I hope Dreadwolf gives you at least a little bit of what you crave, soldier π«‘
For what it's worth, Dragon Age as a fandom has some of the nicest, least gatekeepy gamers I've ever interacted with. I feel really bad y'all are stuck under EA's thumb.
I agree with you, same thing happened with Last of Us 2. Valid criticism was drowned out and to this day if you say you disliked any aspect of the game you have to give a disclaimer that it isn't because there were gay/trans people in the game.
I think DA2 knew what it wanted to be, EA just decided to not let Bioware have the time or manpower to do it.
I personally think that it still has the best overarching story, environ and atmosphere in the series so far, and (controversial opinion) I LIKED that I played as Hawke. The Warden and the Inquisitor are the typical "thrown into a world changing even they have tenuous connections to", and feel a degree removed from anything but the main event sometimes.
But Hawke? They are in the thick of it. Does not matter what class Hawke is, my guy/girl is going through it at every (repeated dungeon) stage of the game. I honestly felt more for Hawke in my playthrough of DA2 than my personal avatars in Origin and Inquisition. Kirkwall sucks soooo bad, man.
By then, real reviews will make themselves known.
This is the way. There are corpo/early access reviewers who are giving it 10/10s, and I'm also seeing morons screeching about review-boming it because of the DEI/Woke Agendaβ’οΈ and that you can make a non-binary player character. It's gonna be a shitshow on release.
Feel bad for the Dragon Age fans, they've been waiting for this for ages.
-puts on tinfoil hat- Is this why we're suddenly getting so many remasters/remakes?
-takes off hat- No, it's probably because the corporate gaming industry is creatively bankrupt and want to cash in on nostalgia with minimal risk. But remakes/remasters probably strengthen the "market harm" portion of their argument.
I would like colourful phones back though, they were so much more fun compared to the sea of black/white/grey + ONE option in the blue-purple spectrum we have today.
Can we get that AND bigger batteries?...bigger colourful batteries even?
This is so real, who tf books an all hands meeting on a Friday afternoon
Thank you for this, I had to scroll down so far to find a subscription-wall free link. Makes me wonder if anyone actually checked the article...
Yikes, sorry for that. I've had the electric depillers cause holes in my knitwear/sweaters more often than I like, that's why I went back to old traditions and haven't had any problems.
Could be user error for both of us, but maybe the real lesson is that clothes nowadays suck/are flimsy as hell?
The headline is doing such a disservice to the actual study, because the study itself is a good thing. 86 000 participants auto-tracked instead of self-reporting (as we've seen in other similar studies) over several years demonstrating that standing for long periods of time is not better than sitting for the same amount.
It might seem obvious to some people, but "common sense" isn't always the same as actual science. This is the type of research and evidence we need to make informed health choices.
You get it. I agree with all of your complaints (but another unpopular opinion, I didn't mind Sera we got lol)
Inquisition is actually my least favourite in the series, and I hate the pivot to hyperfocus on the "super special elves" and getting the most out of the story ONLY if you play a specific type of elf. I'm also not absolutely gaga for Varric (I like him, I just don't think he should be everywhere). I felt really fatigued by the end of the game tbh.