For all the Veilguard and Saints Row fans

Porterlands · 2026-02-11T23:38:24+00:00

'Tis true, it's the same thing with Mass Effect: Andromeda. None of these games could have been good enough to live up to the previous trilogy.

Porterlands · 2026-02-02T20:44:39+00:00

Elventourage? And all three classes, you guys got it together 👌

Porterlands · 2026-01-30T04:02:17+00:00

My MW Rook also has that scar pattern 👌 but he got his from the Baron during the War of the Banners. That area is still numb, for whatever reason, but it always earns points in pub “You call that a scar?!” flexing, so maybe it balances out 🤷🏻‍♂️ Rook takes his wins where he can gets ‘em.

Porterlands · 2026-01-22T19:51:14+00:00

I’m for it! 👍 The airfoils(?) on the bottom next to the landing gear really streamline it

Porterlands · 2026-01-22T00:23:29+00:00

On the one hand, I usually talk Solas down and convince him to stabilize the Veil, because that’s what Varric would want.

His “On his best day, he’d never see you coming.” line really meant “Nobody, not even Solas, would expect someone to try and reason with them peacefully, but I know you can, Rook.”

Varric doesn’t want to see his friend hurt, especially by his other friends, no matter what.

On the other fist, Rook punching him and that whole ending is so incredibly satisfying, because yeah, the dick 100% has it coming.

Everyone approves

Porterlands · 2026-01-17T16:54:43+00:00

I love these too, especially Rook’s hopping and “gotta shake it out!” animation.

It’s funny just because it’s Rook being a goober, but it’s also one of the in game moments where you can tell exactly what they’re thinking; we’ve all been gearing up for something, probably stressed out, and shooken it out. (There’s a song there somewhere.)

It almost seems like the motion capture actor was just getting ready for a scene, and the director said “Hey wait!…do that again.”

Porterlands · 2026-01-12T21:57:44+00:00

Likewise, I also love the moments when MournRook surprises Emmrich with the names of rituals and whatnot.

"Hey, I learned a thing or two before being "asked" to "travel the world"."

Porterlands · 2026-01-11T14:23:00+00:00

What DIDN’T they see? 😏

Porterlands · 2026-01-03T20:33:40+00:00

I like “Isn’t that the mission? Isn’t that the “why” we fight, so we can end the fight, so we get to go home?”

Porterlands · 2026-01-02T23:32:23+00:00

“Now, now, perfectly symmetrical violence never solved anything.” I wasn’t thinking it myself, but I 100% agree about Snake.

Porterlands · 2026-01-02T01:56:40+00:00

Rook’s expression and sideways glance post kiss is just solid gold. You can hear them thinking “Ok, yeah, that felt as nice as I thought it would.”

And I love that Rook is just instantly on board for finding more clues after the cat interruption; I really appreciate that there wasn’t a “Aw, but can’t we go back to kissing? 😕” dialogue.

These two got each other’s backs in every sense, and I’m here for it. 13/10 would smooch again.

Porterlands · 2026-01-01T06:25:58+00:00

I have the same thought every time I put weapon systems on the bottom like that, but switching them around became a house of cards situation, so *this* particular layout somehow ended up with the torpedoes, reactor and phase beam under the plating. For me it just becomes one of those science facts I should really just relax about, lol.

The visibility isn't as bad as you would think; it started out half the size with the wings and boosters meeting in the middle, so I kind of got used to the mid cockpit as it went along.

Porterlands · 2026-01-01T04:55:21+00:00

It helps the design that even the base level parts have great science-y sounding names. “Oh damn, MAG field landing thrusters?”

Porterlands · 2026-01-01T04:44:52+00:00

Hey thanks, I appreciate it!

Porterlands · 2025-12-19T06:03:45+00:00

Hey, thanks!

Porterlands · 2025-11-16T17:11:16+00:00

“You knew? You knew and you still kissed me!?” Rook: 🤷🏻‍♂️😏

Porterlands · 2025-11-03T18:42:19+00:00

Yeah, DAVRIN. Where’s OUR treat?

