Stories Can’t Hurt Us

She/her | Whovian | Ineffable Husbands | Aziraphale--Crowley—Geralt-coded | Critical Swiftie | Asexual Autistic Doctor Truther | Autistic Aziraphale Truther | David Tennant Derangement Syndrome | Good Omens | Dragon Age

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No, really, why does Flynn the Medic get such a detailed cutscene? What importance are they to the story?

Don’t get me wrong, making NPCs seem more important than you might think is not exactly uncommon.

Witcher 3 has plenty of randos with touching stories that add flavor to the world.

Unfortunately, Flynn is extremely one dimensional, and the only thing we really know about them is the fact that they are

1. Non-binary

2. They survived the Joining.

3. Their mentor, Oskar, is dead, but we don’t ever get the chance to meet the guy before he dies, so that’s a bust.

I really think that Bioware just doesn’t know how to do open world games, or RPGs.

Even though VG was scaled down significantly from inquisition, it is poorly done. 

[thememedaddy]

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That’s pretty much how I became a DW fan when I first stumbled across it on Netflix 🤣

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The obvious contempt for DA all over Veilguard.

It’s actually really disheartening no matter how you look at it, and no matter how much time has passed. It just never stops being sad.

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So… how did Rook even leave the prison?

They didn’t absolve any regrets, cuz they don’t have any cuz they’re a narc with zero empathy.

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Veilguard’s soundtrack is so unremarkable.

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When someone brings up an old, stale topic you’ve long since moved on from

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Replaying the song again because the lyrics didn’t cut deep enough the first time

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Honestly, the only real way I can see DW coming back out of hiatus is if it’s done similarly to the first reboot with Eccleston. That was pretty perfect. 

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My response when people try to argue with me on the internet

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This game’s obsession with “interrupted kiss” tropes, smh.

These damn writers were in full fanfiction mode.

And not the good kind.

All of the companions are a collection of overused tropes that nobody likes anf often criticise.

The developers were out of touch.

Just look at Rook. They are everything wrong with Marvel movies.

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Don’t tell me that when the writers were shaping Neve’s romance, that they weren’t listening to this song

[darklinggalleg0s]

What Dragon Age: The Veilguard Feels Like When You Romance Lucanis

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I love the process of choosing a romance, and then taking that companion everywhere so your approval boosts are faster.

Like, Solas’ approval beats might as well be my own heartbeat. That little bald nerd approves every bout of inquiry, that I don’t even have to try.

But I think the winner is the playthrough where I aimed to rivalmance Anders.

I literally just had to piss him off.

That was such a fun playthrough. It was toxic as hell. But also super funny, because when you give him a gift on the rivalry path., he gets super suspicious 🤣🤣🤣

Inquisition really shot itself in the foot by removing the rivalry.

I still think a Solas Rivalmance would’ve been one for the ages.

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OK, does it bother anyone else that all of the cut content of Veilguard doesn’t actually add anything?

Usually, when you get snatches of hidden info that never made into the final product, it reveals something interesting or whatever.

With every piece of cut content I see of Veilguard’s, my reaction is always

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Ok, but the more I think about it, the more I disagree when people say Emmrich’s romance is the most “fleshed out”.

Because it’s not.

It’s sweet, sure, but in a very surface level sort of way.

Neither he nor Rook change during the course of the “relationship”.

It just stagnates.

There’s a dinner date, but we don’t learn anything new about either of them. (I mean, who actually gives a fuck what either of their favorite color is?)

It’s quite boring, honestly.

If there’s a romance that actually feels like some progress is being made towards “growth” or the closest this game will let you get, its with a Hardened!Neve and you do everything you can to throw as many wrenches into their situations as possible.

But Emmrich? I think the sole reason why people like him is because he was 3D printed from a Jane Austen novel.

I mean, I do genuinely love Emmrich, but I also think that people hype it up way too much.

It’s really not that deep.

Also, the Manfred of it all… 

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Ok, but who wrote the area of Arlathan?

Was it Jepler? Cause the majority of this game’s most abhorrent writing is present there.

I mean, it is staggeringly awful.

How did anything in that area make it to the final cut?