and now we have inq"ass"tion were everything is shiny for reals tho what is sad about DAI is that it has a fan base some even didnt play origins or hated it because of graphics
@@voidofastora6032 it's not just inquisition. Every new games have lost the qualities that made the classics so much epic. But talking about the artstyle and presentation of this short movie, the editor did good in shading on the environments. Even the game wasn't that darkly shaded as much as this. The dark shading actually reflects the atmosphere of the movie.
"He's passed on" *Still making sounds* "There's nothing I can do." *then he takes his last breathe* Totally seems like something Morgan would say if Alistair was critically injured
I love how this Machinima bridges the gap before Akakening, and gives a story and personality to Justice that I wouldn't have had otherwise. I really feel sympathy for Kristoff now that I didn't have just from playing the game.
Meant as a prequel to Awakening, this is the backgroud story of Kristoff, the warden whose body Justice inhabited. It was one of the better Bioware DA projects. Unfortunately, it was aborted after 5 episodes and became another of a growing list of Dragon Age projects that were never finished such as Dragon Age Journeys and Dragon Age Legends. Too bad really as it is much better than some that were finished.
Legends was great fun, way better than DA2/3, I still miss that one. Even though it made me friend randoms on social media, the communities I joined (to backpack me) were all really friendly. Just wasn't the same when they killed the servers and made it single player unfortunately, the NPCs weren't varied/interesting enough to replace other player avatars.
You can actually get him in this form in the Dragon Age: Redesigned mod at the Dragon Age Origins section of nexus. Note: you don't have to use the entire mod. Just make sure you install Dracomies True Textures mod and then look for the "justice" mor in the Awakening Redesigned files.
If you want to be nit picky about it they aren’t actually dead when they go down in combat, they’re unconscious, otherwise they wouldn’t miraculously stand up after the fighting is over without healing. Lore wise I don’t believe healing can return a departed spirit to its body
@@DeSanto127 Leliana as example is a spirit in inquisition. “I awoke later in agony. The ashes were gone. I can’t explain how I survived" The ashes is able to save someone at death's door. Questions still remain if not demons are able to possess the body by the resurrection. At an alternative future Leliana fought like a demon. Her past as an assassin makes her no angel and she was sent back from hell
Very, Very Good. The voice acting was so good in fact, that I wished that the DAO game engine wasn't so wooden, so all of the emotions portrayed could be properly animated.
Why on earth does this not have a conclusion. It needs it. It needs it so much. This may be the best machinima I have ever seen in my life. I have no conception of how they did this. Make the rest, please.
FANTASTIC! truly embodies the dark and gritty beast that is DA:Origins, The best game i have ever played, and Skyrim might be a close second but this has to take the cake, the brusque nature of the characters is extremely relative, and as such viewers may feel immersed, as they may be able to compare the hero's actions to their own. In this, you encapsulate the true breed of game that this is. To Dragon Age: Origins! the first and last true dark fantasy epic! R.I.P Dragon age saga - DA 2.
That was really good. It was well put together. If this is fan made then he, she or they should be working for Bioware. Looking forward to inquisition.
This story looks so much more alive then even this Dragon age Inquisition. It makes me so sad that Im never going to see the game with this stile again. Good job Machinima!
Kristoff is wearing armor and carrying a large, heavy sword, and he still caught up to that guy. I guess Morrigan was right about the Wardens' endurance being legendary.
Tell me why this shit has better visuals and better cinematic directing (and directing in general) than the Dragon Age games proper??? This person needs to be hired.
It's because in a game you have hundreds of cinematics you have to direct and a hard time limit. Wheras this series was produced by a separate company and they were using premade assets to make it with. They just had to make cinematics and not a game ontop of it.
Holy fuck is this amazing! I dunno if its considered Machinima or not but it is the best one I've seen in a while. The writing is amazing, the voice acting is top notch (Even if Yuri Lowenthal is roughly 80% of the voices) The animation is perfect, makes me wish the models actually moved and performed like this in the actual game. The storyline grabbed my attention instantly and I have to say, I love Kristoff, even if he dies early in Awakening. 10/10 would watch forever! Not throwing shade at Bioware or anything, but they seriously need to do more this like this, or hire the folks who made this happen. Seriously, if DA2 had something like this, it would've been amazing. Also, I see a lot of folks complaining about how Bioware ruined DA2, but its not really that bad, nor was it Bioware, if what I heard is correct then it is actually the shareholders and people at EA who ruined it by giving Bioware a shitty deadline and forcing them to cut DA2 short, while removing some truly awesome things. (Disregard this if you want, I'm no even sure if all this is accurate.)
