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he would not fucking say that but it’s he would not fucking talk about his queer identity like he was reading out of a college campus lgbt center brochure

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Final Fantasy VII Rebirth | ▶ dev. Square Enix

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Bellara x Irelin coworkers to friends to lovers to exes to friends to lovers slow burn

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Solas Disapproves

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you were born to do this

happy N7 Day!

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omg I'm so sorry but "lucanis was a poor choice for the chaos of a large battle and died" is just about the funniest way to say that 😭😭😭

esp bc rook just went "who better than an assassin >:p" like it was just too much for me. I had to laugh. I am still laughing

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Have you ever liked a fictional character LESS after they went through character development framed as positive by the narrative?

Yes, because I didn't think the development was actually positive

Yes: the development was actually positive, but the creator wrote it badly

Yes: the development was well-done, but I liked them how they were

Yes, for another reason

No

Examples:

Option 1: Blorbo Bill goes through an arc where he learns to be nicer to others, but he was never mean, just assertive, and his arc involves him learning to people-please and hide his feelings.

Option 2: Blorbo Bill goes through an arc where he learns to be nicer to people, and he does genuinely become nicer, but it's rushed and unrealistic.

Option 3: Blorbo Bill goes through an arc where he learns to be nicer to people, and it's a good arc, but you're disappointed because you liked him as an asshole.

Examples:

Option 1: Blorbo Bill goes through an arc where he learns to be nicer to others, but he was never mean, just assertive, and his arc involves him learning to people-please and hide his feelings.

Option 2: Blorbo Bill goes through an arc where he learns to be nicer to people, and he does genuinely become nicer, but it's rushed and unrealistic.

Option 3: Blorbo Bill goes through an arc where he learns to be nicer to people, and it's a good arc, but you're disappointed because you liked him as an asshole.

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I'm in the blood of Arlathan quest rn and another thing that stands out to me, I'm playing as an elf and when the completely inconspicuous totally not easily identifiable by her very unique and gloriously tevinter leg prosthetic Neve is walking up to the guy guarding the bridge we'll later walk over to have the Elgar'nan in your head bridge walk bit, he literally says "is this your servant" like not even the fuckin Venatori guy, in the middle of a blood sacrifice ritual of dalish elves, will use the word slave. Of course my lady would NEVER have a slave in this here gathering of Venatori......no no, tis too ghastly a thought! She surely offers this servant a fine, fair wage

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blackwall's whole situation is hilarious to me because he's posing as the warden-constable of orlais and this is never interrogated by anyone. what the fuck do you mean the warden-constable of orlais is chilling in my adventuring party after apparently being no-contact with any other wardens for multiple years and was found living in fereldan for some reason. leliana has a file of warden-constable blackwall's speech to his soldiers (in orlais!) during the fifth blight when blackwall outright tells you he was in fereldan during the blight and then after the truth comes out cullen is like "yeah even leliana didn't know blackwall was lying because she has a blind spot when it comes to the wardens". girlfriend that is not a blind spot that is a black hole. do we not communicate did i not tell you that blackwall said he was in fereldan. what breakdown in communication had to occur to allow this ruse to continue

also if he's the warden-constable of orlais that means he's clarel's second in command and this NEVER comes up. you leave the warden contact behind in the fade and some junior warden scuttles up to you like, "but we have no one left of any significant rank!" okay well the guy claiming to be warden-constable is literally stood five feet to my left, how's that. no one's ever like "hey blackwall wanna take over command of the remaining wardens" despite the fact that his own cover story outright makes him their commander. like the way blackwall lies is hilarious but also he should NOT have feasibly been able to get away with this. claiming to be the warden-constable is a level of audacity rarely witnessed in nature. what the fuck even happened here

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bioware really said you can be nonbinary but we draw the line at multicultural

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I'd also suggest not just "the Nadas Dirthalen...the archive spirit!" but all the arc words and phrases that anchor the companions: isatunoll, turlum, shokra toh ebra... The game is relentless with this 😭

ETA bc I'm in the endgame again: "whatever it takes" 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨 also "drown the world in demons"

Please help me make a Veilguard drinking game, so far I have a drink/take a shot whenever:

Rook puts their hands on their hips, take another drink/shot for as many characters who do so in the same frame

You get told/hear 'The Nadas Dirthalen is an archive spirit'

