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#dragon age has been inclusive of queer and trans people from the very beginning#i dont understand how they had to do it in the most immersion breaking#beat you over the head condescending way possible#if i corrected someone on my pronouns and they started doing pushups about it to signal that theyre a good person I would be mortified#Also taashs mom was literally accepting and curious about their identity why did they have to yell at her like she wasnt????#like to go from oh okay in our culture you would be aqunathlok to WHY AM I NEVER GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU sounds like they skipped some dialogue#or this was a trans writers personal fantasy and they should really seek therapy about that#because the way it is done now makes us trans folks look like assholes nobody is gonna make you do pushups for using the wrong pronouns#bioware what the fuck is this#bioware critical#veilguard critical#dragon age
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Dragon Age 2, with it's production time of only 14-16 months, is infinitely superior to DATV which had a production time of 10 years.
#I'm aware the studio has had problems#But they made an absolute banger in DA2 compared to DATV#It had its problems#But it never took away from Dragon Age lore and story - it only added to it#They managed to even account for different choices from DAO!#RIP Kirkwall it's all rubble now lmao#datv spoilers#dragon age the veilguard#datv critical#dragon age#dragon age 2#bioware what the fuck#bioware critical#veilguard critical
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Bioware just announced it's canning another 50 employees, including Mary Kirby, and I'm just miserable about what that means for the state of the games and the future of the studio.
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so its like super sexy and cool for other people to have a spirit inside them but not anders
wynne is fine, lucanis is super cool with spite, but when it comes to anders and justice suddenly no hes a terrorist and a monster
bioware when i catch you its on sight
#anders#I know I mixed that metaphor but they deserve it#wait what do you call it when you mix memes#whatever when i get my hands on bioware its over#god they just cant stop fucking shit up#i want custody
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obsessed with the fact that if you choose the last purple option in lucanis' romance chat before going off to tearstone island ("they MOVED the MOON!!!" still in the running for the best delivery in the whole game btw it's so ineffably hilarious to me), it's rook who flinches away just a little bit (if still warmly <3) and tries to change the topic and lucanis who's steady even though he's clearly still so afraid. 'don't tempt fate'/'*the softest fucking voice you've ever heard in your entire life* I don't intend to'. pain and suffering
lucanis looking at rook and helplessly, with a wonder that verges on despair, saying 'what would I do without you?' is soooo. especially at that point in the relationship and with what's about to happen. and for whatever reason rook can't quite stay with the fact that they do mean that much to someone, that they are so reverently and so groundingly 'I want to know what your favourite food is so I can make it for you any time you want it' everyday loved, it's too much and they have to deflect from it or the fear of losing it. can say some very interesting things about them, too.
(there is also a Pattern in that in my estimation lucanis frequently responds better to inviting humour than to earnest shows of concern -- it seems to help him be more engaged/online to be offered that more neutral space to meet you in and uh 'build' the conversation around something funny together than to be confronted with compassion head-on because that clearly mostly deer-in-the-headlights him, as we also see with some of the early flirt options haha. contrast this especially with bellara, who repeatedly gets genuinely upset if you try to make light of some pressing and painful situation she's dealing with (girl I'm so sorry I'm so jestercore and I canot change this but I'll try :'( for you). I think the times lucanis reacts negatively to the purple options are much more about you siding with other (frequently more charismatic lol) people against him or throwing him under the bus interpersonally -- like seeming to go along with illario's charm offensives, or telling teia lucanis didn't want to come help out with caterina's funeral and he'd just sit alone and brood about it if you didn't force him (???!!! hello??? unprovoked and deeply unkind out of left field???? this option is so fucking MEAN and for what fhdaskjfa you're telling me there's no way for rook to be a bit of a dick in this game?)
when it's one on one conversation he consistently seems to find it quite comforting, though... which makes a lot of sense because in many ways it's how he interacts with illario, just shorn of the resentments and hidden daggers and things they Do Not Talk About but really should beneath the levity that makes it sharp. it's gone ugly between them, but I think the affectionate instinct beneath is real and goes back a long way before all of that festered -- it's a form of play he does with people he loves. and uh. not really caterina huh. notably.)
