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

Baron Tahn

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I suspect that's giving them too much credit but will be interesting to see. I've not wanted to pirate a game in a long time, but given this shit show I'm tempted, just to see what they have done.
 

Shaja

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Warrior:

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Rogue:


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Mage:

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Aarwolf

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Why should we even care at this moment? It's just for laughs, nothing more.

What is curious to me is how the sales will be? Inquisition sold 6 mln copies, and was the best selling Bioware game ever. Anthem sold 5 mln and was considered a failure, b/c EA expected it to sell 20+ mln. Andromeda sold 5 mln also, so we can say that the "core" audience for Bioware was at that time around that.

To put things in pespective, DOS2 sold 7,5 mln copies, and BG3 is estimated to sold 15+ mln. Assasins Creed Valhalla sold 1,8 mln copies in its first week, and made Ubisoft 1 bln $ in revenue. AS Odyssey sold 10 mln copies. God of War 2018 (a game DA4 tries to mimic) sold 5 mln copies in its first month and 25 mln overall - about 5 times better than Bioware can expect DA4 to sell.

So, if they even want to break even, how much DA4 should sell? I'm not talking about pleasing EA, that seems impossible at this point.

Ps - I try to compare DA4 to games that have similiar commercial potential, I'm not talking about behemots like Red Dead Redemption 2 (65 mln copies) or Witcher 3 (50 mln copies).
 

S.H.O.D.A.N.

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Earthdawn

Man, that's a name I haven't heard in... well over two decades now?

It's still being publ...

"In 2016, Vagrant Workshop released the Age of Legend edition (...) marketed as being "ideal for one-shots, convention games, and introductory games — even for kids!"

Oh, never mind.
 

Baron Dupek

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"We quickly learned and realized that the absolute beating heart of this game is these authentic, diverse companions." - Game Director Corinne Bushe
coming from Bioware of all things... modern sure, but still studio that was known for varied companions

also nerdy asian... really subtle, totally not racist just like hip-hop music playing when black samurai is fighting asians in new ass creed
 
Vatnik Wumao
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Told you so.
Yeah. Can't say that I am particularly invested in DA lore as to properly theorycraft.
This is my prediction: they will plagiarise Earthdawn/Shadowrun and have the mere act of using blood magic weaken the veil further, thus make it no-no for the failguards.
Which is complete nonsense since blood magic is precisely the kind of magic that doesn't require interacting with the Fade, same as with blight magic.
 

Zlaja

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It's convenient to ignore that Black Cock, sorry, Black Rock - is not the "biggest" entity out there

They handle 8 trillion dollars. Also, they aren't the only investment institution who's involved in applying a type of credit score on the financial market based on "social values".

And Amazon is known to be so woke. They produce The Boys Season 4.

They also produce the likes of Rings of Power. Also, Amazon isn't in the same line of business.

Let's ignore the working condition in their storages, Union busting

Those things are not highest on the priority list for a positive social credit score and are offset by adhering to things like DEI (Diversity-Equity-Inclusion).

But I'd rather be in real world

In the real world that's a typical 'Asian female' design, when created by LGBT activists (disregarding the ears). The same type of activists who are responsible for basically all female character designs in companies like today's Bioware and others in the Western AAA sphere. Carefully designed not to be found too attractive by straight males and to avoid adhering to the East-Asian beauty standard.
 

Cryomancer

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Why is the egalitarian, anti-Tevinter faction named Shadow Dragons?

Can I side with Tevinter? I unironically think that there is nothing more evil than egalitarism. Nothing brought more misery, famine, Tyranny and suffering than egalitarism IRL. And name one magocracy plagued by corruption, ineficiency and race to the bottom. Glantri, Thay, Netheril


The problem with """"diversity"""" is the following. If the setting is Asian inspired, African Inspired, middle Eastern Inspired, Mesoamerican, etc is "muh cultural appropriation" so you can only have Europeanesque settings. And the "diversity" can only be archived by """diversifying"""" European cultures hence everything fells the same.
 

Baron Tahn

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While we on that topic - what the fuck is a chud? Is that some new age fuckwit word or are we talking about the Russian folklore 'chud' which is in fact pretty awesome?
 
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In the real world that's a typical 'Asian female' design
You gotta stop this schizo-esque thinking of applying subjective lens as a fact in your brain.

