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Worldbuilding is not important to them. They want this fantasy game to reflect "the world we live in today" while sending a contemporary political message. It's pathetic and sad. Role-play is no more.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard - A woke disaster? Yep!
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WTF did they do to Morrigan???
Give me all the clocks, but I do not remember her looking this incredibly bad in their earlier alpha and beta builds.
Give me all the clocks, but I do not remember her looking this incredibly bad in their earlier alpha and beta builds.
King Of Braves
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I'm guessing they made it so you can't do anything actually evil in the game, so my Troon Hitler playthrough will never happen.
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Maybe the magical, perfect transformations seen in fantasy, anime, etc. are too perfect and remind them that they will never be an X. So they are pushing this grimy surgical crap instead to align with IRL.
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Wow I love transgenders now, thanks Dragon Age!
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What always grinds my gears about this crap is how in every universe trans, queers, gays, and mainly faggots always use the same terms, same color, same everything. Rather than use the science fiction or fantasy setting to obfuscate the politics they just have it front and center ruining the point. Lazy writing at its worst.
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You should know by now attractive women aren't allowed to exist in AAA games.
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More ResetEra salt:
shekelshoah666
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Big red flag for me with him was the Unknown 9 shilling with all the comments "get the bag bro!" when that game makes raid shadow legends look like a deep and competent game with how bad it is. Can't blame him for going for the easy money making route but early on he did make some good vids.
But ya we all knew this game was gonna be shit but god dam the voice acting/direction is some of the worst I have ever heard not to mention the writing. Hope Bioware is finally done so we can just remember the good times fondly.
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Seeing as the Qunari are a islam write in, it makes a lot of sense.
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Same... Will always go back to my boo Anders. I loved the first few games SO much. I think the franchise went downhill already with Awakening. But this will be the first DA I don't buy. I won't even pirate it. I will pretend it never happened. But it's such a crying fucking shame.
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I love Origins. It makes me a faggot to say this, but it's probably the most important piece of media in my life, more than any book or movie or TV show. It meant everything to me in middle and high school. 2 sucks shit, but Inquisition really does have its moments, despite all of its issues. Ten years ago, Dragon Age: The Dread Wolf would have been my most anticipated game, without any question.
But this is just unrecognizable. It doesn't surprise me that BioWare would make such a pozzed game in 2024, but it's still hard to believe that any corporate office would really let someone write shit like this. You had ten years and this is what you came up with?
The problems are so obvious that I guess everyone else has already mentioned them. The SkillUp review is absolutely brutal, and it seems pretty much airtight. I didn't expect Veilguard would be good, but this is just shockingly awful. The art is horrible. The faces look terrible. The animation is bad. The combat seems, somehow, more boring than Inquisition. And the writing--you really can find better fanfiction on Tumblr, which is probably where all of the current generation of BioWare narrative designers were recruited from anyway.
What really stands out to me, though, is that inserting this woke shit into what was always supposed to be EA's flagship "Dark Fantasy" serious GRRM fantasy ripoff series is just so fucking lazy, stupid, gay, retarded, and inbred. If I were to sit down and make a game that was explicitly anti-woke but set in a medieval fantasy setting, I would come up with metaphors to illustrate the point. I would use evil demons who convince innocent young women to mutilate themselves as a stand-in for troons. I'd have there be some kind of story that stands in for sex changes but involves magic rather than HRT, and maybe, to obfuscate the meaning while keeping the themes relevant, changes your age or race or species or something like that. You could, if you were a serious, pozzed artist, make a woke game that was actually "art," and tell stories about troons being oppressed in some interesting fantasy way. Inquisition sort of did this with the tranny scout character you can meet, IIRC.
What you would not do, if you were actually making "art," is have the characters sit around, IN THE MIDDLE AGES, and talk like they're in the coffee room at Kotaku, discussing their gender identities. You would not let the player become transgender for no reason. As though they didn't have Darkspawn to worry about instead. Like what's the point? What's the message? What's the meaning of it? How does it fit into the world? What thematic weight does this decision carry?
None, nothing, nothing at all. You can do it because it's a thing in real life that the gay developers think is cool.
