@@Mako2401 That's what I've been saying for a decade. There's a disorder called "body integrity disorder" where people essentially think they have the 'mind' of an amputee, and so will want to remove healthy limbs. I've never understood how someone wanting to surgically modify their body to align with a mental perception ISN'T a mental illness, whether an arm, penis, breasts.
The thing is to have it actually change they would have to put more triangles into the butt same with the boobs for the boob slider. They also would have had to do the same to all armors and outfits the character would wear can it fits correctly without part of the body clipping through. Can they do that? Most likely yes though will the game engine they are using support it? Maybe or maybe not that is why there are so many addons to each game engine to make what the developer want to do work. So if it couldn't they could make it so it would. Now for performance would a high poly model make less sense than a not as high poly model? In most games lower poly count is better with exceptions but for the main character having it a high poly model if it can be should be a thing even if they had to reduce the poly count on other stuff like NPCs. So it might be the 3D modeler as told to make it so it cannot happen instead of told to make it so it performs best. Yes lower poly count in most cases will perform better you still have some that it will not and depending on how the game's meshes are constructed it might have just looked bad if they allowed the player to adjust the boobs bigger. In most stand alone 3D model character makers you get 2 sliders for the boob size then 2 sides for boob position. Game simplify it down to 1 slider to do all 4. You also have as they are in the code you also have the Y and W axis that they could adjust. W is mostly a value in the physics engine. In most games it is used to either make it move more or less. So what i see is a manager wanted it but didn't want it to take time so all the easy to put in stuff was and the harder to get right stuff had minimal effort put in. In part it might be that Dragon Age isn't known for girls with big boobs and big butts so it would break the lore but also as it is in the ad video most likely not enough time to make it so it doesn't clip through the above mesh for clothing and/or amor.
The Qunari look too human and soft now. I hate what they did to them. This is supposed to be a grimdark themed fantasy world, now it looks like a pixar fantasy.
Definitely weird, I was looking at it like wtf? I also want to actually try out the character creation system because IGN is renown to be terrible reviewers and gamers.
that and the asian elf irk me the most, they don't look like elves, they look like asian girls wearing elf ears, same with the qunari which is just dudes with horns
Bruh, the OG DA1 Qunari were just tall, very human looking, black dudes with cornrows and no horns. They look radically different in each game, kind of like the Brutes in the Halo series get their look changed with each game.
There's kids growing up right now who think this is normal because they have never seen past media. They are eschewing short term profit to eventually create this modern audience.
@@kerfuritogonzales *Revelation 3:20* Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. HEY THERE 🤗 JESUS IS CALLING YOU TODAY. Turn away from your sins, confess, forsake them and live the victorious life. God bless. Revelation 22:12-14 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
She does reference DA2 in terms of the Arishok, but no mention or reverance of the OG GOAT Dragon Age Origins makes it easy to confirm she's the "modern audience"
@@Gladerunner2113 She had no reason to, in DAO sten was a hornless Qunari that looked nothing like them because they overhauled the Qunari design in every single game.
This is what Elden ring did so right, like the old Shakespeare like voice lines make so much of a difference in immersion and giving gravity to the story
Number of women with larger than a B cup: hundreds of millions or more Number of women with wide hips: lol I dunno like almost all of them? Number of women with double mastectomy scars: uhhh Guess which of these options is in the game
There's more emotional weight and immersion in doing ONE parry against a basic undead in dark souls or elden ring than this entire combat showcase of button spam had
I think that's kinda the point, so women who have self-esteem issues dont have to feel like they cant compete with fictional characters. But give them all the tall hot male characters all day and throw in some yaoi (that's a small group of vocal women, cuz most women want to play as hot women surrounded by hot women and men lol)
@@edattacks idk man, i would never play male character that looks worse then me. From my experience most woman are not that different in that regard. I also think there's probably an issue with all those slider thingies, if it's not implemented properly controlling only parts of the body will always result in characters that seems a bit "off" for some reason.
"For a modern audience", "diversity", and "represented". When somebody says those words it makes me not want to play it or listen to their opinion on anything in life.
Yeah... wrong priorities. Wrong target group. Wrong game. Just move on, do not pay attention to it, dont buy the game, just move on. it is the best you can do.
I mean, what's wrong with diversity? only privileged people feel like something is being forced onto them or taken from them when minorities get representation and fight for their rights. that being said, when it's done poorly, or just for a "checkmark", I'm not a fan of it either. but determining whether it's good or not requires not hating on things the moment you see the word "diversity". (the "you" here is hypothetical)
I looked up this presenters profile. Her work mainly includes articles on Barbie, Bridgeton and Polyamory. A grand total of four video game articles, two of which are Veilguard. So... bog standard games journo, then.
