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[semi-hiatus] kal. 23. eeu. dragons, ages and feminisms. i write sometimes (click here for my ao3).

[kal-sharok]

nominating a game that

doesn't have remappable arrow keys, that people have relied on for years to play games with if they have physical impairments OR are simply left-handed, lmfao

ships with a cluttered UI (and even encourages you to minimise it ~if it's overwhelming uwu~ instead of maybe shipping with all elements to be set as opt-in instead of opt-out)

has no off switch for light bloom amidst all the UI clutter and requires you to locate a file via file explorer, open it in notepad and manually edit the value from 1 to 0 so your eyes aren't blinded by every light source and under constant strain... two months away from 2k25

for "innovation in accessibility" has to be the biggest fuck you modern game industry has ever served its playerbase 😶

[ewyy]

pls love yourself and stop pre-ordering aaa games

[mrphish21]

this is a joke but people in the notes are missing the point, so id like to try to explain something… I’m in the games industry, i know a lot of people who worked/work in triple a company positions.

preordering a game does *not* say “i trust this dev and they deserve my money to use to make the game that much better”

what it says is “hey boardroom, i will throw money at anything with this logo, even before i know what the game is like”

that boardroom sees that trend. they see theyve made their money back within 2 months of the game being announced… so the next time a lead comes to them and says “we would like to make this game, heres a budget and a timeline” the execs say “well last time we gave you 100 bucks and a full month, but your fans dont really /care/ what game you make, as long as it has our brand. so heres 75 bucks and 3 weeks. make it marketable”

this means more “pre-order exclusives” like cosmetics or different art, filler stuff that a side team can pump out in hours. every store, every platform will have their own version.

pre-orders do nothing but incentivise the shitty money-sponge practices we all hate in games. the point of a pre-order used to be to ensure you got your physical copy, but with most games being digital license anyway, that worry is unrealistic.

However when you wait for reviews, what you show that boardroom is “what we put out actually matters. if we make a shit game, we get shit sales. when we only give a team 2 weeks and a fiver we get shit reviews.”

so… love yourself, stop pre-ordering triple a games.

[sapphim]

ferelden SHOULD be as gender egalitarian as the introductory flavor text implies, seeing as how they're 30 years removed from a war for independence in which your mom (yes, yours! I meant this more generically but also literally Cousland's mom!) was a freedom fighter and so was their well beloved queen

they should be belligerently proud of that shit. it should be to their mind what sets proud fereldans apart from occupiers and sympathizers tbh

"oh you don't believe a woman's place is on the field of battle? what are you, french?"

[lirgus]

Meh 😑

[pumpkinlass]

Carrying Carver Hawke

Inspiration + Colors: Ivan Bilibin

[wheretheresawyll]

still boggles my mind that in the year 2024 most players still ignore anora's character just to reduce her to a lying backstabber, when she only goes against you if:

you reveal her identity to ser cautherine and howe's soldiers, defeating the entire purpose of her disguise and also ignoring what she told you literally one minute before about how they can't know she's escaping with you - thereby betraying her first

you ignore her completely in denerim after she asks you to come talk to her, and only show up to the landsmeet

you bring up loghain's fate, and when she tells you that she would rather him be spared if possible, you tell her to her face that her father has to die

[prophetssong]

Adaar thinks sera is adorable and sera knows it

[brekkie-e]

Quick something I tinkered with while watching tv with the fam the other day. Trying to find a design I like for Briala that's a little more book inspired, but sadly the book was sparse in it's character descriptions. Not happy with this one but all the same, you can pry Briala with big beautiful brown eyes out of my cold dead hands.

[joannekwan]

My #1 favorite elf forever in my heart

[destinyapostasy]

✨Shianni ✨

A portrait voted by my patrons this month! The theme was non companion elves :D

[goombellas]

i hope varric dies in da4

[goombellas]

i hope everyone rbing this is aware my url is about varric and will not be shit talking my man in the tags of their reblogs. i want him to die because i love him so much. no other reason. actually also because it'd be funny. but that's IT

[salt-cedar]

Shaper Valta, dreaming in stone

[stonesense]

i love how you can’t even question sandal’s presence during the final battle in da2 the game is just like yeah and what about it

[deeplord]

Paragon ascension

[notebooks-and-laptops]

I've now seen a few posts saying Neve is just nicer Vivienne and they're the same and I...guys Neve has ENTIRELY different motivations and reasons for doing her things and a different personality. Neve is a disillusioned detective working for a group who is trying to end slavery in Tevinter, Viv was a court mage constructing her own freedoms within a system that didn't want her but that she actively liked and wanted to uphold. Viv was shaped by southern Thedas and it's systematic abuse of mages, Neve was raised where mages are the elite class and deemed 'better' than others because of their magic. Presumably they have different religious views coming from countries that have completely schismed chantries. They have very different jobs (court mage/pope vs. detective). Yes they're both high fashion beautiful black woman and yes they're both really interesting characters but they're not the same anymore than like....Carver and Blackwall who both have angry openings and are warriors are the same. Or anymore than Aveline and Cassandra who are both sword and shield no nonsense warriors who secretly have a romantic side are the same. Or Solas and Morrigan. Etc. etc. Just. Think about why you are reducing them to the same person after spending less than 10 mins with Neve maybe?

[olileigh-art]

A little post-trespasser thing

[al-norton]

where’s Hawke?