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

[Can't handle the bacon]

DAO lore was an interesting mish-mash of concepts from various other fantasy series, mostly LotR, WoT, Dune and Warhammer, serviceable enough for a video game.

DAII did not add a whole lot of new lore that I can remember (some visual designs were updated to match the new graphics, but not much beyond that), and DAI injected copious amounts of tumblr-level wokeshit that directly contradicted both the letter and spirit of previous games. DA4 will likely make the lore even more woke, and then crash and burn like Mass Effect: Androgyny.

 

[karoliner]

Dragon age lore was never good. It was just the bare minimum required to get a new IP going.

 

[Decado]

Worse than retconning the Qunari into being gay was retconning them into having horns.

 

[Decado]

Also never forget: And run he did.

 

[Can't handle the bacon]

The tranny Qunari stuff, and their new take on gender, was clearly ret-conned into DA:I for woke reasons. To push the "gender is not sex/biological" agenda.

Indeed, and the only ones who seem to be denying the retcon are crypto-woke far-left commies who have already presupposed that there actually exists such a thing as a "non-biological gender identity" which is not only real, but actually takes precedence over biological gender/sex, and then use that presupposition to justify Qunari trannification and claim that there is no conflict with established lore, when the existence and validity of a "gender identity" that is separate from your in-born characteristics is the very thing in question.

In other words, if we redefine "man" to mean "anyone who fights", then there is no retcon. Oh wait, but there is zero justification for this redefinition of terms, and also even if you do this, there is still a direct contradiction. Oopsie.

 

[Fedora Master]

One page of STOP wasn't enough huh?

 

[Can't handle the bacon]

I've redefined "STOP" to mean "KEEP", which means I am doing exactly what you're demanding.

Word redefinitions are fun!!

 

[Decado]

One page of STOP wasn't enough huh?

I'll do whatever I want, go fuck yourself.

 

[Mauman]

I feel like I inadvertently opened Pandora's Box.

Ok, even if you're capable of the amazing mental gymnastics to deny retcons or whatever, can we at least all agree that the Qunari are shit?

 

[mediocrepoet]

I feel like I inadvertently opened Pandora's Box.

Ok, even if you're capable of the amazing mental gymnastics to deny retcons or whatever, can we at least all agree that the Qunari are shit?

Dragon Age as a whole is shit. The setting had potential and some fairly interesting implications in things that were presented in DAO and then they immediately shoved everything straight down the shitter in true nu-Bioware fashion.

I'm actually not sure how any non-SJWs find any interest in this series at this point, unless they're planning a complete reboot and mechanics overhaul back in line with an IE successor instead of a single player MMO like DAI or whatever garbage DA2 was.
Either way, the mechanics have been so shallow in all of these games that even if they did a reboot back towards DAO, it'd still be more like baby's first isometric RPG more than anything else.

 

[Semiurge]

Fedora Master looks like you have your work cut out for you.

 

[mediocrepoet]

I guess this is what spergs do when they run out of games to awesome button through.

 

[Ehrenmann]

I still can't believe they literally sold the ending of DA:I (Trespasser) as a dlc.

Am excited to play the upcoming game so I can stop the evil racist Solas.

 

[Theodora]

Hóngwèibīng is TU getting mad at you for not agreeing that warrior tomboys equates to 'pushing the trans agenda' or w/e?

please tell me i'm misunderstanding

 

[Nano]

 

[Dycedarg]

That won't stop them from making the next game's characters intentionally ugly.

 

[Nano]

That won't stop them from making the next game's characters intentionally ugly.

Only the female characters. Male characters will probably still be hot.

 

[Tyrr]

That won't stop them from making the next game's characters intentionally ugly.

Only the female characters. Male characters will probably still be hot.

Will they be able to top this?

 

[Can't handle the bacon]

That won't stop them from making the next game's characters intentionally ugly.

Only the female characters. Male characters will probably still be hot.

Male characters will look like women, and women will look like goblins. I can't wait for purple hair to become a fashion norm in Faggot Age land.

 

[Dycedarg]

Only the female characters. Male characters will probably still be hot.

Have you seen the romance options for Andromeda?



I'm not sure anyone would call this "hot". Not even (most) furries.

 

[Wunderbar]

Matt Goldman, Dragon Age's Senior Creative Director, Has Left BioWare

His departure was announced earlier today in an email sent to staff by BioWare studio GM Gary McKay:

Hi everyone,

I hope you are well. I’m writing to inform you all that Matt Goldman is leaving BioWare. We have mutually agreed to part ways, and his last day is today.

We understand that Matt’s departure has an impact on you, as well as the game’s development. Rest assured our commitment to a high-quality Dragon Age game has not waivered, and we will not ship a game that is not up to BioWare’s standards.

We, including EA’s executive team, have absolute confidence in the leadership here at the studio and the people working on this game to carry forward our vision.

Goldman first joined BioWare in 1998, and worked as an artist on everything from Baldur’s Gate to Jade Empire to the first few Dragon Age games. After a brief stint at Ensemble, where he worked on Halo Wars, in 2017 he took over as senior creative director on Dragon Age 4 after early work on the sequel was thrown out and the game’s direction rebooted.

https://kotaku.com/dragon-ages-senior-creative-director-has-left-bioware-1848114644

 

[Wunderbar]

We have mutually agreed to part ways

sounds like he was pushed out.

 

[Zeriel]

That won't stop them from making the next game's characters intentionally ugly.

Only the female characters. Male characters will probably still be hot.

Male characters weren't hot in DA:I though. They were like weird pastiches of gay porn cliches.

 

[Nano]

Male characters weren't hot in DA:I though. They were like weird pastiches of gay porn cliches.

Not sure what you're talking about. Cullen is conventionally gorgeous, Dorian is good looking too if you can get past the moustache.

 

[Tyrr]

Matt Goldman, Dragon Age's Senior Creative Director, Has Left BioWare

His departure was announced earlier today in an email sent to staff by BioWare studio GM Gary McKay:

Hi everyone,

I hope you are well. I’m writing to inform you all that Matt Goldman is leaving BioWare. We have mutually agreed to part ways, and his last day is today.

We understand that Matt’s departure has an impact on you, as well as the game’s development. Rest assured our commitment to a high-quality Dragon Age game has not waivered, and we will not ship a game that is not up to BioWare’s standards.

We, including EA’s executive team, have absolute confidence in the leadership here at the studio and the people working on this game to carry forward our vision.

Goldman first joined BioWare in 1998, and worked as an artist on everything from Baldur’s Gate to Jade Empire to the first few Dragon Age games. After a brief stint at Ensemble, where he worked on Halo Wars, in 2017 he took over as senior creative director on Dragon Age 4 after early work on the sequel was thrown out and the game’s direction rebooted.

https://kotaku.com/dragon-ages-senior-creative-director-has-left-bioware-1848114644

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