European cultures
It's Thedas culture. European culture influences some of it not all of it. You gotta stop sucking propagandist dick because it turns you into a Parrot, man. You're headcanoning so hard some people called it "Conspiracy theory".


magine the amount of estrogen pills one would need to take daily to unironically use the word 'CHUD'.
Ah The "I have of plenty Black Cock picture on my Hardisk" Jester. My best fan and admirer.
 

whydoibother

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That's the joke
You're not joking.

You're looking for other chud to suck, my dude. It's chud-affirming shit.
Imagine the amount of estrogen pills one would need to take daily to unironically use the word 'CHUD'.
There's a very obvious anti-fan circlejerk here, and some posts are clear mating calls for these anti-fans to find each other and affirm each other's anti-fandom.
Your last few posts ITT are saying you are sexually attracted to gnomes, asking people who disagree if they were groomed in Discord, pride flag shit, lugenpresse comments, calling people who disagree vermin, Solas more like Soulless LMAOOOOO, why does this game even have gameplay make it a VN, ugh it was a different time back when Neverwinter Nights had this 4k fanart in the game as an ingame model ugh, and estrogen pills.
As in, fuck all to do with the game, and just vibe signals to vibe up with the other vibrators here who don't even play video games.

Friendly reminder, anti-fans are fans. You are a Bioware fanboy. In le current year. Very sad!
 
Vatnik Wumao
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While we on that topic - what the fuck is a chud? Is that some new age fuckwit word or are we talking about the Russian folklore 'chud' which is in fact pretty awesome?
The word "chud" can originally be found as the name of a movie from 1984, called C.H.U.D., with the main plot of the creature feature being "Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers" (or CHUD). The trailer for the movie was reuploaded to YouTube on June 27th, 2018, by the YouTube channel Grindhouse Movie Trailers, with an emphasis being placed on how it's a group of monsters that live in the dark undergrounds rising up to civilization to attack (shown below).
 

The Jester

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That's the joke
You're not joking.

You're looking for other chud to suck, my dude. It's chud-affirming shit.
Imagine the amount of estrogen pills one would need to take daily to unironically use the word 'CHUD'.
There's a very obvious anti-fan circlejerk here, and some posts are clear mating calls for these anti-fans to find each other and affirm each other's anti-fandom.
Your last few posts ITT are saying you are sexually attracted to gnomes, asking people who disagree if they were groomed in Discord, pride flag shit, lugenpresse comments, calling people who disagree vermin, Solas more like Soulless LMAOOOOO, why does this game even have gameplay make it a VN, ugh it was a different time back when Neverwinter Nights had this 4k fanart in the game as an ingame model ugh, and estrogen pills.
As in, fuck all to do with the game, and just vibe signals to vibe up with the other vibrators here who don't even play video games.

Friendly reminder, anti-fans are fans. You are a Bioware fanboy. In le current year. Very sad!

Yes, I'm having fun by taking a big fat turd all over this dumpster fire with my fellow chuddexters, cry about it.
 

Irxy

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An ability that isn't "shoot enemy with magic bullets", magic might be interesting after all.

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Such abilities typically range from completely useless to extremely situational (as is maybe you'll cast it 3 times per playthrough).
And those rare games where they are in fact usable, are all turn based. Not a single game with rt combat comes to mind where wall spells & the like are worth the bother.
 

La vie sexuelle

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That's the joke
You're not joking.

You're looking for other chud to suck, my dude. It's chud-affirming shit.
Imagine the amount of estrogen pills one would need to take daily to unironically use the word 'CHUD'.
There's a very obvious anti-fan circlejerk here, and some posts are clear mating calls for these anti-fans to find each other and affirm each other's anti-fandom.
Your last few posts ITT are saying you are sexually attracted to gnomes, asking people who disagree if they were groomed in Discord, pride flag shit, lugenpresse comments, calling people who disagree vermin, Solas more like Soulless LMAOOOOO, why does this game even have gameplay make it a VN, ugh it was a different time back when Neverwinter Nights had this 4k fanart in the game as an ingame model ugh, and estrogen pills.
As in, fuck all to do with the game, and just vibe signals to vibe up with the other vibrators here who don't even play video games.

Friendly reminder, anti-fans are fans. You are a Bioware fanboy. In le current year. Very sad!

With this statement you joined the anti-fan circlejerk of Bioware anti-fan circlejerk. By the logic presented in your post, you are our fan. Sad!
 

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