Dragon Age Dragon Age: The Veilguard Thread

[BlackAdderBG]

"Woke" is just the natural progression of all retarded leftist values pushed in the old games, the same way action combat was the natural progression for RtwP.

 

[Fenix]

The quality spread is very simple:

Origins > II > Inquisition > The Viletraash

Anyone who says otherwise is a tranny.

given how mediocre DAO was, that's something

 

[Skinwalker]

"Woke" is just the natural progression of all retarded leftist values pushed in the old games

Yes and no. If you'll forgive the expression.

Current_gen wokinism is a direct continuation of previous_gen SJWism, with one important distinction: it has now taken over the entire story/characters/art direction/quality/pacing/marketing/EVERYTHING.

autistic screeching about things I've already screeched about

Previous_gen sjw games were stories about various things, and they had sjw shit in it in various places. Often, you were given the choice to not go along with the sjw shit and pick the mean narrow-minded bigoted option, and the game would honor your choice, after chiding you slightly.

Current_gen woke trash is just a skinner-box for the exact same woke power fantasy: muh ebulz oppressive huwite man who must be destroyed by rainbow coalition of stronk womynz, niggers, other darkskins, and gays/trannies. There are no longer any options to not do the woke thing, and the story/setting/characters are hollow cardboard cutouts that exist only to be hosts for the shitlib brainworms.

It's kind of like watching a PSA or a commercial: the rudimentary story where some girl opens a cereal box and a horde of pixies and leprechauns fly out to sing songs of frosty sugar treats is not the point at all, the point is THE MESSAGE. In this case, "buy product".

The story of an upbeat young man who celebrates his newest promotion at the office by having a few drinks with his buddies, then getting into his car and promptly crashing into a delivery truck isn't the point at all, the point is THE MESSAGE. In this case, "don't drink and drive", which is a good message.

The story of world-ending ancient elven gods being awakened from their slumber to merge the physical and spirit realms and destroy civilization as we know it isn't the point at all (any longer). The point is THE MESSAGE, in this case, RESPECT TRANS PEOPLE'S PRONOUNS and STOP BEING RACIST MISOGYNIST. Which is a vile necro.

 

[BosanskiSeljak]

Meanwhile, in Origins:

"In Antiva being a crow gets you wealth, gets you women, or men" is extremely pozzed and woke. The only difference between these older woke games and the newer woke "games" is that the newer woke games go out of their way to write generate an entire storyline about it their entire "game" focuses on while older "games" either just made gay sex scenes or just had it in a phrase or two in a longer monologue.

I like Origins, but I'm not sure I'll ever be able to go back and replay it again, 'cause the Dragon Age name is so cringe and dirty now.

It was always terrible.

Wokes love to harp on how Dragon Age "was always woke" and they can only point to Zevran and Leliana romances. DA:O never had the troons, breast removal scars, pronouns and "non-binary" trash. DA:O didn't have random Africans and Asians in small Ferelden villages.

They always seem to forget that Zevran and Leliana were the most mentally fucked up companions who are only just escaping an entire life of hedonism and depravity. It's not surprising they're the only 2 not-straight characters.

That's not *woke* enough in modern day))

 

[Lord_Potato]

26 years have passed and Republicans still ARE a problem.

 

[Fenix]

We can go through their staff and the degenerate shit they did even since the production of BG2. (Ever hear the one about one of the staff members just watching hardcore gay porn at his desk instead of working and getting away with it?) We even have the extremely overrated faggot David Gaydar who wrote all this faggot shit in the first place long before the later wokoids got into Bioware.

One word - Canada

 

[Naraya]

I'm trying to watch satire videos but the game is so cringe I keep fast forwarding.

This gave me a laugh, thanks. Also I was a bit surprised that I could correctly attribute each of the voices to its owner (without looking at the upper left corner) after so many years since I played the ME series.

 

[Fenix]

I think there's a lot of misconception about the term "woke". It almost exclusively refers to forceful injection of identity politics, all the garbage ultimately stemming from intersectionality. Mass injection of that shit into video games only began around 2013-14 and got worse with time. You could find a gay character in games beforehand, but this nearly religious desire to overrepresent any sort of minorities and preach the player about their imaginary woes didn't exist in vidya until about a decade ago, a bit more if we're talking about video game journalism.
Under this angle, the only really egregious shit BG3 has is a godawful Aylin, and they seemingly tried to make her a borderline joke character. Unlike Traash.

Same time as injection of homosexuals begun in tv series, afair rigth after Breaking Bad

 

[1451]

And completed the game.
Lots of recycled content to pad the length, lots of meaningless voiced dialogues, lots of meaningless choices.
The game could be good without all the not optional grind.

 

[BosanskiSeljak]

And completed the game.
Lots of recycled content to pad the length, lots of meaningless voiced dialogues, lots of meaningless choices.
The game could be good without all the not optional grind.

Add this safe space Greek cuck to the list Skinwalker

 

[Fedora Master]

And completed the game.
Lots of recycled content to pad the length, lots of meaningless voiced dialogues, lots of meaningless choices.
The game could be good without all the not optional grind.

Don't be part of the problem

 

[Konjad]

And completed the game.
Lots of recycled content to pad the length, lots of meaningless voiced dialogues, lots of meaningless choices.
The game could be good without all the not optional grind.

Why answer him? He has 730 accounts on ignore, including you. He is the ultimate (((safe space))) retard.

The only question is why is he even still here, clearly retardEra would be more fit for him.

 

[Skinwalker]

And completed the game.
Lots of recycled content to pad the length, lots of meaningless voiced dialogues, lots of meaningless choices.
The game could be good without all the not optional grind.

