Dragon Age Dragon Age: The Veilguard Thread

[Cael]

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"Eating around the dick" is truly a perfect way to describe modern gaming experience

The best decision you can make on a game like this is your own

I hate when streamers say this. Dude you get the game for free, plus sponsors, plus merch, plus getting flown to the studio to meet the devs, plus ads, etc. At least be a decent shill, dont pretend to play both sides.

I don't know Asmond, but cohh has been a certified woketard for years now. His twitch channel is like your local SBI chapter.

 

[Reinhardt]

Every time I read the positive steam reviews I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. I don't understand how this even has a 70+ positive rating.

From what I've seen, the main reason is the game has good graphical fidelity and is well optimized (which is pretty remarkable for a AAA these days). The music is also nice, the hair looks great. And let's be honest, people are afraid that if they criticize the game they will be called a bigot. Which is probably a big deal in the social media world of today's kids.

i would be afraid to be called polish dish too.

 

[Tweed]

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"Eating around the dick" is truly a perfect way to describe modern gaming experience

If you manage to avoid eating the shit, it really doesn't taste like shit.

Man, it's one big shit sandwich. You're biting into wholesale shit trying to find the kernels of corn, there's no eating around it.

 

[Laz Sundays]

I don't know Asmond, but cohh has been a certified woketard for years now. His twitch channel is like your local SBI chapter.

"Cohh" is that sound they make when they start eating one.

"The game is a mixed bag" ..yeah, of dicks. Bon Appétit, Monsieur "Cohh"

 

[Darkwind]

A mainstream media outlet actually lights this bag of shit on fire and steps on it in public for all to see and smell instead of quietly huffing the shit fumes and saying it smells like roses.

Kudos and props to Forbes for still having enough balls to go against the narrative.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikka...political-messaging-does-more-harm-than-good/

Money quote---

The best way to convince someone of your own point-of-view is generally not to bash them over the head with a cudgel, though that seems to be the preferred approach in modern political discourse and, alas, in entertainment. The culture, being what it is, has lost all sense of subtlety. In far too many films, TV shows and video games, we see a heavy-handed, top-down approach to the issues of the day. It’s a real shame that the developers at BioWare decided to go this route in Dragon Age: The Veilguard.

 

[Xorazm]

A mainstream media outlet actually lights this bag of shit on fire and steps on it in public for all to see and smell instead of quietly huffing the shit fumes and saying it smells like roses.

Kudos and props to Forbes for still having enough balls to go against the narrative.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikka...political-messaging-does-more-harm-than-good/

Money quote---

The best way to convince someone of your own point-of-view is generally not to bash them over the head with a cudgel, though that seems to be the preferred approach in modern political discourse and, alas, in entertainment. The culture, being what it is, has lost all sense of subtlety. In far too many films, TV shows and video games, we see a heavy-handed, top-down approach to the issues of the day. It’s a real shame that the developers at BioWare decided to go this route in Dragon Age: The Veilguard.

I liked that he also gave an example of how to make this sort of messaging work (I know most people's default response is "there's no way with degeneracy," but hear him out, there's a lesson in there on good writing). He talks about a medieval quasi-fantasy book about King Arthur with a trans character, but the writer there does the work to make it feel organic. They simply didn't have words like "trans" or "non-binary" and if you asked for pronouns, people would look at you like you had two heads. So the author works around that, makes it an internal matter that mainly relies on developing the character's interior life.

The keyword is "work." Character development. Integration of an idea into the setting, carefully set up and executed over hundreds of pages.

In Veilguard you get a mirror.

 

[Xorazm]

So, when Mort was calling this his GOTY, I mentioned a few times that Mort never really hates a game "not like that dude at WorthABuy, when he hates something you really feel it."

Well his review is out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy0lRKqt_Hw&ab_channel=WorthABuy

And. It. Is.

Glorious.

 

[Elttharion]

If you thought this would be the wake up call for normies think again. I have seen a lot of people saying the cringe Trash scenes are 'satire' or 'ironic'.

