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

[jorgoth]

It's clear to me that the North American console game industry collapsed in the mid 2010s or thereabouts, maybe starting with Mass Effect 3 and its shitshow of an ending. ET was released in 1983 and the North American video game industry didn't recover until either Tomb Raider or GTA 3 came out. It's just that nobody aside from Gamergate noticed because everybody was playing Japanese and European games anyway. "Oh cool Nintendo Switch". "Oh cool Cyberpunk 2077 got a new update". "I fucking love Baldur's Gate 3!"

 

[Loris Yeltsin]

ET was released in 1983 and the North American video game industry didn't recover until either Tomb Raider or GTA 3 came out.

That's nonsense. You can argue that North America's creative output didn't exactly dominate certain console generations, but US devs were always a very strong and influential presence on home computers. I mean, fucking Doom came out in '93 and you're telling me the 'murricans didn't get their shit together until '96? Come on.

Neither Tomb Raider nor GTA 3 were developed in North America, by the way.

 

[jorgoth]

That's nonsense. Neither Tomb Raider nor GTA 3 were developed in North America, by the way.

Oh right, the Brits made them. So it's worse than I thought.

Honestly, though, what really prominent North American video games can you remember from that period aside from Doom I guess? I guess I should have been specific and zeroed in on console games.

 

[Loris Yeltsin]

So it's worse than I thought.

No, you're really just wrong. Ultima, System Shock, the massively influential games by LucasArts/LucasFilm Games, Apogee/3D Realms and early Epic Games... if those were the Dark Ages for North American game development, then I'm wishing for a fucking time machine.

 

[jorgoth]

Edit posted this, but I should have zeroed in on console games, PC was still definitely a good time for North America, but console gaming failed.

 

[Mola Ram]

Oh right, the Brits made them. So it's worse than I thought.

Honestly, though, what really prominent North American video games can you remember from that period aside from Doom I guess? I guess I should have been specific and zeroed in on console games.

"Aside from Citizen Kane, what great movies did Orson Welles make, really?"

 

[Loris Yeltsin]

Edit posted this, but I should have zeroed in on console games, PC was still definitely a good time for North America, but console gaming failed.

That's more reasonable, I guess, but I honestly never perceived the US video game industry as particularly weak at any point prior to, you know, the Current Years. But lets drop it. We agree that all the major North American video game devs have slowly but surely turned into turd factories.

 

[Weltraumfürst]

Honestly, though, what really prominent North American video games can you remember from that period aside from Doom I guess?

Off the top of my head? Quake, Arena and Daggerfall, WarCraft I & 2, Command and Conquer, various Star Wars games, Civilization 2, Sim City 2000, Rollercoaster Tycoon.

And that's just up to and including 1996.

 

[strawberry15]

Off the top of my head? Quake, Arena and Daggerfall, WarCraft I & 2, Command and Conquer, various Star Wars games, Civilization 2, Sim City 2000, Rollercoaster Tycoon.

And that's just up to and including 1996.

i have a game magazine from 2003. Literally my treasue. It had rome total war, warcraft expansion etc. what a divine time.

 

[Mysterious Autist XX]

I CAN FIX MORRIGAN I CAN FIX HER GUYS

Yes you can, until Tricky Weekey undoes that.

 

[Absolute Ego Dance]

The most popular mod for the game currently is one that removes the "stupid purple". Not even the mods are safe from The Discourse™

 

[God of Nothing]

I CAN FIX MORRIGAN I CAN FIX HER GUYS

fix is a strong word
correction is appropriate here

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

they're extensions of their will or some shit
in other words, the elf gods' fursonas

 

[Megatardingo]

Yes you can, until Tricky Weekey undoes that.

fix is a strong word
correction is appropriate here

SHE WILL SEE HER LOVE FOR ME WILL FIX HER

 

[Weltraumfürst]

they're extensions of their will or some shit

That's fucking retarded.

 

[God of Nothing]

That's fucking retarded.

Everything introduced after Origins is pretty retarded lore-wise. I'm going to pretend like everything ends after Witch Hunt when I complete it. World is more cohesive and less knife-eared vine swinger centric.

they setup demons, dragons, and gods with Flemeth's dragon morphing self being a super abomination that Morrigan is sure will come back even if you kill her and the entire thing with the god child
but she was possessed by an elf god the entire time

 

[High-Fructose Corn Syrup]

Did the EA monthly sub thing because I wanted to try some games, I downloaded this shit and tried it.
What a boring pile of garbage. It's almost a rail shooter and the combat is so boring .

 

[God of Nothing]

I just realized Spell Might's double mana cost penalty doesn't apply when you use Blood Magic.
holy shit

 

[SIMIΔN]

Obsidian hasn't made a good game in over a decad

PoE2 and Tyranny had unique premises and interesting ideas that didn't quite hit due to budget issues.
Grounded wasn't an RPG but it was a massive critical and financial success.

Obsidian made Outer Worlds, which sends the unfathomably based message that people selected for intelligence are vital for a society's survival

I actually enjoyed Outer Worlds despite its woke tropes. It's an inferior version of New Vegas but still comes together.

 

[Deus Exica]

I CAN FIX MORRIGAN I CAN FIX HER GUYS

Unironically if you stick with her in Inquisition she is still with The Warden and raising his son well. Correct me if I'm wrong but even if her son doesn't have the God baby she doesn't just toss him aside. Morrigan is mommy tier.

 

[God of Nothing]

Unironically if you stick with her in Inquisition she is still with The Warden and raising his son well. Correct me if I'm wrong but even if her son doesn't have the God baby she doesn't just toss him aside. Morrigan is mommy tier.

Like a lot of women, she just needed a good dick.