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The Atelier by Jimmy Choo

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Anderfels in the lore: an arid steppe nearly devoid of life. This is not arable land due to having weathered multiple Blights. The only livable areas are coasts and the banksmof the Lattenfluss. The dust storms are frequent and brutal, and summers scorch what ever humidity is present. There's a giant statue of Andraste in the Anderfels, so giant it makes the Minrathous spires look merely ok.

Roaring and roiling dust storms on the horizon. Endless plains that put the fear of the unfathomable in anybody who didn't grow up there. Nothing beautiful grows there, only the dullest, hardiest grasses.

And where do we go? Swamp. At night. Filled with pretty, blue flowers and gators. And high rock formations so most of the time as the game guides you to the map, you're staring at rocks anyway.

I get that 'rocks make it more interesting visually' but listen. You have no fucking idea how much time i spent dicking around in the Steppe in both Pathologic games just so I could take in the existential dread of isolation, just the gently rolling steppe disappearing into the mist. The liminal space of it all. Friendly and incredibly hostile at the same time, inviting and subtly terrifying. Meant only for people who were adapted to it, and yet calling you to join it... in the most fucked up 'come die here and let me grow healing herbs from your corpse' kind of way.

Now add a looming dust storm to that if you think you're unable to blow the player's mind with the promise of the dread and dead endless.

Swamps. Really.

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Why does so much of this game happen off screen? And I am not talking about the blighting the South. I am talking about why do my companions learn everything about their personal adversaries from off screen conversations? Why does Rook travel all the way to the Cantori Diamond to help with Caterina's funeral only for getting a drink with Teia and Lucanis to fade to black? We literally come across letters from Aelia, and journal entries talking about Aelia and Zara in Gaspin manor and you want me to believe that neither Neve nor Lucanis had anything to say about that? Nothing that sprung to mind as worth looking into as far as supply lines or messengers? Why do we have to fight ten rounds at the Hall of Valor instead of investigating how the the Antaam are blighting dragons and disrupting that process?

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Why does so much of this game happen off screen? And I am not talking about the blighting the South. I am talking about why do my companions learn everything about their personal adversaries from off screen conversations? Why does Rook travel all the way to the Cantori Diamond to help with Caterina's funeral only for getting a drink with Teia and Lucanis to fade to black? We literally come across letters from Aelia, and journal entries talking about Aelia and Zara in Gaspin manor and you want me to believe that neither Neve nor Lucanis had anything to say about that? Nothing that sprung to mind as worth looking into as far as supply lines or messengers? Why do we have to fight ten rounds at the Hall of Valor instead of investigating how the the Antaam are blighting dragons and disrupting that process?

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ok ok it's obvious that bw fucked up a lot by showing no differences between southern chantry and imperium chantry (cuz they were basically just reusing DAI's 3d models)

but i'll take a step ahead and say that for the entirety of my 70 hours pt i haven't heard Hessarian' s name mentioned even once. In Tevinter. Archon Hessarian.

you know the guy who beheaded Andraste as a mercy

who made Andrastianism the religion of Imperium 

then, when challenged by Altus magisters, began a period of "Transfiguration" of Tevinter, by using non-mage Soporati's support

and then created first Circles of Magi out of the temples of the Old God

who publicly revealed Maferath's betrayal

the first one to convert to the Chant of Light

not a single word in a game :)

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The real crime committed by veilguard is that it fumbled northern thedas so bad it made me miss orlais. ORLAIS.

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every day I wake up and think about the frankly mind boggling choice to completely ignore the tranquility cure plotline in Veilguard

tranquility, that thing that left hundreds of innoncent mages in a state that makes death a preferable outcome?

tranquility, the thing that Solas had basically done to the Titans & that created the Blight, the primary source of all the problems in Veilguard?

so we now know that a process like that can be reversed but we're just not going to talk about that??

okay. okay. right

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guess who genuinely cried when they realized that their special interest (dragon age) wasn't treated as well as it should've been? me!