That isn't fantasy. It's just real life. It's not even real life: it's this particular moment, right now. Tomorrow it will already be outdated. It's so pointless, so fleeting, so temporal, it's not even recognizable as an expression of art. I used to believe that anything that tried to be artistic had to be "art." but I do not think Veilguard actually qualifies. It's just the HR department down the hallway during Halloween.
I was going to hate-play it and write a review, but I don't see how I can anymore. This game is good for nothing but forgetting. In a hundred years people will look back at it and be utterly baffled.
But this is just unrecognizable. It doesn't surprise me that BioWare would make such a pozzed game in 2024, but it's still hard to believe that any corporate office would really let someone write shit like this. You had ten years and this is what you came up with?
The problems are so obvious that I guess everyone else has already mentioned them. The SkillUp review is absolutely brutal, and it seems pretty much airtight. I didn't expect Veilguard would be good, but this is just shockingly awful. The art is horrible. The faces look terrible. The animation is bad. The combat seems, somehow, more boring than Inquisition. And the writing--you really can find better fanfiction on Tumblr, which is probably where all of the current generation of BioWare narrative designers were recruited from anyway.
What really stands out to me, though, is that inserting this woke shit into what was always supposed to be EA's flagship "Dark Fantasy" serious GRRM fantasy ripoff series is just so fucking lazy, stupid, gay, retarded, and inbred. If I were to sit down and make a game that was explicitly anti-woke but set in a medieval fantasy setting, I would come up with metaphors to illustrate the point. I would use evil demons who convince innocent young women to mutilate themselves as a stand-in for troons. I'd have there be some kind of story that stands in for sex changes but involves magic rather than HRT, and maybe, to obfuscate the meaning while keeping the themes relevant, changes your age or race or species or something like that. You could, if you were a serious, pozzed artist, make a woke game that was actually "art," and tell stories about troons being oppressed in some interesting fantasy way. Inquisition sort of did this with the tranny scout character you can meet, IIRC.
What you would not do, if you were actually making "art," is have the characters sit around, IN THE MIDDLE AGES, and talk like they're in the coffee room at Kotaku, discussing their gender identities. You would not let the player become transgender for no reason. As though they didn't have Darkspawn to worry about instead. Like what's the point? What's the message? What's the meaning of it? How does it fit into the world? What thematic weight does this decision carry?
None, nothing, nothing at all. You can do it because it's a thing in real life that the gay developers think is cool.
That isn't fantasy. It's just real life. It's not even real life: it's this particular moment, right now. Tomorrow it will already be outdated. It's so pointless, so fleeting, so temporal, it's not even recognizable as an expression of art. I used to believe that anything that tried to be artistic had to be "art." but I do not think Veilguard actually qualifies. It's just the HR department down the hallway during Halloween.
I was going to hate-play it and write a review, but I don't see how I can anymore. This game is good for nothing but forgetting. In a hundred years people will look back at it and be utterly baffled.
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Which, ironically, is exactly what they did with Krem in DAI. No use of the word "transgender" or any of its variants, a qunari perspective on the phenomenon, a fantasy term for it, even a question of why not use magic to "change all the way" (hilariously, because it would be horrible blood magic). There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth over Krem and the Aqun-athlok retcon, and deservedly so ... but we had no idea how good we had it.
In a hundred years this dogshit will be utterly forgotten.
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The only reason I'd might play the game is to kill/piss off all troon npc's, but knowing modern BioWare I bet that you can't even be an asshole towards them. Imagine playing a chudmaster dwarf and making all the troons QQ.
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Holy shit, SkillUp pointing out everyone looks like a Pixar character made me realise why the graphics were niggling at my mind. I didn't think the game was bad looking as such, but it definitely felt weird and I couldn't pin down why.
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Well atleast they can’t take Brotato from me.
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AFAIK you can't even really be a bad guy in the game just a kinda rude good guy.
Feels like the dialogue options are somehow worse then Starfield which is a fucking crazy thing to say. Most games have some redeeming quality even if they are 2/10 trash but this game might really not have any.
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At least...they kept...the "big hat".