Let's be honest here, this game been in development for 8 years the same way as Cyberpunk. It's not a comparison between the games themselves, I'm just pointing out that the active stage of development realistically started around 3-4 years ago, which is normal. How many years it took to develop the game isn't particularly important IMO. I can see why people would say the game doesn't look great, but I wouldn't say it looks garbage. Same way as Inquisition back in the day, it looks mid. Yeah, the animations are wacky and could/should be better. Some characters (qunari in particular) look uncanny. The gameplay looks very similar to Inquisition, but the animations are more flashy. Interface is debatable and a matter of personal taste. Graphics and visual design too. As for the story, literally can't judge it as the game isn't out yet. Sure, the game is nowhere near BG3, Space Marine 2, Elden Ring etc. Doesn't mean it's garbage. In my opinion, there have been a lot of criticism for genuinely bad games recently, and Veilguard's marketing started off really bad, so people just keep criticizing even though the game does't look THAT bad. If the game won't be worse than Inquisition, that'd be enough for me to enjoy it.
It's huge amount of blur and low detail make it look like either mobile game or an average B tier game made on Unity. Basically, that's what the game is now - an average B tier game.
Half of what she's saying is tip toeing around things that are bad and trying her hardest to put in a good light. Over and over she's essentially calling a piece of crap something like "a loaf of chocolate paste with an attractive shine".
@@wickian9571I don't think this at all true, but regardless the embargo lives on the 19th so other people who have played the game will give their opinions then.
"Your companions will drop some useful hints in combat" "They're hitting us from range" Yeah yeah, thanks, I can see the huge death fireball coming at me just fine. Got shot 3 times by now already, actually...
To be fair, the game could literally scream that shit at asmon and he'll still just spam auto attack and stand in it and wonder why he died for the 6th time in a row, and call the game garbage because he sucks at it
game journalist always say *new = good* and *old = bad* to sell you that the new thing is unquestionably better in all regards. But the wheel has not been reinvented yet because is master design, if all you can say there have been improvements here and there, but has not been necessary to touch the core because is too solid.
The fact that they announce the ability to pet dogs and cats like it's some groundbreaking environmental interaction tells me all I need to know about this game.
They copy pasted the combat from Mass Effect Andromeda and put it in a Dragon Age game, they have less party members from 4 to 3, and you can no longer control the other 2 characters like Mass Effect, did they forget they were making a Dragon Age game and not another failed Mass Effect title?
And 2, two had it. Sure not the best like origin in choices, but still design was and style, it was basically worse dlc to origins. Inquisition and this one take place in a alt universe that i wish to have no part of. @@ashkanvideo5187
To be fair, the game industry is still pretty exciting. It's just that to find the good games you have to look for the people passionate about games and not the big corporate entities telling you what you want. Which is kind of always how it's been. Bioware itself was pretty great up until they got overtaken by a huge money grubbing company.
@foxtrot889 I don’t know how long you’ve been playing games, but that’s NOT how it’s always been! Almost all game companies that are big today got that way because they put out games that catered towards their fanbase instead some special interest nonsense
To be fair, she writes out her opinion after she plays the game. Shes basically reading out loud what should would put in an article. Doesn't mean i agree with anything she said lol. Or that this game is any good.
Remember this used to be dragon age. A game with realistic themes of religion and politics. It was a game which created a fantasy world where not everyone was friends as in most fantasy worlds. There was discrimination, conquest and religious zealotry. This is just not it.
Let me know when I can borrow your time machine, I'd love to be able to check out the entire completed story for this game so I too can verify for myself it lacks all those themes
Its all still there you know. Tevinter openly practices slavery. The Qunari are actively invading Antiva. The political intrigue and hold the Crows have on Antiva. Elven gods causing a Blight. Solas trying to destroy the Veil which would kill millions. Only thing thats really changed is the art style and gameplay.
This game was developed as a live service game, until Anthem failed, and then they removed the multiplayer and bulked out the single player elements. So, instead of building a single player Dragon Age Game from scratch, they've converted what was probably a crap multiplayer game into a single player game. You can see it everywhere. I guarantee that's why we can't select our companions, because your companions were supposed to be other players.
I was wondering why it looked like parts MMO and yet parts like a regular action rpg but like a gross slow mix. This makes sense now if its true. Idk if they will ever admit it but it sure feels like you right.
Seriously, it's the only thing that makes sense given the direction they took the art style...especially with the cutscenes. The whole plastic look to all the characters...it screams your standard MMO / Mobile game look. Also explains the combat choice, can't be pausing it in the style of a CRPG if it's an online multiplayer.
How successful was inquisition? Because if this is essentially an even more scaled down version of that game, than there’s really no high hopes of its success.
A long time ago (when the first concept art were dropped I think) they said that they plan to make it with lots of neon things cuz of Tevinter, basically the capital of magic. Since no matter what class you pick you still use magic at some sorts I get this idea, honestly.
@@thebenc1537 Exactly. They can only make one type of game now, and they're just going to reskin the core mechanics and systems while trying to fluff the mediocre trash with rendered cutscenes. Anyone who thinks s BW is going to survive long enough to release ME4 is lying to themselves.
@@thebenc1537 Lots of re-used stuff from previous games. There's even a magic bridge that builds itself like the Remnant ones from ME:A. I unironically can't wait to see how much they destroyed what is left of Mass Effect.
DA series has always had annoying characters that do this. Now it seems like they are offering fewer and fewer alternatives. And it feels like hanging out with cosplay nerds rather than actually interesting characters
Did you also notice that the elves aren’t a smaller petite race anymore? Like 1-3 they were all a good bit shorter than humans and had a more petite frame. Not now almost just as tall and with the same build.
Dragon Age Origins: Gritty and dark, characters that actually have depth, great story, deep lore and tactical gameplay Veilguard: Pastel colored princess themed theme park on rails
>characters that actually have depth it's not like we know depth of new characters right now >great story we don't know the story yet >deep lore it's still there >tactical gameplay never liked it, but it's just my preference The fact that they threw away gritty and dark visual style is really sad, ngl
@@todbringer787 The character trailer made it plenty obvious to me that these characters will be extremely one note, as for the lore, they kinda fucked it with inquisition, as for gameplay does this somehow look better than origins? It looks cheap and generic aside from the colorful vaseline poured on the screen
I played all the DA games. DA2 was a clusterfuck of burning sht and left me extremely disappointed, and when I played DA Inquisition I could already see the writing on the wall, specially the woke manifesting in the game already back then. Now I just don't give a damn anymore, I wont touch this with a 10 meter pole, honestly. This franchise is dead just like Bioware.
@@ricardohoang8452 The main story of Andromeda was fairly ok. Shame they couldn't continue it. Same with DAI - main story was fairly ok. I assume that will be the same with Veilguard. It's all the other stuff that's not great... narrative department are still doing work.
I remember Dragon Age Origins. The bloodsplatters on armor and face of your character. Tactical fighting. Grim world. Good looking characters with good sense of humor and good written dialogs. This game should be entirely different franchise. I hope this studio will get what it deserves with decisions they taking.
I'm French and for me the characters in this game here, look all like " bobos ". Bobo: A bobo is a person who mixes opposites: bourgeois and bohemian, left-wing and committed, urban and city-dweller. Basically it's rich people trying to be cool.
Bioware is under EA's ticker since they own it. EA manages teams and such, dragonage was known for having the lead teams from dragon age origins laid off a few years into development. Now it is just a mash of other teams working on the game, no one there worked on the original dragonage games.
Which is truly a god damn shame. Bioware used to be my #1 absolute favorite developer. They gave us the early mass effect and dragon age games, known for amazing storytelling, characters, and compelling rpg elements. When EA bought them, they swiftly gutted Bioware staff, and replaced every single aspect with the only exception being the name. For those of you who played ME:1/2 then ME:3 the conclusion of the trilogy, you understand fully just how absent the very soul of these games were.
Qunari should look absolutely terrifying. Quiet, unemotional, straightforward, honest, and absolutely brutal and merciless. They shouldn't look like weird little femboys and have long dialogues about feelings and emotions. Mastery of the self is the first and greatest duty of all the Qunari, so they would abhor expressive conversations and elaborate shows of emotion.
Have read it like nothing he says, can't see reason why he's shitting this game so hard 😂 But it's true, she does sound like a caricature ad from fallout series 🤖
@@jonpilgrim5260 Yeah.. Eaware went under the lowest bar with this one just as they did with biggest ip's mmo. The one that killed better Mmo.. 😕 Swtor and it's clunky character animation, low bootmappings etc. Le Bleh 😵💫
@Fedaygin if I compare kotor2 story to inquisition. I don't seem to be getting better stories out of these 'better games' Andromeda in fantasy is the vibe. Andromeda wasn't bad but it wasn't great either.
@@deandre6559 the only Qunari oxmen made right and badass will always be DA2. The arishok alone was badass asf, but these new design just looked weird, and now those horns are just plain ugly
Kunari in DAO - "Hm, they are ok" Kunari in DA2 - "Hm, thats actualy pretty cool looking. Like gargoyles on steroids" Kunari in DAI - "What they`ve done to my boy?!" Kunari in DAV - "No fucking way!"
It’s the aesthetic for me. Dragon Age used to be a fantasy story, but in a gritty medieval setting. Now it is a fantasy story in a neon, sci-fi fantasy setting. The first look of gameplay had neon writting in “magic” on the walls, shit is flying all over and hovering. It’s not the same world at all.
In previous comics they showed that Tevinter had the capability to put on theater shows with "holographic" lighting techniques by using magic. Tevinter is more advanced compared to other nations because they never limited experimentation and exploration regarding magic and how it can influence their society.
@@DaniFantoma And frankly I think that is a storytelling fail. If Tevinter is into slaving and is that advanced, there is no reason then that they shouldn't be taking over the whole world. Furthermore, whoever made that comic, shows they don't really get what made the setting what it was. And it shows that the people who made this game also don't really get it.
