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vaguely-concerned · 2 years

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sometimes you will hear a small voice in your head that whispers '...but what if you did another playthrough of dragon age inquisition? like just to get those good good lore brain tingles going while we wait for the next game? it doesn't have to be a completionist playthrough or anything, we could get it done quick'. and I want you to know that is the devil speaking to you because he gets kickbacks on every moment spent farming power in the hinterlands

#brought to you by: I got knocked the fuck out by my booster shot and I am absolutely doing a replay right this moment #because honestly it's all I'm good for rn lmao #(...for all its faults I do love this mess of a game very much)#I would have the same instinct for mass effect andromeda except for the fact that I have 99%-ed that game fjdskalds #like I have content-fished the HELL out of that game there's literally nothing left to discover in it I haven't already found #(it's 99% because of 1 (bugged I think) relic thingy and I don't have the matchmaker achievement b/c I'm chronically not a multishipper)#I have done damn near completionist playthroughs of da:i too but that game is just... indefensibly large hahaha #(also both games are so overladen with overly complicated systems that drag them down; I hope we get less of that going forward)#I think I just miss the sense of almost zen-like peace I get from the bioware open world formula #those long stretches of absolutely nothing and then the motherlode of dopamine when you finally find something and the characters speak #I don't think that formula is good for the games but it *does* provide some meditative calm for me when I get hyperfixated #which like... we take our victories within our defeats in this house #I did the same thing with fallout 4 as with me:a btw. the era of bloated open world rpgs = bad for the art form and the industry #good for my poor tired brain #...can you tell how badly I need bioware to get their shit together and put out a game again fhksjfas #it's not my fault they got me with jade empire when I was still an innocent child and now no other games hit quite the same

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