Dragon Age Dragon Age: The Veilguard Pre-Release Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[J1M]

Best thing about that trailer is how the Arishock battle is one of THE single worse battles in gaming history. No matter what your class or setup, it's boring as fuck.

I remember how tedious was single combat against Arishock as a mage.

They multiplied that experience by x100 in Inquisition where every boss or even common enemy was an enourmous hp bloat AND level scaling.

Not what I experienced. Even dragons died in 10 seconds. Was hilarious. Maybe you were bad at ability combos or something.

 

[NaturallyCarnivorousSheep]

I'm no cartoon expert, but isn't this a bigger trend of infantilizing black people? Make them weak and pathetic like the whites and yellows?

Watch Buck Breaking brotha

 

[Falksi]

I don't remember Dragon Age combat ever being all that interesting. The aesthetics were also bad.

Flashy anime shit + lame looking armor design + oversized weapons because apparently gamers have bad eye sight.

The only interesting fights were the occasional scripted ones like dragons.

Origins on Nightmare was pretty good. Some of the battles were well structured and had environmental hazards to consider, and the combos such as cone of cold and stonefist were required to get through some sections. Wasn't anything amazing like, but it had it's moments and was WAY better than what followed.

 

[Sarathiour]

DAO also had friendly fire, you could not just spam shit, you had to somewhat aim and correctly position yourself and your party.

 

[Fedora Master]

Combat in DA in general was a chore and dragon fights were more a thing of attrition rather than strategy.

Bioware have been consistent in the animu-ification of their stuff though. They belong to a generation which was hit hard by how massive Final Fantasy 7 got at some point, together with Black Isle.

They didn't even do animu-ification right though. The proper way to do it is to adopt the character tropes and giant titty fetishes.

The sister of the PC has big titties in DA2 though.

How to tell you never played the game.

 

[BlackAdderBG]

DA:Origins is one of the biggest/earliest examples of Hard been the actual Normal difficulty. Nightmare was OK, but some enemies were just overtuned or never balanced like the Revenants (especially in Redcliffe as you tend to go there early) or all of the Dragons except the final one. The game would have been way better if you could choose individual parts of each difficulty like most CRPGs let you do. Let me have full friendly fire and the advanced AI without the insane stats buff/debuffs. It doesn't help that it had the MMO trinity combat design that making your fighter's defenses pointless is actually ruining the whole encounter design and makes every battle either kite fest or nuke with combos before enemies even engage.

The other two game were terrible with HP/damage bloat so playing anything other than Normal was retarded.

 

[9ted6]

I don't remember Dragon Age combat ever being all that interesting. The aesthetics were also bad.

Flashy anime shit + lame looking armor design + oversized weapons because apparently gamers have bad eye sight.

The only interesting fights were the occasional scripted ones like dragons.

Origins wasn't very flashy at all in combat I would say. It was slow and plodding, but there was some impact to it. DA2's when it became a twitchy Dark Souls 3 situation where every character and enemy jumps and spins around all the time.

The aesthetic was alright in some places and bad in others. Some of the armor and weapons look good, some of them look goofy and cartoonified. I hear it's because they shifted DA from a weeb wuxia fantasy to western medieval around 2005 when the WHFB RPG and especially WoW were popular so they changed their aesthetics to a blending of those.

 

[Morgoth]

DA:O combat wasn't hard, it was just slow and tedious. Playing it with anything but Easy to get on with it would have been torture.

 

[Tyranicon]

I still remember it being hilarious for the mage class in DA2 to have these fancy kungfu spell slinging moves, and it takes like a million of them to bring down even your basic enemies because everyone had HP bloat or something.

 

[Elttharion]

I wonder how art style will change, given their latest investemnt in anime faggotry and comic degeneracy.

"Do you think God stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he has created?

This might be the most digusting thing I have ever watched. I randomly paused the video and the first thing I saw was a nigger kissing a male dwarf. JFC.

 

[La vie sexuelle]

I wonder how art style will change, given their latest investemnt in anime faggotry and comic degeneracy.

"Do you think God stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he has created?

This might be the most digusting thing I have ever watched. I randomly paused the video and the first thing I saw was a nigger kissing a male dwarf. JFC.

I understand God.

 

[Ryzer]

How did we go from this over the top edgy concept art:

to this:

Soy? StarBucks? Trans?

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

That ain't concept art, that's just promotional art plain and simple. I've never liked digital coloring so both look like shit to me tbh, but the one below is the absolute state of american animation. They are slowly coping with the fact that they lost the cultural war and it's time to give up and ape anime and manga.

That said, I dig the tarot card style for DAI, I wish games had aesthetics like these.

