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MASS EFFECT 2: LEGENDARY EDITION (2021) dev. BioWare -> Dossier: Archangel

me: i’m fine

me internally:

I can’t believe people talk so much shit about dragon age 2 when it was made in only 16 months which is not even remotely close to the average time needed to make a video game of this scale, especially one that’s the continuation of a massively critically acclaimed, deep lore, fantasy game. Despite that, it manages to create actually morally grey situations that are debated by fans more than events in any other dragon age game, many fan favourite complex characters who defy stereotypes and reflect the themes of the story, a more relatable protagonist not a savior of the universe who you really feel for and can easily connect to despite being very different depending on your choices, gameplay that is fun and not nearly as useless as people make it out to be, a story that works well on its own and is still relevant today by having refuges of war, conflicts between historically opposing groups, the morality of choosing a side and the tragedy of trying your best while the world and specifically your home crumbles down around you no matter what you do because in the end you cannot change the world. And while I don’t love the binary option of good, funny and direct personality or rivalry vs friendship romance I like the first because once you establish a basic personality the banter adapts to that which makes Hawke less flat and more defined (also your personality can change between acts aka how real life happens) and i can appreciate the second for defying the video game formula of “if I click on enough of the stuff you like you’ll fall in love with me”. Also while the maps and the design for Kirkwall are mostly dreadful, Kirkwall still manages to be a city with character that through its smaller story sets up Inquisition pretty damn well.

butyoutoldmeiwasfunny

alliando

Miles meets the little nerd from earth 19-9999

cannibalchicken

miss-holloways

We've been given so much this summer

emily-e-draws

postgrad studies at the london enclave 🌱✨

#scholomance

what-even-is-thiss

I reject the idea that kindness and gentleness and love needs to involve a bunch of gentle flowery language

what-even-is-thiss

I help you move, I bake you a pie, I sit next to you on purpose. How are you not getting the message yet? What do you want? A love poem? I don't know how to write those. Here, take this rock. It's your favorite color.

what-even-is-thiss

One of my dad's close friends reads online newspapers constantly and he always texts my dad articles that he thinks that he would enjoy. Where's the romanticization of that kind of behavior?

knightofleo

Happy Pride Mnth.

rylandsgrace

Barbie + text posts

fairycosmos

parents are so crazy because they can say the most fucked up shit to you when your brain is forming and it sets the tone for your whole adult mind set and then they forget about it the next day

milflaralorvan-deactivated20231

when you see your little kitty walking toward you at a leisurely pace and say "hi baby!" bc you're excited to see her and she starts trotting a little bit faster 'cause she's excited to see you too. that's what life is all about i think

once-a-polecat

But what about how she says “mrrrow” just as she starts her lil trot?

mclennonyaoi

you ever know someone and you think “god i love you. i wish we could’ve known eachother when we were carefree and 11. i wish we could’ve played together as kids”