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Alexander Winship
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เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2020
Opinionated gaming news, reviews, and retrospectives. I focus on single-player, narrative driven games, and RPGs.
The DEATH of BioWare? (Dragon Age: The Veilguard)
It's make or break for BioWare...
00:00 Intro
00:38 BioWare's Recent History
07:13 The Industry is Suffering
08:57 Dragon Age: The Veilguard is BioWare's Last Chance
#dragonagetheveilguard #bioware #dragonage
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00:00 Intro
00:38 BioWare's Recent History
07:13 The Industry is Suffering
08:57 Dragon Age: The Veilguard is BioWare's Last Chance
#dragonagetheveilguard #bioware #dragonage
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Bethesda Is Wasting Fallout
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Begin again. My video on Exodus: th-cam.com/video/WEcYGS87IKw/w-d-xo.html 00:00 Introduction 01:01 The Current State of Fallout 03:27 Bethesda's Recent History 10:30 Microsoft Must Give Fallout to Another Studio 22:44 Outro #fallout5 #bethesda #falloutnewvegas #interplay #fallout3
EXODUS: The Next Mass Effect? (Ex-BioWare developers)
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Exodus is a new sci-fi RPG from ex-BioWare developers that could be the true successor to Mass Effect. I am very sceptical about the next Mass Effect (Mass Effect 4, I guess), if it even releases, so I'm very excited that Exodus looks so promising. What makes Exodus different is that there are many ex-BioWare developers that worked on Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, the Mass Effect Tril...
What's Next For Valve? (Half-Life 3 leaks and Deadlock)
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Half-Life 3 leaks are cool again. Deadlock is also leaking like a tap. Valve is apparently working on a new single-player Half-Life project (Project White Sands or HLX) - so maybe Half-Life 3? They’re also working on Deadlock - a game that seemingly nobody wants - while they're also continuing to neglect Counter-Strike 2 and Team Fortress 2. It's a great time to be a Valve fan. Here are some of...
Destiny 3 Cancelled? What Happened to Bungie?
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Destiny 3 isn't real, Bungie is a mess, and it looks like this franchise is basically over. Well, its been fun. Jason Schrier has revealed some new information about just how bad the mess at Bungie is. They've let go of 220 members of staff, and Sony is bascially going to steer the ship going forward. As for Destiny itself, it seems to basically be dead. The Final Shape was great, but it didn't...
Correction: the Centauri Cluster is a real globular cluster that is a part of the Milky Way. It appears to have been the remnants of a smaller galaxy dismantled by our galaxy.
Matthew McConaughey could have also been chosen because of Interstellar, which is a movie that heavily features time dilation.
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It looks great.
Skillup has pronounced the game a disaster.
I understand why people were upset with ME3 but I love that game. The ending was VERY disappointing but the rest of the game was great to me, I loved curing/sabotaging the genophage, ending the war between the quarians and the geth, and destroying Cerberus. I believe that game, up until the ending, is fantastic. I’ve played that trilogy so many times and I love playing that game as much as I love the other two.
It doesn't matter if they go out of business. The people who created the games we loved are gone. It's only tge same company in name. I can't name a single thing they have done right post ME3. I owe them no allegiance and they have no good will. Just hope they would do the right thing, which they haven't in years. Never wonder why all the true talent left.
This looks very promising based on the who is involved. Everything you said in the video was music to my ears. AND can you believe it guys? The men in the trailers appear masculine, & the women appear feminine (& dare I say attractive?). 👏🏻 👏🏻 there is still hope for the gaming industry, I will be rooting for this game. If it’s even 75% of what Mass Effect gave us, I will be happy. But hopefully it will be just as good if not better
What bothers me is the addition of "trans surgery scars" in the character creator. I already have to deal with the pronoun thing they keep putting in my games, but that is too far!
its just hard to believe how far woke virus spread...its in every company . people just hiring this people and forcing normal people to create this shit they have no choice or lose the job... this is sick this is because asylums in US are closed everything started in this sick fucking country
Have fun with dragon age veil guard. I am going to be playing the dragon quest remake in a few weeks whenever it comes out. I am done with bioware.
