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

[Pink Eye]

Watching this trailer has confused me. What's Dragon Age about again? I don't even know who the bad guys are anymore. In Origins, it was about dark spawns with mage faggotry in the background. Then in the second game it was some political crap that I forgot, because of the fact that the game takes place in the same city, with the same repeated content that you recycle on through for hours on end until finish. I just don't know what I should feel towards the big bad in this game since I don't even know WHAT the big bad is. Who are we fighting? Why should we care? What's going on? How does this relate to earlier entries?

As someone who has only played Origins and the second game; I am just beyond confused about everything. I watched a few minutes and I heard 'Gods' - which ones though. I thought the "Gods" left the world because of them being disgusted by mage faggotry, or something.

 

[Jaesun]

Apparently they went back to BUTTAN == AWESOME!!!11! for the entire game design.

 

[Haba]

And you though it was as bad as it would ever get.

Heh.

 

[Elttharion]

This is releasing in the same day as Red Dead remastered and Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered. Funny timing.

I imagine Red Dead will probably be the biggest release among these, at least on PC.

Not even close.

Monster Hunter Wilds open beta is launching in the same time and it will absolutely devour everything else. I imagine Bioware went into a company-wide fit of screaming rage when Capcom announced it yesterday

Oh right, I forgot the open beta. There is even a special promo for PS5 players and that would probably be the most popular platform for Vileguard.

 

[cvv]

What's Dragon Age about again?

I. Ancient evil (the Darkspawn) once again awakens and pours into the world, led by an archdemon. You become a Grey Warden, punch Archdemon's face in, profit.

II. The Darkspawn slumber again, it's all about the conflict between the Templars and the Mages. The Templars wanna keep the Mages permanently subjugated and neutered because they're potentially dangerous and the Mages screech and glue themselves to roads for human rights or some such.

III. Some minor Darkspawn mage bitchface wants to become a god, at the start performs some stupid ritual, you blunder in and steal something he needs. He spends the rest of the game hunting you, trying to get it back, essentially. It's all largely retarded, with most of Bioware's veteran writers gone, replaced with women and trannies like Weekes.

 

[Cael]

What the fuck is this expression trying to convey?

There is a reason they didn't show it below the waist.

 

[Xorazm]

@Wirdschowerdn since you're the only person here excited about the game, are you going to play this on release? If yes, would you consider streaming? I'd happily grab a bottle of vodka and watch a 'dexer play it.

Good lord this thread is near 500 pages and that game ain't even got a demo or some kinda EA? Jfc you people talk about people's genitals more than pornhub comment sections.

But yeah, given that there's no DRM, if it's easy enough I'm considering sailing the seas just to at least poke in for at least a look. Partly for the same reason I watched Rings of Power - because it was fun to laugh at, and the people tearing it apart provided a tremendous amount of entertainment value. Hell, one of the reasons I even created an account way back in the day was because some heroic Codexer forced himself to play through the entirety of Inquisition and the commentary was fucking hilarious.

I will not be doing that. I simply do not care that much. But man I'd love to find that thread.

For all y'all praying for this to fail tho ... guys I'm real sorry but you're gonna be in for a disappointment. You guys actually have any faith in gaming media? Do you have any idea how hungry people are to see a headline yelling "BIOWARE IS BACK!!" I'll tell you who knows, and it's every media outlet, and I'd be shocked if they didn't already have that headline ready to go. 8s, 9s and 10s across the board.

I was there for Bioshock Infinite. History is a flat circle, propelled ever onward by hype and fools.

That'll bring in a swarm of curious normies (they're targeting this at the "new generation"), but you gotta account that DA has an absolutely massive playerbase that will tell you, openly and frankly, that they do not care about gameplay in the slightest. That's why I might push through this, because it's going to be a mindless hack'n'slash Dad of War buttonmasher that I can walk to the end of with half a functioning brain cell while I make my way through a podcast. What DA fans want are story, character and romances, which takes up slots 1, 2 and 3, followed by 4, 5 and 6, with gameplay languishing so far down I don't think they've invented numbers for it yet. Sometimes at night you might hear its pitiless wailing. But you won't see it in this game.

Bioware knows they can push out low-effort, flashy, single brain cell combat and so long as the story is YA level "rah power of friendship saves the world" with a hefty amount of shipping, this game will succeed.

Big time.

So yes, it will almost certainly suck. It will also almost certainly do massive numbers, create years of shipping wars on forums you've never even heard of, endless pages of deranged fan art, snag a very possible GOTY nomination and even a possible win.

Just buckle up for the suck, y'all. The Chiefs are 6-0 and there is no god.

 

[cioran]

@Wirdschowerdn since you're the only person here excited about the game, are you going to play this on release? If yes, would you consider streaming? I'd happily grab a bottle of vodka and watch a 'dexer play it.

So yes, it will almost certainly suck.

