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

[Lodis]

Even Oghren was more interesting than Sten and his entirely personality was being a foul-mouthed alcoholic whose wife left him for a woman.

Oghren is pretty widely regarded as the worst Origins companion.

By who? Twitter? He's fine in the base game and even has a nice character arc if you decide to help him. Awakening is where he was flanderized.

Also I find it funny that the same people who complain that Oghren is a disgusting pervert have zero issue towards Zevran who from what I remember acts far more perverted than Oghren towards the female companions.

 

[Yosharian]

By who? Twitter? He's fine in the base game and even has a nice character arc if you decide to help him. Awakening is where he was flanderized.

Also I find it funny that the same people who complain that Oghren is a disgusting pervert have zero issue towards Zevran who from what I remember acts far more perverted than Oghren towards the female companions.

By fucking morons.

 

[Shaja]

All this talk about mages in DAO made me realize how progressively cucked the magic system became as the games went on. Even if we ignore Shapeshifter because it was an absolute meme (except maybe the flying swarm form but nobody wants to waste points in shapeshifter to get to that) look at the sheer amount of spells you had. And there was a good amount of spell combinations too if I remember.

Never forget the awesome button. Bioware abandoned their roots in favour of appealing to console dweebs.

It was 2010. A dark age of videogames where all the companies wanted to have the same audience as Modern Warfare 2. That means easy action, no brain.

 

[Vic]

DAOs combat is very MMO inspired. It's a stark decline from their previous D&D titles. They never managed to create their own decent ruleset and it only got worse after the first DA.

 

[Vic]

Afaik the BUTTON = AWESOME shit was started in DA2.

 

[Silverfish]

Wait there was a Shapeshifter specialization? I don't remember that

You're not missing out. The transformations were bugged and their damage scaled with strength instead of magic.

 

[Vic]

Morrigan is a Shapeshifter...

 

[Semiurge]

Wait there was a Shapeshifter specialization? I don't remember that

You're not missing out. The transformations were bugged and their damage scaled with strength instead of magic.

Now it makes sense why they seemed so useless despite the ever increasing spellpower, even with the final rank that makes the animal forms more powerful.

 

[Takamori]

I'm impressed that this piece of garbage is making through global top seller. Well we get what we deserve with so many shit eaters plaguing the hobby.

 

[Cael]

She is a mage. Put her in the party with Wynn and it is easy mode unleashed.

And a crappy one, because of feats wasted on shapeshifting, which I never used. I played as a mage myself, and she was a forever backbenched, alone and forgotten in her tent.

Virulent walking bomb, and I believe she was already on the tree towards mana clash.

Imagine leaving party member auto-spec on. I always specialised Morrigan for entropy and the cold and electricity spells, although all party mages would get at least the basic healing spell and dispell from the spirit school. There should always be party members present who can either heal or dispell. Alistair gets the latter ability from the templar specialisation.

Not everyone plays with respec mod.

 

[Elttharion]

I'm impressed that this piece of garbage is making through global top seller. Well we get what we deserve with so many shit eaters plaguing the hobby.

On Steam? Just checked now and its not even in the top 30 games on the global chart. A new AAA release usually stays close to the top 10 for at least a few days when it opens to pre orders.

 

[Cael]

Even Oghren was more interesting than Sten and his entirely personality was being a foul-mouthed alcoholic whose wife left him for a woman.

Oghren is pretty widely regarded as the worst Origins companion.

By who? Twitter? He's fine in the base game and even has a nice character arc if you decide to help him. Awakening is where he was flanderized.

Also I find it funny that the same people who complain that Oghren is a disgusting pervert have zero issue towards Zevran who from what I remember acts far more perverted than Oghren towards the female companions.

I actually find Alistair to be the worst of the lot. His entire schtick is being an immature man-child with daddy issues, and they expect us to take him seriously. At least Oghren is there as comic relief, and there is no misunderstanding about that.

 

[Tyranicon]

I'm impressed that this piece of garbage is making through global top seller. Well we get what we deserve with so many shit eaters plaguing the hobby.

EA's throwing huge amounts of marketing dollars at it. Massive YouTube ads. Known IP, known developer.

This is BioWare's chance at redeeming itself from a decade of shit games, and it already blundered from the outset.

