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

MerchantKing

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I'm asking myself what behooves people to keep talking about a game that has had no relevant developments from a series that hasn't been good in decades.

Funny, I was just asking myself what behooves you to post in every single thread about games you purportedly don’t care about typically very specifically stating that you very much don’t care about this game
He belittled people posting in the Rogue Trader thread for months, then proceeded to play the game.
Speaking of Rogue Trader... Is it fixed yet?
 

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Even DA:O was shit. It had a couple cool ideas buried in it but it was mostly dreck.
Bioware's best game was NWN and that game was 90% Toolset. Supposed industry pros are so regularly outshined by lone hobbyists working on modules in their spare time
 

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Even DA:O was shit. It had a couple cool ideas buried in it but it was mostly dreck.
Bioware's best game was NWN and that game was 90% Toolset. Supposed industry pros are so regularly outshined by lone hobbyists working on modules in their spare time

More like: NWN was a great Toolset but a poor single player campaign.

It's a shame that the idea of outsourcing modules to other videos wasn't fully exploited when it had sense.
 

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Gaider junior?

Compared to him, Gaider was quite decent. If you have played DA:I, remember the character Cole. You remember Cole, right? As if you could forget him. He was such an expressive character and such a popular companion!
You jest, but Cole ended up being the only companion I cared about in DAI.

As my great predecessor used to say: What!

But I'm curious. Tell me more.
Cole was the only companion that has a worthwile backstory, a worthwile development, and a worthwile conclusion. He has a satisfactory character arc. There is a reason, plotwise, that you could care for him, and see him develop his character, and on top of it all, his transformations are plot related too. He is one of the few, if not the, companion that actually has some sort of feedback with war table missions that feels organic. He's actually that rare, late Bioware companion that feels like a remnant of what Bioware used to bring to their games.
 

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Gaider junior?

Compared to him, Gaider was quite decent. If you have played DA:I, remember the character Cole. You remember Cole, right? As if you could forget him. He was such an expressive character and such a popular companion!
You jest, but Cole ended up being the only companion I cared about in DAI.

As my great predecessor used to say: What!

But I'm curious. Tell me more.
Cole was the only companion that has a worthwile backstory, a worthwile development, and a worthwile conclusion. He has a satisfactory character arc. There is a reason, plotwise, that you could care for him, and see him develop his character, and on top of it all, his transformations are plot related too. He is one of the few, if not the, companion that actually has some sort of feedback with war table missions that feels organic. He's actually that rare, late Bioware companion that feels like a remnant of what Bioware used to bring to their games.

Maybe you're right, but I had no patience for Coke. I mean, I did his quest, which I don't remember anything about (I think I chose the "evil" option), but for me he was never an integral part of the team. In a narrative and gameplay sense.

But I remember this:



Or this.



Gayder junior?
Gayder junior?

Compared to him, Gayder was quite decent. If you have played DA:I, remember the character Cole. You remember Cole, right? As if you could forget him. He was such an expressive character and such a popular companion!
I had to fix this.

Gayblade of Bioware.
 

Dishonoredbr

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Gayblade of Bioware.
GayBlade?
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Gaider junior?

Compared to him, Gaider was quite decent. If you have played DA:I, remember the character Cole. You remember Cole, right? As if you could forget him. He was such an expressive character and such a popular companion!
You jest, but Cole ended up being the only companion I cared about in DAI.

As my great predecessor used to say: What!

But I'm curious. Tell me more.
Cole was the only companion that has a worthwile backstory, a worthwile development, and a worthwile conclusion. He has a satisfactory character arc. There is a reason, plotwise, that you could care for him, and see him develop his character, and on top of it all, his transformations are plot related too. He is one of the few, if not the, companion that actually has some sort of feedback with war table missions that feels organic. He's actually that rare, late Bioware companion that feels like a remnant of what Bioware used to bring to their games.

Maybe you're right, but I had no patience for Coke. I mean, I did his quest, which I don't remember anything about (I think I chose the "evil" option), but for me he was never an integral part of the team. In a narrative and gameplay sense.

But I remember this:



Or this.



Gayder junior?
Gayder junior?

Compared to him, Gayder was quite decent. If you have played DA:I, remember the character Cole. You remember Cole, right? As if you could forget him. He was such an expressive character and such a popular companion!
I had to fix this.

Gayblade of Bioware.

Technically the good ending is getting him to be more human, but it's not set in stone like that. It really feels more like something Obsidian would make as opposed to a pure Biowarian type of character.

Blackwall is good, though. He could be a second best companion imo. They put more attention in characters and their stories than anything else in the game I'd say.
 

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Gaider junior?

Compared to him, Gaider was quite decent. If you have played DA:I, remember the character Cole. You remember Cole, right? As if you could forget him. He was such an expressive character and such a popular companion!
You jest, but Cole ended up being the only companion I cared about in DAI.

As my great predecessor used to say: What!

