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

[Rhobar121]

Curious about the name change. Dreadwolf actually sounds cool and menacing, something crunchy and marketable. Veilguard seems more like a name for some xyz-faction in a Tolkein footnote.

If this were really the case, it would be better. At this point we have something that sounds (and looks) like a mobile game.

 

[Modron]

Curious about the name change. Dreadwolf actually sounds cool and menacing, something crunchy and marketable. Veilguard seems more like a name for some xyz-faction in a Tolkein footnote.

They've come right out and said they were afraid of all the DAD jokes so they named it DAVE instead.

 

[Old Hans]

Curious about the name change. Dreadwolf actually sounds cool and menacing, something crunchy and marketable. Veilguard seems more like a name for some xyz-faction in a Tolkein footnote.

this is total insanity. Tolkien would never name a faction with such a dumb name.

 

[Tyranicon]

Curious about the name change. Dreadwolf actually sounds cool and menacing, something crunchy and marketable. Veilguard seems more like a name for some xyz-faction in a Tolkein footnote.

this is total insanity. Tolkien would never name a faction with such a dumb name.

Well, if he had to, it would still sound way cooler, like "Guard of the Veil" but in Quenya, which according to the internet would be Tíre- -o i fána.

 

[mediocrepoet]

Curious about the name change. Dreadwolf actually sounds cool and menacing, something crunchy and marketable. Veilguard seems more like a name for some xyz-faction in a Tolkein footnote.

this is total insanity. Tolkien would never name a faction with such a dumb name.

Well, if he had to, it would still sound way cooler, like "Guard of the Veil" but in Quenya, which according to the internet would be Tíre- -o i fána.

Sounds like a dessert. Like a light cake with creme and fruit.

 

[Darkwind]

Curious about the name change. Dreadwolf actually sounds cool and menacing, something crunchy and marketable. Veilguard seems more like a name for some xyz-faction in a Tolkein footnote.

They've come right out and said they were afraid of all the DAD jokes so they named it DAVE instead.

This is such a distillation of the true essence of modern gay-me development. Their priorities could not be more clear at this point---
"Guys! Guys! We can't use Dreadwolf because the cringe millennial reddit humor audience will call it, wait for it... DAD!"

'Sir, aren't they like a fraction of our audience? Aren't you more worried about isolating the vast majority of gay-mers by the egregious in your face inclusiveness. Surely completely eliminating white men (our core demographic) and massive promotion of trannies & faggots and making every companion a wiling anal cum dumpster whore who wants sexy time with you will isolate a far larger percentage?"

"Fire this man immediately, out of my office bigot!"

 

[Tyranicon]

Well, if he had to, it would still sound way cooler, like "Guard of the Veil" but in Quenya, which according to the internet would be Tíre- -o i fána.

Sounds like a dessert. Like a light cake with creme and fruit.

Elves.

 

[mediocrepoet]

Well, if he had to, it would still sound way cooler, like "Guard of the Veil" but in Quenya, which according to the internet would be Tíre- -o i fána.

Sounds like a dessert. Like a light cake with creme and fruit.

Elves.

Tíre- -o misu flána.

Cake.

 

[Semiurge]

Their first black elf, and they use for him the elven slave marks

That particular tattoo pattern is a slave mark? I thought only the dalish free elves had those tattoos.

Curious about the name change. Dreadwolf actually sounds cool and menacing, something crunchy and marketable. Veilguard seems more like a name for some xyz-faction in a Tolkein footnote.

They've come right out and said they were afraid of all the DAD jokes so they named it DAVE instead.

I don't get what's so terrible about the DAD acronym. Are they afraid of even the slightest opportunity for mockery because their fanbase is using the word 'daddy' as a term for all kinds of non-twink males that offer eyecandy in media, or is there some other meaning to it that I'm missing?

It's too late for Bioware to worry about being taken seriously, so they might as well embrace the cheese.

 

[PunchYouInTheFace]

slightest opportunity

According to Mark Darrah (reading between the lines) it's possibly because the Dreadwolf is not actually the main villain. It would be weird that the game named "Dreadwolf" have the Dreadwolf be minor character.

Being called DADdy isn't a concern. It's clear their main target audience isn't people who graduated from 4chan and RPG Chudex University.

 

[Butter]

RPG Chudex

If only your turns of phrase could catch on the way you caught HIV at the bathhouse.

 

[PunchYouInTheFace]

HIV at the bathhouse

Sounds like a personal experience to me. I'll treat your mother better the next time I visited the "bathhouse". Less beating this time.

 

[Butter]

HIV at the bathhouse

Sounds like a personal experience to me. I'll treat your mother better the next time I visited the "bathhouse". Less beating this time.

"Visited" is the past tense. Did your teachers spend any time on grammar or was it all grooming?

 

[PunchYouInTheFace]

grammar

I didn't learned about them grammer. Too busy beating yer mom.

 

[Butter]

grammar

I didn't learned about them grammer. Too busy beating yer mom.

I'm pretty sure she has nothing to fear from a Redditor. Beating your PE teacher's dick all day gave you a false sense of your abilities.