FTFY

 

[Haba]

Real 200 IQ move moving a post comparing the DA:O launch trailer with this POS launch trailer from the launch trailer thread.

 

[Fedora Master]

Apparently they went back to BUTTAN == AWESOME!!!11! for the entire game design.

Called it

But yeah, given that there's no DRM, if it's easy enough I'm considering sailing the seas just to at least poke in for at least a look. Partly for the same reason I watched Rings of Power

Don't be part of the problem.

 

[Pink Eye]

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

Not even bronies can defend this game, that should tell you something.

 

[cioran]

Real 200 IQ move moving a post comparing the DA:O launch trailer with this POS launch trailer from the launch trailer thread.

And anyway, I was just making a little fun by writing a much shorter/in conclusion version of the original post, which seemed to me a bit "distracted" at times. Nothing was moved, but you just wanted to flex some muscles because why not...?

 

[NecroLord]

What the fuck is this expression trying to convey?

Up to date modern audience version of this probably

Shepard doing his best Patrick Bateman impersonation.

 

[Haba]

Real 200 IQ move moving a post comparing the DA:O launch trailer with this POS launch trailer from the launch trailer thread.

And anyway, I was just making a little fun by writing a much shorter/in conclusion version of the original post, which seemed to me a bit "distracted" at times. Nothing was moved, but you just wanted to flex some muscles because why not...?

Please be quiet when the adults are speaking here.

 

[Hedasd]

What's Dragon Age about again?

I. Ancient evil (the Darkspawn) once again awakens and pours into the world, led by an archdemon. You become a Grey Warden, punch Archdemon's face in, profit.

II. The Darkspawn slumber again, it's all about the conflict between the Templars and the Mages. The Templars wanna keep the Mages permanently subjugated and neutered because they're potentially dangerous and the Mages screech and glue themselves to roads for human rights or some such.

III. Some minor Darkspawn mage bitchface wants to become a god, at the start performs some stupid ritual, you blunder in and steal something he needs. He spends the rest of the game hunting you, trying to get it back, essentially. It's all largely retarded, with most of Bioware's veteran writers gone, replaced with women and trannies like Weekes.

About the 3rd one, that minor Darkspawn mage is one of the first mages that entered heaven and got corrupted/turned into Darkspawn. He comes back after a thousand years and has the chance to be a cool villain but thanks to the incompetence of writers he turns out to be a useless villain that was actually a pawn in some elf's big plan to destroy the world in order to save the world(for Biodrones this is very smart and peak of writing).

Weekes really is a horrible writer though, he wrote one of the worst companions in the series and also made Qunari not only tolerant but also accepting of trannies for some weird reason. It always makes me laugh to think about people using Qunari example to say trans people are part of the setting, because Qunari are not only extremely hostile to everyone in the setting but their whole society functions through an extreme brainwashing method, they even have "conversion therapy" for people leaving the Qunari scoiety. They get mad when someone says they are using internet to groom kids but then embrace a fictional faction that basically does the same thing.

 

[Mortmal]

Woke means the marxism from Frankfurt school

Can it be made simpler? "Woke" is a globalist agenda promoted by a few liberal billionaires who own media outlets. It’s widely supported (for example, in mainstream gaming media, Dragon Age: Veilguard is a highly anticipated game) and promotes erasing strong cultural identities, dividing working classes into new groups (a classic divide-and-conquer tactic), erasing traditional cultural values, moral values, and specifically Christian ones. The new value being promoted is "inclusivity," which had its good side and was mostly accepted until recently. Now, "inclusivity" has come to mean removal—removal of attractive women (of any race) and removal of the white male hero (again, in the Dragon Age trailer, there is everyone but a white male as the hero), catering to a "modern audience" that never really existed. This shift has led to backlash, with more people openly expressing that they’re fed up with this trend.

One of its greatest achievements has been to discredit the left; this is a notable success, as now the left is associated with these ideas, and blue-collar and low-wage workers are increasingly voting far-right—which, ironically, is very compatible with billionaire interests. Wokism also promotes quotas in hiring over merit and skills, slowly but surely corrupting the industry and dragging it down. Those hired then bring in others like them, resulting in entertainment companies like Ubisoft being bloated, losing money, lacking creativity, and losing skilled workers—a rare case where the parasites kill the host. We end up with dull, boring games that take ages to release. Dragon Age: Veilguard is a perfect example of wokism gone wrong.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

Corypheus had an appearance as part of II's DLC but his character was much different, more akin to a crazy scientist, complete with NYAHAHAHAHA-tier voice acting and dialogue lines.

 

[Yuber]

Video games have always targeted younger audiences because that's where the money is.

I thought young people do not play games anymore?
I heard they play only stuff like Fortnite, Minecraft, Roblox etc.