 

[Late Bloomer]

So, when Mort was calling this his GOTY, I mentioned a few times that Mort never really hates a game "not like that dude at WorthABuy, when he hates something you really feel it."

Well his review is out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy0lRKqt_Hw&ab_channel=WorthABuy

And. It. Is.

Glorious.

 

[Harthwain]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy0lRKqt_Hw&ab_channel=WorthABuy

And. It. Is.

Glorious.

From your description I was expecting a much more fun video to watch. This is just a very straightforward delivery of what the game is. Nothing more, nothing less. I am not entertained.

 

[H. P. Lovecraft's Cat]

It's the same shit since Demon's Souls.

And? It's arguably the greatest formula in ARPG history, hell one of the greatest gaming formulas in general. Why should they change it?

Anyways fuck Dragon Age.

 

[Xorazm]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy0lRKqt_Hw&ab_channel=WorthABuy

And. It. Is.

Glorious.

From your description I was expecting a much more fun video to watch. This is just a very straightforward delivery of what the game is. Nothing more, nothing less. I am not entertained.

Most mainstream reviewer with normie credibility to give it a 4/10. Your expectations are miscalibrated.

If anybody can come up with a more angry slating and a lower number from an outlet which isn't already in the tank, I'll be interested, but I don't think it'll happen.

I'm not interested in circlejerking, I'm interested in teardowns reaching the masses. I'm interested in this game actually failing among the general audience.

Skillup made the point that EA's play was to juice initial scores so people would be reluctant to be the outlier. Cracks in that wall check EA and make it easier for subsequent reviewers to be harsher in their criticisms.

I want that Metacritic score to drop. I want the normies on the fence to see that number tumble and turn off.

I want this game to burn.

 

[Yosharian]

Which is worst? DA4 or ME4?

Having played the pirated version for a couple of hours today, just to see what all the noise was about, this is much worse than Andromeda.

Mass Effect Andromeda had some good gameplay elements, like the combat. This on the other hand, has absolutely no redeeming qualities, it's so bad that I'm baffled by the reviews, there is no explanation for some of these scores that doesn't end with corruption.

Yeah it actually makes ME4 look better by comparison. Andromeda still has terrible companions though similar to this

 

[Yosharian]

They made half the women in this game look like dudes in make-up, with protruding jaws, big noses and brow ridges. Isabela looks like a drag queen now.

Wasting hundreds of millions of other people's money making a AAA RPG where every character is trans must be the ultimate power trip for queerosexual gendermancers.

Shill! I dare you to show me a real feminine character in the whole game.

Actually some of the vendors and other NPCs don't look half bad

Also I thought morrigan looked ok - completely changed her character in every way and she doesn't speak or act like the same character from previous games though

 

[Yosharian]

I want that Metacritic score to drop. I want the normies on the fence to see that number tumble and turn off.

I want this game to burn.

The problem is everyone who would likely rip the game to pieces, won't buy it because they know how bad it is already

So the Steam score at least probably won't drop much lower

This game is tailor made for a certain type of either LGBTQ or female gamer, they're going to love it, they won't care about any of the things that your average RPG player cares about

Metacritic is another issue but metacritic scores don't matter at all, people just dismiss that as review bombing

 

[Yosharian]

My biggest surprise in this whole thing is how much the Codex rates Inquisition, apparently

 

[cioran]

Actually some of the vendors and other NPCs don't look half bad

Also I thought morrigan looked ok - completely changed her character in every way and she doesn't speak or act like the same character from previous games though

Show me an example with face&body so we can further discuss.

 

[Yosharian]

Actually some of the vendors and other NPCs don't look half bad

Also I thought morrigan looked ok - completely changed her character in every way and she doesn't speak or act like the same character from previous games though

Show me an example with face&body so we can further discuss.

Ok give me a bit and I'll screenshot one

 

[Yosharian]

So, when Mort was calling this his GOTY, I mentioned a few times that Mort never really hates a game "not like that dude at WorthABuy, when he hates something you really feel it."

Well his review is out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy0lRKqt_Hw&ab_channel=WorthABuy

And. It. Is.

Glorious.

