Homecoming might be good but i was thinking Nostalgia myself. Course it might only feel nostalgic when you have been away from home along time BUT i feel like that being gone 8hrs and coming back 😂
Solas continues to be my favorite character, and he is what you get when a writer is forced to refine a character until you get it right. Gaider pushed Weekes to develop Solas properly, but when a writer has no pushback or anyone calling them out, you get Taash. A one note shallow and hypocritical character who Rook cannot challenge because she is a legit self insert of Weekes. In development, Weekes took over as lead writer, and I wonder if that was the time certain developers started jumping ship or were forced off the plank. Anyone that challenged that ego, I’m sure. This game suffers terribly from first draft problems, and it’s clear to me as a fellow writer that Weekes took control and didn’t allow criticism. Thankfully, Solas here was already well developed, but all new characters are lackluster save for Emmrich.
There was one moment that solidified them as the worst type of character to me. Yes Taash is poorly written in general, but they are incredibly insulted when you misgender them and go out of their way to make sure you are ABSOLUTELY aware they’re non-binary. But than Taash goes around and both figuratively and literally dead-named Emmrich. Calling him “dead man” or “corpse guy” after he repeatedly asks them politely to call him by his name. Whoever wrote that character is trash. Trash dialog, trash personality, trash writing.
Gotta love how you're complaining about Taash in a video entirely unrelated to Taash, while completely ignoring the fact that Taash is not any of the things you say it is, but merely one of the more colorful/divisive characters that existed in Dregon Age before, like Sera in Inquisition. In fact, Sera and Taash are quite similar in their bluntness and struggle for identity - but people dodn't yet have their brains addled with anti-woke rot back then so much, so they're not spinning stupid conspiracy theories about Lukas Kristjanson's character.
@@MidnightTea7 what I stated was dialog specifically spoken from Taash. Identity crisis isn’t a foreign concept to DA, and Taash is far from the first character to go through it in the franchise. The problem Taash has is hypocrisy. Emmrich deserves the same respect Taash demands from you and the other companions. And ignoring his request to call him what he wants to be called is incredibly disrespectful, especially when you demand it for yourself.
@@natedagreat19But that could be simply be a part of them. Making such a big self-discovery can bring much joy to the one who does it, but it can also made them selfish and so caught up in themselves that they don't realize they are hurting other people's feelings. Also, we saw Taash. They are basically a very stubborn kid who is still trying to figure themselves out, more so than Sera. Because Sera already had time to deal with her trauma (lady Emmald's lies that led her to despise elves and being an elf) and found her place in the world with the Friends of Red Jenny, and while she is childish and very chaotic and rude, she saw many parts of the world and has made her own ideas and had a balance that Taash still lacks because of their upbringing (their mother tried to raise them Qunari even though she left Qun and Taash grew up sorrownded by Rivaini culture, unwittingly stifling her child) and because they are living all their traumas and self discoveries right now. They discovered to be non binary, they needed to choose if they wanted to live as a qunari or as a rivaini, they had to watch their mother die with no possibility of reconciling properly with her after that horrible dinner... anybody would lash out. Especially because Taash is the youngest member of the Veil Guard. I am sure that if they were always respectful of other's wishes, then some fans would say "that's not how a real person would react to this" or "they just shrug off losing their mom? That's bad writing" This game is not perfect, far from it. There are many dialogues i do not appriciate so much (like the one between Emmerich and Taash where, instead of defending their positions with solid arguments, they talk like toddlers who have to shake hands and say sorry after a fight), and I am sure that if Gaider had stayed, it would have been much more refined overall, but there's good to be found in it too. So, let's try to enjoy it instead of complaining all the time
I did also think theres no way to kill that feeling. They still feel it just dont have a name. And someone somewhere would DEFINITELY name that feeling after the millennia of the spirit being destroyed. So it would have come back..eventually. just in a different form like what Solas said about his wisdom friend.
Just because a character who’s been consistently well written continues to be well written doesn’t mean the overall several hours-long game that doesn’t involve him isnt also full of pitfalls in its writing.
Solas having good moments does not disprove the bad writing. Even Solas at the beginning of the game looked petty and simple in comparison with how he used to be. This scenes are more similar to what i expected from him.
I love how you're making an argument as if IRL Earth and Thedas were the same world, lol. Rather, the writer brings in the description of feeling familiar to us to make a point about how it's absent in Thedas, as why it's absent (which tells us both something about the character of Elgar'nan and nature of Thedas and the Fade) Talk about bending over backward to call something subpar writing, when there's nothing absolutely wrong with it, in the context of the whole dialogue, it is both sad and worrisome.
That depends on what you saw. It couldn't be homecoming if your home was destroyed. And it doesn't have your home to be physically destroyed for that to happen.
I'm sure whatever feeling that is, the Germans have a word for it
Solas vs German vocabulary
Don't encourage them!
We have indeed! We call that a typical "Misthabevergessenzutanken"
@@RainbowsaurusGames I fucking knew it.
Homecoming might be good but i was thinking Nostalgia myself.
