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

[Child of Malkav]

Alternatively, if you dipped into blood magic or whatever, you could reanimate your dong as a companion character.

Nah, it would be necromancy.

 

[Pink Eye]

blood magic

Blood Magic, in *my* goody two shoes game, sorry bro, but you need to check your RPG privilege:

 

[Hedasd]

Raised in Rivain,[1] Taash lives for adventure and does not mind taking risks.[2] She is a thrill-seeking, headstrong, blunt,[3] and straightforward dragon hunter who wields dual-axes, and breathes out flames.[2] Taash is deeply knowledgeable about many topics,[2] well-connected, and knows someone for everything.[4]

Trivia​

• Taash was written by Trick Weekes.[5]
• Taash is the youngest of the companions in Dragon Age: The Veilguard, being in her early twenties, close to Sera's age.[6]
• She is described as a gym bro[7] and a jock.[4]
• She has an interest in sparkling treasures and hitting things with an axe.[2]
• BioWare polled the Dragon Age game developers with the question "If our companions worked at the studio what would their jobs be?", Taash's top vote was testing with runner-up votes being in IT and audio. The included commentary stated:[8]
  • “Testing, and Taash would send all the bugs right back at us with a grin.”
  • “If Taash worked in IT, you’d try to get your things working before asking for help.”
  • “Taash could appreciate the bombastic yet subtle nature of Audio.”

Holy shit it is. And she's written by Trick Weekes, of course. Disgusting.

So, he is a chick now, yes?

• In a conversation with Iron Bull, he says that Krem fits the Qunari concept of "Aqun-Athlok", which translates in Qunlat as "born as one gender but living like another." Krem asks Iron Bull if Qunari treat them any different than others to which Iron Bull replies they are treated like the men they are.
• Krem was written by Patrick Weekes.

This fucker turned whole Qunari into "allies". People may not like David Gayder but him leaving promoted trick weekes to lead writer position, and at least Gayder was too much of a pussy to do something as wild as this and stuck to whining in his blog posts or interviews.

 

[Larianshill]

blood magic

Blood Magic, in *my* goody two shoes game, sorry bro, but you need to check your RPG privilege:

 

[Lodis]

I mean what did you expect from a guy who is the literal real life equivalent of this



The existence of a protagonist willing to do whatever it takes to win against a world ending threat might trigger this fat fuck into a state of cardiac arrest.

 

[Nano]

Indeed. The creatives in charge of this game are literal monsters. No self-respecting person should touch this game.

 

[Lovely Feather Pillow]

I mean what did you expect from a guy who is the literal real life equivalent of this



The existence of a protagonist willing to do whatever it takes to win against a world ending threat might trigger this fat fuck into a state of cardiac arrest.

It's funny because it's true lmao

 

[Yosharian]

I still don't understand how you fuck up a tiefling waifu. It's the most basic DnD waifu you can create. You just make a feminine face, throw some devil horns and boom, tiefling wafiu. Fucking Neeshka, Neeshka, looked better:

Shit movie.

 

[Ryzer]

I still don't understand how you fuck up a tiefling waifu. It's the most basic DnD waifu you can create. You just make a feminine face, throw some devil horns and boom, tiefling wafiu. Fucking Neeshka, Neeshka, looked better:

Shit movie.

And shit game.

 

[kapisi]

Everybody being pansexual plus the possibility of sculpting Oblivion-tier protagonists will bring us the funniest Bioware cutscenes.

 

[NecroLord]

blood magic

Blood Magic, in *my* goody two shoes game, sorry bro, but you need to check your RPG privilege:

Period Magic.

 

[Lodis]

Can’t wait for Dialation magic with the capstone spell being “Call of the Forty One”.

 

[MrTerrible]

This IP is cursed. One good game in its entire run; would've been better off as a one-hit wonder.

 

[Ryzer]

Can’t wait for Dialation magic with the capstone spell being “Call of the Forty One”.

More liek "Call for the sixty nine"

 

[quixotic]

I wonder, is part of the reason why they’ve prohibited the player from being evil just because they don’t want to give players the option to kill their ugly insufferable tumblr companions?

 

[HammyTheFat]

Are you mother fucking ready for the new shit

I still don't understand how you fuck up a tiefling waifu. It's the most basic DnD waifu you can create. You just make a feminine face, throw some devil horns and boom, tiefling wafiu. Fucking Neeshka, Neeshka, looked better:

Wait, that isn't a dude?

*furiously Googles*

Raised in Rivain,[1] Taash lives for adventure and does not mind taking risks.[2] She is a thrill-seeking, headstrong, blunt,[3] and straightforward dragon hunter who wields dual-axes, and breathes out flames.[2] Taash is deeply knowledgeable about many topics,[2] well-connected, and knows someone for everything.[4]

Trivia​

• Taash was written by Trick Weekes.[5]
• Taash is the youngest of the companions in Dragon Age: The Veilguard, being in her early twenties, close to Sera's age.[6]
• She is described as a gym bro[7] and a jock.[4]
• She has an interest in sparkling treasures and hitting things with an axe.[2]
• BioWare polled the Dragon Age game developers with the question "If our companions worked at the studio what would their jobs be?", Taash's top vote was testing with runner-up votes being in IT and audio. The included commentary stated:[8]
  • “Testing, and Taash would send all the bugs right back at us with a grin.”
  • “If Taash worked in IT, you’d try to get your things working before asking for help.”
  • “Taash could appreciate the bombastic yet subtle nature of Audio.”

Holy shit it is. And she's written by Trick Weekes, of course. Disgusting.

"Gym Bro", "Jock"

Every time I see a fucking picture of this game now I just think and feel like this.



This is beyond slop.

