Lucanis Dellamorte - Official Companion Thread [Spoilers]

So frustrating. They've done it again (same tone as MEA), and it boggles the mind as to why and how can they not see that they're destroying these wonderful worlds and characters, lore... that they've built, with this dumb kiddy stuff - that not even kids like, btw. Lucanis, the Crows, Isabela...the Blight, spirits and demons, Tevinter... everything. So sanitized and Marvel-ized that, if not for characters like Morrigan, Varric and Solas - I'd have had a hard time telling if this is Dragon Age. It is that unrecognizable, at times. Mike Gamble said the next ME will be mature... but, not gonna lie, I'm discouraged. After MEA, Anthem and now Veilguard... I mean, either they've lost it and can't get a clue, or I'm the one who can't.

Don't get me wrong, I'm enjoying the game, there's much about it to be enjoyed and I'll squeeze as much as I can from it... but it's bad.

See, this is what I dislike - I'm talking from a perspective of a creator and wannabe storyteller, telling people that creative process doesn't look AT ALL how some clearly think it does (initial concepts can change naturally AND dramatically from where they were originally been even without external pressures - especially when we're talking about game that's been iterated for a literal decade) and all my arguments are reduced to is "defending a company", when all I really want is people not spinning simple narratives about a nature of a creative product as complex as DA games.

And while we could probably discuss till we're blue in the face about where e.g. EA influence into Bioware starts or ends, I do urge to listen to what people like Kala Elizabeth or Ghil Dirthamen said when they worked with Bioware, is that the Veilguard was largely the story they wanted to tell, whether people like it or not. So, disliking Veilguard is entirely fine - spinning narratives about "the game that never was" (that was somehow taken away from us) because DA4 pretty naturally changed over time away from some initial concepts is NOT - not in my book, at least.

I mean, damnit, the same thing happened to BG3 with its changes and rewrites to characters how they were in Early Access (they changed some of the companions A LOT, including softening some of them), and I argued basically the exact same thing when the topic was brought up.

Concerning Lucanis

To be honest I found it extremely refreshing this was not just another Anders story or some really big drama by the end (don't get me wrong, I DO love drama, but it was fitting how it played out for me this time, too). It was kinda cool to see a different approach, to see Spite rather "revert back" to his original purpose because Lucanis accepted him in the end (when saving Treviso) and they both can find a way to overcome their torture. Once they stopped fighting each other they can accomplish much together.
Is it all magic of friendship stuff? Probably, but it was nice to see it didn't end in a disaster

It will be interesting to see Spite in the Minrathous path and without romance (that small gesture Spite did in the romance scene was so fucking sweet, but I'm very curious how their relationship will feel without romance).

I know this is off topic but i find it pretty sad that just being positive about a game somehow makes you a defender of a company. And people here wonder why fans of the game don’t come to this forum.

Ok, that sounds interesting And yeah, very curious about Taash's romance too! Didn't Corinne Busche say it's the spiciest or something like that?

God bless modders