Dragon Age The Veilguard Wishlist (Official Thread)

I think it's just been done in fiction SO MUCH that I'd rather not see it ever again, regardless of the fact that Dragon Age specifically hasn't really gone there.

I wouldn't mind a widow/widower by itself though. Just without all the tropey stuff. Maevaris lost Thorold, after all...

I'd kill for a gay male virgin archetype LI.

Please don't get rid of guard. I really enjoyed this mechanic as an SnS player. While shields were useful and important, I liked that my tank had his own thing to generate that would keep him in the game.

If the main character has a house/fortress/castle, I'm sure that each companion will have their own room, so I would like for each room to have a mannequin for the companion to store their armor on when not on a quest. The same for the main character.

oooo, and the characters have "every day, not in battle" clothes?

So...a virgin sacrifice...

Alistair wanted to "wait for love" - and yeah, he spent a good chunk of his life in the Chantry, but his views on sex seem to have more to do with being a romantic than being religious. I don't think there's any particular stigma against unmarried sex in Andrastianism anyway, so it likely has more to do with his personality. And a lot of gay and bi dudes loved his personality.

A shy, inexperienced gay guy would be cool. As long as his "I've never kissed a boy!"-ness wasn't the sole focus of his character.

interesting characters.

There's reason to think that in affluent democracies, where young sex isn't stigmatized, people are waiting longer to get laid. The choice to do it early also implies one to do away with urgency. The obvious case, much talked about, is Japan, that famous sanctuary of traditional sexual mores, religious conservatism, and desexualization of the young.

adding to this
- un-nerf the mages. Playing a nuker mage isn't the same in DAI. I know some spells were really overpowered in the past (cone of cold, mana clash), but I honestly didn't mind because mages are supposed to be overpowered. We're often told how powerful and dangerous mages are but I don't get this feeling with DAI mages at all. With my DAO nuker I really felt like yup, seven of these in an army would be more than enough. People who don't want OP mages could - get ready - not use the OP spells.
- un-nerf the enemy mages and archers. Opening up DAO again after playing DAI for a month, I'd forgotten how dangerous archers and mages could be and got my arse kicked pretty bad for ignoring them. A Scattershot or Chain Lightning from an enemy can seriously ruin your day. In DAI - yeah, it's probably a good idea to take out a spellbinder early, but it's not a "shit shit kill him before he casts" moment like in DAO.
- an option to cast at least some spells without a staff
- don't make ALL elves follow Solas or the Qun
- I said how I don't want the plot-important bits to be introduced in books/comics - I would also extend this to DLCs. If I hadn't played that DA2 DLC with Corypheus, the whole Hawke involvement in DAI would have come out of nowhere and felt like a bad fanfic. DLCs like Jaws of Hakkon are fine where the whole first Inquisitor thing was just like learning a fun historical fact. It's a different story with Descent - the Titans are apparently super important to the lore of Thedas, but I know nothing of them just because I'm not interested in buying that DLC.
- adding to the previous point, please put the game's ending into an actual game, not a 15€ DLC
- proper background music
- more atmospheric music in general (getting Inon Zur back is probably too much to ask)
- repeating myself, but better dialogue wheel that shows us exactlky what we're going to say or ideally, no dialogue wheel at all. It's ridiculous how much better the dialogue system was in DAO. I've had it for years and even though I make a point of checking out as many options as I can, I'm still discovering some pretty extensive conversation branches that I never knew existed. Like, just yesterday I heard Shianni 1) being giddy about Howe's death, 2) saying some pretty cutting (but accurate) things about the alienage's community. And she apparently has a mean right hook.
- basically, let DA4 be more like Origins

(Yes, I love DAO so much that maybe I will marry it)