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

[Back me up!]

Guess who got caught deleting his "You got owned CHUDS!" tweet



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[30+GameOvers]

Guess who got caught deleting his "You got owned CHUDS!" tweet

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"The jew cries out in pain as he tweets you"

 

[Observotron]

that's surprising but also not really surprising, i guess most DA fans aren't redditards, also the veilguard subreddit only has 11k

I would argue it's because most actual DA fans get pushed out of the subreddit.

Don't like the design of Darkspawn? "Well, they were just rip offs of tolkien orcs, they're more original now."

Don't like the tone of the newer games? "You're just immature and trying to be edgy."

Don't like the way the combat has devolved since Origins? "The games were always about story, the gameplay doesn't matter."

Don't like the direction of the story or worldbuilding? "You're just a boomer who doesn't like change".

I've previously talked a lot of shit about Halo and the 'NuHalo' community, but the release of Veilguard reminded me that as much as I hate the Halo community, nothing comes close to touching the Bioware (ME/DA) community. They create an echo chamber of horrible ideas and are surprised that the community doesn't grow.

Kinda off topic - but the ME legendary stats prove how much of an echo chamber the Bioware community is.

If you go off of the ME Reddit (or if you want to get real old school, the old Bioware forums), you'd be under the impression that 90% of players played as Femshep.

Well, about that....

 

[Kharash]

If you go off of the ME Reddit (or if you want to get real old school, the old Bioware forums), you'd be under the impression that 90% of players played as Femshep.

Well, about that....

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And this is after years of shilling. 32% is way more than it used to be for the actual original trilogy.
I never really liked femshep anyway as Hale just sounds like she's trying way too hard to sound tough. Meanwhile Meer goes from passable to pretty decent over the course of the trilogy and at least I never have to cringe at his lines.

 

[bort420]

As to the Krogan, wouldn't exactly take much for them to go pick a fight with literally anyone. Simple population pressures are a perfectly valid reason to start a galactic war, and boy did they have those as a result of being prey creatures on Tuchanka (before the Krogan invented gunpowder "eaten by predator" was the number one cause of death to be quickly replaced by "death by gunshot" once it was invented) and so they shat out tons of kids to guarantee enough would live to adulthood despite the mass deaths among their kind as is typical for those sorts of creatures. You know, like rabbits. Personally I'm glad the only time we've ever seen Tuchanka is after the Krogan wiped out the natural environment with extinction-grade nuclear warfare among the various Krogan nations living there at the time.

Krogan/salarian are classic r selected vs everyone else K selected, but with the added twist of what would happen if the r selection pressures were removed by technology? Salarians just die like chumps, but Krogans live forever

Scifi in a scifi series???? Next they'll add sorcery into a high/dark fantasy series! Oops, I guess not with this turd.

 

[Leaf Wage Slave Jr]

And this is after years of shilling. 32% is way more than it used to be for the actual original trilogy.
I never really liked femshep anyway as Hale just sounds like she's trying way too hard to sound tough. Meanwhile Meer goes from passable to pretty decent over the course of the trilogy and at least I never have to cringe at his lines.

Meer at least seemed like he was having fun with his lines, doing a Renegade run. He got better as the trilogy went on, and leaned into how absurd some of the lines were (ex. "You big, stupid, jellyfish")

Hale, like you said, was just trying to sound tough. She's fine for the Paragon lines, but otherwise comes across as wooden as Rhonda Rousey in MK11. Or any of Rousey's other "acting" gigs. My point is if it wasn't for them pushing FemShep as hard as they did, I'd fully expect that percentage to be in the 10's at best.

 

[LovisXVI]

And this is after years of shilling. 32% is way more than it used to be for the actual original trilogy.
I never really liked femshep anyway as Hale just sounds like she's trying way too hard to sound tough. Meanwhile Meer goes from passable to pretty decent over the course of the trilogy and at least I never have to cringe at his lines.

Meer hated is the reddit stance, as he actually improved but Hale just remained about the same. Besides people who say he is flat, fail to understand that a voiced protagonist really shouldn't be too strong in tone unless the line specifically calls for it, as then the player can imprint their own idea of the line on the delivery. Famously the VO for JC Denton had to be told to be more bland for this very reason.

 

[Snekposter]

"You big, stupid, jellyfish"

I loved calling Blasto that during the Citadel thing with Javik.

Famously the VO for JC Denton had to be told to be more bland for this very reason.

What a shame.

 

[Gossip Avoider]

Famously the VO for JC Denton had to be told to be more bland for this very reason.

And then cranked up the sarcasm to a level of blasé attitude that humanity didn’t even know was possible until that point.

