Dragon Age Dragon Age: The Veilguard Thread

[I eat frozen vegetables]

It looks like AIDS.

 

[Lovely Feather Pillow]

Copy paste for those too lazy to open the tldr Tweet

I’ve been playing Dragon Age: The Veilguard in complete secrecy (behind my backpack at the office in front of a giant window, in the kitchen). From me, you may be wondering “is this a game compatible with my experience during BG3” so I’ll tackle it from that perspective. The answer is yes. It is to a heavy, 9 season long show what a well-made, character driven, binge-worthy Netflix series is. It has a good sense of propulsion and forward momentum. The combat system is honestly brilliant (to me, a mix of Xenoblade & Hogwarts which is giga-brain genius). It knows when it needs a tentpole narrative moment, and it knows when to let you toy around with your class and exploit some of its stronger elements. More important, to me, it feels like the first Dragon Age game that truly knows what it wants to be. In short, if you want some character driven romping with a strong combat system in a universe you know, love, or have heard of, it is much better than the average action game, and much less heavy than the gargantuan RPGs that may intimidate at times. In a word, it’s fun! To me, I’m extremely happy BioWare gets to stick around - presumably - in these uncertain (because of moronic corporate greed) times. An existential game, and a fun one at that.

Ill always be a DA:O guy, and this js not that. But at least it’s something it wants to be, and not a mishmash of everything. I respect that. I like action games, i like RPGs, I like it when they collide. I like shooting baddies with mage magic. Ur mileage may vary!

 

[ferratilis]

Strong combat system?! Ok, now I'm sure Larian hires retards, exclusively.

 

[Konjad]

In Morrowind there would be different food items arranged differently on each of the 3 plates, instead of 3 identical plates. Why didn't they get any bread? Why don't they have anything to drink? And why the fuck are these candles just standing there directly on the table? Again, this is from Morrowind:

Because in trannyguard everyone is equal, so they all have to eat the same! Whole loaf of brad with cheese of the same size on a huge baked turd? Whomever finishes the last burns with the table!

 

[Ibn Sina]

Strong combat system?! Ok, now I'm sure Larian hires retards, exclusively.

FYI this is the same guy that posted this:

 

[Dr1f7]

this legit looks like some 4chan troll fake image

 

[Morgoth]

Swen did you know about this transgression?

 

[Hedasd]

Biodrones using this guy to say "look even the guy that made BG3 likes it". He is just a marketing guy that posts PR stuff on twitter and it works. Google "Larian publishing chief" and you can find multiple news articles about his tweets that casuals eat up and praise Larian to hell.

 

[Darkwind]

Final words: "best game of the year".

Damn, looks like he

To think, we thought the reviewers are paid shills thing was bad with crackpot scores like PCGamer's DA2 review, fast forward to this shitshow and this game is showered with perfect scores left, right and center, whilst bathing in identity politics. But there's no connection there, right... The clowns couldn't out themselves any more clearly and anyone who doesn't see it is living in blissful ignorance, for now.

PC Gamer has a pretty critical 79 - https://www.pcgamer.com/games/dragon-age/dragon-age-the-veilguard-review/

This seems to cut to the heart of it:

>Nobody's a jerk (for long) or has concerning opinions about mages or anything. Good people don't make great characters. There apparently just isn't time for nuance when there are gods to fight, so every character either has an intensely personal journey with no wider ramifications or a revenge pot against an unquestionably evil person.

In other words, people who wanted an even dumber, more YA style DA game with barely any thinking or RPG DNA left, they're sure to be delighted.

From what I've gathered, I genuinely can't point to a single thing that didn't get dumber.

This is the only plot line that the current crop of writers know how to generate. It is omnipresent in all media. Millennials and probably older GenZers are absolute NPCs and have no ability related to nuance or shades of grey. Moral ambiguity or bad intentions require WrongThink™ which under our current Thought Police Regime is a big no no. So you get absolutely boring garbage and as I said, find something for the "Modern Audience" NOT written this way in any form of media today. We are in the creativity dark ages right now at least until we start mass murdering people.

 

[Pink Eye]

This mobile UI reminds me of my gacha waifu games

 

[Melcar]

Why does everything have to look like a fucking card game?

 

[Rieser]

I've had the unfortunate task of reviewing this game and just finished. I know you're all making fun of this turd, but it's worse than you think. First off, regarding all the woke shit - there's a lot. Believe you me, there is a fucking lot. I mean, the central personal development of Taash is that she is a woman who wants to be a man (so the opposite of what Cael guessed last page), which is probably also why they designed her to look like one. In the spoilers below is a pic from a fairly early conversation (in case there are actually self-harming people among you intending to play this and don't want to be spoiled) where Taash is talking about how she wants to dress like a man, that she hates dresses, that no one wants to be a woman and so on and Neve trying to cheer her up. To be fair, there is actually an option to not sympathize and essentially tell Taash to get her shit together in this convo, though it's inconsequential.

