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

[Firemalzahn]

Honestly this shit story has inspired me to write my own fantasy story just cause I can’t be any fucking worse than Patrick

 

[Tepes Thot]

Patrick Weekes has had a TDS meltdown and now refuses to talk about Veilguard for the time being.
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I know video game design isn’t exactly being trusted with the launch codes, but someone like this shouldn’t be in ANY workplace.

He needs to be hospitalized, nothing is normal about the way he or his peers carry on.

 

[TheAmbiguousLurker]

The utter lack of even slightly confrontational dialogue choices reminded me of better days.

 

[Mola Ram]

Bros, there's the Mass Effect thread to talk about Miranda and her magnificent ass. Don't get off-topic.

I didn't even realize there was a Mass Effect thread.

Should we maybe turn this into a BioWare Grieving thread?

 

[Prokhor Zakharov]

Is there any significance to the name "Rook"? Shepard, Ryder, Hawke, Warden, Inquisitor, etc. all have obvious meanings as in-universe or symbolic roles. Aside from the chess piece, rook is also an archaic verb meaning to steal or swindle. There's no clear personality or weight carried to the name. Did they just pick it out a list?

There is also the bird known as a Rook, a member of the Corvidae (Crow) family.

 

[God of Nothing]

why doesn't the origin dragon plate set come with a helmet?
the juggernaut set came with one and i loved it
feels so incomplete

 

[Ishtar]

Checking Tumblr and other sources,

Codex allusions are made too:

Cassandra(visited her uncle's funeral-not referred too by name, likely to avoid the divine world state choice)
the battle of Ostagar-a mabari at Weishaupt is said to be descended from (potentially) the warden's Mabari and named Ostagar
An allusion to Zevran
apparently-the Inky's love interest sends an easy to miss letter
Malcolm Hawke-a letter from a warden makes a vague allusion to imprisoning Corypheus and Malcolm Hawke's family being relocated
isabela will mention Merrill's playing cards

DA has always had great codex entries, the impression I'm getting is they give fans the barest scraps while also avoiding saying anything that necessitates a world state

I don't really begrudge them for dropping the god child storyline, because the implications were impractically large for a branching narrative. Imo they should just have never brought it up again after Origins, I don't mind that particular mystery remaining unsolved. But I guess Morrigan was a fan favorite.

While we're at it, I didn't mind the Crucible in ME3, either. They wrote themselves into a corner by setting up the Reapers as conventionally undefeatable, so they needed an out. I just hated the handwave of "Oh yeah, the plans were there the entire time, we just never found them in those deeply explored Prothean arcives".

I like the crucible actually and ME does imply the reapers are undefeatable in force. Contrary to what another poster says-it takes an entire fleet to defeat Sovereign(who was also distracted controlling Saren's body).

 

[bort420]

Checking Tumblr and other sources,

Codex allusions are made too:

Cassandra(visited her uncle's funeral-not referred too by name, likely to avoid the divine world state choice)
the battle of Ostagar-a mabari at Weishaupt is said to be descended from (potentially) the warden's Mabari and named Ostagar
An allusion to Zevran
apparently-the Inky's love interest sends an easy to miss letter
Malcolm Hawke-a letter from a warden makes a vague allusion to imprisoning Corypheus and Malcolm Hawke's family being relocated
isabela will mention Merrill's playing cards

DA has always had great codex entries, the impression I'm getting is they give fans the barest scraps while also avoiding saying anything that necessitates a world state

If they cared they could have had minor quests close these off. Witcher 3 had more effort put into random side quests than major characters from the original games here.

You could write it out in like a week. Have the sitting divine show up or have the right one name-dropped once or twice. Or have her argue with the schism'd antipope up north.

Repeat with all the other branching choices that you want to end. Kieren? Say he died on the way back to his home swamp or something, just stuff it into a quest or convo.

Fuckin fromsoft handles it better if you kill off Ansbach (you monster), in that case a no-name pureblood noble shows up for a bit instead. There, I'm a game director.

They spent more time and effort with hair physics than the actual story.

 

[Ishtar]

They spent more time and effort with hair physics than the actual story.

I am absolutely convinced a lot of people enjoy virtual dress up or dress up doll, more than the narrative.

 

[Zaryiu2]

I refuse to call Veilguard a Dragon Age game because it isn't, it is akin to a freak wearing it's victim's flayed skin

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

I thought Cass physically shows up in game?

I had not realized that several years back both Alistair and Zevran's actors confirmed they weren't going to be in the game.

Claudia Black had the hardest job, she had to act oblivious until Morrigan was officially revealed. I'd say she has the best performance in the game. But then it is to be expected.

 

[God of Nothing]

nothing like driving your starsword into your side-piece's mother

i was freaked the fuck out the first time i fought her and was annihilated
this time i'm decked out with the last dragon i killed
i guess with the archdaemon, you get to kill three dragons in this game

 

[There Is Light At The End]

One of Alyssa Mercante's beta cucks, Jake Steinberg, talks about Dragon Age: The Veilguard and how he's happy that it's woke and politically correct.
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And he made a substack shitting on gamers and how they're a anti-woke hate group. Mentions GamerGate, Smash JT's Kotaku Detected, and other YouTubers.
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Steinberg..... Wokeslop pusher. Pro-DEI.

 

[Deus Exica]

because the implications were impractically large for a branching narrative.

I think you very easily could have worked it into a sequel down the line without it really being a problem. Inquisition already followed through on the three possible variations of God baby fairly well so I don't see why it would have been impossible to simply have had God baby unlock a new ending in Veilguard or a secret boss or something at the very least. Dropping it entirely just speaks towards developer laziness, same reason they excluded evil choices or true branching dialogue options.

If they were pooping these games out every two years I could at least see them why they would want to drop the plotline, but with ten years of dev work and writing and re-writing, it should have manifested somehow.

they tried to claim ME wasn't gonna go woke

Not really, they claimed ME was going to maintain a serious tone, unlike Veilguard. Which means you'll still get lectured on pronoun usage but this time it will be from an edgy Asari assassin rather than a quippy teenager.

 

[BlankSpaceBaby]

What are the odds that the troons at BioWare are so distraught by Trump's resurgence that they would mass resign or something?

 

[Prophetic Spirit]

What are the odds that the troons at BioWare are so distraught by Trump's resurgence that they would mass resign or something?

They would do?
I don't think that'll gonna happen.

 

[Balr0g]

They would do?
I don't think that'll gonna happen.

No they won't. They will pour their resentment into Mass Effect 5 and rewrite the story into defeating the bad orange alien monster menace who grabs human pussies.

And I really miss the old Dragon age Origins stories. At least you had options to be mean (though your character was silent unlike DA2 and DAI). This here is the City Elf Origin stroy (female elf, the male version is slightly different) and it shows how different it has become

 

[fatcock burgerking]

What are the odds that the troons at BioWare are so distraught by Trump's resurgence that they would mass resign or something?

Surely they shouldn't have to worry about Trump all the way up in Edmonton, but boy would it be cathartic if they did...

 

[Kharash]

resign

I don't think they'll be having much choice in the matter soon.

 

[Prophetic Spirit]

And I really miss the old Dragon age Origins stories. At least you had options to be mean (though your character was silent unlike DA2 and DAI).

Actually, i prefer silent MC before voiced ones.
At least Hawke got variatons in personality. Inquisitor doesn't have any.