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

[Deus Exica]

have the strong suspicion this game was basically rebooted twice,

Isn't that pretty much confirmed? I remember years ago there were people talking about how the original concept (a heist game that got reworked into the Netflix show) was canned in favor of a live service style game, then i guess that was killed or at least heavily reworked into Veilguard.

I still suspect that Veilguard was meant to be some kind of tie-in spinoff that got pulled into being a mainline sequel in th last couple years of development. I'd be very curious to see what Dread Wolf was originally going to look like before EA fucked it six times.

I like how they were trying to be GOW in combat without understanding gow combat

I like how it isn't even well emulated. There is absolutely zero grit or violence to the combat in Shitguard. Triggering the occasional decapitation in Origins is about a hundred times more visceral and satisfying than all the flashy particle effects butthole lights shooting off of every attack in

 

[DagothUr]

He was going to transfer the Evanuris to another prison, via magic which required a very delicate set of rituals to do properly. I think?

But in Inquisition he literally just gives the orb to Corypheus so he can tear the veil down. The Evanuris would have just gotten out if he succeeded, surely.
The whole thing just sounds fucking retarded.

 

[God of Nothing]

But in Inquisition he literally just gives the orb to Corypheus so he can tear the veil down. The Evanuris would have just gotten out if he succeeded, surely.
The whole thing just sounds fucking retarded.

disregard everything after origins

 

[Maude Snew]

But in Inquisition he literally just gives the orb to Corypheus so he can tear the veil down. The Evanuris would have just gotten out if he succeeded, surely.
The whole thing just sounds fucking retarded.

Fun fact: A one gold sheep's bladder filled with ink can tear down a veil just as easily as and ancient artifact magic orb. Do have fun.

 

[FatalTater]

In this video from VGS - Video Game Sophistry there's a scene at 9:29 where Taash could seem pretty relatable to non-feminine women. Not all girls are soft spoken, pink ribbons and frills types, and we used to call them tomboys and they were a part of society. I guess that wasn't dramatic enough so instead we get "nonbinary" and social awkwardness.

https://preservetube.com/watch?v=5yBNsqzWh38

Gah, imagine being a normal person hoping to find clues to how to act around the genderspecials and coming across this game? I would file the whole mess under "avoid" and move on.

and is Taash's mom supposed to be Chinese? Maybe Mongolian? I'm getting Asian Mom vibes there.

 

[SpellforceFan]

Basically...the elves ruined everything.

Meaning the racism against elves is, and always has been, fully justified.

imagine being a normal person hoping to find clues to how to act around the genderspecials and coming across this game?

If that person would take clues on how to act around retards from video games, they deserve whatever reaction they'll get. It makes as much sense as an incel taking inspiration from jap sex games on how to act around women.

 

[Divine right to rule]

and is Taash's mom supposed to be Chinese? Maybe Mongolian? I'm getting Asian Mom vibes there.

In Origins, the Qunari were pretty obvious stand-ins for the Ottoman Turks and Tevinter for the Byzantine Empire.
They pretty much completely retconned them in Inquisition though, in Origins they had an extremely strict caste system with professions being gender-exclusive.
In Inquisition, they wisely decided that this religion tolerates the self-identification of troons.

 

[God of Nothing]

Meaning the racism against elves is, and always has been, fully justified.

despite being 13% of the population....

In all seriousness, their homes essentially being reservations or crime-filled ghettos is entirely their own fault. Their faction's support quest is even caused by their leader's short-sighted retardation he had literal centuries to fix and never did. City elves can't even take care of themselves. I fucking love the one Tevintir elf who laughs when you try to guilt her for enslsving them. They're just glorified cattle.

What Vaughan did was equivalent of smacking a pet for no reason, which is fucked up yet not worth killing him over.

I said it.

 

[Firemalzahn]

Luke Stephens ripped this game to shreds today

 

[Snekposter]

Samantha Traynor is mixed-Indian

Well, her family was originally from London before moving to an off-world colony, so her being some sort of Pajeeta makes a lot more sense than if she was white.

Kasumi Goto and Kai Leng are East Asian. Jacob Taylor is fully black. Samantha Traynor is mixed-Indian but in Mass Effect 1 a side quest has you choose between retrieving a body or allow the alliance to do tests on it - the husband and wife have Indian names and are presumedly Indian themselves. Wonky models mean the skin tones are off but still. White people are also present. I don't know what he's talking about. Andromeda was fucky with its races though, but Sera exists and is white in that game.

Both Kahlee Sanders and Cora Harper and as white and blonde as they come.

