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

[porkWellington]

I think the only way they could get anyone excited for Dragon Age now is a reboot similar to Gears of War; forget about the doomed sequels they've created (Gears 4 and 5), go back to the style and characters that drew people into the series. They could do a prequel to Origins about some Grey Wardens desperately trying and ultimately failing to stop the Blight, maybe kill them all but have Duncan be the only survivor.

EA's probably poured too much into Mass Effect to dump it now but if that fails Bioware's definitely getting shittered.

 

[Paranoia Machine]

AH SHIT HERE WE GO AGAIN

 

[Executive Petrel]

To the surprise of nobody except Reddit.

Redditors stating it isn't woke and conservatives are seething just because Sweet Baby inc. wasn't involved.

 

[GeekUSA]

Reminder that none of the original team at Bioware has any creative input, and that most who work there probably never even worked on any of the original Dragon Age or Mass Effect games. Don't feel bad for them, they chose to work on this game and are paying the price for choosing to be a hanger-on on a dead and gay studio.

 

[Steinercard]

Veilguard is not only their third flop in a row; it's the first one that is legitimately franchise-killing. Anthem was new territory; Andromeda was confined to a completely different galaxy with only a few tenuously linked characters like Garrus's father (I suppose one might consider it a gaiden game). Veilguard was the greatly anticipated followup to a game that ended on multiple cliffhangers a decade ago -- and with such a disastrous resolution, where is the story supposed to go now? Their best bet might be to figure out what the next age is called and advance the timeline another 50 years so everything that happened in this trainwreck is no more than vaguely-recalled history.

If BioWare somehow survives to produce ME5, then yes, as others have said then I think ME5 will be the last strike. But I really have my doubts they're going to be given the opportunity.

Mass Effect is too big and being made by a different Bioware studio. I'm sure it'll be shit but it's always had more mainstream appeal amongst Goyslopers compared to Dragon Age. At worst EA will give it to someone else in their mines. But they won't chuck it away.

 

[Safir]

The last Eldritch Horror expansion introduced investigators from another line, Mansions of Madness: two of them were gay. In both cases, this was a background element that had no bearing on the character: a dead same sex lover for one; a throwaway line about the female mechanic liking pretty girls for the other. A bit eye-rolling, but nothing absurdly intrusive.

It's already absurdly intrusive to have faggotry (and in fact "sexuality" of any sort) in a tabletop strategy game that you play with other people. Fags put it in there to "spark conversations" (aka abuse players). Dare you enter my magical realm?

I don't know exactly what happened -- a trans designer worked on Eldritch and was in charge of Arkham 3E, but he was gone by the time they did Unfathomable

A company isn't pozzed as long as a troon is in it, it hasn't been pozzed by the troon, it had already been pozzed by the time they invited a troon.

 

[Kayfabe]

Saints Row 2022, Concord, Dustborn, DA: The Veilguard, and AC: Shadows should be in future marketing case studies about how the social justice religion and moral hysteria of the late-2010s early-2020s United States ended beloved franchises, tanked companies, fucked the gaming and entertainment industries, wasted billions of dollars, worsened race and gender relations, contributed to election losses, and eventually ended with a massive societal and political backlash against it (in case you think I am implying that Concord resulted in Trump being re-elected, no, I am talking about the Progressive Genderblacktrannylivesmatter religion that has been plaguing American society and media as a whole).

Something ironically positive about the 2010s-2020s Woke/Tranny/Racialist cult, is that its peak in popularity and power occurred in the digital era, and was extremely reliant on social media, mega-corporations, films, video games, celebrities, politicians, activists, and terminally online tards proselytizing it, as a result, there is an endless ocean of content that documents its insanity and failures from its inception to its end.

This contrasts with previous failed 20th century ideologies, subcultures, and social trends that still have proponents and revisionists defending and arguing in favor of them til this day, since back then, it was harder to consistently talk about and observe said social movements and literally any of their adherents 24/7 from anywhere at any time in the world as they were were occurring and failing, and also observe in real-time their most outspoken supporters and ideologues smugly proclaiming about how their worldview is totally the future and right side of history, and if you disagree, you are an ignorant loser who cannot comprehend how correct and supernaturally good their religion is.

May all of this serve as a cautionary tale in case retards in the future ever attempt to resurrect it, or create a spiritual successor to anything resembling it, enough is enough, it was a failure now and will continue being a failure that is hated by the overwhelming majority of humans on the planet, and continues to alienate the population and burn up money and resources for no fucking reason other than "you have to respect trans women because.... because you have to bigot" beliefs that are religious and idealistic in nature.

To the "delusional retards of history" together with lobotomies and the satanic panic may the woke and child-mutilating gendertranny cults go to.

 

[News Enjoyer]

Good. There are very few western game devs I don't want to see go under. The only ones I can think of are ID and Moon Studios. The rest could die in a gutter and nothing would be lost.

Oh and I guess Sandfall Interactive if Expedition 33 ends up being good.

Frankly I'm at the point where almost all the big name Japanese studios can fuck off too. Nintendo is the exception for the moment, the gameplay hasn't slipped too badly despite their dalliance with the forces of DEI... yet.