Part of the reason behind the breast size being so small, if it's not directly an agenda, is actually just lazy game design. Breast size changes the way clothes work in games. Skyrim modders had to retexture all of the armor sets in the game just to work with larger breast mods. HOWEVER, this is an issue from over a decade ago. Should be part of the basics by now.
So the double masectomy scars thing totally breaks verisimilitude. We're supposed to believe that a gender affirmation surgery is an option in a pseudo-medieval fantasy setting with literal magic. Utterly absurd. This is the most bold-faced example of prioritising modern day sensibillities over a coherant, well-written narrative.
It's like characters in Harry Potter having glasses 😂 they have magic to fix everything they could ever need fixed but dont use it for eyes and here we have literal world remaking magic available but people are getting dangerous surgeries with lackluster medical equipment 😂
Your first mistake was not to notice they put the scars there to indoctrinate people into believing experimental surgery for a mental health condition... is not only normal, it is to be celebrated.
I’ve seen it a lot in other fandom spaces too, and it really highlights what a fetish trans sexuality is for a lot of these people. People with dysphoria don’t want it evident that they are not their chosen gender. They don’t embrace surgical scars or show them off. That is a quality that is only highlighted by people who don’t understand the condition, or get their rocks off to it.
Not only is this a thinly veiled paid promotion from IGN. The woman speaking ticks all the boxes for a modern audience fan: - Fake gaming experience - Over hyping mundane features - Focus on diversity - Avoids providing any actual criticism
I've always wanted to make fantasy characters but find them unrelatable due to them not being affected by rare conditions. Specially conditions that could never naturally occur in a fantasy setting.
Nobody cares, bro. Baldur's Gate 3, Hogwarts legacy, Elden Ring all had DEI elements and still sold extremely well. There is a huge disconnect between terminally online anti-wokesters who bother to review bomb things and the general majority of the public, the normies, who treat this more as a casual thing. We play the game and just enjoy it and not pick it apart. It is time to admit you have lost the culture war. Most Americans lean left on social issues, climate, LGBTQIA+ stuff, abortion, etc. The center gets farther left all the time. The good old days are over and it's time to move on.
I know a couple of trans people who proudly posted their top surgery scars on facebook and then got allot of praise, so maybe the scars are the goat. *shrugs*
@@Rvdis Blues and golden colours are also heavily used in movies because they invoke certain feelings/emotions, and I think Marvel movies really made this a super thing that everybody nowadays wants to emulate. Your brain likes certain colours as they remind you of sunsets and such and people/companies use this psychological trick to make their stuff look better/impressive/etc.
Its weird that this only goes for the main character, the npc qunari we see standing around as guards in one of the gameplay videos look like they looked in DA2
And the male has a feminine one. Very narrow shoulders and low muscle mass. This is straight up subversion, trying to make it seem that males and females are more physically similar than they actually are.
DAO was the only truly good dragon age video game. It's unfortunate but bioware juat isn't capable of making games like they did with kotor DAO and mass effect. I think being Canadian got them started on the stupid woke censorship even before the US companies. You could see the slide and this is the end result
Is this positive? Sounds more like toxic stupidity to me. I realize I'm very negative as a person, but I like to think I could recognize the inverse of my personality.
I get you. She sounds uppity and always right, despite not allowing opposing opinions or actual facts to ruin their thunder. That's how I perceive toxic positivity; "I'm always right!"
They have a weird cadence to the way they speak and enunciate. The IGN "reporters" and also the "community Panel" influencers. It's uncanny. It reminds me of the Jehovah's Witness videos to be honest. That quiet, earnest, trying to sound knowledgeable but basically just monotoning their way through a sermon and making a drinking game out of buzz words. Maybe it's a "Cult of BioWare" thing...
🌈“Hair representation”🌈 🌈“body diversity”🌈 I really hate modern media and their buzzwords. Maybe they didn’t mean it to be woke garbage buzz words but I honestly can’t tell anymore. It’s just all annoying and cringe.
Nobody cares, bro. Baldur's Gate 3, Hogwarts legacy, Elden Ring all had DEI elements and still sold extremely well. There is a huge disconnect between terminally online anti-wokesters who bother to review bomb things and the general majority of the public, the normies, who treat this more as a casual thing. We play the game and just enjoy it and not pick it apart. It is time to admit you have lost the culture war. Most Americans lean left on social issues, climate, LGBTQIA+ stuff, abortion, etc. The center gets farther left all the time. The good old days are over and it's time to move on.