+Jay EDJ You are correct. It was not Bioware that fucked up DA2, it was EA who forced them to release FAR earlier than the developers at Bioware would have liked. The game wasn't even totally finished and from what I have heard I've not played it yet but I will) it is painfully obvious in some places that it was rushed. Bioware was not given the time to fully polish the game because Electronic Arts wanted to hurry up and c ash in on the game. EA has done the same thing over and over with the MMORPG Star Wars: The Old Republic, that they financed and Bioware developed.
this is excellent, I love it.Stayed true to Origins and adds verisimilitude to the world. One thing, Kristoff was a sword (actually a mace) and shield warrior and not a two handed warrior.
Justice and Kristoff aren't the same person. What Kristoff chose to fight with while alive doesn't mean Justice would choose to do the same. It makes sense for a spirit of Justice to follow the archtypical sword and shield way of battle.
Margi Fisher be that as it may when you recruit Kristoff/Justice he is set up as a mace/shield warrior. as per Dragon Age wiki "In Warden's Fall, Kristoff is a short-haired warrior wielding a two-handed weapon. In Awakening, he is a bald man with a mace and shield. In the webseries he also sports a big scar on his left eye extending across his cheek, which is missing in Awakening." dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Kristoff
I just watched it again and while that was indeed 'Tamlen's' likeness (the designers obviously used the Tamlen's template for this) Kristoff says either 'Ren' or 'Fren' at 4.11 (couldn't make it out clearly even playing it back several times) when the Hurlock Alpha kills him. So I am assuming it was actually another elf that happened to look like Tamlen, because as you said Tamlen does indeed die, or rather get's blight sickness and eventually turns to a ghoul and then gets killed by the party later in the story. dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Tamlen
I wish the new game would go back to this artistic look, or filter, or gritty ambience. Not sure what to call it, but basically back to being (and looking like) Dark Fantasy. Not the High-looking fantasy it became eventually with DA Inquisition. What is it about the assets in DA Origins that make it look so "moody"? And bravo to all who made this film. I love it, watching it again after 3 years.
Incredible. Jaw-dropping. I was immediately hooked with the acting, the story, the animation, the sound and music--all of it! I cannot believe the talents that went into this. Yuri Lowenthal? Holy cats! Seriously, kudos. Not enough good things to say without me sounding completely fangirl. Thank you SO MUCH for sharing!
As an information, France had also a strong grip on the English crown after William the Conqueror's victory (espacially the Battle of Hastings). William was the Duke of Normandy and he then sat on the English throne, which made the Kingdom of England a vassal to the Kingdom of France.
This is a production by Machinima. It is not part of the game. Its just an awesome project done by some amazing people. You know how people always make their own little movies or clips with video games usually with first person shooters? Red Vs. Blue was one of the more popular ones. But companies with resources like Machinima could really pull together a little movie like this one with just about any game out there.
Kristoff looks cool with the scar across his eye and nose, I'm still considering the design for my Grey Warden I'm thinking of having a scar and tattoo
2:25 that's cold blooded warden commander! *Kick to the back* 5:09 i think the mage was just mad because the elf just walked by him and didn't even bother to try and help him up lol
I get that DA2 is a bad game compared to its predecessor. And I don't really like it myself, but why all the hate on the story? the story, while may have needed some work, isn't really that bad. In fact, most of the plot points in DAI came from DA2. Anders' change seems realistic to me, even though I admit, it ruined Anders' character from Awakening. But a necessary ruin... Justice is very easily warped into Vengeance. And with the tension going on between Templars and Mages, you just know that both sides are going to crack sooner or later, which in DA2, Anders and Meredith did go overboard. But that's the story, which I think is pretty fine. The gameplay was fine, but less fun than DAO. It's just the amount of recycling that pisses me off...
