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

[damager]

BG3 was total crap besides graphics and combat

 

[whydoibother]

BG3 will set the trend of MASSIVE FUCKING INCLINE for the RPG genre

Don't be delusional. I know this is hard for you but don't.
We (the KKK) have already agreed that devs will only learn the absolutely worst lessons from BG3.

The worst lessons are assuming that character drama, unusual sex scenes and using voice actors prominently in marketing is why BG3 succeeded. Most of these already existed in previous Bioware games, or the Witcher games, and the voice actors for marketing stuff is basically a key part of animated movies.
I think designers will be able to convince investors that BG3 succeeded because of emergent gameplay interactions, such as not-necessarily-intended uses of terrain, skills, and items. Enough of the popular memes and videos are about stuff like that, so its visible and hard to miss.

 

[damager]

Nobody gives a shit about voice actors in marketing. Games succeed or not because of the quality of gameplay

 

[GentlemanCthulhu]

You not being able to shut down the companions in this game is going to be the worst thing about it. There's no option to tell the tranny to shut up. I think its quite fair for LGBTQ+ to banned, if that's how they are going to play it.

 

[whydoibother]

Nobody gives a shit about voice actors in marketing. Games succeed or not because of the quality of gameplay

Baldur's Gate 3 absolutely sold more, because its voice acting cast were active on social media and prominent in award ceremonites and developer blogs. There are people who first saw the voice actors doing their characters, and then bought the game.

 

[sser]

1 more hour until...


MAXIMUM BARVE!

I like how she says some people make the apology all about themselves, while simultaneously doing pushups in front of everyone and spending 5 minutes explaining her own culture.

 

[Ryzer]

BG3 will set the trend of MASSIVE FUCKING INCLINE for the RPG genre

Don't be delusional. I know this is hard for you but don't.
We (the KKK) have already agreed that devs will only learn the absolutely worst lessons from BG3.

The worst lessons are assuming that character drama, unusual sex scenes and using voice actors prominently in marketing is why BG3 succeeded. Most of these already existed in previous Bioware games, or the Witcher games, and the voice actors for marketing stuff is basically a key part of animated movies.
I think designers will be able to convince investors that BG3 succeeded because of emergent gameplay interactions, such as not-necessarily-intended uses of terrain, skills, and items. Enough of the popular memes and videos are about stuff like that, so its visible and hard to miss.

 

[GentlemanCthulhu]

Nobody gives a shit about voice actors in marketing. Games succeed or not because of the quality of gameplay

I do agree with you that gameplay is king, but I think ignoring other elements is needlessly reductive. If DA:V had excellent gameplay, it would still be a worse product offering because of everything else that its doing poorly.

 

[Naraya]

Can we please have a "barv" emote?

 

[damager]

If anything players get influenced by streamers and youtubers playing and praising a game but not because of some shitty celebrities social media

 

[GentlemanCthulhu]

1 more hour until...


MAXIMUM BARVE!

I like how she says some people make the apology all about themselves, while simultaneously doing pushups in front of everyone and spending 5 minutes explaining her own culture.

I hope there's at least the option to skip dialogue and cutscenes lol.

 

[Pink Eye]

You not being able to shut down the companions in this game is going to be the worst thing about it. There's no option to tell the tranny to shut up. I think its quite fair for LGBTQ+ to banned, if that's how they are going to play it.

Basically. It's just propaganda being shoved down people's throats.

 

[GentlemanCthulhu]

You not being able to shut down the companions in this game is going to be the worst thing about it. There's no option to tell the tranny to shut up. I think its quite fair for LGBTQ+ to banned, if that's how they are going to play it.

Basically. It's just propaganda being shoved down people's throats.

Yeah that's by far the worst thing about this game. This game was written and designed by some of the weakest, least interesting people on the planet. Literally 0 backbone, but still insisting that it's their way or the high way.

 

[Spectral Pontifex]

BG3 was total crap besides graphics and combat

Nobody gives a shit about voice actors in marketing. Games succeed or not because of the quality of gameplay

BG3 had such a huge success only because they promoted it as a light-hearted adventure with focus on romance and characters.

These are the 4 most popular videos on the Larian YT channel. There's about two seconds of combat in the launch trailer and it's not shown from the isometric perspective with UI, it's just a zoom in on a "cool" spell.

