#love the background that really gives the feeling that they're in a castle-ish building

[lokijiro]

This is beautiful! I love this in every way.

[hellmothereva]

The Dragon Age Vibes™️ I am getting from every game are just so... fundamentally different from each other, it's amazing. I don't know shit about music, BUTT!

DA:O ist just giving of this Dark Fantasy Vibe, like you and the people in your camp are the only people left in this world. I have these strong feelings of loneliness when playing this game and the fact that Ferelden itself is just this typical medival fantasy-europe with low population density is not helping. They have their lords sitting in their freezing castles and their uncharted territory in the south, populated by clans who don't follow the crown and just... live there, I guess.

Ferelden is just this fantasy-pseudo-Britain and they love wardogs and bland stew and have bad weather and it's cold and every foreigner and their mother disses Ferelden for it's love for dogs and it's plainness. Which makes me defend this country even more! Also they defeated the evil frenchmen with an old witch being a dragon!!!1!

The plot is just this typical "you are the chosen one to save the world!" And that's ok! It fits the theme!

Also the whole entchanted feeling I am getting from the old ruins of long lost civilisations combined with the music is STRONG in this game.

Anyway MUSIC is a very good point! The music in DA:O is just... amazing. Inon Zur gave it such a specific vibe (from epic and gloomy to the nice clarinette elven-theme) and I love it.

Dragon Age 2 on the other hand... Boy. First I thought it was just similar to DA:O (same composer) BUTT!!! I was wrong! After playing DA2 again I think it might have similar tunes and style, but the vibe is different.

DA2 is more... homey(??), the scale of the world is smaler. You're not anymore a hobo living in the ferelden countryside. You're a ferelden refugee living in the Thedas-Version of You Can't Have Shit In Detroit Gomorrah. Kirkwall is an actual big city, there are actual people there and the feeling of isolation isn't as strong as is was in DA:O. The apocalyptic danger is over, the world was already saved and you are NOT the chosen one.

I love, love, LOVE that you have an actual family. You have your mum, your sibling and a ton of friends from different backgrounds who live their own lives! You are not forced to chill in the same camp every night, they actually have own goals in live! The plot develops over 7 years which always gave me the feeling that these friendships I build actually solidified over a long time.

And the music... The thing with Kirkwall is: it's not Ferelden. It's not this medival-esque city. It in fact has a forging industry. It's almost like I took a step from the 1400s to the industrial revolution during the 1800s.

And the music OH GOD, THE KIRKWALL THEME! It's sooo unsettling because I can't really place it anywhere in my brain! It's nothing I ever heard before with these string instruments (sorry, I'm bad at recognizing instruments) and I think it's supposed to be all towering and mighty and gloomy, uwu I'm a big city of the Free Marches!

But no. All this Theme makes me feel is... Kirkwall. This music is just this sleezy, dirty, dangerous, criminal-ridden fugly city and nothing else. It makes me feel kinda hopeless, like you're never gonna make it in this horrible, gloomy place but that's ok. That's Kirkwall, I'm supposed to hate this place.

And the Qunari... Omg. The theme for the Qunari/Arishok has something so foreign, fresh and NEW! The wind and string instruments in their theme give them an foreign (almost oriental-ish(??)) vibe, like they're from a far away place (they are. DUH!). And also the Kirkwall-Theme itself is NO typical pseudo-medival-europe-theme. It's something completly different, something of it's own.

I don't care how much hate DA2 got, I love it! Just the vibes are... chefskiss.

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Trever Morris also did a good job in DAI.

I LOVE THE LOST ELVE THEME AND THE THEDAS LOVE THEME! THE LOVE THEME IS BEST OF ALL LOVE-THEMES, FIGHT ME!