my wife and i have been losing our marbles over this since yesterday

ok, this was my first proper dragon fight rather than the 3 minutes of dragon slapping at minrathous. that was fun! fuck you mythal lmfao

morrigan you rushed taerith back to the south now look what we got. the guy is yearning hard to the poor shadow dragons agent standing at the fireplace dsfsdfsdfjfsds

it's he!!

i still find it funny how it's in the game with the shittiest writing in the series that the writers decided to write CHIM at home. I AM and I ARE ALL WE and all that

think i should just shave her eyebrows at this rate. i hate how they interfere with the vitaar dfjdsfjsfd

that..... that's just a blatant dark souls rip off..............

this piece of writing did get to me though. we knew he changed his mind on slavery during inquisition, and in trespasser his letter, at least if romanced, mentions servants, implying that his family no longer has slaves. the ending of it too. dorian in inquisition, afraid and yearning to love, to dorian now encouraging others to embrace love as a foundational value. character growth

why….. why am i getting varric narration in the middle of the game. this shit just happened…… i saw it……. i literally just played it jsjsjssj why did they think all this senseless exposition was necessary sjsjsn

like on paper i don't mind that physically going into the fade is more normal now, i don't mind that arlathan is for some fucking reason populated now, that everyone just accepts that the elvhen gods are ancient dictators. it's just so jarring to go from a worldstate where these things aren't normal to one where they are matter of fact, or consensus is seemingly easily reached when it shouldn't.

we get glimpses of the cost that the ritual the magister sidereal made to go into the fade had in inquisition; the companions are terrified when we enter the fade in here lies the abyss; and in trespasser they paid lip service to the way the fade is inherently harmful for non-elves as was shown in the books, now we're just camped in it. it was a huge fucking deal when we go to arlathan in trespasser. we don't see conflicting opinions on the elvhen gods, the dalish seemingly "own up" to what their ancestors' enslavers did, and for what? it has no bearing on them. that details of history got lost and corrupted are a testament to the powerful propaganda engine of the evanuris, not a failure of the dalish.

some datv things.

i'm playing with a mournwatcher 2-handed warrior. her name is ghost and she's my unhinged crypt baby and i'm happy that you can in fact make cool looking qunari. i want to change her brows though. ignore the veil jumper armor theft in the second pic fdjdsfjfds

the writing isn't gelling with me at all so far. it feels very expository as in it is there to keep the plot moving and inform you of character traits and world topics in no uncertain terms. rather than immersive and rich in themes. and other gripes i won't get to here.

so far the best parts have been the environment visuals (NOT the actual design as game levels. the puzzles are insulting) and the combat. i'm playing on nightmare mode minus enemy hp (see settings below). i like that the enemies commit to attacks; the controls feel very responsive on the pc (i switched to it since i found the deck a bit laggy on the input). idk yet how i feel about the animation canceling. on one hand the souls player in me feels that it trivializes combat; on the other, the game is always pitting you against larger groups, so it was designed with it in mind. the two handed sprint heavy attack is honestly op and it's so funny to me that that's become my dominant strategy. otherwise the combat feels a bit... trivial? i wish the enemies did more damage. i did die once to the pride demon, but it was clearly due to input lag on the steam deck, since that install was a bit wonky. the combat is the absolute highlight for me though

disregard the poopie quality on the deck: my gremlin son