@@ammar9909 I played the first one, and he's right. Just because they bothered to give an explanation, doesn't change the *fact* that the entire aesthetic changed. It used to be a Tolkien coded setting, now it looks like World of Warcraft
Why would you expect things to even remotely resemble the first game when literally no one that worked on it is there anymore? From writers, to designers, to artists, to world builders, you name it, not one person is still there, and being bought by ea killed everything about bioware. Might have taken a bit as seen by the mass effect trilogy, but literally everything since then has been going downhill. I have no hope for the next mass effect at this point, and honestly kind of expecting ea to just shut them down after this fails.
@JoaoPedro-io9yd Are you zoomed in or something cause i read your comment and was paying close attention to any melee combat and I wasnt seeing blood at all, unless you mean the massive red slash that appears which...isnt blood because blood doesnt work that way! Not to mention how it doesnt leave splatters or any marks along the floor, its literally just red slashes, thats not blood.
And how it is exactly the necessary length and wouldn't fit as part of the environment anywhere else... Lol. What do they even do with all that development money.. 😅
@@thebenc1537 I mean Bioware did the same with Mass Effect. "Oh no people didn´t like the RPG Elements in ME 1 with to many loot options, let´s just throw it out" , then ME2 came out with almost zero options to costumize and people didn´t like that either so they put some of them back for ME3. Ironically despite being miffed that they thrown out the RPG elemtents ME2 is my favourite.
Just watch the eleven years old re-upload of the (game is 15 years old) "Sacred Ashes" trailer of Dragon Age Origins. A diverse group (a white male, a lesbian, a colored guy, a strong woman) take on monstrous adversaries and a dragon. And nothing of it is woke or childish or fireworks, all of it is pure badass. They even drowned the EA logo in blood. All used abilities can be found ingame. I miss the days when fantasy games were authentic and grown up.
Not everybody left, but those who stayed were "converted". An example is the woman who was the writer of Isabela in DA2. She was a great character imo, she was a pirate and cared little for anything but to satisfy her own selfish desires, including carnal desires... but then people complained Isabela was... a b_tch and didn't liked her, saying a woman shouldn't behave like that. Result: writer became woke Edit: forgot to say Isabela was hot as all hell. They will never make a character like her again, because you know... male gaze 😒
Why tho, I bet few of the same ppl work at Ferrari that did 50 yrs ago but they still make good cars! It's entirely possible for a company to turn over staff but retain the quality they are known for by building upon what they already know. Only gaming companies seem to burn it all down and start again each time.
I preordered all previous dragon age games. DA:O is my favorite game of all time. I’m not even bothering with this game. They said it’s like a mix of DA2 and Inquisition… it’s going to suck.
@@infernity1989 for real. And I just got to the part in the video where she’s talking about “The Blight” attacking a village… um, what? Is there another Blight and another Archdemon… or does she just think that any group of dark spawn are The Blight? Im annoyed all over again lol
Honestly? I think the RPG combat system of Dragon Age Origins is far from what made it good. It was primarily the setting, the story, the characters. How it had actual mature themes, shades of grey, depth.. The political intrigue, racial tensions, you could be an actual monumental piece of shit.. And you could be someone who actually makes the world a largely better place wherever you go. But the gameplay itself I do not feel is the core component of why the game was good. If this game was just half as good as DA:O at the setting and themes, the maturity behind it? The gameplay'd be forgiven I feel.
@@Clucky117Agreed, Dragon Age is a series thats primary focus is its story and characters. Vast majority of fans like it for that, not the gameplay. And Origins is my favorite game of all time.
Depends on who you ask. I've seen plenty of people who prefer more action-focused combat than a slow, tactical game. Just like how Asmongold loathes turn-based games and likely will never play BG3 because of it.
There's two trends that have arrived at the same time. Make things more boring and pedestrian and make them gay. So boring and gay are becoming associated in my mind.
DA:I had great gay romance. Probably the best part of the game. The rest was very mid. Even the other Dragon ages had ok gay content. It's the diversity and inclusivity stuff that is ham-fisted. DA was always about discrimination, religious zealotry and generally bad people being forced to be "good" to fight a greater threat (blight, qunari, etc..).
@@brunomarques7713 Your opinion, the gay romances were boring to me, Sara and Dorian, both pretty mediocre, both felt like they were trying way too hard, like it wasn't executed well and felt like Bioware was in the drawing room trying to make them the most flashy in your face characters to be interesting and to me that ruined it, Sara ended up being grating and wildly annoying and Dorian was like a brooding teenager, I couldn't stand either character and their sexuality was the furthest thing from my mind.
Talking about how the gore and horror of the first game was preserved in the blighted areas while the whole thing is entirely bloodless and looks more like WoW than DA. Clowns ruin everything they touch.
And the blighted areas still look cartoonish and nothing like "gore and horror". I mean how are you going to make anything like that in this artstyle? no way.
Remember, this is a game series that started out with washed out colours and dark themes, during combat there would be blood spatters everywhere and you characters in conversation custscenes would be covered in blood from head to toe if you initiated a conversation after combat. It used to be like an Arthurian tale with horror themes. This game looks like Disney's Marvel Heroes Fortnite ADHD dance party at a night club where everyone is on cocaine.
Dude, DA: Origins was such a good game. In terms of art style, narrative, and combat, everything just worked. It was also a pretty unique experience at the time. All they had to do was keep making games like that, with minor tweaks and improvements over the years. How do so many game studios kill their golden goose these days?
I watched DA Origins and DA 2 trailers after watching this gameplay, and style there looks so much better! Valeguard looks like it's made for children or Fortnite fans. The only good thing I can say about it is hair physics)
@@olehkoropenko620 unfortunately it seems most video games are aimed at children these days. its all some disney shit. they try to cater to a "modern" and wider audience, and to do that, you have to neuter everything. very few games are designed to be good anymore, now they are just designed to be safe.
I mean half of the DA fanbase is queer, especially those that started with the second and third game. That and DA picked up a pretty half-and-half, female and male fan base.
Darkspawn look like silly clowns, not vicious monsters. I have some feelings about demons. Happy purples everywhere. Even Qunari went from looking like vicious warrior race to "1 soy milk latte, no sugar please" fembois.
"Western games and ugly characters" are on a roll this year. I think they peaked at Concord but some people are arguing that they topped with Dustborn.
Oh my GOD! THAT WAS A FREAKING FIRE QUOTE... I FELT THAT. "You guys need to start judging books by their covers [...] Because if somebody can't be bothered to make a good cover, they sure as f*ck aren't gonna write a good book" 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I dunno man if I'd judged West of Loathing by its cover I probably wouldn't have played it. Same with Deep Rock Galactic, and they're some of my favourites
Gamers around the world for the last 15 years: Dragon Age: Origins was the absolute peak! Bring us some more of that! BeWare: "It's a mix of Dragon Age 2 and Inquisition!"
@Dino9474 In fairness, the people who made Origins left a long time ago. You're basically just paying for the name "bioware". EA is so fucking dumb they thought good games get created from the name of the studio instead of the names of the top talent they let go who created the games during the "golden age of bioware"
If you told me years ago that this is what would become of Dragon Age after the badassery of the grey wardens and the brutal plight of Hawke from Kirkwall, I would have thought you were smoking crack.
While I like Dragon Age 2 more than Inquisition, you'd have to be the one smoking crack if you think either of these games are good, Origins and it's DLC Awakening are the only Dragon Age worth playing.
@@Dungpie64oh please it was riddled with graphic issues and a few design flaws....fun to play but definitely not the be all end all allot of people think it was........i didn't think it was possible for voice actors to save a game with their performances but Black and Kempa saved that game
@jonathanvogt4341 Yea the voice actors did a good job but I feel like you're discounting the amount of love that was put into side quests and main story. But like you said, it was fun to play, which is more than I can say for Inquisition. I recall people back then telling new players to leave the Hinterlands - (which is the first open world section) as fast as possible because of how bad it burns out the new players and that's why I beat Inquisition the least out of the three.
Remember when darkspawn were twisted hulks of muscle and viscera? That ogre looked like it was made of smooth porcelain. wtf. Also Qunari are now Temu tieflings, prove me wrong.
I miss when games had actual mature tones and not bunch of overly edgy and quirky characters like it actually took what happened more seriously and had slower dialogue to let the player take in what’s happening. Something Baldur’s gate 3 remembered and understood perfectly.
Baldur's Gate 3 is colorful as hell. You are turned into a fucking wheel of cheese. Absolutely every complaint you guys have about this game is something that exists in Baldur's Gate 3, but you've gone into a inexplicable flock mindset of hatred for this game.
@@ricardomesquita4827 Sounds like a you problem. There's good writing and shit writing, and the majority opinion rules. Guess who's opinion is the majority.
@@ricardomesquita4827 baldurs gate 3 was mature and had exceptional writing, from its early days of early access and the dev’s history with games like Divinity original Sin 1 & 2, we knew it would be good. This garbage Veilgaurd DOES NOT look good.
I think this is due to generational shifts in media. In the 80's and 90's you had horrible, preposterous films that took themselves way too seriously. This led to a few clever writers going against the grain and adding more humor, irony, and quirk into otherwise serious films. At the time, it was probably refreshing. This devolved into what should be serious movies feeling like they had to balance out every moment with quirkiness or "erm, did that just happen?!" moments. That stuff is still around, but now we have writers doing meta-irony. It's still ironic, quirky, and stupid - but self-aware. It pokes fun at the ironic/quirky tropes and breaks the 4th wall. Think Rick n Morty or Deadpool. I'm not saying it's all bad, but it's also getting played out because not everyone is good at doing it. That's why I think it's refreshing to see media take itself very seriously and offer a sincere piece of art. When it's done well, we get DUNE and Darksouls. I feel like we might see a rise in more sincere games/media soon.
You know its a paid Review when they have absolutely zero complaining about it, specially about the bad camera during combat that shows in their own video
@icescorpion6189 so that's kind of the problem, this games combat like most third person combat game needs a camera lock on or a camera that moves very fluidly. This game obviously needs a better target lock on camera, but apparently doesn't have one based on all the game play stuff we have seen. This games camera looks so clunky and hard to control even the way the PC moves looks clunky with the PC constantly changing their position on the screen sometimes almost leaving the screen entirely.