I'm holding out hope for Exodus in part because I am not expecting the next Mass Effect to be able to deliver, given all the numerous departures and disasters at BioWare over the last few years. I like everything about the game that I've seen so far, just wish we had it yesterday!
I love Baldur's Gate, Dragon Age Origins & Mass Effect 1. Mass Effect 2 is a technically improved game that lacks the soul of the first one. The third part tried to do so with darker tones. But that was disappointing. Because EA had already stuck its fingers in everything. Then it got even worse. DA Inquisition disgusted me and Mass Effect Andromeda is a joke... So I thought Bioware had been dead for a long time. At least since the Rings of Power/Acolythe-like Anthem....
The problem is multilayered in regard to why fans are not impressed with the studio, and it stems from different points of view. Firstly, I have personally seen and discussed with many gamers that the lack of an art direction in this series is a huge problem for some fans. I loved the first games gritty, gory, dark hues and tones but they have been changed with ever iteration of the game and again with this one. It would be one thing if they were updating models or making a varied cast of other creatures but the entire color scheme and visual coherence of the series is disjointed. Secondly, the combat system is completely different than anything they have tried. They made Dragon age origins with a system that I have always praised as one where every spell, every swing of a blade felt impactful it was a slower paced rpg but when you are used to playing CRPG's you were used to this combat style and the inclusion of a pause to think was a very well fleshed out game. In the second Dragon age it became much more fast paced and lost a good portion of that feeling and then in inquisition they feel like they tried to combine the two. Again, you will have those that loved one games play pacing more than another but when you play a CRPG you don't have to reinvent the wheel with each iteration. Look at the two more recent releases of Pathfinder Kingmaker and Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous. These games are more traditional RPG's and were very well received and the engine is what we have enjoyed since the early days of Baldur's Gate 1. Thirdly, they have recently attacked people for voicing criticism of the game being woke calling them "F****g tourists" which is not necessarily true. I have been a loving Bioware fan since the first Baldur's Gate. I have played both of those, both Knights of the Old Republic, The Mass Effect Trilogy, Dragon Age series through Inquisition. They have gotten further and further away from the feel of their games. When it is brought up by fans that are not happy with the new direction of the games they are attacked by the developers and creators. This is not a good thing no matter the reason. Simply stating that this is the new direction that they wanted to take their game and that they are aware that this is not something all the fans are going to embrace would have been a simple and effective way to acknowledge both long standing fans with the company and to let them know that they are still going to be moving forward in this direction. This would allow fans of the company to leave with the knowledge that their hopes of great games that they used to make will not be coming back. Fourthly, The lack of character choices in the games from previous titles having any impact on the new game is a blow to everyone that has been playing the series who hoped to be playing a contiguous story. This is not the case and is a sad reality of the game. The Grey warden's epic tale from the first game has mostly nothing to do with the rest of the games. The Zero to Hero from the second dragon age choices played more of a role. I have not finished inquisition so cannot claim to know the amount of impact from the two previous games though i know that the character from the second game comes into the game. Yet in the next one those choices boil down to a few key decisions in a character creation. This leaves a sour note for many who have been playing the game series for so long. To be fair on this note the developers saying the technology has advanced to for to incorporate those decisions is most likely a sad reality. Lastly, The more modern approach to RPG games is to strip down choices and overly simplify game mechanics in the hopes to attract non rpg gamers who enjoy the faster paced button smashy or flashy style game play. This is more of personal complaint on my part as I want the gritty bloody, slow burn action pace of the first dragon age. But the generation of gamers of the new era do not like those style of games if my kids are to be any example. I will say that all my gripes with ff7 remake aside they did very well with the combination of turn based and fast action-based gameplay. I just don't feel that