 

[Child of Malkav]

Can’t wait for Dialation magic with the capstone spell being “Call of the Forty One”.

An ultimate ability.

 

[Daemongar]

I'm starting to question if they really are going to release this game. This seems like it is going out of its way to fail.

 

[Child of Malkav]

I'm starting to question if they really are going to release this game. This seems like it is going out of its way to fail.

Of course they're gonna release it. The shitshow must go on till the very end. We're in for the long ride.

 

[Semiurge]

There are also some small reactions (optional fight, iirc) in Act 2, depending on whether you lifted Adda's curse or not.

Remind me? All I remember were the brief chat with Foltest during the prologue and some book entry in chapter 1. Foltest was such a bro for a sister-fucker, it's a pity he got killed so soon. You could even admit to him that the unfortunate assasin from the epilogue of Witcher 1 was a witcher or at least a mutant like Geralt, and he'd be cool about it because of your honesty.

Tevinter Imperium?

Bro they turned Tevinter into a homosexual LARP simulator. It went from a grim dark region that you read about in earlier Codex entries to whatever the fuck this is:

The lighting and the smoothness of everything makes every screenshot look like A.I art. And the ridiculously narrow shoulders/big heads of some male characters make them look like trans-men.

These aren't even recent anymore, but I can imagine all of these appearing at once was a part of some damage-control narrative enforced by EAWare. I'm suprised they're not pursuing it anymore.

Are you mother fucking ready for the new shit

I still don't understand how you fuck up a tiefling waifu. It's the most basic DnD waifu you can create. You just make a feminine face, throw some devil horns and boom, tiefling wafiu. Fucking Neeshka, Neeshka, looked better:

Wait, that isn't a dude?

*furiously Googles*

Raised in Rivain,[1] Taash lives for adventure and does not mind taking risks.[2] She is a thrill-seeking, headstrong, blunt,[3] and straightforward dragon hunter who wields dual-axes, and breathes out flames.[2] Taash is deeply knowledgeable about many topics,[2] well-connected, and knows someone for everything.[4]

Trivia​

• Taash was written by Trick Weekes.[5]
• Taash is the youngest of the companions in Dragon Age: The Veilguard, being in her early twenties, close to Sera's age.[6]
• She is described as a gym bro[7] and a jock.[4]
• She has an interest in sparkling treasures and hitting things with an axe.[2]
• BioWare polled the Dragon Age game developers with the question "If our companions worked at the studio what would their jobs be?", Taash's top vote was testing with runner-up votes being in IT and audio. The included commentary stated:[8]
  • “Testing, and Taash would send all the bugs right back at us with a grin.”
  • “If Taash worked in IT, you’d try to get your things working before asking for help.”
  • “Taash could appreciate the bombastic yet subtle nature of Audio.”

Holy shit it is. And she's written by Trick Weekes, of course. Disgusting.

I'll call it now, officially - Taash is the token trans party member. I saw somewhere that her pronouns are they/them, and it's more than suspicious that Bioware has revealed so little of her despite the release day being only a month away. There's still time, though. I'm thinking they're trying to keep her as the "trans surprise character". And most importantly, maybe they realised that now might not be the best time for revealing a preview of her introduction, for obvious reasons.

I mean what did you expect from a guy who is the literal real life equivalent of this



The existence of a protagonist willing to do whatever it takes to win against a world ending threat might trigger this fat fuck into a state of cardiac arrest.

Free will (and speech) in general does that to his type.

I wonder, is part of the reason why they’ve prohibited the player from being evil just because they don’t want to give players the option to kill their ugly insufferable tumblr companions?

It's got a lot to do with the game having being designed around the bones of an MMO. The rest is probably just the result of their toxicly positive hive mind, their politics and adherence to young adult novel storytelling. But the fact is that they had to keep the scope reasonable, it also explains why so few decisions get ported from Inquisition.

 

[Semiurge]

He's spazzing a lot but makes good points about what we've seen so far. Bioware was overrun, and here are the results. Veilguard is a make it or break it game for Bioware, and it doesn't look good. Optimistically this will cause a purge of all the previous diversity hires, and some talent will get hired back. But is it too late already now that the goodwill from long-time fans since Origins is gone?

 

[Larianshill]

Again, I'm yet to see any evidence that the game will flop. The numbers that we do have look decent.

 

[Old Hans]

These aren't even recent anymore, but I can imagine all of these appearing at once was a part of some damage-control narrative enforced by EAWare. I'm suprised they're not pursuing it anymore.

its true media does this all the time. not just in games, but all over the place. like one day you'll be browsing the internet and see some gay huffingpost article titled "Can we PLEASE discuss the problem with tiny cowboy hats" all of a sudden tiny cowboy hats are big problem that need to be addressed. its total insanity

 

[Yosharian]

He's spazzing a lot but makes good points about what we've seen so far. Bioware was overrun, and here are the results. Veilguard is a make it or break it game for Bioware, and it doesn't look good. Optimistically this will cause a purge of all the previous diversity hires, and some talent will get hired back. But is it too late already now that the goodwill from long-time fans since Origins is gone?

Andypants is such a moron. ActMan is even more insufferable after that ridiculous 'debate'.

 

[Storyfag]

Remind me? All I remember were the brief chat with Foltest during the prologue and some book entry in chapter 1. Foltest was such a bro for a sister-fucker, it's a pity he got killed so soon. You could even admit to him that the unfortunate assasin from the epilogue of Witcher 1 was a witcher or at least a mutant like Geralt, and he'd be cool about it because of your honesty.

Some dude in or near Henselt's camp going all "you spared the monster, how could you!!!111" on you, if you spared her.

Oh, you also got a message and some gear from Thaler if you spared him when de Wett tried to convince you to kill him.