Dragon Age: The Veilguard - A woke disaster? Yep!

[Prophetic Spirit]

I'm really surprised Cullen isn't in this game, he was probably the most popular pairing in the fanfiction scene where most of the fanbase seems to congragrate. Just searching the dragon age inquisition stories there's like 15,000 different ones between the Cullen and the different variations of the Inquisitor.

Cullen is too handsome & have a complex character arc.
He appears in the 3 games, as a hint.
First he wanted to kill the mages in the tower for being tortured by demons.
Second, he believed Meredith but took a decision after showing her madness.
Third, he tried to leave lydium.
He's interesting. That's why the popularity.

 

[Übertroon]

I'm really surprised Cullen isn't in this game, he was probably the most popular pairing in the fanfiction scene where most of the fanbase seems to congragrate. Just searching the dragon age inquisition stories there's like 15,000 different ones between the Cullen and the different variations of the Inquisitor.

Cullen's voice actor got cancelled for hating troons and fags and made a schizo rant in character where he burned all bridges

 

[30+GameOvers]

Cullen's voice actor got cancelled for hating troons and fags and made a schizo rant in character where he burned all bridges
https://youtube.com/watch?v=tobaFRUCc2Q

Holy fucking BASED

 

[Male Idiot]

Damn, this game isn't even worth pirating. You are better off doenloading the older games. Are there any graphical oberhauls for the old 3?

Cullen is based inquisitor husbando. You can fix him, just don't give him more fantasy meth.

 

[Deus Exica]

they don't actually play anything from the last decade so they still think boob armor exists

Women don't play games so this is exactly it. They know that men do, however, and enjoy it. So they must go out of their way to complain about this sort of thing to make men miserable.

he was probably the most popular pairing in the fanfiction scene where most of the fanbase seems to congragrate.

He is too heteronormative and white, this is a game for trannies now so everyone is brown or gender special. We are at the point where not even catering to white women is really enough to placate the masters.

Cullen's voice actor got cancelled for hating troons and fags and made a schizo rant in character where he burned all bridges
https://youtube.com/watch?v=tobaFRUCc2Q

Hilariously based.

 

[Rockzo]

They're all Doomcock now, I guess.

I noticed that he suddenly had a Ubisoft insider and seems to only have surface level knowledge of games, to the point that he doesn't reference Black Flag or Ghosts of Tsushima in relation to a Shadows video he did. Fake and so gay.

 

[moocow]

I wanted to give Troonguard a shot just for the lols, since it's free an all, but I just can't force myself to do it.
Maybe in a few months time some mods will come out from the undergounds and make it a little less faggy.

I get the distinct impression this game is going to wind up rather like Starfield, where even the presence of an official modding toolkit won't be enough to get a modding community built up around it, alternative hosting or not.

 

[krautkid]

SPOILER if you romance the dapper necromancer.

Spoiler: SPOILER

He's not human. He's... wait, how does one fuck that thing?!!

Vid here to avoid thumbnail spoilage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsMNvW__DPw&ab_channel=NaughtyGaming

ETA: What is with the ugly onesies these characters wear as underwear? Makes me also miss the white panties in the first game.

Second edit: Looks like NikTek has this game on their radar. YAAAS MAWMA.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=jKKzvmNon_8

Wtf that design is nearly identical to Fane! From Divinity Original Sin 2! A character who was written by Chris Avellone! And a really good one! And if you attempt to sleep with him goes 'I am a bone man, you weirdo'. What the heck??? How the fuck they gonna steal from Larian outright design wise? What a bunch of hack frauds, jesus Christmas. No originality at all.

 

[Third World Aristocrat]

Sorry, I don't know if this has already been discussed in this thread. I'm a lot of pages late...
But I was watching Mauler's stream about DA:V, and the writers seem to not understand one of the main villain (Solas) from the previous game!
Did they even read his previous dialogue?

For Solas, magic is magic. Why does he suddenly abhor it?
If you choose the "Blood magic is evil" dialogue option in Inquisition, he even disapproves of that!

This is very lazy writing.

