I always wished there had been a scene in Dragon Age Inquisition where Solas is at the tavern completely drunk and referring to himself as being a god and everyone just thinks its hilarious.
I'm so fascinated by the kett. What percentage of the Andromeda galaxy have they conquered? They don't know how to build Mass Relays, but they've adapted for lengthy journeys anyway. Their twisted ideology clearly started before they reached the stars. I want to know more about them. And defeat them, of course.
My embroidery of the Sera character card from Dragon Age Inquisition is now complete!
75 hours of work, 11.5x19.5 cm
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[Image description: An embroidered version of the Sera character selection card from Dragon Age Inquisition. She stands atop a slanted tree trunk with her bow held suggestively between her legs, looking at the Skyhold tower in the distance, where the tiny figure of the inquisitor is present in the window. Mountains and turrets make up the background behind her.]
For the record I feel like saying "Dreadwolf is going to suck because they laid off Mary Kirby" is like... really dramatically missing the point of what's going on here.
The next game has been in alpha for nearly a year now. Kirby's work on the game as a writer was probably mostly finished. Which does not make this better. If anything, it makes it worse.
The layoffs aren't terrible news because a game we're looking forward to might be worse because of them. They're terrible news because people who have devoted years of blood, sweat, and tears to making the game good (including the person who wrote one of the two characters on which they've been hanging the entire marketing campaign for said game thus far) have been axed now that the company has decided it can probably get by without them.
The quality of the game when it finally comes out is irrelevant here. If it's amazing, it won't make this any better, and if it's awful, it won't make it any worse. What matters is the people whose labor made it exist at all are profoundly undervalued, the industry as a whole is broken and frankly abusive, and I wish everyone in it some good labor organizing.
Big BioWare sale currently on Steam: Every Dragon Age and Mass Effect game for $20, including all DLC. "BioWare mega collection" for 90% off. The bundle includes Mass Effect Legendary Edition. [source]
Bioware just announced it's canning another 50 employees, including Mary Kirby, and I'm just miserable about what that means for the state of the games and the future of the studio.
Having seen you're post about things you're getting about Vivienne I felt that it was time I said something. She is one of my favorite characters in Inquisition, as she is an empowered woman. She is politically savvy, knows how to play the game, and knows when to be ruthless.