me as a creator: ugh. this is so melodramatic. this is way too obvious. look at this predictable shit dialogue. how can you claim this nonsense is CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT?! you call yourself a writer?!?!
me as a consumer: MMMM MELODRAMA **predicts opening line with maniacal glee** YES OF COURSE HE’S NICE NOW THEY’RE IN LOVE IT DOESN’T MATTER THAT EVERYTHING IS CLICHE I’M GOING TO RUB IT ALL OVER MY BODY

unnonexistence:

do you ever get sucked into Special Interest Hell where it occupies like 90% of your thoughts and you’re having trouble focusing on anything else, and you know you’re not interacting with people enough, and you WANT to talk to your friends, but you can’t think of anything else to talk about and they don’t care about it enough to have a satisfying conversation? that’s where i’m at right now

charamei:

tbh for me the single biggest problem Inquisition has from a narrative/gameplay intermesh standpoint is that it never actually answers the question “Why the fuck am I, personally, doing this”

The Inquisitor is the only person who can seal rifts. They have to be on the field a little bit. But why are they personally responsible for the entire Inquisition’s herb supply? Why do requisition officers keep trying to get them to bring back rock samples? Why are they personally doing all these sidequests? Don’t we have a humongous multinational organisation backing us? Shouldn’t there be people paid to pick the elfroot?

The single worst case of this is the Descent, or tbh any time the party goes near a darkspawn. “It’s too dangerous! Our men might get the Blight!” this is a very understandable caution right up until they all turn to you, the only irreplaceable person in the entire organisation, because apparently it’s okay to risk you getting the Blight

“It’s too dangerous, we might lose our men. Let’s risk the only person in the world who can close rifts instead!”

Surely you’re better off like… inventing the hazmat suit or something, guys

I’m sure the Inquisition has the resources to invent a hazmat suit, guys

Heck, I’d be shocked if Orzammar dwarves (and thus Dagna) haven’t already invented the hazmat suit, guys

Can you at least put the Inquisitor in a hazmat suit, guys

what she says: i’m going to worry about that later
what she means: i’m going to procrastinate having to deal with that problem but it will be constantly on my mind making me anxious and prevent me from sleeping at night but i just don’t have the energy to actively try to solve it so i’d rather constantly feel like shit instead

galaxynextdoor:

New Dishonored 2 screens and art

Dishonored 2 is being powered by the very robust ID TECH 6 engine with some modifications. As anyone that is currently playing the new DOOM, it’s a damn fine new graphics engine. I adored the original Dishonored even with its engine woes and at times shoddy AI glitches; it’s a franchise that has tons of potential. We’ll see if they achieve that later this year on PS4, Xbox One and PC.