 

[Wasabi Wahhābī]

Good. The more EA bleeds, the higher the chance that the SSX IP will get sold to someone who will actually fucking use it.

I miss SSX

 

[Mola Ram]

It's already absurdly intrusive to have faggotry (and in fact "sexuality" of any sort) in a tabletop strategy game that you play with other people. Fags put it in there to "spark conversations" (aka abuse players). Dare you enter my magical realm?

I just think it's incredible you can go from a throwaway line about pretty girls to "oh, sure, the security chief for this steamship is a crossdressing faggot and even though this is 1913 he's not in a fucking asylum." Give these people an inch and they'll take a mile.

 

[Islamic Taylor Swift]

I'm retarded and Dragon Age seems too complicated for me so I'm glad it failed as I'm not missing out on anything.

 

[GunCar Gary]

Who cares lol. If you don't like it don't buy it. If you do like it then play it and spread the word. Living well is the best revenge, and seething over "woke" games when you could be enjoying games you like certainly isn't living well.

how much estrogen is in your body right now? either naturally or artificially

i'm guessing it's above zero

 

[Lazy Drei]

I mean, it was barely related to Dragon Age at the end of that 10 years of development, and one might say it skinwalks as Dragon Age much like the troon director Andrew Bussche who quietly slipped back into the shadows after absolutely spitting on the corpse of the franchise or whatever that remained of it.

All that is left to do is give away the IP to people who are actually competent at developing a video game unlike Bioware which turned into one big diversity cesspool with maybe a handful of actually competent devs left who are now the victims of radical ideologues who think real life culture and politics fit well in a high fantasy fictional game and have run their own studio into the ground.

 

[SuitcaseNuke]

I think Bioware is ready to be added to the EA mass grave.

Rip in pepperoni.

They really ruin everything they touch. Every company they buy gets destroyed, they are basically an IP farm at this point. They buy these franchises, release a subpar product then never do anything with the franchise again. They are the worst

 

[AnOminous]

Who cares lol. If you don't like it don't buy it. If you do like it then play it and spread the word. Living well is the best revenge, and seething over "woke" games when you could be enjoying games you like certainly isn't living well.

If you don't care about the subject of the thread why are you posting in it?

 

[Well Intentioned]

Who cares lol. If you don't like it don't buy it. If you do like it then play it and spread the word. Living well is the best revenge, and seething over "woke" games when you could be enjoying games you like certainly isn't living well.

I agree on this. I tend not to pay attention to a lot of this shit, but it is really difficult to just 'ignore' things when a) properties you enjoyed 5, 10, 20, etc. years ago are infested with this shit, b) millions of dollars at top-tier studios are tied up in producing it, and c) there are tax/financial incentives tied to it (which seems to be going away.)

I don't care about politically/socio-economically driven shit in my media. I dislike poorly made shit being trumpeted as the greatest thing ever where agenda trumps things like 'gameplay', 'logical coherency', or 'story.'

I'd much rather studios stop propping up existing properties and skinwalking them around and they just come up with their own shit (like Concord) that can die in a corner, ignored and unloved as it should be. That's the reason why people are celebrating this -- it is shit people have fond memories of being shit on. There's an emotional/nostalgic feeling there that isn't with shit like Concord.

The people who are 'getting aroused' or whatever over studios closing are fucking speds, though. It's Patrick Tomlinson 'rage erection' levels of lame, even if it is in 'jest.'

 

[LikeAStone 2.0]

The fact that someone looked at a photo like this and genuinely thought it would succeed is honestly the most surprising part of all this.

 

[The Last Stand]

they didnt even sell 1.5 million, they say they "engaged 1.5 million players", thats corpo speak, they probably included demo players, refunds and game pass subcriptions in that number.
And even if it actually sold 3 million it would probably still lose money, bioware is a AAA studio with like 8 years of dev time on veilguard. the fact the estimate by EA was 3 million means they probably always knew this garbage would bomb and didnt expect to recoup their money.
If bioware doesnt shut down after this catastrophe of a shitshow i dont know what will. its literally their third flop in a row. And each one is worse than the last, i dont know how it can get worse, but im sure mass effect 5 will be somehow even more garbage

Good thing for EA they own those IPs. Last I've heard of Bioware was Mass Effect: Andromeda and Anthem 2.0. I think EA was hands-off with Bioware for a time, but with their previous track record and consumer revolt, I don't think they're long for this world. Never played Dragon Age since Inquisition, but I hated it. Probably for the best. If they cannot make good games, find another profession.

 

[Mola Ram]

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The fact that someone looked at a photo like this and genuinely thought it would succeed is honestly the most surprising part of all this.

Nobody. Wanted. This.

 

[Divine right to rule]

We're looking at the makings of another major game industry crash, not seen since the 1980's.

Lolno.
Back in the day there were just a handful studios and a handful people who could even make games. Today, there are thousands of studios and it is the biggest entertainment industry by far.

Even Ubisoft completely shuttering would barely make a dent.
With the exception of sports games and a few others, the industry has outgrown bloated AAA slop.

AA studios produce better games at a lower budget and kick the shit out of them.
There are tons of good and great games coming out every single year, and the only AAA games that are seen as must-buys are the rare Rockstar releases.