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    Dragon Age: Origins

    Game » consists of 20 releases. Released Nov 03, 2009

    Dragon Age: Origins is an epic fantasy role-playing game featuring a rich story, personality-driven characters, and tactical, bloody combat. It is considered a spiritual successor to the Baldur's Gate series.

    Is anyone else weirded out by Leliana's singing?

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    #1  Edited By AndrewB

    There's a point in the game where you talk to Leliana and after a few lines of dialogue, she bursts into a song. Now, the song itself is beautiful, but there's two things that made the whole thing kind of disturbing rather than touching (as I'm sure it's supposed to be). 
     
    For one, where are those instrumentals coming from? Since nobody has an instrument, I can only imagine that, from the character's perspective, all you're hearing is her singing, and that would be totally weird without the music behind it. Secondly, both the lip syncing and the overall awkward way she moves around while doing it makes it seem unnatural. I'd chalk that up to an engine limitation, but I've also seen incredibly natural, flowing movement in other games, and even some of Dragon Age's cutscenes. 
     

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    #2  Edited By natetodamax

    That's strange because I saw that today while playing. At first I thought it was extremely awkward, but I really liked the song. What's even stranger is that after she's done singing, the conversation is automatically over and you don't get any approval/disapproval points from it. Just random.

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    #3  Edited By eroticfishcake

    Oh yes. It just  looked awkward to me so I didn't enjoy it a whole lot. Maybe because it sort of came out of nowhere so I stared at the screen and thought "Wh-what the? What?!".

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    #4  Edited By AndrewB
    @natetodamax said: I actually started this thread because your post about Dragon age reminded me of this scene.
     
    @eroticfishcake: Those were my exact words, too. It looks like she's screaming, and the way she rolls her eyes looks like a cross between an orgasm and dying. I don't want to diss Bioware, because I don't think I remember an in-engine rendered scene of someone singing ever looking natural, but still...
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    #5  Edited By vexx919

    yeah, they could have taken it out and no one would complain

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    #6  Edited By Duckchow

    Yes lol. When it started I was wondering if it was really happening.

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    It was hilarious to me, because I'd stripped Alistair to give his armour to someone else, and he was standing around in his underwear.

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    #8  Edited By sopranosfan

    She just pissed me off because I couldn't get her in the sack...........oh yeah and she never sang to me either.

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    #9  Edited By Claude

    I must be a loser. I almost cried when she sang this. She tells great stories. I hope there's another song, but I doubt it.

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    #10  Edited By Yummylee

    Despite the weird animations, I really enjoyed that song
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    #11  Edited By AndrewB
    @Khann said:

    " It was hilarious to me, because I'd stripped Alistair to give his armour to someone else, and he was standing around in his underwear. "

    Almost had a spit-take moment of laughter when I read that! 
     
    @Claude:

    @Abyssfull:


     
    Yeah, I totally loved the song, and I probably would have seen it as a heart-wrenching moment if it weren't for the downright creepy animations distracting me.
     
    I remember hearing the music way back from the dev diaries for the game. Her voice is amazing.
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    #12  Edited By eroticfishcake

    The sex scenes aren't that much better as well...

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    #13  Edited By HaltIamReptar
    @AndrewB: I actually cringed because of how awkward it was.
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    #14  Edited By Yummylee
    @eroticfishcake said:
    "The sex scenes aren't that much better as well... "

    Does Leliana sing during her sex scene? O.O
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    #15  Edited By AndrewB
    @Abyssfull said:
    " @eroticfishcake said:
    "The sex scenes aren't that much better as well... "
    Does Leliana sing during her sex scene? O.O "
    OH GOD NO!
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    #16  Edited By tmthomsen

    That must be one of the most awkward cutscenes I've ever seen.

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    #17  Edited By Jugganut

    I did like Morrigan,  shook my head and went back to my burger.

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    #18  Edited By Nictel

    Does this cutscene always happen at the same point? Cause in my game she did it on the eve of the big battle and it seemed really appropriate. 
     
    And I closed my eyes, so I avoided the whole awkwardness. Seems that was a wise decision.

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    #19  Edited By Atlas

    That and the sex scenes are perfect examples of good ideas poorly executed. When it happened it just felt so forced and awkward, which is a shame because it's a good song.

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    #20  Edited By Alphawolfy
    @Atlas said:
    " That and the sex scenes are perfect examples of good ideas poorly executed. When it happened it just felt so forced and awkward, which is a shame because it's a good song. "
    Pretty much sums up my own thoughts.
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    #21  Edited By Lowbrow

    Alistair is pluckin' on a harp in the background. Just rockin' out ya know?

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    #22  Edited By MarkWahlberg

    Only barely related to the topic, but this thread made me go search the DAO soundtrack on youtube, and I found this remix which I thought was pretty sweet. Hopefully it makes up for the awkwardness of the other song. 

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    #23  Edited By Marz

    i'm not weirded out when she's naked.
     
     

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    #24  Edited By BC_

    That was one of the most unintentionally funny moments in a game I can remember.

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    #25  Edited By sexy_nipples

    It looked really awkward  
     
    I think it was because of the animations and how the voices sound nothing alike 
     
    That being said, great song 

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    #26  Edited By Dark_Jon

    It totally came out of nowhere.

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    It would've been better if it was purely a capella and not given that syrupy reverberation.
     
    But ... yeah, it'll be some years before a non-music game is able to deliver realistic looking singing animation.

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    #28  Edited By Teran
    @Atlas: how is a sex scene a good idea?
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    #29  Edited By Demyx

    it honestly looks like the music was just put in over a regular conversation or something.
    Still beautiful though.

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    #30  Edited By ArchScabby

    It was one of the worst cutscenes I've ever seen.  Doesn't matter how good the song was, it was done so horribly, and awkward I felt stupid just sitting their watching it.

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