Add this safe space Greek cuck to the list Skinwalker

1. Wrong_Carlo
2. Heroin Liberator / Honkweebnig
3. Rougay, probably
4. Yosharian
5. sebas
6. Ryzer
7. Asymptotics
8. duskvile
9. Tytus
10. frajaq
11. wolfbane
12. darkpatriot
13. grim1234
14. Baron Dupek
15. TheKing01
16. 1451

 

[Swen]

And completed the game.
Lots of recycled content to pad the length, lots of meaningless voiced dialogues, lots of meaningless choices.
The game could be good without all the not optional grind.

He has 730 accounts on ignore

LOL? Are you sure?

Imagine being so fragile you put even one person on ignore.

 

[Storyfag]

And completed the game.
Lots of recycled content to pad the length, lots of meaningless voiced dialogues, lots of meaningless choices.
The game could be good without all the not optional grind.

Add this safe space Greek cuck to the list Skinwalker

1. Wrong_Carlo
2. Heroin Liberator / Honkweebnig
3. Rougay, probably
4. Yosharian
5. sebas
6. Ryzer
7. Asymptotics
8. duskvile
9. Tytus
10. frajaq
11. wolfbane
12. darkpatriot
13. grim1234
14. Baron Dupek
15. TheKing01
16. 1451

The helicopters are all prepped and ready.

 

[Camel]

Graphics:
Ebola>Cancer>Plague

Gameplay:
Plague>Ebola>Cancer

Story:
Cancer>Plague>Ebola

Zed: Hitler>BioWare.

 

[Fargus]

 

[NecroLord]

This was wonderfully autistic.

 

[Fedora Master]

And completed the game.
Lots of recycled content to pad the length, lots of meaningless voiced dialogues, lots of meaningless choices.
The game could be good without all the not optional grind.

He has 730 accounts on ignore

LOL? Are you sure?

Imagine being so fragile you put even one person on ignore.

aweigh

 

[Heroic Liberator]

And completed the game.
Lots of recycled content to pad the length, lots of meaningless voiced dialogues, lots of meaningless choices.
The game could be good without all the not optional grind.

He has 730 accounts on ignore

LOL? Are you sure?

Imagine being so fragile you put even one person on ignore.

aweigh

Rookie numbers,

 

[Fedora Master]

This was wonderfully autistic.

I was really hoping for some kind of GAMER UPRISING at the end

 

[Myobi]

---

And completed the game.
Lots of recycled content to pad the length, lots of meaningless voiced dialogues, lots of meaningless choices.
The game could be good without all the not optional grind.

You, like this video game, were a mistake.

 

[Fargus]

And completed the game.
Lots of recycled content to pad the length, lots of meaningless voiced dialogues, lots of meaningless choices.
The game could be good without all the not optional grind.

He has 730 accounts on ignore

LOL? Are you sure?

Imagine being so fragile you put even one person on ignore.

aweigh

Rookie numbers,

His goal is reaching 1451, it's in his name

 

[Camel]

The thing is, applying the concept of 'woke' retroactively just doesn't make sense. It's often used as a catch-all for any stance, directly or indirectly, associated with the left. But, as you pointed out, it's a modern phenomenon, identity politics and everything that comes with it.

Many classic games would likely be labeled as woke if they were released today, yet they aren’t part of the same social movement. Themes like Marxism, sexuality, and racial issues aren't new to games - especially RPGs. So, it's not surprising to see these elements in games like Fallout, Planescape, Bloodlines, and most other titles topping Codex's favorites. But there has been a visible and relatively sudden shift in the way these topics are handled in modern contexts.

Personally, I think it’s a mix of factors. The rise of socially progressive views worldwide is certainly part of it, as well as the way these issues are taught in education. But honestly, I think a large part of the responsibility lies with the internet itself and how ideas and values circulate and become reinforced within their respective bubbles. This effect is particularly strong and, in many ways, dangerous among kids and teenagers; what we’re seeing with the zoomers now reflects that, especially as they start entering the workforce and adult life. Especially those who work in media content production, particularly in series/movies and games.

We're talking about people unprepared for the world, often completely out of touch with basic concepts and lacking any real emotional resilience. I'm not at all surprised that half of them rely on marijuana or other substances, legal or otherwise, to numb themselves and cope with the reality that the world isn’t as they wish it to be. Sure, every generation thinks the next one is somehow worse, but, god, it feels like we skipped three or four to get where we are today. It doesn't surprise me that so many are afraid of ChatGPT, it writes texts with greater fluency and coherence than most of them, and also interprets better.

The problem is that you can only create something based on your own life experiences. And most of these people grew up without reading a single whole book, instead filling their minds with Marvel movies and Netflix series for hours. This gave rise to the term binge watching, not that something similar didn't exist before, but not to this degree to the point of requiring its own term. I have no doubt that Veilguard faced many other challenges because it went through years of development hell, but that's not enough to explain the current outcome. It's not accidental, it's deliberate.

Video games used to be progressive not woke up until 2012-2016 like most western entertainment(literature, movies, comics). The western devs provided entertainment first, the (subtle) message second. Now they preach at their audience and shove woke agenda down the gamers throats. DA:O and ME2 aren't woke and BioWare used to write "compelling stories and engaging characters".

 

[Raghar]

Yeah, i've seen porn games with more entertaining writing than todays "AAA"

That is fan translation that needs to set windows locale to Japanese.

Fans made free translation with passion, professional translation was well done, but it doesn't have the charm of free fan translation.