Dragon Age Dragon Age: The Veilguard Thread

[Reinhardt]

Infinitron delivering "presents" to the Codex:

What's the difference between Santa and a Jew?

Santa goes up and down the chimney, but the Jew only goes up.

and what's common between them? both things are never happened.

 

[Naraya]

Guys, it's all market's fault. The game is perfectly fine, but the damn market!

 

[HumanTotemPole]

Its joever

The European gaming market didn't have a great year for sales. GamesIndustry's Christopher Dring revealed this tidbit during the latest episode of the GI Microcast show, confirming that sales of new games went down by 29% compared to last year, as registered by GSD data.

2024 just didn't have the same sheer triple-A power when it came to its schedule. Dring admitted as much in the podcast while also singling out two games that underperformed: Star Wars Outlaws and Dragon Age: The Veilguard.

In terms of the traditional big blockbuster Christmas games, you had Call of Duty, which did well, and you had Dragon Age, which did not. That is disappointing, though, that position. That was it. Dragon Age had the market to itself and it couldn't find an audience, and that really is scary as we move into the following year.

Star Wars Outlaws and Dragon Age: The Veilguard ranked #14 and #19, respectively, when it comes to the new games European chart. But switching to the full chart that also includes games released in previous years, they drop to #45 and #68

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One can only hope the customer base is starting to learn. There's already a lifetime's worth of entertainment in available in gaming without needing to play a single title released this year, much less mediocre-at-best stuff like Veilguard or Outlaws.

 

[Old Hans]

I'm gonna farm so many shit ratings my account will be considered a holy river in the Hindu religion. But I stand by it. Man was not meant to game on a typewriter.

There are some games that just play better with a console controller, I use one all the time for them. But no idea about the Dragon Age series, I just could not get into it.

Dragon Age Origin is fucking terrible on a controller. It didn’t need to be, (Knights of the Old Republic worked just fine on a controller) but BioWare redid the combat to function more like an action game and what they turned out ended up playing like a terrible action game. But it sold better than the PC version, which is probably why Dragon Age 2 went the way it did with its combat system. Console Origin feels like an even worse version of Dragon Age 2 combat.

I thought DA2 combat was actually pretty good. it's just a better version of Origins combat.

They're on par, really. Both have trash mobs up the ass and you don't really have to think while you fight.

I agree the combat encounters were absolute poop, but the systems and animations were cleaned up and improved in the 2nd game.

 

[UndeadHalfOrc]