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

[Haramburger]

Factorio/Satisfactory isn't just a great engineering game, you can't tell your gender and there's no story so the woketards couldn't ruin it if they tried. Also love how unapologetically MALE Deep Rock Galactic is.

 

[pollution jim]

I think the obvious pandering works for some people, not regular people or even people they're trying to pander to, but the gaming journalists and r/gamingcirclejerk users who want to try anything to make "get woke go broke" seem like a delusion that only stupid chuds have. They take the new game in a series they probably never heard of before in a genre they don't give a shit about and own le chuds by smugly showing that this AAA game sold more than 100 copies

LOL gaming is hardly a real hobby. Actual hobbies don't have this ridiculous drama, aside from maybe fanfic and Tumblr art.

you like lego

 

[necross]

How many fags and women actually play shit like AC, Far Cry, and Dragon Age? I don't think it's a big enough number to pander to them all the time.

Although I'm not a fag, I can attest that most normal women are usually VERY neutral about games and that this pandering more often than not comes off as tone deaf and annoying.

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Case in point that one scene in modern Wolfenstein where pregnant Anya somehow manages to do a battle roll with two twins in her stomach without killing them and herself in the process (I WISH she did after Youngblood released), rips her shirt for some reason, straddles Blazkowicz and proceeds to shoot the Nazis in a super GIRLBOSS way while she gets showered in blood. I don't know what about this is meant to be "empowering" but it's painful to watch.

I'd also like to mention how the female combatants in Mortal Kombat got progressively more and more boring and uninspired designs after MK9s cool and classic ones for anyone who has grown up with the franchise got lambasted for being too "sexualized" despite the male characters being equally idealistic.

Games often indirectly reflect the times they were made in but in the case of MK, like many other franchises these days — the backpedaling to be politically correct despite their history comes across as disingenuous and retarded. Dragon Age is no different sadly.

Overall most people couldn't care less about representation or politics as long as the game has something that appeals to them like gameplay, art style or story regardless of who they are. Most talented and professional artists, both men and women, have long since left these AAA studios due to their increasingly scummy practices over the years and what's left are out of touch corpos and overworked or amateur employees who have no idea what makes games fun or what their fans want.

 

[Prokhor Zakharov]

“Why the fuck can’t we do that”

The reason they need to ask this is why they fail.

 

[Cuckoman]

My guess is triple A executives think picking the nastiest mot resentful blue haired they/them crazies to write their slop will magically attract the youths. It's not even that hard to integrate DEI slop into your shit, just give the player the option to play however he wants while retaining the atmosphere that has been working already for previous games. That worked for BG3, that game was filled to the brim with faggotry but it was bearable because outside two or three plot points it wasn't that noticeable in the story proper. I think the people behind these games are forgetting that they are writting for an audience and not for themselves.

The way I see it is BG3 was a really good game that also had a bunch of faggotry. It was developed by talented people that made a really really good game, snd since it was good no one really cared about whatever faggotry was in there.
DA-VG on the other hand is a objectively bad game, even if you ignore all the faggot stuff. Because it was developed by a tranny and thus the priorities shifted away from "develop a good game" and instead become "validate my tranny lifestyle" simulator.

The immediate reason for DA-VG is shit is not primarily the woke tranny shit in the game but rather that there is nothing else. Making a good game was never a priority.

Remove the tranny shit from DA-VG and there is nothing left, nothing. Remove the faggotry from BG3 and you still have a superbly great game. that is the difference between the two.

 

[Fcret]

How many fags and women actually play shit like AC, Far Cry, and Dragon Age?

Women don't want gross trannies in their games. They also don't really care for manfaced girlbosses.

All the data points to the same conclusion - women want attractive characters in their games. They might have some qualms about oversexualized female designs (although this is also shown in data to not really matter) but they absolutely do not want fucking trannies or fucking Snoy ogres.

 

[AnOminous]

He has been tremendously useful to them in return by credulously repeating their spiels about toxic workplaces, reiterating one trannies story as if they're widely held opinions in the company

Don't get me wrong, I detest this faggot. But there is a reason he has escaped into the realm of "real" journalism, and that is he is a useful idiot.

 

[p1138]

Women don't want gross trannies in their games. They also don't really care for manfaced girlbosses.

