#kshaar plays datv

[kshaar]

i did not make the post complaining about datv plot that i wanted to when i finished the game but one of the bullet points on it was 'where is the reckoning to shake the heavens that flemeth promised? we lost kate mulgrew for this?' which is a bullet point that might make one realize that one's complaints are very niche and specific and thats not what people look for in 10-year-later sequels and you nix the whole post

and then almost two weeks later d*vid g*ider makes a post about flemeth & morrigan & how they were always so fundamental to dragon age [which he begins by calling himself out for older women being his type- i dont want to talk about it] and another about how the scene between morrigan & kieran & flemythal was written and shot for here lies the abyss, morrigan saying she would never be the mother [to kieran] that flemeth was to her 🥺which is STILL the most impactful thing from inquisition

then you see the messy cowardly bullshit fucking story we got in veilguard, the way that mythal's fragment is in there ultimately to absolve this man for killing her, and morrigan is only there as her mouthpiece and the only way to convince this man that he needs to stop is if people tell him 'its okay man' because thats our priority right. making him feel better. fuck the dwarves dreams and the blight and the-

i don't know, i don't really have a point

[kshaar]

if all ancient elves were once spirits and 'being corrupted from your purpose' is such a Horrible thing to happen to them then maybe elgar'nan should be allowed to be a tyrant have you ever considered that

[kshaar]

wow & shathann's qunari linguist friend who shows up later is able to simply respect their pronouns without comment, huh. that sure was a conflict of culture

[kshaar]

how can you regret something you don't even know

[kshaar]

>be a demon called isolation

>hang out with 5 other demons

[kshaar]

it's not a spoiler because i dont know for sure but. im prettttty sure what's going on & what they've done.

bellara: but im writing just for fun, not like varric tethras 😅

@writer who made the decision to prolong the varric reveal, WHEN I FIND YOU

[kshaar]

(doing harding's mission &) remember when oghren convinced velanna that dwarves hatched from eggs

[kshaar]

taash's mom didn't even say anything. it was literally fine. just because she doesn't have the right words- they're so baby.

it's also fascinating how she appears to have left FOR TAASH and she already had a "my child" relationship with them even under the Qun (assuming it's not loreforgetting writing),, so 👀 👀 about her

[kshaar]

hey, rook, get rid of this special magical gaatlok that is soooooo dangerous and explodey. oh, how? just explode it. yes. in the middle of the city

[kshaar]

the MAIN thing -- not talking plot & dialogue & lore inconsistencies -- is the fundamental disconnect between us at thirty and forty and older playing this game with love for the world and everything in it, who grew up with bioware games, and this game that seems to be SQUARELY aimed at children

[kshaar]

veilguard thoughts about 7 hours in [no plot spoilers, just general quibbles and initial impressions]

"Solas' timing stinks." STINKS???? VARRIC MY GUY WHY DID THEY CENSOR YOU. the most jarring line

You can have a transgender IDENTITY but you can't change your gender in the in-game from what you picked in the character creator??? i guess it's difficult/highly specific to implement?? doesn't make it not funny

combat is fun, dialogue is okay (morrigan im so sorry for what they did to you darling), game is SO PRETTY

had to reduce mouse camera sensitivity by A LOT or i would have got a headache

the lighthouse is a very cool as a base

it might be limited to two companions but others have been tagging along more than i thought

even though varric was never controllable, starting with a three dwarf party felt great, first time after warden-oghren-sigrun back in awakening

playing a rogue and we've recruited, in order, a rogue (harding), a mage (neve), a mage (bellara) and next we're gonna go get lucanis (a rogue) its doable in hard mode but it is still funny that i still don't have a single warrior yet

saw a dragon sooner than i thought, no cheese wheels so far, one (1) calibrations joke

WOMEN!