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

[Forgotten Beast]

The concept art of her is also pretty bad but at least she/he/xir/it doesn't look like like a man with tits

The concept art isn't that bad, really, considering the rest of the game's aesthetics. But it fits xir personality even less that the final model does. Even if the design has whiffs of girlboss energy and still goes against what the rest of the franchise has stablished about the Qunari, it looks like a non-nonse, confident if maybe a bit arrogant character, unlike the groveling, passive-aggressive on-the-spectrum baby she is in the finished product.
I'd bet good money she was initially designed as a T&H bisexual female "girl gets it done" character at first which would fit better with the trends popular at the start of development and then changed into a hecking enby in one of the multiple rewrites the game went on later down the line when cis women lost their appeal. Probably very close to the date Trick Weekes got the genders too. At that point it was too late to make drastic changes to the designs or the models, so that's why Xher looks so... off.

 

[God of Nothing]

daggers and full dextery/haste

eww, dex
but that is interesting to think about

 

[Maude Snew]

Veilguard is 0.94% away from slipping into the "Mixed" review territory on Steam

A tip for anyone playing this trash fire if you are a mage, your dodge is what they call a "fade step" where you do a very short range teleport. It isn't particularly fast for consecutive dodges, but, you can speed it up. If you press your button/key for a light attack with the knife and orb and the button/key for dodge at the same time, it basically doubles the speed of consecutive dodges. You can dodge fast enough using this trick to basically avoid any attack regardless of how fast it is, and the AI will have a very hard time getting a lock on you for aimed attacks. I might put up a short video to demonstrate it.

For everybody else your dodge is not buying or playing the game. One weird trick They Don't Want You To Know.

 

[God of Nothing]

I had a sneaking suspicion it was the best two-hander in the entire game. Starfang didn't come close when it was barely even dragonbone. If I specced Vigilance for criticals, they would deal the same bonus critical damage, but it would still be down 7 base bonus damage due to it dealing cold or fire for some unexplained reason. Not sure if Spirit Warrior converts that to spirit damage too. I'll just keep it in my second weapon slot. The legend of the hero of Ferelden (at least in this universe where he's not an utterly invincible archmage but is a king) has two legendary weapons: the cleaver he slayed so many dragons with and a sword he didn't care enough to retrieve when it was stolen by those filthy Antivians.

 

[Ishtar]

Those normal people had since become mutants too. A very notable example is how Mark Darrah went on record stating that loves that the series has become sanitized, becoming the game that should have been.

Then again, he was a consultant on that game, so maybe he was obligated to say nice things, but still... HE WAS CONSULTED ON THE GAME.

People change their views all the time, but it seems like working at BioWare leaves a stain in the DNA that later turns you into a mutated NPC. He already has the soyface and patronizing libtard voice down pat.

Pretty much every faction-Tevinter, the Qunari, and the Antivan crows have been completely sanitized.

As for the writers saying this-I believe it’s because they’ve marinated in tumblr culture for well over a decade now. This is a culture that prioritizes emotional comfort over anything else and addressing criticism by bending over backwards to making the critic feel emotionally alleviated.

Also the culture has changed-and tbe writers are not unaware of this. How often do you think they’ve gotten twitter or tumblr criticisms that say the city elf origin has sexist tropes, or the Qunari are problematic(I swear one of the codex entries reads directly like a response tumblr complaint post-basically “the regular Qunari are just brown people living their lives and not in conflict with the rest of Thedas”-the clear desire to address someone crying orientalism is obvious”).*

It’s not a culture that allows nerds, especially nerdy White guts to stand on their own backs. So you get this inevitable “well the game always should have been like this”.

These people are ultimately passive and deeply conformist, and have zero conviction-if the zeitgeist was different they’d be singing another tune. But as it is, they live in tumblr tranny world and that’s what they’ve got to pay homage too.

*There was a post years ago where someone on tumblr was going off about the Qunari are problematic because Islam allusions and said something to the effect of “I hope future games show them just living their lives and not bothering anyone”-the codex entry feels like it’s a direct response to this. It’s uncanny.

