Spoilers for Dragon Age Veilguard and all other Dragon Age Media. (I’m a lore fiend.)

Before playing on day 5. 22 hours in, 20 playtime.

Obligatory disclaimer, if you’ve read it already you can just skip down

Something came to my attention. I need to make it crystal clear that I utterly love the diversity in DAV. It’s fantastic. I’m also a heavily left leaning, non-binary, queer as fuck reviewer, editor, and author.

I’m on media blackout while I play this, so I’m only getting second-hand info on how awful it is right now in the DA Fandom. Please be safe and take care of yourselves. Arguing with incels and white supremacists is completely pointless. They sea lion worse than an actual sea lion. Your mental health is important.

Though, every single time the anti-queer brigade comes out for a new DA game, I sit there thinking ‘have you bozos ever played any DA game, like, ever?’ My guess is nope.

Before playing on day 5. 22 hours in, 20 playtime.

Part 4 here.

(Note that these reviews aren’t edited. They’re just my off the cuff writing. I don’t have the time, energy or heart to edit them properly.)

I just want to call it now in case they reveal it, but I’m highly suspicious that they’re going the oh so predictable route of Illario being the crow traitor. Honestly feels juvenile and pathetic and maybe I’m wrong, but… I don’t honestly think I am.

I managed to fix my game last night. (At least, it loaded properly last night.)

The fix for it is apparently to verify your files from whatever game service you’re using (assuming you’re using one).

I went ahead and switched it from my hdd partition to ssd. That’s something that apparently can help, too. We’ll see.

But might I point out that it’s kinda shitty to release a game that seems to require being run from ssd? Not every computer has them. I’m just lucky I do. Gamers tend to be either wealthy enough to afford decent gaming rigs, or so poor they don’t have two cents to rub together. (Like me.) It would be really nice if game devs would remember that.

I’m curious to see how it’ll run now. If that fixes the glitches I keep running into.

I’m upset by how the US election seems to be going, and my lungs are hurting a lot today (do not recommend a pulmonary embolism, sheesh) so I’ll probably spend a lot of the day on the game today as an escape. At least, if it doesn’t piss me off, bore me to death, or make me feel like cleaning the washroom with my tongue would be a better option.

Oh! I found the cheese yesterday. At least they kept that bit of DA tradition.

5.2 section here.