It was on GP PC for a long while (and I played on Xbox because it was a Play Anywhere title, and that's a thing you can do for console/PC Game Pass games), but left a couple of months ago or so. But it's well worth grabbing when possible.
I mean, I do too, in both DA2 and DA:I. Just expressing my thoughts on the methods of certain individuals.
That is vastly simplifying and misunderstanding mages and templars and the relationship between them. Minorities aren't capable of killing people with their minds or reshaping reality.
Did the mutants have a world wide empire were they ruled everyone and oppressed people who weren't mutants , and then kill the prophet who the world worships who stood against them? Also the ones that performed a ritual that doomed the world with Blights that swallow entire countries when they happen and have possibly hobbled the dwarven race permanently that they may eventually die out? And then when they were taken from power eventually undermined the protections against them in the country of the former heart of that empire where they rule again and have slavery and sacrifice regular citizens to gain more power against their rivals? Dragon Age games absolutely state the status quo in South Thedas is wrong and ripe with abuse due to power imbalance with the mage situation , it's not quite as simple as that as they are the minority that are powerful and used to be the oppressor, and there's an example of a nation where the rules against mages were eroded and they gained power again. I will say though that the games also show that there's plenty of non-magical rulers who are abusive and that it's not a mage only thing, it's a power thing
It's generally true, but realistically the Mage and Templars are still an allegory for slavery in most meaningful ways. Honestly if mages were as powerful as they are in Dragon Age, it's far more likely that mages would form a guild, and governing bodies would likely use the mage guild as a mitigating policing force for other mages, rather than attempting to independently use a non-mage force to control them. Lyrium wouldn't be a practically applied mitigating factor simply because it's effectively a drug, and historically and culturally drugs tend to be controlled substances rather than those used and sanctioned by large organizations.
I think the big problem is Tevinter where the mage abusing their position of power is not a past thing but the current situation and it came about by the relaxation of the rules for Mages, so the Chantry can point to it as an example of what happens when you ease restrictions on mages (though of courses the Chantry is biased as it helps their power to have control of mages and they have absolutely previously rewritten or suppressed past history to suit their agenda like the first inquisitor being an elven mage) And while Tevinter is an example of mages having no restrictions and the abuse that comes with it, it's really less the mages and what happens when anyone has unchecked power over other groups, and there are multiple examples of other groups that end up abusing such power of which Templar's are one. It's why I love Inquisition as it continually asks the question of what happens to different powerful organisations when they grow in power and how there initial purpose can end up twisted and also points out that the same can and is happening to the organisation you build
It still flatly denies the concept of self-governance however, and instead always refers to power consolidation as the only solution. It basically takes the axiom "absolute power corrupts absolutely" to its logical extreme, but the logical extreme of that isn't something that has ever actually existed, and leads to the absurdities presented in the DA universe (and the associated bending over backwards to try and make it all make sense to us, as readers of the text, who can understand it as outsiders, but not really process it because it doesn't actually exist in our reality).
Didn't know about this but it isn't surprising, DOA is one of the few times I was genuinely happy to see a game series crash and burn when DOA6 flopped massively because after everything they did to push away and tell women they weren't welcomed (despite DOA3 and 4 starting the careers of many women in the competitive fighting game scene), the sheer extreme amount of monetisation, the objectification, the constant marketing to sleazy men, MRA types etc, the sheer creepy stuff they were doing with the extreme games, the lies, the absolutely ridiculous and crappy EVO 2018 presentation people actually defended it (or DOA's and fighting games over sexualization in general)... I have next to 0 sympathy for Team Ninja (and glare and side eye SNK and Sega for being a part of it).
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I mean, historically, fighting games have always been kinda sleazy. It's more that we're now seeing two extremes of that, one growing away and one that's growing towards the sleaze. Fixing it requires devs to have interest in markets other than their captured market, and devs, especially as of late, seem extremely uninterested in doing that. For what reason is hard to understand, aside from the people within it just being terrible (though in general, terrible people tend to flock together and push ideas out that don't align with their terribleness). And lots and lots of current gaming communities are predominantly people who promote toxic male culture.
It's true. I tend to side with the mages in other games but in DAI they're SOOOOOO DUMB.
The mages in DAI don't know they are Venatori though when they make the agreement with them though? Like it wasn't a good plan , putting every single mage in Southern Thedas in servitude to Tevinter for 10(?) years was not the best idea especially when you are screwing over the Fereldan crown who was protecting you while doing so but I always thought it was the (dumb) desperate decision of mages who thought they were going to lose the war, not one were they knowingly choose to join the extreme nationalist faction of Tevinter who were outcast even there?
Admittedly, it's been awhile since I played DAI, but I'm pretty sure they at least are planning on allying with Tevinter, which isn't as bad, but still major BRUH. But Alexius is so transparently shady that the Venatori reveal is kinda funny..
Those are good designs for her. Both better than the jumpsuit.Have we talked much about the new Avengers game? Kamala is really cool and positive, but I'm also finding Black Widow a lot more palatable than I ever did in the movies. She has a really large variety of costumes many of which are not super sexy, and her writing as a character doesn't have anything that could possibly approach the level of how bad she was in age of ultron.
She of course still has the option to equip a skin tight outfit with a plunging neckline, but at least as a player if I want to play black widow I have the option to put her in something like these instead.
Aside from mages seeming to be remarkably dense as to their own self-preservation, this is always what has bothered me about mages generally in DA. How is it that reality bending mages have never had the self-preserving instinct to figure out how to bend reality in a way that assures their own safety? Like, why haven't they found a way to burn sigils into themselves or some other method aside from becoming tranquil to protect themselves? I strongly suspect the response from the in-universe lore is, "don't ask that question", but I'd be happy to be proven wrong.
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My bad. Saw the screenshot on reddit and just couldn't beleive it.
I'm aware, but it's clear they have ways of staving off these otherworldly creatures. It makes no sense that they wouldn't attempt to find a more practical solution, like using magic to shield or protect themselves from these creatures. It's basically ignoring Occam's Razor entirely. I find it highly unlikely that the simplest solution to this problem is just, "control your emotions." If this was a big problem that all mages experienced, it stands to reason that mages would find a way to protect themselves via some means that doesn't involve them unnecessarily exposing themselves to danger. Mages can only exist in DA as being radically dense about self-preservation, because their solutions don't hold up to any real scrutiny. And even if they haven't found a way, it makes even less sense that mages wouldn't spend a lot of time and effort to find a way to solve this problem. Because solving it means no more need for templars and all the other associated dumb bullshit that goes along with mages running out of control. Because once they can control their environments safely, the entire conceptualization behind why the mages need to be treated the way they are breaks down.