Dragon age going in that direction is a good fit for this style of gameplay. All in all the games are horridly disjointed in their approach to not only gameplay, color scheme, graphics and rpg mechanics the games creators do not take the criticism well and instead attack their fans when questions are raised. The game is a beloved series with an amazing promise that has slowly died since its first game in the series. Since the first game the sales have dropped with the second game being the worst selling in the series. They have lost what it was to make a legend. The hype around Ogrins, the dark and gritty atmosphere both have completely died from the series. Although each shines a bit in their own regards. The series has lost sight of not only the values that built their company into a legendary position but also has lost any cohesion to the studios continued existence in the gaming industry. They lack a unifying goal or values in which to reproduce the legends of their past. As is the problem with a lot of older studios the talent, creativity and unifying powers of the older developers seems to have left the company lacking. This is not in any way to say that those that are at these studios are not great at their jobs but rather the unifying love and guidance of the past are gone. I see it in the fantasy of the new age both in movies, books and games. The new tools of today's era are amazing and the people that work with them have to be very talented, why than can we not get a game that can reach the fanbase of the series? If we take the fact, they have talented people working there, that the game still has promise, what else can be said for the game to explain the lack of anything that can stand to the test of time like their games of old? Quite a few seem to blame the politics that have swallowed the company.
Fear the hype.
I liked Inquisition. I have 900 hours in the first 3 games. I'm on the fence about Veilguard. I think I'll wait and see.
the body proportions of the characters look wrong because all characters have giant heads... This makes characters look stumpy.
Like you, Lord Winship, I am simply looking at Exodus as a replacement for Mass Effect. In fact I don't even think about Mass Effect anymore...it is like a nice memorable relationship that didn't work out from many decades ago...it was nice for a time but it is in the past.
Had me sold on this game the moment i heard one of the fathers of Dragon age origins was involved, its the only Dragon age worth playing more than once.
Dont be sad, there re noone left from the founders of the studio, Casey Hudson was the last to leave 1 year ago. Bioware died a few years back.
Dumbing down the series to the point that modern audiences will play it? DEI = Low IQ > Quality.
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BioWare isn’t the studio we fell in love with anymore. Most of the people that wrote and made the games we all love and fell in love with have all left BioWare and moved on to other projects and studios. I think that’s become a huge issue with gamers is we became loyal to companies with changing people over becoming loyal to the people who wrote and created games like rockstars or comedians. BioWare, blizzard, etc how many studios that made amazing games and then changed have been closed or dissolved. I don’t see what you see. I have friend who are huge dragon age fans. I’m more like you I never really played them and have always been a huge Mass Effect fan except for the last one but my friends who are fans aren’t that happy or interested in the new Dragon Age game. They haven’t even pre ordered the game like the did before and said they would. They said they are going to wait and see what happens and if they heard good reviews from people they trust them they might get it but what they’ve heard hasn’t been good. It sucks but maybe collapse in gaming that is happen needs to happen in order for it to rise again and for actual good games and interesting games to be made and released again. So many companies have become so big they thought they couldn’t fail but we’ve been shown to be wrong. Newer studios with older developers seem to be creating games that people will like a lot again.
James Ohlen was the game director of Star Wars: The Old Republic in its "vanilla" version (before they released the janky, confusing, over-the-top expansions that totally reshaped the game... for the worse). Having Drew Karpyshyn as lead writer on this project is the selling point for me. I, personally, care far less about what "A-list talent" they've recruited for the project. Many games have had A-list celebrities voice characters in games with "AAA" studios that have garbage narratives and terrible gameplay. For me, it's always been the talent behind the camera/monitor that is the most important. You could have Brad Pitt or Ryan Reynolds voicing your characters but if the game sucks in every aspect, what's the point?
