#da:vg

[bippusmymippus]

Painting detailed murals of all of his deepest regrets on the walls of his house is exactly the kind of self flagellation I’ve come to expect from Solas

[fenhaerel]

@lavellun 👀

"You like to walk a little too close to the edge..." "So do you."

LUCANIS DELLAMORTE ❤️‍🔥 Dragon Age: The Veilguard (2024)

[tishinada]

For those who are unaware, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, the first new DA game in a decade, has been under attack from the moment of launch by what appears to be an organized campaign of bigots.

I noticed when I tried to check YT during my lunch on the launch day (Oct. 31), only about an hour and a half after it launched, and there were dozens of reviews, all focused on some aspect of including trans characters as "woke". Which, btw, proves they did not play & were not fans of the previous games. There was a significant trans character in DA:I, Krem, and the Inquisitor got sternly corrected by Bull for misgendering him when you heard Krem's background story. Dorian's best friend in Tevinter, although she didn't appear directly, was explicitly a trans woman, Maeveris. Some go so far as to attack the LGBTQ+ content generally, and, sorry, but that was explicitly part of DA from the very first game.

So if they'd actually played the game previously, they already should know that content would be there. If they seriously thought the game was not good, they'd have just sat back and waited. Or they'd have attacked it on the basis of problems of gameplay or story. The fact that this is the reason they're attacking it (the professionally done reviews are extremely favorable) proves that bigotry is the sole reason behind their campaign, not the quality of the game itself. (A few others are basically complaining that it's a story-driven game with character development & they don't like story-driven games & character development lol.)

In this case, it's backfired as far as I'm concerned. First, everytime I see one on YT, I tell YT to not recommend their channel to me, hopefully meaning I'll never accidentally watch one of their other videos (thanks for self-identifying for my blocked list!) And it's tipped the scales in favor of buying the game. I had doubts due to issues with DAI. But I'm told that there is a genuine story mode which means I can just run through for the story and not worry about dying every 5 seconds. And having spoiled myself on parts of the story, I think this may be much closer to what I fell in love with about DA:O (I'm in love with several of the romances, and one of them is the first since Zevran's that really hits all the right notes for me.)

Admittedly, I don't necessarily love the art style, but I don't hate it either. And I've heard the interface for PC users makes it clear it was primarily designed for console players (hopefully there will be a way to clean it up with mods or something.) And unfortunately, I can't play immediately due to time reasons (I still haven't finished DT for that reason lol.)

But yes, I will be buying DA:VG now. And I hope anyone seeing criticism of it keeps in mind that most negative reviews have bigotry at their root.

[thalmores]

listen, I don’t care. I don’t care if veilguard is bad. I don’t give fuck if technically it’s sucks. Looks bad? I don’t care. Gameplay sucks? Don’t care. I’ve been waiting 10 years for this god damn game I *will* be eating all of it up, I will be playing it over and over I’m picking up every codex entry, every ore is mine, I will be jumping on rocks repeatedly, I will make every npc sick of me, count your fucking days solas cause I’m coming for your bald ass.

[biowaresbutt]

Full-body customization options!! Hair!! Lighting options in the character customization screen! Dozens and dozens of hairsss!! Haiiirr!

[alketaire]

The Mourn Watcher version of this is great, too. "Got any embalming fluid?"

Neve: Let's go newspaper shopping

Rook: Mmm how about poison

[iedistis]

if anything were to happen to them i would kill everyone in this room and then myself

[coolenrutherford]

me getting ready for the 7 companions in Veilguard:

[transmasc-tabris]

[star--nymph]

LOOK AT HOW HAPPY HE IS WHEN HE HAS THE GRIFFIN JUMPS OFF HIS SHIELD I LOVE HIM ALREADY

[crackedeluvian]

rook: i’m a hero because i chose to be one!

HOF, hawke, and the inquisitor: you had a choice???

[bippusmymippus]

Taash: *comes out as nonbinary*

Me: oh good for them

Me: wow the Gamers™️ are gonna lose their shit over this one

[maleficore]

Fingers crossed for the return of Hawke style badassery with Rook 🤞

[flowersbane]

i’m really curious so…

(more like, i’m really nosy, lol)

[vampiremommyinquisition]

Dreadwolf Rises

[hwoaarang]

Dragon Age: The Veilguard | Official Gameplay Reveal

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