This isn't reflected by ingame models but IIRC the codex (or some other source like a book or dev posts on forums) said that nearly every human was some flavor of Caucasian/Asian mutt by the time ME1 takes place. I also recall that Anderson being black was considered rare, which I think came from one of the books written by Karpyshyn.

These bits of lore were dropped in the sequels.

Even if so with how advanced genetic engineering is in ME a couple of coal-black Africans can have a lily white SS recruit for a child.

So why did he think tearing the veil down was a good idea?

Because the elves he originally tried to help by cutting them off from their dickbag gods lost their way and turned into humanity's bitches, becoming nothing more than mere shadows of who they used to be, losing everything they had created and done despite suffering under the gods. So he decided that in retrospect, life under the dickbag gods was better and more fulfulling for the elves as a whole than life as humanity's bitches.

 

[NIGGO KILLA]

I am legitimately surprised how hard it is for me to watch this credit roll today.

Juxtaposed the amazing adventure in this to the faggot shit in veilgaurd is pain

 

[Prokhor Zakharov]

89 hours later, I have 100%'ed the game. I can easily say it is a B+ game that is brought down to a low C- by several very bad decisions, and a bunch of minor ones that add up to being rather annoying. It is quite easily the worst of the 4 we now have. It wraps up the DA saga quite succinctly. With any luck they will let DA die and not skin walk its corpse for yet another game. I will do my full write-up on the game tomorrow. I got the "good" + "secret" ending.

This is the Rook I finally settled on. Human, Male, White, Cis, Hetero, Patriarchal, Militaristic, Colonial, Fascist, Chud, Chad Rook:



He is a mage (since melee in this game is total shit) and was aligned with the Shadow Dragon faction out of Minrathous.

He claims he didn't chose to save Minrathous over Treviso when the blighted high dragons attacked because the people of Treviso are all swarthy, hairy people. I don't believe him.

 

[NPZCC]

Matt Rhodes
Senior Concept Artist
Dragon Age: Origins (2009)

 

[God of Nothing]

Because the elves he originally tried to help by cutting them off from their dickbag gods lost their way and turned into humanity's bitches, becoming nothing more than mere shadows of who they used to be, losing everything they had created and done despite suffering under the gods. So he decided that in retrospect, life under the dickbag gods was better and more fulfulling for the elves as a whole than life as humanity's bitches.

lol
born to be slaves

 

[Megatardingo]

Hope this isn't but

 

[God of Nothing]

Hope this isn't but

>Why would women ever wish to be men? That makes no sense.
if only you fucking knew, my giant autistic minotaur man

 

[Mysterious Autist XX]

Hope this isn't but

If only you knew original english dub Heero Yuy.

 

[Balr0g]

What Vaughan did was equivalent of smacking a pet for no reason, which is fucked up yet not worth killing him over.

What Vaughn didn't count on was that among the sheeple that were the City elves there existed the cub of a lion. In this case the Player character who either gets abducted or mounts a rescue operation. And I still kill Vaughn every time especially in the hopes of triggering the "stab left dagger into the side, right dagger cuts head off" movement. Though also the elder is basically at fault for this whole debacle because he didn't want to have the player character join the Grey Wardens. Well, guess what happens: I join the freaking Wardens.

 

[Mnutu]

89 hours later, I have 100%'ed the game. I can easily say it is a B+ game that is brought down to a low C- by several very bad decisions, and a bunch of minor ones that add up to being rather annoying. It is quite easily the worst of the 4 we now have. It wraps up the DA saga quite succinctly. With any luck they will let DA die and not skin walk its corpse for yet another game. I will do my full write-up on the game tomorrow. I got the "good" + "secret" ending.

This is the Rook I finally settled on. Human, Male, White, Cis, Hetero, Patriarchal, Militaristic, Colonial, Fascist, Chud, Chad Rook:

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He is a mage (since melee in this game is total shit) and was aligned with the Shadow Dragon faction out of Minrathous.

He claims he didn't chose to save Minrathous over Treviso when the blighted high dragons attacked because the people of Treviso are all swarthy, hairy people. I don't believe him.

 

[KEKMUHLORD]

Hope this isn't but

Lmao, this popped up in my feed as well. Really shows just how far this series has fallen. We went from a world where every race and culture is different with sexism, classism, racism, xenophobia and every other thing imaginable thrown into them. Which created a unique world and great development between companions who come from these different cultures and have different beliefs.... To Veilguard where every companion thinks the same and every race and culture been sterilized to to be as inoffensive as possible.