Shoeless Scoundrel Dragon age 2 looked great.. But the you didn't had as much exploring as in Origins and tactical wise origins is a great game especially on higher difficulties.. I personally am not a very big gamer.. I enjoyed both games very much and especially inquisition. I am wondering what our next story would take place..
Taka Baruna well, what you said is right, the problem is that all the good stuff is in the last 2 hours of the game, before that is tedious chores, rehased maps and lots of filler battles.... the game has half of origins lenght, but it feels like twice of how boring it is. and the worst part is that you dont have that much control of the game's plot.
Taka Baruna The repetitive environments *do* get tiresome. I mean... do all caves look the same? Every warehouse or storage? However, I like to imagine it's only like that because the entire setting of DA2 is based on Varric's storytelling, and maybe he didn't describe the caves and storages in detail. "What? It's a cave, like any other cave, what do you want from me?"
+Sly Well that was Anders' whole point, wasn't it? A compromise wouldn't work, and trying would just be a waste of time. It's nice to be able to pick a middle ground, but in the real world that isn't always possible. A man who tries to end a war by stepping between the two factions is simply crushed between them. Frankly, I'd have been disappointed if there WAS a middle ground option, in hindsight, as it would have removed any meaningful choice, as a middle-ground option that works would invariably be the "correct" choice. That's the point here, there is no objectively "correct" choice. I'll agree on the environments though - too many re-used environments with various passages and doors simply locked shut. But honestly, aside from the mild irritation of the constant "second and third waves of enemies" in every combat popping out of nowhere to make battles drag on, that's my only real complaint about Dragon Age 2 - otherwise, I love it.
Just watching this while partaking on a bloody "Dave Surana the Warden-Commander" run by one Insanity or Nothing. 4:51, with Kristoff's coldness against the unnamed mage companion earlier in mind: So that's how being Hardened makes one turn from an obvious paragon to a subtle renegade. 6:45, 14:11, 14:26, 18:33, 20:54, and 21:07: Guess this other pronunciation for Amaranthine is also canon. Not unlike how Star Wars' Coruscant has different pronunciations in the Prequels (sant) and the TIE Fighter video game (scant). 13:57: In Mass Effect language, and pardon my tongue, "kiss my ass, sir". Cyril here brings into mind Karsten Wilde in the Awakening sidequest "The Burden of Guilt", which is set in the Blackmarsh area. 18:43: Greenfell is the town Cullen was brought to after the varied events of the "Broken Circle" main quest for Origins, according to mages in the Witch Hunt coda campaign. 21:17: Doesn't work if the crest isn't a griffon, the proper Grey Warden standard. 25:00: One may remember this as the very same Smuggler's Cove from the Awakening sidequest "Law and Order". 25:34: However, the secret passage for it should have led to Kristoff's inn of all places. Anyways, the Chantry of Our Lady Redeemer having access to that illicit place brings forth a lot of questions. And to make things weirder, that part of the Chantry is where the Fade spirit/possible Awakening companion Justice, who possessed the body of the late Kristoff, last meets and probably gave avenging regards to the man's grieving wife Aura in the character's personal quest "Justice for Kristoff". Interesting that all this begins with an elf messenger (Rhyn the elf Rogue/sacrificial Grey Warden) and ends with an implied elf messenger (a child most likely to be sent by the Mother and her intelligent Darkspawn subordinate The First, with a false promise of freedom for their family if they succeed in luring poor Kristoff to his doom). [Voice actors at 28:41. Yes, one can easily recognize Yuri Lowenthal if they use their ears right.] (Ah, I miss the days when the lore only consisted of the prequel novels The Stolen Throne and The Calling, that Penny Arcade webcomic featuring Morrigan and Flemeth, the video game Origins and its DLCs, *this very webseries,* and the Awakening expansion pack.)
Strictly speaking, if people wanted to be picky, in Origins, Fereldens are based on England, but all of the wardens in Ferelden after the death of the archdemon (Alistair and The Warden being obvious exceptions, if they lived) were from Orlais, so all of them should have the pseudo-French accent used for Orlesians (or a mixture of if they were previously from Ferelden, as Riordan was). All elves had a Us-based accent. Not a critcism, of course. I love the machinma.
![Behind the Scenes - Dragon Age: Origins [Making of]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/yXoteXWdGww/mqdefault.jpg)
![Behind the Scenes - Dragon Age: Origins [Making of]](/img/tr.png)
The voice acting.
The camera angles.
The story line and characters.
I can't... this is so good.
+Emnuzuse Alor
True story.
I really really miss this art style in Dragon Age. it really feels like a dark and gritty atmosphere
and now we have inq"ass"tion were everything is shiny
for reals tho what is sad about DAI is that it has a fan base some even didnt play origins or hated it because of graphics
Yeah man inquisition is pretty boring and underwhelming at times
I loved Inquisition, but it definitely doesn't feel like the same series as Origins.
@@voidofastora6032 it's not just inquisition. Every new games have lost the qualities that made the classics so much epic. But talking about the artstyle and presentation of this short movie, the editor did good in shading on the environments. Even the game wasn't that darkly shaded as much as this. The dark shading actually reflects the atmosphere of the movie.
Well said, TheALine. I hope they go back to this for Dragon Age Dreadwolf.
All these years later and I still love when Kristoff roasts that dwarf. "DO YOU NOT SEE THIS CREST!!???"
Even if it falls a bit short because the crest isn't a proper griffon, yes, I do agree with this.
"He's passed on"
*Still making sounds*
"There's nothing I can do."
*then he takes his last breathe*
Totally seems like something Morgan would say if Alistair was critically injured
yep
Morrigan*
I believe it
That's one way to get back at someone
A body can be dead and still make sounds.
I love how this Machinima bridges the gap before Akakening, and gives a story and personality to Justice that I wouldn't have had otherwise. I really feel sympathy for Kristoff now that I didn't have just from playing the game.
Meant as a prequel to Awakening, this is the backgroud story of Kristoff, the warden whose body Justice inhabited. It was one of the better Bioware DA projects. Unfortunately, it was aborted after 5 episodes and became another of a growing list of Dragon Age projects that were never finished such as Dragon Age Journeys and Dragon Age Legends. Too bad really as it is much better than some that were finished.
Legends was great fun, way better than DA2/3, I still miss that one.
Even though it made me friend randoms on social media, the communities I joined (to backpack me) were all really friendly. Just wasn't the same when they killed the servers and made it single player unfortunately, the NPCs weren't varied/interesting enough to replace other player avatars.
It wasn't aborted. We only see the tragic end and aftermath of the story by playing through the Awakening expansion pack.
I really love this, wish Kristoff actually looked like this in Awakening!!
technically he did b4 he died
You can actually get him in this form in the Dragon Age: Redesigned mod at the Dragon Age Origins section of nexus. Note: you don't have to use the entire mod. Just make sure you install Dracomies True Textures mod and then look for the "justice" mor in the Awakening Redesigned files.
Dude...your healer sucks. Wynne has revival to raise the dead.
Yea but you saw how the warden stopped him from saving someone at the beginning let's call this payback
If you want to be nit picky about it they aren’t actually dead when they go down in combat, they’re unconscious, otherwise they wouldn’t miraculously stand up after the fighting is over without healing. Lore wise I don’t believe healing can return a departed spirit to its body
@@DeSanto127
Leliana as example is a spirit in inquisition.
“I awoke later in agony. The ashes were gone. I can’t explain how I survived"
The ashes is able to save someone at death's door. Questions still remain if not demons are able to possess the body by the resurrection. At an alternative future Leliana fought like a demon. Her past as an assassin makes her no angel and she was sent back from hell
...I think he would have been able to. It's just that he's implied to be taking shade on 2:12 in a grossly petty manner.
I would totally pay to see a full length movie like this
***** that y it sucked
Yes please. Kristoff is such a badass
Me too
21:10 Looks like Kristoff used renegade interrupt.
For real
@@theyincorporated5711 hahahh
Or Intimidate, for that matter.
Very, Very Good. The voice acting was so good in fact, that I wished that the DAO game engine wasn't so wooden, so all of the emotions portrayed could be properly animated.
He fucking ran, with FULL GEAR
Being a bounty hunter before his three-year Grey Warden can make one quite limber against such heaviness.
Kristoff looks awkwardly close to how my Warden looked.
Why on earth does this not have a conclusion. It needs it. It needs it so much. This may be the best machinima I have ever seen in my life. I have no conception of how they did this. Make the rest, please.
FANTASTIC! truly embodies the dark and gritty beast that is DA:Origins, The best game i have ever played, and Skyrim might be a close second but this has to take the cake, the brusque nature of the characters is extremely relative, and as such viewers may feel immersed, as they may be able to compare the hero's actions to their own.
In this, you encapsulate the true breed of game that this is.
To Dragon Age: Origins! the first and last true dark fantasy epic!
R.I.P Dragon age saga - DA 2.
Who's watching this in 2020???
2021
@@RexOlafusVidulusMagnus 2022!! I want Dragon Age to go back to this level of moody gritty dark fantasy. Wow, this was great!
2022 ) I miss that original world of dragon age
@@coraline3767 Me too!
Me on February 2024!
Kristoff's a Badass!!!!!
That was really good. It was well put together. If this is fan made then he, she or they should be working for Bioware. Looking forward to inquisition.
were you disappointed? Lol
yes
"He's passed on"
*Still making gurgling sounds*
"There's nothing I can do."
*THEN makes his death rattle*
This story looks so much more alive then even this Dragon age Inquisition. It makes me so sad that Im never going to see the game with this stile again. Good job Machinima!
Wowwwww! 9 years ago? How come haven't I seen this before? I absolutely love dragon age lore!
Thanks for sharing!
WHAT?! WHY?! WHY WOULD THEY STOP MAKING SOMETHING AS AMAZING AS THIS?!
21:13
Warden uses Intimidate
It was very effective
This...is Justice in Awakening?
Justice took his body, yep.
Cool
+A3 you u rtelling dare r to Kritoffs then
Coming back to this in 2024 after all these years 🤧damn, I love the style of this Dragon Age era so much.
Kristoff is wearing armor and carrying a large, heavy sword, and he still caught up to that guy. I guess Morrigan was right about the Wardens' endurance being legendary.
Holy Christ. This was unbelievable and probably better than anything else in the Dragon Age series. And that’s saying A LOT.
Kudos to you for uploading them all as one video without as much of machinima's annotations and every other cumshot no one wants to see on their vids.
Amazing! I'm so sad they didn't continue the darker route in the games.
Just imagine the Warden protagonist in Origin had such an impressive voice actor like Kristoff. Would have made the game even better.
or if they'd let gideon emery do it seriously they already had him for several characters inclding mystical voice
Hell Ya!!!
No because then there would be less dialogue options
Tell me why this shit has better visuals and better cinematic directing (and directing in general) than the Dragon Age games proper??? This person needs to be hired.
***** Oh lord. I was trying to forget that movie.
It's because in a game you have hundreds of cinematics you have to direct and a hard time limit. Wheras this series was produced by a separate company and they were using premade assets to make it with. They just had to make cinematics and not a game ontop of it.
This is incredible. I honestly can't believe a movie of this quality is free! Great job!
This was a FANTASTIC bridge into DA: Awakening. Kristoff is such a compelling character - well done!!!
The sound department deserves more praise from fans!
How the hell have I never before seen this?! I feel like I just experienced dragon age for the first time again. Awesome.
Holy fuck is this amazing! I dunno if its considered Machinima or not but it is the best one I've seen in a while. The writing is amazing, the voice acting is top notch (Even if Yuri Lowenthal is roughly 80% of the voices) The animation is perfect, makes me wish the models actually moved and performed like this in the actual game. The storyline grabbed my attention instantly and I have to say, I love Kristoff, even if he dies early in Awakening. 10/10 would watch forever! Not throwing shade at Bioware or anything, but they seriously need to do more this like this, or hire the folks who made this happen. Seriously, if DA2 had something like this, it would've been amazing. Also, I see a lot of folks complaining about how Bioware ruined DA2, but its not really that bad, nor was it Bioware, if what I heard is correct then it is actually the shareholders and people at EA who ruined it by giving Bioware a shitty deadline and forcing them to cut DA2 short, while removing some truly awesome things. (Disregard this if you want, I'm no even sure if all this is accurate.)