"Safe-Edgy" is the best word to describe the aesthetics of this game; a far cry from the dark and gritty tone that draws in millions of fans towards the Dragon Age IP, in favor of something that could pass as a FortNite Halloween event.
@@SolidSnake240 i mean its a nice thing for building the world and immersion but so is gras that moves or water that splashes :x its 2024 this should be accept as standard by now
I think western devs are facing the same issues were seeing with writers,directors, casting. When they abide by DEI practices they tend to hire thier own. I predict a huge crash for entertainment as a whole in the comming years, if we're not already there......
The people that use odd pronouns and refuse to answer what a woman is while coloring their hair bright colors and insist being 400 pounds is healthy and empowering? The answer would be... No.
Baldur's Gate 3 - High fantasy game - let's you be a magnificent evil bastard. Dragon Age 4 (and 3 as well) - Allegedly dark fantasy games - "We removed blood magic because is evil". This looks more some badly designed self-inserted Mary Sues.
@@pezdispencer113 Origins was great... and I think 2 was alright. It didn't offer the same range of choice, but as a story game (and not so much an RPG) i think it did fine. Inquisition was just... too big, too much was in it, the stupid timer-based board thing was annoying and a lot of the areas you could explore felt kinda pointless in being there. It had potential to be good and it did well on some parts, but it just took too long to do stuff and some parts were just kinda lame. Being a series of open world maps hurt it, I think. and this one... I don't have faith in it being great either, but I think getting rid of the giant maps is probably a move in the right direction, but even ignoring the animation issues, which don't bother me that much, it doesn't look amazing. Like with 3... it looks like something with potential that they're gonna screw up by adding a bunch of unnecessary stuff and probably stuffing in BS for the 'modern audience'.
Right?! As far as player characters go, the Warden is so far from being a chosen one it ain't even funny. No matter which origin you pick for yourself, you condemn all others to a miserably short remainder of their life (pretty sure you can find their corpses or references to their deaths in-game). Same which would have happened to you if Duncan didn't show up when he did. Hell, even by the end of the game you're still not the one who's *supposed* to kill the big bad. That's some other unfortunate shmuck's job until he dies too and you have to pick up the slack. tl;dr - I agree, this reviewer has zero (conscious) hours played in DA:O
She is absolutely reading bullet points given by the devs. "Oh the bustling city, the merchants, the quests and fights" There is a merchant in the city, a couple useless side quests and a fight. "Oh the companion banter pauses when in combat" Like GTA V had 12 years ago? And on and on...
@@kimberly4275 Hard disagree... The best part of ANY GOOD GAME is the gameplay and combat (if the game has combat in it, in case of games without combat, then the gameplay is the most important). ITS A GAME, so off course the most important part is how it plays. If I want to watch or read a good story, then I look for another media type like TV shows, Anime or Movies, or a simple book... In a game, I WANT GAMEPLAY. That's the point of playing a game. Its supposed to be an interactive media, the story is always secondary... You would know that if you grew up with gaming in the 80s and 90s like I did (back then the games had 0 or mostly no story, just gameplay mechanics and combat). You can go back in time with emulators and experience those times yourself and see what gaming was/is all about. You might have a different opinion, but you will find that most gamers WANT TO PLAY A GAME rather than listen to the story of the game, specially those with very intrusive and unskipable parts that are annoying as hell. There are ways to tell a story without breaking the gameplay, some are good at it, some are terrible. I for one prefer games with simpler objectives and skipable backstories or worse (things like romance, which I hate). DA:O had skipable parts of the story that most gamers like me dislike, while I would watch the good parts of the story (the bad parts being the romance and politics, the good parts being the combat and locations history).
@@kimberly4275 how much are you being paid to troll the comments? "no one plays these games for the combat", yeah that's why Origins, Inquisition, and Veilguard fleshed out so many combat systems for each class, multiple styles of combat per choice. what an insane comment. if people weren't here for the combat they'd be playing a medieval city builder instead.
At first, I thought Veilguard was made by a different team and we were still getting Dreadwolf lol, it just seems so different from what they originally had in mind, and it's especially weird that they changed things like this when people were hyped for the dark fantasy they thought Dreadwolf was going to be.
@@eXtotheZee Nah. Have you seen the teaser for Dreadwolf that was released a couple of years ago? THAT had the original Dragon Age feel to it. That was a completely different tone than w/e the fuck Veilguard is supposed to be.
Agreed. I also look at it in another way. We used to look at the back of a box in stores when looking for new games, and so marketers had to put the best of the best features on the box. So when we saw stupid nonsense on the back, we knew as customers that it was garbage. While marketers have more than one limited screenshot to advertise in a video, you still want to see the best features, so petting dogs and playing rock paper scissors is the same as saying, "We are just wasting your time, we don't have anything actually exciting to show you." Seeing the consoomers in the video comment section essentially orgasming to that inconsequential menial nonsense that they would do once and then forget aboot just makes me feel sad.
It's a telltale sign that they take the meme if petting cats and dogs isn't in the game, it's a bad game seriously. Like I want to be able to do that, and some games wouldn't let me (Fire Emblem Three Houses for one). But it's not a make or break. The fact they had to point that out just tells me the dev team has their priorities wrong. And I'm saying it's the devs because no way a reviewer would seriously write the script in this video. It is extremely out of touch.
So by that logic, am I not allowed to enjoy both Final Fantasy 1 + Final Fantasy 16? How about Resident Evil 1 and Resident Evil 8? Fallout 1 + Fallout 3? I can keep going, if you like...
This girl is who they are making the game for considering she speaks exactly like how the characters speak. “OK GUYS DID ANYONE ELSE FEEL THAT BECAUSE I KNOW IT TOTALLY WASNT ME!”
You know there are a bunch of GenZ'ers like the girl speaking (with a vocal fry, no less), who are watching this video saying to themselves, "Looks good Asmon, this is just a modern audience game - you're just old."
@@CubicIronPyrite bro I am gen z from New York the only speak who speak like this are white girls and the other race girls that have been indoctrinated into white girls which is a large percentage of these studio devs now adays
Its mostly Millennials tbh, zoomers to their credit find this type of speech/writing/dialog to be incredibly insincere and lame (it is) @@CubicIronPyrite
Massive former bioware fan here. Original bioware games never had the best graphics or gameplay, they were heavily relying on great storytelling and interesting characters. They also had great art direction. The settings were intriguing. In recent years tho everything they used to be great at went to shit. Sure andromeda and anthem had good graphics and better gameplay than older games, but that doesnt make up for what they lost. With veilguard it feels like even the few things they improved on are regressing. The only thing current bioware has in common with the old one is the name. Original bioware is dead.
Finally a comment I can agree with. Mass Effect and Dragon Age (Origins, 2, and even 3) didn't have some kind of groundbreaking, amazing gameplay or graphics. They (at least the Origins, Mass effect 1 and 2) had story. People are looking at the older games with rose-tinted glasses like they had great, seamless, smooth combat when they didn't. And bioware has been throwing away the things they were good at to be "safe".
Actually several TH-camrs have said (even tho they aren’t supposed to till the 19th) that the game is shaping up to be pretty great. Guess I’ll see when it releases
Trust me, its mostly better than the opinion of Asmon and the army of incels. Go look up SkillUp's preview video on the game, that guy actually knows shit about games and played it himself.
As mentioned in the video "The open world aspect is gone". Sorry, maybe you like traveling a predetermined path and following a sequence of missions, but that's not freedom. The last thing I want to be doing is playing game following the exact same steps as 80,000 other people and finding the exact same items as 10,000 other people.
Veil guard to Origins is like what the Rings of Power is to Lord of the Rings. It's too whimsical and fantasmical. I know it's a fantasy, but Origins had this sence of depth and darkness to it, Origins had grit, where Veilguard has sparkles and cheesey dialogue. Now compare the Qunari from DA2 and this...
dragon age orgins: warrior was a warrior , archer an archer , mage was a mage. Now everyone's a mage with extra steps. Dark fantasy with sexiness and horror to straight up cartoon 15.37
The fact that she has offered zero negative remarks about the game clearly shows that its a paid for positive review. No game is perfect with nothing stupid or disappointing.
That would imply they have a sexy bikini armor wearing elf, which Dragon Age has none. In fact, I'm willing to bet this game (Dragon age: the veilguard) has no attractive characters in the first place.
exactly my same thought when I saw the Rock, Paper, Scissors with that stupid skeleton. The undead used to be scary in Dragon Age! this whole... purple abomination is just not Dragon Age anymore.
Alex Stedman was the person chosen to preview this game and talk about it btw. For CONTEXT: She gave She-Hulk - 7's across the board on all her episodes They picked someone who reviews literally only 1 or 2 movies and all the netflix/disney show crap to preview this. Its no wonder the mobile gameplay appeals to this "journalist."
Do you remember Colin Moriarty and Greg miller era ign? It was never perfect but i at least felt their opinion had some merit... I would need a second opinion but I would consider what they said. Modern IGN has lost all trust with me, it's less critique and more a marketing outlet.
This WAS meant to me a live service MMO style game, then went back on it. It obviously looks like they didn't change the childish graphics that were meant to appeal to all audiences... i.e. little kids
People need to realize that modern "games journalists" are there to advertise and showcase the game rather than review or critique. If they get early access to a game and slam dunk on it they won't get access in the future which will bite them in the ass.
This game was definately designed for mobile and ported to everything else. They'll announce the mobile release a couple of months after original release date. Graphicly, it's a mobile game from a decade ago; don't expect much from story and dialog.
20:25 It's not even about access journalism. We have a reviewer that picks up a Dragon Age game and the first thing she tries is to pet cats and dogs. Games are being developed expecting 20-30 year old women reviewers to play the game for 10 hours max and expect to be able to have pets, romance everyone in sight, and verbally tell the villan off. It's so tiring.
I hate to break it to you my friend, but one of the most popular features I often hear mentioned from DAO is that it had a dog companion you could interact with. Is it different if the dog can join the party?