Yeah he nailed it completely. It was quite sad making a character in the creator because as he says, there was an actual good game here if they'd not done it the way they'd done it

I'll post some other thoughts in a bit

 

[GrainWetski]

A mainstream media outlet actually lights this bag of shit on fire and steps on it in public for all to see and smell instead of quietly huffing the shit fumes and saying it smells like roses.

Kudos and props to Forbes for still having enough balls to go against the narrative.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikka...political-messaging-does-more-harm-than-good/

Money quote---

The best way to convince someone of your own point-of-view is generally not to bash them over the head with a cudgel, though that seems to be the preferred approach in modern political discourse and, alas, in entertainment. The culture, being what it is, has lost all sense of subtlety. In far too many films, TV shows and video games, we see a heavy-handed, top-down approach to the issues of the day. It’s a real shame that the developers at BioWare decided to go this route in Dragon Age: The Veilguard.

The retarded cuck shilled the game before release and then when it's released and everyone finds out he's a lying sack of shit, he backtracks.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikka...-veilguard-is-very-good---with-a-few-caveats/

It's typical MSM journo crap. Deceive people and then make a retraction too late that nobody reads.

Dragon Age has always been diverse, for one thing, and other stellar RPGs in recent years, from Cyberpunk 2077 to Baldur’s Gate III have had gender options and loads of diversity, and this didn’t impact their stories in a negative way. I haven’t encountered anything particularly galling or preachy in the story itself, and I’m happy to see more options for more players. You get to choose, right? That’s what makes RPGs so great in the first place. Having more choices is a good thing.

On the other hand, I’ve been playing the game for the last week-and-a-half and I’m having a blast.

He played for that long but supposedly didn't manage to see anything woke in the game until 30 mins after most people who considered buying already bought it. Yeah, sure.

Edit: I had not gotten to the part that is very, blatantly, hamfistedly overly woke. I have to walk back the above paragraphs. In my time with the game, I haven’t seen anything like this, but clearly BioWare has taken things into the realm of self-parody in at least one questline. You can watch the scene, and read my thoughts on the matter, right here.

 

[H. P. Lovecraft's Cat]

My biggest surprise in this whole thing is how much the Codex rates Inquisition, apparently

 

[Konjad]

Yes. Meanwhile the Gnomes are innocent unlike the elves.

Of course...

 

[kigmathelm]

Been reading a lot about how game is doing badly, etc... but I can tell you - these people are wrong. Game is doing great. 77k peak on Steam. Do you know how many people that is?

And lets be real, its not like BioWare is some huge studio like Bethesda or Ubisoft or Larian or people that made that monkey game. Also, it beat that new Jedi game at Steam peak players. And that game is STAR WARS.

My only complaint is that we need more games like this. So yeah, suck it chuds.

 

[Yosharian]

Been reading a lot about how game is doing badly, etc... but I can tell you - these people are wrong. Game is doing great. 77k peak on Steam. Do you know how many people that is?

And lets be real, its not like BioWare is some huge studio like Bethesda or Ubisoft or Larian or people that made that monkey game. Also, it beat that new Jedi game at Steam peak players. And that game is STAR WARS.

My only complaint is that we need more games like this. So yeah, suck it chuds.

 

[Basshead]

There was nothing more to say on what you wrote because it was literally nothing more than a word salad trying to sound profound. No substance to even debate. It was that retarded. Like most on here. Big board of dummies looking thinking they’re edgy for preaching Jewish religion and values as if that’s somehow edgy. It isn’t. It just shows how desperate and stupid you are.

You can't see the difference between another person's words and your interpretation of their words. That makes you an idiot. But if words about one issue trigger a number of others different thoughts in you, obviously buzzing under your skull, it makes you a schizo.

Not everyone, just quite a few. Most? Maybe. Just observations based on numerous interactions with retards here. Did it bother you personally? You’re probably one of these retards. Sorry, but maybe there’s still hope for you. Stop being an idiot

Take own pill.

Take own English class. Nearly your entire continent is basically an outpost of the US anyway. Might as well go all the way.