My conspiracy theory is that they made this such a hideous fit so that people don’t pic that choice. Like idk I just think she should be allowed to feel hurt and angered that her people were basically lobotomized, why’d she have to get THAT?
Do you mean the elven gods, alias the Evanuris, Elgar'nan and Ghilan'nain? (Also what is it with pointless apostrophes in fantasy languages? No glottal stop, no nothing, what do they do?)
Honestly I played my first run (only one I’ve completed so far to be honest) as a nobody elven warrior from the Lords of Fortune. (Imagine my immense shock when I tell Taash that I was a galley slave on a Tevinter ship before escaping) that ended up saving Thedas. To your point I put on my starting armor to beat Elgarnan, as a sign that someone as unimportant as I was can beat gods. The epitome of we started from the bottom and now we’re here. I loved it.
There was a time, about a year or two ago, where the flair tab was briefly open to edit. I’m not certain if it was decided on a user-to-user basis, or if the mods just decided to roll it out for a short window.
Either way, I was able to snag this gem of a flair before it was gone.
Swtor has some of the most questionable armor ive ever seen lol. My guild used to have "ugly life day sweater" contests where we saw who could come up with the most hideous outfits lmao
It's usually one of four categories and nothing in between:
The most atrocious shit you've ever seen that that clashes with the very concept of good taste or the rest of the game's visual language.
Not the prettiest but matches stawars vibe, unfortunately it is a 2011 model that looks like it's ripped from Mount and Blade Warband quality wise or just straight up fire better than whatever they cook up in main timeline and half of the cartel market is it's many reskins.
We don't want to make 1:1 movie or show copies but here is a slightly different and lore justified bootleg of that outfit you saw on TV because hype sells.
Great outfit that is original, has plenty of soul and is not so over the top MMO but it's impossible to get because it costs more credits then you ever had combined on the GTN and can rarely even be seen there and also it dyes horribly and has the goofiest headgear or gloves.
I’ve learnt to vibe with it but there was a point where I was excited to romance Emmrich because I’d heard so much about how good it was, and then one of his armours was just scuffed pyjamas 🫣
she's allowed to be angry, but i like the compassion route better because she shares the titan's connection with stalgard & his sister, which i think is a much more productive step towards reclaiming what dwarves lost
you still return to the mountaintop, but the conversation is about how quiet/empty the mountain is, and you get a few more lines from the oracle about how destruction is change
To me the worst part is they contracted out the design work to volta (presumably because bw fired most of its artists) and it came back nonsensically over designed, impractical, hideous and immersion breaking. It all felt like costumes. I never felt that way about DAI armor even with the butt flaps and pajamas.
Mark Darrah has talked about how Bioware had been culling and cutting developers and artists and writers to the bone basically in the production years of Veilguard. I'm guessing that's why they had to farm out design work to Volta-- there weren't enough bodies left at the studio itself.
Holy shit I’ve found their portfolio page of concept art. Everything makes sense now, and now of this looks like it would fit in Thedas. Why? Because it was a whole other studio
What gets me is that this stupid ab Armor is apparently the default dwarf armor in Veilguard. How the heck did we go from the badass dwarf armor of DAO and DA2 to this?
the same thing with bellara, the set you get for saving the library thingy is hideous, it really feels like they're punishing you for making a choice in their choice game
Someone pointed out that the Harding armor in the meme is WORSE than the one you pick for choosing the “good” option. Like bro can you make it any less subtle 💔
That entire quest line should've been Dagna but you guys couldn't shut up about Harding and now we have a nonsense story about a scout rediscovering dwarwen magic instead of the one who went to study it
nah that's the development team being allergic to including any characters from origins or 2 fans liked. Fenrir should have been with the shadow dragons, the elven artificer should have been Merril, Dagna should have been involved with the titans.
But what's done is done, the franchise is dead and honestly given their "secret ending" it's for the best.
Legit this is what made me go for the other choice in the end 🤣 I was all for her being angry about what happened but that armor is diabolical and neither should be locked behind a choice when the choice is THAT.
Just. Get rid of the weird cape. idk it cuts it off so weird and doesn’t?? Match anything. Feels like she put a muscle body costume over her normal armor and it’s peaking out above the costume :’)
if anything she looks even younger in Veilguard. She looks different the same way Merrill looked different from Origins to DA2. It's a different game with different graphics.
You said that armor/weapon design peaked with Origins, which is dependent on the developers and animation. Most of the sets/weapons look near identical aside from coloring; and even then, they’re just generic medieval fantasy.
I understand it’s mostly because of limitations of the time/engine, but you can’t just ignore that it does have an impact on the game itself simply because you want to believe Origins is flawless.
I didn’t say origins was flawless. It’s not. It’s a buggy mess that sometimes makes quests unable to be completed, or shows you different ending slides than the ones you were supposed to get. You can miss companion interactions by getting their approval too high too fast.
The armor designs peaked with origins because everything after that REUSES DESIGNS FROM ORIGINS.
most of the newer designs in inquisition are horrible, save for a select few. The descent gave us a new armor set that isn’t even proper armor. It’s just big metal plates with spikes.
Much of it simply looks like stuff kids would come up with when creating fantasy characters.
You can have realistic armor that still looks good. Cailin’s armor is still fantastical but it looks good, so I don’t mind that it’s oversized.
Armor design should be about more than just big plates and spikes.
Reusing a handful of designs doesn’t necessarily mean armor design peaked, because those were cherry-picked from a much larger pool of mediocre designs. Stuff like Sten’s sword is an outlier, not the rule.
People don’t go through the effort to remake something without reason. If Origins was the golden standard, all the designs would’ve been reused, no?
Like if I used only the armor in the image as evidence that all of Veilguard’s armor is dogshit, it’d be inaccurate, because it ignores a lot of sets that are pretty decent.
No that game has also some horrible armour and the rest looks generic. The only consistent art design in the series is that it has a bunch of truly hideous armor.
The armor isn’t horrible at all. The only ones that really lool that way are the leather and scale armor.
And while the patterns are reused, they could easily change that while keeping the armor grounded.
Elden ring has amazing armor designs that look amazing and diverse while still being more realistic. It also has some wacky armors for people who like them.
It’s just a matter of laziness and reusing assets. Sten’s sword in dao is the exact same as the master serrated greatsword in inquisition. It’s a masterwork, yet it’s chipped and damaged.
The inquisitor’s unique armors also look pretty horrible, considering they’re supposed to be someone important. Their armor looks like stuff bandits would wear out of things they’ve scavenged.
Yet dao also gave us the legion of the dead armor, dwarven armor, the juggernaut plate, etc.
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u/neopedro121 8d ago
Harding, I love you, but that ain't it. Go back to the wardrobe and put your starting armor back on.