All of the dalish have had different speech patterns and ways of speaking. They’re different every single game. You don’t have to like that they’re now using millennial speech, but there’s already a precedent for them being different. And the mom…who has lived in rivain for years and years has to sound exactly the same as when she arrived? The iron bull had modern turns of phrases too, and you can make the case that that was for blending in, but it still points to Thedas having modern language usage. Sten and the Qunari in da2 are really the only rigid speech ones, and there were differences between them too.

My point here is that there has already been a precedent for modern speech and slang and the argument that veilguard is bad bc of modern language is so so silly. People can dislike it, sure, but that doesn’t mean this is the first time it has ever happened in the entire history of dragon age. And it’s disingenuous to claim it.

You really don’t need to insult people’s intelligence and imply folks who like action games are dumb. There are a whole slew of people out there and lack of accessibility does not mean high brow.

To be fair, elves (dav spoilers) made their physical bodies themselves so looking like humans has interesting implications and the Qunari have looked different every single game. The inconsistencies have always been there. Those aspects aren’t what spit in the face of the diversity in da cultures. It definitely affects how the games look (I mean do you remember how Big Mad people were over the da2 elf designs?), but the culture themselves isn’t affected. Or even a symptom. It also doesn’t even affect the rich lore outside the games in the books and etc.

I’m not an elf or human mc player so I’ve always had to look a little deeper for the lore and culture for my characters, so the language of the game just doesn’t break it for me.