#don't make promises you can't keep -> promise?/I swear pipeline of course also extremely good no bad answers here fhdska#this was just what absolutely wrecked me personally with rye and lucanis. they have fun together. just by being together :')#dragon age#dragon age: the veilguard#dragon age: the veilguard spoilers#dragon age spoilers#lucanis dellamorte#rook x lucanis#rookanis#to be clear I mix up the options quite a bit according to what works in a situation but this is the Overall Trend lol#harding appreciates a purple rook too and gets what's going on under it. even calls you out a couple of times#but never without affection. it's so sweet.#also interesting bellara and merrill contrast even though they of course do share a lot of elements#merrill too seems to find purple hawke mostly comforting ('how do you always do that? make everything better with a smile?#it's like magic that doesn't get you in trouble')#and well. merrill and lucanis ARE written by the same person and also share this trait big time with varric. I might be on to something lol#...fuck I can't believe we're never getting a mary kirby bioware character again. the games industry is a fucking nightmare
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If I were a writer at a big game company working on a sequel to a beloved series and the higher ups kept telling me to make the game shittier and kept sending my work back to me to be dumbed down even further somehow, and then once most of the writing was done they laid me and my coworkers off illegally without severance, I'd probably gleefully watch as people trashed the shitty game that shipped.
#bioware critical#veilguard critical#datv critical#like I would have had a first row seat to exactly why the game sucked#and it probably sucked to have your ideas trashed assuming that's a thing that happened#and to watch DA get watered down to fucking nothing#if that is what happened#and then to get fucking FIRED after writing the complete drivel they demanded#yeah I'd be eating popcorn and watching the bad reviews come in like I TOLD you Chad the fans aren't THAT stupid#and ahah yeah that sequence sure DOES make no sense after the 'editing' job Barb did#but as someone who does not have a parasocial relationship with the writers and in fact has no desire to learn their names#I will never know how they spent this time#I don't really care#I don't know them#I have the same general wishes for wellbeing as I do any fellow humans#so I hope your popcorn was salty and buttery and hot I guess#on second thought i could also see someone being bitterly devastated that something they devoted so much of their life to came to this#but i still dont think its the fans or haters they would feel devastated by
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dragon age devs: solas would let people die but wouldn’t sacrifice someone directly, he might kill out of mercy but there are lines he would not cross
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#for fucks sake I’m so frustrated by this ama/their responses lately#learn your own lore perhaps#dragon age#dav spoilers#dav critical#BioWare critical#he straight up murders the SHIT out of felassan what are you TALKING ABOUT
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"Whoever wrote this shit fucking hates Origins or has never played it and no fukkin clue what the hell the Grey Wardens even are. But it is really no coincidence, the Grey Wardens have been treated like shit in every single game (x)"
Couldn't have said it better.
But also wooah, I thought I have seen all of New Bioware's disdain for all that came before them™ by now, but this here, going complete scorched earth, is yet another level of spite for the old games and the people who worked on them (and left/were fired without severance pay since then) that even I would have not expected. Way to spit in the faces of longtime fans, "bioware" Good job!!! 🤢🤢🤢
Fuck this game, srlsy.
#needless to say nothing of this makes any goddamn sense but what else is new lmao#story coherence and logic? We don't know her :))))#tho you gotta admire their commitment to treat the wardens like utter shit in every game :)))#but holy shit this is an unmatched level of petty and spite even for them#veilguard spoilers#datv spoilers#bioware critical#like whoa#fuck them srsly#veilguard critical#dragon age critical#not really more like#datv critical#I waited ten years to be insulted like this? Hahahahaha... no I refuse#veilguard really is the worst fever dream and i want off this ride
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you hate solas x mythal because you think solas shouldn't have had any previous relationships in thousands of years of his life
i hate solas x mythal because it's yet another exhausting love triangle where the slaver and abuser gets a funky reincarnation and the victim gets blamed for absolutely everything and put into magical prison forever..........
