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

[PunchYouInTheFace]

a) being a woman b) being veteran worker c) she created Varric

And woke too. Hmm.. there is almost this idea that bugging me that Corporation is only pandering to the Left for their money, not actually caring for them or controlled by them. Ah, who am I kidding, it must be them BlackCock, I mean Black Rock, DEI, ESG, DBD, DBZ from god damn NATO European Latinx troon joos who would've done this.

And my favorite propagand- Content Creator also affirm my believe so it must be true.

You're right

Which is why it's funny to me that many in this thread and others seem to think that "Nu-BioWare" =/= "Old BioWare".

I urge people to play whatever BioWare game they think is "Good", not just consooming out of context screenshots. They didn't change. You did.

 

[Atlantico]

TBH, I appreciate making the pride daemon less humanoid.

What I find hillarious is fighting one at level 1.

It looks very similar to what it looked like in DAI. Reused assets.

Also, five minutes after starting a game in DAI and still on level 1 you fight a pride demon and win.

Stupid really, though the half-baked idea was that you were holding an accidental superpower that gave you the advantage over even a pride demon. Here, it doesn't seem they even bothered with a fig leaf.

DA Deadname: Button > Awesome!

 

[Falksi]

She wrote the "Dragon Age then", too.

You're right, she's one of the main writers of the entire series. She's been at BioWare for 17 years before the mass layoff.

Sometimes I wonder about writers in the games industry. Why they do it, knowing what a shit deal it is for them.

-does a salary search-


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Hmmmm. Seems to be below industry average, but that'll have to depend on experience.

Apparently she's one of the writers that BioWare fired last year.

Quite funny - she's a veteran writer of Bioware. She worked there since 2006, her LinkedIn bio says she was a writer for DAO. When she was fired, she posted "Experienced writer looking for a job" and Gaider answered, that she created Varric.

Ah you ninja'ed me.

Holy shit, no wonder their stuff is of such low quality. I'm assuming that's Canadian dollars too?

Fucking lorry drivers in the UK get paid more than a Bioware Writer pushing a top wage there. It's literally monkey wages.

 

[Naraya]

Well. If you're an average book author you won't get a mansion either, so I guess that's expected? Only top (most popular/liked) people earn a lot.

 

[GrainWetski]

Even 45k is way too much for any writer in the industry.

 

[Reinhardt]

You guys (probably) haven't noticed, but apparently the biggest-thirst trap so far is the old white dude, to the point where he's raking in the fanart/rule 34 and is even... Kotaku's official husbando?

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What is happening?

People would rather fuck the old decrepit white man instead of the diverse characters

What about Lucanis? He's white, but also bland. Looks like Blackwall's skinnier brother.

How is this white? He looks like an arab to me

person who kill dress wearers can't be that bad

 

[Reinhardt]

Hmmmm. Seems to be below industry average, but that'll have to depend on experience.

wait, people are paid 100k year for writing shit like dragon age?

 

[Baron Tahn]

A writer can be woke as they want, one of the things that demonstrates their writing quality is that they don't have to always write from that perspective. They aren't even supposed to, indeed, we used to call that 'self-indulgent' and it was a no no, but fuck knows nowadays it's basically all self inserts and personal agendas.

 

[Atlantico]

Being a sooky little bitch about it is not an efficient way to make a point, though.

It is the NEGger Lamechump way

 

[Atlantico]

I’ve never seen a company so desperate to distance itself from its own original IP while simultaneously dragging said IP through the dirt.

 

[Lodis]

You guys (probably) haven't noticed, but apparently the biggest-thirst trap so far is the old white dude, to the point where he's raking in the fanart/rule 34 and is even... Kotaku's official husbando?

View attachment 51131

What is happening?

People would rather fuck the old decrepit white man instead of the diverse characters

What about Lucanis? He's white, but also bland. Looks like Blackwall's skinnier brother.