All the data points to the same conclusion - women want attractive characters in their games. They might have some qualms about oversexualized female designs (although this is also shown in data to not really matter) but they absolutely do not want fucking trannies or fucking Snoy ogres.

This same conclusion was come to hundreds of years ago, and still holds up to this day of why womens products and magazines don't normally feature 300 pound lardasses on the packaging, cover, etc. Even when you get to the craft magazines for old ladies, you're still not seeing trannies on the cover talking about new crochet patterns or whatever. And it isn't like those magazines are marketing to men or something.

 

[Fastest Hand In The East]

Bioware is most likely getting axed.

At this point it's like scrapping a 60 years old cargo ship- it's all just rust and holes. The last crumbs of people who had anything in their heads left the company between Mass Effect 1 and Mass Effect 2.

 

[ArgentinianGrandpa]

At this point Bioware shutting down would be for the best and EA should just license the IP to someone else to make a new dragon age or mass effect. Their reputation is at its worst between the shit show that was Anthem development (and how we learn of EA believing in "bioware magic") and now this, better to just kill it quickly and painless instead of ending like other good old companies like ravensoftware.....man i miss jedi outcast and soldier of fortune

 

[Cuckoman]

This same conclusion was come to hundreds of years ago, and still holds up to this day of why womens products and magazines don't normally feature 300 pound lardasses on the packaging, cover, etc. Even when you get to the craft magazines for old ladies, you're still not seeing trannies on the cover talking about new crochet patterns or whatever. And it isn't like those magazines are marketing to men or something.

It is almost like seeing a picture of a repulsive fat tranny in lingerine does not trigger a "Oh, I want to look like that, that is my fantasy, I will go spend money to buy the same lingerine as the repulsive fat tranny in the ad so I can look like hime".
No, women, even fat and ugly women, want to buy lingerine worn by the slim, sexy and beautiful woman in the ad, since their fantasy is to also be slim, sexy and beautiful.

Same thing for women and videogames. There are very very few women whose secret desire is "I want identify and play as a horribly ugly and fat gorilla-hon".
Virtually all women want to play as a sexy and attractive character.

 

[FloorPlanGreen]

The only good EA games i played were Command & Conquer Generals/C&C Zero Hour

Red alert 2 with the Mental Omega mod holds up to this day, tbh. Very well.

Baldur's gate 3 and disco elysium while good were still hurt by woke shit.

Even the original DA:0 knew this. For the time the game was very progressive with its choices of characters and themes. If it was remade today, would be extremely gay.
The difference is, like BG3 and disco Elysium like you mentioned; you just had to engage with the content that was there, to a limit. It wasn't forced upon you. That's why despite the whole series being fairly full of faggotry every 12-16 months or so on a slow weekend with nothing to do Ill still go back and play DA:0 or Mass Effect for shiggles. Its good slop.

 

[SouthernBitchBob]

Having seen further clips of this godawful excuse for a game, something funny leapt out at me. The manfaced obnoxious genderspecial party member, the one who barges in on dinner to announce she's "non-binary" and has several embarrassing "YOU don't get to define who I AM" speeches every Tumblrina wishes she had the spine to give to that Hot Topic cashier who called her "miss"?

There's another Necromancer party member she calls "corpsefucker". He tells her he finds that offensive and asks her not to do that. She ignores him and continues it anyway. Any information I can find on this party interaction says it has no payoff. Yes, the boisterous bitch author self-insert tranny character who screams at anyone who doesn't call her what she wants to be called, calls her "friends" names even after being asked to stop. And this -isn't- used for character growth.

The trannies write *themselves* as annoying mean shameless hypocrites.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

It was also the season of reboots where random, plucky, “B tier AAA” franchises like Baldurs Gate were able to fucking explode. (Yes, a 20 year old CRPG is B tier).

All up and down the halls the bigwigs are gritting their teeth at what is Larians literal third go at torturing their players with what on paper should an unpopular genre literally raping every other genre for like 3 years straight, wondering, “Why the fuck can’t we do that”

Well that and Larian knows live service is shit and content that gets added after release should be completely free. Things EA doesn't get.

The fact that the concept for 4 was in planning stages then everyone jumped ship, leaving us with troons and one 'lore expert' just boggles the mind how much of a fail this is.

