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BLACK SAILS + historical pirates

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is it just me or has bg3 gotten sorta harder after patch 7? i used to be able to clear honour mode but now i keep dying on balanced difficulty 🤧

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Final Fantasy XV | ▶ dev. Square Enix

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MERTHUR WEEK 2024 Day three ▸ Symbolism

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curious what this will tally out to. if you've played multiple choose your favorite. please reblog for wider scope!

rogue poll, warrior poll

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based on the results of my last poll, i wanna get the DETAILS of this situation

for male wardens vote here, for non-binary wardens vote here

please share your reasoning in the tags/notes, but keep any discourse about various characters or the ethics of the situation to yourself, thank you

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https://gofund.me/fe066192

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NAMES FOR EACH PRIEST OH BOY

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I want to talk about this take from my main blog because I want to double down on it.

I truly think that Veilguard is a bad Dragon Age game.

I don’t mean to sound like a bitch, but I really hate that people feel like this is a good Dragon Age game. I hate that people use the excuse that Dragon Age reinvents itself every game in its defense. I hate that people think that this is what a Dragon Age game is. And I’ve been hearing that this is “still a Dragon Age game” even from some critical reviews.

My rebuttal, if I was being flippant, is that the vibe is simply off. It doesn’t feel right.

If I have to put my disappointment and anger into words, I would say:

No, the heart of the games has never changed. The idea that your worldview is shaped by your past and that you can be a hero or a villain depending on who tells the story has never changed. Navigating complex and sometimes race/class-based politics has never changed. The ability for you to earn approval and disapproval based on personality-defining dialogue choices and/or meaningful choices hadn’t changed. Being able to go up and talk to characters (companions most of all) to learn about who they are and how Thedas has shaped them has never changed. Companions not solely based on tropes and nebulous ideas of what makes a cute relationship used to exist. Lore reveals were handled with care and sprinkled throughout the game rather than thrown at you one after the other. Gameplay never used to insult your intelligence by handing you an explanation to everything within seconds of being presented with a problem. This series of roleplaying games used to let you roleplay even if it was just respecting what tone you wanted to use.

Or, something like that.

When people tell me that this is a good Dragon Age game, it feels like they’re comparing this legacy of games to one of those Marvel movies or remakes that doesn’t need to exist, but does because it has a built in audience and will make them money. It feels devoid of what made the old games special to me. I know that the other games aren’t perfect. Not even in all of the respects I mentioned earlier, but I felt like BioWare gave a shit? Even Dragon Age: II with all of its flaws has this beautiful cast of characters and (narratively) fleshed out city and Dragon Age: Inquisition with all of its fetch quests had some of the most complex characters, interesting quest mechanics, and this highly ambitious (if flawed) setting design. This game is so half-baked that I barely understand what it’s about or who it’s really for.

In fact, after I finished the game, it took me a few days to get over feeling negatively about the entire series. I was terrified that Veilguard had ruined this series that I’d loved for half my life for me. I felt stupid. I hate that I care so much when I’m not certain that they do. Or, being more charitable, I’m not certain that BioWare is capable of making a product with care under EA.

I don’t know. Maybe this is a Dragon Age game, but if it is, I’m not sure I want another one.

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“Davrin is so hot and his romance is one of the most content filled in the game! Why is he second to last-“

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– All Things End, Hozier (insp.)

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That I'd walk so far just to take the injury of finally knowing you?

MERTHUR WEEK 2024 Day two ▸ Lyrics (Unknown / Nth, Hozier)

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YELLOWJACKETS Season One Episode Six: ‘Saints’

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But then somehow he was back at Winterfell again, in the godswood looking down upon his father. (Bran III, ADWD)

The thought of Jon filled Ned with a sense of shame, and a sorrow too deep for words. (Ned XV, AGOT)