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Dragon Age Dragon Age: The Veilguard Pre-Release Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]
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Myobi
Liturgist
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Considering my expectations for Bioware nowadays? It's... fine, I can deal with a pseudo Mass Effect play style for it as long as the writing is good, which it won't, because Bioware from Origins days is long gone.
NecroLord
Dumbfuck!
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Not the most original writing, but it was serviceable enough.
Drakortha
Prophet
Larian fags are butthurt that not every game is a Baldur's Gate 3 clone.it begins
Seethe and cope, fags.
9ted6
Educated
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Parts of it were pretty good. Companion dialogue varied wildly from surprisingly natural to stilted cringe. The dwarves and their caste system were cool but very underutilized.
Tyranicon
A Memory of Eternity
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Spotted in the wild, thanks to Elttharion
Ugh, I'm not looking forward to the deadening of the internet.
Ugh, I'm not looking forward to the deadening of the internet.
Lacrymas
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The worldbuilding was good, but everything else is undercooked at best.
Why is there crockery everywhere, is that their main trade? Clay and clay accessories?
Spotted in the wild, thanks to Elttharion
Ugh, I'm not looking forward to the deadening of the internet.
"Orlando"? The gender-bender from Virginia Woolf's book?
How fitting a name for a trans-rights bot.
Myobi
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Depends what you are comparing it to, to the most recent Bioware games? It was good.
Gargaune
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Not just the contents of those comments but look at the account names too, they're RNG fare. Wouldn't be meaningful in isolated cases, but put the two together and it's miserably obvious.Spotted in the wild, thanks to Elttharion
Ugh, I'm not looking forward to the deadening of the internet.
You know, the recent surge in bot marketing feels like it might be crossing a line in the legal sense. Dunno about the US, but in the EU, news outlets are expected to label sponsored content as such and then you've got similar requirements on YouTube and the like. A newspaper can't just print a paid L'Oréal puffpiece with their own byline, they gotta get creative with hiding that transaction under the guise of their own "independent journalism." Now if a company goes out and rents a bot farm to defecate "enthusiasm" in the public sphere, doesn't it seem like it should be covered under similar rationales?
Tyranicon
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Plausible deniability. If you can't track the payments, it could be anybody. Even "our haters buying bots to make us look bad."
By now I don't have to say how underhanded this industry is. It's a racket.
Gargaune
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Sure, but if I were a public prosecutor looking to build my career off EA's asshole, I'd take one look at that Twitter spam and demand to audit their books. This isn't the classic MO where a big gaming outlet "just happens" to review a shit game "10/10 you should buy two copies" and the shit game's publisher "just happens" to take out two hundred grand's worth of advertising on that outlet, in this case you've got a marketing department buying time on a botfarm somewhere. It's not gonna be listed as "PAYMENT FOR BOTFARM TO DECEIVE MORONIC PUBLIC" but it's not some serendipitous conspiracy either, there's a money trail there if someone wants to go down it.
Reinhardt
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just imagine - warrior with a sword AND shield!Spotted in the wild, thanks to Elttharion
Ugh, I'm not looking forward to the deadening of the internet.
La vie sexuelle
Learned
For a healthy mind, concepts reflect things, and abstractions capture phenomena that go beyond the boundaries of the concrete.
For the ideological mind, concepts reflect ideological reality, which changes on political grounds.
Normally "diverse" means the same as "heterogeneous". This concept in itself does not tell us about the origin, about heterogeneous scale, about the hierarchy, etc.
For the Marxist ideology, every concept has its twin, but one is good and the other is bad. In this case, "diverse" is non-white-non-male, and on the other side is white supremacy and patriarchy. Asking obvious questions like "is there something in between?" or suggestions that the world is a little more complex means you're on the wrong side.
You know what X needs right now? Mandatory 2FA. I don't think bots can bypass that.... yet.
Heroic Liberator
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Re: companions
Old Hans
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its like politics. this is the hot button top of the month
poor Orlando has been living his entire life using that longsword with 2 handsjust imagine - warrior with a sword AND shield!Spotted in the wild, thanks to Elttharion
Ugh, I'm not looking forward to the deadening of the internet.
La vie sexuelle
Learned
Re: companions
I think Andrew is lying here about companions as much as his gender.
Heroic Liberator
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Troon probably didn't even play the prior games))Re: companions
I think Andrew is lying here about companions as much as his gender.
La vie sexuelle
Learned
Troon probably didn't even play the prior games))Re: companions
I think Andrew is lying here about companions as much as his gender.
That's almost certain.
However, I wonder if Veildguard has some sort of vestigial control that maybe wasn't available in the prologue. But it doesn't really fit into such an arcade game, so I don't know.
Re: companions
Andy's avatar seems to have some dollifying filter on it, and the glasses seem to be lenseless, either because of the filter or because he wants to look smarter with fake eyeglasses.
I would say the writing in DA: Origins looks better and better with every single game they release.
Prosecutors love $$$ as much as journos and anyone else. Just need more money. For example ATVI / MSFT merger vs FTC.
Old joke:
- Dad what is the difference between realistically and hypothetically speaking?
- Well son, go and ask your mom and sister if they would have sex with a stranger for 1 million dollars.
- But why dad, how is this going to answer my question?
- Just do it!
After a few minutes the son returns to his dad..
- Hey dad, both said they would accept the 1 million dollars offer for sex.
- Therefore son, hypothetically speaking we could have 2 million dollars, but realistically speaking we only have two whores in the house.
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