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

[Miller]

I doubt that the fact it was announced at the beginning of Pride Month is a coincidence.

EA has always used the LGBT as a shield. Remember "operation protect the gays"?

 

[BiggerChungus]

Don't worry guys, the third in a row of shitty sequels is in good and diverse hands this time.

It has an official title. And a logo. Oh, such a logo.

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My hopes, which were not high, are now drifting toward the Challenger Deep.

Makes me think of

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I strongly disagree on two small technicalities:
Any studio that is acquired by EA lives on borrowed time from then on. As you said yourself, they are allowed to do their thing, however EA is going to interfere more and more over time and ultimately, they get put in charge of ever more harebrained projects until they inevitably fail and get dimantled. They might not be closed down, sometimes, they are just downsized into oblivion until they exist in name only (like EA Origins).

I think it's more that EA buys studios at or close to their peak. This involves paying the founders and important people that made the studio and games fat stacks of cash only to watch them rest on their laurels, or play with large budgets, before fucking off and starting another studio. If they had anything left in them. At a later point they own a studios name and their IP but not any of the people that made it.

Bullfrog is near and dear to my heart, but Molyneux(for all his faults) and other people left and what was left? Their IPs and the name. Buying a studio is like buying Martin Scorsese's name but when he and everyone else leaves any future movie "directed" by him won't be the same. In my opinion that's the trap they keep falling into.

 

[Marissa Moira]

I doubt that the fact it was announced at the beginning of Pride Month is a coincidence.

EA had to throw them something to keep the charade up until next quarter when it shoved under a rug, lots of companies have cut back on pride/juneteenth shit after Disney made it uncool. That and Joe Biden dropping Afghanis from the sky.

The Table top crowd has a load of gays who are now upset that they are being pandered to and that the pandering turned out to be fake. Dragon Age was trying to position itself to be the real table top inspired videogame, but Embracer group may have something up it's sleeve since they dropped a few billion into buying real table top board game companies.

 

[BiggerChungus]

Also, if your expectations hit rock bottom at the logo, wait til you see the concept art.

 

[Mega Black]

I don't know who could possibly be looking forward to this dumpster fire. Dragon Age had ONE okay game and a halfway decent expansion, everything since then has completely missed the mark of being a dark and edgy Tolkienesque fantasy. It became typical SJW fluff like 'family is anyone who is nice to you' and 'diversity is our strength!' complete with cartoon villains and stupid Final Fantasy style designs.

 

[BiggerChungus]

I don't know who could possibly be looking forward to this dumpster fire. Dragon Age had ONE okay game and a halfway decent expansion, everything since then has completely missed the mark of being a dark and edgy Tolkienesque fantasy. It became typical SJW fluff like 'family is anyone who is nice to you' and 'diversity is our strength!' complete with cartoon villains and stupid Final Fantasy style designs.

The cartoon villains and Final Fantasy designs and twink male characters are what got them a huge audience of Tumblr/Twitter girls. I'm pretty sure that's their only audience at this point. The devs behind 4 have already said they think the original game is "too dark and gritty" and want to move away from it even more than they already have. It's gonna be a trainwreck.

 

[Stasi]

I don't know who could possibly be looking forward to this dumpster fire. Dragon Age had ONE okay game

Right? Honestly no idea why this franchise even exists anymore. I remember when DA came out and a lot of the hype was that it was the return of classic CRPGs and it basically rode a wave of nostalgia to success (only to drown in shit with subsequent games). They can't even rely on that nostalgia though. Pillars, Divinity, Tyranny and probably a dozen other niche titles have got that CRPG market cornered and are probably leagues better than any DA game.

 

[Mega Black]

Right? Honestly no idea why this franchise even exists anymore.

EA just literally wants a fantasy RPG I.P. in their belt. If not for the easy browny points that Bioware generates I think they'd have been taken out back and given the Old Yeller treatment fifteen years ago.

 

[Wych Elm]

The devs behind 4 have already said they think the original game is "too dark and gritty" and want to move away from it even more than they already have.

