Dragon Age Dragon Age: The Veilguard Thread

[Ryzer]

Nigga please, the first music in the game right when you start the game is 3 notes and I mean literally 3 notes.

Case in point listen to this beauty:
3 notes on replay.

Already had enough eh? you are going to hear this note A LOT.

 

[damager]

Dude you make me replay this for real. The nostalgica coming through this.

Btw alone in that 10 seconds after you time stamped this play like 15 notes.

 

[jackofshadows]

3 notes on replay.

Ever heard of the term "ambient"?

 

[Ryzer]

Dude you make me replay this for real. The nostalgica coming through this

Don't forget to enable cheat engine so that vendors stop refreshing their stock every IRL 30 minutes. Have fun roaming around lol.

 

[Skinwalker]

The human ear cannot process more than 15 notes per hour anyway.

 

[Alienman]

Reddit doesn't even have any discussions about the ending yet. Oh, and they don't know that Varric has been dead the whole time too, with no burial and grieving scenes at all

wut, is he a ghost?

 

[damager]

Dude you make me replay this for real. The nostalgica coming through this

Don't forget to enable cheat engine so that vendors stop refreshing their stock every IRL 30 minutes. Have fun roaming around lol.

Making them restock every 30 minutes seems like a pretty solid implication of a restock mechanic. Prevents stuff like rest, exit or reload spamming. How is this even a negative. Are you googling random facts about the game because you couldn't make it past the first 10 rathounts?

 

[Sweeper]

Has it peaked yet?

Yes, gaming has peaked yet

https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads/underrail-the-incline-awakens.105387/

overrated garbage game propped up by a gang of fanatics on the codex.

And smelly autists on /vrpg/.
But I guess that's redundant.

 

[mondblut]

The Dragon Age sub is funny but the meltdown happening in the sub for Solas fans is absolutely hilarious.

Well done, Bioware. You are masters of your craft in every way really. You created and injected love and imagination into my life with your passionate, masterful story-telling, and clear understanding of emotional impact...which makes the decision to destroy it that much more deliberate

Holy mother of god, these people are even more pathetic than the troon self-insert brigade. Imagine getting so invested into dragon fucking age, of all things. My sides!

 

[Vagabond Merchant]

Even redditors aren't having fun guys

That subreddit... BG3 fans aren't really any better than Veilguard ones...

What's an rpg ? Reddit edition.

"Nobody wants to discuss your weird wacky hypothetical world where everything means something else" They really have no self awareness, do they

 

[mondblut]

What's the last game you ever played to completion?

Pff. Games with "completion" conditions are for plebeians.

 

[Semiurge]

The more entries this franchise gets the more I think the universe was inherently limited from the get-go. The conflicts it set up had obvious end points. Caste system of the dwarves ends in abolishing the castes. Tevinter slavery and blood magic ends in abolishing those. Templar vs mages ends with freedom for mages. The whole qunari situation was just a way to show how religious extremism is bad. None of these had nuanced takes, not really, even the qunari problem, so there was nowhere to go from a contemporary perspective.

The mages vs templars conflict is an allegory of gun control. But it was done poorly by BioWare. Players overwhelmingly sided with the mages in DA:O so the devs made both sides evil and crazy in DA2. Qunari were portrayed as the Ottoman empire and Sten has pretty based views, questioning why the Grey Warden is a woman. BioWare lost the plot and made Qunari progressive and tolerant who embrace trannies instead of being religious zealots.

Even if someone from Bioware claimed that mages vs templars was about gun control, it is far enough removed from it that it can be generalized and a parallel drawn with other political conflicts. Abstract ideals of "restraint" and "liberality" run through many of the divisions of today's world such as economy, sexuality, individual and group rights etc.

It's about bigotry and statistical behaviour of groups vs tolerance and trusting the individual's good intentions. Conservatism vs liberalist humanism.

I dare you to find a single cleavage in VG, like the one on that cosplayer. All screenshots so far display androgynous chests that are clothed in a way that leaves it unclear if there are any breasts at all, instead of just padding. That canyon between the pecs makes the androgyny even more clear, as it's only visible on women when they don't lift their breasts up. Even that strapless bra worn in the CC looks like those strips of gauze FtM troons wore, and still probably do, before they got their tits cut off. The gauze wrapping's purpose is to minimize the breasts, and it does so more effectively than any bra. The main character in Boys Don't Cry wears that.

Came across this YT vid by a spergy female (and fairly based) researcher, Aydin Paladin:



The vid's long and she goes into an extremely autistic level of detail, but the gist of it is that the claims of the benefits of representayshun in videogames just aren't borne out by the research, and in fact if anything the opposite holds (it's psychologically more "healing" to play idealized characters, which is what both males and females do naturally, which ties in with another bit of research that's been doing the rounds recently re. females preferring idealized characters).

So yeah it's bollocks, and as always the issue is never the issue, it's just for the rubes and useful idiot/true believer rank-and-file.

Basically the manufacture of Product is no longer, properly speaking, a capitalist enterprise focused on profit, but a social engineering drive by the new ruling class, the managerial class.

