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

Are u woke enough for this game?

  • Hell yeah, I want play it with my wife's son

    Votes: 169 9.4%
  • Nope, I need to suck more girlcock first

    Votes: 389 21.7%
  • Yasss, I identify as an autistic dwarf of color

    Votes: 376 21.0%
  • Nah, I rather play Fallout76

    Votes: 855 47.8%

  • Total voters
    1,790
For those of you concerned about launch day player numbers, Grummz seems to be doing a bit of gravedancing.

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Oh boy, I'm already getting flashbacks. Remember when the free open beta of Concord was mogged by some random Marvel game? lmfao, nobody wanted to play that shit for FREE and here we are, mere weeks later with Dragon Age! Parallels remain since you can still play it for free, I mean EA pretty much expects you to since they didn't give it any protection or nothing.
 
Hope this person is happy with this game.
 

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So...on the executors/forgotten ones stuff.

Okay...there is...some basis for it.

Solas and Cassandra have a conversation where they talk about the old gods being pets to "beings who no longer exist" and Solas says "I would not go as far as that" and then basically deflects from addressing Cassandra's speculation.

The Evanuris did find the blight-and it was a corrupting influence.

Bartrand and the red lyrium idol-which exacerbated Meredith's insanity, leading to the mage rebellion, which led to corypheus release.

The Magisters' Sidereal were tricked-their "gods" were puppets of more malevolent beings that were playing one sided chess. Which has been a fan theory for years.

Merrill also mentions the forgotten ones in some ancient conflict between them and the creators(the evanuris).

I do think from what I've seen, DAV isn't adding a new villain off the drop of a hat. But...but, Loghain? The Architect maybe? But Loghain?

The Solas' ending stuff I'm...actually not too displeased with, Solas wasn't woobified, like I got the impression he was going to be.

The way the Qunari were handled is a minus, and if they somehow forgot one of the old gods, that will be a meme that won't die, but I am...pleased with the Solas finale stuff.

I do think its actually fitting for the character, to be the final villain that ends up like one of the titans, imprisoned for his crimes, and potentially holding the world together as penance/judgement.
 
I suspect you think about this more than Corrine and Friends ever did. They probably looked at the MCU movies and go OOOO WE NEED OUR OWN THANOS LET'S GOOOO TRANS-NOS!!!!
 

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Merrill also mentions the forgotten ones in some ancient conflict between them and the creators(the evanuris).

Oh, I would be completely unsurprised to see the Forgotten Ones take a major role. They've been nibbling at the edges of elven mythology since Origins, with Jaws of Hakkon actually letting us find the first physical traces of one of them (Geldauran). I'd be curious to see the Fen'Harel memories mentioned as sidequests and if they mention them in any capacity.

The problem, of course, that all of these interesting lore reveals are buried under absolute shit-tier writing, so it's become very hard to care.
 
Apparently there is a Solavellan ending where they go into the Fade together or something? I was wrong, they pandered to the deranged fangirls after all? Or not? IDK? Just watching videos.

Oh, I would be completely unsurprised to see the Forgotten Ones take a major role. They've been nibbling at the edges of elven mythology since Origins, with Jaws of Hakkon actually letting us find the first physical traces of one of them (Geldauran). I'd be curious to see the Fen'Harel memories mentioned as sidequests and if they mention them in any capacity.

The problem, of course, that all of these interesting lore reveals are buried under absolute shit-tier writing, so it's become very hard to care.
Yeah, like I said, I get the impression there is an underlying skeleton of a plan/plot bible here. Shame anything interesting(and I do think some of this...could be interesting), is buried under "I'm non binary, I'll have you address me as they/them bigot! DO BETTER!"
 
"the combat is fun!"
lmao I was 100% correct.
The combat is boring, there are no tactics, it's just hit hit hit, run away from AOE, hit, hit hit etc. A first big fight was an ogre, I mostly just ran around and let my companions auto-attack it. For those that remember when you fought your first DA : O orge, it was an actual fight.

As a matter of fact the whole thing is boring. There's no hook, there's not much other than wandering around on fetch quests so far.

I guess it's true, it did return to Dragon Age's roots. It's not open world, back to mission based. No trannies yet. Game play is definitely a rip-off of everything else. I see shades of Hogwarts, Mass Effect, God Of Boy, and a couple others.
 
Sure. The proto-wokeness (feminism) in Origins was "tolerable". That is the point of propaganda.
There's wokeness due to the writers having a different vision to me and inserted wokeness. Origins made sense what with the Jesus-expy being a warrior woman and healing magic/herbs making infant mortality less of an issue.
The real villain of Origins that nobody ever seems to talk about, who is basically orchestrating all this shit behind the scenes to get his family in the royal household with the ear of an idiot patsy king who imprints on any older man with a beard like a fucking baby duck, is this motherfucker:
Good call, I missed that. Plus he probably got his wife during the occupation.
They also ripped his son's story from the Warhammer "imperial governor hides their psyker kid" stock plot but idk if that was a well-known thing then.
I still enjoyed the quest, as it really made you understand the danger of unwatched mages.
Fans of dwarf romance, your dreams have coom true.
Even that one tumblr-redesigned dwarven woman looks better than this shit.
Urgh. Harding has the build and stature of a human child instead of a stout strong stocky seperate species. Dwarves are meant to be as heavy and threatening as the equivelent human, not a weathered faced child. The tumblr artist has the right idea, though perhaps marketing would veto the beard.
 
Notably Anora never has a child despite being queen in loads of world states-either alone, or with Alistair or with a warden Cousland. So she likely is infertile.
This is true but also my King-Consort Cousland was banging Leliana on the side (threesomes with Isabella even) so my dude was just drained dry. Anora could've been fertile in that world state and we'd never know for how much tail Cousland pursues.
 
i want to make an RPG with transgender options at character creation. it would work like old school clever DRM which would lock you out of finishing the last 59% of the game
Around 41% into the game, your character suddenly decides to kill themselves and you're unable to progress further. You know, I think this could work!
 
There's wokeness due to the writers having a different vision to me and inserted wokeness. Origins made sense what with the Jesus-expy being a warrior woman and healing magic/herbs making infant mortality less of an issue.

Good call, I missed that. Plus he probably got his wife during the occupation.

I still enjoyed the quest, as it really made you understand the danger of unwatched mages.


Urgh. Harding has the build and stature of a human child instead of a stout strong stocky seperate species. Dwarves are meant to be as heavy and threatening as the equivelent human, not a weathered faced child. The tumblr artist has the right idea, though perhaps marketing would veto the beard.
It's a fun quest but after I got into Warhammer it's in retrospect a little too on the nose. Possession is identical in both settings. Just a nit tbh.

They had a nicely setup world, even if it was literally medieval Europe but mirrored (physically since it gets warmer to the north and the ocean is in the east...) and socially (female Jesus and priestesses with the orthodox/byazantines having a separate male tradition)
 
A lot of people were genuinely praising the everyone dies ending, because at least the game is over and the trans Qunari was turned into stone.

I mean fundamentally-the endings are the same. Veil is saved, the blight is defeated forever(still want to know about Lusacan?), and the elven gods are dead or back in magic jail.

If you absolutely must suffer through this game, just do the bare minimum, the outcome is the same. And you know Bioware isn't going to account for any differences in the next if it happens.
 
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