#BioWare cooked

[shoyoackerman]

DRAGON AGE VEILGUARD SPOILERS

So like, like, like WHY THE FUCK DID NONE OF YOU TELL ME THAT NOT ONLY DOES FUCKING VARRIC DIE BUT SO DOES FUCKING DAVRIN AND IM GUESSING HARDING IF YOU CHOSE HER LIKE WHAT THE FUCK 😭

What the fuck man 😭 i was sobbing throughout that entire scene from the moment davrin and assan all the way to Rook escapes the prison, finding out the true memories of what happened that day she trapped Solas cause man. Man what the fuck.

I GET IT, I GET SOMEONE HAD TO DIE. BUT WHY WHY WHY WHY WHYWHY

Also idk what the fuck some of yall smoking saying the game has Fortnite graphics, that the story is shit and the companions are ass. I genuinely believe you are just piggyingback off others opinions and your either too scared to say you enjoy something or your just so fucking stupid you just agree with the majority of the crowd. Because i fucking loved everything about this game. ESPICALLY THE STORY, like holy fuck was the fucking last battle scenes were crazy asf but so much fun to watch and play.

I loved everything about this game and this will be my new hyperfixation for as long as I live.

(I also highkey wanted Rook and Solas to kiss multiple times throughout the game and i honestly think BioWare was just to pussy to add that in bc what the fuck was the chemistry going on with those two, fanfic writers i am willing and waiting please)

[nematode7]

I apologize in advance about the person I’ll become when this game comes out

[asharaks]

i think kal sharok dwarves should be weird about Food. I think for a society that has been cut off from its "parent" civilisation for generations and forced to eat each other & eat darkspawn to survive I think food and eating should take on incredible ritualistic symbolism. I think there should be a culture of cannibalism. I think food wastage should be considered sacrilege and food preparation/gathering should be a sacred duty. I also think these guys should be willing to eat anything and have insanely strong stomachs.

you worship the stone and you live in the mountain: do you live in the pit of god's stomach? are you being digested, down here in the dark? what are the darkspawn and the deep stalkers if not mouths within mouths, the digestive juices of the mountain. darkspawn blood is acid is lymph is enzymatic, it is chewing you up and turning you into something useful, and you - in your hubris and your humility, living in your "safe" underground cities, waiting for the god above and around to wake up ravenous once again-

-you won't leave, because this is your god and your home and your purpose, and to be devoured is your calling.

[strawberry-halla]

now im probably the many few people who actually agreed with the way bioware handled varric’s death and here’s why:

varric has been one of the most prominent dragon age characters since dragon age 2’s release. he’s basically the mascot (well, i think solas has stolen this role now but i digress), the character everybody loves! varric has been there since almost the beginning, over 10 years of our favorite dwarf.

this is the thing that hangs people up on his death in veilguard. why did they do it? why did it happen? what was bioware thinking? well i’m not expert but i think i have a pretty good idea.

varric has always been the friend who supports you no matter what, the one to pull you away from the heavy decisions the player makes to make you laugh or try to see the bright side. he made the player feel good and your character feel good, no matter who you’re playing as.

we saw this lovable dwarf go through so much tragedy in every media possible. he was dealt a bad hand at every corner but the good parts were the friends he made along the way. even if they did something bad in the end (anders and solas), varric still sees the person they were underneath everything.

so yes i think his choice to talk to solas, only to end up dying, was how it was going to end for him. varric cares so much about his friends and eventually, one of them was going to fuck that up. he got lucky so many times, escaping death at every turn. if varric would have went home to kirkwall as viscount for the rest of his days, i don’t think that would be a good end for him.

it’s a pretty thought to have, but it’s just NOT varric. he wanted to help the inquisition and he wanted to help save/stop solas because he knew him. they were friends. good ones. so of course it makes sense varric is the one to go after him.

now i think it would have been worse if varric was dead from the start of veilguard (well, he is but we don’t know that yet) because it definitely doesn’t ease the player into the reality of it. so making him a figment of solas’s blood magic on rook was a very clever way to ease them and us into accepting his death. i cannot think of a better way if i tried.

varric’s relationship with rook was so important. he was basically a mentor, a father figure for some. his role in veilguard is not a waste. rook as a character needed their mentor to ease them into this leadership. i think it would have been incredibly jarring to just have rook suddenly know how to lead the veilguard without having someone to talk to about their struggles. solas would have worked fine, but his role as the antagonist for most of the game would have made a really unrealistic connection.

