#me: andromeda spoilers

[felassan]

Dragon Age: The Veilguard - Game Informer pages from issue 367 (the cover story from June 18th) [source, two]

Text reads: "Spotlight - Cover Story - Dragon Age: The Veilguard. It's been ten years since the last full-fledged game in the franchise, but BioWare is finally ready to pull back the curtain on what's next for the fantasy world of Thedas. We visited the studio, spoke to the game's creators, and discovered what's changed in the highly anticipated new installment."

[legionofpotatoes]

I know the discourse well is poisoned and no one hates bioware games more than bioware fans, but I am just 🫠 having so much fun with veilguard it's unreal. It is selfishly the dragon age game I always wanted. with less emphasis on cRPG, a more focused story, curated mission based design that spotlights the high fantasy stuff, slowburn structure with companions, significantly less sidequest bloat, and a fully real-time action-oriented combat system that isn't riddled with the growing pains of previous titles. when I first played origins I imagined something almost exactly like this as my ideal version of a sequel; and it was one of those dirty, selfish thoughts that I knew was disrespectful to the then-established DNA of the thing, but I can't help but feel giddy about having it here and now. like down to the shift away from the childishly dark tone and to something more inherently flexible with a baseline aspirational quality. I hate aesthetically depressing games so much. am I not alive right here and right now already

When I say "aesthetically" there though I do mean it. I'm fully on the opposite side when it comes to tone and positions expressed in the story itself. I am just not including that in my analysis because I am not done yet - so please no spoilers! I think I am where most people consider to be the second act, and I definitely have my gripes with the narrative framework and some of the optics, but I won't put the cart before the horse and will see how it wraps things up first. Above that level, in terms of how it presents itself, of how it plays, of how it balances its core pillars - it is such a bioware-ass game and I could not be any cozier in it. So grateful it exists

[eye-of-the-queen]

If you’re one of my friends (or someone else who found me through the tumblr algorithm) who is upset about the latest veilguard news turn away now because you’re most likely not going to like what I’m about to say

Rant under the cut

People are being so dramatic for no reason I’m sorry

“This was all a waste of time” when they literally say in the article that the events of the games STILL happen, it’s not like they’re retconning them. And most likely world state decisions from the previous games will still be asked in the games going forward AS they become important, they literally said they chose the world state choices based on what would be relevant to the story of the new game

It’s a new area of thedas and literal DECADES after the events of the previous games, I’m sorry it just seems silly to expect the events of the past games to still have the same relevance that they did in inquisition, which is only 2 years after da2 and 10 years after origins and also took place in the same area of the continent as them

I do agree that not including the well of sorrows decision is certainly a choice, but we also don’t know the complete story of veilguard literally at all. What we do know is solas has the aspect of mythal that was in flemeth, we also know that for at least some portion of the game he’s trapped in the fade and rook is kind of his mouth piece. Maybe the reason it won’t come up is because with him being trapped he can’t actually do anything with his powers, that’s been my theory for a while at least

I genuinely do not know how y’all got “The inquisitor either hated solas or romanced him” from what they said. The leap in logic is crazy to me because they literally said that your relationship regardless of whether you romanced him or not is going to be important

“How are they going to write around these world state decisions with them not being choosable?” Well considering the game is fully written and is coming out next month it seems they found a way

The way y’all were all hyping up this game as the next best thing and then ONE thing that you don’t like is revealed and y’all all turned on it is crazy

Also to tie this up, we literally know that veilguard has gone through at least 2 rewrites because in the same article where they revealed the world state stuff they literally said there was an iteration of da4 that just did not have that much solas involvement. Have yall considered that maybe the rewrites were due to them getting stuck on all of the choices that could be made in past games and so they decided to just pick the ones that were going to be the most relevant to the story to start with and then go from there in subsequent games

I’m sorry, coming from someone who’s literal favorite game franchise is dragon age and has replayed origins multiple times, this all just seems like such a non issue to me

[galpalaven]

I'm in so much trouble...

haha what if Azem was in Elpis with Venat when the WoL and Emet-Selch and Hythlodaeus were also in Elpis

grabbed these before the moon magic disappears for the next few weeks. ;w; i will be working on maybe a fic where Azem is there in Elpis and Kiri gets to know her before everything fell apart. and in a few weeks i'll get the rest of the pics ;w;

bonus:

[miyku]

[3584-tropical-fish]

The way these two have a chokehold on me there’s so much wrong with them

[thanes-krios]

I'm so excited about whatever Bellara has going on (we really needed more dalish elf companions) but I really hope they've written her to be very different from Merrill and also NOT made her personality to be just a dragon age version of peebee from andromeda

[saeyoungchoismaid]