Rook doesn’t quite make a jump or falls into water

You died :(

Varric gives one of his 'little did they know Jeff the Killer was coming to Jeff the Kill them' monologue over a beautifully drawn background

A character from one of the previous games enters stage left mid-conversation before leaving soon thereafter

Lucanis says mierda or Manfred goes HEEEEEE

Rook looses at rock paper scissors

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lucanis' starting outfit is probably my favourite of his (tho I do love the giant coats, they are so impractical silly and stunning) with the cute little pop of purple on the cloak of it with an eye, denoting spite. but like......who tailored and embroidered all that bc he didn't show up to the ossuary w a demon 😭😭😭😭😭

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Missing expectations by 50% lol. It's almost like making a fourth game in a franchise (and only direct sequel) without leveraging and relying on the franchise material that came before it leaves an audience feeling extraordinarily....meh. Why would I recommend this to someone who knows the world, and the older games, and wants that same experience of building a setting? On the other hand though, why would I recommend to someone new that they get involved in a franchise that has just decided to abandon all the previous material? Aside from the extreme disappointment they'd feel getting back to 4 after playing the others (if they even get the itch from the game itself, which could be a long shot considering it gives you no incentive for curiosity and would be relying on the strength of the setting itself, which is admittedly huge!!! and why the result we got here is so damn disappointing...), we all now know that Nothing Matters. What incentive is there to continue? What will they get next? Another excruciatingly limiting title that parades itself around as a "role playing" game while actually offering only a painfully narrow character with virtually no branching choices, and has little to no reactivity?

If I wanna watch a movie while I play my videogames, I'll play a quantic dreams title, thanks. Rug pulling an RPG is crazy lol. We can TELL when it's a lie, we're literally playing the game. Love to see a "she would not fucking say that" and it's my own player character lmao. And the rated M game is fun little jaunt where we all say "thank you for saying that," never have real interparty conflict (or really, any high stakes at all), can't express ourselves in any way other than Valid and Supportive, spend a not insignificant amount of dialogue ensuring we all know our pirates are good ethical hero folks, don't ever even get to sympathize with the villain because this is a rated M game and it very serious and not at all a Disney movie, and oh, you'll never guess this, but the rated M game is completely sexless -- we just blink at each other in three different convos before we go 😟😳🥹 I love you!!! My hero!! Like it isn't about the sex itself, it's about the willingness to be, idk, gross or uncomfortable etc (and in this case pacing lol). This game feels like it's hiding things preemptively so as to avoid causing "offense" like it's...pearl clutchy to me, in a way, or at least, trying to ensure that pearl clutcher is the most comfortable they can possibly be. And like I'm sorry but idc about them, this isn't about them, this is dragon age lol. Rated M for Misinformation smdh...

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Assan absolutely sneaks up on that bed when Davrin isn't around.

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What’s really jumping out at me on my second playthrough is that the writers of the first three games understood that your character was the main character. The Veilguard writers clearly thought that the main characters were their characters, the companions.

Every scene is about setting the companions up as cool or competent or sympathetic. Often, this is done at Rook’s expense. The companions get all the witty one-liners; Rook’s attempts at humor not only frequently fall flat, but are frequently called out for falling flat (even when they’re completely automatic and the player has no say in them).

The companions have all the knowledge and skills; Rook just brought them all together and gives them all pep talks so they can focus. I’m trying to edit out all of the comments where Rook is like “Um… what????” from my videos, and let me tell you, it takes WORK. There are A LOT of them. I can count on one hand the number of times when the Inquisitor or Hawke comes across as dumb, but it seems to be a built-in, unavoidable part of Rook’s character. I have not selected a single “purple” option in all of Act 1, and Rook is still coming across as the kid who tries to be the class clown to cover for the fact that he’s always confused. Rook’s role in most scenes is to say “Uhhh… what?” so that the companions look smart.

Rook is always the one offering sympathy and never the one getting it. No one actually comes to comfort you after Varric’s death. No one asks you how you’re feeling about having to lead the team now that Varric is gone. No one tries to reassure you or give you advice for dealing with the trickster god haunting your dreams. We’re told that Neve could keep Solas out of your head, but she never actually offers to do this for you. No one comforts a Shadow Dragon Rook when Minrathous is destroyed or a Grey Warden Rook when Weisshaupt is destroyed. Rook’s problems don’t matter. Only the problems of main characters matter.

Rook is a secondary character in their own story.