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Jee , 25+ , I write occasionally but the spirit of the blog is truly about gushing over favs first and foremost, overall I liked the game but (squidward voice) we’re critical about veilguard here, so disclaimer ig (A side blog, follows from bigcryptiddies)

The Canon Tapestry: Heroes of Ferelden , Champion of Kirkwall , Inquisitor , Rook

Screenshot Edits and other shtuff: lookit em

ao3: rookanis oneshot series

Character tags (no link yet)

#I’ll probably make some headers later but for now this’ll do pig #might make a separate Navi post for canon character tags too #and link that here as well #mostly I just need to revamp my tagging system but who knows if that’ll happen

sha-brytols

my thing about datv is i have literally no beef with people who enjoy the game like you'll catch me dead before you catch me shitting on fans for the simple crime of being fans but what i think is actually borderline disgusting is how many fans feel the need to shit on everyone else for not liking the game and refusing to separate their enjoyment from the degradation of everyone else who dares criticize it. its never normal ass criticism either its insane reductive garbage like "disliking the sanitization of the setting makes you a rape fetishist" or "wanting more conflict between characters is an indication you are emotionally stunted" like unironically in what world do you live in where these are even remotely sane conclusions to draw about people who didn't like your insane corporatized fanfic

sha-brytols

if your thesis to why the game is good is "people who hate it are misanthropic freaks who need therapy" i'm speaking with all the sincerity in the world you need to get off the computer like asap you have regressed into a brainworm ridden corporate mouthpiece for some kind of bizarre parasocial validation of your $70 purchase and it is actively damaging your critical thinking skills ok?

sha-brytols

deleted the reply because im not looking for this person to get shat on but this is EXACTLY what i mean. you don't see criticism against the game as criticism against the game you see it as a personal affront against your own tastes. there's literally nothing personal in my post outside of pointing out how insane some of these criticisms against the critics are. you can literally only interpret this as an attack if you're so thoroughly married to the concept that your enjoyment is intrinsically tied to the quality of the game that any criticism is tantamount to criticizing you directly. how do you not see this. how do you take "insane corporatized fanfic" as any more than a subjective take on how i view the narrative structure and the creative intent behind the game. where do you see "you're delusional" in this post anywhere. like. genuinely. how.

mergreze-art

Imagine, you're somniari Rook, walking in Lucanis's Fade and then you see this 🫣

"the elves needed a win so we made them a monolith by erasing city elves from the narrative so that only the dalish matter & also had them embrace the Ultimate Truth of their deities being evil mages so that none of them are swayed because certainly nobody would want to follow an evil person" is not the good idea these execs thought it was

childofthestone

IF YOU WERE LOOKING FOR COZY ROMANCE SIM DRAGON AGE ISNT FOR YOUUUU "its nice to play a fun silly game where im not called slurs" OH MY GOD GROW UP!!! GO PLAY ANIMAL CROSSING. NEW HORIZONS IN PARTICULAR BECAUSE APPARENTLY YOU WOULDNT HANDLE ANIMAL CROSSING GAMECUBE

notebooks-and-laptops

On a personal note what makes me real upset about the original plan for DATV getting scrapped and replaced with live service then Veilguard is...a lot of what I predicted/was excited about was PLANNED! I was RIGHT ABOUT IT and then they CUT IT.

Cole being important, Exalted March declared, Sten cameo, Calpurnia as companion, Solas has the potential to end up tranquil, we save whoever we left in the fade and they're fucked up, elven uprising, Dorian as an advisor figure, etc. ... These were things I was actively excited about. I was excited about finding out how our choice of divine effected things. How our choice of leader for Orlais. How the WELL affected things. And like. They planned to address all of this.

It just. It makes me so sad.

#dav thots #I think this is what annoys me most about the crowd that genuinely seems to think there’s nothing wrong with the game #like we knew *while* it was happening that development was a shitshow #we *knew* to some extent that they basically scrapped the whole thing and started it from scratch #we knew it was planned to be live service and then they backpedaled hard and that there were going to be consequences to that #there is no way the story *wouldn’t* have suffered from everything it went through #and instead of being real about that you would rather write off *everyone* who has a single complaint as the da fans who are only around to #essentially hate da #because it’s easier to handle than to like something that isn’t pristine and perfect in your mind ig?#like it was literally a development issue and to ignore that is to ignore that the industry itself has major issues with how it approaches #making games in general #you can like it and still acknowledge that it could have been so much better #and better yet you can acknowledge that things *were* lost

jack-of-blades

Spin this wheel to get a Dragon Age Valentine

#FEN #RAAAAAAH

forsakenwitchery

Solas to Lucanis swap

All my DATV gifs

#lucanis dellamorte #me when I see a man I like bloody and beaten: 🥵🥵🥵

juicywizarcl

Davrin's done! Up next for a dishonored style portrait is Neve :) Emmrich | Lucanis

#davrin #every single one is a banger #hit after hit after hit

taahko

i think some of you dont like narratives or stories or characters i think you just like fanfiction tropes

taahko

protagonists can and will be sexist, racist, insensitive, cruel, stupid, etc, especially towards the beginning of a story. these are called character flaws and they are a surprise tool that will lead to narrative fulfillment later

fellshish

ppl will be like i don’t want to read ooc fics and not realise fans have so many personal interpretations of canon that ooc means a different thing to different ppl. like my favourite fics i’ve ever read all have slightly different characterisations and yet i devour them all with hunger. what makes a fic great, to me, maybe has more to do with consistency of voice than with a consensus on what ‘in character’ means, more to do with the quality of writing and the strength of the premise and whether my heart gets shattered and healed or not

roarrrgame

And when the BioWare layoff news came out, many people had no sympathy because they believed the writers were at fault for Veilguard’s failure, not the execs at the studio or at EA. Now that the EA CEO came out and used stupid corpo buzzwords to basically say, the game failed because it wasn’t a live service game, can these people see, who the fuck is more likely at fault? The writers who helped develop the good games in the franchise, or this sort of fucking money hungry clueless narcissistic business people?

#having no sympathy is crazy #I understand criticism and have some myself because it’s a matter of opinion at the end of the day #but knowing how shitty the industry is and having no sympathy when people lose their jobs for nothing? wild about y’all

deimcs

THE VEILGUARD COMPANIONS + first words.

#what strange babies they all were #lace harding #neve gallus #lucanis dellamorte #emmrich volkarin #Taash #davrin #bellara lutare

wintercorrybriea

anistarrose

[Image description: a (bluesky?) post from colinbroadmoor @/saikohistory reading: "The concept of the 'mass audience' has had a largely deletrious influence on art. Creat art for at most 30 sickos at a time." End description.]

dmbakura

do u ever see someone elses headcannon for ur fave character and its like….. i completely respect that u have the right to that headcannon, i will not confront u at all and start needless bullshit over that headcannon…. but i will silently sit here and give you the sideways glance of the century