@@violetbliss4399 Actually it is. The Dog from Origins was an actual character with a personality of his own. Besides, you missed the point he tried to make.
60% of the RPG audience are cat/dog parent millennials today. cat/dog parent millennials are making these games now. and thats why they look like this. you also notice characters constantly holding mugs with two hands. it was very off putting in that dog shit saints row game as well.
You don't understand, they had only 150 million and 8 years to develop the game. You can't expect them to make actually a good game
they wasted all money at pride month's
@peterparker-q1q I tought they just hired "new moder audience" devs, and turns out, they have no idea what they are doing
didn't they get shut down and rebooted like 4 times? like holy crap
Hmm another 8 years? I'm seeing a pattern here. Concord, SSK the justice league.
Let's be honest here, this game been in development for 8 years the same way as Cyberpunk. It's not a comparison between the games themselves, I'm just pointing out that the active stage of development realistically started around 3-4 years ago, which is normal. How many years it took to develop the game isn't particularly important IMO.
I can see why people would say the game doesn't look great, but I wouldn't say it looks garbage. Same way as Inquisition back in the day, it looks mid. Yeah, the animations are wacky and could/should be better. Some characters (qunari in particular) look uncanny. The gameplay looks very similar to Inquisition, but the animations are more flashy. Interface is debatable and a matter of personal taste. Graphics and visual design too. As for the story, literally can't judge it as the game isn't out yet. Sure, the game is nowhere near BG3, Space Marine 2, Elden Ring etc. Doesn't mean it's garbage.
In my opinion, there have been a lot of criticism for genuinely bad games recently, and Veilguard's marketing started off really bad, so people just keep criticizing even though the game does't look THAT bad. If the game won't be worse than Inquisition, that'd be enough for me to enjoy it.
The neon purple cartoony aesthetic really does make it feel like a mobile game. It certainly doesn't make it feel like Dragon Age.
Fortnite + Guardians of the Galaxy style
It's huge amount of blur and low detail make it look like either mobile game or an average B tier game made on Unity. Basically, that's what the game is now - an average B tier game.
@@ag4759 It doesnt look like a B tier game. Maybe you have a B tier life and assume everything is like that.
@@militaryarchive4840 I don't see it, and I'm not color blind. Maybe you are.
@@cruelforsaken Maybe you feel on your head when you were a kid. I'll go with that.
Remember guys, it's time to trust game journalist more.
Said the journalists.
Half of what she's saying is tip toeing around things that are bad and trying her hardest to put in a good light. Over and over she's essentially calling a piece of crap something like "a loaf of chocolate paste with an attractive shine".
@@wickian9571I don't think this at all true, but regardless the embargo lives on the 19th so other people who have played the game will give their opinions then.
So much simping and bot support for all these woke IPs.
They are becoming so easy to spot these days🤦♂️
Remember they gave The First Descendant 5/10 and Star Wars Outlaw a piece of shit 7/10.
@@DarkXessZConcord 7/10 too
"Gone are the days of..." proceeds to name aspects of the game people love the most.
"Your companions will drop some useful hints in combat"
"They're hitting us from range"
Yeah yeah, thanks, I can see the huge death fireball coming at me just fine. Got shot 3 times by now already, actually...
"He's coming at you with a sword!"
To be fair, the game could literally scream that shit at asmon and he'll still just spam auto attack and stand in it and wonder why he died for the 6th time in a row, and call the game garbage because he sucks at it
😂
'Tis weak to fire Arisen!
"don't forget to inhale oxygen and exhale CO2"
The Qunari used to be interesting, now it's just discount tieflings
So an even more cringe version of the tieflings. Great😒
Not my Qunari
This
Wait it's supposed to be Qunaris?
They just look like soft smiling humans with horns.
The “Gone are the days of Dragon Age 1’s rpg combat…” felt very insulting in a way ngl
This game wishes it could be as good as DA1 for its time
I hate how so much of the marketing for this game has just been rubbishing the previous games.
@@TheMageAcademy origins still holds up today quite well on PC
game journalist always say *new = good* and *old = bad* to sell you that the new thing is unquestionably better in all regards. But the wheel has not been reinvented yet because is master design, if all you can say there have been improvements here and there, but has not been necessary to touch the core because is too solid.
It's still the best combat ngl. I hate that they changed it.
It's crazy they named it the veilguard claiming that its because its about your teammates, yet they cut being able to control your teammates.
Why is a glitter bomb going off after every attack? Dragon age always looked clean in combat
It hides how hideous the game looks. Glitter and firework effects are super easy to make and a very efficient way to hide misery.
Your joking right? Did you even try playing a mage in Dragon Age 2? Effects would fill the entire screen lol
In inquisition it was a class perk here its everywhere
DivErsItY focus.
Glitter bombs and neon lights. A bit less darkness and a bit less spell light would be good thanks.
The fact that they announce the ability to pet dogs and cats like it's some groundbreaking environmental interaction tells me all I need to know about this game.
They copy pasted the combat from Mass Effect Andromeda and put it in a Dragon Age game, they have less party members from 4 to 3, and you can no longer control the other 2 characters like Mass Effect, did they forget they were making a Dragon Age game and not another failed Mass Effect title?
Yeah it's a sign of other lack luster sub par features. Where there's smoke, you know the rest.
It’s pathetic.
But you'll love that dog.
Yup it's the same people over and over.
Probably adding hashtags to marketing material while the Devs argue about pronouns
None of the characters look like they belong in a dark fantasy world, they look like cosplayers at a convention.
origins is the only dark fantasy ths frantic has
don’t insult cosplayers lije that.
Helps with the self identity.
And 2, two had it. Sure not the best like origin in choices, but still design was and style, it was basically worse dlc to origins. Inquisition and this one take place in a alt universe that i wish to have no part of. @@ashkanvideo5187
Because that's all the new developers know. The only look they know for something that isn't human is human-adjacent cosplay.
20 years ago I used to dream about the future of games… this is more like a nightmare.
To be fair, the game industry is still pretty exciting. It's just that to find the good games you have to look for the people passionate about games and not the big corporate entities telling you what you want. Which is kind of always how it's been. Bioware itself was pretty great up until they got overtaken by a huge money grubbing company.
Try STELLAR BLADE WUKONG THERE STILL ARE SOME GREAT GAMES OUT THERE WARHAMMER SPACE MARINES 2
@foxtrot889 I don’t know how long you’ve been playing games, but that’s NOT how it’s always been! Almost all game companies that are big today got that way because they put out games that catered towards their fanbase instead some special interest nonsense
It sounds like she is just reading a premade script from the press kit made by the BioWare PR staff.
She does
To be fair, she writes out her opinion after she plays the game. Shes basically reading out loud what should would put in an article. Doesn't mean i agree with anything she said lol. Or that this game is any good.
"she" lol even AI has pronouns now 😂
She does, IGN "journalists" admitted to giving reviews without even touching games.
might be AI generated at this point
Remember this used to be dragon age. A game with realistic themes of religion and politics.
It was a game which created a fantasy world where not everyone was friends as in most fantasy worlds. There was discrimination, conquest and religious zealotry. This is just not it.
DEI: first time?
at least we have Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 for that to look up to
Let me know when I can borrow your time machine, I'd love to be able to check out the entire completed story for this game so I too can verify for myself it lacks all those themes
Its all still there you know. Tevinter openly practices slavery. The Qunari are actively invading Antiva. The political intrigue and hold the Crows have on Antiva. Elven gods causing a Blight. Solas trying to destroy the Veil which would kill millions.
Only thing thats really changed is the art style and gameplay.
@@icescorpion6189 regardless of how you twist it orgins even just on an aesthetic level was a lot more "medival"
This kind of reeks of fortnite
This game was developed as a live service game, until Anthem failed, and then they removed the multiplayer and bulked out the single player elements. So, instead of building a single player Dragon Age Game from scratch, they've converted what was probably a crap multiplayer game into a single player game. You can see it everywhere. I guarantee that's why we can't select our companions, because your companions were supposed to be other players.
💯... This game will fail! Looks like crap! Dragon Age is meant to be dark and edgy not bright colours! F this game.
I was wondering why it looked like parts MMO and yet parts like a regular action rpg but like a gross slow mix.
This makes sense now if its true. Idk if they will ever admit it but it sure feels like you right.
So, the same story with the Inquisition
Seriously, it's the only thing that makes sense given the direction they took the art style...especially with the cutscenes. The whole plastic look to all the characters...it screams your standard MMO / Mobile game look. Also explains the combat choice, can't be pausing it in the style of a CRPG if it's an online multiplayer.
How successful was inquisition? Because if this is essentially an even more scaled down version of that game, than there’s really no high hopes of its success.
I can't understand why modern devs are so obsessed with neon purple colors!
"FOR THE MODERN AUDIENCES" who really care more about collecting Oppressed point than gaming btw😅
A long time ago (when the first concept art were dropped I think) they said that they plan to make it with lots of neon things cuz of Tevinter, basically the capital of magic. Since no matter what class you pick you still use magic at some sorts I get this idea, honestly.
@@todbringer787 I think it was a major failing of inquisition to start with this bull
It´s the new 80s brown.
Have you seen what they look like?
Older devs have been replaced by younger people who cost less.
The Qunari have had all detail sandblasted off their models. Just like how the combat has had all depth sandblasted away.
The qunari have only looked worse and worse. Who knew DA2 qunari were the best we were gonna get?
Its the Mass Effect system without cover mechanics and magic instead of guns.
@@thebenc1537 Exactly. They can only make one type of game now, and they're just going to reskin the core mechanics and systems while trying to fluff the mediocre trash with rendered cutscenes. Anyone who thinks s BW is going to survive long enough to release ME4 is lying to themselves.
@@thebenc1537 Lots of re-used stuff from previous games. There's even a magic bridge that builds itself like the Remnant ones from ME:A.
I unironically can't wait to see how much they destroyed what is left of Mass Effect.
@@KiIowattcrazy that ds2 actually had sole good qualities to it. No one knew the hell that would come after it lol.
Characters went from talking like medieval people to talking like modern day University students...
