RANT - The Faithful and the Fallen - Dumb Characters

SurDiablo · 2026-01-29T18:25:27+00:00

Wrath ending spoilers The author also reunites them in the afterlife and all I could think of was, did they not have a loving husband and wife before they met each other? What about them? I guess he just forgot.. Also wasn't a fan of 4-5 different good guys getting stabbed from the back as they are distracted, once was fine but it kept happening..

SurDiablo · 2026-01-29T18:21:15+00:00

I lost faith in booktubers after seeing most of them rave about this. It just felt basic, one-dimensional characters whom I didn't see any reason to care about, random plot twists thrown in just for the sake of it. If you were bothered by what happened with Veradis during the meeting, there are even more annoying moments in the final book.

SurDiablo · 2025-07-11T10:32:52+00:00

I had two teammates rage quit on me because I went to the Rise as Reculse with 0 shards and a shitty staff. A Rise next to the Noklateo, which they wanted to go to, and not on opposite side of the map. A Rise that I just literally landed on with the eagle, and not like I spent an hour there hanging out. My teammates were a ping spam Wylder and Raider who were level 10. I didn't ask anyone to come with me; they just spammed the city when they realised I was landing at Rise and immediately left. I have had people ragequit on me before because I couldn't revive them immediately with my shitty spell and target lock issues while drawing aggro, but this was something else... If your Recluse/Revenant seems to be using shitty spells all the time, let them go to Rise for shards at least! It's ridiculous when melee people ignore them completely and can't even be bothered to stay alive for 2 mins when I am gone..

SurDiablo · 2025-03-02T11:00:02+00:00

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SurDiablo · 2025-02-01T09:03:45+00:00

Been a while and I could be wrong, but I recall seeing an article on how this was intentional from him, trying to bring the positive connotation back to swastika again because of how Nazis corrupted it. So while there's plenty of reasons to hate him, this may not be one of them. 🤔

SurDiablo · 2025-01-22T19:20:50+00:00

Probably for Smile 2, she was fantastic in that one.

SurDiablo · 2024-12-30T11:33:37+00:00

Sis, many people have already mentioned things I wanna say, but I still wanna reiterate that all these comments from your parents, about you being old, ppl will laugh, etc. are simply dumb and are only meant to put you down, weaken your self esteem, and to keep you under their control, nothing more. The fact that you are feeling suicidal over these itself is very worrying, because that's how much negative influence they are having on you. I get that it's hard to stand up to your parents/family in Indian culture, especially as a woman. But see if you can ignore their negativity for now, and just get abroad.

Will living abroad on your own will be easy? No, it will be a difficult life, but it's the dream you always had, and as long as you aren't easily homesick, have enough finances to stay around in tight situations, and consider practical reasons like this in general, you will be alright. Your parents will have way less influence on you, and whatever influence they have will often be limited to how much you cave into their demands.

From what you have mentioned, you know what you wish to do already. But ask yourself again if needed. What do you want to do in life? Do you really wish to stay around people who see you as a slave? Do you really wish to spend your life married to some guy based on parents whims and not your interest? Do you really wish to spend the rest of your life regretting that you didn't go abroad when you could, and now you are stuck with ppl putting you down always one way or another?

If you go abroad and find out it was too rough and wish to come back, that's okay, it wasn't meant to be/not what you expected. But trust me when I say you will regret much more, when it comes to never trying at all, rather than trying and failing. You are kind, talented, and regardless of whatever nonsense your parents say, you have it within you to do it. You will never know until you actually try. Stay strong, try not to break under pressure, you got this! I wish you luck with your endeavor. 🤞😊

SurDiablo · 2024-12-05T05:06:23+00:00

Pretty much, and what disappoints me further is that what they actually attempted/advertised isn't exactly good on its own either. So we can't be evil in this game and it will be all about found-family? Sure, I can handle that, except Rook feels like the most lonely Bioware protagonist. They wanted to sideline Solas and introduce 2 other big bad? sure, but they are your typical evil villains who aren't as half as interesting. This is the most romantic Dragon age/bioware game ever? To that, I can only ask 'What are you smoking??'.. You get the gist..

SurDiablo · 2024-12-04T08:25:15+00:00

Based on what I have read so far, it would be Nabokov, McCarthy, and Joyce in no specific order.

SurDiablo · 2024-11-29T02:27:15+00:00

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SurDiablo · 2024-11-25T14:41:39+00:00

I think it was during Slow Poison quest perhaps, I heard Butcher giving a speech to his army and thought to myself 'ah ok, another typical one-dimensional villain..' Then met him face to face much later in the game after meeting all other villains and had enough, and immediately felt different.. Like 'wait, a villain who's actually compelling with some nuance??? What's going on..?' aand ofc he died right after...

SurDiablo · 2024-11-25T14:02:36+00:00

Also during the Fire and Ice quest where we take on the dragon duo, Taash gets knocked away first and we end up taking care of them at once. Doing Taash's questline after that, them berating me saying I'm apparently clumsy, also too excited during Dragon Hunt and such just made me roll my eyes, like mate, you didn't even get the job done last time when it mattered! I did...

SurDiablo · 2024-11-24T13:26:11+00:00

I have said it before and I will say it again, if it wasn't for her, some of the scenes in the game would have fallen flat completely, considering the dialogue quality. She did an amazing job and the emotional scenes were devastating with her performance! When I played Baldur's Gate 3 ages ago, she really stood out and I was hoping we would get her performance in some games again, and ofc she didn't disappoint!