 

[moocow]

Cullen's voice actor got cancelled for hating troons and fags and made a schizo rant in character where he burned all bridges
https://youtube.com/watch?v=tobaFRUCc2Q

Jesus Christ I had to jump through hoops to get this one downloaded! Youtube didn't even show the usual UI when playing this one. It was literally just the video and a bunch of "now loading" stubs for the description, interaction links, comment section, and sidebar, and they never loaded.

Fucking hell Youtube's pissed about this one.

 

[ShitLurker]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=CYWf7sgiMjA
Troonari courtship is predictably the most frightening one. Imagine the post-coital scene, shudder.

That's... that's a weeaboo thing, 100%

The whole "bad boy smashes the wall next to the girl but they both like each other" is a nip cliche. Of course, that shit is also rampant in yaoi. That they inserted that should tell you a lot from their inspirations.

 

[Ishtar]

@Ishtar I just watched Emmrich's romance and I have to wonder:

Spoiler: Plot spoilers

They ripped the concept of lichdom out of generic D&D stuff into here; Emmricht's personal quest is to become a lich, and apparently Nevarra has a sacred order of liches to... "protect humanity" or something.

This is so not Thedas lore, right? I've never recalled anything like this. If anything, I find it weird that we have spirits flitting around everywhere and no one even mentions blood magic or possession or anything. Guess blood magic is cleansed from the lore?

Not gonna lie, the whole Emmrich arc is straight Disney-gone-spooky that I can't help but to be charmed a bit.

Necromancy and the like are part of the mourn watch/Mortalatisi. Liches on the other hand are not part of DA? That I know of?

I saw a bit where Emmerich confesses he’s actually afraid of death. IDK a Necromancer being scared of dying is not a bad concept(if a little too intuitive an archetype).

The inquisitor does mention Cullen positively in a scene I saw on YT. And “the divine” is spoken of in the present tense.

I’m not sure if there are any other references to southern Thedas. I suspect they’ll say everyone either died in the blight or “are rebuilding”-but we aren’t ever going to see any of the cast of DAO through DAI again.

Which is all the more weird given the secret ending with the executors/forgotten ones tries to argue all the prior games were part of some grand conspiracy of super duper evil gods/mages this time.

@BlankSpaceBaby that’s one thing I found so bizarre. They clearly want to reboot it, and basically ignore all choices and events of the prior games but the secret ending season tries to retcon an overarching plot back to Ostagar and before. (Or may be going off Gaider’s notes IDK?).

I think we can safely presume any of the warden cast of prior games are dead though. That…or the calling is finished. What with the last archdemons being gone and all. Meaning they have zero reason to bring back the HoF or Alistair or any warden really.

 

[Mola Ram]

Stop mentioning better characters. They might just release a DLC that makes your worst nightmares come true.

Perhaps ... not. It's been making the rounds that BioWare currently has no plans for Veilguard DLC.

https://archive.is/DI322

Now I know DLC is a bigger deal than it was in 2014, at least insofar as it tends to be beefier and takes more time to produce, but this still strikes me as an extraordinary statement for a franchise and company that's thrived on DLC, especially considering the stinger setup for the Executors or whatever they're supposed to be. Put this together with all the Archdemons being dead ... it seems at least plausible Veilguard is Dragon Age's headstone and has been for some time.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

I always wondered if the faggots whining about boob armour are too dumb to actually notice that, aside from non western games, boob armor stopped existing in gaming for over a decade by now, or/and they don't actually play anything from the last decade so they still think boob armor exists.

It's a rallying point. They'll give up boob armor at the same time they give up the wage gap talking point.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

It's a rallying point. They'll give up boob armor at the same time they give up the wage gap talking point.

Pretty sure the wagegap stopped existing years ago due to corporations turning to 80% university grad female middle managers who waste the time of the 20% men and army of illegals remaining. Watch every team photo of modern game devs and its all women and troons, it's insane.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

Pretty sure the wagegap stopped existing years ago

Have they given up using it as a rallying point to be outraged about? No. Same with boob armor and other shit.

 

[30+GameOvers]

Perhaps ... not. It's been making the rounds that BioWare currently has no plans for Veilguard DLC.

https://archive.is/DI322

Now I know DLC is a bigger deal than it was in 2014, at least insofar as it tends to be beefier and takes more time to produce, but this still strikes me as an extraordinary statement for a franchise and company that's thrived on DLC, especially considering the stinger setup for the Executors or whatever they're supposed to be. Put this together with all the Archdemons being dead ... it seems at least plausible Veilguard is Dragon Age's headstone and has been for some time.

