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DA2 is what happens when you have good writers and no budget for the actual game, and Veilguard appears to be what happens when you fire all the writers

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each takes what he needs

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i think my main issue with veilguard is that there’s absolutely nothing redeemable about what they did with the lore. i can’t find a thing that i like about it because it was absolutely destroyed in every direction. they went scorched earth on the entire series. i do not understand why.

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Dragon Age 2, with it's production time of only 14-16 months, is infinitely superior to DATV which had a production time of 10 years.

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Bioware writing team has a comfy, sheltered life and it shows

I'm sorry, but how come that the only people Inquisitor sent to look for Solas were Varric and Harding? How come that the only people recruited in 10 years of pursuing Solas were Neve and Rook? Do the writers understand that this is NOT how a serious effort looks like?

What about Leliana? Divine or not, she is still Sister Nightingale with an immense spywork. You'd think she won't mobilize everything she has to track Solas and his followers?

What about Josephine? What, she decided "nah, I'm done" and didn't use any of her diplomatic talents and connections to let the Inquisitor's agents have access, permissions or information they need?

What about Dorian? As a political figure, you'd think he will be the first Minrathous contact for the Inquisitor allies, the one arranging things and providing insights?

What about Cassandra and her Seekers? Isn't she interested in stopping another world-ending threat?

What about Sera and her sabotaging potential? If she organized the group of people for performing vigilante acts, people who are her eyes and ears, how come nobody from her group is helping with the effort?

I get it why Varric takes part in it - he knew Solas, the Inquisitor trusts him and his judgement, but for the game to imply that all the responsibility was lumped on Varric's shoulders is fucking disgraceful. I get it writers, Varric is popular character, and you would use him as bait to your heart's content, but the context you've created implies that Varric might have been the only one to take the threat seriously, while the Inquisitor and the rest were doing God knows what.

Varric should have been handing the Rook information on all the contacts they can recruit, all the useful agents, all the people to work with, not tell them to ask Neve because she might know someone because detective (Neve is a good character, but the fact that people who were supposed to spend 10 years chasing Solas look up to her for finding them contacts is appalling).

"Oh, but all these people were in the previous parts and we don't want to mention previous parts because muh new players" - well, you shot yourselves in the foot. Maybe, just maybe, you should have AT LEAST cared more about the choices made in DAI.

Congrats.

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AMATUS 🌸

Commission for the lovely @raviollies of her Inquisitor Daee and Dorian! Thank you so much, it was such a pleasure 💛

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Gortie just doesn’t appreciate fine art

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Some of the more reasonably critical takes on DATV's story are finally starting to come out as people finish the game, and the amount of people who are having the same reaction I had in 2016 is heartening. It should have been the Inquisitor. It always should have been the Inquisitor. It doesn't matter if Bioware has their thing where they change the characters every Dragon Age game. Look at me. Look. It is a marketing gimmick. Bioware is not good enough to innovate storytelling the way they think they are. They were never going to be able to pull this off well. The main character of the fourth Dragon Age game always should have been the Inquisitor, and by switching to a new protagonist they basically shot themselves in the foot before DATV even had a name.

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I'm realizing there are 3 types of Dragon Age fans.

1) Gamers who play latest big flashy action game

2) UwU kissy dating simulator

3) Interested in the sociopolitical and theological themes and thesis statements the series is historically known for

Veilguard is not made for fan #3. It is a very pretty game that has absolutely nothing it wants to say--to the point that what it says by saying nothing is often times pretty offensive.

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Finally got around to finishing that sketch I started exactly one year ago on October 20, 2023!! I wasn't satisfied with the first drawing so I just completely redrew it heh.

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Who doesn’t want to be smooched like it’s V-day?

This was a commission of a friend’s OC with Shadowheart.

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the inquisitor has far too much on his plate these days

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going through it (started reading jwqs)

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Shadowheart & Wilhelmina at Elfsong Tavern

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Just wanted to share this reference I think is quite cool ._.

Do with it whatever you want or nothing at all :>

Why thank u this was a delight

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Alright, it's inktober time. The prompts this years is...lacking...So I just did this one drawing that included some of the prompts. Going forward I will just do my own fan art inktober =D

Ink is such an intimidating medium for me, i get nervous just holding a pen. Digital ink is a blessing.