Dragon age the Veilguard new 22 gameplay video

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ElFenomeno said:
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That's the new Bioware game man. Aren't ya hyped? Dragon Age died for me about 6 hours into Inquisition. I know how a lot of you are feeling now. Speaking of which, this combat looks a LOT like Inquisition. the fuck have they been doing all this time? I think the mage spell flurry animation is even the same.
 
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Seems like all the talented devs in the west have left, and there's no fresh blood coming in. I have no explanation for this endless stream of slop.
 
WHY DO THESE GAMES LOOK SHITTIER AND PLAY WORSE THAN STUFF FROM THE PS3/XBOX360 ERA?!?! I'M SICK OF THIS SHIT!!!!

Sorry for yelling.
 
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My hype for this game has dropped considerably and I'm starting to shift my attention more to Metaphor: Refantasio or whatever the fuck it's called.
 
Trelane said:
WHY DO THESE GAMES LOOK SHITTIER AND PLAY WORSE THAN STUFF FROM THE PS3/XBOX360 ERA?!?! I'M SICK OF THIS SHIT!!!!

Sorry for yelling.
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You're right tho. It's time for us boomers to accept that most of these once great studios are dead and buried and just exist as brand names to push out absolute slop like this.
 


Every companion has their own bedroom. Boom. Looks like those sex hotels with themed rooms that were everywhere in the 90s 00s.
 
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I really want to like this, but every video looks off. The iPad vibes are real as some have said.

This has been in development as long as Concord, if not longer.
 
I was rooting for the game but if I am being honest this looks truly awful.

What tf are western devs thinking with these ugly ass art directions ? is this a secret contest we don't know about ?
 
With ugly ass character designs that are a major downgrade compared to the art style used for Dragon Age: Origins and its two sequels... This game is an automatic DOA.

R.I.P. to the once-great developer Bioware.
 
Flabagast said:
I was rooting for the game but if I am being honest this looks truly awful.

What tf are western devs thinking with these ugly ass art directions ? is this a secret contest we don't know about ?
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I could ask the same thing. As of right now, my patience with Western gaming developers is flatlining. With few exceptions, I've pretty much boycotted any game made in the West, because all I'm seeing from recent titles such as Concord, Dustborn, and Star Wars: Outlaws are nothing more but mediocre, subpar garbage made by developers hired by a DEI quota that are bringing nothing to the table but garbage up to the teeth.

China, Korea, and Japan are practically saving gaming from extinction.
 
Flabagast said:
I was rooting for the game but if I am being honest this looks truly awful.

What tf are western devs thinking with these ugly ass art directions ? is this a secret contest we don't know about ?
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All the real talent got shoved out the door because they didn't want to participate in the Diversity Olympics. Probably moved on to WFH tech jobs that pay stupidly well and they don't have to deal with purple hair office ogres.
 
No real concerns, over the last years we've seen Solas and think he's tough and strong and we'll see more of him, with the Inquisition DLC you could tell they were shifting towards the magic realms, and elf mythology how does GAF feel about this?
 
The Cockatrice said:
Damn, this gameplay footage made the game look far worse which I couldnt think possible.

2007 called it wants its character models back and it'll prolly run worse than Cyberpunk at launch.


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Damn.

This looks really really rough.

Reminder that this is what Dragon Age: Inquisition looks like - a game 10 years old - which is on the same engine by the "same" studio:

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I swear to god the video game industry is not gonna survive this competency crisis.
 
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nerdnumber81 said:
Damn.

This looks really really rough.

Reminder that this is what Dragon Age: Inquisition looks like - a game 10 years old - which is on the same engine by the "same" studio:

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I swear to god the video game industry is not gonna survive this competency crisis.
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Western video game industry, actually. Upcoming Chinese and Korean games such as Phantom Blade Zero, The Perceiver, Lost Soul Aside, Crimson Desert, and much more will put modern Western gaming companies like Ubisoft to shame.
 
mdkirby said:
Nah, major demographic missmatch on concord. There's more demographic alignment on dragonage. Not that their big push on "the message" won't harm their sales, I'm pretty sure it will. But it won't be same scale of disaster. Could still be a flop tho and kill the studio, they'll have spent a huge amount on it, and BioWare are on shaky ground. If it doesn't make decent profit it'll be viewed as a flop.
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The game is gonna sell well despite what it looks like.

DA:I was BioWare's best selling and fastest selling game and ended on a huge cliffhanger after probably the best writing (Trespasser DLC) since Baldur's Gate 2 and KOTOR. So many people will want to see where the story goes.

The writing team is the same since Origins.

But the rest looks pretty bad.

Many - like me - will still buy it though because we are invested in the story. So yeah.

I am just bummed because we waited 10 years.

also: Dragon Age has always been "woke" aka "the message" so that won't hurt it either sales wise
 
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The combat looks ok, nothing special but not bad either. The art direction is really bland though.

Looks like a game that could easily be saved with a compelling story and characters, but I have serious doubt we'll get that given the people involved

ElFenomeno said:
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LoL is that supposed to be a Qunari?
WTF happened?
They made them so cool in DA2
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Then they downgraded them in Inquisition and now they look even dumber than in DA1
 
DarkstarRising13 said:
I could ask the same thing. As of right now, my patience with Western gaming developers is flatlining. With few exceptions, I've pretty much boycotted any game made in the West, because all I'm seeing from recent titles such as Concord, Dustborn, and Star Wars: Outlaws are nothing more but mediocre, subpar garbage made by developers hired by a DEI quota that are bringing nothing to the table but garbage up to the teeth.

