#mage templar conflict

[zkretchy]

It's 2am and I can't sleep, have this silly doodle

[sotc]

so i've been playing da2 for a hot minute now. in act II and man... really loving anders this go around now that I played Awakening... he's just... he's such a tortured meow meow...

oh hey btw here's my girl :) below the readmore

[twist-shout-and-shells]

They're gonna do the Inquisitor as dirty in Veilguard as they did Hawke in Inquisition, huh?

[kirkwallguy]

hate being negative 24/7 but i keep thinking about things in the series i care about then remembering it'll never be addressed 👍🏻

[mashamorevvna]

my general issue with the dragon age franchise, from origin onwards, is how it's really useless for the most part to get invested in ending slides and wonder how they're gonna be carried forward. bc, most of the time, bioware will just be like 'well, wasn't that really cool? we, however, are gonna forget completely about it and hope you do too 👋🏻'

[vorashvan-a]

miiiiight just take bellara lutare from bioware's hands in general and write everything about her myself. miiiiight sprinkle in some self-written companion quests. miiiiight add more nuance and conflicts to the story

[revindicatedbyhistory]

honestly in dragon age the templars being controlled by the chantry almost feels like a (pardon tv tropes speak) informed attribute like the templars are always doing whatever the fuck they want

[deadrocks]

It had been so long since I'd played DAI last, and there have been so many years of thoughtful discussion since then, that I forgot how fundementally frustrating it is to talk to Mme V in Haven and not be able to counter any of what she says about how the Circles work.

[imageingrunge]

I wish DATV had been good for me so can move on from the series, bc I got this new computer w 2Tb of space n have Skyrim, tw3, and Red dead on there… and my first thought playing any of those other games was man... take me back to denerim when it was five wooden shacks stapled together with 2009 graphics

[vaultsixtynine]

watching the templar quest in dai bc i've never played it and it's just so not sexy when compared to what the horror of having a thing invade ur mind and show you awful things in an attempt to know you well enough to Become You should be like. but at least cole is there

[divinekangaroo]

I attempted to replay DAII a few weeks back for the pleasure/refresher of the story and the character arcs but just couldn’t bring myself to do it. Have lost lots of capacity to enjoy game mechanics which extend length of time to engage w story and notwithstanding the dialogue is quite excellent (in a game context) it’s clunky for, say, a story, and the physical/visual staging in character interactions is v dated. (Key Settings are pretty decent for symbolism tho)

and that’s when I realised the first time ever why sometimes fans *do* get interested enough to write full novelisations of a thing.

[crowlore]

try whatever you want, bioware. you’ll have to remove the option to play as a mage from the game entirely to stop making all my heroes mages. and im going to make every situation about mages somehow. removing the mage templar conflict from the foreground narrative cannot stop me.

[omo321]

replaying dragonage2 for 6th ish time

[medowlarken]

bro i have such a soft spot for characters who start off objectively wrong. like they’re not bad people-- they want to be kind so badly but their environment or circumstances push them into questionable stuff and they do things they end up regretting bc it felt right in the moment. and it doesn’t change the fact that they did those things or negate responsibility, but as time goes on and they grow and learn and see things from different perspectives, they ultimately evolve for the better. and yeah, they’re still not perfect and might never be able to let go of pieces of their old selves, but they’ll never stop trying-- if not for themselves then for the people they love.

anyway i’m playing dragon age again lmao

[mashamorevvna]

my favourite bit of dropped narrative thread from trespasser is the implication that (city&dalish) elves were defecting en masse to join solas in bringing his plan to fruition. smash cut to 10years later the man has no plan, no agents and no elven army. was he just that bad of a boss? dread wolf remake of that snl skit where kylo ren goes undercover as an employee WHEN?

[mabaris]

begging people to learn the difference between “other characters disagreed with this decision” and “the writers disagreed with this decision”