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Ted Litchfield

Dragon Age: The Veilguard is bringing back the heinously ugly original sin of preorder/digital deluxe cosmetics, but I'm weirdly nostalgic for it now

Blood Dragon Guy slashing at darkspawn.

I seriously dug Dragon Age: The Veilguard's latest trailer, but right at the end I found myself face-to-face with a ghost: "Pre-order now! Receive the Blood Dragon cosmetic armor." Now there's a name I haven't heard in a long time.

For my money, the Blood Dragon Armor is a primeval DLC/"Digital Deluxe Edition" original sin on the order of Oblivion's infamous Horse Armor. The hideous armor set reared its head in four different games at the height of BioWare's popularity, somehow managing to always feel unwelcome and out of place whether you were exploring a medieval dirt village or the distant spires of an Asari utopia. For a design to have such a place in two iconic franchises, wouldn't you expect it to be beloved or essential?

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