we are not the same
#and it's not even 100% clear what they even WERE#the further we go the less and less i respect week's “~it's up to your interpretations~”#solas#mythal#solavellan#dragon age#dav#grow a fucking spine dude#you WILL inevitably piss off at least one part of the fandom by making mythal either solas's lover or mother figure (jesus this is cursed)#as it probably would've been when confirming him either have sex with lavellan or being ace#but now you're just pissing everyone off by inability to commit to your own shit#actually DA has one of the most obnoxious love triangles I've ever seen lol#Also (imho) it would've been much more interesting to make Elgar'nan and Mythal actually y'know#LOVE each other despite still being toxic and unhealthy and maybe even codependent#like not every meaningful relationship in people's lives just HAS to be romantic weeks#Mansplain-Manipulate-Malewife Elgar'nan 🤝 Gaslight-Gatekeep-Girlboss Mythal#I have spoken#bioware critical#i guess
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Can I be so transparent and say idc about the Neve and Lucanis ship. I'm not a big fan of it but also it's whatever so when it happens I just kinda stand there like🧍♀️okay??? BUT I am about to kill myself at the idea of Emmrich being with Strife and not me
#BIOWARE STOP MAKING IT SO MY NON EXISTENT POOKIES GET WITH OTHER CHARACTERS#I AM PRONE TO JEALOUSY CAN YOU FUCKING STOP#YES I AM A FULL GROWN ADULT AND YES I AM GOING TO SOB#WHAT ABOUT IT#dragon age#dragon age the veilguard#dragon age: the veilguard#veilguard spoilers#emmrich volkarin#lucanis dellamorte#not tagging neve bc neve fans have been through enough actually#i do not hate you neve i would fuck lucanis too#just like.... can you maybe dial it back when I'm actively trying to romance him??? please???#just pls im trying really hard to win him over but he's so preoccupied saying how beautiful your kill was
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i go out of my way to tag my critical posts because i dont want to interrupt people's enjoyment of the game, but ive gotta say im getting really fucking annoyed at fan attitudes about anyone who has criticisms of the game at all
white people in the da fandom will hear "hey, why isnt the fact that racism/classism exists (which THE GAME has made clear for like 15 years now), and is systemic, ever mentioned or acknowledged in any real way in this game" and immediately have the worst bad faith take on the statement ever to immediately scream about how evil it is that People (because ofc they never imagine that any person of colour might be upset at the blatant erasure) Want Depictions of Bad Things like racism in their media
as an example, there is no consideration of slavery as a systemic practice in dock town - even as 'the poorest of the poor' social level, soporati are not slaves. i dont know if youve ever interacted with members of your society, but we do not fucking exist in a vacuum. dock town is not magically Not part of tevinter or tevinter politics - the fucking black divine literally has a whole fucking home base there. it literally wouldn't have taken that many changes either. we could have heard ambient banter about how the pay's shit, etc, but We All Know It Could Be So Much Worse (you could be enslaved). an ambient dialogue/banter about maybe someone working themselves desperately to the bone to try and buy their sibling back from servitude from a magister. like those are ugly situations, yeah, but do you see how that 1) lends some fucking depth to the population that is both consistent with the lore of previous games and 2) emphasising that people in dock town are not magisters, and are as subject to the whims of the ruling class as slaves are (can't believe i want class consciousness in my media, i know) and c) creating social and power distance between the magisters of tevinter and everyone else. but i dont recall getting anything like that in the game, but i do recall the two dockhands trying to awkwardly go on a date together. this is because veilguard is not interested in delving into these topics, which is a decision that was made, that i - a person who paid money for this game - get to criticise. on my own damn blog. under a read more on a correctly tagged post that you can choose not to engage with so as to not spoil your own hype.
YOU can't deal with your guilt so it makes YOU uncomfortable to see depictions of racism, but i dont have that problem. i don't get to opt out of racism in real life, i don't get to opt out of classism and casteism in real life, and so it's important to me to represent these experiences authentically and respectfully. if that kind of storytelling is not your cup of tea, that's fine, you can literally just say that - we all have different things we want out of our media. i might privately judge you but that's a valid take to have. but im getting really fucking annoyed by people acting Holier Than Thou and like Superior Understanders, and constantly undermining valid criticisms of how flat the sociopolitical contexts are in veilguard are either just Coming From The Racists, bad faith interpretations and/or illiterate idiots in the most fucking condescending way possible
#the amount of times ive immediately been called illiterate in fandom by white people is neither surprising nor disappointing.#do you know what you can do when you see criticisms you don't like btw? you can literally just look away.#im glad for those of you who liked the game. i really am. i also dont HATE veilguard#but i swear to fucking GOD if another person on my dash acts like the Superior Understander by calling other people illiterate for#[checks posts] disagreeing with your video game opinions... i hope you eat shit.#bioware isnt going to fuck you no matter how hard you jerk them off btw.#fandom critical#veilguard critical#veilguard spoilers
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Calling it now:
If there's ever any future installments of Dragon Age there will be no mention of the differentiation between the Dalish or City Elves.
