#the support chains going from ‘colossal asshole behavior’ as a default starting point and then working up to friendship
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taihua · 1 month ago
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Rapidly losing my good faith towards Veilguard as I get deeper into the story and the characters are still so lacking in depth. 15 hours of gameplay and the most interesting character development comes from Lucanis having a demon in him and admitting that people he killed may or may not be innocent depending on who you ask, and yet there is no tangible story impact outside of party banter :/
I guess Solas is also carrying the brunt of the interesting character development with the side quests about his past and Felassan challenging him on whether he’s becoming too extreme—but it is driving me insane that there are two elven companions in the main party who have absolutely nothing to say about the villains of the game being elven gods. Bellara jokes about it and then proceeds to have absolutely no strong feelings about it whatsoever despite her entire life being devoted to studying elven relics and history??? There’s no way around it, that’s just monstrously shitty writing.
Tevinter sucks so bad that I don’t even think I can talk about it. My biggest question is just “where the fuck are the magisters in all this?” I’m supposed to believe that the only capable people in the entire capital city of Thedas’ most powerful nation are a bunch of sewer dwelling freedom fighters who fight the nonexistent slavery problem? Also Neve is completely flat as a character and her backstory barely makes sense. She’s apparently Hardened in my playthrough because I assumed Tevinter could handle its own problems. This has zero discernible effect on her personality, which has gone from “nice” to “nice but with red graphics.”
I’m still having fun with the gameplay and I like the level designs and combat, but the more I play the more sad I feel about how much of previous DA lore I miss. The city elves and Dalish are indistinguishable. There are no Circle Mages or apostates anymore, no Chantry or Templars. No nobles versus commoners. Just these interchangeable bland factions where the representatives’ personality is “nice.”
Lucanis might be my only exception but even then he’s mostly interesting by what can be extracted from his backstory, not by what is shown in the game :/
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