 

[PunchYouInTheFace]

Redditor

am nicht komme aus breddit, me from etcetra forumme. PE teacher dickus? damn. You want to share something to the forum maybe it will lift the burden from your mind.

I have a friend who used be touched inappropriately by their uncle. The scar on the body may be gone, but the scar on the mind never left.

 

[PunchYouInTheFace]

fána

Huh... this sounds arabic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fana_(Sufism)#:~:text=Fanaa (Arabic: فناء fanāʾ ),Persian mystics such as Rumi.

Yep. Got drunk in Egypt once. Pretty good "Khamr".

Dragon Age: Allah Edition is real.

 

[moon knight]

That particular tattoo pattern is a slave mark? I thought only the dalish free elves had those tattoos.

Inquisition liked to "subvert expectations", so now that elven tatoo pattern is what the evanuris used to mark their elven slaves. Then the Dreadwolf started to free some slaves and made war with the ancient gods, destroying the elven civilization in the process. I guess the free elves started to mingle with the human society and became the getto elves, and the slaves became dalish, but AFAIK it wasn't outirght confirmed.

It is revealed in the last scene of Solas romance




Don't fucking ask me how I know

 

[Semiurge]

Goddamn that voice acting is sterile. Robotic. Flat affect.

 

[9ted6]

Curious about the name change. Dreadwolf actually sounds cool and menacing, something crunchy and marketable. Veilguard seems more like a name for some xyz-faction in a Tolkein footnote.

this is total insanity. Tolkien would never name a faction with such a dumb name.

Well, if he had to, it would still sound way cooler, like "Guard of the Veil" but in Quenya, which according to the internet would be Tíre- -o i fána.

Meanwhile the secondary villain is named Sauron Man.

 

[Cael]

That particular tattoo pattern is a slave mark? I thought only the dalish free elves had those tattoos.

Inquisition liked to "subvert expectations", so now that elven tatoo pattern is what the evanuris used to mark their elven slaves. Then the Dreadwolf started to free some slaves and made war with the ancient gods, destroying the elven civilization in the process. I guess the free elves started to mingle with the human society and became the getto elves, and the slaves became dalish, but AFAIK it wasn't outirght confirmed.

It is revealed in the last scene of Solas romance




Don't fucking ask me how I know

It was more like:

The elves were all enslaved. They won a bit of freedom because they backed Andraste. Some stayed in the human cities, others left for the Dales. By this time, they have lost all their elven heritage due to millennia of slavery. So, they started venerating everything elvish, not knowing what it actually meant. The face tattoos is one of those. They didn't know it was slave tattoos because they thought the ancient elves were pure and holy and all paladins.

 

[Gangrelrumbler]

Curious about the name change. Dreadwolf actually sounds cool and menacing, something crunchy and marketable. Veilguard seems more like a name for some xyz-faction in a Tolkein footnote.

this is total insanity. Tolkien would never name a faction with such a dumb name.

Well, if he had to, it would still sound way cooler, like "Guard of the Veil" but in Quenya, which according to the internet would be Tíre- -o i fána.

Meanwhile the secondary villain is named Sauron Man.

 

[Ghost Of Iron]

I'd like to note that in the previews, they said that you cannot succeed without the companions. Each of them has a reason why they need to be part of your party, why they need to help you stop the end of the world. I am really getting tired of this trend in CRPGs, where the party or the companions are as important or even more important than the PC. The PC should be the protagonist and the driving force of the story and the game, companions should not take such a prominent position. BG3 also had this issue, where the companions felt like they were more central to the story than your PC is. Granted, that's a Larian issue in general, but it's disappointing to see other studios starting to follow suit, although you could argue it was already starting to happen even before the Larian games.

 

[Tyranicon]

I'd like to note that in the previews, they said that you cannot succeed without the companions. Each of them has a reason why they need to be part of your party, why they need to help you stop the end of the world. I am really getting tired of this trend in CRPGs, where the party or the companions are as important or even more important than the PC. The PC should be the protagonist and the driving force of the story and the game, companions should not take such a prominent position. BG3 also had this issue, where the companions felt like they were more central to the story than your PC is. Granted, that's a Larian issue in general, but it's disappointing to see other studios starting to follow suit, although you could argue it was already starting to happen even before the Larian games.

This is because the entire franchise/genre is now focused on simping for companions.

 

[Falksi]

I'd like to note that in the previews, they said that you cannot succeed without the companions. Each of them has a reason why they need to be part of your party, why they need to help you stop the end of the world. I am really getting tired of this trend in CRPGs, where the party or the companions are as important or even more important than the PC. The PC should be the protagonist and the driving force of the story and the game, companions should not take such a prominent position. BG3 also had this issue, where the companions felt like they were more central to the story than your PC is. Granted, that's a Larian issue in general, but it's disappointing to see other studios starting to follow suit, although you could argue it was already starting to happen even before the Larian games.

One of the worst games I've played for it lately was Hard West 2.

Huge downgrade on the original all round, but they specifically introduced Bioware-style bullshit which meant you had to converse with your companions at camp. Completely killed any sense of mystery behind them. Fucking awful, and completely unnecessary.