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I always liked how Obs handled diversity in Deadfire, i.e. they just put it there along with world building for it to make sense, no fanfares or shining a spotlight on it.

I view it as a cenotaph to Bioware as it was at its peak. Here's hoping it stays for a long, long time so I could come and pay annual respects.

Damn, will have to log in then, really don't want to lose my Darths Continentia, Halitosis and Bertie Wooster, my bounty hunter Payme, Jedi Knight Izno Goud, Cathar trooper Gary Kittenberg...

Seriously, never encountered "Do not want" meme before? Or never was interested how it came into existence?

My very first Shepard looked very much like lady who owned craft beer store on my that time home-work route. Very nice lady, was fun to chat a little while shopping at hers. My one true Shepard forever.

I kinda feel now how Romans were when Caligula made his horse a senator.

Yeah, with the world's name Thedas (aka The Dragon Age Setting), one of the towns named Lothering etc. it does look more like something that evolved from D&D session that took 4 years. Thing is, the world made sense and had enough verisimilitude so that if I had questions of how and why something happened, it was easy to find explanations without breaking game's inner logic and it was fun to play (still is). Second game had this too if you squinted at the story through tacked-on decisions like "We need boss fight either way!" or "No time for too different branches", but it was buried under the pile of stupid. By the third game pile of stupid turned into mountain of stupid, and from what I read about the last one they pretty much threw everything away and now's it just generic high fantasy.

And some of us dye transmogs in Bozo the Clown colours.

Attractive is fine, but judging by screenshots and often discourse itself a lot of people equal "attractive woman" with "woman wearing beach/bordello attire when game does not take place in either", meanwhile dudes always dress sensibly. I'm all for equality that goes both directions, so if your game dresses ladies in brothelcore, gimme a dude I can send into battle wearing purple polka dot thong and nipple clamps.

Oh well. The lesson all other countries should take from this is never, ever neglect your education systems.

Hey, maybe Bioware's execs let EA's execs write Veilguard out of gratitude, judging by general opinion on its story Anyway. All this talk of DA made me reinstall Origins, which I don't think I need to spend more time with, since it's one of very few games I collected 100% cheevos for, but here I am. I love how things make sense in it. It's also less brown than I remember it.

If it allows me to kick those Pixary twee bobbleheads into a well King Leonidas style I'm good with it. Won't even need a ~*snarky*~ quip afterwards.

I agree that it was never dark fantasy, just plain old heroic fantasy with darkish curtains. But when compared side to side with this safe and fluffy amalgamation of Fortnite and Disney, I can see how in retrospect DA:O might look pitch-black. P.S.: Speaking of Fortnite, maaaaybe in a few years I could slip this DAV as a gateway drug into RPGs to my nephew, who is currently Fortnite-loving eight-year old.

I skipped Anthem no problem, this one also looks skippable. Especially with scathingly dismissive reviews like this: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/dragon-age/with-the-veilguard-dragon-age-has-forgotten-its-dark-fantasy-roots-and-become-biowares-avengers/

So because of some youtuber you wasted money that would have bought you lots and lots of beer on something you don't need or want?