I took the latest trailer for Dragon Age: The Veil Guard seriously, but at the very end I came face to face with a ghost! Receive your Blood Dragon cosmetic armor.” I haven't heard that name in a long time.

In my opinion, the Blood Dragon armor is a pristine DLC/“Digital Deluxe Edition” original sin, comparable to Oblivion's infamous horse armor. This hideous armor reared its head in four different games at the height of BioWare's popularity, and somehow it always felt unwelcome and out of place, whether you were exploring a savage medieval village or the distant spires of an asari utopia. With a design that occupies such a place in two iconic franchises, wouldn't one expect it to be beloved or essential?

The first incarnation was a disaster: the original Blood Dragon armor was a repurposed Dwarven heavy armor model already in the game, one of the chunky “Massive” platemail sets that made “Dragon Age” warriors unadoptable: It made the warriors of “DragonAge:Origins” look like the Potato Man from “Gears of War”. Pearly, shiny white with neon-red dragons crossing one corner, and, oh my, a shameful one-step cousin to Bush-era Alienware, like the most “A for execution, D for vision” bespoke gamer rig After aughts has ever offered, red glowing eye [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...]