Ughhh it’s true 😖
It would require the writers to read how people of the past talked and reading about the past is for white supremacists 😂
DA series has always had annoying characters that do this. Now it seems like they are offering fewer and fewer alternatives. And it feels like hanging out with cosplay nerds rather than actually interesting characters
@@gorelash9056 for real... Is it any wonder DAO is most fans favorite
They fckin butchered the Qunari's design. Im so mad rn.
Queernari' be fair to Megamind race
I wasn't sure if they were Qunari when they first showed them, and it is honestly hard to look at them without making a face.
Thank god to mods lol
and the Ogre design. Awful. Changed it completely
Did you also notice that the elves aren’t a smaller petite race anymore? Like 1-3 they were all a good bit shorter than humans and had a more petite frame. Not now almost just as tall and with the same build.
Dragon Age Origins: Gritty and dark, characters that actually have depth, great story, deep lore and tactical gameplay
Veilguard: Pastel colored princess themed theme park on rails
>characters that actually have depth
it's not like we know depth of new characters right now
>great story
we don't know the story yet
>deep lore
it's still there
>tactical gameplay
never liked it, but it's just my preference
The fact that they threw away gritty and dark visual style is really sad, ngl
@@todbringer787 The character trailer made it plenty obvious to me that these characters will be extremely one note, as for the lore, they kinda fucked it with inquisition, as for gameplay does this somehow look better than origins? It looks cheap and generic aside from the colorful vaseline poured on the screen
The rails are the only thing that's necessary there because, do you remember the nightmare that was DAI's open world?
she is presenting the game like a 9/10 . She didn't mention a single fault or something that she didn't like in the game.
It is IGN , soo of course is a 9/10
Ign is not a game critique website, they are an independent advertising site.
It's all paid shilling for this garbage.
Access Journalism
Yeah i could tell it was IGN the second she started talking
"Its been 10 long years..."
Me: Honestly I could wait another 10 years
Bruh the last time I played Dragon Age it was still DAO and that was 15 years ago. I'm fine keeping on waiting lmao
I find it hilarious they're making the 10 years sound like a big deal. The Stalker fans have had to wait 17 years.
bioware is done after Andromeda 😂
I played all the DA games. DA2 was a clusterfuck of burning sht and left me extremely disappointed, and when I played DA Inquisition I could already see the writing on the wall, specially the woke manifesting in the game already back then. Now I just don't give a damn anymore, I wont touch this with a 10 meter pole, honestly. This franchise is dead just like Bioware.
@@ricardohoang8452 The main story of Andromeda was fairly ok. Shame they couldn't continue it. Same with DAI - main story was fairly ok. I assume that will be the same with Veilguard.
It's all the other stuff that's not great... narrative department are still doing work.
I can smell the "This game isnt for you!!!!" crowd from miles away!
The Concord Crowd will be all over this game.
What crowd? Modern audience crowd?
i can smell the low sales coming.
Unfortunately you may be underestimating the normie crowd.. does it even sync up with dragon age keep progress?
No by all means critique, a game only gets good under critique.
As an animator, that falling wood animation was alarmingly bad and incredibly quick and easy to fix
I remember Dragon Age Origins. The bloodsplatters on armor and face of your character. Tactical fighting. Grim world. Good looking characters with good sense of humor and good written dialogs.
This game should be entirely different franchise.
I hope this studio will get what it deserves with decisions they taking.
Even in DA Inquisition, at least the Quanari looked dangerous, even if they were gay. Here, they just look gay 😂
Devs don't know what people are supposed to look like now
Bio Ware is already dead. This is just an empty husk
I'm French and for me the characters in this game here, look all like " bobos ".
Bobo: A bobo is a person who mixes opposites: bourgeois and bohemian, left-wing and committed, urban and city-dweller.
Basically it's rich people trying to be cool.
Me too. This new art style for tumblr girls enamoured by glamour shots is revolting. It all started with Inquisition.
"Bioware announces 400+ jobs to be lost"
"Bioware stock at an all time low"
Bioware is under EA's ticker since they own it. EA manages teams and such, dragonage was known for having the lead teams from dragon age origins laid off a few years into development. Now it is just a mash of other teams working on the game, no one there worked on the original dragonage games.
Bro’s a fortune teller lmao
@@iheuzio dont worry, 1st ubislop, then soyny, there will be time for microsoft and EA aswell
@@sinafey7030i hoped so unfortunately EA could just release FIFA each year and never go bankrupt.
Which is truly a god damn shame. Bioware used to be my #1 absolute favorite developer. They gave us the early mass effect and dragon age games, known for amazing storytelling, characters, and compelling rpg elements. When EA bought them, they swiftly gutted Bioware staff, and replaced every single aspect with the only exception being the name. For those of you who played ME:1/2 then ME:3 the conclusion of the trilogy, you understand fully just how absent the very soul of these games were.
Watching the Veilguard stuff coming out as a Dragon Age fan is like finding out your childhood best friend somehow got into hard drugs.
Look how they massacred my bro 😢
Hard drugs, prostitution, and they also joined a cult full of creepy weirdos.
Going through both atm 🫠
Huh so that’s how my friends feel when they look at me
Dunno about hard drugs, but my boy really leaned on the Drag Queen phase of his life...
Qunari should look absolutely terrifying. Quiet, unemotional, straightforward, honest, and absolutely brutal and merciless. They shouldn't look like weird little femboys and have long dialogues about feelings and emotions. Mastery of the self is the first and greatest duty of all the Qunari, so they would abhor expressive conversations and elaborate shows of emotion.
Nothing she says sounds authentic. It's just a long commercial.
The vocal fry hurts too
Have read it like nothing he says, can't see reason why he's shitting this game so hard 😂
But it's true, she does sound like a caricature ad from fallout series 🤖
@@mutokyuwu9399 womp womp
@@BIackCadillac what's with the seal sounds? 🦭
I was okay with most of it but the long tour of the utterly generic hub area was a bit on the nose.
Why do the characters all look like they need to finish rendering?
If Baldur's Gate 3 is 4k, this must be 720p.
It's like Unreal 3 pop-in, only it never finishes popping in.
It's an engine from 2013, 11 years old. Didn't even have to make a new engine for this trash
Curious if the geniuses behind this game will port it out to mobile since it is looks like it?!?
@@jonpilgrim5260 Yeah.. Eaware went under the lowest bar with this one just as they did with biggest ip's mmo. The one that killed better Mmo.. 😕 Swtor and it's clunky character animation, low bootmappings etc. Le Bleh 😵💫
@Fedaygin if I compare kotor2 story to inquisition. I don't seem to be getting better stories out of these 'better games' Andromeda in fantasy is the vibe. Andromeda wasn't bad but it wasn't great either.
Those horns look so odd. like they were smudged in photoshop
goofy receding hairline.
True, but that is one of the possible complexions chosen in the CC. You could have had smooth horns in Inquisition as well.
The horns weren't always my favorite type of horns, but I KNOW they were better than this.
@@deandre6559 the only Qunari oxmen made right and badass will always be DA2. The arishok alone was badass asf, but these new design just looked weird, and now those horns are just plain ugly
that actually fits ... atrocious
Kunari in DAO - "Hm, they are ok"
Kunari in DA2 - "Hm, thats actualy pretty cool looking. Like gargoyles on steroids"
Kunari in DAI - "What they`ve done to my boy?!"
Kunari in DAV - "No fucking way!"
It’s the aesthetic for me. Dragon Age used to be a fantasy story, but in a gritty medieval setting. Now it is a fantasy story in a neon, sci-fi fantasy setting. The first look of gameplay had neon writting in “magic” on the walls, shit is flying all over and hovering.
It’s not the same world at all.
In previous comics they showed that Tevinter had the capability to put on theater shows with "holographic" lighting techniques by using magic. Tevinter is more advanced compared to other nations because they never limited experimentation and exploration regarding magic and how it can influence their society.
@@DaniFantoma And frankly I think that is a storytelling fail. If Tevinter is into slaving and is that advanced, there is no reason then that they shouldn't be taking over the whole world. Furthermore, whoever made that comic, shows they don't really get what made the setting what it was. And it shows that the people who made this game also don't really get it.
Fereldon had always been described as the backwoods and barbarians. Seriously have you played the games?
@@ammar9909 I played the first one, and he's right. Just because they bothered to give an explanation, doesn't change the *fact* that the entire aesthetic changed. It used to be a Tolkien coded setting, now it looks like World of Warcraft
Why would you expect things to even remotely resemble the first game when literally no one that worked on it is there anymore? From writers, to designers, to artists, to world builders, you name it, not one person is still there, and being bought by ea killed everything about bioware. Might have taken a bit as seen by the mass effect trilogy, but literally everything since then has been going downhill. I have no hope for the next mass effect at this point, and honestly kind of expecting ea to just shut them down after this fails.
It's so cartoony that your attacks don't cause blood to splatter, they causes explosions of light. Like, WTF???
you can literaly see blood splattering in almost every sword slash
but the worst part is, normally with drugs you get high and then get fcked up, this game seems to lack the getting high part
@JoaoPedro-io9yd Are you zoomed in or something cause i read your comment and was paying close attention to any melee combat and I wasnt seeing blood at all, unless you mean the massive red slash that appears which...isnt blood because blood doesnt work that way! Not to mention how it doesnt leave splatters or any marks along the floor, its literally just red slashes, thats not blood.
@@JoaoPedro-io9ydno it isnt
Chant it with me!
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2:57 Asmon is complaining about the physics of this beam of wood falling.
I'm wondering WHERE that beam of wood even CAME FROM... 🤔
And how it is exactly the necessary length and wouldn't fit as part of the environment anywhere else... Lol. What do they even do with all that development money.. 😅
She's right, tho. Gone are the days of Dragon Age RPG combat system. In fact, gone are the days of Dragon Age completelly.
This is just the Mass Effect system with magic instead of guns and no cover mechanics.
I see very little issue with that@@thebenc1537
In fact, gone are the days.