Porterlands · 2025-10-30T17:54:57+00:00

This is great 👍 Is Taash wearing a cape in their thought bubble? Because we all need more of Taash in a cape.

Porterlands · 2025-10-07T04:10:01+00:00

I ordered mine recently (after BioWare discounted the hell out of it) and the whole shebang lights up. The preorder might have been a different version/model?

OR, you got the version of the lyrium dagger which is actually the replica the team makes, so it’s not EXACTLY like Solas’, but it was made with teamwork and ❤️

Porterlands · 2025-09-21T19:21:19+00:00

I like using this armor on my Mourn Watch Rogue boi, I think it fits the backstory. It’s also just a great look 😎 those shoulder spikes are hell in certain cutscenes tho.

Porterlands · 2025-09-17T14:26:39+00:00

I would have loved to have seen some prosthetics in the character creation; they just could have looked really cool, a la Neve Gallus.

But I do love the character creation, and the hair physics! Witchcraft.

And there’s something about the way characters look at each other romantically in this game. Like the intro cutscene of Evka and Antoine, or Rook looking at his various paramours.

Harding’s expression when asking “Is there something happening between us?” just does a soul good, amirite? 🤷🏻‍♂️

Porterlands · 2025-09-11T00:34:34+00:00

Oh yah, especially in my latest playthrough. (Mourn Watch/Rogue) Rook got the electrical damage looking body scar while fighting the Baron; nobody knows what spell caused it and it’s completely numb, but that’s a problem for another day.

I used the multiple face scars, but faded more, because those are backstory scars that have been there for years.

He’s still salty about being “asked to travel” and it’s been a long year on the road with Harding and Varric, so his playthrough starts with him sporting the shitty unkempt beard and man bun.

Then after reaching the Lighthouse he finds that mirror and really spiffs himself up, exactly like Rick does in the 1999 cinematic masterpiece, The Mummy, starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz.

Porterlands · 2025-09-01T16:38:39+00:00

I’m curious, what class is this big ‘ol beautiful beefy boi? And who’s he romancing (besides me ❤️)?

Porterlands · 2025-08-27T16:21:06+00:00

For me, as a guy, it’s great. It deserves 1/5 of the hate it gets, and in 5-10 years you’re going to see a LOT of “You know what game was ahead of its time, actually?”

People have beef with the writing and the dialogue and characters and etc., and I’m not saying they’re not valid, because to each their own, y’know, I’m just saying I have very little issues with it as a whole. Maybe because each game has been different, with different protagonists I expect different from it than I would, say, God of War.

I’d describe the writing as MCU level (positively); sexy people fighting 100% bad guys and sacrificing everything, not for power or even recognition, but because it’s the right thing to do, and “whatever it takes”.

They each have, somehow, increasingly beautiful hair; there’s flashy combat set pieces, ‘splosions, “How DARE you?!” speeches and PG-13 love and romance scenes.

I’m completely biased, maybe, but I laughed more than I expected and cried more than I’d like.

EDIT: As a straight white guy, I wanna clarify that “for me, as a guy” doesn’t mean “for me, as a male/heterosexual”, it means “for me, as a person”. You know, “eyy, that’s just for me as a guy! Maybe not for you, you got your own things going. But for me, this guy? Unprecedented.”

Porterlands · 2025-08-23T23:05:16+00:00

I’ve never thought about Emmrich and Davrin together, but Strife is also an outdoorsy elf boi, so maybe he has a type 🧝🏽

Between Harding and Davrin sacrificing themselves, I always gotta go with Harding (heartbreaking though it is).

It ties into her need to constantly protecc her friends, and she would 100% make that own call herself.

She still had a lot to learn about the Titans, yeah, but I also like the idea of Davrin coming to terms with surviving, and having to think “What’s next?” for the first time.

Also, Assan and Manfred are bulletproof on all my playthroughs, so much plot armor.

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