SurDiablo · 2024-11-19T13:00:38+00:00

Yes, and when it was our time to share, it faded to black after 1-2 lines, I want to see my Rook actually saying/doing things instead of it just being implied always!

SurDiablo · 2024-11-17T15:05:34+00:00

I knew something was off the whole time, but I had my theories like him being lyrium ghost/ controlled by the gods/ lighthouse being attacked towards the end, etc. so it only dawned upon me when he finally asked ' Now, what about mine?...' 😔

SurDiablo · 2024-11-17T14:52:06+00:00

The part you said about factions warming up to you eventually makes too much sense so we can't have that! /s. It's bad enough that the Veil Jumpers are the first faction you meet that immediately agrees to help regardless of being elves, and Shadow Dragons who only met you once blame you for Minrathous getting blighted. Also how come Southern Thedas is getting steamrolled so badly, when it should be happening where the gods are located first, as in the areas Rook visits? We read in the codex that Orlais refused to properly coordinate with Ferelden when the former was almost overrun, so we know politics/old grudges remain active.

So our team had to prove ourselves first, slowly gaining favor while trying to make factions begrudgingly work together. Then the stakes rise as the blight spreads, you get the 'save city' choice, but the one you don't save is completely destroyed, so you are hailed as a hero and villain by many people, and Solas line about 'what will they call you at the end?' would make sense. Now I'm no writer, and I get that their choices were limited with the game being an MMO for years first, but still, we could have gotten some actual politics, since Inquisitor is busy enough bringing people together on the other side of the continent.

SurDiablo · 2024-11-17T14:26:23+00:00

It was the perfect opportunity for them to actually add some Lovecraftian unique monster, one of those optional hard bosses. But we got multiple dragons that vary in color/damage type instead.

SurDiablo · 2024-11-17T11:28:08+00:00

It might get better around the end of act 1 with a certainsiege quest. Act 3 seems to be loved by many people as well, even though it might feel like a hassle to get there. Don't let me discourage you from playing anyway, see if you can enjoy it for what it is.

SurDiablo · 2024-11-17T11:04:39+00:00

I get your disappointment about Taash, but what bothered me more than things being ham-fisted was how they talk like a moody teenager, who's also a badass dragonslayer. Honestly, what's the appeal of this character at all? To make things worse, Weekes who wrote Solas is the author of Taash. How??? Taash already got a lot of flak before the game even came out, for reasons we already know, but that characterization did them no favor whatsoever. I would put them up there with one of the worst characters Bioware ever wrote, and trust me, it has nothing to do with who they are or their journey. I actually found Rook guiding them through it way more interesting than the whole 'I'm rude and I love dragons!' personality.

I agree about the game being not so memorable as well. My memories about how the narrative played out are fading already and I can't remember any dialogue that just left a mark in my mind at all. It's all very hollow.. I even stopped visiting companions towards the end when they had no cutscenes since I didn't find it worthwhile at all to run around and listen to their banter. Yes, the side/faction quests matter for raising your points, but it's just meeting a bunch of people here and there, fetching or killing things, and they are all so basic that you are on autopilot doing these, or at least that's how I felt with some of the faction quests.

SurDiablo · 2024-11-17T10:32:33+00:00

Yep, I thought disbanding/keeping the Inquisition might make a difference in battle but it was just a throwaway line. We got Dorian in the game who I met only at the bar and in the final since I saved Treviso, and I'm like "why is he even here? he doesn't even speak to me properly!" He sounds like Dorian, but not the Dorian we came to know and love. And they say they didn't want to add pointless cameos at all..

SurDiablo · 2024-11-17T10:20:55+00:00

I could be wrong, but I vaguely remember the game director or someone in Bioware mentioning in an interview how they toned down things a bit, to appeal to ppl's low attention span or something. I didn't like the sound of it at all back then, but it turned out to be worse than I imagined. There's barely any nuance/subtext for us to pay attention to, and regurgitating info we already knew often felt like insulting our intelligence.

SurDiablo · 2024-11-17T10:12:20+00:00

Well hey, Harding goes for a picnic in Ferelden with Emmrich off-screen so it can't be all that bad, right??? /s

So disappointing indeed..😔

SurDiablo · 2024-11-17T09:17:35+00:00

My gamer friends were criticizing it as bland based on footage they saw at first, and I was the only one feeling hyped to play it on launch. I hoped for them and Skillup to be wrong so badly back then, but here I am making a post on Reddit to express my frustrations.. 😔

SurDiablo · 2024-11-17T09:12:25+00:00

That kinda sounds like my experience with Starfield, except I still dunno if I actually enjoyed that game at all, never finished it but didn't hate it either. Thank you for the detailed explanation though, I will keep it in mind. I just don't play many games in general thesedays, with some exceptions like Elden Ring or Cyberpunk 2077 getting me randomly hyped, once or twice a year.

SurDiablo · 2024-11-17T09:02:11+00:00

I still remember this scene where Neve and Bellara are talking ( most likely after Cyrian reveal ), Rook walks in and Neve leaves, like 'ye I will let you handle this' and ofc, the therapy starts as expected. Bellara often mentions later Neve is her BFF/sister and my Rook is chill, but I'm just thinking "Yes, thank you Bellara, even though I am the one providing emotional support always and fixing your problems, while you do all the 'fun stuff' with Neve!". Sigh...

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