#I don’t need to know that taash’s big bad is gonna kidnap their mom next. why would you tell me that. | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

riftsmagic · 14 days ago

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I want to enjoy this game so bad bc I paid money for it and I’ve invested 70 hours of my life into it already. but I’ve gotten to a point where it’s SO hard not to get critical every time anything happens. im losing it

#I started off really enjoying it!! so I know I didn’t go in with a negative bias #it just happens that a lot of choices made in the game run me the wrong way and I keep noticing them #too many noticing thems is adding up to make it just feel… weird most of the time #I really enjoy the gameplay. it’s visually very pretty. I like the puzzles pretty well #combat is fun except that I’ve hit a stage where they seem to have increased difficulty by increasing the number of enemies #and not by like. creating new and interesting kinds of bosses or mechanics for the fights. and that’s frustrating #I don’t like not knowing what to do bc of chaos rather than not knowing what to do bc I need to learn new strategies or patterns #I like the characters a lot but some of the dialogue is like. clumsy #some people say things that feel stilted. or they have to reiterate what words mean every time they come up #instead of trusting the player to remember that this is a proper noun that dropped in the past #how many times do I have to hear bellara specify that the nadas dirthalen is the archive spirit… 70 hours in I think she can stop specifying #and a lot of stuff just fits together weirdly #like I got a quest from Harding to go to the lords of fortune. I get there and talk to her and we have one conversation #then she gets a headache and is like ‘i have to go to this place’ ‘it’s a trap’ ‘yep’ ‘I’ll pack my things’#(no continuation quest activates. that’s the whole thing)#also speaking of quests. I love the visual style of varric’s narrating after all the important quests #but the fact that he literally just spoils everything that’s about to happen is WILD?? dude let there be some mystery #I don’t need to know that taash’s big bad is gonna kidnap their mom next. why would you tell me that.#im losing my mind

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