@@thebenc1537 I mean Bioware did the same with Mass Effect. "Oh no people didn´t like the RPG Elements in ME 1 with to many loot options, let´s just throw it out" , then ME2 came out with almost zero options to costumize and people didn´t like that either so they put some of them back for ME3. Ironically despite being miffed that they thrown out the RPG elemtents ME2 is my favourite.
Just watch the eleven years old re-upload of the (game is 15 years old) "Sacred Ashes" trailer of Dragon Age Origins. A diverse group (a white male, a lesbian, a colored guy, a strong woman) take on monstrous adversaries and a dragon. And nothing of it is woke or childish or fireworks, all of it is pure badass. They even drowned the EA logo in blood. All used abilities can be found ingame. I miss the days when fantasy games were authentic and grown up.
No one that worked on the early Mass Effect or Dragon’s Age is still at BioWare. Gamers, just let it go.
Not everybody left, but those who stayed were "converted". An example is the woman who was the writer of Isabela in DA2. She was a great character imo, she was a pirate and cared little for anything but to satisfy her own selfish desires, including carnal desires... but then people complained Isabela was... a b_tch and didn't liked her, saying a woman shouldn't behave like that. Result: writer became woke
Edit: forgot to say Isabela was hot as all hell. They will never make a character like her again, because you know... male gaze 😒
Why tho, I bet few of the same ppl work at Ferrari that did 50 yrs ago but they still make good cars!
It's entirely possible for a company to turn over staff but retain the quality they are known for by building upon what they already know.
Only gaming companies seem to burn it all down and start again each time.
@@welton9748Vivienne is available in Dragon Age but oops, you wanna appeal them to the "Male Gaze".
As someone who hated both those franchises, this might be an upgrade for me.
The original story writers for all the dragon age games, also wrote the story for this one.
As a longtime dragon age fan I haven't seen a single thing in this game that gives me a shred of excitement
I love the skill tree and the gameplay so far. Also the new dialog system is refreshing.
Not as simple as the previous ones.
I am excited.
@@aziouss2863the dialogue system is lackluster at best, this game is a far cry from other good rpgs
I preordered all previous dragon age games. DA:O is my favorite game of all time. I’m not even bothering with this game. They said it’s like a mix of DA2 and Inquisition… it’s going to suck.
@@katet_33 After 10 years of waiting ... This is a farce
@@infernity1989 for real. And I just got to the part in the video where she’s talking about “The Blight” attacking a village… um, what? Is there another Blight and another Archdemon… or does she just think that any group of dark spawn are The Blight? Im annoyed all over again lol
How did they put a team together that thought these design ideas and story arcs were what people wanted?
3 letters
- Dad, is Bioware dead?
- No, my son, this is even worse... Don't look, just... Let's just leave.
shouldn't we be able to sue for mental damage?
They not dead, there is fate worst than death. They are nothing but corpses controlled by dark corporate
They pulled a Wokeware
- Son, that's forbidden knowledge now, better seal them in trash-bin abyss
Corrupted by the foul forces of chaos...
“Gone are the days of Dragon Age Origins RPG combat system”…you think that’s a good thing?
also imagine her saying that after how successful baldur's gate 3 was lol
Honestly? I think the RPG combat system of Dragon Age Origins is far from what made it good. It was primarily the setting, the story, the characters. How it had actual mature themes, shades of grey, depth.. The political intrigue, racial tensions, you could be an actual monumental piece of shit.. And you could be someone who actually makes the world a largely better place wherever you go.
But the gameplay itself I do not feel is the core component of why the game was good. If this game was just half as good as DA:O at the setting and themes, the maturity behind it? The gameplay'd be forgiven I feel.
@@Clucky117Agreed, Dragon Age is a series thats primary focus is its story and characters. Vast majority of fans like it for that, not the gameplay. And Origins is my favorite game of all time.
Depends on who you ask. I've seen plenty of people who prefer more action-focused combat than a slow, tactical game. Just like how Asmongold loathes turn-based games and likely will never play BG3 because of it.
It's ironic, isn't it? Bioware will probably be forever incapable of making a game even remotely as good as Dragon Age Origins.
There's two trends that have arrived at the same time. Make things more boring and pedestrian and make them gay. So boring and gay are becoming associated in my mind.
DA:I had great gay romance. Probably the best part of the game. The rest was very mid. Even the other Dragon ages had ok gay content. It's the diversity and inclusivity stuff that is ham-fisted. DA was always about discrimination, religious zealotry and generally bad people being forced to be "good" to fight a greater threat (blight, qunari, etc..).
@@brunomarques7713 Your opinion, the gay romances were boring to me, Sara and Dorian, both pretty mediocre, both felt like they were trying way too hard, like it wasn't executed well and felt like Bioware was in the drawing room trying to make them the most flashy in your face characters to be interesting and to me that ruined it, Sara ended up being grating and wildly annoying and Dorian was like a brooding teenager, I couldn't stand either character and their sexuality was the furthest thing from my mind.
They made new linear action game 👺
@@brunomarques7713Inquisition actually had a cool multiplayer experience
Yeah didn't gay used to be about partying and being flamboyant? Now it's boring AF? Weird.
“Pet the cat and dog” is to adventure games what “flush the toilet” is to FPSes.
"Who's Excited For This Game..?"
Definitely not me. This straight up looked like that cheap fake mobile game ads you see back in 2018s.
It looks like an ad for shadow raid legends.
She has the balls to say there is still dark fantasy even though we can see there isnt
I lost all hope when I saw the new enemy designs. I don't even recognize the Pride Demons anymore
Careful. She works at IGN and has pronouns in her bio. She just might ACTUALLY have the balls to say that.
@@doctorogre1777 hahaha yah 🤣 😆 😂
Some of the areas are not very bright and there's fantasy what more do you people want!?!?!
- Some dev probably
Its more marvelslop than "dark"
Talking about how the gore and horror of the first game was preserved in the blighted areas while the whole thing is entirely bloodless and looks more like WoW than DA. Clowns ruin everything they touch.
Full nudity: YES!
Blood: OMG NO ARE YOU CRAZY?!
The blighted areas just serve to highlight the ridiculously garish effects, looks like absolute garbage.
And the blighted areas still look cartoonish and nothing like "gore and horror". I mean how are you going to make anything like that in this artstyle? no way.
Blood effects are turned off for preview gameplay in marketing. Like nearly all game journalists do. Mister Clown.
Why Baldur's Gate III looks more like Dragon Age than Dragon Age itself????
Cause they shared DNA
Remember, this is a game series that started out with washed out colours and dark themes, during combat there would be blood spatters everywhere and you characters in conversation custscenes would be covered in blood from head to toe if you initiated a conversation after combat. It used to be like an Arthurian tale with horror themes. This game looks like Disney's Marvel Heroes Fortnite ADHD dance party at a night club where everyone is on cocaine.
Dude, DA: Origins was such a good game. In terms of art style, narrative, and combat, everything just worked. It was also a pretty unique experience at the time. All they had to do was keep making games like that, with minor tweaks and improvements over the years. How do so many game studios kill their golden goose these days?
Yep. They were smart enough to have a toggle for anyone who didn't want the blood, but by default, red was gonna be your favorite color.
I watched DA Origins and DA 2 trailers after watching this gameplay, and style there looks so much better! Valeguard looks like it's made for children or Fortnite fans. The only good thing I can say about it is hair physics)
@@olehkoropenko620 unfortunately it seems most video games are aimed at children these days. its all some disney shit. they try to cater to a "modern" and wider audience, and to do that, you have to neuter everything. very few games are designed to be good anymore, now they are just designed to be safe.
The game also started out on pc and because of money greed became a console priority starting with DA 2 and later sequels. Quality dropped as well.
Rainbow Age: the Gay Guard
This 😂
Can't wait to see the gay wardens
So... Like the other Dragon Age games?
@@EmmanuelNLT How about this, Drag-Queen Age : The Failguard.
I mean half of the DA fanbase is queer, especially those that started with the second and third game. That and DA picked up a pretty half-and-half, female and male fan base.
"Yes, you can pet the cat / dog"
-The most basic batches.
Targeting Haitians.
@@bobthrepeeoh they said pet, not eat.
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Darkspawn look like silly clowns, not vicious monsters. I have some feelings about demons. Happy purples everywhere. Even Qunari went from looking like vicious warrior race to "1 soy milk latte, no sugar please" fembois.
Why do the Qunari look like humans cosplaying as Qunari?
So the devs can cosplay Qunari cheaply.
"Western games and ugly characters" name a more iconic duo.
"Western games and ugly characters" are on a roll this year. I think they peaked at Concord but some people are arguing that they topped with Dustborn.
"SBI" and "Studio Shut down" are a pretty iconic duo as well
Ugly characters are "Lore accurate" these days ~ XD
Lara Croft trying to carry 2024 with her sexy remasters
989 studios and the damage they did to IP’s, jet moto and twisted metal
Oh my GOD! THAT WAS A FREAKING FIRE QUOTE... I FELT THAT.
"You guys need to start judging books by their covers [...] Because if somebody can't be bothered to make a good cover, they sure as f*ck aren't gonna write a good book"
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It's a good point in games, but I've read some amazing books that just had text on the cover.
it's pretty stupid if you think about it though.
I dunno man if I'd judged West of Loathing by its cover I probably wouldn't have played it. Same with Deep Rock Galactic, and they're some of my favourites
@@Vaguer_Weevil rock and stone
@@Vaguer_Weevil i think he has another quote about exceptions confirming the rule.
Gamers around the world for the last 15 years: Dragon Age: Origins was the absolute peak! Bring us some more of that!
BeWare: "It's a mix of Dragon Age 2 and Inquisition!"
"You call it a nitpick, I call it a pattern!" - Asmongold
such true words!
Yeah, it's the small things that build upon each other that make the bigger picture.
"I dont like this" isnt valid criticism.
Dragon Age Origins is still one of the best games ever made. Damn shameful how far Bioware has fallen
When the good doctors left, it wasn't the same for Bioware
@Dino9474 In fairness, the people who made Origins left a long time ago. You're basically just paying for the name "bioware". EA is so fucking dumb they thought good games get created from the name of the studio instead of the names of the top talent they let go who created the games during the "golden age of bioware"
Word
It turned from good RPG with dating sim to dating sim with ARPG systém...