 

[God of Nothing]

Beat the golemns DLC
that final fight is only somewhat challenging because all your companions for it are complete dogshit

give me anders, justice, and sigrin back please

 

[Tor Lugosi]

I never did get to play the Golems DLC. When I transferred my character to it, it would just load me into a black, featureless room with a huge cube in the middle that had a golem's texture stretched over it. Apparently it was a known bug, something to do with transferring in a character who had too much stuff in their inventory or some shit like that.

 

[God of Nothing]

I beat Witch Hunt again.
it's hilarious how this is a game where you could leave a royal marriage you were unfaithful in with a fantasy french spy mistress for a witch side-piece you can knock up with a god baby

think i'll try a rogue commoner dwarf since dual wielding and rogues are utterly fucking broken as it turns out

 

[DagothUr]

that final fight is only somewhat challenging because all your companions for it are complete dogshit

It's usually hard because of the hordes of boss rank skeletons he can spawn that have auto crits for like 100 damage on flank.

 

[God of Nothing]

It's usually hard because of the hordes of boss rank skeletons he can spawn that have auto crits for like 100 damage on flank.

I just used the two-handed AoE to knock them the fuck away to focus on the Harvester. I drank three differently ranked poultices if my health went low while it cooldowned.

 

[DagothUr]

I just used the two-handed AoE to knock them the fuck away to focus on the Harvester. I drank three differently ranked poultices if my health went low while it cooldowned.

iirc I had to resort to using Tug to kite cause he has taunt. The skitzo brother is completely useless and always dies immediately.
that was as a lvl 20 DW cun rogue from Origins. still needed to spam poultices.

 

[God of Nothing]

iirc I had to resort to using Tug to kite cause he has taunt. The skitzo brother is completely useless and always dies immediately.
that was as a lvl 20 DW cun rogue from Origins. still needed to spam poultices.

Pretty sure you were meant to do it after Awakening considering it has the extra classes and abilities.

 

[The Doom Slayer]

Veilguard has been cockblocked from a GOTY nomination.

 

[Terror Sandwich]

Couldn't even get a best RPG nomination, lost to 5 Japanese games, including a DLC:

It only got one nomination:

 

[Prokhor Zakharov]

It only got one nomination:

That is absolutely some serious cope. It's hard to put on a happy face when your older brother won GOTY and your oldest brother is considered a classic of the modern RPG genre. Veilguard is just going to sit at home, seethe, and dilate.

 

[Miller]

The concept art of her is also pretty bad but at least she/he/xir/it doesn't look like like a man with tits

So she was originally black and they made her purple.

 

[Prophetic Spirit]

I beat Witch Hunt again.
it's hilarious how this is a game where you could leave a royal marriage you were unfaithful in with a fantasy french spy mistress for a witch side-piece you can knock up with a god baby

think i'll try a rogue commoner dwarf since dual wielding and rogues are utterly fucking broken as it turns out

That was the point of my mage playthrought: secs with Morrigan, romance with Leliana until the end, with the normal child between.
My rogue playthrought is gonna be a Prince, barring all the other romances (maybe Zevran but just thinking about it makes me want to puke...)
Zevran is a faggot.

 

[God of Nothing]

That was the point of my mage playthrought: secs with Morrigan, romance with Leliana until the end, with the normal child between.
My rogue playthrought is gonna be a Prince, barring all the other romances (maybe Zevran but just thinking about it makes me want to puke...)
Zevran is a faggot.

he's a fucking knife-ear
that's all i needed to know

 

[Eadred]

I hate the sound design of this game so much. Everything sounds like Iron Man / Marvel laserexplosion garbage.
Still my game of the year though. I love reading the thread and all the drama the game created. I hope Bioware closes down, that'd be the cherry on top.

 

[woduqu]

Tangentially related: I went to check on SteamDB and noticed something standing out. It has a Bluesky link now and Twitter removed. Undoubtedly, not a coincidence what with many far leftists leaving Twitter to there in protest of Trump's win.

Before:

After:

Maybe not surprising with Mastodon being there in the first place since only far leftists use that one, as far as I've heard. Anyways, not saying this changes the info presented there, of course, but just something that caught my eye.

Edit: The creator of SteamDB is still on Twitter though: