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

[karoliner]

With competents writers Tevinter could have been some cool mage empire with massive slave sacrifices to fuel blood magic. Think Elric: The Ruby Throne.

But with those assholes at Bioware we're gonna get SWJism and a cringy singing scene.

 

[RepHope]

Friendly reminder that they've got a transsexual magister Maervis or whatever the fuck it's name is, that's probably going to be a companion.

Honestly while a game set in the Imperium sounds kind of interesting, and the Qunari would make for excellent antagonists with Solas in the background, I have no faith in Bioware to deliver. The quest design from DAI needs a huge fucking overhaul at the very least. Then there's shit like how they completely fucked up Val Royeaux, are they going to let us explore one fucking marketplace in Minrathos? If that Shit isn't at least as big as Novigrad I won't even pirate it.

 

[pippin]

Calling it: Single character Twitcher-style predefined race/name/background with 3 different-but-balanced disciplines to put skill points in and button-mashy hack-and-slash combat.

so like Jade Empire?

 

[sser]

I'm sure it'll be great.

 

[RK47]

so hyped

 

[Jimmious]

the writing was the least of their problems especially in the last DA

Actually, shit writing was at least 50% responsible for DA3 being shit

Dude do you even remember the writing? I'm impressed. I only remember some random scenes from it but mainly endless grinding of worthless shit, meaninngless side-quests and terrible combat.
I'm not saying the writing was good but it didn't really matter. The game was so bad anyway that I really didn't care about it

 

[LESS T_T]

Some people guess this is Dragon Age Tactics: http://www.glixel.com/news/is-biowares-next-game-dragon-age-tactics-w483731

 

[Jimmious]

I...I... I would probably buy a Dragon Age Tactics game

 

[Reinhardt]

Tactics game must have hot waifus and Bioware definition of "hot waifu" is too shitty.

 

[Konjad]

My dream came true.

 

[Luckmann]

Why don't they just give up? Why won't they stop beating this into the ground?

Please. I just want it to stop.

 

[Space Satan]

Cancer. Pus. Vomit. Faggotry. Degradation

 

[Lilura]

Let's face it, Dragon Age: Origins is the best tactical RPG released since Silent Storm.

 

[Morality Games]

A cross platform dark fantasy tactics game with high production values would do "well" if they kept their expectations modest.

 

[Mexi]

They need to go back to the silent protagonist. Reason why I've never played the Witcher games.

 

[yes plz]

Didn't Failbetter do the Last Court? Almost nobody bothered with that game and those that did seemed to have forgotten it existed after a month. I'm surprised EA bothered to take anyone from that team... or maybe they got him for really cheap.

 

[Morality Games]

A cross platform dark fantasy tactics game with high production values would do "well" if they kept their expectations modest.

cross platform = iOS, android, windows phone

iOS and Android would be good directions for Bioware since they have sufficiently pissed off both the PC and console crowds.

It seems like they've always wanted to make visual novel/action RPG hybrids anyway.

 

[Whiny-Butthurt-Liberal]

Dude do you even remember the writing? I'm impressed. I only remember some random scenes from it but mainly endless grinding of worthless shit, meaninngless side-quests and terrible combat.

The dialogue system is an alleged core competency of Biowhore games, so its terribleness is burned into my brain forever.

 

[SteelAttack]

I am cautiously interested in knowing more even if I still haven't gotten to inquisition yet. I did like Origins and 2 a fair bit, though.

 

[Red Rogue]

When will EA learn to stop throwing cash at this sad, skeleton of what it once was, studio

 

[prodigydancer]

I am cautiously interested

After Clowndromeda, I don't think there's any hope.

EA learn

You should never put these two words in the same sentence.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

Surprised they didn't give it to EA Montreal to fuck up like they did with Mass Effect.

 

[Red Rogue]

I am cautiously interested

After Clowndromeda, I don't think there's any hope.

EA learn

You should never put these two words in the same sentence.

I mean Battlefield 1 ended up okay. It's hard to fuck up a shooter.

But Inquisition was probably the worst 40$ I've ever spent, and Clusterfuck Andromeda is the best 60$ I've ever saved. I'm getting really tired of constantly seeing this terrible games sell so god damn well because the mass market is too dumb to be cautious of marketing.

The irony is that, often, mass market consumers don't even end up LIKING these shitty games. Even Bethesda zealots are disenfranchised with Fallout 4, Andromeda likely did poorly, as EA recently put the series "on ice". Though I suspect that was more because of the glitches than it being a bad game. Inquisition, while successful, did get criticized for the endless bargain bin filler.

But none of that actually matters because every time another blockbuster "rpg" gets announced it'll get hyped and still turn a massive profit, regardless of how many complaints it receives.

 

[ThoseDeafMutes]

Inquisition was indeed terrible, but it sold well and got good reviews. They will try to learn lessons from Andromeda, but from their perspective they don't have any reason to not follow the template set out by Inquisition.

 

[Immortal]

Inquisition was indeed terrible, but it sold well and got good reviews. They will try to learn lessons from Andromeda, but from their perspective they don't have any reason to not follow the template set out by Inquisition.

Did people actually enjoy Inquistion? The helmet hair bugs, the 15 hour story line and the shitty war table?
Just because it sold well - doesn't mean people forgot it was shit.

How many people raved about "Well Iniquistion was bad, but Mass effect is a whole other team!"

I saw that rationalization repeated ad nausea. I think people are wising up to Bioware's shit. Each game is getting worse.