China, Korea, and Japan are practically saving gaming from extinction.
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I feel the same.
The only games I bought in 2024 day one are Tekken, Stellar Blade, FF7 Rebirth. And the TR Remastered trilogy because it was treated with love and care.
Waiting for physical version of Wukong.
 
nerdnumber81 said:
The game is gonna sell well despite what it looks like.

DA:I was BioWare's best selling and fastest selling game and ended on a huge cliffhanger after probably the best writing (Trespasser DLC) since Baldur's Gate 2 and KOTOR. So many people will want to see where the story goes.

The writing team is the same since Origins.

But the rest looks pretty bad.

Many - like me - will still buy it though because we are invested in the story. So yeah.

I am just bummed because we waited 10 years.

also: Dragon Age has always been "woke" aka "the message" so that won't hurt it either sales wise
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I think the cultural environment it is launching in now is very different to 10 years ago tho. It certainly had things we now associate with being "woke" but it handled them more tactfully and naturally, less full force.

10 years ago was "pre maga" in the most important (US) market, now maga has completed its take over of the entire Republican Party and made the cultural touchstones that are now front and centre in valeguard a rallying cry (in an election year) and trained MAGA to reflexively reject them. That is a large audience who would have in the past probably have played it (well in its less in your face incarnation), who now mostly will reject it.

This rejection also has spread beyond the US as this stuff has been moved further front and center in the games produced. I'm center left in the UK and I'm finding it very tiring/too much. I don't take issue with the intent of DEI, but with its usual poor implementation. Principally because the intent of the studios is normally (tho not always) disengenous tickboxing, which then is glaringly obvious, but also because the writers are usually not talented enough to weave those things in properly and not make it hamfisted, disengenous slop. It's also often paired with the "E" for equity in hiring practices, where the focus is equity of outcome instead of equity of opportunity, which can result in some pretty shit hires (like you "the rest of it looks pretty bad", this is likely a big reason why. So if it looks like DEI tickbox game, there's a good chance it will suffer in multiple departments too, and will lack the quality of a good game. I'm still willing to give stuff a shot tho, as I too enjoyed the previous ones and want to see where it goes, tho I'm pretty pissed off at the omission of blood magic.

But yeah, if that's my own view, i often wonder just how poor the sentiment must be from the many to the right of myself.

The other big difference between now and 10 years ago is social media has changed a lot. A few years ago, accounts who pushed back against "the message" would have been shadow banned or just outright banned. But they thrive now, on X in particular, even Zuck has also changed tack recently too, meanwhile the influence of the traditional game journalism sites has significantly waned. That shift will hurt sales, to what degree I've no idea.

But like I say, it doesn't need to be a catastrophic failure to be a flop for BioWare, it also likely needs to be their most successful game to date to be considered a success at all, as budgets have also grown significantly in the last decade, if it pushes the same numbers as inquisition (6mil units) itll likely be considered a flop.
 
The whole art design of this game looks like a giant "wouldn´t it be cool if..." - and then no one said no.
 
How many more kicks at the can will EA give Bioware, this game needs to perform well for their sake. When was the last Bioware success? Mass Effect Legendary edition, prior to that Anthem and Andromeda.

To be fair, once the kings of story telling regardless of graphics.
 
Flabagast said:
I was rooting for the game but if I am being honest this looks truly awful.

What tf are western devs thinking with these ugly ass art directions ? is this a secret contest we don't know about ?
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Its pushing woke agenda as priority bro, quality of the game isnt important anymore, hence all kinds of western AAA projects flopping left and right, this one wont be exception, and i say it as DA fan who played 120h of Inquisition and enjoyed it a lot back at launch, on my ps4.
 
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I gave this game the benefit of the doubt because I like the previous DA games, but this looks terrible. Gonna pass completely or wait until its dirt cheap in a couple of years.
 
Miyazaki's Slave said:
Have this slated as my holiday break game this year...but all the video content they are showing really is not isn't making that choice easy for me.
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I think I now have this slated as a possible holiday game on gamepass next year. I was interested but the character designs look really cheap and that likely means other corners were cut.
 
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I fail to see how it is doing things differently or better than DA:I that came out 10 years ago. Same "character arcs", same "base of operations", even the cartoony color palette is the same with overemphasis on Fortnite violet here.

The Qunari MC is fucking stupid comparing to DA2, it's like "human, but with horns":

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Stuff is way too flashy, while being really slow. I can get flashy, but then I'm playing Diablo 4 when you are running full speed through the level. The "flashiness" doesn't have the same impact when things are so slow.

This will be a skip for me.
 
DarkstarRising13 said:
Western video game industry, actually. Upcoming Chinese and Korean games such as Phantom Blade Zero, The Perceiver, Lost Soul Aside, Crimson Desert, and much more will put modern Western gaming companies like Ubisoft to shame.
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The US does not equal the whole of western video game industry. Europe is doing pretty good. Poland, Czech, Germany etc etc. England too. There are bad apples everywhere (including europe and asia of course) but let's not be so dogmatic (asia good. west bad).
 
This game looks like absolute trash. What are AAA studios thinking these days? Everything is designed by a social warrior DEI paint by the numbers model. Horrible,
 
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