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

[Mysterious Autist XX]

awakening is fun but i really want it to be over so i can move on to finding my witch bitch
she's too dumb and vague to be trusted alone with our literal god child

Based Morrigan fucker.

 

[Kane Lives]

Bioware collapsed, Bethesda collapsed, who is even left among the CRPG pillars of yesteryear?

For good or ill, Obsidian. And Obsidian is pretty dubious considering their track record.

 

[God of Nothing]

Based Morrigan fucker.

Based Morrigan chaser.

there should've been a speech option of "you are vulnerable during pregnancy and have the absolute worst specialization in the game you stupid biiiiitch"
plus, i am an arcane warrior blood mage living god who owned the bitch mother you're so afraid of
running off on your own is the absolute worst thing you could do for yourself

 

[Mysterious Autist XX]

there should've been a speech option of "you are vulnerable during pregnancy and have the absolute worst specialization in the game you stupid biiiiitch"
plus, i am an arcane warrior blood mage living god who owned the bitch mother you're so afraid of
running off on your own is the absolute worst thing you could do for yourself

I honestly kinda wish they had given us an option to point out how sheltered and naive she really was since those moments where we see the cracks in her due to those aspects are some of my favorites.

 

[Prophetic Spirit]

I honestly kinda wish they had given us an option to point out how sheltered and naive she really was since those moments where we see the cracks in her due to those aspects are some of my favorites.

So many times indeed.
After sex and after the ring, she cracks near everytime when asking for more.
At least i got fanserviced in Inquisition when she talked about "her Warden" so lovely.

 

[God of Nothing]

I honestly kinda wish they had given us an option to point out how sheltered and naive she really was since those moments where we see the cracks in her due to those aspects are some of my favorites.

silly girl who thinks she knows everything turns out to be mind-boggingly stupid and makes decisions that make her miserable and put her in danger because she thinks doing otherwise would make her miserable and put her in danger
morrigan is a woman moment

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

For good or ill, Obsidian. And Obsidian is pretty dubious considering their track record.

What game are they making now? Avowed? The game that has been held back for almost three years now? I doubt it will be as pozzed or bad as Veilguard but i doubt it will be something special.

 

[God of Nothing]

all this mystery and buildup around the Blight just for it to be retconned from mankind's malignance incarnated from violating heaven to elf aids.

oh and the old gods, dragons, are elves too

What game are they making now? Avowed? The game that has been held back for almost three years now? I doubt it will be as pozzed or bad as Veilguard but i doubt it will be something special.

Obsidian hasn't made a good game in over a decade
many such cases unfortunately

 

[strawberry15]

Obsidian hasn't made a good game in over a decade
many such cases unfortunately

I want to say Pillars of Eternity (not the second game) is good.
Has great worldbuilding, quest etc. It is a solid 7 at the least.

 

[Mysterious Autist XX]

silly girl who thinks she knows everything turns out to be mind-boggingly stupid and makes decisions that make her miserable and put her in danger because she thinks doing otherwise would make her miserable and put her in danger
morrigan is a woman moment

I blame Flemeth, and also her being a woman but mostly Flemeth.

So many times indeed.
After sex and after the ring, she cracks near everytime when asking for more.
At least i got fanserviced in Inquisition when she talked about "her Warden" so lovely.

Same, I always make sure to import a world state where the HoF and her where in a relationship just because that line always hits me with nostalgia for my original run. Meanwhile Troonguard can't even fucking give us that.

 

[anti SJW]

Bioware collapsed, Bethesda collapsed, who is even left among the CRPG pillars of yesteryear?

Larian.

 

[Old English Roast Beef]

I want to say Pillars of Eternity (not the second game) is good.
Has great worldbuilding, quest etc. It is a solid 7 at the least.

The one thing I can't stand about Pillars of Eternity is that every country is transparently a mash-up of two real-world places. Apply the naming conventions and cultural context of Country A but tell all the voice actors to do an accent from Country B. Ingenious.

 

[Megatardingo]

I CAN FIX MORRIGAN I CAN FIX HER GUYS

 

[Absolute Ego Dance]

For good or ill, Obsidian. And Obsidian is pretty dubious considering their track record.