+Jay EDJ You are correct. It was not Bioware that fucked up DA2, it was EA who forced them to release FAR earlier than the developers at Bioware would have liked. The game wasn't even totally finished and from what I have heard I've not played it yet but I will) it is painfully obvious in some places that it was rushed. Bioware was not given the time to fully polish the game because Electronic Arts wanted to hurry up and c ash in on the game.
EA has done the same thing over and over with the MMORPG Star Wars: The Old Republic, that they financed and Bioware developed.
This was very well done, it’s a shame more weren’t made
21:20
Noe THATS an Intimidation attempt!
Must've maxed out his coercion skill...
Wouldn't Kristoff have sensed the presence of the Darkspawn at the end of Part 1?
+Hessian I guess he's a discount Blackwall.
I was thinking the same thing
I find it after, what, 14 years? And it's a very impressive animation, damn!
Better than the high budget "shows" of today's time.
this is excellent, I love it.Stayed true to Origins and adds verisimilitude to the world. One thing, Kristoff was a sword (actually a mace) and shield warrior and not a two handed warrior.
Justice and Kristoff aren't the same person. What Kristoff chose to fight with while alive doesn't mean Justice would choose to do the same. It makes sense for a spirit of Justice to follow the archtypical sword and shield way of battle.
Margi Fisher be that as it may when you recruit Kristoff/Justice he is set up as a mace/shield warrior.
as per Dragon Age wiki
"In Warden's Fall, Kristoff is a short-haired warrior wielding a two-handed weapon. In Awakening, he is a bald man with a mace and shield. In the webseries he also sports a big scar on his left eye extending across his cheek, which is missing in Awakening."
dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Kristoff
Orion The elf was Tamlen from the elven back story wich botherd me because he Is dead. so they didn't pay good attention to the lore
I just watched it again and while that was indeed 'Tamlen's' likeness (the designers obviously used the Tamlen's template for this) Kristoff says either 'Ren' or 'Fren' at 4.11 (couldn't make it out clearly even playing it back several times) when the Hurlock Alpha kills him. So I am assuming it was actually another elf that happened to look like Tamlen, because as you said Tamlen does indeed die, or rather get's blight sickness and eventually turns to a ghoul and then gets killed by the party later in the story.
dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Tamlen
I wish the new game would go back to this artistic look, or filter, or gritty ambience. Not sure what to call it, but basically back to being (and looking like) Dark Fantasy. Not the High-looking fantasy it became eventually with DA Inquisition. What is it about the assets in DA Origins that make it look so "moody"? And bravo to all who made this film. I love it, watching it again after 3 years.
That went by quickly, but I found it enjoyable! Good voice-acting and well-edited!
Incredible. Jaw-dropping. I was immediately hooked with the acting, the story, the animation, the sound and music--all of it! I cannot believe the talents that went into this. Yuri Lowenthal? Holy cats! Seriously, kudos. Not enough good things to say without me sounding completely fangirl. Thank you SO MUCH for sharing!
Man. This is sickly awesome. A movie like that would be a hit.
This is good! Why am I only seeing this just now? Why didn't they make more of this?
This is amazing love origins best of the series
This ten times better than the Dawn of the Seeker!
I just watched Dawn of seeker. It felt pretty generic to me
"I said no." Always love that part
my god its the best machinima of DA i've ever seen
gotta love that this is so much better than the cutscenes Bioware makes...
omg why have I never seen this before?? It's freaking awesome! I wish the same quality was used in DA:2 *sigh*
whoever thought of the cinematography in this video should be hired by bioware HAHA way better than those I've seen in the game.
As an information, France had also a strong grip on the English crown after William the Conqueror's victory (espacially the Battle of Hastings). William was the Duke of Normandy and he then sat on the English throne, which made the Kingdom of England a vassal to the Kingdom of France.
I must say that Machinima did one hell of a job with this stroyline.
This is a production by Machinima. It is not part of the game. Its just an awesome project done by some amazing people. You know how people always make their own little movies or clips with video games usually with first person shooters? Red Vs. Blue was one of the more popular ones. But companies with resources like Machinima could really pull together a little movie like this one with just about any game out there.
Machimina deleted this from their channel. Please don't delete this.
28:04 "Keep moving" I will make a remix of that :D
This is incredibly well made omg
Kristoff looks cool with the scar across his eye and nose, I'm still considering the design for my Grey Warden I'm thinking of having a scar and tattoo
........Where the hell is the rest of this? It's 2016 and I NEED TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS NEXT!!
Play awakening
muselessmusician He dies
O.o - he's on the trail of the Mother, I'd say he's doing what a Grey Warden should do.
Oh I love this. Brings all the nostalgia after finishing DAO. I miss it!
Still godlike to this day, had to come back and reminisce.
To say that I'm "impressed" would be an understatement.
2:25 that's cold blooded warden commander! *Kick to the back* 5:09 i think the mage was just mad because the elf just walked by him and didn't even bother to try and help him up lol
Yeah, I think it's obvious that this the best thing that Machinima has ever produced.
1:46 ANDERS!??
Nop.
This is PHENOMENAL. 10/10
How badass looks kristoff! But also looks a fine man, I still can' t believe he dies at the hands of the First in Awakening.
The fact Yuri Lowenthal lent his voice to characters in a Dragon Age fan film is awesome.
The camera angles are really good
When I played in Awakening and find dead body of Kristof I'd never thought he was so cool and badass person :D
Yeah he didnt looks like this at all in Awakening, he didn't have hairs and scar on the face((
Kind of like the dwarf stomping loudly down the hall despite his feet never touching the hallways...
21:14 Such a fucking badass, I'm loving this
I get that DA2 is a bad game compared to its predecessor. And I don't really like it myself, but why all the hate on the story? the story, while may have needed some work, isn't really that bad. In fact, most of the plot points in DAI came from DA2.
Anders' change seems realistic to me, even though I admit, it ruined Anders' character from Awakening. But a necessary ruin... Justice is very easily warped into Vengeance. And with the tension going on between Templars and Mages, you just know that both sides are going to crack sooner or later, which in DA2, Anders and Meredith did go overboard.
But that's the story, which I think is pretty fine. The gameplay was fine, but less fun than DAO. It's just the amount of recycling that pisses me off...
Taka Baruna i honestly thought dragon age 2 was better than origins but i'm probably in the minority
Shoeless Scoundrel Dragon age 2 looked great.. But the you didn't had as much exploring as in Origins and tactical wise origins is a great game especially on higher difficulties..
I personally am not a very big gamer.. I enjoyed both games very much and especially inquisition.
I am wondering what our next story would take place..
Taka Baruna well, what you said is right, the problem is that all the good stuff is in the last 2 hours of the game, before that is tedious chores, rehased maps and lots of filler battles.... the game has half of origins lenght, but it feels like twice of how boring it is. and the worst part is that you dont have that much control of the game's plot.
Taka Baruna The repetitive environments *do* get tiresome. I mean... do all caves look the same? Every warehouse or storage? However, I like to imagine it's only like that because the entire setting of DA2 is based on Varric's storytelling, and maybe he didn't describe the caves and storages in detail.
"What? It's a cave, like any other cave, what do you want from me?"
+Sly Well that was Anders' whole point, wasn't it? A compromise wouldn't work, and trying would just be a waste of time. It's nice to be able to pick a middle ground, but in the real world that isn't always possible. A man who tries to end a war by stepping between the two factions is simply crushed between them. Frankly, I'd have been disappointed if there WAS a middle ground option, in hindsight, as it would have removed any meaningful choice, as a middle-ground option that works would invariably be the "correct" choice. That's the point here, there is no objectively "correct" choice.
I'll agree on the environments though - too many re-used environments with various passages and doors simply locked shut. But honestly, aside from the mild irritation of the constant "second and third waves of enemies" in every combat popping out of nowhere to make battles drag on, that's my only real complaint about Dragon Age 2 - otherwise, I love it.
14:12 King Leonidas was a Grey Warden too... LIKE A BOSS
I know i may have found this two years late but please continue this series its amazing!! ^^
The kick leaves a debuff on Anders that mutes him for 30 days.
Little-known fact, it's assumed that Kristoff's armor is from a mod, it's actually the Silverite Heavy Dragonscale armor.
Kristoff is such a righteous badass
Yuri Lowenthak voiced 80% of the characters here 😂.
Good series to bridge Origins to Awakening.
someone should really start doing a tv series of this masterpiece, never gets old
Awesome work.. But i dont understand why so little views, this should have at least 1 mil views becouse it is awesome
WOW!!!!!! This . Is. BRILLIANT!!!!
Just watching this while partaking on a bloody "Dave Surana the Warden-Commander" run by one Insanity or Nothing.
4:51, with Kristoff's coldness against the unnamed mage companion earlier in mind: So that's how being Hardened makes one turn from an obvious paragon to a subtle renegade.
6:45, 14:11, 14:26, 18:33, 20:54, and 21:07: Guess this other pronunciation for Amaranthine is also canon. Not unlike how Star Wars' Coruscant has different pronunciations in the Prequels (sant) and the TIE Fighter video game (scant).
13:57: In Mass Effect language, and pardon my tongue, "kiss my ass, sir".
Cyril here brings into mind Karsten Wilde in the Awakening sidequest "The Burden of Guilt", which is set in the Blackmarsh area.
18:43: Greenfell is the town Cullen was brought to after the varied events of the "Broken Circle" main quest for Origins, according to mages in the Witch Hunt coda campaign.
21:17: Doesn't work if the crest isn't a griffon, the proper Grey Warden standard.
25:00: One may remember this as the very same Smuggler's Cove from the Awakening sidequest "Law and Order".
25:34: However, the secret passage for it should have led to Kristoff's inn of all places. Anyways, the Chantry of Our Lady Redeemer having access to that illicit place brings forth a lot of questions.
And to make things weirder, that part of the Chantry is where the Fade spirit/possible Awakening companion Justice, who possessed the body of the late Kristoff, last meets and probably gave avenging regards to the man's grieving wife Aura in the character's personal quest "Justice for Kristoff".
Interesting that all this begins with an elf messenger (Rhyn the elf Rogue/sacrificial Grey Warden) and ends with an implied elf messenger (a child most likely to be sent by the Mother and her intelligent Darkspawn subordinate The First, with a false promise of freedom for their family if they succeed in luring poor Kristoff to his doom).
[Voice actors at 28:41. Yes, one can easily recognize Yuri Lowenthal if they use their ears right.]
(Ah, I miss the days when the lore only consisted of the prequel novels The Stolen Throne and The Calling, that Penny Arcade webcomic featuring Morrigan and Flemeth, the video game Origins and its DLCs, *this very webseries,* and the Awakening expansion pack.)
as he runs through the crowd with his sword drawn all i could think was *slice slice slice slice slice slice slice* xD
brilliant connecting story between Origins and Awakening. The story and storytelling is better than DA2 made by professionals.
You did a good job man perhaps EA should hire you to help them with Dragon age.
Never have I found myself so engrossed in a film!
I hope you do the next part of kristoffs journey soon I wanna see wen he meets our warden he’s a bad ass I love it
4:10 - 4:25 That was..AWESOME
Strictly speaking, if people wanted to be picky, in Origins, Fereldens are based on England, but all of the wardens in Ferelden after the death of the archdemon (Alistair and The Warden being obvious exceptions, if they lived) were from Orlais, so all of them should have the pseudo-French accent used for Orlesians (or a mixture of if they were previously from Ferelden, as Riordan was). All elves had a Us-based accent.
Not a critcism, of course. I love the machinma.
i just finished origins, awakening and da2. i couldn't believe my eyes watching this, it was so damn good. wow
this seams like a good idea. the creator has no idea what a gray warden is, so they fail at that, and the camera shakes like a bourne movie
I wish this was released as a bonus Blu Ray disc for every one who bought Dragon Age 2.
Great job on the video! It kept my attention and my interest in Kristoff and his story,.
Wow, DA:O was wonderful, but if only the cities could have been as alive and populated as they are in this series.
Only if machinima was still around to freaking complete this magnificent series
The dreams...😔