Like in DATV they will simply all be 'elves' and the vallaslin will be reduced to 'cool looking tattoo's that some veil jumpers have' - no mention of the elven pantheon either, because why bother! They're all dead now!
They're all dead and responsible for every lore plot point in Thedas, and there's nothing of mystery or substance left in the world now.
No mention of the culture in the alienage, of the vhenadahl tree, of the horrific racism and systematic abuse the elves have been through...now its just elves. With the way the Veil Jumpers have been set up, and the fact that the elven gods were the enemy in DATV, I find it extremely unlikely that the Dalish will even exist as a group either. Why would they? Their Gods returned and blighted the world - not that the fact is even truly discussed in the game. Elves are just elves, and the notable elves are Veil Jumpers.
Maybe you'll walk in a city, pick up a codex, and get a copy and pasted explanation of history from a DAO codex - a reminder of what we used to have and what BioWare absolutely demolished in their attempt to build a new IP on the bones of Dragon Age. The absolute whiplash in writing, story, and character between DAI and DATV is staggering. How on earth could the studio that made such a gorgeous, rich world of lore surrounding the elves in one game end up utterly bastardizing and reducing it to nothing?
How can you look at a place like the Temple of Mythal and go from those gorgeous golden murals and emerald tiled roofs that reached to the heavens to a place like the Lighthouse? From the Emerald Graves to the ruins of Arlathan - devoid of halls that reach to the heavens and golden murals replaced with stained glass? The entirety of the Trespasser DLC had more character and reverence for what the elven empire once was, and DATV feels as though it's approaching it with the perspective of 'generic elven bullshit with triangles everywhere'. All that unique architecture has been obliterated by adding in World of Warcraft focus crystals and automatons.
How can you go from the atmospheric/environmental storytelling of the Lost Temple of Dirthamen to Solas just blurting everything out? No weight, no double truths or hidden meanings - just blurting it out, getting it said and done with no gravitas? That was Solas' entire thing! People have made threads literally dissecting what Solas says and does not say - now he spits lore out as though it were common, everyday knowledge.
How can anyone justify the sudden emergence of magical automatons everywhere in old elven ruins? As if Dragon Age didn't have a host of enemies/creatures available to use in their stead - or the ability to create something unique to the forest of Arlathan. What happened to the spirit guardians? What happened to the lingering echoes of the elves slaughtered by humans in wars ages past like in DAO? Magic was their very existence - spells taking years or centuries to cast, weaving in and about each other - and you're telling me the ancient elves spent their time creating magical transformers?! It feels/looks so utterly seperate from everything we know of the elves from Dragon Age.
Or look at the Crossroads - listen to how Morrigan speaks of it - the reverence for the past, the misty atmosphere, and the heaviness of this pocket of the world that carries the fading memories of a world and people that no longer exists...now it's reduced to a hub world! People are just popping in and out of it at will!
In Trespasser, the few eluvians that we were available to travel to led to the most lonely, desolate spots of Thedas, which ensured their survival over the past millennia. The mirror in the Deep Roads, the mirror in the ancient stronghold in Ferelden...now they're everywhere!The 'few surviving' eluvians are in every major settlement of Thedas and all are in operating order! More than that, everyone who sees an eluvian knows what it is - this ancient marvel of a world long gone has lost all worth and is reduced to a 'world building' justification for fast travel.
Poor Merrill, slaving for a near decade to try and restore a small sliver of her history, only to have all gravitas and wonder of her discovery utterly made void. All that accomplishment wasted, especially when Bellara can wave her magic omni-tool and fix an eluvian in a matter of hours.