 

[Morgoth]

Woke means the marxism from Frankfurt school

Can it be made simpler? "Woke" is a globalist agenda promoted by a few liberal billionaires who own media outlets. It’s widely supported (for example, in mainstream gaming media, Dragon Age: Veilguard is a highly anticipated game) and promotes erasing strong cultural identities, dividing working classes into new groups (a classic divide-and-conquer tactic), erasing traditional cultural values, moral values, and specifically Christian ones. The new value being promoted is "inclusivity," which had its good side and was mostly accepted until recently. Now, "inclusivity" has come to mean removal—removal of attractive women (of any race) and removal of the white male hero (again, in the Dragon Age trailer, there is everyone but a white male as the hero), catering to a "modern audience" that never really existed. This shift has led to backlash, with more people openly expressing that they’re fed up with this trend.

One of its greatest achievements has been to discredit the left; this is a notable success, as now the left is associated with these ideas, and blue-collar and low-wage workers are increasingly voting far-right—which, ironically, is very compatible with billionaire interests. Wokism also promotes quotas in hiring over merit and skills, slowly but surely corrupting the industry and dragging it down. Those hired then bring in others like them, resulting in entertainment companies like Ubisoft being bloated, losing money, lacking creativity, and losing skilled workers—a rare case where the parasites kill the host. We end up with dull, boring games that take ages to release. Dragon Age: Veilguard is a perfect example of wokism gone wrong.

Exchange 'liberal' with 'libertarian' and you might be onto something.

 

[Silverfish]

What's Dragon Age about again?

It's about $70.

 

[kapisi]

Watching this trailer has confused me. What's Dragon Age about again? I don't even know who the bad guys are anymore. In Origins, it was about dark spawns with mage faggotry in the background. Then in the second game it was some political crap that I forgot, because of the fact that the game takes place in the same city, with the same repeated content that you recycle on through for hours on end until finish. I just don't know what I should feel towards the big bad in this game since I don't even know WHAT the big bad is. Who are we fighting? Why should we care? What's going on? How does this relate to earlier entries?

As someone who has only played Origins and the second game; I am just beyond confused about everything. I watched a few minutes and I heard 'Gods' - which ones though. I thought the "Gods" left the world because of them being disgusted by mage faggotry, or something.

One major theme of Dragon Age was how the historical events are remembered and interpreted. Most factions have different canons of history and act accordingly in the present.

Another one is the question of faith and the nature of the divine. Like, faced with the evidence to the contrary, can you really be sure that there isn't an actual Maker helping you out.

It might come as a surprise, but Inquisition actually allows you to roleplay not only an edgy atheist, but an agnostic and a devout believer as well.

And it does so pretty well - there are two or three points in the story where the protagonist can have a crisis of faith/non-faith. You can interpret the events to reaffirm your devotion, to lose it, or to become a believer. These points also have hidden "faithful" check that has some influence on the worldstate.

Importantly, the writers never take a stance on the issue and chuckle about blind faith, you are left to your own conclusions.

But then it devolves into bad elven gods who are not actual gods, of course.

 

[Pink Eye]

What the fuck is this expression trying to convey?

It's doing the squatty poo poo:

 

[Dishonoredbr]

Watching this trailer has confused me. What's Dragon Age about again? I don't even know who the bad guys are anymore. In Origins, it was about dark spawns with mage faggotry in the background. Then in the second game it was some political crap that I forgot, because of the fact that the game takes place in the same city, with the same repeated content that you recycle on through for hours on end until finish. I just don't know what I should feel towards the big bad in this game since I don't even know WHAT the big bad is. Who are we fighting? Why should we care? What's going on? How does this relate to earlier entries?

As someone who has only played Origins and the second game; I am just beyond confused about everything. I watched a few minutes and I heard 'Gods' - which ones though. I thought the "Gods" left the world because of them being disgusted by mage faggotry, or something.

Dragon Age origins was darkspawn , 2 was stopping Kirkwall from getting destroyed by the Qunaris then you tried and failed to stop a Civil war between Mage and Templars but in one of the DLC you awake and kill(but not really) a Corypheus, a sentient DarkSpawn from Trevinter.

Inquisition then basically skipped over the Mage vs Templars Civil War and had Corpyheus as Villian , a lame ass Villian that had something that the actual villian wanted , The DreadWolf aka Solas. He wanted to destroy the veil to merge the physical plane and the fade into one , for Elven Reasons. Then you , the veilguard wants to .... guard the veil. Hence the name.

 

[Dishonoredbr]

About the 3rd one, that minor Darkspawn mage is one of the first mages that entered heaven and got corrupted/turned into Darkspawn. He comes back after a thousand years and has the chance to be a cool villain but thanks to the incompetence of writers he turns out to be a useless villain that was actually a pawn in some elf's big plan to destroy the world in order to save the world(for Biodrones this is very smart and peak of writing).

Don't forget how they ignored the entire Civil War between Mages and Templars in the 3rd game to focus on the lamest villian that they had.. Before Andromeda that it.