and yes. i know varric’s memory is being manipulated by solas’s hand, but solas himself says that varric would never say anything to rook that they already didn’t know from him. varric’s guidance was still at play here, not solas. he just kept up the illusion varric was still alive to make sure rook would succeed. it’s incredibly shitty of him to goad this at rook, but he was never entirely wrong that rook had varric to help them. they did have varric, even when he wasn’t there. varric’s lessons and memory alone were enough.

and when rook and the player finally come to this realization in the regret prison, it just hits you all at once. i cried for about two hours once the scene ended. i had to pause my game, get up, and walk away. it was like losing a best friend. and i know how silly it sounds to mourn the loss of a video game character, but varric was more than that to many. to me. i just needed a bit to recover from the realization.

varric made a choice. one that got him killed. but he knew that it was the right one to make. solas regrets what he did to varric. he even says if he could, he wouldn’t have done it. it was an accident. a horrible accident that doesn’t justify what solas did. there is no glory in needless death. but this isn’t about solas.

varric in all his goodness as a person FORGAVE solas for this. he knew solas was still good. deep, deep down. that solas ‘wants to be the hero’ and would tear himself apart to make things better. i don’t know about you but it’s incredibly insane that someone forgives their murderer. especially varric! who said in inquisition: ‘nobody forgives someone for killing you!’ like it came full circle.

varric’s death was necessary for us and for solas’s story. i know it sounds incredibly silly to us that one character’s redemption is another’s downfall, but isn’t that how things work sometimes? you don’t have to like it or agree with it, but that’s just one thing i find so fascinating about dragon age’s characters and how they interact with one another throughout the series.

there’s an incredible post by @/corseque that explains the parallels between varric and solas that really ties this all together. please go read it if you haven’t!

i’m so so glad we had so many good memories of varric and his legacy will forever live on in-universe and amongst fans. now’s the time to make new ones with our new favorites, shall we? and we can still honor varric’s memory by writing stories, of course.

[possessedopossum]

What if your grief was so profound that the departed overshadowed the living? What if you longed to see your beloved daughter again to such an extent that you began to see her face in those who remain, even though they bear no resemblance to her? And what if this misplaced love of yours had doomed them?

Sorry I need to stop psychoanalyzing the evil grandma. This is getting embarassing.

[felassan]

Michael Gamble on Twitter: "To all the new DA fans who followed me today. Are you ready to talk about TURIANS? i mean i just used turians as an example yall. we can talk about any mass effect-y type thing up in here." [source, two] Michael: "im gonna let the dragon age team take all questions about the game and get back to building aliens." [source]

[dellamortte]

ohhhhhhh i am so normal about him….

[freelanceplatypus]

New Fav Character: Karash, the qunari who hangs out in a shack on the coast with nobody but his cat and does nothing but fish all day and be autistic about the weather.

[kaidanalenkosprmanager]

THE VIRMIRE SURVIVOR SURVIVORS

Spectre Ashley Williams & Spectre Kaidan Alenko "Not a lot of other people have had my back since the beginning..." Mass Effect: Legendary Edition (2021)

[merciawintersageposting]

THE CHARACTER CREATORRRRRRRR

[vigilskept]

nothing like scrolling & nodding in agreement halfway down an essay on da4 only to reach the claim that the qunari were one of the “most nuanced civilizations” in dragon age prior to veilguard

[mxkoifish]

damn i really enjoyed veilguard

[miyku]

[lesbianholyspirit]

The reason Dragon Age Origins is as good as it is isn’t just because of its dark fantasy horror vibes or any other outward element of the game. It’s becasue bioware was allowed to take their time with it. They cooked that game up for 9ish years give or take. And it is still buggy as hell and pulling videogame bullshit tricks out of its ass to make things work. The animation is janky and the graphics were out of date for when it came out. But the fleshed out world and story is what drew most fans. The origin system that affected almost every aspect of the game from dialogue choices to npc reactions. The game was meant to be played over and over again.

Dragon Age: Origins is a product of what happens when you let a team have enough time to make a satisfying product. A game made in a crunch in a few years simply cannot have the complexity of Dragon Age Origins. The origin system alone could not be done by the bioware team today because it was so time consuming.

EA cannot just keep expecting bioware to make another game like Origins if they don’t let them have enough time to actually make the game. Like please EA, let them spend a decade on something again it will be worth it I promise.

Anyways I’m still excited for veilguard and I’m still gonna have a fun time playing it and romancing the characters. 14 year old me would be eating this shit up and I’ve played worse games just because they have little gay people in them.

[pinkyjulien]

I forgot about those tiny little fucking freaks

Truly fucked

[rimbaudthursday]

the real davg experience is watching the gameplay reveal with bf n pausing every 2secs to say smash abt every character that pulls up