Delterius
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i punched solas in da:i and i liked doing so
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Dragon Age Dragon Age: The Veilguard Pre-Release Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]
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Reinhardt
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fixedsolas is elf
IDK, it's called the Dread Wolf Rises and is a Dragon Age game.
This is the Dread Wolf:
He was the plot twist of DA:I and the anti-climax that was the Trespasser DLC. He represents the decline of Dragon Age, Bioware, the Soyboys and the SJWs in one character.
For extra value, search Tumbler for "Solas". No need to thank me!
(Side effects may include: instant onset diarrhea, eye bleeding, corruption of your mortal soul and acne)
I don't care for the guy's bum aesthetics preferences. Him slapping it on his official social media, as a public person and face for the project, is what bothers me. If it was a homogay developer with shields and axes and shit on his profile, I'd be down.
"Narrative Director, #thedreadwolfrises @bioware. Ask me about STALKER." This I don't mind seeing there.
"Intersectional feminism. He/him. Leftist." and the gay homoerotica in the banner I do mind seeing. Those aren't random throwaway causal mentions, he put them there, and left them there, and credited the authors. This is a statement, from the project lead of the game, on his public page that represents the game. A statement about what the game will be like.
I just wish developers would have their own private account, and "business" account, and not conflate the two. Or that the gaming industry would grow up and get public relations managers to represent its developers, while asking them to remove links to their job and projects from personal accounts. It would remove a lot of the fan-developer familiarity, and make them even more distant, but considering how awkward and detrimental to the marketing their statements on politics and culture are, an apparent distant apathy would be preferable.
And thats a good thing.
Delterius
Arcane
but its also sad, BioWare companions are only as good as it is satisfying to ruin their lives
solas was actually a good character in so far that you could aggravate him a lot but for what its worth, DA2 was actually better than in this regard
Strong disagreement here. Mass Effect had likable characters that you wanted the best for - Blueberry Squid, Animated Armor Girl and Zergface Batman were all pretty cool, and depending on your spiritual health, perhaps the Hunchback Orc and Alien Josef Mengele too.
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But that's what I mean. Bioware's employees in 2018 are all of the same ilk. It doesn't matter if he's a fundamental leftist or a dudebro from the local gym. The narrative is going to get bogged down in politics and clout chasing just because that's who they hire/works there. Making statements about the cultural zeitgeist comes first, designing games comes second.
fantadomat
Arcane
Well he is the most manly character in the whole game. All the others are ether whining constantly or taking it up the ass.
Allright, let's say that Solas is the most manly character in the whole game - that's just damning with faint praise.
Not really, if anything when he first appeared I figured he would be a no-name NPC who drops off the plot quickly because of how featureless he looks, I even had trouble remembering his name. You can quickly tell who NPCs are meant to be due to their general looks and behaviour (the resident slut, the hawt devil-may-care guy, the somber warrior with a dark past, the religious no-fun-allowed monk, etc), the same way in movies you can tell whether a character is supposed to be meaningful within seconds of them appearing on screen: facial features, clothing complexity, camera work, you instantly know who is the writer's pet, who is the jerk with a recessed jaw that the audience will enjoy watching suffer, who is the big bearded burly guy that has no personality except being an unsympathetic henchman to the bad guy, etc.
Solas looks so mundane I could see it being intentional (though that's not likely), but that's precisely what sets him apart. He looks like a harmless nobody and the more you dig into his past and his opinions, the more he appears to be the only one to have anything meaningful to say instead of pestering you with daddy issues or trying to drown you in sob stories. The fact that he ends up being one of the most important characters in the in-universe mythos is a great reveal.
He isn't the manliest character because he is muscular or has a soybeard or wields a big weapon, or because of awsum slo-mo slaughter cutscenes, but precisely because he is the last character from whom you would except any of this, and because he will actually debate you on issues that are important in-universe, and both of you will hold your ground instead of having a typical meek "I guess I didn't see it that way, I agree with you now, thanks for your input". Later, when you discover who he truly is, he doesn't give the slightest shit about your past disagreements because all things considered, you don't matter, as it should: it's hard for the player character, even as a larger-than-life videogame protagonist, to be little more than a blink in his life.
I honestly have no meaningful memories of other characters in this game, that's how cookie-cutter they were. Accidentally or not, Solas was not a shit character.
Solas looks so mundane I could see it being intentional (though that's not likely), but that's precisely what sets him apart. He looks like a harmless nobody and the more you dig into his past and his opinions, the more he appears to be the only one to have anything meaningful to say instead of pestering you with daddy issues or trying to drown you in sob stories. The fact that he ends up being one of the most important characters in the in-universe mythos is a great reveal.
He isn't the manliest character because he is muscular or has a soybeard or wields a big weapon, or because of awsum slo-mo slaughter cutscenes, but precisely because he is the last character from whom you would except any of this, and because he will actually debate you on issues that are important in-universe, and both of you will hold your ground instead of having a typical meek "I guess I didn't see it that way, I agree with you now, thanks for your input". Later, when you discover who he truly is, he doesn't give the slightest shit about your past disagreements because all things considered, you don't matter, as it should: it's hard for the player character, even as a larger-than-life videogame protagonist, to be little more than a blink in his life.
I honestly have no meaningful memories of other characters in this game, that's how cookie-cutter they were. Accidentally or not, Solas was not a shit character.
I would love to see a Vision Statement for the original Dragon Age. Knights of the Somewhat Oriental Fantasy. I think they planned mongols instead of zombieorkspawns.
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Here's a tip as to what will happen with DA4 in general:
I refuse to believe this is not a parody account... I just can't . This is the most literal manifestation of a stereotype in the history of all stereotypes.
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What's with the hate? I thought STALKER was an RPG Codex favorite.
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I appreciate this guy being so open about his desire to use video games as a vehicle for leftist propaganda. And from his perspective, it makes perfect sense: alienate a majority of your audience, cram Dragon Age 4 full of politicized bullshit, and if it crashes and burns (and takes Bioware down with it), who cares? You can always get another job in the industry doing the exact same thing, because you're on the Right Side of History. (Then again, is Gaider employed?) But I've never understood why EA allows this to happen. Do they value being pozzed more than making money? For all the shit EA gets over being a soulless, creatively bankrupt megacorp that micromanages their studios to death, Bioware could have been churning out semiannual ME2s for the past 10 years and they wouldn't be one flop away from oblivion.
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Probably trying to preach SJW shit to anyone who will listen and all the poor bastards who just happen to be within 50m of him.
Sykar
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New Dragon Derp in a nutshell:
fantadomat
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lophiaspis
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Interesting, care to summarize why that is for someone that's only played the first 15 minutes of DA:O?
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He doesn't represent the decline of Dragon Age or Bioware, because the decline happened much earlier. But it's easy to go "Hey, look at this gay thing, lol", so you know...
That shitty little teaser just proved again that Bioware hasn't learned a thing from its previous disasters.
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LGTBIWTFLOL! in the games, getting more and more in your face as the series went on, culminating in *unprintable things*.
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