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

[Male Idiot]

Totally redoing the game is pointless. You may as well just remaster DA and give it a fan story.

 

[Ishtar]

I’m a bit surprised that the subreddit is actually allowing real criticism. Of course you got bots, but I thought they would have locked things down and just push propaganda

A LOT of people have been very vocal expressing their frustration and disappointment.

It’s honestly telling no one is praising this game’s writing. It’s all either combat or environments.

 

[Prophetic Spirit]

The only thing i'm still confused is about Loghain in DA: I.
He doesn't talk about Anora. But i'm sure it's intentional: being a Grey Warden was basically his death sentence but in servitude.
The other options are near the same: probably Alistair is more emotional but Strout?
He doesn't even appear in DA2 if you playthrought differently. He can die anytime.

Maybe a Hawke without sibling (either dead by taint or executed at the end of the game) or lover is suitable to make the sacrifice but i don't know at this point.

 

[IcedBacon]

I never really understood the love for DA:I, it had grindy MMO mechanics, bland protagonist, a reused DLC villain from the last game, and stupid plot devices like red lyrium that just made everyone OP.

Some of the import choices were OK, companions were passable, but nowhere near Origins. I think the only area it excels are dating sim choices for women. Women get 6, and straight men get 2. That's the only way I can rationalize how popular it became.

That said, the coomers are absolutely seething that the assassin character is too "nice", and not spicy or romantic enough. I don't even know how you mess that up, that should've been a home run.

 

[Divine right to rule]

So, I met the black elf warden.
Usual meh character, stoic discipline kind of guy.

He has a griffon. In fact, there are about 10 griffons he and other wardens are training in secret.

I don't like it.
The griffons were the mounts of the Grey Wardens of old, and that they are extinct in Origins, where you are starting from a position where nobody respects the Wardens and think they are unneeded shows that the order has been on the decline for a long time, and that their glory days are long past.

I am not against bringing back griffons per se, but it should be earned. He just has that griffon from the beginning.
No quest to track them down, or backstory how they returned because the Wardens are less of a screwup now than in Inquisition. (They are still screwups in this btw.)
It is just so flat and boring, with no thematic meaning.

It's just THE WARDENS HAD GRIFFONS, WOULDN'T IT BE NEAT IF THIS BLACK ELF HAD A GRIFFON NOBODY KNEW ABOUT?

 

[IcedBacon]

I am not against bringing back griffons per se, but it should be earned. He just has that griffon from the beginning.
No quest to track them down, or backstory how they returned because the Wardens are less of a screwup now than in Inquisition. (They are still screwups in this btw.)

I wanna say they brought back griffons in one the recent semi-canon novels. They did this in inquisition, where they just throw in characters from the books, that you're SUPPOSED to know about.

Cole, Fiona, Neve, alot of the assassins, all of them show up in supplementary material apparently.

 

[Prophetic Spirit]

I wanna say they brought back griffons in one the recent semi-canon novels. They did this in inquisition, where they just throw in characters from the books, that you're SUPPOSED to know about.

Cole, Fiona, Neve, alot of the assassins, all of them show up in supplementary material apparently.

Heh. Same shit happened with Mass Effect 3.
James Vega is from a animation.

 

[ChefKiss]

>schrodingers dunkey
not this shit again.
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All of his "opinions" are literally just what he thinks will get him the most EPIC MAYMAY asspats, just whatever he thinks is the popular opinion. He exists for the kind of person who seethed and cried at crowbcat for not liking the RE4 remake

I happened to check Kingdom Come Deliverance and, sure enough, it's still got Veilguard beat with a peak of 96,069. I could be wrong, but I think the all time peak for Veilguard was hit today and it's all downhill from here. It's a fun comparison as an "anti-woke" game, but also a good contrast to highlight the insane gulf that exists in development costs. Deliverance had a team of like 10 people and a budget of 36 million USD. We don't know specifically for Veilguard, but maybe somewhere around 200 million on the low end. It has to sell so, so much more to become profitable.

The budget is rumored to be at minimum $250m, Spiderman 2 which "sold" 12 million copies didnt make that much back and Veilguard will be really lucky to sell about 3m lifetime

 

[Divine right to rule]

I wanna say they brought back griffons in one the recent semi-canon novels. They did this in inquisition, where they just throw in characters from the books, that you're SUPPOSED to know about.

Cole, Fiona, Neve, alot of the assassins, all of them show up in supplementary material apparently.

Okay, if that is the case, make a 2 minute animation narrated by the character giving the backstory of the whole thing as the mission starts.
It wouldn't be that much work and would introduce the backstory much better.

 

[Prophetic Spirit]

Okay, if that is the case, make a 2 minute animation narrated by the character giving the backstory of the whole thing as the mission starts.
It wouldn't be that much work and would introduce the backstory much better.

That worked... In DA2 DLC's.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

Or even Dragon Age: Origins. You could remove armour and clothes in that just fine. In fact, due to a glitch when I imported my warden into Awakenings, I lost all my gear entirely and had to play the very first part of it slowly luring away isolated darkspawn and beating them to death with my fists in my underwear until I'd acquired enough gold and scraps of equipment I could get basic clothes, armour and weapons.