Dragon Age has always been trash
If you told me years ago that this is what would become of Dragon Age after the badassery of the grey wardens and the brutal plight of Hawke from Kirkwall, I would have thought you were smoking crack.
While I like Dragon Age 2 more than Inquisition, you'd have to be the one smoking crack if you think either of these games are good, Origins and it's DLC Awakening are the only Dragon Age worth playing.
@@Dungpie64oh please it was riddled with graphic issues and a few design flaws....fun to play but definitely not the be all end all allot of people think it was........i didn't think it was possible for voice actors to save a game with their performances but Black and Kempa saved that game
I did wonder if I was high watching it and listening to the game journo
The new devs probably were 😂
@jonathanvogt4341 Yea the voice actors did a good job but I feel like you're discounting the amount of love that was put into side quests and main story.
But like you said, it was fun to play, which is more than I can say for Inquisition.
I recall people back then telling new players to leave the Hinterlands -
(which is the first open world section) as fast as possible because of how bad it burns out the new players and that's why I beat Inquisition the least out of the three.
Another autistic fact about the piece of wood is how incredibly loud it would be, and the character doesn't cover their ears.
name one game that has characters covering their ears for every thing that is too loud
Remember when darkspawn were twisted hulks of muscle and viscera? That ogre looked like it was made of smooth porcelain. wtf. Also Qunari are now Temu tieflings, prove me wrong.
Temu tieflings AHAHAH It would've been so funny if it would've not been so sad...
RIP Bioware. I don't think they survive this one. They already tanked ME:Andromeda and Anthem. Don't have much hp left now
At this point Bioware is just a brand name.
Im willing to bet this is the last game bioware ever makes
One can hope.
Need to bury the bioware devs in that same spot where they buried the ET game
Nah if they survived Anthem they'll survive everything
@@superibay2965 they were bailed out with Anthem, owners will eventually realise they're a money dump
1 hand new mass effect another hand it's "bioware" maybe ya let them die
"Hey you know that comic relief skeleton from the game Hades? Yeah lets do that."
This garbage looks more neon lit and colored than Cyberpunk Corpo plaza at Night. They should call it Epilepsy Age: The Wokeguard
I miss when games had actual mature tones and not bunch of overly edgy and quirky characters like it actually took what happened more seriously and had slower dialogue to let the player take in what’s happening. Something Baldur’s gate 3 remembered and understood perfectly.
Blame marvel 🤦🏻♂️
Baldur's Gate 3 is colorful as hell. You are turned into a fucking wheel of cheese. Absolutely every complaint you guys have about this game is something that exists in Baldur's Gate 3, but you've gone into a inexplicable flock mindset of hatred for this game.
@@ricardomesquita4827 Sounds like a you problem. There's good writing and shit writing, and the majority opinion rules. Guess who's opinion is the majority.
@@ricardomesquita4827 baldurs gate 3 was mature and had exceptional writing, from its early days of early access and the dev’s history with games like Divinity original Sin 1 & 2, we knew it would be good.
This garbage Veilgaurd DOES NOT look good.
I think this is due to generational shifts in media.
In the 80's and 90's you had horrible, preposterous films that took themselves way too seriously. This led to a few clever writers going against the grain and adding more humor, irony, and quirk into otherwise serious films. At the time, it was probably refreshing.
This devolved into what should be serious movies feeling like they had to balance out every moment with quirkiness or "erm, did that just happen?!" moments.
That stuff is still around, but now we have writers doing meta-irony. It's still ironic, quirky, and stupid - but self-aware. It pokes fun at the ironic/quirky tropes and breaks the 4th wall. Think Rick n Morty or Deadpool. I'm not saying it's all bad, but it's also getting played out because not everyone is good at doing it.
That's why I think it's refreshing to see media take itself very seriously and offer a sincere piece of art. When it's done well, we get DUNE and Darksouls. I feel like we might see a rise in more sincere games/media soon.
You know its a paid Review when they have absolutely zero complaining about it, specially about the bad camera during combat that shows in their own video
You do realize that the person playing the game is the one that controls the camera during combat, right?
You know it’s a paid review when they disagree with me
Come on guys, it's IGN
@@icescorpion6189 yeah and this is the best someone chose to showcase gameplay can control the camera. Thats not comforting.
@icescorpion6189 so that's kind of the problem, this games combat like most third person combat game needs a camera lock on or a camera that moves very fluidly. This game obviously needs a better target lock on camera, but apparently doesn't have one based on all the game play stuff we have seen. This games camera looks so clunky and hard to control even the way the PC moves looks clunky with the PC constantly changing their position on the screen sometimes almost leaving the screen entirely.
"Safe-Edgy" is the best word to describe the aesthetics of this game; a far cry from the dark and gritty tone that draws in millions of fans towards the Dragon Age IP, in favor of something that could pass as a FortNite Halloween event.
i cant relate to anything said by someone who thinks petting a dog is a gamplay mechanic worth mentioning
You do realize it's a cuisine in some cultures right? You're being disrespectful to food.
@@radiantveggies9348you missread petting for eating my friend
I hate how many games I've seen try and use "you can pet the dog/dog adjacent creature" as a selling point
@@SolidSnake240 i mean its a nice thing for building the world and immersion but so is gras that moves or water that splashes :x its 2024 this should be accept as standard by now
for games like Skyrim, this is just a minor mod someone put online
Im beginning to wonder if western devs actually knows what regular humans look like
Tf? Why do videogame characters have to look like real human beings?
@@manux5306well... If the character is supposed to be a human being shouldn't they look like a human being? 🤷♂️
I think western devs are facing the same issues were seeing with writers,directors, casting.
When they abide by DEI practices they tend to hire thier own. I predict a huge crash for entertainment as a whole in the comming years, if we're not already there......
If you take a look at the typical Western game dev you'll find out why they don't know 😅
The people that use odd pronouns and refuse to answer what a woman is while coloring their hair bright colors and insist being 400 pounds is healthy and empowering? The answer would be... No.
Baldur's Gate 3 - High fantasy game - let's you be a magnificent evil bastard.
Dragon Age 4 (and 3 as well) - Allegedly dark fantasy games - "We removed blood magic because is evil".
This looks more some badly designed self-inserted Mary Sues.
Dragon Age: Origins was a grimdark fantasy game. Every game since then has been bubblegum fantasy.
@@pezdispencer113 Origins was great... and I think 2 was alright. It didn't offer the same range of choice, but as a story game (and not so much an RPG) i think it did fine.
Inquisition was just... too big, too much was in it, the stupid timer-based board thing was annoying and a lot of the areas you could explore felt kinda pointless in being there. It had potential to be good and it did well on some parts, but it just took too long to do stuff and some parts were just kinda lame. Being a series of open world maps hurt it, I think.
and this one... I don't have faith in it being great either, but I think getting rid of the giant maps is probably a move in the right direction, but even ignoring the animation issues, which don't bother me that much, it doesn't look amazing. Like with 3... it looks like something with potential that they're gonna screw up by adding a bunch of unnecessary stuff and probably stuffing in BS for the 'modern audience'.
Dragon age 3 (Inquisition) actually has blood magic in it and its theme revolves around it. You just cant play as a blood mage sadly.
Well, that's dumb
She called the Warden a chosen one? The freaking Warden!? She never played the first game, did she?
Right?! As far as player characters go, the Warden is so far from being a chosen one it ain't even funny. No matter which origin you pick for yourself, you condemn all others to a miserably short remainder of their life (pretty sure you can find their corpses or references to their deaths in-game). Same which would have happened to you if Duncan didn't show up when he did.
Hell, even by the end of the game you're still not the one who's *supposed* to kill the big bad. That's some other unfortunate shmuck's job until he dies too and you have to pick up the slack.
tl;dr - I agree, this reviewer has zero (conscious) hours played in DA:O
She is absolutely reading bullet points given by the devs.
"Oh the bustling city, the merchants, the quests and fights" There is a merchant in the city, a couple useless side quests and a fight.
"Oh the companion banter pauses when in combat" Like GTA V had 12 years ago?
And on and on...
Being less of a game reviewer and more of an ad read for the dev nowadays
With some AI speak sparkled on / in it too.... It's almost as annoying as the terrible art direction & weird fight animations/VFX.
I mean what do you want her to say? It's an RPG. Ofc she brings up stuff like the city and NPCs. Nobody plays these games for the combat
@@kimberly4275 Hard disagree... The best part of ANY GOOD GAME is the gameplay and combat (if the game has combat in it, in case of games without combat, then the gameplay is the most important). ITS A GAME, so off course the most important part is how it plays. If I want to watch or read a good story, then I look for another media type like TV shows, Anime or Movies, or a simple book... In a game, I WANT GAMEPLAY.
That's the point of playing a game. Its supposed to be an interactive media, the story is always secondary... You would know that if you grew up with gaming in the 80s and 90s like I did (back then the games had 0 or mostly no story, just gameplay mechanics and combat). You can go back in time with emulators and experience those times yourself and see what gaming was/is all about.
You might have a different opinion, but you will find that most gamers WANT TO PLAY A GAME rather than listen to the story of the game, specially those with very intrusive and unskipable parts that are annoying as hell. There are ways to tell a story without breaking the gameplay, some are good at it, some are terrible.
I for one prefer games with simpler objectives and skipable backstories or worse (things like romance, which I hate). DA:O had skipable parts of the story that most gamers like me dislike, while I would watch the good parts of the story (the bad parts being the romance and politics, the good parts being the combat and locations history).
@@kimberly4275 how much are you being paid to troll the comments? "no one plays these games for the combat", yeah that's why Origins, Inquisition, and Veilguard fleshed out so many combat systems for each class, multiple styles of combat per choice. what an insane comment. if people weren't here for the combat they'd be playing a medieval city builder instead.
As soon as this game got rebranded from Dreadwolf to Veilguard, it was done.