How is this white? He looks like an arab to me

He looks more spanish/italian than arab(don't fucking tell me there's no difference)

His surname is also Dellamorte apparently (which is italian sounding, although in italian it would be Della Morte)

Josephine surname in Inquisiton is Montilyet. Purest white European stock:

I forgot how fucking greasy everyone looked in Inquisition.

 

[Atlantico]

Not sure what happened with Simon, though. Nature glitched out on that one.

(Pictured: Simon Tolkien and his more interesting and intelligent counterpart, a houseplant)

 

[La vie sexuelle]

Dragon Age then: Embark on a classic journey to save the world from evil.

Dragon Age now:

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Apparently she's one of the writers that BioWare fired last year.

There was supposed to be some sort of boycott over the firings but EA shills said it wasn't very "fanlike" and the fandom agreed to give the friendly megacorp more money.

It's facepalms all the way down.

What means "bisexual disaster of a human"?

He is a human disaster?

Disaster is a human?

Disaster is a bisexual?

Disaster is a bisexual human?

 

[Zlaja]

there is almost this idea that bugging me that Corporation is only pandering to the Left for their money, not actually caring for them or controlled by them

Corporations are indeed pandering for financial reasons, but you're wrong when you assume that they're strictly acting on their own. After all, if it was all about maximizing the profit margins for their products they wouldn't be acting the way they do. They're being coerced into acting in a certain way to get a positive social credit score by powerful and mega-wealthy investment institutions. And those institutions themselves have been coerced by politicians in Washington (in coordination with some of their biggest donors), often using American pension funds as leverage, to instigate a method for forcing corporations to act in a certain way to attract investments. And this is how social credit scores, like ESG, came to be.

As of the first quarter of 2024 (March 31st), aggregate public pension assets were $6.09 trillion, an increase of 3.0 percent from the $5.91 trillion reported for the prior quarter. This value is higher than the same quarter one year ago by some $509 billion, or 9.1 percent

BlackRock manages $8.5 trillion in assets which are owned by its clients. Those clients are insurance companies, mutual funds, pension funds, etc

BlackRock is proud to serve pension funds providing for nurses, teachers, firefighters, law enforcement, and other workers in public and private sectors

You can, of course, continue to believe that corporations would gladly be "woke", and practically all of them in unison, even when it's not economically favorable to them from a profit perspective, and/or that politicians in Washington would never/could never steer the mechanisms on the financial market.

 

[Atlantico]

This part, I am sure, will be implemented well.

The Shadow Dragons is a resistance group opposing corrupt rulers and slavery in Tevinter. Their mission is to help those in need and bring justice to the people

This sounds like US state department propaganda, e.g. "the Mujahedeen* is a resistance group opposing the corrupt rulers and communism* in Afghanistan*. Their mission is to help those in need and bring justice to the people".

*insert relevant faction, ideology and country as needed

 

[Atlantico]

Fixed that for you kike

I see you're asshurt again, African. How sad for you.

I see you're sperging again with the usual kikery, mongrel

 

[AfterVirtue]

This part, I am sure, will be implemented well.

The Shadow Dragons is a resistance group opposing corrupt rulers and slavery in Tevinter. Their mission is to help those in need and bring justice to the people

This sounds like US state department propaganda, e.g. "the Mujahedeen* is a resistance group opposing the corrupt rulers and communism* in Afghanistan*. Their mission is to help those in need and bring justice to the people".

*insert relevant faction, ideology and country as needed

Up to the point of inverting the enemy "ally to democracy/tyrant of a rogue state" when needed.

Pride Demons

 

[moon knight]

At least not the ones living close to Rome or from the south of Italy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Muslim_Sicily&diffonly=true

According to your logic, sicilians should be vikings

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Sicily

 

[La vie sexuelle]

At least not the ones living close to Rome or from the south of Italy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Muslim_Sicily&diffonly=true

According to your logic, sicilians should be vikings

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Sicily

Or even Byzantines.

