Dragon Age Dragon Age: The Veilguard - coming October 31st

[Tyrr]

They have a vitiligo slider

 

[deuxhero]

Will they finally shut down Bioware after this fails?

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

You can play as Frankenstein's monster???

Better even, you can play as yourself!

 

[Rahdulan]

I warned myself Bioware would get the wrong idea on what they had to one-up Baldur's Gate 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 with. It surprises me there's no schlong size given they're going for M rating.

 

[whydoibother]

Forget the top scar shit, we get a bulge slider!
Literally getting mad at character customization options that you can just not use. Solasta all over again.

 

[Semiurge]

She adds that Maxis has a “tremendous wealth of knowledge when it comes to representing gender, identity, and the surprising number of localization issues that come along with that when you’re releasing in different regions and languages.”

What the fuck does that even mean, sensitivity to certain body-taboos in some cultures? This game already is the most accurate California-simulator in existence, there's no way some camel fucker's going to play this.

Leliana had cool unique armor

The Sacred Ashes version was modelled after some cheap e-thot, so it's good that the look was scrapped.

https://www.eurogamer.net/what-i-learned-talking-to-bioware-about-dragon-age-the-veilguard

You can't really be evil in The Veilguard​

Given my outrageous antics in my Let's Get Evil in Baldur's Gate 3 series, the ability to negatively affect a world is of prime importance to me. Grin. It's actually something that began with Dragon Age: Origins many years ago, as Morrigan and a desire for blood magic led me off my normal goodie-two-shoes path and somewhere darker altogether. But BioWare games have changed since then, and you haven't been able to be evil in them for some years now. I'm not actually sure which the last game was that you could be evil in - Dragon Age 2, was it, or Star Wars: The Old Republic?

The same is true of The Veilguard, to my disappointment, and it's something I saw firsthand in the dialogue options on the day: there was really only the option to be abrupt rather than outright nasty. "Rook is a character who, because of where the world is, because of the stakes, they need to stop the elven gods," Epler explains. "Why you do that - your motivations for doing that and how you approach it - you do have a lot of choice in how you approach those missions. There's some big choices in the game fairly early on where you can do some things that are pretty morally not spectacular, but it's not a game where you can go off and murder a bunch of orphans," he says. "But we want to give you that feeling of 'I know I can build this character that I can role-play in a way that I'm passionate about and excited to do'."

Of course you can't be evil, or even offensive. Can you imagine having to write some edgy dialogue and C&C in this current climate?

 

[Space Satan]

At least this game have a single bright moment for realistic and authenic portrayal of elven males

 

[Semiurge]

At least this game have a single bright moment for realistic and authenic portrayal of elven males

The bulge increase won't be instantaneous, the computer was probably still calculating the junk's ludicrous dimensions. Optimistically the slider will crash the game when set to 100%.

 

[Lagole Gon]

Oh, it's going down.

I don't even.

Fuck it.

Let's just start killing them. Today.

I think it's fake?
I don't see it in YT previews.
Vitiligo is there, obviously, it's mandated by law nowadays or something.

Also... cauliflower ears. Left and right. Huh.
I guess they want that chechen MMA gym audience?

 

[Just Locus]

They have a vitiligo slider

 

[Lodis]

Who is this game even for at this point? I can’t even believe half the shit I’m seeing is real.

 

[Fargus]

"Design your vitiligo"

And i was only joking in that thread... I wonder what else they added into this pile of diabolical shitslop? hahaha

 

[Child of Malkav]

Thank God I unsubbed from all these YT channels years ago as soon as I felt something is wrong. Seems I was right about it.

Who is this game even for at this point? I can’t even believe half the shit I’m seeing is real.

 

[Semiurge]

Vitiligo is there, obviously, it's mandated by law nowadays or something.

What the fuck?

It's not enough to offer all possible skin shades anymore, in case some tiny minority exhibits more than one?

 

[dukeofwoodberry]

There is a massive positive push in the mainstream gaming media right now. IGN, PC Gaymer, Kotaku. They really love the character creator

 

[Lagole Gon]

Vitiligo is there, obviously, it's mandated by law nowadays or something.

What the fuck?

Obviously, I'm joking. I think.
Because it's weird how this specific skin condition is now always included in character creators. And not, let's say, rosacea.

Mhmmm...
Maybe we should create a fake outrage campaign demanding inclusion of all possible skin conditions. All of them.



Edit: No, it's not going to work. I think this Vitiligo obsession might be related to anglo nigger worship.

 

[Semiurge]

Because it's weird how this specific skin condition is now always included in character creators. And not, let's say, rosacea.

Rosacea is hardly politically charged like differing levels and distributions of melanin. This must be why vitiligo sliders are everywhere now.

 

[Lodis]

Just saw an image where someone maxed out the ass slider and the end result was the character having an ass flatter than a cardboard box.

 

[Lagole Gon]

Friendly reminder that Patrick Weekes is the lead writer.

He went from generic nerd (see subject A)

To modern audience caricature (see subject B)

Imagine my surprise when I discovered he had his name changed to Trick Weekes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trick_Weekes

Hope that helps.

On the plus side, this is now more relevant than ever.

 

[RepHope]

There is a massive positive push in the mainstream gaming media right now. IGN, PC Gaymer, Kotaku. They really love the character creator

Shilling is going all out, that’s why I didn’t put much weight on Steam preorders. They had not really ramped up the marketing yet but now they are, and they’re releasing in a time period without any major competition. I think this will sell fine, enough to justify keeping BioWare around to EA.

 

[Habichtswalder]

They have a vitiligo slider

I wonder what it feels for people who really suffer from this that their condition is turned into a "cool fashion statement" that you choose just like a hairstyle.

I wouldn't be happy about it. Maybe BioWare should run through some sensitivity training

 

[Child of Malkav]

If this thing is successful then humanity deserves

Spoiler

 

[Ibn Sina]

If this thing is successful then humanity deserves

Spoiler

I am looking now at steam top sellers and it has not moved an inch upward despite all the massive shilling.. In fact it it went downwards, now sitting on 62-61 top sellers while last week it was 50 something.

 

[whydoibother]

If this thing is successful then humanity deserves

Spoiler

I doubt it will be.
As I wrote earlier, it looks on par with Inquisition and Fallout 4, but people recently played Elden Ring and Baldur's Gate 3.
Maybe it gets God of War fans to dip their toes into RPG turf? Maybe not. But it won't do the huge sales that Bioware needs to justify its existence, given the long development time. I imagine they will start downscaling as soon as this comes out.

 

[Ibn Sina]

I would not be suprised if the bulge size option is locked unless you pick gender female or they/them pronoun