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

[Hazel Motes]

I will say this for Inquisition: it is a perfectly valid choice to play as an Inquisitor who genuinely believes he is Andraste's herald, and even the revelation that the figure in the fade was Divine Justinia V doesn't necessarily invalidate it. A faithful Inquisitor even has a few options in judgments that aren't otherwise available. I don't know if I'd go so far as to describe DA's treatment of religion as intelligent or respectful, but it's a bit more thoughtful than you expect from a gaggle of SJW chowderheads.

This, might I add, is totally missing from Mass Effect Andromeda. Your options equate to either snarky or serious with little choice to find your own distinct path. I am willing to defend Inquisition for this reason. The romantic relationship between the Inquisitor and Cassendra if she becomes the pope is handled perfectly bittersweet, totally lacking in Dorian's arc. Both choose to sacrifice love for what they see as their duties to Thedes.

 

[StacticShock]

Your options equate to either snarky or serious with little choice to find your own distinct path.

The Hawke Effect.

 

[Lyster]

I finally got some courage and watched Absolution. Beyond being woke garbage, it irrevocably destroys Dragon age cannon and lore by the fact that now you can brink people back from the dead with blood magic. Remember how the three games in their own ways made it clear that resurrection was impossible and use it to build mystery and in universe debate/different views of afterlife and religion, or if any were true at all? Well throw that all in the garbage, now afterlife is cannon on DA lore and the logical consequence is that people can just summon the souls of the dead and ask them if the Maker exists or not, what group got it right or what things truly are like. Nullbioware really is committed to destroy any interesting lore and ideas this franchise ever had, fucking hell

Also Rezaren dd nothing wrong and was infinitely less annoying and evil than the "heroes" who murdered far more innocent people than him. He was only the villain because he was a straight white male.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

I finally got some courage and watched Absolution. Beyond being woke garbage, it irrevocably destroys Dragon age cannon and lore by the fact that now you can brink people back from the dead with blood magic. Remember how the three games in their own ways made it clear that resurrection was impossible and use it to build mystery and in universe debate/different views of afterlife and religion, or if any were true at all? Well throw that all in the garbage, now afterlife is cannon on DA lore and the logical consequence is that people can just summon the souls of the dead and ask them if the Maker exists or not, what group got it right or what things truly are like. Nullbioware really is committed to destroy any interesting lore and ideas this franchise ever had, fucking hell

Also Rezaren dd nothing wrong and was infinitely less annoying and evil than the "heroes" who murdered far more innocent people than him. He was only the villain because he was a straight white male.

im surprised you did not kill yourself. thank you for your service.

 

[ShitlordroltihS]

Bioware dreads dn

 

[Lyster]

Bioware dreads dn

Dn?

 

[ShitlordroltihS]

Dn?

Deez nuts!

 

[BiggerChungus]

I finally got some courage and watched Absolution. Beyond being woke garbage, it irrevocably destroys Dragon age cannon and lore by the fact that now you can brink people back from the dead with blood magic. Remember how the three games in their own ways made it clear that resurrection was impossible and use it to build mystery and in universe debate/different views of afterlife and religion, or if any were true at all? Well throw that all in the garbage, now afterlife is cannon on DA lore and the logical consequence is that people can just summon the souls of the dead and ask them if the Maker exists or not, what group got it right or what things truly are like. Nullbioware really is committed to destroy any interesting lore and ideas this franchise ever had, fucking hell

Also Rezaren dd nothing wrong and was infinitely less annoying and evil than the "heroes" who murdered far more innocent people than him. He was only the villain because he was a straight white male.

I can't think of a single video game ever that's gone through more retcons and radical shifts in tone, story, and aesthetics than Dragon Age.

 

[Miller]

I can't think of a single video game ever that's gone through more retcons and radical shifts in tone, story, and aesthetics than Dragon Age.

Halo?

 

[BiggerChungus]

Halo?

Comes close, but at least Halo now still vaguely resembles Halo then. Dragon Age doesn't look or feel anything like it used to. Each game doesn't even feel similar.

