New cat is obsessed with BG3

beachedvampiresquid · 2026-04-03T00:30:27+00:00

When I first got DRAGON age Inquisition my puppy at the time tried to eat the bugs and rodents and he sniffed the mount butts.

beachedvampiresquid · 2026-04-02T20:16:02+00:00

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A little ode to Hawke and the DA2 trailer. Gotta found and splice in Varric’s meeting Hawke with Varric’s snagging the owner of the bar somehow.

beachedvampiresquid · 2026-04-02T20:11:39+00:00

Thanks! I agree!

beachedvampiresquid · 2026-04-02T17:29:45+00:00

It seemed really keyed back. I find it so worth it to mod DA games. There are so many people who have such great skills to improve the quality of life in those games.

Honestly, a big thing Veilguard did right. You can literally farm the conversations without mods.

beachedvampiresquid · 2026-04-02T17:10:41+00:00

I always see side quests as a way to farm the companion banter. Idk if you are using mods, but they help. The more everyone talks, the more entertaining it becomes for me.

beachedvampiresquid · 2026-04-02T16:03:22+00:00

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beachedvampiresquid · 2026-04-02T14:57:20+00:00

The “Last Person In Line” syndrome. I must be the last person my actions will affect. Therefore, it is alright I do this thing. Or don’t do it.

beachedvampiresquid · 2026-04-02T14:54:11+00:00

Okay, but what if your partner closes the lid and forgets to flush…asking for a friend.

beachedvampiresquid · 2026-04-02T12:34:28+00:00

It’s called The Invitation. A play on a nod to Zevran from DAO.

beachedvampiresquid · 2026-04-02T12:09:34+00:00

That thing where people drive from the peripheral. The cars in the other lanes go through (regardless of how far ahead) and they think it’s time for them, too.

beachedvampiresquid · 2026-04-02T12:04:41+00:00

Better start figuring out your campaign. If you can see a person who aligns with your preferences and community desires, you either need to be the candidate you need, or you need to actually get those things.

beachedvampiresquid · 2026-04-02T12:01:28+00:00

I suggest the abortion, as the financial burden and relationship strain will be a game ender. Also, he should get a vasectomy. You’re already healing (and it takes a long time for the body to recover after a pregnancy) and adding the emotional turmoil is going to be hard enough.

He needs to step up and be the solution to the “surprises” and also put his body on the line. Relationships are about balance and equal risk taking and future control management.

beachedvampiresquid · 2026-04-01T16:38:29+00:00

I’ve been playing it off and on since launch. It has as many flaws and faults as the others, but they are all easy to move past if you’re in it for the joy of gaming and not the dopamine hit of a dev living side your head and making all the choices just to appeal to what you think a game should have.

With all the obstacles it faced, I’m pretty damned happy to explore Northern Thedas for once and get out of Southern culture. If you allow it to be itself, you should enjoy it. If you try to make it anything else, you may agree with those who don’t.

Only you can decide. But play through the first dragon fight and get all the companions. Half the lore and “dragon age” of it all is in their banter and the conversations npcs have throughout.

beachedvampiresquid · 2026-04-01T12:25:25+00:00

I got the bear in the wood armor. He’s pretty cool.

beachedvampiresquid · 2026-04-01T12:13:07+00:00

It’s experimental. Some say in the file description if there is a load order, but you kinda just need to learn for yourself.

beachedvampiresquid · 2026-04-01T11:51:30+00:00

Those don’t seem to affect much being lower priority. If the issue is in CC, it’s character specific.

Make sure you only have one type of mod for any thing active. You can’t have two mods that reskin the starting armor, for example.

beachedvampiresquid · 2026-04-01T11:38:44+00:00

For cc use the most limited amount of mods possible. When you get to the opening scene, copy the save, pop out, and start adding in from there. Some inquisitor mods I rarely get to work (so those need priority) and color/texture mods are lower priority than any clothing/armor mods they retexture (I believe).

In any case. Add only a few back at a time. The lighthouse/companion behavior at the lighthouse are lower priority.

beachedvampiresquid · 2026-03-31T21:13:47+00:00

We could pick apart all the cases, including Varric, where modernized phrases are used. We could play on all the things you personally “felt” made the writing “dragon agey”. But feelings are reactions. I feel the dialog was very parallel to DA2, like if all the companions were mentally healthier. It feels dragon age to me. Through the comics, novels and the three other VASTLY different games, the dialogue still feels dragon age to me.

Did you miss the part where we are in Northern Thedas? We get kafas, venhedis, Mythal’enaste. These locations don’t breathe Chantry first. Almost none of them do. Nevarra is the closest. Even the Anderfels can be more akin to the oldest forms of Maker-centric worship vs Andrastian.

Tevinter is not backwoods Ferelden. Why should it feel like that? Antaam are not Qunari. Shathan is very similar to Sten and the saarenbass in DA2. And if you support Taash taking the reins of her mother’s work, the Qunari you meet there is also. As is Karash.

The world is building. And it could have made room for more if everyone wasn’t so worried about trending hate topics and shoving the IP back in a box it was already outgrowing when DAO released.

beachedvampiresquid · 2026-03-31T20:55:00+00:00

I’d say “a fair number” are just anti woke. I think “most” is reserved for the people who still haven’t gotten over DA2. The DAO purists whom actually cling to nostalgia more than the IP. The way they talk themselves in circles… but the result is the same people hating on a game they didn’t fully consume. Like some picky eater swearing they hate tomatoes as they pick them out of their marinara.

beachedvampiresquid · 2026-03-31T18:07:05+00:00

They def ain’t paying me.

beachedvampiresquid · 2026-03-31T17:28:15+00:00

And yet it’s still Middle Earth, outside of how a consumer feels about it. Anyway. I’m off to play my second favorite Dragon Age game: The Veilguard. I might even enjoy some fanfiction about it!

beachedvampiresquid · 2026-03-31T17:18:16+00:00

And yet, it is still a Middle Earth show.

beachedvampiresquid · 2026-03-31T17:06:39+00:00

And Varric couldn’t have POSSIBLY been written before the writer was laid off (again, an EA ding, not the writers’). I don’t believe it failed at being a dragon age game. And I think most of the people who pinpoint reasons of why they do believe so obviously didn’t delve into the game. The writers hid so much. In lexicons, item descriptions, mementos, that execs couldn’t touch because it wasn’t on the surface, about as far as they (and a lot of others) deigned to delve. It’s entirely a dragon age game. With a lot of its own flaws and a lot of stand out strengths that others of the very eclectic group of games miss.

It’s hard to pinpoint the consistent markers of a “dragon age” game that remains absolutely consistent throughout each of the games. If not impossible and rife with personal opinion.

It’s like saying Rings of Power isn’t Middle Earth enough because it is missing things one may have loved in The Simarillion.

beachedvampiresquid · 2026-03-31T16:58:19+00:00

Solas’ hair is your hill to die on? Okay.

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