 

[necross]

At this point Bioware shutting down would be for the best and EA should just license the IP to someone else to make a new dragon age or mass effect. Their reputation is at its worst between the shit show that was Anthem development (and how we learn of EA believing in "bioware magic") and now this, better to just kill it quickly and painless instead of ending like other good old companies like ravensoftware.....man i miss jedi outcast and soldier of fortune

Man...Raven Games, haven't heard that in a while apart from CoD skins. Though they were initially just a medieval Id clone (they were literally across the street from them lmfao) I love Heretic and Hexen respectively and I wish that old style of retro fantasy could be back. I miss them. Heretic II is still one of my most favorite games with how smooth and satisfying the controls are, and I hear that it was the precursor to the Lightsaber combat mechanics in Jedi Outcast. Overall a very impressive game for it's time made by a skilled team, they don't make em like this anymore.

Some rare concept art I found with a sweet message attached.

Virtually all women want to play as a sexy and attractive character.

Very true, I found that myself and many other girls I know tend to spend HOURS making the perfect character in games, regardless if they choose to play a male or female.
Just like guys like to play female characters cause of the broader customization options or just a nice ass they can stare at for a few hours, women aren't that much different apart from their preferences. Only a very certain kind of person would play an ugly as sin character unironically ESPECIALLY in RPGs and it's not the people who make abominations in Oblivion for the shits and giggles.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

Nobody. Wanted. This.

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The way she writes like Yoda with a hormonal problem....the fact that someone approved this.....I cannot make heads or tails of this shit.

Also I still mourn for Jade Empire. (Am I one of the few who genuinely enjoyed it?) I wish it had moved beyond console exclusivity to being avaliable on PSN. Hell i would have liked a sequel or a remake but that's never gonna happen.

 

[Attractive Sexhaver]

I think the people behind these games are forgetting that they are writting for an audience and not for themselves

I think they actively detest their actual audience and they're embarrassed to be associated with them. They resent that commercially successful AAA videogames have pretty simple plots that appeal to young men: bad ass criminals make wise cracks during heists (GTA), bad ass spaceship captain saves the galaxy (Mass effect), bad ass fantasy trope saves the realm (Dragon Age).

They hate the thought of pandering to a group of people they see as uncool nerds. They see themselves as sophisticated artists with a profound story to tell, but nobody wants to pay them for that. So they glom onto established franchises and churn out shit like Veilguard instead and hope they can bully people into buying it by claiming all critics are evil maga chuds.

It doesn't ever occur to them that they're losing customers in droves that go far beyond people who actively disagree with their politics. I'll bet people who do go along with all their trans and non binary bullshit don't want their escapist videogame about magical elves to come to a grinding halt so a side character can deliver an HR approved speech about being non binary.

 

[SuitcaseNuke]

Im glad EA has come back to reclaim their throne as the worst gaming company, not even since the 90s they had that title (where they were infamous for being dickheads crunch worshippers and numberfriends, is the reason we dont have more Wing Commander or Ultima)

They were a terrible company from the beginning. Trip Hawkins founded EA, he did so so he could release unlicensed Nintendo games. Shit founder shit company.

 

[Desu Mountain]

i will never get over how devasting this was. I will never have an satisfactory conclusion for my saves in the DA: Keep. I piss on these trannies for turning this franchise into a putrid nightmare.



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Ah yes, KotoR. That game with the incredible writing where you can meet a beggar and have two incredible roleplaying options of "Here, take all my money (gain light side points)" and "Die you filthy beggar piece of shit (gain dark side points)".

Say what you will about Obsidian and their games being buggy pieces of shit, but at least they could write worth a damn, unlike BioWare. TSL was way better than KotoR even without the restoration mod.

 

[Cuckoman]

Very true, I found that myself and many other girls I know tend to spend HOURS making the perfect character in games, regardless if they choose to play a male or female.
Just like guys like to play female characters cause of the broader customization options or just a nice ass they can stare at for a few hours, women aren't that much different apart from their preferences. Only a very certain kind of person would play an ugly as sin character unironically ESPECIALLY in RPGs and it's not the people who make abominations in Oblivion for the shits and giggles.

In Dark Souls there is even a phrase for it. Fashion Souls.
It is a lot more important that the armor LOOKS good than that the armor IS good. Even if it means the game gets a lot harder.
As a man, I don't really care if my character is male or female, but the character MUST look attractive and pleasant to look at and identify as.