 

[Tyranicon]

Which is why it's funny to me that many in this thread and others seem to think that "Nu-BioWare" =/= "Old BioWare".

I urge people to play whatever BioWare game they think is "Good", not just consooming out of context screenshots. They didn't change. You did.

No, BioWare changed. It's like a goddamn sitcom character.

Here, I pulled the perfect graphic to describe BioWare over the years.

 

[Fedora Master]

At least not the ones living close to Rome or from the south of Italy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Muslim_Sicily&diffonly=true

According to your logic, sicilians should be vikings

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Sicily

And they are, to a small degree. These conquests usually mostly affected the upper levels of society, unless the conquerer brought in boys from home en masse.

 

[Space Satan]

On a more general note, there are also other devs that have occasionally talked about how most players don't go for evil playthroughs hence in turn fewer resources being allocated for evil content. Which is a travesty imho, but yeah.

*Laughs in durge and Minthara*

 

[Semiurge]

Yeah, DAO had pretty neat options, apart from kill demon, save a child. Trading little girl's body to the desire demon, bargaining for connor's soul, selling elves to Tevinter, Loghain's fate, after all. No bioware sequels came even close to such choices. In inquisition you literally have only good outcomes and praises from all around you.

I don't remember who it was, but one of the BioWare devs mentioned some time ago on Twitter (tweets now deleted) how he didn't believe that players should be allowed to make morally questionable choices in a game. Paging Roguey in case he knows who it was, but yeah. Peak clown world.

Authoritative left activists at it again. A few decades back giving players a choice would've been applauded as great writing. Now they're afraid that it would give the players "ideas" that would combat the programming. What is that if not the sign of attempted mind control, masked as concern? Totalitarian shit.

You guys (probably) haven't noticed, but apparently the biggest-thirst trap so far is the old white dude, to the point where he's raking in the fanart/rule 34 and is even... Kotaku's official husbando?

View attachment 51131

What is happening?

People would rather fuck the old decrepit white man instead of the diverse characters

What about Lucanis? He's white, but also bland. Looks like Blackwall's skinnier brother.

How is this white? He looks like an arab to me

He looks more spanish/italian than arab(don't fucking tell me there's no difference)

His surname is also Dellamorte apparently (which is italian sounding, although in italian it would be Della Morte)

Josephine surname in Inquisiton is Montilyet. Purest white European stock:

They shadowed her philtrum too much, it gives her a harelipped appearance. And the forehead also looks too sloped and narrow. What is it with western game devs accenting the lower half of a woman's face? That was half-rhetoric, since I'm certain why they do it. They're deliberately steering away from neonatalist features, those have always been the key to female attractiveness - big forehead, big eyes and lips, a small nose and a narrow jaw. Theirs is the recipe for manfaced females.

Why does Valve allow this? Of all the big gaming platforms they seem like a big outlier in this regard.

Steam forums has most of same moderation tools as other forums. The difference is that developers actually have to pay a person to delete all these individual threads on Steam forums, instead of having a bot or "unpaid" janny do it.

They can't keep up lol.

Same tools but not the same rules.
On reddit you get permaban for "hate speech" calling a character tranny.
On steam I actually got my reviews and posting rights unbanned by steam admins several times, since criticizing pronouns & what not does not break steam rules, and those override any local mods bullshit.

Steam/Valve must be getting a lot of heat for that from activists, you bet. I hope they won't bend over.

 

[Skinwalker]

Biowhore has changed, and it hasn't changed. It has become a grotesque parody of its former self, but all the decline was there from the very beginning. It was just... subdued, to some degree. You wouldn't look at the cast of companions in Baldur's Gate 1 and think "this was made by based tradcons".

It's like the flanderization graphic, but if the guy was a goofy asshole from the very start.

 

[Tyranicon]

Semiurge you magnificent bastard.