Welp, there goes the last dregs of excitement I had for this game. DAI didn't feel like it even belonged in the same series - nearly all dark content and uncomfortable subjects were scrubbed clean until the game turned into generic, twee fluff that felt right at home on Tumblr blogs. And now a troon is in charge. What next, trigger warnings that pop up before every quest? Buttons dedicated to hugs whenever something gets the least bit stressful? A quest where you must save children by giving them a special transformation elixir else they'll die?

...

That last one is gonna happen, isn't it?

 

[Leaf Wage Slave]

EA just literally wants a fantasy RPG I.P. in their belt. If not for the easy browny points that Bioware generates I think they'd have been taken out back and given the Old Yeller treatment fifteen years ago.

I'm legitimately surprised they weren't Ol' Yeller'd after the dumpster fire that was Anthem. I seriously doubt they made anywhere close to their money back on that game, even before you add in the cost of actually maintaining its servers (for all of 2 years, dead game lul)

The only reasons I can think of for Bioware to be allowed to keep shuffling along is the easy brownie points it's devs get them, and EA running out of studios they can gut. No seriously, off the top of my head, EA has what - Bioware, DICE, why can't I think of a third one for this example... My point is, I think EA has hit the bottom of the proverbial barrel as far as "In House" developers go.

 

[BiggerChungus]

Welp, there goes the last dregs of excitement I had for this game. DAI didn't feel like it even belonged in the same series - nearly all dark content and uncomfortable subjects were scrubbed clean until the game turned into generic, twee fluff that felt right at home on Tumblr blogs. And now a troon is in charge. What next, trigger warnings that pop up before every quest? Buttons dedicated to hugs whenever something gets the least bit stressful? A quest where you must save children by giving them a special transformation elixir else they'll die?

...

That last one is gonna happen, isn't it?

I absolutely guarantee we'll get at least one mention of having to give kids some kind of transformation spell or potion, and at least one instance of having to combat Tevinter authorities not letting refugees into their country.

 

[capitalBBustard]

I'm a little against the grain when it comes to BioWare's collapse. I liked ME3 just fine (though by the time I played it the Extended Cut had been released, so I'm sure that's a big part of my lack of vitriol toward it)

Nah, Extended Cut just made it longer, added an extra incredibly retarded scene with the love interest and powerpoints. You just have bad taste buddy.

 

[Tor Lugosi]

Best part of this trashfire is that the troon director isn't going to be able to handle the criticism of the game and videos of people dunking on it. I look forward to that inevitable meltdown.

 

[Mola Ram]

Nah, Extended Cut just made it longer, added an extra incredibly retarded scene with the love interest and powerpoints. You just have bad taste buddy.

If I had good taste I could hardly be a Kiwi Farmer, effendi.

 

[Mega Black]

Welp, there goes the last dregs of excitement I had for this game. DAI didn't feel like it even belonged in the same series - nearly all dark content and uncomfortable subjects were scrubbed clean until the game turned into generic, twee fluff that felt right at home on Tumblr blogs. And now a troon is in charge. What next, trigger warnings that pop up before every quest? Buttons dedicated to hugs whenever something gets the least bit stressful? A quest where you must save children by giving them a special transformation elixir else they'll die?

...

That last one is gonna happen, isn't it?

You better believe we're getting a tranny companion this time around. Expect their questline to revolve around how trans they are, too.

 

[Mola Ram]

You better believe we're getting a tranny companion this time around. Expect their questline to revolve around how trans they are, too.

I only found out today that Dorian's reformist friend Maeveris, who's virtually confirmed as a party member, is a tranny. Guarantee s/he's gonna be a romance and it's gonna be insufferable.

 

[ZMOT]

The only reasons I can think of for Bioware to be allowed to keep shuffling along is the easy brownie points it's devs get them, and EA running out of studios they can gut. No seriously, off the top of my head, EA has what - Bioware, DICE, why can't I think of a third one for this example... My point is, I think EA has hit the bottom of the proverbial barrel as far as "In House" developers go.

sims and sportsball.

 

[Picnic_Boy]

Also, if your expectations hit rock bottom at the logo, wait til you see the concept art.
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It's like Current Year Magic: the Gathering took a shit in my eyes.

 

[Manul Otocolobus]

You better believe we're getting a tranny companion this time around. Expect their questline to revolve around how trans they are, too.

I can't wait until someone writes an expansion mod where you force them to detrans and then they commit sudoku.