 

[Takamori]

I'm impressed that this piece of garbage is making through global top seller. Well we get what we deserve with so many shit eaters plaguing the hobby.

On Steam? Just checked now and its not even in the top 30 games on the global chart. A new AAA release usually stays close to the top 10 for at least a few days when it opens to pre orders.

Its not a top but still given the horrible presentation this shit had,if we lived in a society composed of human being we wouldn't even see a shadow of it.

I'm impressed that this piece of garbage is making through global top seller. Well we get what we deserve with so many shit eaters plaguing the hobby.

EA's throwing huge amounts of marketing dollars at it. Massive YouTube ads. Known IP, known developer.

This is BioWare's chance at redeeming itself from a decade of shit games, and it already blundered from the outset.

At this point how long has this piece of shit has been in the oven? 10 years? Yeah EA wanna see some of their money back, probably the most optimistic exec expecting the BG3 players base try this trash.

 

[Vic]

This is BioWare's chance at redeeming itself

 

[jf8350143]

If bioware is smarter they should throw 10 different romance scenes in their first trailer, including one with the griffin involved.

They are still try to catch the old fanbase instead of fully embrace the new degenerate ones. Now they are stuck in between where either side doesn't like them.

Still I like the series' story and want to see what happens next so I'll play it. Combat doesn't look good but the series never had good combat so whatever.

 

[processdaemon]

I thought the combat in Origins was fun, obviously how much you like it is dependent on whether you enjoy RTwP but I felt like it was pretty solid, although not particularly deep. If they'd built on that foundation rather than hacking things away for simplicity with each iteration I think it could have ended up with something really interesting.

 

[ShiningSoldier]

Leliana was the worst companion in the original game. She's just... dull? And boring. Like a Shadowheart in BG3.
Alister, Ogren and Zevran were the best.

 

[Yosharian]

Still I like the series' story and want to see what happens next

 

[Ryzer]

Most codexers will buy it, enjoy it and post how shit it is on the codex, as always. Check players in the Steam group, in a few days, it will be full of profiles playing this game.

 

[Vulpes]

Leliana was the worst companion in the original game. She's just... dull? And boring. Like a Shadowheart in BG3.
Alister, Ogren and Zevran were the best.

During my first playthrough, I regretted not killing Zevran when I first met him. I was expecting to get some kind of badass assassin and instead got some pervert who behaves like a fag working at a women's fashion store. In hindsight, it's no surprise that the same studio would go one to create companions like Dorian and Iron Bull. I dread to think how Veilguard will try to one-up those characters. Probably by including their first ever tranny companion if the Qunari warrior in the ads is anything to go by.

 

[ShiningSoldier]

Leliana was the worst companion in the original game. She's just... dull? And boring. Like a Shadowheart in BG3.
Alister, Ogren and Zevran were the best.

During my first playthrough, I regretted not killing Zevran when I first met him. I was expecting to get some kind of badass assassin and instead got some pervert who behaves like a fag working at a women's fashion store. In hindsight, it's no surprise that the same studio would go one to create companions like Dorian and Iron Bull. I dread to think how Veilguard will try to one-up those characters. Probably by including their first ever tranny companion if the Qunari warrior in the ads is anything to go by.

As for me, the entire "badass and silent assassin" is such a cliche, I can't stand it anymore. Let's leave it for Assassins Creed fans.
Hm, I think any good person should be pervert.

 

[thesecret1]

Everything in the series past DAO was pure shit that just seemed to get worse and worse with each iteration. One can only hope that after this flops, they'll take the series behind the barn and put it out of its misery. Went from a relatively fun game that had the balls to give each background a different first arc (and referred to it throughout the game, having it affect shit – something that hasn't really been topped since), to what's basically a single player MMORPG with copious amounts of gay sex.

 

[Fedora Master]

This is BioWare's chance at redeeming itself from a decade of shit games, and it already blundered from the outset.

In the eyes of the clueless consooomer there is nothing TO redeem.

 

[Vic]

Most codexers will buy it, enjoy it and post how shit it is on the codex, as always. Check players in the Steam group, in a few days, it will be full of profiles playing this game.

I have zero interest for this. I dropped the Dragon Age series 5 hours into DA2.

Why am I here then you might ask?