Real footage of combat appears for the first time in their sixth most popular BG3 video. The preceeding 5 are all focused solely on the story and characters.

Out of the 20 most popular BG3 videos released by Larian, 18 do not show combat gameplay.

 

[damager]

I mean. who watches such crap?

In the end people most people buy a game because of the quality of the game not the trailer. At least in the long run.

 

[Spectral Pontifex]

I mean. who watches such crap?

Millions of players who bought BG3 and made it the success it is. Surely, you don't think it was successful because mainstream players just love turn-based combat?

 

[damager]

I think the initial day 1 purchase sales can't make a game a success. It's how it fairs in the long run if it becomes really a hit. And BG3 did because the gameplay and presentation is there.

Most concious buyers indeed look for videos that show the gameplay and analyse that.

 

[Fedora Master]

BG3 was total crap besides graphics and combat

Nobody gives a shit about voice actors in marketing. Games succeed or not because of the quality of gameplay

BG3 had such a huge success only because they promoted it as a light-hearted adventure with focus on romance and characters.

These are the 4 most popular videos on the Larian YT channel. There's about two seconds of combat in the launch trailer and it's not shown from the isometric perspective with UI, it's just a zoom in on a "cool" spell.

Real footage of combat appears for the first time in their sixth most popular BG3 video. The preceeding 5 are all focused solely on the story and characters.

Out of the 20 most popular BG3 videos released by Larian, 18 do not show combat gameplay.

Why does Karlach have a bulge.
Actually, don't answer.

 

[Lovely Feather Pillow]

BG3 lets you max out strength and throw enemies at each other. That freedom is the good kind of RPG.

 

[Pink Eye]

This game was written and designed by some of the weakest, least interesting people on the planet.

Well, when you've never dealt with any real challenges in life but still want to feel special, you manufacture your own problems. These people are weak because they cling to the most superfluous attributes that defines humanity: gender identity, sexual preference; and they hyper focus on that because they have nothing else, no depth, no wisdom, nothing. Notice how every single piece of entertainment they produce is always lacking. Their whole persona is unauthentic and two dimensional - just like all the products they produce.

 

[RepHope]

1 more hour until...


MAXIMUM BARVE!

I like how she says some people make the apology all about themselves, while simultaneously doing pushups in front of everyone and spending 5 minutes explaining her own culture.

Apparently this is Patrick getting to live out his delusional fantasy of punishing anyone who doesn’t indulge his faggotry:

This scene is directly from a fantasy that Patrick Weekes, who was a major member of the Veilguard team, apparently has often, he is quoted as saying:

"It's not enough to apologise when you misgender someone, no, because that's just something you're saying so you can move on and get it over with. No, I want you to participate in a literal humiliation ritual, because if I could force you to drop and give me twenty like a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ drill sergeant every time you called me 'he' instead of 'they', I 100% would."
#3

 

[Ryzer]

BG3 was total crap besides graphics and combat

Nobody gives a shit about voice actors in marketing. Games succeed or not because of the quality of gameplay

BG3 had such a huge success only because they promoted it as a light-hearted adventure with focus on romance and characters.

These are the 4 most popular videos on the Larian YT channel. There's about two seconds of combat in the launch trailer and it's not shown from the isometric perspective with UI, it's just a zoom in on a "cool" spell.

Real footage of combat appears for the first time in their sixth most popular BG3 video. The preceeding 5 are all focused solely on the story and characters.

Out of the 20 most popular BG3 videos released by Larian, 18 do not show combat gameplay.

At least in BG3, you can kill everyone as the Dark Urge and then workship based Bhaal who wants to lacerate the Faggoten Realms.

 

[Fedora Master]

Life is a play, they are the main character and everyone else must be forced to participate. Hence the ideation of punishing people who don't.

 

[Pink Eye]

Why does Karlach have a bulge.

Ew wtf. I just noticed the bulge too. LOL!

 

[Spectral Pontifex]

At least in BG3, you can kill everyone as the Dark Urge and then workship based Bhaal who wants to lacerate the Faggoten Realms.

BG3 is gay but it isn't completely sanitised. There is an actual game there, unlike Veilguard.