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I really didn’t ever expect we’d ever even see Veilguard. In light of this article…..once again shoutout to the dev team for making such a beautiful game under the absolute worse time crunch. For the writing, characters, and gameplay itself to be this good under such hellish circumstances is incredible. Also fuck Bioware and EA for the record.

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gently

— (cullen & ellana)

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my oldest dragon age couple and yet i hardly draw them :( this must be rectified posthaste

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Wip ✨Commander Cullen

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sword in the right hand of the divine

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ah dang they’ve introduced the candidates for the new papacy idk who to choose guys

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I love, how this one turned out

Miss my precious boy.

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Gosh I love taking the companions who don’t fit well for the quest

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More older Kieran!! He’s still figuring things out 🥹

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Dragon Age is dead and Bioware killed it by wasting ten years fucking around and mismanaging and abusing their staff with crunch and not letting the creatives and writers actually do their job. Instead the leaders at Bioware were just as into Games As a Service and Live Service and Empty Open Worlds as EA was. This isn’t a case of “oh poor wittle Bioware”. Bioware implemented 60-80 hour work weeks and ran around with their heads cut off when making Anthem. Bioware is the one that was sued for severance by former employees.

Veilguard failed because it’s a shitty cobbling together mechanics and art direction of Skyrim, God of War, Mass Effect 2, and League of Legends/Fortnite. No cohesion, no distinct Dragon Ageness other than the grudgingly acknowledged setting that feels like the writers are so disinterested or even resentful that they have to abide by a technical ‘canon’ if they’re not allowed to ignore, shelf, or literally sacrifice to the Blight.

No the opinion of Veilguard is not gonna “lighten up” or be more positive as time goes on. Have people “lightened up” on Game of Thrones S8 or the series finale of Dexter? No. Similar ire and resentment will remain for Veilguard because of how blatant the fumbling and atrocious mishandling of this game was. And yes, I would’ve preferred this game had not come out at all because then this shitty development to the canon wouldn’t exist.

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"I thought maybe I could say something. Tell you what a rare and wonderful thing you are to find amidst all this... darkness."

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forget elgar'nan and ghilan'nain. forget the blight. forget elven gods. when THE cassandra allegra portia calogera filomena pentaghast finds out that solas killed varric first instead of her, what happened at adamant will seem like child's play. veilguard, a fever dream. that yappy lil dwarf may have been the absolute bane of her existence but he was HER bane. god rest his soul

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"i'm looking respectfully" well i'm looking carnally. i'm looking like a whore

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Knights and Spirits

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Goldsleeves

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Templars

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Mages when they run out of mana 🤣