Anyway, point is, it's woke as fuck. Now, that's all well and good but it gets a lot worse because regardless of political and ideological agendas, if we're looking at this game from a purely mechanical perspective it still reeks. I can't give you an example of a single mechanic I enjoyed. The "crafting" is laughable, itemization is horrible, character builds and progression are meaningless and the combat is the worst offender. It's beyond simplistic with every class and sub-class feeling largely the same. The enemies all feel the same too and the only difficulty the game provides stems from enemies having an absurd amount of health making a lot of fights a real slog. New enemies appear out of nowhere, attacking you in waves. You may think you're going up against three darkspawn, but nah, have fun grinding down these six waves of teleporting cunts that'll never kill you but take ten minutes to finish off.

The absolute worst part of combat is the way the "party" works. You don't have a party, not really. Mechanically, it works like a retarded card deck builder. You see, your two companions are immortal (they have no health bars) and aren't targeted nearly as much by enemies in battles like yourself - they're mostly ignored and do little damage besides. Instead, they only serve one real purpose in battles: for you to use their abilities. They can have three equipped at a time (as can you), and these ability cards are the only stuff that does any significant damage. You're supposed to figure out combos, but there's nothing to figure out. Use ability X to give an enemy the effect Y, then use ability Z that does extra damage against enemies affected by Y. It's banal at best. Moreover, all these abilities come with a cooldown - a cooldown they fucking share, meaning once you use one all three go on cooldown (there's a few exceptions to this) - which means you'll spend most of your time simply auto-attacking and dodging enemies whilst waiting for the cooldown to end.

I could go on and on and on, but I won't (I've an actual review to make before the embargo lifts). This game is an utter mess and anyone giving it a positive review can never be taken seriously again.

not a joke

I honestly didn't expect this game to receive as positive reviews as it has gotten, and whatever shred of faith I had in video game critics has eroded entirely with this.

Props to Skill Up who rightly blasted this game to bits in his review. And I mean really tore it apart. I stand by pretty much everything he says in his video.

 

[Shaja]

 

[Child of Malkav]

A libtard probably:

 

[Dr1f7]

I honestly didn't expect this game to receive as positive reviews as it has gotten, and whatever shred of faith I had in video game critics has eroded entirely with this.

they'd lose their black rock dei bucks if they gave anything but a glowing review

 

[Cryomancer]

I hope no one here on this prestigious website actually bought this game. That money is supposed to be used for Cleaveland's new game.

I will not even pirate this game. I have 3 hard drives(1ssd), this game is not worth the disk space. Let alone pay for this shit. Mainly now that steam don't allow more me to pay for shit games in Argentine pesos.

Anyway, how shitty is """"necromancy""""" in this game? Is as awful as Inquisition?

 

[Rahdulan]

Makes you think.

 

[d1r]

I hope no one here on this prestigious website actually bought this game. That money is supposed to be used for Cleaveland's new game.

I will not even pirate this game. I have 3 hard drives(1ssd), this game is not worth the disk space. Let alone pay for this shit. Mainly now that steam don't allow more me to pay for shit games in Argentine pesos.

Anyway, how shitty is """"necromancy""""" in this game? Is as awful as Inquisition?

Necromancy = slavery.
You will not enslave humans again, whitey. Not even if they are undead.

 

[Pink Eye]

I honestly didn't expect this game to receive as positive reviews as it has gotten

Yeah I'm flabbergasted too.

 

[MasPingon]

This piece of shit got 84 on Metacritic, an average from 50 reviews. It's officially the end of Metacritic and "game journalism".

 

[ferratilis]

This piece of shit got 84 on Metacritic, an average from 50 reviews. It's officially the end of Metacritic and "game journalism".

For me, game journalism ended with Cyberpunk. I only trust user reviews, Codex, and a small handful of youtubers (very small).

 

[Space Satan]

At this pint I want 4chan to make a mod like "no alphabets" and "Ser Aylin" for BG3 just to make remaining degenerades die from heart attacks or hang themselves. Nothing tastes better than sweet tears of developers who watch their supreme faggotry child being corrupted by uneducated masses into normality.

 

[Falksi]

 

[Pink Eye]

It astounds me that this piece of shit game is what some people want to lose their credibility over. It's just. Wow.

 

[DKunit]

This piece of shit got 84 on Metacritic, an average from 50 reviews. It's officially the end of Metacritic and "game journalism".

Dude, Starfield has an 83. Metacritic has been cooked for a long time.