I decided to continue playing before I reply to you, and now after roughly 60 hours and progressing Bellara’s story, I agree with you, my criticism was funny. She turns out quite alright and becomes very intriguing after a few more hours.

I honestly have to say tho, they really butchered the beginning of the game, and the more you progress, the more it seems to find it’s footing, or dare I say, a Dragon Age-esque tone.

Actually, that’s a good point.

I’m playing it too rn, and I agree with the stuff you said. Also, yes, the review bombing is all-out based-ness for the most part (~90% from what I’ve seen). But there are other criticisms that I think are valid.

I’m personally not enjoying the game, to put it mildly, for multiple reasons:

• the writing: the dialogs are flat, the lines are so repetitive that at some points I’m just zoning out, bc I don’t want to hear again that “dwarves don’t dream” or that “Elgar’nan and Ghilan’hanin” escaped their prison. I got the impression that there’s little love or even interest in the stuff they’ve been writing. It feels heartless and lifeless, which is incredibly sad given how interesting the plot actually is (bunch of guys trying to prevent the end of the world)
• the lore inaccuracies: it’s as if they started writing this game and went like “All that lore we created for and in the first 3 games? Shredd it, we don’t need that”. One instance would be the “dwarves don’t dream” thing. Dwarves sleep and dream. They just can’t enter the Fade in their dreams. (That’s just one, but there’s so much more.)
• the (voice) acting/tone of the game: I’m blaming this mostly on the dialog, but some voice lines are delivered in such unfitting tones of voice. Like, guys, how tf are you so cheery, you’re trying to stop the end of the world? That’s not per se a bad idea, but given that dragon age has always been so dark and sarcastic, it feels so out of place for all these characters being so annoyingly cheery. (Maybe I’ll get used to this, Idk)
• Bellara: perfect example of how to butcher a potentially amazing character. First of all, this character feels like a horrible stereotype of someone with ADHD, like “omg, sorry, I’m rambling and so random”, like fr, this is not how it works. Second, her backstory is actually great which really doesn’t shine through enough. And third, whoever decided to give her the Garrus line (“calibrations”)??? It feels so out of place and not funny at all.

I like the combat system, it’s somewhat refreshing to see an action rpg setup in dragon age, so that your mage finally doesn’t die immediately in close combat scenarios. I’m also madly in love with the hair animations. I keep entering the character creator to swoosh around the hair lol.

All in all, I wouldn’t recommend (buying) the game, but it definitely has its moments.

Get well soon comrade, we are here for you I really hope you (and your dog) will be okay!

Just making sure I’m truly not a liberal!

Nixon had the unique ability to make his enemies seem honorable, and we developed a keen sense of fraternity. Some of my best friends have hated Nixon all their lives. My mother hates Nixon, my son hates Nixon, I hate Nixon, and this hatred has brought us together.

Nixon laughed when I told him this. “Don’t worry,” he said, “I, too, am a family man, and we feel the same way about you.”

This is so comically evil I can’t

Thank you so much for sharing that piece of info!

Part of my master’s thesis was about panopticism, and I’m not sure I wanna laugh or cry at this.

Is it just me or does Karl Marx look like the lovechild of Marx and Taika Waititi?