I LOVE ANDROMEDA SIX THEY COULD NEVER MAKE ME HATE YOU VEXX

YESSSS MY FIRST A6 ASK LETS GOOOOO‼️‼️‼️

No but fr I feel you. To be honest when we first met him and he turned out to be 'bad,' I was still like 😏 cause I have issues like bad guys/villains/morally grey characters. There was a part tho where I was like "oh...okay...ehhhhhh idk about you-" for like a SECOND and then I quickly realized what his deal was. Like even when he told me he "killed" Nerissa I was like 'dw about it daddy king it's all groovy' LMAO. I think it's just cause it literally wasn't his fault like all of that was done against his will and it was super obvious how torn up about it he was. I couldn't hate him knowing that he hated himself even more for those things

[everyoneonthenormandyisgay]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN I DONT FIND OUT WHO THE BENEFACTOR IS IN MASS EFFECT ANDROMEDA??? ITS A MYSTERY?? WHERE IS MY SEQUEL GAME I NEED TO KNOW RN

Literally one of the most interesting things is the politics on the nexus like what is UP with director tann that man is either suspicious as hell or the most well meaning dumbass?? and KESH? she's my girl but I lost like FIVE scouts and she voted against me??? I did SO MUCH FOR YOU I'm sorry I chose to save one of the ONLY PATHFINDERS WITH ANY EXPERIENCE and CIVILIANS over some scouts?? I wasn't choosing salarians over krogan I'd have made the same call if it was human scouts don't yell at me!

[arcanadreams]

😳 i'm listening...

[oopsallmabari]

sorry i'm gonna whine on combat some more (acknowledgment that this is a me thing) also assuming based on this that we won't be able to control companion actions during fights? like. for the new type of combat does it make sense to only/mostly rely on NPC AI for fighting and hopefully that does help me if i SUCK ASS at combat but. :( i liked the prev games' combat mostly because i could usually auto-hit in some fashion it was just a matter of me being strategic about technique and insta-pausing to reassess/move out the way

there is at least some combat pausing for rook and i'll def reserve final judgment till i play i just. what if we made video games for people like me who like story but are bad at gaming :((((

[pentaghast]

hey you just spent 60 to 70 hours getting to know these characters and possibly romancing them? well lets throw in a suicide mission for them where at LEAST one of them dies! teehee this is goooood gaming folks love a shock value death

[ofdinosanddais1]

Playing andromeda six and I theorize I might in some way he related to the royal family of Goldis.

[luckyshinyhunter]

Venom X Big City Greens Headcanons

I was watching both Venom films and a idea sprouted in my head. What if our favorite duo ended in Big City meet our favorite silly family?

(Warning: This post contents spoilers for Venom, Let there be Caranage, and Big City Greens. I haven't seen The Last Dance, so no spoilers please.)

This AU takes places after the events of ltbc and between Season 2 and 3, After taking a vacation, Eddie and Vee went to Big City for a fresh start.

Eddie and Venom bump into the Greens while trying to find a place to sleep, Bill was skeptical but decided to let him crash for the night.

The Greens discovered Venom when Cricket woke Eddie up with an air-horn as a prank, upsetting the symbiote and scaring the boy.

Eventually Eddie explained to the Greens about the events of the two films and why they came to the city, understanding about the duo, the Greens decided to keep Eddie and Venom a secret.

Eddie and Venom are pretty much the gay uncles of the family, Eddie being the stressed but protective one while Venom is the chaotic but fun-loving one.

Though he gets along with Eddie, Bill sometimes doesn't like Venom because he's a bad influence on the kids.

Venom likes Alice, mainly because he reminds her of Ms. Chen but Alice doesn't Eddie tho.

Remy, Gloria, Andromeda and Nancy find out about Eddie and Venom, but promise not to tell anyone about them.

Nancy and Venom made and got Eddie a new motorcycle for his birthday.

Gramma Alice, Eddie, Venom and Gloria would have their reality TV night.

The duo still keep in touch with Anne and Dan, telling them about the adventures with the Greens, also sending postcards too.

Eddie would ask Bill or Nancy for love advice.

Officer Keys grew suspicious of Eddie but thankfully brushes it off.

Thanks to Vasquez, Eddie gets a new identity and goes by the name "Ben Hawtass". (Venom was the one who made up the name unfortunately.)

Eddie works at Gloria's cafe, with the payment being not only money but chocolate of course.

Venom and Eddie continue their superhero duties but keep the head-biting thing to a minimum.

Venom and Tilly would talk about their favorite pets, but Tilly keeps telling Venom No, every time he asks if he can eat one of the animals.

Despite having a rough start, Venom and Cricket ended up becoming the prank-loving, chaos hungry, troublemaking duo.

[fictiffelix]

I have some questions about the philosophy around guilt and justification of murder in andromeda 6. Why is there no option for the MC to miss and grieve their other siblings. Why are all k'merii inherently evil and deserving of death. After reuniting with Nerissa the MC shows more hurt over being left out of her sisters coup (which is understandable? Mc was not trained for politics) than the fact that their entire family was murdered and they're the only survivors