The Veilguard was the very shiny, very pretty nail in the coffin.

I really tried to enjoy myself. God, I tried so hard. I attempted to find nuggets of joy within its hamfisted dialogue, one-note companions and the flashy but soulless fights. But I just couldn’t do it. Every time there was a glimmer of hope, it was dashed against the rocks of infinite disappointment.

Honestly, I’m amazed I finished it. There was certainly a point where I was starting to feel like I’d rather do anything else than listen to a hot Grey Warden talk about his big dumb bird for the hundredth time, or play therapist to a giant dragon slayer who just wants to moan about how their mum doesn’t understand them. These should have been great characters. A veteran knight reclaiming his order’s lost legacy, a proud warrior wrestling with their cultural and gender identity—there’s so much good stuff to mine here. But nope, they’re just plain boring. All of them.

I’m beating a dead horse, I know. I’ve already said my piece. But it’s just a real shame. When I got to the final cutscene that teased what we can expect from the next Dragon Age, it really sealed the deal. I’m out. BioWare just isn’t telling stories I care about anymore. Instead of moping around, I’m moving on. BioWare had an exceptional run, but that developer is long gone. What’s left is just an EA studio that makes middling games I’m not really interested in.

  • Linktank@lemmy.today
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    7 days ago

    Why does the text in the post start halfway through the text in the link?

    Is it emphasis given by the OP, or a glitch?

    Kind of annoying to have to click the damned link if the text can just be in the body of the post. What, do you work for PC gamer?

    • alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgOPM
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      7 days ago

      Kind of annoying to have to click the damned link if the text can just be in the body of the post. What, do you work for PC gamer?

      no offense but why are you on a link aggregator (and a clone of Reddit in particular) if you’re averse to clicking links? that’s literally the point of this form of social media: emphasis on sharing interesting links from other places, with the expectation that you’ll follow them.

      in any case we strongly discourage the practice of copying the entire article because it’s technically copyright infringement, we generally expect people to actually engage with what’s posted instead of drive-by commenting, and it’s just generally bad form to rob writers of attention and click-throughs for their work.

      • DdCno1@beehaw.org
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        6 days ago

        in any case we strongly discourage the practice of copying the entire article

        Huh, that’s interesting. I’ve been seeing it here so often that I thought it was kind of expected.

    • mox@lemmy.sdf.org
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      7 days ago

      Why does the text in the post start halfway through the text in the link?

      People sometimes do this to call attention to the part of an article that they found most interesting.

      Kind of annoying to have to click the damned link if the text can just be in the body of the post.

      Re-posting the entire body of a copyrighted work is sometimes considered bad form. Some forums ban it outright. Even where it’s not illegal or banned, not everyone likes to do it.