10 years of my life reading so much lore, digging into the stories, being so excited for what comes next. and what came next wasn't what i thought. it feels so disconnected. its so surface level, like they didnt want to offend anyone by doing deep topics like before. so many pieces of lore pushed aside or basically retconned. a lot of the plot felt like the writers took fan theories and made them canon. and not in the way that the theories were always meant to be the endgame, but in an inauthentic way. so much potential and very little of it ended up in the game.

i think the game is fine, fun even, and it is so beautiful. its so much fun to finally fully see arlathan and to walk around the anderfels. but at the same time it just hurts to think about it. like i can't even really talk about it. the bittersweet feelings i have. call me overdramatic or whatever. i'm just mourning what could have been.

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*things such as video game systems are not included in this poll

**your own, not a family/shared computer

reblog for reach/bigger sample size!!

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What’s wild to me about the Siege on Weisshaupt is that it’s an obviously a rip off of the siege of adamant but even when directly reusing the scene they still couldn’t make it as complex.

They’re both sieges on warden strongholds through a base enemy infestation as you dodge dragon attacks. Halfway through both you try to convince the warden in charge to work with you. Then you continue through the actively falling stronghold to go fight a dragon. If I remember right, they even have team members talking briefly as you pass them. They just decided that scene worked and decided to do it again.

But even when using the same scene they didn’t do as good a job. They made the scene where you try to convince the warden in charge simpler, faster, and fail proof. They made it so every dragon attack during the siege section cannot hurt you. Instead of having a surprise end that leads to a significantly more complicated space, running to the dragon fight leads to a dragon fight where the only surprise is an unusual dragon.

It really highlights how much they simplified the game.

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Hey how come the truck automatically locks when it explodes and bursts into flames

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theyre not even microtransactions anymore its just straight up full size purchases. like anything over a dollar thats a whole purchase. stop letting them get away with calling them micro. theres nothing micro about 20 dollars

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talons

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It is the middle of the night and I cannot sleep and am once again thinking about what Veilguard could have been.

Do you ever think about the fact that there's not a single abomination in the whole game? Doesn't happen. Not even to Venatori. No, Lucanis does not count. He genuinely is not actually an abomination. It's just that most of the cultures of Thedas don't have any other term for spirit possession. I just think it's interesting that in the game where your whole and unquestioned job is to keep the Veil up, there's not a single example of this well established tragic consequence of the Veil.

Not a single living ancient elf. Solas had agents. There were unequivocally still ancient elves around. We see none. No one who could attest to what the world once was. No one who might dare agree with Solas. And what of the spirits who were waiting to help? Not a one in Solas's own crossroads? None. The spirits there are silent. They have no voice.

Is there a single mention of uthenera? I don't remember one. The unknown number of elves who might still live, cut off from their bodies. Don't worry about it! Don't you worry.

We roam the halls of Arlathan itself. Not a single veilfire rune with visions of a time before death, when magic was as easy as breathing. Not a glimpse into the world that existed before the Veil. Not a moment of wonder over what once was.

It's been scrubbed.

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Cheese from all the times he was about to say fuck it and go propose to Lavellan in true Ferelden style

there are some really cool details just looking around at the environments in veilguard

for example the music room in the lighthouse has:

an inquisition book on the piano bench!

the broken orb from the end of inquisition!

and... cheese?

why is there. so much cheese in the music room? solas?? hello???

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can you imagine if we ended up with the veil torn down and mythal vs evanuris showdown and hawke back from the fade and an elven uprising and the architect's army of sentient darkspawn and and and

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i’ll say a lot of shit about Veilguard but none of it is about Johanna Hezenkoss. she’s an evil old bitch who traded her ethics with thematics and cartoon-level planning. she holds a party for The Top Most Murderable People, located at a Murder Manor she’s been squatting in, and you’ll never guess how many Murderable People don’t predict what she has planned there. she shoots finger guns in a setting where there is a non-zero chance she’s never seen a gun. she tells a former dear friend that he’s a pussy for not killing himself. she’s everything and more.