#Dragon Age: Dreadwolf

[felassan]

YouTube video compilations of some of the Dragon Age: The Veilguard companion banter combinations (spoiler warning for links):

Davrin and Lucanis

Davrin and Neve

Davrin and Bellara

Davrin and Emmrich

Davrin and Harding

Harding and Lucanis

Harding and Emmrich

Harding and Neve

Bellara and Taash

Bellara and Lucanis

Neve and Taash

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[hetrosjistin]

I'll be honest, this is part of the overwhelming amount of evidence that has me convinced that

the game is made almost entirely from assets and materials intended for Dreadwolf and whatever DA4 was going to be (remember the advertisement that looked like it belonged in fortnight and was very obviously from when EA was forcing them to make it a live service game like anthem?)

That EA went into this looking to kill the franchise. Please remember, EA, not Bioware, controls all of the functions of press and media for the game, they always have and always will. There's a reason why everyone went into Brutal Legend expecting Heavy Metal Zelda despite the fact that in every interview Tim Schafer was screaming "IT'S ACTUALLY AN RTS!!! A REAL TIME STRATEGY! NOT AN ADVENTURE GAAAAME!", because he was the only person at Double Fine that EA couldn't turn the screws on.

Now, as to gaslighty media... let's be honest here.

Hero-Shooters have -primed- us for this shit. Give cool backstories then almost no actual game content for it.

If looked at through the context of 'all of this preceding media was made for a hero-shooter style live service game' it makes SIGNIFICANTLY more sense and then becomes recycled.

Why is it so lack luster in execution?

Because Bioware wasn't given the time to actually EXECUTE after the finally convinced EA that making a live service multiplayer focused dragon age game was a BAD IDEA.

I highly recommend looking up the art book. I think it was the dev's legitimate attempt to get out the story they WANTED to tell.

About that Dragon Age: The Veilguard audio web series

Thinking back about the marketing for DATV I now realize it was kind of deceptive.

No, it was not literal fraud. They did not make specific promises and then broke them, not explicitely and in a way you could hold them liable in court over. And I get when you are advertising your product you will of course highlight its most favorable aspects while not shoving its negative sides into everyone's noses.

However I do think that EA/Bioware did stretch out the boundaries between regular endorsement and fraud.

It started with the web series Vows and Vengeance they uploaded weekly on Youtube right before release. At that time I was still hopeful and excited for the game. And Vows and Vengeance all but encouraged that excitement.

You know why? Because, and this surprised me, it was genuinely good.

Vows and Vengeance functioned as an early introduction to the companions. While they were not the main characters they did play a key role in each episode. The plot was what could be typically expected from a regular DA installment. It had a dark, gripping story. The dialogue was well written. It dealt with mature themes, it actually discussed the classism of Tevinter.

Lucanis was a proper crow who killed a good man because he was hired to do so. He was positively morally grey. Davrin had actually strong opinions when the main character dropped the Dread Wolf's name. Bellara was interesting in that it became clear how she struggled with her ADHD without using infantile language, Scout Harding acted smart, mature and competent, Taash was a morally grey bad ass, fitting for a freelance treasure hunter and with smart and witty dialogue to go with it.

It was amazing, I found myself excited every week for a new episode. It got me interested in the companions. I already contemplated to romance Taash because they were so cool and charismatic in that series. I thought, if a FREE webseries that was made for advertisement was already this great then the game had to be nothing short of phenomenal.

And then it just...wasn't. There was nothing of the depth that came through in the web series. It was as if I was presented with a sample of a multilayered chocolate cake but got a dry brownie after I actually paid the full price for it.

The sheer audacity behind this course of action is still so inconcievable to me, I sometimes still wonder why they put effort into writing the free thing and not the product they demand payment for. I still don't get it. The only explanation is they purposefully put out a misleading sample to lure in the customers in the beginning to spend money, right?

This fraud adjacent behavior does not stop there.

Remember when we thought we would be importing our worldstates from our previous games? There wasn't even a question about it in the beginning because this is such an intrinsic Bioware feature. But then the info about the three choices in the character creator leaked.

Leaked!

Meaning they never intended for this information to be known pre-release. They fully intended to keep it secret until it would be too late. They also never said they wanted a soft reboot.

This is the conclusion the fandom has drawn after they destroyed their own lore and went scorched earth on the entire south of Thedas.

And the biggesr lie was when they said this was their best work. After all this!

This is the reason why DATV's shortcomings are so devastating. This is why so many feel like the game was a slap to their faces. EA/Bioware gaslit and manipulated us from the very beginning. We have been cheated and betrayed.

The last bit of trust I and many others had in Bioware, they mercilessly crushed.

I personally will never take even one thing they say at face value again. You can only trust their actions from now on.

[npunarts]

Elf girls 🥹🌿🌸

[selkiesoup]

personally I'd never leave my house again if my perfected 10-years-in-the-making plan was foiled by a bunch of level 1s pushing one (1) log over

[vanilavellan]

“What is the old dalish curse? May the Dread Wolf take you?”

[pinkiemme]

Dreadwolf

[reynisxxsimart]

Ghilan'nain fanart 💀

[thatzombiecat]

·· When the Dread Wolf rises, the Veilguard keeps its watch ··

hooo boy the dragon is finally aging

[gangstagandalf]

Your move, Rook. See you in Minrathos.

[irabelas]

Dragon Age: Inquisition (2014) // Dragon Age: The Veilguard (2024)

[felassan]

Ghil Dirthalen: "We found the missing letters, so hey! Who wants an Dragon Age Elven font! As a side note, in game they seems to use a symbol as a space, and we have not found punctuation. So for this font, the 'space' symbol is a '.' [link] Another note- the symbol for K is the same as Q. This is not a mistake on our end, it just... is that, haha." [source, two]

[burningblake]

#a summary of that meeting

(insp.)

[lavanatwt]

yaaaay, it's done, still in the hole with no intention of getting out soon.

[ayamikasai]

Come back to me, Vhenan

Love the angst in this one 😭✨

Commission for @zevswarden done ✔️✨

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[honeyed-pines]

I just know they are either best friends and have known each other for thirty years, or they’re meeting for the first time and immediately hate each other

my favorite cunty old necromancers 💚✨

(kind of a rough sketch but I was so excited I had to get something out)

[mydragonageobsession]

The one thing Solas did not account for in his 10 years of planning is Varric’s ability to attract friends with the most divinely comedic timing possible…and who have the dumbest plans that somehow actually work