Obsidian made Outer Worlds, which sends the unfathomably based message that people selected for intelligence are vital for a society's survival. If they'd made the game now, the system would be experiencing a famine because there aren't enough coloreds

 

[Divine right to rule]

I did the questline of the Necromancer partymember.

So, Emmrich is part of an order of benevolent Necromancers who actually take care of spirits, soothe them and protect them from abuse.
He is very compassionate towards them, and has a skeleton buddy that is posessed by a young spirit of curiosity.
He is also incredibly afraid of dying, which is supposed to be one of the main themes of his arc.
His goal is to become a lich, which are immortal stewards of the fade and the dead or something.
The villain is a clichéd mad scientist woman. "You didn't go far enough, Emmrich! Just look at the POWER I wield! You were held back by fear and compassion!"
So she actually enslaves and tortures spirits in her magic lamp of evil, and Emmrich is madge.
You infiltrate her evil necromancer mansion, with help of Emmrich's skelebro who is growing rapidly in sentience and even learns to speak.
The mad scientist made a giant dumb skeleton out of many skeleton she pilots like a mecha, and skelebro sacrifices himself to defeat her, while Emmrich gets over his fear of dying and does a dangerous ritual to stop her.

At the end there are two choices for Emmrich. Either revive Skelebro, but lose lichdom, or let him rest and become a lich.
In the "skelebro lives" ending, Emmrich stays mortal but gets over his fear of dying by nurturing Skelebro and other spirits in a fatherly manner, caring for life and making peace with mortality.
In the "lich" ending he becomes a lich and is happy because he is immortal now, and can read all his nerd books about corpse-fucking forever.

There is a lot to like here, some solid ideas.
It just didn't really have any emotional impact on me, because the execution was not that great and the themes implemented clumsily.

Still, compared to other companions, this was a highlight.

 

[Loris Yeltsin]

I did the questline of the Necromancer partymember.

So, Emmrich is part of an order of benevolent Necromancers who actually take care of spirits, soothe them and protect them from abuse.
He is very compassionate towards them, and has a skeleton buddy that is posessed by a young spirit of curiosity.
He is also incredibly afraid of dying, which is supposed to be one of the main themes of his arc.
His goal is to become a lich, which are immortal stewards of the fade and the dead or something.
The villain is a clichéd mad scientist woman. "You didn't go far enough, Emmrich! Just look at the POWER I wield! You were held back by fear and compassion!"
So she actually enslaves and tortures spirits in her magic lamp of evil, and Emmrich is madge.
You infiltrate her evil necromancer mansion, with help of Emmrich's skelebro who is growing rapidly in sentience and even learns to speak.
The mad scientist made a giant dumb skeleton out of many skeleton she pilots like a mecha, and skelebro sacrifices himself to defeat her, while Emmrich gets over his fear of dying and does a dangerous ritual to stop her.

At the end there are two choices for Emmrich. Either revive Skelebro, but lose lichdom, or let him rest and become a lich.
In the "skelebro lives" ending, Emmrich stays mortal but gets over his fear of dying by nurturing Skelebro and other spirits in a fatherly manner, caring for life and making peace with mortality.
In the "lich" ending he becomes a lich and is happy because he is immortal now, and can read all his nerd books about corpse-fucking forever.

There is a lot to like here, some solid ideas.
It just didn't really have any emotional impact on me, because the execution was not that great and the themes implemented clumsily.

Still, compared to other companions, this was a highlight.

Okay, but can you fuck him?

 

[FatalTater]

Okay, but can you fuck him?

From what I've seen in clips of the game, yes.

Necromancer having an outfit based on how a corpse flower (amorphophallus titanum) looks made me happy.

Another part of the game makes me cranky, as I've seen bits of Lets Play's where gooseberry pie is mentioned. I love gooseberries and currently do not have any. Life is not fair.

 

[Mola Ram]

Okay, but can you fuck him?

You can fuck the skeleton version of him, even.

 

[Overly Serious]

oh and the old gods, dragons, are elves too

What, the old gods that are dragons are elven gods as well?

You can fuck the skeleton version of him, even.

Does he make xylophone noises when you screw him?

 

[FatalTater]

Does he make xylophone noises when you screw him?

I think you have to use your imagination on that part, since the game doesn't seem to have any interesting sexy scenes from what I've found.