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

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The game will be impactful, if it wasn't it would not have forced people to make codex accounts just to hate on it.
 

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Look at these young men.
Full of life and hopes. Dreaming about a bright future. A bright future where their will finally add top surgery scars to a character creator.

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We need a nostalgia button. "Old" is not the same.

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x1 Old Gold

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Is that one of those mummy embalming tools she is holding? That tool that pulls the brain out of the skull through the nose?
I think its a smoking pipe, but since this is Dragon Age, it cant just look like a normal pipe, It has to be some weirdly stupid high concept design
I think I prefer my interpretation of it... :lol:

PIPE-DIPE WHAT SHE HAS ON HEAD?!!

A stand? Plate? Antenna?

Why does every element of this game have to be so stupid?

A one-sided horseface blinder. Latest fashion, and very practical in combat.
 

thesecret1

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Not much longer

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Is that one of those mummy embalming tools she is holding? That tool that pulls the brain out of the skull through the nose?
I think its a smoking pipe, but since this is Dragon Age, it cant just look like a normal pipe, It has to be some weirdly stupid high concept design
I think I prefer my interpretation of it... :lol:

PIPE-DIPE WHAT SHE HAS ON HEAD?!!

A stand? Plate? Antenna?

Why does every element of this game have to be so stupid?
It's a squished academic cap, to show she smart and modern (can't have some bigoted traditional look), and put on the side to show she's quirky. Perfect fashion statement for this girlboss!
 

La vie sexuelle

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They were going for a fascinator. But because they are talentless hacks, they failed so hard, it looked like it got hit by a plate so hard, it stuck.

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It's a squished academic cap, to show she smart and modern (can't have some bigoted traditional look), and put on the side to show she's quirky. Perfect fashion statement for this girlboss!

I suppose that was the point, but it still all looks stupid. This simple thing shows how complex the aesthetics of this game are.

This thread is losing steam.


Capitalismunism. Drug worse than fentanyl.
 

La vie sexuelle

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I suppose that was the point, but it still all looks stupid. This simple thing shows how complex the aesthetics of this game are.
When it comes to hats and outfits, the entire Dragon Age series is wall to wall bad ideas, and don't even get me started on their shield designs!

Of course, especially after the first part, when first they went cartoony, then they tried to rationalize the cartoon, and now they went full cartoon.

However, I think that when it comes to games like this (I am putting aside truly historical games here), we can turn a blind eye to many things as long as we recognize the referent of the symbolic representation. Veilguard has crossed a certain line here and is part of a broader trend where designs are becoming so abstract that we have trouble comparing them to something familiar. After all, Concord messed up the design because their characters looked really weird.
 
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As a resident of the western world, I absolutely reject the idea that this agenda is in any way to our interests. It's blatantly self-destructive. The minority of people pushing it may think it is in *their* interests, but only because they expect to exploit and destroy the rest of us.
 

likash

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The only good thing about the last 2 games are the voice actors with special mention for Varric and Morrigan. The new game seems to be even worse than Inquisition.
 

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