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Interesting he openly admits his addiction to painkillers, other than that its the most elaborate cope because he's super into a very mid game with the usual F2P MMO microtransactions.
Jim Sterling / James "Stephanie" Sterling / James Stanton/Sexton & in memoriam TotalBiscuit (John Bain) - One Gaming Lolcow Thread
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This is another example of his laziness dragging the show down. Old Jim would have had a skit where he dresses like an Amish woman and pretends to resist the temptation of sin. It would have been cringe and unfunny (and probably had an extremely NSFL punchline), but a creative way of getting across the desire to enjoy something you know is bad.
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The US legal system has no precedent in an English court.
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Normally his videos have a hard time breaking 50k in the first day recently, this one couldn't even break 40k. Also sponsorblock flags literally 20% of the video as filler.
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I'm sure you've all seen the brewing hub-bub about Dragon Age: Veilguard and it's obnoxious tranny shilling. I'm expecting a 10/10 written review from Jim and next week's JQ to be Category D: 'Gamer manchilds are angry about X again'.
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I stull expect the new dragon age to be a success. People will trash it in the reviews but they will give it a chance and buy it. Hopefully I'm wrong and it's an even bigger mess than concord and EA finally put bioware to rest.
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Actually, I expect him to give it a positive review for the handholding and lack of need to pay attention. You're probably right about the Jimquisiton, though. I can see the title being "God Forbid You're Not Represented". Seems very on-brand for this sinking ship.
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I predict it'll sell a couple million copies but EA will still declare it a failure given how much money they've likely dropped on it and the fact the game has virtually no GaaS garbage for them to nickel and dime players. It'll be in the bargain bin by January.
I know absolutely nothing about this genre (played DA
for about 30 minutes 15 years ago and didn't like it) but from what I've heard Baldur's Gate 3 is everything Bioware fans could have wanted in an RPG so I'm really not sure who Veilguard is for outside of a few terminally online trannies.
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That could actually be what kills Veilguard. I mean, if Dead Rising Fans, who haven't gotten ANYTHING in nearly a decade, rejected the remake (it's rumored the sales are terrible), then BioWare fans who've gotten several stinks in-house and already have had their
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Dragon Age as a series are CRPGs by best definition, but each is quite different from the others in how true that is and the exact subgenre within CRPG. Dragon Age: Origins is very traditional, DA2 is far more action focused and cruising on an intercept course with the last two real Mass Effect games in tone, gameplay feel, and design. DA Inquisition is a live service feeling, MMO in single player, drawn out, time wasting overly padded mess which plays like a WoW clone with CRPG mechanics hot glued on. I won't bother with this one but I expect the subgenre within CRPG to be different again. People who liked any given entry probably aren't as big fans of any other given entry in the franchise already, and there's other games to service their niches better. The setting is cool, but honestly releasing it for a TTRPG would probably service it better than any video game unless you're willing to return to the DA Origins style.I know absolutely nothing about this genre (played DA
I do know the team at BioWare isn't proud or happy with this one. Between DEI coming in after they did the ground work already and the mess that marketing made had a lot of them finishing this game out of professionalism and quitting on release from what I've heard. BioWare is rapidly becoming the Ship of Theseus. The studio lacks strong creative vision and leadership as it all left for other companies and ventures after ME3. I think EA should gut the Vancouver studio, relabel the Texas studio, and then spin up a new BioWare dedicated to just remastering and if they do revive the studio it needs to be for original IP, not existing franchises.
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I fully expect that but fashionably late as Jim always is, so it'd be the week after next.
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@AngryTreeRat As a former dragon age fan I liked Origins and 2 and was cold on Inquisiton, and IMO Inquistions main failings was that the romances where all bad except for Cassandra, Cullen and Solas and even those where merely mid, plus there was no good waifu-bait like in Origins and 2(Lilliana and Merrill), and the plot was just mid with pacing all over the place.
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Honestly I just don't get the appeal of dragon age, I played inquisition and I just don't understand why people like it so much, it was just kinda mid honestly. I highly doubt that the 'boycott' or whatever will impact the new game because it's just retarded internet drama like every other one of these things. I'll be surprised if Jim doesn't talk about it though, I mean he can probably just swap out 'concord' for 'dragon age' or something from an existing script and there's your video sorted in maybe an hour of work at most and there's your £1500.
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I remember watching my roommate playing I think the first one. Looked like generic fantasy stuff.
Having said that even I can tell the difference between the older titles and this new one.
The games aren't my jam but I do feel bad for the fans.
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Inquisition was shit. As others have said it was a single player MMO.
It was one of the first games where people were noticeably uglified or masculinized.
Look at this fucking bitch
And she's the best one, the least we say about the stupid dyke elf the better.
Because you played the wrong game. Inquisition is considered mid even by the DA fanbase and don't play 2, its terrible. Play DA origins and nothing else. Its very well written, has engaging combat, near New Vegas level of RPG choices/consequences, and some pretty compelling companions along the way.
You will need to mod it a bit for widescreen and bug fixes since its so fucking old. But it only took me like 30 minutes after getting a good comprehensive mod list and manager.
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Origins was genuinely the last of the great Bioware RPG's. They dropped the first ME, then Origins, then ME2 the year after, and ME2 is when they started slipping. They've since completely lost their grip on both compelling gameplay and compelling narratives, and as of Andromeda lost their last grasp on compelling characters as well. Anthem showed us what a Bioware without these things is like, and its awful - so now we just wait and see if they've gathered any new talent.
I've watched the skillup review, and I'm not optimistic. He's not someone I turn to for narrative or characters, but he does know his shit for gameplay, so when he says its shallow, tanky and ass, I believe it. That's one major strike against them.
It won't, but first week review seem more important than ever these days, and you don't need a boycott for the general sentiment of a game to become "Its kinda bad". All it takes is a few streamers or critical clips to really shit the bed for it - The diehards will still play it, but the dragon age diehard is a lean, old crowd now - Inquisition was ten years ago now. This is a big problem for them, because a lot of the diehards will have long since just become "old fans", and in particular, physically older fans. They've got money, but responsibilities, so they're usually happy to wait for the first few days of review before making a purchase. They probably can't play it day one anyway, and only the diehards are gonna demand to shut out the family over a videogame.
And for every ideolog motivated to buy it, another ten will just say they will but not actually do so, as they usually do. Success on these things really does come down to normie sentiment at the end of the day, the ideological edges are just responsible for digging up the best/worst supporting material to build normie sentiments around.
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Speaking of Dragon Age Veilguard and Jim Sterling The Hutt, guess which lolcow (related to Jim Sterling) worked on Dragon Age Veilguard to make it ultra woke?
There Is Light At The End
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Will any of in-game NPCs exclaim "I have a vagina"?
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Would honestly be less cringe than some of the actual in-game dialogue I've already seen. How the fuck would anyone in a fantasy setting like wherever DA is set even come up with the concept of 'non-binary'?