If you took every specific Dragon Age terminology out of the Veilguard and replaced it with generic fantasy bullshit you would never be able to tell the difference. The world of DATV is so divorced from its predecessors its astounding.
#datv spoilers#dragon age#dragon age the veilguard#bioware critical#bioware what the fuck#elves of thedas#dalish elves#city elves#one good thing about how bad this game is: it's easy to just separate it from the rest of the games#I wanted to explore every corner of the ruins in Inquisition#I wanted to read every codex#fun fact! it's all gone now!#Never forget the bioware fucking nuked southern thedas from existence#weeping into the void#duncan didn't die for this#datv critical#edited to add in that I think the 'dalish' won't even exist as a group anymore thanks to DATV#veilguard critical
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LEAVE LOGHAIN OUT OF UR BULLSHIT
#oh my god I cannot deal w this#I already knew ab the stupid ass executors but this answer made me mad as fuck#as if loghain mac tir!!!! would be ‘subtly influenced’ and not do things of his own accord#why are they stripping away his agency and what makes him so likeable as an antagonist?#dragon age#veilguard critical#bioware critical#datv critical#loghain mac tir
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genuinely in disbelief that this is what the devs were talking about when saying they “gave the dalish a win.” it’s so absurd i don’t even know how to go about trying to make sense of it.
how is it a win, exactly, to put an entire culture in a position where they have to abandon their religious beliefs so that they can align with you?
“well now you don’t have to kill them :)”
you didn’t have to kill them before, either. but they had their own motivations and belief systems which could clash with your character. they could be openly hostile to your character from the first meeting. but you had the choice to try to understand them better, and find a way forward that wouldn’t end in bloodshed.
elgar’nan speaks to an elven rook calling them my child. he tells them he empathizes with their pain, the wrongful oppression they’ve suffered in this world. he offers them a place at his side.
to have him extend the same offer to other elves (not ALL of whom are powerless! there are keepers! there are first enchanters! if leliana is the divine? there are CHANTRY MOTHERS) would not have been crueler, it would’ve been the perfect outlet for elven characters to express their pain, their frustration with the state of things as they are/have always been.
and you could (as you’ve ALWAYS BEEN ABLE TO) offer these characters understanding. you could reach out, and find a way to work with them too.
it’s not a “win” to have no conflict with dalish or elven characters. it’s not a “win” to have what little inner conflict these characters are allowed to have reduced to a codex entry where an npc struggles with the legacy of arlathan.
the position of the veil jumpers is already so sidelined within the narrative compared to the crows and shadow dragons, there was absolutely room to expand on it.
instead, we had the agents of fen’harel scrubbed from then game, and elves who can’t express any conflicted feelings about the situation outside a codex entry. and somehow this is a win?
#bioware critical#veilguard critical#da4 spoilers#veilguard spoilers#datv spoilers#sorry. had to get that out.#i was already fucking FLOORED when i heard they had said sth abt giving the dalish a win in veilguard#realising THIS is what they meant actually broke my brain for a second
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while I’ll never personally pick anything but the “redeem” route, I do find it incredibly funny that Fen’Harel will fight literal gods, and a giant dragon, and fully rip said dragon’s throat out with his own teeth, only to be defeated by a rather scruffy nobody, who was named after a chess piece by a man who writes canonically bad smut for a living
#solas sweetie what the absolute fuck#the veilguard#Veilguard#dragon age the veilguard#dragon age#dav#datv#da4#dragon age 4#dav spoilers#datv spoilers#dragon age spoilers#Veilguard spoilers#BioWare#solas#fen’harel#dread wolf
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Playing Veilguard like:
#dragon age#dragon age memes#bioware critical#veilguard critical#veilguard spoilers#da: the veilguard#dragon age spoilers#datv spoilers#da4 spoilers#I have so many questions#where is solas's network of spies#where is his army#where is varric's network of spies#why the fuck would you try to recruit a single dragon hunter rather than idk every single fucking grey warden#why are the antivan crows a happy family rather than a bunch of abusive schmucks who deserve to burn#why are we pretending like templars don't exist#that last one I know the reason for it's because fans don't like templars#but guess what an army of them sure would be useful against a magical threat
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