EA will beat the dead horse that is Bioware so this isn't the end sadly, nor will this release fix their course. They saw God of War and this is just a Anthem reskin of it.
People whine so much about decisions not mattering in Mass Effect 3. Most mattered, just not in the war with the reapers at the very end. Ever character had closure, especially after the Citadel DLC. The original ending was depressing, but I think the extended cut did an okay job of patching that up.
Who the hell cares about previous game choices? The previous game was 10 YEARS AGO, for Gods sake! I dont even REMEMBER what I did in the previous game. This is the most ridiculous complaint I ever heard.
I hope Veilguard is the last nail in the coffin and the studio gets shut down forever. Get real.
i think it looks terrible ... like it's been sitting in a drawer for 20 years ... the movements of the characters, the faces. i can't and don't want to play it. it's so distracting! then i'd rather go back to old games and know why they look like that and they were all special in their time and had characters that were interesting. So this is how the next giant dies miserably? You don't even want to look at it! RIP BioWare!
The vast majority aren’t excited for this game, whatsoever. Dragon age will fail and the undead husk that is BioWare will be put down.
Hey, I love mass effective Andromeda and it played very well after 422 mods😂🤣😂 But seriously the game was a train wreck that needed a lot of help to get good,story was still crap though.
The Death? BW is dead for a long Time now.
EA yet again, killed another studio... Another one bites the dust 🎶😂
"Bioware" is just a empty husk with no actual meaning. The Talent already left years ago and were replaced by activists. Game had no chance from the start. Hopefully they close that studio down and let the IPs finally rest. They can redistribute the devs somewhere else and make "new" games or IPs. Veilguard already has almost nothing in common with the Dragon Age DNA. They changed almost anything. The dark tone went for something bright and colorful, they disregard most of the choices in previous game, the rpg combat went in favor of GoW action combat. Just let it die already.
They new name should be WokeOWare
If you're going to play the old games, you should play ALL of the older games. DA:V is actually Dragon Age: Inquisition, Part II. So if you want to look at the more recent game, it's kind of critical. Inquisitions problem is that BioWare doesn't do "open world" games. They're not entirely linear, but they do a hub world and then mission worlds that expand off of that hub, if that makes any sense. DA:I was BioWare attempting to be open world. So it's not as good as it could have been if they'd been allowed to focus and do what they do well.
This what happens when you put Politics over creativity & production The 'Brain Drain' is happening everywhere
For Dragon Age-newbies, I'd say just play Origins and be done with it. It's the only great game in the series. DA2 was so rushed and it definitely shows in every possible way, and Inquisition is indeed full of bloat.
No mass effect 4 will be the end.
Mass Effect music is awesome, not Andromeda.
ME3 story can fortunately be mostly fixed using mods. ME2 still peak tho.
Andromeda had decent gameplay, way better than ME3, but it was FING BORING!!!
I’m incredibly excited for Exodus, the Mass Effect trilogy is my favourite game series of all time. I truly hope Exodus lives up to the promises.
Yes, I think we have to understand that pod games developers are more like a top pop band lineup? You might keep the name but when the talent has left it’s never the same again!
This is a standard ship of Theseus problem, and its part of every AAA company.
I played Dragon Age: Origins and its expansion-amazing game! But Dragon Age 2 reused assets and locations far too much, which took away from the experience. As for Inquisition, the fetch quests and repeatedly covering the same ground really wore me down. I finished the main campaign but never went back to play the DLCs
In Dragon Age: Inquisition you did have some fetch quests. But to be fair it was my introduction to the series. But it still had a lot of the core aspects of the series that die hard fans complain Veil Guard doesn't have.
You need to understand this fact. People make great games not a brand name. The guys who were responsible for the great Bioware games in the past are mostly not at Bioware anymore. We need to follow the lead of how the Japanese do things in entertainment. Follow the creative talents and not the companies.
Inquisition was totally shallow… and now we get this 🤦🏻♂️
Ea is already fuck