Hogwarts Legacy also had no story expansion packDLC and that one was a smash hit. Maybe big companies are simply giving up on major single player DLC altogether unless profit is guaranteed, both from the game and DLC.

 

[Preacher ✝]

While I never got into the Dragon Age series because of its coomer bait tendencies, I did watch most of MauLer's 6+ hour gameplay stream out of morbid curiosity. I wanted to see just how bad this openly faggot game was. If you don't care about an outsider's perspective feel free to ignore my post.

Fucking hell, I’m half tempted to pirate this shit out of morbid curiosity to see the train wreck.

You can see the VOD here: https://www.youtube.com/live/6zvaRHOE6rk?si=hT-mamY3pWGU_QnD

Anyway I was not disappointed by how bad it looked, not just for the faggotry but as a video game. The characters look so stupid that MauLer's Joker Goblin didn't look completely out of place next to them. The combat seems repetitive and dull. Maybe that's just the magic based combat and sword+board is better, but the whole thing looked like a single player MMO.

I was floored by the concept of the team hanging out in some dumb tower where they take off their armor, lounge around in basic clothing, have girl's sleepover tier feelings talks, and meditate on being trans. Is this really what video games have come to?

The game suffers from the Fallout 4 problem where the dialogue choices are misleading and/or don't actually matter. For example the dwarf character, who looks like an abused house wife with her face covered in deep bruises, can suddenly do magic which apparently dwarves arent able to do. During the tranny tower feelings talk MauLer wanted Tipples the Joker Goblin to tell the dwarf character that it's weird and selected the dialogue choice that had "weird" in it only for the word "weird" to never actually be used. I've personally despised this design choice ever since playing Fallout 4 and I cannot fathom why it has perisisted beyond lazy/incompetent writers obfuscating the fact that all the dialogue is functionally the same like in Fallout 4.

I didn't really pay attention to the story, this was second screen (actually PiP since I only have one screen) content for me, and I missed the first hour and a half or so of the stream. From what I was able to gather after that the story didn't appear particularly interesting. Generic corrupting evil force is doing corrupt evil shit, some bald sassy elf man is trapped in the shadow realm and he taunts the protagonist but is also forced to help, weird things are happening and team faggot has to work together to restore order, blah blah blah.

Like I said, Dragon Age was never for me, but I could at least understand the appeal of it, same with Mass Effect. However I cannot understand why anyone other than a retarded tranny would unironically enjoy this shitfest of a game.

Abused Housewife Dwarf:


Tipples the Joker Goblin:

and whether you and your team dies or not which depends on whether you did the companion quest, so basically ME2 suicide mission again

>be tranny game
>end in suicide
>pottery

 

[DagothUr]

That…or the calling is finished. What with the last archdemons being gone and all. Meaning they have zero reason to bring back the HoF or Alistair or any warden really.

We've already seen that they want to remove the "problematic" / "evil" stuff from the series, so maybe they are using this to reboot it into heckin wholesome high fantasy slop. Oops guys looks likes all the darkspawn, broodmothers, archdemons, slavers, blood mages, alienages and serial killers died off-screen. Guess we'll just have to make the game focused on super awesome cool trans-friendly mythology!
It's clear they now just want it to be completely non/safe-edgy, like BG3 (afaik), and are copying the formula from Playstation narrativeslop like nu-GoW for gameplay elements and writing.
They even started doing this by the time you get to Inquisition. This is just the final nail in the coffin for their entirely new undead "Dragon Age" franchise.

 

[>IMPLYING]

It's clear they now just want it to be completely non/safe-edgy, like BG3 (afaik)

If they had actually bothered to copy BG3 then there might've actually been edgy content. BG3 gives you the ability to behead Karlach, fuck over Wyll in his contract, stab Shadowheart in the back, and talk shit to them near enough in every dialogue. In BG3 you can actually hurt people both physically and emotionally. Since feeling matter most to the sorts of people who like Veilguard and worked on its writing, there's pretty much no opportunity to talk shit to your allies. Even Mass Effect 2 gave Shepard chances to be racist and call a couple of people pussies.