 

[Mr. Zed da Robot Poon Fed]

I finally got some courage and watched Absolution. Beyond being woke garbage, it irrevocably destroys Dragon age cannon and lore by the fact that now you can brink people back from the dead with blood magic. Remember how the three games in their own ways made it clear that resurrection was impossible and use it to build mystery and in universe debate/different views of afterlife and religion, or if any were true at all? Well throw that all in the garbage, now afterlife is cannon on DA lore and the logical consequence is that people can just summon the souls of the dead and ask them if the Maker exists or not, what group got it right or what things truly are like. Nullbioware really is committed to destroy any interesting lore and ideas this franchise ever had, fucking hell

Also Rezaren dd nothing wrong and was infinitely less annoying and evil than the "heroes" who murdered far more innocent people than him. He was only the villain because he was a straight white male.

Well, that's gonna blow for whatever future this franchise has. All you need is a party member like Merrill who specialized in blood magic, and now any deaths of allies and your closest friends are just cheap because they should be easily be brought back to life. And if this doesn't appear again, it just makes the characters look stupid. It's a lose-lose.

 

[Mega Black]

The fact that Dragon Age went from having it's own high fantasy but still grounded and gritty aesthetic to being yet ANOTHER shitty Dungeons and Dragons homebrew setting will never not be depressing to me. Absolutely zero personality in the franchise left.

 

[BiggerChungus]

The fact that Dragon Age went from having it's own high fantasy but still grounded and gritty aesthetic to being yet ANOTHER shitty Dungeons and Dragons homebrew setting will never not be depressing to me. Absolutely zero personality in the franchise left.

A shitty modern Dungeons & Dragons homebrew setting at that. I'd have taken some insipid and lazy Lord of the Rings clone from the 90s over what amounts to Pronouns & Politics now.

 

[DagothUr]

There is absolutely 0 chance they turn this around and end up with a good game. It's Over.
And after seeing inquisition and now this I am very relieved they stopped making Neverwinter Nights games at Storm of Zehir.

At least Baldur's Gate 3 looks good.

 

[BiggerChungus]

According to Reddit, the new Dreadwolf trailer's going to be hosted on the Dragon Age wiki for the 15 post-Origins fans left. It sounds like Bioware's trying to cram it out quick and be done with it.

 

[gang weeder]

I can't think of a single video game ever that's gone through more retcons and radical shifts in tone, story, and aesthetics than Dragon Age.

And to think all they had to do was stick with the way they did the first game. Literally just do more of that, but they couldn't manage it.

 

[Kane Lives]

And to think all they had to do was stick with the way they did the first game. Literally just do more of that, but they couldn't manage it.

They couldn't manage it in 2 and Inquisition either.

 

[gang weeder]

They couldn't manage it in 2 and Inquisition either.

That's what I mean, if they had just done those games in the same style as the first it would be such a successful series.

 

[Hazel Motes]

2 was a victim of Mass Effect's success. Inquisition was like people who only watched clips of Dragon Age Origins trying to replicate its magic.

I enjoyed Inquisition for what it was, but I can not pretend it was a good Dragon Age game. It had its moments.

 

[Rogue Telvanni]

Well, that's gonna blow for whatever future this franchise has. All you need is a party member like Merrill who specialized in blood magic, and now any deaths of allies and your closest friends are just cheap because they should be easily be brought back to life. And if this doesn't appear again, it just makes the characters look stupid. It's a lose-lose.

That's why they took away Blood Magic as a spec in DAI and they will not return it in DW (most likely). Necromancy is not blood magic. It will never be a real magic type. It is just the Entropy magic tree twisted by mental illness and fags with bad moustaches.
Magic after DAO in general blows penis and was the only reason I didn't actually finish my DAI playthrough.
No interesting specs
Overall less spells and build variety
No decent-looking robes
Even the spell icons are so flat and lifeless, it is an insult to both the player and the UI artist
DW will make this worse, I can feel it in my bones. I expect a full-on MMORPG setup where you just spam 2 spells while standing still. Or even worse - Dark Souls type system where you are just a ranger but sparkly.