But I'm curious. Tell me more.
Cole was the only companion that has a worthwile backstory, a worthwile development, and a worthwile conclusion. He has a satisfactory character arc. There is a reason, plotwise, that you could care for him, and see him develop his character, and on top of it all, his transformations are plot related too. He is one of the few, if not the, companion that actually has some sort of feedback with war table missions that feels organic. He's actually that rare, late Bioware companion that feels like a remnant of what Bioware used to bring to their games.
Cole was an almost slightly tolerably written character hidden under an ugly, retarded and aesthetic-breaking visual design.

He wasn't good, but a talking pile of shit would look alright next to Sera or Iron Bull.
 

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Gaider junior?

Compared to him, Gaider was quite decent. If you have played DA:I, remember the character Cole. You remember Cole, right? As if you could forget him. He was such an expressive character and such a popular companion!
You jest, but Cole ended up being the only companion I cared about in DAI.

As my great predecessor used to say: What!

But I'm curious. Tell me more.
Cole was the only companion that has a worthwile backstory, a worthwile development, and a worthwile conclusion. He has a satisfactory character arc. There is a reason, plotwise, that you could care for him, and see him develop his character, and on top of it all, his transformations are plot related too. He is one of the few, if not the, companion that actually has some sort of feedback with war table missions that feels organic. He's actually that rare, late Bioware companion that feels like a remnant of what Bioware used to bring to their games.

Maybe you're right, but I had no patience for Coke. I mean, I did his quest, which I don't remember anything about (I think I chose the "evil" option), but for me he was never an integral part of the team. In a narrative and gameplay sense.

But I remember this:



Or this.



Gayder junior?
Gayder junior?

Compared to him, Gayder was quite decent. If you have played DA:I, remember the character Cole. You remember Cole, right? As if you could forget him. He was such an expressive character and such a popular companion!
I had to fix this.

Gayblade of Bioware.

Technically the good ending is getting him to be more human, but it's not set in stone like that. It really feels more like something Obsidian would make as opposed to a pure Biowarian type of character.

Blackwall is good, though. He could be a second best companion imo. They put more attention in characters and their stories than anything else in the game I'd say.


I think this declaration is true. And that's one of the reasons why their games are so terrible.
 
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I just started replaying the series.

Had only ever played Origins over a decade ago, now. Loved it then and am loving it now. Morbidly curious to finally play 2 and to try and find good things about it, despite its near universal negative reception (from fans, at least). Inquisition, from what I've seen (and in my opinion) has the most appealing art style of the entire. I booted it up just once, briefly, and its opening menu, along with the illustration on the cards in the character creator is all quite beautiful. I always heard that while its open world was unnecessary and there were way too many fetch quests, not to mention other "one step forward, two steps back-type issues that made its near-universal critical perfect scores a load of bull, that it was at least an obvious effort to mix all of the things people loved in Origins with the few good improvements people admitted her present in two. Whether it was successful, in my opinion, remains ot be seen as I'm still in the beginning stages of Origins (Drwarf Commoner Rogue, baby! If an RPG doesn't let you join in with NPCs rudelly lusting after your sister and agree with them that she's hot and talk about how you want to fucker, as well, then it's not a true RPG).

That all said, everything about Dreadwolf, from the timing, the context, those involved, the history of the project, etc. makes me think it will genuinely have people re-evaluating DA2 as a misunderstood masterpiece in comparison. I have such low expectations for this game...
 

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DA2 is a good game. Period.

I have near zero hope for DA4. Gonna likely be shit. I mean it's an action story game written by sjw nazis. *yawn*
 

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Gaider junior?

Compared to him, Gaider was quite decent. If you have played DA:I, remember the character Cole. You remember Cole, right? As if you could forget him. He was such an expressive character and such a popular companion!
You jest, but Cole ended up being the only companion I cared about in DAI.

As my great predecessor used to say: What!

But I'm curious. Tell me more.
Is this you https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads...niuses-in-rpg-development.141650/post-7705170 ?
What?
 

La vie sexuelle

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Gaider junior?

Compared to him, Gaider was quite decent. If you have played DA:I, remember the character Cole. You remember Cole, right? As if you could forget him. He was such an expressive character and such a popular companion!
You jest, but Cole ended up being the only companion I cared about in DAI.

As my great predecessor used to say: What!

But I'm curious. Tell me more.
Is this you https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads...niuses-in-rpg-development.141650/post-7705170 ?
What?

What! Stay strong Anon! You are good friend Anon yes!
 

MerchantKing

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I've never actually played a Dragon Age game. I've only see videos of the cutscenes and assumed the gameplay was worse than KOTOR so not worth playing. BG2 already had too much of that gay cutscene garbage.
 

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I've never actually played a Dragon Age game. I've only see videos of the cutscenes and assumed the gameplay was worse than KOTOR so not worth playing. BG2 already had too much of that gay cutscene garbage.
I played DA:O when it came out because I thought it would have a toolset.
It did, but it was a really lame one.
I remember picking the noble and thinking it would be RP heavy, but then it turned into an action dungeon and my character's old lady mom claimed to be a "battle maiden", that was the first of many cringes.
At least Leliana was waifu though
 

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