Weak men (think of Kier Starmer), spiteful mutants, troon nerds, etc. I would say, kind of a slight return of the Brahmin/priestly class - almost, one might say, a kind of Adeptus Mechanicus class (if one thinks of the programmer/tech giant aspect of it) - whereas we had the merchant class (capitalists proper) for a few hundred years befor that, and the warrior class (kingship/aristocracy) for a few hundreds of years before that. (As an aside, while of course as a Nazi I would say that the JQ is what's a the root of it all, even if one doesn't want to get into the JQ aspect of it, one can discuss the current societal situation on this more neutral ground of Frank Burnham's idea of a new mangerial elite as the new ruling class, and still capture some important aspects of all this stuff in discussion.)

So again, one is led to wonder, is there a breaking point somewhere, where the outgoing capitalistic prerogatives (e.g. profit) still have some clout over the incoming managerial prerogatives (social engineering)? Or are the purveyors of woke Product just going to be bailed out for as long a it takes to make woke Product the only thing available?

It's being pushed and paid for as social engineering - as Larry Fink said in 2017, the behaviours they want "have to be forced" - and they're willing to spend untold resources on forcing them. But again, one wonders if there is a limit somewhere, especially if it's seen that the social engineering isn't "sticking" and they'd be throwing good money after bad.

This engineering is merely the prep phase for the eventual day China has assumed full control of the west. The marxist intelligentsia has always treated post-revolution China as an ally, they are collaborators of the evil that rises from the east.

As a joke DU should put this forum in a purple theme.

DarkUnderlord

It's Sunday and I'm a bit bored so I created a Stylus theme. I tell you what, you barve 10 times and I'll share the link.

Name it "CodexERA".

 

[mondblut]

So reddit think all crpgs must be isometric, and that in the moment you break that notion you're actually playing an action game?

BG3 must truly have been an awakening. Reddit is the new Codex now.

 

[GrainWetski]

So reddit think all crpgs must be isometric, and that in the moment you break that notion you're actually playing an action game?

BG3 must truly have been an awakening. Reddit is the new Codex now.

Letting the jew put everything under the sun in this section has seemingly done irreparable damage.

 

[Camel]

What the shit?!

 

[Swen]

Asian elves look retarded

 

[Butter]

So reddit think all crpgs must be isometric, and that in the moment you break that notion you're actually playing an action game?

They don't know what Wizardry is.

 

[Andnjord]

Nigga please, the first music in the game right when you start the game is 3 notes and I mean literally 3 notes.

Case in point listen to this beauty:
3 notes on replay.

Already had enough eh? you are going to hear this note A LOT.

Only two notes on replay for 30 seconds! And you’ll hear those two notes all the time for the whole first movement! Terrible music confirmed!

 

[kapisi]

Reddit doesn't even have any discussions about the ending yet. Oh, and they don't know that Varric has been dead the whole time too, with no burial and grieving scenes at all

wut, is he a ghost?

Solas is making Rook see Varric via blood magic, I think. Companions never talk about his death, because "they think Rook knows".

I mean, what the fuck, your friend is killed and you never discuss or even mention it? Pulling a bullshit twist with a beloved character for shock value is so cool.

 

[Child of Malkav]

So in one of the endings it shows that the equivalent of the Illuminati manipulated all the events from previous games huh?
I remember ubishit doing stuff like this by introducing Megiddo in Conviction then promptly forgot about it in Blacklist.
Is this a common tactic they use?
When they do a reboot or a sequel they know will be controversial or they're not sure if it will lead to future titles, they add in some subplot about Illuminati group setting in motion and controlling everything, trying to hook you on the possible development of that story later, even if the game is bad?
Could be a pattern.

 

[Abu Antar]

I enter the DAV thread, and suddenly I see people shit on Underrail?

What in the world is going on. The brain rot is real.

 

[Skinwalker]

Solas is making Rook see Varric via blood magic, I think. Companions never talk about his death, because "they think Rook knows".

I mean, what the fuck, your friend is killed and you never discuss or even mention it? Pulling a bullshit twist with a beloved character for shock value is so cool.

It's almost like they viciously hate the previous entries in the series, isn't it? Useless old fool Luke Skywalker, John Connor erased from existence via off-screen time travel, illusory ghost Varric, every time (((they))) make a woke sequel, they take someone memorable or pivotal (almost always a White guy) and defile that character.

These people don't just look like insane retarded demon clowns, they are insane retarded demon clowns.

 

[mondblut]

So reddit think all crpgs must be isometric, and that in the moment you break that notion you're actually playing an action game?

They don't know what Wizardry is.

One step at a time, man. One step at a time. In 2005, the Troika Fanboy Codex largely didn't knew it either.

Imagine reddit refusing to acknowledge twitcher and TESout as proper CRPGs just a couple of years ago. Unthinkable.

 

[mediocrepoet]

So reddit think all crpgs must be isometric, and that in the moment you break that notion you're actually playing an action game?

They don't know what Wizardry is.

Oh yeah, that old prototype that inspired Doom.

 

[Tyranicon]

Same steam review score as Andromeda now, and declining by the day.

75% is still too high. You really can't account for taste.