At first, I thought Veilguard was made by a different team and we were still getting Dreadwolf lol, it just seems so different from what they originally had in mind, and it's especially weird that they changed things like this when people were hyped for the dark fantasy they thought Dreadwolf was going to be.
It was over the moment they assigned their game director
Dreadwolf: Sounds like a dark fantasy title
Veilguard: A new Marvel movie
I mean, it was the same game when it ran by Dreadwolf (we just haven't seen anything from it at that time).
@@eXtotheZee Nah. Have you seen the teaser for Dreadwolf that was released a couple of years ago? THAT had the original Dragon Age feel to it. That was a completely different tone than w/e the fuck Veilguard is supposed to be.
as someone that plays mobile game, it DOES look like a mobile game
You frickin casual
@@AuroraGw2 wym
@@the7jinn I'm just teasing because you said you play mobile games
@@AuroraGw2 oh no worries, i went from hardcore pc player to casual mobile player haha
Even worse 💀 @@the7jinn
Mentioning "you can pet the dog" gave me "Millenial writings" ptsd.
its just another staple of the consoomer mentality
Agreed. I also look at it in another way. We used to look at the back of a box in stores when looking for new games, and so marketers had to put the best of the best features on the box. So when we saw stupid nonsense on the back, we knew as customers that it was garbage. While marketers have more than one limited screenshot to advertise in a video, you still want to see the best features, so petting dogs and playing rock paper scissors is the same as saying, "We are just wasting your time, we don't have anything actually exciting to show you."
Seeing the consoomers in the video comment section essentially orgasming to that inconsequential menial nonsense that they would do once and then forget aboot just makes me feel sad.
It's a telltale sign that they take the meme if petting cats and dogs isn't in the game, it's a bad game seriously. Like I want to be able to do that, and some games wouldn't let me (Fire Emblem Three Houses for one). But it's not a make or break.
The fact they had to point that out just tells me the dev team has their priorities wrong. And I'm saying it's the devs because no way a reviewer would seriously write the script in this video. It is extremely out of touch.
2010 wants their game back
I felt offended when she said "the origin fans will likely love" Origin was good, this is not even the same genre of game.
Have you played DA2 and DA3?
I heard the same shit being said back then too...
So by that logic, am I not allowed to enjoy both Final Fantasy 1 + Final Fantasy 16? How about Resident Evil 1 and Resident Evil 8? Fallout 1 + Fallout 3? I can keep going, if you like...
Literally how
@@aziouss2863 Besides the small world from not enough development time, DA2 was a good game. Inquisition was... an okay game at best.
@@aziouss2863 DA 2 and 3 are not even close to how good origins was
This girl is who they are making the game for considering she speaks exactly like how the characters speak. “OK GUYS DID ANYONE ELSE FEEL THAT BECAUSE I KNOW IT TOTALLY WASNT ME!”
- She said when she farted
You know there are a bunch of GenZ'ers like the girl speaking (with a vocal fry, no less), who are watching this video saying to themselves, "Looks good Asmon, this is just a modern audience game - you're just old."
@@CubicIronPyrite bro I am gen z from New York the only speak who speak like this are white girls and the other race girls that have been indoctrinated into white girls which is a large percentage of these studio devs now adays
Its mostly Millennials tbh, zoomers to their credit find this type of speech/writing/dialog to be incredibly insincere and lame (it is) @@CubicIronPyrite
@@Deusaga While laughing at a potato
Massive former bioware fan here.
Original bioware games never had the best graphics or gameplay, they were heavily relying on great storytelling and interesting characters.
They also had great art direction. The settings were intriguing.
In recent years tho everything they used to be great at went to shit. Sure andromeda and anthem had good graphics and better gameplay than older games, but that doesnt make up for what they lost.
With veilguard it feels like even the few things they improved on are regressing. The only thing current bioware has in common with the old one is the name. Original bioware is dead.
Finally a comment I can agree with. Mass Effect and Dragon Age (Origins, 2, and even 3) didn't have some kind of groundbreaking, amazing gameplay or graphics. They (at least the Origins, Mass effect 1 and 2) had story.
People are looking at the older games with rose-tinted glasses like they had great, seamless, smooth combat when they didn't. And bioware has been throwing away the things they were good at to be "safe".
The game looks as if someone on Twitter went "I ported World of Warcraft to Unreal Engine 4" and did a complete ass job.
Never have I ever hated the color purple until now.
as soon as a dev studio is 5%+ filled with homosexuals, the color purple is first on the chopping block.
What is frightening is people still go to IGN for reviews and opinions. There must still be a lot using the site for it to be still going.
Actually several TH-camrs have said (even tho they aren’t supposed to till the 19th) that the game is shaping up to be pretty great. Guess I’ll see when it releases
They just take money from the people they’re reviewing
Trust me, its mostly better than the opinion of Asmon and the army of incels. Go look up SkillUp's preview video on the game, that guy actually knows shit about games and played it himself.
@@varunh2o most people whiff actually played it see positive about it
As mentioned in the video "The open world aspect is gone". Sorry, maybe you like traveling a predetermined path and following a sequence of missions, but that's not freedom. The last thing I want to be doing is playing game following the exact same steps as 80,000 other people and finding the exact same items as 10,000 other people.
As a DA:O mega fan, I am even less excited for this than I was for Concord.
Veil guard to Origins is like what the Rings of Power is to Lord of the Rings.
It's too whimsical and fantasmical. I know it's a fantasy, but Origins had this sence of depth and darkness to it, Origins had grit, where Veilguard has sparkles and cheesey dialogue.
Now compare the Qunari from DA2 and this...
22:20 Zero testosterone in that room.
@@cvx5595 zero testosterone in that comment
@@mac_n_cheezy420 don't slopper about this game
@@kingdomJ the game looks good just wish they kept the Qunari design from DA2
OMG. You're so right.
Yeah, that room says it all.
pass
dragon age orgins: warrior was a warrior , archer an archer , mage was a mage. Now everyone's a mage with extra steps. Dark fantasy with sexiness and horror to straight up cartoon 15.37
Hell. Even in inquisition even though there are classes like the paladin, you have to progress as a warrior and can only pick one advanced class.
Seing 0 white male in the gameplay video, I guess character creation will be 50 shades of black.
This is not a Dragon Age game only a name they have dumbed the game down to make it so much easier for the modern audience that doesn't exist
It worked with Baldur's Gate 3, so we will see
The fact that she has offered zero negative remarks about the game clearly shows that its a paid for positive review. No game is perfect with nothing stupid or disappointing.
This is why Gameranx is my go-to for gaming reviews.
Yeah, that or Access journalism. She is too afraid to say anything negative because the company will cry and not give IGN access anymore.
Legit the most manufactured review
Kingdoms of Amalur wants it's engine and art-style back.
Great comparison
It's not though, Kingdoms of Amalur actually did it good, this Garbage looks like they copy and pasted Dark Alliance 2021.
KoA mentioned
kingdom of amalur had style which was similar to fable games + great combat
That would imply they have a sexy bikini armor wearing elf, which Dragon Age has none. In fact, I'm willing to bet this game (Dragon age: the veilguard) has no attractive characters in the first place.
Another game for the modern audience, all 12 of them...
"It's been 10 long years..."
me: "Is this a mobile game?"
not surprised he says something similar later on lol
Do you not have phones?
Nothing says "dark fantasy" like playing Rock, Paper, Scissors with a skeleton wearing goofy goggles.
"dark gay fantasy" fify
Amazing how many games actually have that as thing
Facts 🤦🏿
exactly my same thought when I saw the Rock, Paper, Scissors with that stupid skeleton. The undead used to be scary in Dragon Age! this whole... purple abomination is just not Dragon Age anymore.
Yep. That whole magical floating tower thing in general just screams "boring generic high fantasy". Completely soulless.
Alex Stedman was the person chosen to preview this game and talk about it btw. For CONTEXT:
She gave She-Hulk - 7's across the board on all her episodes
They picked someone who reviews literally only 1 or 2 movies and all the netflix/disney show crap to preview this. Its no wonder the mobile gameplay appeals to this "journalist."
Do you remember Colin Moriarty and Greg miller era ign?
It was never perfect but i at least felt their opinion had some merit... I would need a second opinion but I would consider what they said.
Modern IGN has lost all trust with me, it's less critique and more a marketing outlet.
they found the one journalist who was their target audience.
This WAS meant to me a live service MMO style game, then went back on it. It obviously looks like they didn't change the childish graphics that were meant to appeal to all audiences... i.e. little kids
People need to realize that modern "games journalists" are there to advertise and showcase the game rather than review or critique. If they get early access to a game and slam dunk on it they won't get access in the future which will bite them in the ass.
Exactly they're paid shills all of them
"You're gonna call it a nitpick...I'm gonna call it a pattern and we'll see who's right"
👏👏👏👏👏
The purple was not a good primary colour decision for a Dragon Age game. It makes it look cheap.
Well at least we can’t say it’s false advertising then 🤷🏿♂️
This game was definately designed for mobile and ported to everything else. They'll announce the mobile release a couple of months after original release date. Graphicly, it's a mobile game from a decade ago; don't expect much from story and dialog.
20:25 It's not even about access journalism. We have a reviewer that picks up a Dragon Age game and the first thing she tries is to pet cats and dogs.
Games are being developed expecting 20-30 year old women reviewers to play the game for 10 hours max and expect to be able to have pets, romance everyone in sight, and verbally tell the villan off. It's so tiring.
I hate to break it to you my friend, but one of the most popular features I often hear mentioned from DAO is that it had a dog companion you could interact with. Is it different if the dog can join the party?
@@violetbliss4399 Actually it is. The Dog from Origins was an actual character with a personality of his own. Besides, you missed the point he tried to make.
60% of the RPG audience are cat/dog parent millennials today.
cat/dog parent millennials are making these games now.
and thats why they look like this. you also notice characters constantly holding mugs with two hands.
it was very off putting in that dog shit saints row game as well.
verbally jabbing the bad guy is tight, hopefully there's an achievement or a trophy for that
Bioware"rpgs" are basically dating simulators at this point. Don't expect anything.