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

[jaekl]

Looks pretty good, but they should add a bit more purple to the game. Not purple enough for my tastes

 

[Lodis]

Looks they they're really doubling down on this design philosophy but now with more purple.

 

[Dishonoredbr]

"High level" warrior gameplay. Also some spoilers in this video not that anybody cares about the lore of the setting anymore but it looks like Archdemons are now simply pets of the elven gods, as if the elf wank in this setting couldn't get any more obnoxious.

You can feel the remnants of the GAAS everywhere. The overtop effects, AOEs marks everywhere and how your character is constantly glowing with all the buff they have.

The companions seems as useful as they were in Andromenda, not at all.

 

[Tyranicon]

Combat looks like an asian mobile game but categorically worse.

Also what's with the "we edited the video to remove spoilers but decided to drop a huge spoiler in the description."

The fail with this game is through the roof.

 

[Jermu]

well thats a lot of shit on-screen

very console game vibes, 4 skills max and 2 of em had 60 seconds cooldown

 

[bat_boro]

Looks awful all around.
Also looks like a one trick 10 hours game

 

[jaekl]

I hope this thread has a Vic style defender when the game comes out, it's no fun when everyone hates it

 

[Tyranicon]

I hope this thread has a Vic style defender when the game comes out, it's no fun when everyone hates it

Pretty good old skool photoshop tbh.

 

[Rahdulan]

"High level" warrior gameplay. Also some spoilers in this video not that anybody cares about the lore of the setting anymore but it looks like Archdemons are now simply pets of the elven gods, as if the elf wank in this setting couldn't get any more obnoxious.

Imagine actually pointing out "you'll want a heavy set of armor set for this Heavy Armor Mastery passive" as if it's not just suit+ helmet. Real deep investment there.

 

[GentlemanCthulhu]

The new high-level combat gameplay is a lot better than what they showed before. However it all still looks atrocious.

 

[Dishonoredbr]

Did the veil going to shit made everyone and their mother into mages? The ultimate from warrior is a bunch of nagical arrows with meteor coming down. Like wtf

 

[Silverfish]

I hope this thread has a Vic style defender when the game comes out, it's no fun when everyone hates it

I'll do it (but also I'm not playing the game).

 

[Elttharion]

Did the veil going to shit made everyone and their mother into mages? The ultimate from warrior is a bunch of nagical arrows with meteor coming down. Like wtf

Probably some asset they are reusing from one of the previous iterations of this game. The entire thing looks like it was cobbled together by using a bunch of mismatching assets. It reeks of 'we have all this incoherent and disparate stuff and now we need to make it look like a game'.

 

[jaekl]

I hope this thread has a Vic style defender when the game comes out, it's no fun when everyone hates it

I'll do it (but also I'm not playing the game).

Welllll.... that would just be trolling (which is funny, usually) but there's something special about a guy who genuinely pours his heart and soul into running defense for an unbelievably shitty corpo product like this.

Like when they love the game way more than anyone involved in its production did and you can watch their psyche start to crack and splinter as they attempt to bend/warp reality into a world where this creatively bankrupt trash is worth more than a chewed up piece of gum on the bottom of your boot. It's beautiful.

 

[-M-]

It's nice that they highlight the buttons you have to press to win in green like that, imagine how stressful it would be if you had to work out what abilities to use yourself based on your knowledge of the gameplay mechanics

This is like playing Who Wants to be a Millionaire with the answers already highlighted.

 

[Sabotin]

Pretty sure that's meant to be a "call in an artilery strike" type ability, which is quite common in some different type of games.

From how it looks I'd say they went first to make the game look over the top and bombastic and then slapped all the UI elements on it to alleviate the issues of not being able to tell what's going on. Is that a cop-out to avoid functional visual design? "Make it look awesome, we'll just put a ground marker so you know it's a yea big aoe and a flashing arrow so you know the enemy is casting it." You'd think they would go more conservative with the wide popularity of dark souls like presentation and minimalistic UI. I can see why marketing went with the hero shooter look...

I like that there's abilites that change how things work, like that ring that changes other debuffs into burning type. The passive tree also seems to have pretty meaningful nodes, although I'm afraid there will be little room for straying from the chosen archetype path despite the apparent openness. You know some will be standard to take. You know the tree and the extra gems or whatnot in inventory remind me more of an arpg style game. Also the gear seems likely it has random abilities with color-coded "quality" and even locked to different characters?

I don't wanna even mention the story, kinda lost hope for that around DA:I. Why does it always start interesting and mysterious and then devolves into banal and simple.

 

[Hammer Of The Heretics]

Just had lunch with a friend who liked DAI a lot, and he spontaneously told me he has zero interest in Veilguard. Progress!

 

[Lodis]

Did the veil going to shit made everyone and their mother into mages? The ultimate from warrior is a bunch of nagical arrows with meteor coming down. Like wtf

I noticed that too. Remember the good old days when your Warden just ran up to whatever eldritch abomination he was fighting and smacked it to death with a regular sword?

 

[Butter]

Did the veil going to shit made everyone and their mother into mages? The ultimate from warrior is a bunch of nagical arrows with meteor coming down. Like wtf

I noticed that too. Remember the good old days when your Warden just ran up to whatever eldritch abomination he was fighting and smacked it to death with a regular sword?

I legitimately like playing a dumb melee fighter who just pummels everything to death. You could do that in old RPGs and it was fun. I'm not sure when it happened, but I noticed it with PoE: everything has to have a bunch of active abilities now. Modern Fighters are just a different flavor of Mage.

 

[Softgels]

Lol, the combat is more basic than the Chinese gacha games

 

[jaekl]

I remember buying everquest 2 on release day and they actually had a section in the manual trying to explain why warriors had mana bars now. That was like 2006 or something, may be a significant event in the ruination of melee fighters.

 

[Tyranicon]

Everyone knows the proper power progression for barbarians warriors is not particle effect nonsense or anime bullshit, but just hitting harder.

Anything that looks badass is also acceptable.

 

[Camel]

The game shows mob's resistances and vulnerabilities instead of forcing the player to at least consult a bestiary/codex.

 

[Butter]

Everyone knows the proper power progression for barbarians warriors is not particle effect nonsense or anime bullshit, but just hitting harder.

Anything that looks badass is also acceptable.

It feels really good when you hit level 7 and get an extra half ApR.

 

[Ramnozack]

Did the veil going to shit made everyone and their mother into mages? The ultimate from warrior is a bunch of nagical arrows with meteor coming down. Like wtf

I noticed that too. Remember the good old days when your Warden just ran up to whatever eldritch abomination he was fighting and smacked it to death with a regular sword?

I legitimately like playing a dumb melee fighter who just pummels everything to death. You could do that in old RPGs and it was fun. I'm not sure when it happened, but I noticed it with PoE: everything has to have a bunch of active abilities now. Modern Fighters are just a different flavor of Mage.

I too have noticed this and its really annoying. Everything has to have flashy vfx on it even on what is supposed to be just a warrior, really annoying and lazy way to try to make a class 'appealing'. Proper way would be to have the start off with only basic attacks/animations, but give them increasingly complex and technical animations showing them becoming masters of their fighting style. On top of just become fast and strong of course. But of course thats more work than just slapping some shitty shinies on everything, so of course a shit dev like shitware wouldn't dream of doing such a thing.