Those Deep Roads are cold in your underwear, I can tell you!

They knew what they were doing when you and Alistair wake up naked in prison. Especially since it leads to one of the funniest moments in the game where your party infiltrates the jail. What makes it work is that there's so many combinations that work.

 

[Prophetic Spirit]

They knew what they were doing when you and Alistair wake up naked in prison. Especially since it leads to one of the funniest moments in the game where your party infiltrates the jail. What makes it work is that there's so many combinations that work.

The best one was Morrigan & Leliana being nuns.
The other best one was Sten & Oghren being smugglers.

 

[MeltyTW]

Retards simping for bg3 is how we got to this point

the trick is not giving a fuck, I wont argue about Dragon Age because I will not side with Woketards or ZOG Pro-Military Chuds who think they are Gamers, let them fight it out

Nobody cares about your political preferences in your bing-bing wahoos. BearCHADS won, you're just going to have to cope with it.

All I'm hearing is "I'll abstain from voicing any real opoosition to this shit"

The thing with BG3 is that it's an actual RPG with choices and consequences. You can be a complete and utter dick, kill anyone you don't like, ignore companions if they annoy you (or just flat out don't recruit them).

The reason why BG3 is liked by so many people is that it lets you actually play the game and character you want to play.

Many aesthetic and writing choices and the overall framing is still ruined by that shit though idk how anyone can be immersed in a medieval fantasy where they had to patch it to avoid you being gaynal raped by Gayle.

This mess of a game has been in development long before BG3 launched. Do you really think the script, dialogue options, tranny shit, etc. was all done in the span of the last year because of BG3? I've said it regarding other shit games, ignore the DEI woke crap, and the game is still fucking awful. DEI doesn't get you spongy combat that looks fucking boring, dialogue options that are entirely meaningless or don't even represent what the character actually says, shitty animation and voice acting, boring linear levels, puzzles that amount to moving an object 10 feet to enable a bridge or open a door, etc

Dei does actually get you alot of those issues by hiring unqualified nepo babies . But also yeah it did get us this shit there's a reason they say "well bg3 did amazingly well"

That's not even to force you to do anything that poster is just objectively correct that the only language that fixes anything is social pressure and ostracization and they already know you will buy tranny fag shit if it has some decent stuff covering up the dung. He did it in a retarded way and I won't defend that I just don't like this idea being pushed thst you can support the bg3s and not expect the dustborns and the concords to flood in and that passive stuff like this will get you a political preference shoved in whether you like it or not or whether you feel like you were sufficiently open minded and rational or not

 

[Megatardingo]

Hey guys yeah...


I'm gamer

 

[Deus Exica]

Lmao wait so the game actually shames you for getting the bad ending?...

Apparently if gives you a popup like "Oh man if only you had befriended your companions it may have ended differently."

never really understood the love for DA:I, it had grindy MMO mechanics, bland protagonist, a reused DLC villain from the last game, and stupid plot devices like red lyrium that just made everyone OP.

Inquisition is genuinely one of the worst RPGs I have ever played but it seems to get a pass for being pretty, open world, and better than dragon age 2 (for how little that's worth).

The writing is genuinely dog shit awful, art direction and design is horrendous, the women are genuinely disgusting, and it was full of woke shit and marvel writing already.

I think the only area it excels are dating sim choices for women. Women get 6, and straight men get 2. That's the only way I can rationalize how popular it became.

That's pretty much it. The female playerbase for Dragon Age is genuinely quite large and it's a simdate for them to ship their self inserts with 6 different flavors of hot dude.

The best one was Morrigan & Leliana being nuns.
The other best one was Sten & Oghren being smugglers.

I remember Morrigan and Dog being funny too because the guard is so smitten by the dog that he just sort of lets you pass.

 

[DavidS877]

The female playerbase for Dragon Age is genuinely quite large

And apparently there are a lot of them too.

I'm a little tempted to stream my no-Taaaaaaash playthrough ending once I get that far. I miss Mass effect where the companion quests were one and done. I'm pretty sure this game is 90+% padding.

 

[Absolute Ego Dance]

This is quite possibly one of the only times I have genuinely been puzzled by a review. But if this is a real person, really reviewing the game, and the first thing they mention is "they like that it's not an MMO", we are NGMI

 

[30+GameOvers]

This is quite possibly one of the only times I have genuinely been puzzled by a review. But if this is a real person, really reviewing the game, and the first thing they mention is "they like that it's not an MMO", we are NGMI

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So the only people that can tolerate this game(not like) are:
*Mentally ill
*Culture warriors(who don't play video games)
*MMOtards, who have zero standards in actual RPGs
Yeah, that sounds about right.

 

[Frosted Snowflakes]

 

[Prophetic Spirit]

I remember Morrigan and Dog being funny too because the guard is so smitten by the dog that he just sort of lets you pass.

Dog is so awesome.
I tried to calling him a champ vs. loghain but the fag arl denied me.