 

[Nano]

This might be the most digusting thing I have ever watched. I randomly paused the video and the first thing I saw was a nigger kissing a male dwarf. JFC.

Anime avatars are disgusting too. Just saying.

 

[Alienman]

How did we go from this over the top edgy concept art:

to this:

Soy? StarBucks? Trans?

Zoomers and Marvel.

 

[Elttharion]

This might be the most digusting thing I have ever watched. I randomly paused the video and the first thing I saw was a nigger kissing a male dwarf. JFC.

Anime avatars are disgusting too. Just saying.

All of us are disgusting in our own fucked up ways.

 

[La vie sexuelle]

How did we go from this over the top edgy concept art:

to this:

Soy? StarBucks? Trans?

Cultural change. Partly forced by the elites after the Crisis, partly expected because people got tired of being edgy.

 

[Shaja]

How did we go from this over the top edgy concept art:

to this:

Soy? StarBucks? Trans?

2 theories:

1. It´s a dyke propaganda show. This art style may attract kids. So once all the kids become gay, there won´t be any childbirth in the future. Just like what George Soros planned.


2. Dragon Age (TM) brand is not popular at all. So this art style similar to Legend of Korra may attract rule 34 "artists" and they can do free marketing for you.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

How did we go from this over the top edgy concept art:

to this:

Soy? StarBucks? Trans?

2 theories:

1. It´s a dyke propaganda show. This art style may attract kids. So once all the kids become gay, there won´t be any childbirth in the future. Just like what George Soros planned.


2. Dragon Age (TM) brand is not popular at all. So this art style similar to Legend of Korra may attract rule 34 "artists" and they can do free marketing for you.

Except kids are watching anime now, almost exclusively, and most of the times because it ain't american. This is just a wine aunt thing. Much like fat neckbeards watch and consume cartoons for little kids, wine aunts watch and consume this type of thing.

 

[The Jester]

I wonder how art style will change, given their latest investemnt in anime faggotry and comic degeneracy.

This can genuinely be used for torture.

 

[La vie sexuelle]

How did we go from this over the top edgy concept art:

to this:

Soy? StarBucks? Trans?

2 theories:

1. It´s a dyke propaganda show. This art style may attract kids. So once all the kids become gay, there won´t be any childbirth in the future. Just like what George Soros planned.


2. Dragon Age (TM) brand is not popular at all. So this art style similar to Legend of Korra may attract rule 34 "artists" and they can do free marketing for you.

Except kids are watching anime now, almost exclusively, and most of the times because it ain't american. This is just a wine aunt thing. Much like fat neckbeards watch and consume cartoons for little kids, wine aunts watch and consume this type of thing.

Let''s go further - it's show for wine aunites daughters.

They grew up in homes of single mothers (or where the father's role was very weak), where Disney was the main educational tool, as well as a source of consumer values and aspirations. Think of the role Disney had in shaping the "Tumblr sensibility." Now add the change forced by the elite, who saw Disneyland and the women who visited it as a model of a new society.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

There's also an underlying obsession with being kind and well meaning, even if you're not like that irl. It permeates american culture in general not just pop culture, and it goes beyond just good manners... But to be fair, I'd blame germanic autism on that one.

 

[Myobi]

How did we go from this over the top edgy concept art

A broodmother is a giant, tentacled, and sessile ghoul capable of spawning vast numbers of darkspawn in a manner reminiscent of an insect queen.

“First day, they come and catch everyone. Second day, they beat us and eat some for meat. Third day, the men are all gnawed on again. Fourth day, we wait and fear for our fate. Fifth day, they return and it's another girl's turn. Sixth day, her screams we hear in our dreams. Seventh day, she grew as in her mouth they spew. Eighth day, we hated as she is violated. Ninth day, she grins and devours her kin. Now she does feast, as she's become the beast. Now you lay and wait, for their screams will haunt you in your dreams. ” ―Hespith's poem, describing how broodmothers are created

 

[fantadomat]

Yeah a lot of gang rape.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

How did we go from this over the top edgy concept art

A broodmother is a giant, tentacled, and sessile ghoul capable of spawning vast numbers of darkspawn in a manner reminiscent of an insect queen.

“First day, they come and catch everyone. Second day, they beat us and eat some for meat. Third day, the men are all gnawed on again. Fourth day, we wait and fear for our fate. Fifth day, they return and it's another girl's turn. Sixth day, her screams we hear in our dreams. Seventh day, she grew as in her mouth they spew. Eighth day, we hated as she is violated. Ninth day, she grins and devours her kin. Now she does feast, as she's become the beast. Now you lay and wait, for their screams will haunt you in your dreams. ” ―Hespith's poem, describing how broodmothers are created

Awakenings turned the Big Mom into a goth spider chick, though