Lord_Potato
Arcane
Do you smell the stench of carrion?
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Dragon Age Dragon Age: The Veilguard Thread
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I am eagerly awaiting tommorow evening, Kwan timeDo you smell the stench of carrion?
Child of Malkav
Erudite
So in total, on all platforms this game apparently sold 700k copies, according to this https://steamcommunity.com/app/1845910/discussions/0/4635986342046663421/
Which results to 28 million $. The game apparently cost 250 million.
So, yeah, a flop.
Which results to 28 million $. The game apparently cost 250 million.
So, yeah, a flop.
Melcar
Arcane
Flopping like a flaccid impotent dick.
Melcar
Arcane
And multiheaded preferably.
Tyranicon
A Memory of Eternity
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My gripe with the reviewers is how anyone likes this style of combat.
I can understand how people can like the graphics, the writing, characters, etc. You can never account for taste and there's always people who think this:
But the combat looks like trash. You can watch videos where your companions and the enemies just end up bunched together because they can't interact. It looks so awful that they had to slap a billion particle effects on it like a korean mmo. When you read constant complaints from players using ranger/mage builds because there's no real party to take the aggro off them.
This series went from a party-based RPG to a bad GoW knockoff. Your companions are quite literally stand-ins for Atreus, since he can't get hurt, is a living awesome button, and just points out where enemies are.
I can't see how anyone who reviews games professionally and has a critical eye towards mechanics could possibly rate this game as high as they did.
The most important part of being a critic is having good taste. You can eat all the slop you want, but don't shove it towards us and pretend it's something it's not.
I can understand how people can like the graphics, the writing, characters, etc. You can never account for taste and there's always people who think this:
But the combat looks like trash. You can watch videos where your companions and the enemies just end up bunched together because they can't interact. It looks so awful that they had to slap a billion particle effects on it like a korean mmo. When you read constant complaints from players using ranger/mage builds because there's no real party to take the aggro off them.
This series went from a party-based RPG to a bad GoW knockoff. Your companions are quite literally stand-ins for Atreus, since he can't get hurt, is a living awesome button, and just points out where enemies are.
I can't see how anyone who reviews games professionally and has a critical eye towards mechanics could possibly rate this game as high as they did.
The most important part of being a critic is having good taste. You can eat all the slop you want, but don't shove it towards us and pretend it's something it's not.
Camel
Scholar
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More Twitch viewers than players.Do you smell the stench of carrion?
Pretty sure their next Mass Effect is going to decide their fate.
Concord all over again, the same pattern has emerged. Any hint of sexiness and that loathsome "cis aesthetic" in the concept art gets watered down before the final versions are modelled. This is how you end up with androgynous, pudgy, purple-haired beasts with handicaps.
'Sexy' and 'sexist' are now synonymous when they deal with female characters. Male characters still don't have the same restrictions because of that double-standard that's based on the intersectional victim hierarchy.
Melcar
Arcane
And somehow, they survived.
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Source?
Padzi
Liturgist
Since today is N7 Day, you could dress Rook in an N7 jacket.I don’t think this is what Rook or even the game needs.And yeah, it looks bad.
kapisi
Educated
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If ME4 somehow becomes an actual masterpiece, what is IGN going to write?
Bioware is back once more?
Bioware returns to form again?
They will have to give it a 10, you know.
Rieser
Scholar
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Could've called that a decade ago mate.
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Could have but ol' Lackey here is European, he needs time to do the math.
HumanTotemPole
Augur
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It's the poor mechanics & certain technical deficiencies (e.g. facial animations as I keep hammering on about) that give the game away about the release review scores. The unified press push for success was too transparent this time. If the PR people had been smarter shill reviewers would have been hailing the simplistic combat as a triumph for accessibility or talking about how the difficult development meant savings had to be made on the facial animation budget.
damager
Liturgist
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Are you okay buddy?
Than I would rather enjoy this inoffensive action combat than the shitty writing and characters. You have it totally backwards imo
Tyranicon
A Memory of Eternity
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There's always going to be slop eaters. Getting mad at that is like getting mad that water is wet.
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