaction to Corypheus appearing in Inquisition was 'WAIT, WHAT?! HE'S STILL ALIVE!'.
"Pretender. You toy with forces beyond your ken. No more.Know me, know what you have pretended to be. Exalt the Elder One! The will that is Corypheus!" - fap fap
Girls act weak and speak high-pitched voice around men they like.
Girls around me: 3:00
Corypheus's voice in Dragon Age Inquisition: Dark, gravely, and evil.
Corypheus's voice in Dragon Age 2: My grandpa.
This video has six hundred and sixty-six likes. Fitting.
Two greatest speakers ik in games... This badass...and Emperor Uriel Septim VII from oblivion (i think hes the 7th in his family...correct me if im wrong.)
To be honest I wish they had done a bit more and better with Corypheus and his army. Playing the game, though his corruption had a big presence, it felt like encountering him and his again “oh noes another bad guy *kills in single combat.”* To me he fell for the trap many villains fall for and failed to feel like a genuine threat. He just felt like another big bad to triumph over. A great example of a villain done right, for me, at least, is the Reapers. With Corypheus you encounter him only precious few times and you can always triumph over him and his minions. He didn’t seem to be very dangerous, and his armies never really made an impact wherever you encountered them. With the Reapers, from the get go you saw how dangerous just one of them was, and a whole world’s worth was making ready to kill you all, and they come sooner than you expect. You see them chasing you down when you trespass, you see them killing left and right, you see worlds become inaccessible as you progress. You are forced to muster every drop of power in the galaxy to even barely win through at the end, and even in so doing you are forced to sacrifice loved ones even being a paragon. Even you, the almighty player, are almost killed in game by these monsters. They feel like an apocalyptic force, but to me Corypheus just felt like he was exaggerated. Anyway, just my opinion.
She had to break an arm or leg
Playing this in 2024, loving it
3:26 Best line in-game
Man these later DA games were shells to what Bioware did with Mass Effect and DA:Origins. They're just so generic looking, shallow and silly.
The red lyrium dragon sounds so fucking badass I swear, how did they even create a dragon noise like that? This dev has a solid team
Corypheus is so perfect, i wish the inquisitor have such an charism)
Corypheus was one of the worst villians Bioware ever created.
What is the name of the music playing in the background??? I love it! I can't find it anywhere
It's part of the track "The Elder One Theme" which is part of the official Soundtrack.
phornblow1 Yes, 3:20. My faivorite soundtrack and moment :)
I miss Inon Zur's music, but I have to admit this track is pretty great.
He’s like the lich
Corypheus= Saren