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

[I See You]

Bolded text to highlight something I'm unhappy to hear about. Loghain's behavior at the battle of Ostagar was already explained in the "Stolen Throne" book. One of the few game series I have liked enough to buy the novels for. Those books actually gave me an appreciation for Loghain, and it clearly spells out why he left the battle. He didn't want to repeat a mistake he made in the past, if I recall correctly, he even promised Maric he wouldn't repeat that same mistake.
This would just be another thing they are seemingly retconning in the new dragon age canon.


Now I understand what it's like to be a star wars or star trek fan.

He was also entirely correct to bail on the fight at Ostagar. It was a doomed battle from the beginning whether he invested his men in the fight or not, and Cailan knew it as well. That's reminds me of one other thing he was right about, actually: in the broken-ass Return to Ostagar DLC you find evidence that Cailan was planning on ditching Loghain's daughter and shacking up with the queen of Orlais, all but re-handing Fereldan's former conquerors their victory on a silver platter.

Admittedly he fucked up in trusting snakes like Howe to back him up competently, but the game needed a villain who wasn't just a big AIDS-infested dragon so it is what it is. To reduce the man to "AKSHUALLY THE FAGGY GHOSTS FROM FF7R MADE HIM DO IT" is insulting to the character.

 

[Prokhor Zakharov]

I give BG3 a courtesy because you can skip/kill nearly anything.
Don't like Karlach?
Behead her
Hate the gay Gnomes? Kill them.
Hate the refugees story in the Druid Grove? Chud it up and sack the grove
Hate the lesbian Nightsong? Kill her and corrupt her girlfriend.
You can kill literally everybody and still beat the game. It's true narrative freedom where you can be the gayest trans antifa soldier or macrodosing on Hitler particles for the Absolute/Baal.

This is the critical difference. They can put whatever they want into a game, but I should have every right to kill it. There should be a story, but as a block of clay, gamers should be able to sculpt it however they want. BG3 is an excellent example of that. The chuds would have bought this game if they could have fed the NB to the corrupted dragon and had the Quinari goosestepping around. That's the whole fucking RP part of RPG. Wokeware completely misunderstood that with this game.

 

[Terfmaster9000]

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Schreier's victory lap. Can't wait for when he's forced to write about the studio shutting down.

Those are not top the charts numbers

 

[Mola Ram]

Man, I forgot just why it's been years since I visited the Dragon Age subreddit with any regularity. Look at this fucking cancer:



On the other hand, it's grimly amusing that BioWare has cultivated an audience that will never be fully satisfied.

 

[Ishtar]

Ok, but is that also true of the Evanuris? It seems like Elgar'nan was immortal until his dragon got cacked.

Also, the blight is just an anti-human weapon? Lame beyond measure.

I haven’t seen that? But eh? Given solas considers himself immortal, and is about to say “god” in the scene we saw above-I think the theory the evanuris were incarnated spirits appears to be true.

Unless there is some other reveal in DAV I haven’t read yet.

 

[Logoden]

This is still a blessing in disguise so many storylines did not get resolved. It is only mercy at this point, LOL.

I sure am pleased by the fact they did not touched Mythal.

Also, the blight is just an anti-human weapon? Lame beyond measure.

Again, sometimes it is preferable to not reveal too much about the setting and its inner workings.

 

[>IMPLYING]

Those are not top the charts numbers

Outside of Dustborn (Which Schreier claims only 'chuds' care about in the twitter replies to the tweet I posted) this is one of the most overtly woke games released this year. Since it's not an immediate failure - from the outset at least - he'll take this as a win and proof that go broke go woke is a falsehood.

 

[Miller]

someone added non-buy-nary tag
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I was wondering why I couldn't find the game on Steam. It's because I have the "LGBT+" tag banned.

Steam forums just handing out bans lmao. Not even posting reasons at this point. They are REALLY clamping down.


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I cannot fucking wait to see the shit storm of this release

The Bioware jannies are like the 343 ones, they issue permanent bans.
It's fucked up if you have bought the game on the platform (I'm banned from both MCC and Halo Infinite Steam forums).

