Dragon Age Dragon Age: The Veilguard Thread

[salaciousbcrumb]

You gonna hit me with the Citation Needed when you only have to hop over to the DA subreddit to see thousands of losers circlejerking over how DAV is a return to form and totally GOTY?

There are only a couple of hundred of people that play that game now and you are telling me there are are a shit ton of people on Reddit saying how great it is while not playing it?...

(looks in mirror)

....Okay fine, but if they like it they should at least buy it!!!

 

[Tyranicon]

Veilguard's about to drop under 70% positive reviews on steam, an important threshold. Even Andromeda still has 75%.

 

[Camel]

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Veilguard's about to drop under 70% positive reviews on steam, an important threshold. Even Andromeda still has 75%.

Yes, please. I'm waiting for the Steam mixed rating of this crap since the release.

 

[Rahdulan]

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Veilguard's about to drop under 70% positive reviews on steam, an important threshold. Even Andromeda still has 75%.

Yes, please. I'm waiting for the Steam mixed rating of this crap since the release.

Already hit 68% it seems.

 

[Camel]

Already hit 68% it seems.

Sadly it's only recent reviews.

 

[Rieser]

It's the 206th most played game on Steam right now. Almost top 200, what a return to form!

 

[Space Satan]

There is a theory - brilliant in its simplicity - about why veoilguard was such a neutered and soy slop story-wise.
ChatGPT doesn't allow violence.

 

[cvv]

66% now and falling.

Seems 2025 can't stop the slop from flopping.

 

[Tyranicon]

Voting for 2024 Steam Awards ended.

Let's see all the shit that Veilguard won.

 

[Cael]

Voting for 2024 Steam Awards ended.

Let's see all the shit that Veilguard won.

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What happened to all the "Game of the Year" picks from every game journo on the planet?

 

[MrMarbles]

I've been ready with the popcorn for sub-70 % reviews a long time, and have been watching the total number of reviews. When it dipped close, the number changed. Is there a way to purge steam reviews?

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

A big bunch of the recent negative reviews seem to be legitimate but the site warns of potential "out of context" activity (presumably marking review bombings) but the scores tend to normalzie themselves after a while. The game is a failure and it will remain as such for a while though, that's undeniable.

 

[Cael]

I've been ready with the popcorn for sub-70 % reviews a long time, and have been watching the total number of reviews. When it dipped close, the number changed. Is there a way to purge steam reviews?

Steam themselves can definitely do it. And if you give them enough money, why not? Steam probably makes more money from that kind of stuff than the actual sale of the game.

 

[Inec0rn]

Why hasn't EA closed this studio? One of the worst acquisitions they've made.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Why hasn't EA closed this studio? One of the worst acquisitions they've made.

Perhaps the executives at Electronic Arts are similar to Codexers, in that they derive immense enjoyment from watching Bioware fail, and therefore are willing to fund another disaster.

 

[Melcar]

Why hasn't EA closed this studio? One of the worst acquisitions they've made.

Perhaps the executives at Electronic Arts are similar to Codexers, in that they derive immense enjoyment from watching Bioware fail, and therefore are willing to fund another disaster.

They bought Bioware just for fun.

 

[Skinwalker]

Please shut down Bharvoware and give Mass Effect and Dragon Age to a new and better developer.

Oh wait, there isn't one. Nvm, it's over.

 

[scytheavatar]

Why hasn't EA closed this studio? One of the worst acquisitions they've made.

Any reaction to Veilguard's failure, be it layoffs or closural, isn't going to happen so soon after the game's release. But it is coming.

IMHO it is probably unreasonable to punish BioWare without also punishing people in EA who practically sabotaged the game with the dogshit marketing.

 

[bat_boro]

What dogshit marketing? As far as I can tell, the marketing image of the game corresponded 1:1 with the actual content of the game itself?

 

[Orud]

What dogshit marketing? As far as I can tell, the marketing image of the game corresponded 1:1 with the actual content of the game itself?

Sure, but that 'we can be heroes' reveal trailer was liked by no one.

 

[Aarwolf]

What dogshit marketing? As far as I can tell, the marketing image of the game corresponded 1:1 with the actual content of the game itself?

Sure, but that 'we can be heroes' reveal trailer was liked by no one.

As is not liked the game proper.

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

Why hasn't EA closed this studio? One of the worst acquisitions they've made.

Perhaps the executives at Electronic Arts are similar to Codexers, in that they derive immense enjoyment from watching Bioware fail, and therefore are willing to fund another disaster.

They bought Bioware just for fun.

 

[cvv]

Please shut down Bharvoware and give Mass Effect and Dragon Age to a new and better developer.

Oh wait, there isn't one.

We don't need Bioware or Mass Effect. Clinging to long-dead IPs is never healthy, just look at Star Wars or Star Trek.

There are always gonna be new IPs, replacing the dead ones. Rn Exodus from Archetype looks hopeful, at least I haven't spotted any red flags yet.

And there will be others. My personal guess is before Daniel Vavra retires he will make at least one epic sci-fi game, he's been harping about that for 20 years now, ever since he got his pet SF project axed by 2K, when he was still there.

 

[gurugeorge]

Please shut down Bharvoware and give Mass Effect and Dragon Age to a new and better developer.

Oh wait, there isn't one.

We don't need Bioware or Mass Effect. Clinging to long-dead IPs is never healthy, just look at Star Wars or Star Trek.

There are always gonna be new IPs, replacing the dead ones. Rn Exodus from Archetype looks hopeful, at least I haven't spotted any red flags yet.

And there will be others. My personal guess is before Daniel Vavra retires he will make at least one epic sci-fi game, he's been harping about that for 20 years now, ever since he got his pet SF project axed by 2K, when he was still there.

The decline of Star Wars and Star Trek hasn't been a natural phenomenon, as if they were sad examples of some sort of law of the natural decline of IPs. There's absolutely no reason why they couldn't have kept going, since the lore was being kept alive in part because fathers were passing the enthusiasm down to their kids in families.

Star Wars was killed by the incompetence and silly ideological obsessions of Kathleen Kennedy; Star Trek was killed by the incompetence of Abrams and the Bad Reboot crowd. Neither of those needed to happen.

The only sense in which what you are saying is true is that the original stories run out of steam, but part of the point of an IP is (or should be) to create good new stories in the same beloved virtual world (e.g. as was done serviceably by the EU for Star Wars).

Or to put it another way, an IP is the virtual world introdued by a hit story, not the particular story that introduced the virtual world and got people excited initially.

 

[Storyfag]

Star Wars was killed by the incompetence and silly ideological obsessions of Kathleen Kennedy; Star Trek was killed by the incompetence of Abrams and the Bad Reboot crowd. Neither of those needed to happen.

The only sense in which what you are saying is true is that the original stories run out of steam, but part of the point of an IP is (or should be) to create good new stories in the same beloved virtual world (e.g. as was done serviceably by the EU for Star Wars).

I know Kennedy's antics made the later EU entries look non-horrible, but do keep in mind that they were getting much worse with each release. The Legacy comic book series was good tho.