and there will be no templars to tear them apart

sideblog, Juno, mid 20s, they/them, main: itbelikethatsmetimes, currently shifting back into dragon age again, otherwise, bg3 and mass effect as well.

[constantinnen]

[hotbabelien]

[colonel-dynamite-gun]

Replaying ME3 for my story and DAMN I forget how well they capture the atmosphere of dread.

[vespaer77]

I think this is why ME3 is my favorite. I know a lot of folks love ME2 and I love them all, allllllmost-but-not-quite equally, but ME3 edges just a little further ahead for me because of this.

They're all good. But ME3 captures a FEELING of desperation, of racing against the clock, while even on a meta level (since it is the last game in the trilogy) that time is running out. Each game in the trilogy has a feeling to it, but the feeling of ME3 is the one that hurts the most. Even the music carries it through. It's like it took the soundtrack of ME2 but made it slower and sadder, while juxtaposed against a game that's such a fast-paced, angry frenzy.

What a masterpiece.

[hardcore-like-eezo]

☝️ THIS.

All of the above, the dread, the desperation…Mass Effect 3 has been my favorite since it came out.

It never lets you forget that you’re losing. Even if you cure the genophage, even if you broker peace between the geth and the quarians, even when you ally with the leviathans, the game never once stops reminding you that in the big picture, across the entire galaxy, you’re still losing to the Reapers. It’s in all the side conversations, the mood when you talk to your crew, the news and the war updates, the codex and galaxy map entries, the music, the pacing. The Reapers are fantastic villains because the game succeeded in making you feel how relentless and oppressive they are.

And then the way it’s balanced with Shepard’s sheer stubborn refusal to believe there isn’t a chance they could survive.

I don’t think I’ve ever played another game that sucked me in so much to its atmosphere.

[sewermageboy]

Thinking about the relationship between Joker and Kaidan.

How they've both been there since the beginning, how their first scene is them sitting together in the cockpit of the Normandy, teasing each other. How Joker sticks by Shepard's side the entire time while Kaidan doesn't. How Joker judges Kaidan for not coming to fight the Collectors. How Kaidan blames Joker for causing Shepard's first death. How Joker knows Kaidan is right to blame him. How they're both back on the Normandy in the end, saving the galaxy. How they can both lose the person they love (Shepard and EDI) to save everyone else.

[nerdyspeechy]

And then we end with this, coming full circle.

[elzuniawhy]

yes, Bellara, yes. tell them.

[illusidy]

I haven't cursed Tumblr with this yet-- here you gO! 🤣

[sarnomii]

Really quick Logan doodle before I roll down a hill somewhere

Reference:

Here it is if people want it for some reason

[zusua-coi]

Sleepyhead and Space-case 💙💛

[meanbossart]

Ghost Adder is becoming my favorite KCD2 character.

A goofy thing based on "(Ass)istance from Beyond" by @shortypipatrick and Cat-ilina. Thank you once again for the hysterical fic!

[ladyirisse]

i love da 2 because there’s something so fundamentally and viscerally wrong with all of the companions

[sinizade]

Anders +50 Friendship

[reformedwolfgirl]

have some patience hans he just learned how to write

[jottles]

sweet skalitz boy, you can't join them yet. get up. this would be a pitiful grave.

i can't feel my wrists my back or my crack but it was worth it cuz I love how this turned out.

[ilunibee]

margrave jobst shitting the bed at raborsch moodboard

[symmetricmusician]

[rowanisawriter]

henry listening to the whole knights story and listening to hans tell him he would kill himself if anything happened to henry and he’s like im going to just place my hand over yours and leave and that’s enough for me like if hans hadn’t pulled him in and made the first move henry would’ve been satisfied with just that simple touch he knows his place and wouldn’t have asked for more. whole game he’s been slowly growing more bold with hans but only with his words “anything for you” “i care about you” “i won’t allow anything to happen to you” words you can say as a squire to a lord, afraid of going any further, and hans is the one who closes the distance he’s the one who apologized first in the cell, he’s the one who went for the hug in Maleshov, hes the one who asks henry out to a hunt and a drink, he’s the one who tells this story and then grabs henry before he leaves and kisses him. Henry knows his place and can only hope. Hans knows his place and it’s with henry. Get out of THE FUCKING WAY QUICK

[reformedwolfgirl]

saw someone say that henry would struggle with this

[meanbossart]

Mlord I appreciate the gesture, but I don't think this flower wreath you made me can replace a helmet.