@@micheleosullivan4430 the truth can often be abusive especially when wielded as a weapon or held like a leash. The simple fact is you either care so much for yourself or so little for your partner that any pain they endure is irrelevant as long as you get your way. Why should your partner be forced to sacrifice their happiness for yours? and if they disobey then what? youll leave? start looking for someone better? then feel perfectly justified because "they didnt love me enough". Well ive got news for you that isnt love people generally have empathy towards people they love. what you are doing is using people.
Alistair wouldn't have been half the character he is without Steve Valentine's excellent performance. I'm still blown away at the quality of the voice acting in this game.
Yeah He did a great job bu then this is one thing where I'd give Bioware a lot of praise they know what makes a good VA for their characters as I think in both the Dragon Age and the Mass Effect series they have always had great characters with good VA's behind them even the villains are well done
@@iloveyourunclebob omg yes, Greg Ellis is an exceptional voice actor, but I can't take Cullen seriously after hearing Anders in Awakening lmfao. Doesn't matter, Cullen's still my Trevelyan's Cully Wully in Inquisition
@@sjsharp2007 Logain is voiced by the guy that voiced Kain from Legacy of kain games, one of the most iconic vampires in gaming, and the first proper voice actor in games (discounting RE1, voice acting there was awful).
I crack up every time when you inform Alistair that the baby will have the soul of an Old God. Just the shrill voice he gets when he hears the absurdity of this is amazing.
I can't think of a more difficult position for Alistair to be in. If he doesn't go through with the ritual, then either he or the woman he loves dies as a result of them slaying the Archdemon. But if he does do it, then not only will he have to be unfaithful to that love (albeit with her permission) and do it with a woman he hates, but that union will produce a child whose full purpose we don't know yet, which could well be disastrous in the long run. Plus, having been trained as a Templar, Morrigan's ritual, which she herself admitted to being close to blood magic, would be inherently despicable to him I do not envy him one bit.
Lo .Sconosciuto I meant father as in be the biological father of a bastard, not raise a child. Because that's what He DIDN'T want. He didn't want to leave a child fatherless like his father left him. He told himself if he ever had kids he would constantly be there for them no matter what. But with Morrigan taking the child away that child grows up without a father, it'd be breaking what Alistair vowed he wouldn't let happen.
Would've been so much better if they made it a threesome. That way both could pretend they were using Morrigan to spice up their love life, rather than Morrigan using them for her ritual.
Join in hahaha! Honestly fair though. If it were me in that situation where Morrigan told me that the only way to save my boyfriend was to let her have unprotected sex with him, I’m sure as hell gonna be there so they know it’s all business, no pleasure 😂
Landis963 For real, though. Heck, in the first exchange, I don't even think the Warden actually *explained the point of the ritual.* Not "this will take the Archdemon's soul into the baby instead of one of us so we can survive" or even "this is a way for us to get out of dying," just "hey, yeah, want to have sex with Morrigan and make an Old God baby? kthxbai"
Holy shit, Steve Valentine's voice work is AMAZING. Rarely have I felt like I'm listening to someone just talking when hearing voice acting. Good friggin job, BioWare.
Looking back I admit I felt bad about this, although hardened I had Alistair agree to marry Anora, then came this decision and at the time I was in a relationship with Leliana and didn't want to be unfaithful to her so I persuaded Alistair to have sex with Morrigan... Now I realise I've been pimping Alistair that whole time and his first time was with a woman he absolutely loathed... God, I'm an asshole.
@@patrickmacken6046 Fem-warden, Isabella, Anora, Morrigan. For someone who grew up in the chantry and was still a virgin when he became a warden and joined you, guy really managed to get some under the warden commander's wing.
Wait, Morrigan can ask Alistair to lay with her even if your warden is a male? I got up to that part and she asked my male Amell to lay with her, not Alistair, Male Amell.
I just love how Alistair voice actor did with this performance, he made it so realistic. A King, burdened with responsibility and is about to have a child with godly power...with unknown future. But the most important battle is in front of him...so he need to do it.
That is one amazingly gorgeous warden, impressed Alistair could say no to her even if it meant getting intimate with one of his least favorite people. So if Alistair is not hardened he will not do the ritual eh? Interesting.
Valmy77 He'll still do it even if not hardened. It's just a matter of your dialogue choices, how convincing you are (and indeed, it can be settled with a successful Persuasion if you choose to go that route). It is a bit easier if he is, though.
I never harden him, I refuse to make him a dull, non-funny Alistair. If he's gonna be king they need the charismatic Alistair, kind at heart with untapped ability to lead. I wouldnt harden him even if to stay his mistress if he marries Anora.
@@Vivid95 hardening him forces him to come out of his shell and grow, while still being just as witty and kind Unhardening is more cruel since you're basically forcing him to never grow as a person
@@spacejesus6581 wow I wonder how long ago I've commented on this video oh, of course I know that he grows as a person if he is hardened I've known that for quite a long time now it just hurts me to be somewhat insensitive telling him you can't trust anyone else because we need trust in the world more than anything and less toxicity among the people.
Thanks for the vid! Hopefully it will work the same way if Alistair isn't king (I picked Anora, even if she's slimy). I was desperately trying to find a way to keep both Alistair and my elf mage alive and together in the end. :) The clothes are fabulous too!
Oh poor Alistair. What a way to lose his virginity (if he’s not in a romance with fem warden). Twas hard for my Mahariel too, already having had to decline her sex offer once at camp. Tabris banged her gladly though. But this scene is still hilarious. Alistair does resemble his half brother.
Wait, I'm sure I have played a female Warden to the end (Queen, Teyrna and Arlessa, all with a reborn god and a King that could be a great one? Hell yeah! That beats even the pure munchkinism of 3 mages and a rogue, overall IMHO), but I don't remember this happening in a special scene at all. And the clothing of the Warden, is that special for this scene? I'm confused.
+Carlos Lewis Hey guys the armor is from a mod. If you just want the armor you can get it here social.bioware.com/project/4662/ But if you want it to be on every warden in game install this one www.nexusmods.com/dragonage/mods/3258/? In this video the player is using a tint mod on it too which can be found at the second link. Enjoy
God I loved this game, why did they have to fuck it all up. DA2 was so horrid. Inquisition wasn't TOO bad but Origins will always be the better game, story combat everything.
You know what….I’m gonna be a male Warden from now on…no female Warden because that just feels wrong….plus I am not pimping Alastair into this…..this is fucked up
Alistair was unhardened in my game too, it all comes down to how much approval you have with him and your persuasion skill. I had no problems getting Alistair to agree on the first try. Maybe because i picked all the honest and upfront answers? He didn't argue with me about it at all...i mean at first he did the whole WHAT THE HELL? disbelief shouty bit, but after i did my best to reassure him in the end he said he trusted me and agreed to it
poor Alistair, having to bone someone he hates. It would b like someone telling me that in order for me and my best friend 2 live I'd have to have sex with Anita Saarkesian, in a way death would b preferable. Knowing Alistair he probably put a bag over Morrigan's head while mid-coitus, it's what I would do with Anita.
+ML Smith with the bag on Morrigan's head, Alistair probably liked to think he was doing it with Leliana or the Warden. Hell, there was an option to have a threesome with Isabela and Leliana at The Pearl so I was surprised there was no option for Alistair to have a threesome with Morrigan and his Warden lover.
I despise DR players who have gambled the world just for their selfish interests,and now we have Solas with it in DAI wanting to destry the whole world,so I hope they pay the price for it in DA4.