Course it might only feel nostalgic when you have been away from home along time BUT i feel like that being gone 8hrs and coming back 😂
Haha true. Been still thinking about the name for that feeling too. I bet some non english language has a word for it ^^"
Solas continues to be my favorite character, and he is what you get when a writer is forced to refine a character until you get it right. Gaider pushed Weekes to develop Solas properly, but when a writer has no pushback or anyone calling them out, you get Taash. A one note shallow and hypocritical character who Rook cannot challenge because she is a legit self insert of Weekes. In development, Weekes took over as lead writer, and I wonder if that was the time certain developers started jumping ship or were forced off the plank. Anyone that challenged that ego, I’m sure. This game suffers terribly from first draft problems, and it’s clear to me as a fellow writer that Weekes took control and didn’t allow criticism. Thankfully, Solas here was already well developed, but all new characters are lackluster save for Emmrich.
There was one moment that solidified them as the worst type of character to me. Yes Taash is poorly written in general, but they are incredibly insulted when you misgender them and go out of their way to make sure you are ABSOLUTELY aware they’re non-binary. But than Taash goes around and both figuratively and literally dead-named Emmrich. Calling him “dead man” or “corpse guy” after he repeatedly asks them politely to call him by his name.
Whoever wrote that character is trash. Trash dialog, trash personality, trash writing.
Gotta love how you're complaining about Taash in a video entirely unrelated to Taash, while completely ignoring the fact that Taash is not any of the things you say it is, but merely one of the more colorful/divisive characters that existed in Dregon Age before, like Sera in Inquisition. In fact, Sera and Taash are quite similar in their bluntness and struggle for identity - but people dodn't yet have their brains addled with anti-woke rot back then so much, so they're not spinning stupid conspiracy theories about Lukas Kristjanson's character.
@@MidnightTea7 what I stated was dialog specifically spoken from Taash. Identity crisis isn’t a foreign concept to DA, and Taash is far from the first character to go through it in the franchise. The problem Taash has is hypocrisy. Emmrich deserves the same respect Taash demands from you and the other companions. And ignoring his request to call him what he wants to be called is incredibly disrespectful, especially when you demand it for yourself.
@@natedagreat19But that could be simply be a part of them.
Making such a big self-discovery can bring much joy to the one who does it, but it can also made them selfish and so caught up in themselves that they don't realize they are hurting other people's feelings.
Also, we saw Taash. They are basically a very stubborn kid who is still trying to figure themselves out, more so than Sera. Because Sera already had time to deal with her trauma (lady Emmald's lies that led her to despise elves and being an elf) and found her place in the world with the Friends of Red Jenny, and while she is childish and very chaotic and rude, she saw many parts of the world and has made her own ideas and had a balance that Taash still lacks because of their upbringing (their mother tried to raise them Qunari even though she left Qun and Taash grew up sorrownded by Rivaini culture, unwittingly stifling her child) and because they are living all their traumas and self discoveries right now.
They discovered to be non binary, they needed to choose if they wanted to live as a qunari or as a rivaini, they had to watch their mother die with no possibility of reconciling properly with her after that horrible dinner... anybody would lash out. Especially because Taash is the youngest member of the Veil Guard.
I am sure that if they were always respectful of other's wishes, then some fans would say "that's not how a real person would react to this" or "they just shrug off losing their mom? That's bad writing"
This game is not perfect, far from it. There are many dialogues i do not appriciate so much (like the one between Emmerich and Taash where, instead of defending their positions with solid arguments, they talk like toddlers who have to shake hands and say sorry after a fight), and I am sure that if Gaider had stayed, it would have been much more refined overall, but there's good to be found in it too. So, let's try to enjoy it instead of complaining all the time
I did also think theres no way to kill that feeling. They still feel it just dont have a name. And someone somewhere would DEFINITELY name that feeling after the millennia of the spirit being destroyed. So it would have come back..eventually. just in a different form like what Solas said about his wisdom friend.
"Veilguard has bad writing"
[gestures to Solas in rebuttal]
Still bad writing but at least we know what happened with spirit of "feeling after you sit on toilet after hard day and push"
Just because a character who’s been consistently well written continues to be well written doesn’t mean the overall several hours-long game that doesn’t involve him isnt also full of pitfalls in its writing.
Solas having good moments does not disprove the bad writing. Even Solas at the beginning of the game looked petty and simple in comparison with how he used to be. This scenes are more similar to what i expected from him.
TBF he’s written by their lead writer.
The games writing is bad overall. But it does have some good parts. It would be weird if it didn't.
Homecoming.
The word and emotion you’re looking for is homecoming.
This is still subpar writing.
I love how you're making an argument as if IRL Earth and Thedas were the same world, lol. Rather, the writer brings in the description of feeling familiar to us to make a point about how it's absent in Thedas, as why it's absent (which tells us both something about the character of Elgar'nan and nature of Thedas and the Fade)
Talk about bending over backward to call something subpar writing, when there's nothing absolutely wrong with it, in the context of the whole dialogue, it is both sad and worrisome.
That depends on what you saw. It couldn't be homecoming if your home was destroyed. And it doesn't have your home to be physically destroyed for that to happen.
I wonder which he means since i can think of too many. Pining, belonging, longing, comfort, peace, anticipation, bittersweet