 

[God of Nothing]

uh
how did he get here?
more importantly, what the fuck?

 

[Mola Ram]

what the fuck?

This sentence defines Sandal Feddic in every appearance.

 

[Snekposter]

This sentence defines Sandal Feddic in every appearance.

Its a damn shame they dropped him like a rock since the plot points were leading up to him being in basically a dream 24/7 as a result of absurdly heavy lyrium exposure, making him the one and only Dwarf mage due to being in constant contact with the Fade itself.

 

[Megatardingo]

uh
how did he get here?
more importantly, what the fuck?
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Enchantment obviously.

 

[God of Nothing]

And it ends.

this fight was disappointing, honestly
the fucking lategame archers with scattershot spam were more of a challenge than this.

The ending was everything I hoped it'd be, and I felt pretty fulfilled. All that's left is the DLC sequels of sorts. Need to see what awakening's all about and find out what Morrigan is doing with our dragon god kid as well as why she wanted one in the first place. I know it was Flemeth planning to bodyjack it for super dragon powers (unless this was retconned like literally everything in Origins was)

First, I'm going to run a mage I'm actually satisfied with. My first time was just me fucking about. The second attempt had me delving into utility spells and other sorts. And the third had me try to see what all the fuss about entropic death was about just to find out it was a crock of shit sleep + horror was infinitely more useful and manageable than. The virulent bomb seems like a much better spell for AoE and damage without as much setup or talent/spell taxes. Arcane Warrior is absurd, but it makes fights that would be otherwise a quick breeze last way longer in turn for guaranteed success. Still going to go with it for the full plate casting memes.

 

[#1 Hot Sauce of Kiwi Farm]

uh
how did he get here?
more importantly, what the fuck?
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Enchantment.

 

[God of Nothing]

While I'm here, did anyone actually spare the knife-ear assassin companion? Because taking up with a guy hired to kill you is legitimately one of the stupidest writing tropes in fantasy or any form of fiction to ever exist, and I'm wondering if there's any good reason to.

 

[Mola Ram]

Its a damn shame they dropped him like a rock since the plot points were leading up to him being in basically a dream 24/7 as a result of absurdly heavy lyrium exposure, making him the one and only Dwarf mage due to being in constant contact with the Fade itself.

After the Descent DLC I assumed, given Bodahn's story of how he found Sandal abandoned in the Deep Roads as a baby, that he was a lost or forsaken Sha-Brytol who was too young to have been sealed in his armor. On the other hand, it's equally plausible that he was something that was never going to be sufficiently explained: just a deliberately unresolved, somewhat goofy mystery / running gag.

If he didn't appear in Veilguard, that's probably a blessing. Who knows how they'd have fucked him up?

 

[BlankSpaceBaby]

I can't do it. I tried playing my pirated version of Dragon Age: The Veilguard and I had to stop after 6 hours because I was either cringing or laughing at how awful the whole thing is.

- The locales look good, albeit in a "Not my Thedas, this is Whimsyville" way.
- The combat, like most reviewers said, is alright but very uninteresting and repetitive. Companions are essentially extra skills in this case.
- I just can't with the characters. They all look so plastic and are even worse than they appeared in videos, and the overlarge heads are distracting.
- Every line of dialogue feels like it's made by an AI that scraped all and only social media posts.
- The whole thing is utterly boring and I don't care at all to keep playing.

In many ways, this game is worse than bad: it's really, really boring and hard to care about. At least bad games may be fun to laugh at, but this one is just dull, dull, dull.

 

[Anon88]

While I'm here, did anyone actually spare the knife-ear assassin companion? Because taking up with a guy hired to kill you is legitimately one of the stupidest writing tropes in fantasy or any form of fiction to ever exist, and I'm wondering if there's any good reason to.

Yup I was curious what would happen during my last playthrough. If you don't get his relationship score high enough he betrays you, big surprise right? He ok in combat from the little I've used him but he's nothing special, so yeah unless you just really like his design or something there's really no point.

 

[DagothUr]

While I'm here, did anyone actually spare the knife-ear assassin companion? Because taking up with a guy hired to kill you is legitimately one of the stupidest writing tropes in fantasy or any form of fiction to ever exist, and I'm wondering if there's any good reason to.

I usually do. But there's not really any good reason unless you want to use him in the party, or want to kill him later.

this fight was disappointing, honestly
the fucking lategame archers with scattershot spam were more of a challenge than this.

I've found that the archdemon can either be a massive pain or completely trivial. It's a dragon so it's quite awkward to melee and the massive hordes of enemies can be a big problem later on if you don't use the army call-ins like a chud. It's funny to watch Arl Eamon get brutalized and go down to 1hp in a matter of seconds.