 

[Telvanni]

So the ending posted is indeed a bad ending which can be avoided by befriending your merry gang of faggots and doing sidequests and whatnot. Here's the real ending, which -- surprise, surprise! -- reveals the true villains have yet to be confronted, and they've been pulling strings forever (including, it's implied, Loghain all the way back at the battle of Ostagar, not to mention the freaking Tevinter magisters who invaded the Golden City). Any guesses who these dorks might be?

>An ancient evil was behind every single action in a well established RPG despite only having been brought up just now and totally was in the authors thoughts when creating the first few games of franchise.
Hey I know that game!

 

[Divine right to rule]

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Schreier's victory lap. Can't wait for when he's forced to write about the studio shutting down.

Decent numbers, got a strong brand name though.
It was also not marketed for it's woke nature, in fact EA struck videos of the non-binary shit. They didn't do that because they thought these clips would help sales.

I think most players that bought where unaware of the new heights of woke cringe it reaches.

 

[PHILLIP BANKS]

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It's so over....... If it happens. So if you have sinned please make sure you make amends with God otherwise he will struck usfor lolz and keks

Is it over?

 

[DagothUr]

didn't want to repeat a mistake he made in the past

What? Doesn't he tell you in Origins if you recruit him that he didn't like how Cailain wanted to improve relations with Orlais and that he didn't underestimated the blight?

 

[>IMPLYING]

Decent numbers, got a strong brand name though.
It was also not marketed for it's woke nature, in fact EA struck videos of the non-binary shit. They didn't do that because they thought these clips would help sales.

I think most players that bought where unaware of the new heights of woke cringe it reaches.

I know Steam is iffy on allowing reviews to stay up if you refund the game right away. I can only hope that those who bought the game unaware of it's cringe content leave their thoughts and drive the reviews down into the negatives once their playtime is too high.

 

[Megatardingo]

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Is it over?

Yeah

 

[RandomTwitterGuy]

Well, the numbers they are screaming about are not that impressive.

I love some BG3, but they should be crushing it.
The Steam chart shows a peak of 875343 concurrent players after 2-3 days. At release, it was 472136 players when it came out of early access, and we will see if DA ever gets close to that. Its peak should be within Monday.

Edit: Switched the second image out as it showed the launch better.

 

[Prophetic Spirit]

stop being so doomers about this.
I stand with the Starfield theory: probably peak at 100k but that gonna be downhill very quickly, and even in a few months have less people than DA:I.

Don't bother with this. Drink something, for god's sake.

 

[Ishtar]

if this game ends up being a major commercial success, buckle up, we will never hear the end of it.

I think it will do better than people here think. The reviews have been good, overall, it is a BioWare game and there hasn’t been a dragon age game in a decade.

There‘s no real competition for the rest of the year in its genre, and if anything all the woke culture war drama will just spread word of mouth and make people want to see what the fuss is about.

 

[Megatardingo]

Daily reminder big businesses do retarded shit to pretend they're not bleeding money for investment's sake (like captain marvel having fake ticket purchases to inflate numbers). I genuinely don't believe this hot garbage got any traction

 

[>IMPLYING]

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Is it over?

The only thing people who wanted this to fail can grasp onto now is the hope that it doesn't go over 100k concurrent. I imagine a lot of people pre-ordered this prior to the previews and maybe some are going to get surprised by the content. This is definitely cope on my part. My vested interest in this failing is because I don't want Bioware to touch Mass Effect again.

 

[Observotron]

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Schreier's victory lap. Can't wait for when he's forced to write about the studio shutting down.

Lol, Just as I predicted earlier. The game won't sell amazingly, but it won't be a flop - and the soy brigade will tout it around as a win.

Because, despite this having a higher player count than I thought it would, 70k for a AAA release with a brand like Dragon Age isn't really great, especially when there's no big RPGs coming out. Even on off hours like a Thursday Afternoon.

It'll be a Sony Success. It'll win awards, it'll sell copies, but it will most likely only scrape by making a profit.

EDIT: If I wanted to pull out my tinfoil hat, I find it suspicious that there hasn't been a single drop in player numbers and that the count consistently increases at very similar amounts. Even with massively successful games there's a dip at some point on release date.