@@KaylaJones2000if it doesnt align with how they feel or what they think, the game wont/shouldnt sell at all because of the buzzword the devs uses. When they themselves use buzzwords for these type of games 💀💀. Literally it becoming a there no more white men games, when there hundreds being pumped out
@@KaylaJones2000 BG3 sure. Hogwarts got crap from woksters as you so put it and that's partially why it sold so well, anti-woksters supported it. Elden Ring's only and singular wokster element was the fact it had body type A and B. Not really much of one even though it is a negative element. Sorry, there is no 'lost' culture war. In fact young men are more right leaning than they ever have been. And even if we were to lie and pretend you were correct, the mob being the majority, doesn't make them correct. The good old days are gone that's true, but it doesn't mean we can't make things better and that's a reason to fight than any. Better than give up and allow people who can't even define what a chick is without a circular definition to control the culture. Or rather, the hyper rich that want people to believe that.
I have 1 friend I know for sure would be very disappointed by the butt and chest sliders, because she always makes her character look like her, but in this game she can't. These developers talk so much about inclusivity, but then exclude so many people.
If i may be honest. I feel like most females, whether attractive or unattractive, have larger features than what this slider allows, and that's sort of upsetting..I agree.
What was that glute slider? It literally didn't change at all from 0% to 100%. She just proved that the sliders are just there to lie to players, and not actually be functional. It's interesting how fast she skipped over the details of the Human-like characters.
It technically did. Just do what I did, and point a mouse at full screen over the pixel where ass ends at 0% and see 2 aadditional pixels added to the left at 100%. what a joke
If you're wondering about the weird choices like having "top surgery scars" in a fantasy game, it's because the game director is trans. Otherwise, the body sliders aren't impressive likely because the character is an elf, and elves in Dragon Age are super skinny and lanky. Like an average male elf has less body mass than the average human female -kind of skinny. If you want to see an example, search "Dragon Age 2 Merrill" and then search "Dragon Age 2 Isabela" and you can see what a huge difference there is between elves and humans
You gotta remember that was before this DEI bs, back when people kinda didn't really cared what your orientation was and weren't as PC. They also had the awesome Renegade or Paragon system which in my opinion was awesome with the special triggers based of where you stood on the karma scale
The gender swap thing bothered me in Hogwarts Legacy aswell. You have magic, spells and potions to alter your body - but Sirona has a male voice, even though even the polyjuice potion does change the voice. It was just lazy virtue signalling and taking a stance "against" J. K. Rownling. The same with the witch who just *had* to tell you about her wife. If you want acceptance, implement these characters natually and don't let them stick out just so everyone gets it.
Yup. Very stupid, especially when it’s set like 200 years before trans characters would even make sense. Sure, they existed, but it was never on the scale we see today and in a world with magic any trans person has the capability to just… cast a spell? It’s all very stupid and obvious
Not to mention sir Rona would probably look like a very attractive woman post transformation and not the rough approximation of a very ugly one which is the closest to being a woman most men can hope to achieve with modern science.
"As a Dragon Age fan, it feels like a homecoming of sorts" - Well clearly you aren't a fan then. How about everyone stops kissing up to big corpo with bad games?
They made the female character models look exactly like in all of the other dei games. They just slapped a female head on top of a male body and called it a day.
The "modern audience" is approximately 25k people, MAX, based on what we've been seeing in sales numbers for "woke" games. Until more CEOs accept this, more studios are going to be burned to the ground.
@Aeeeoi Happens when you have a competent production team, doing the coat tails of a massive IP like DnD. As to DnD, let's not pretend that it hasn't gone down in quality since 3.X. They dumbed it down to the lowest common denominator, and then pandered with stuff like the combat wheelchair.
@@ArnoldJudasRimmer.. Maybe this is? No one outside of youtubers have played it and all the youtubers, even the ones who were hating on it months ago, are saying it's a good game. Maybe we should stop trying to judge games either way before they release? People were crying about BG3 being woke before it released then just suddenly stopped when it became a generational game because it didn't fit their 'Woke ruins everything' narrative lol.
Chest size goes from -%55 (7:47)to +45 (8:48) and there is no noticeable difference in breast size, exactly like the ass size, there is almost no discernable difference from maximum to minimum. Those sliders are clearly there just to trick consumers.
Had to check your timestamps: they check out. +45% chest equals a soft B at best, so unless -100% doesn't turn the chest concave, the range is no/A cup =-100% up to ~0% and ~0% to +100% = B cup. How do I get to this assessment? If +45% is a small B cup, and assuming the slider is evenly distributed, there's no way the maximum can reach higher than a small C at best.
Speaking of which, many "anti-woke" curators on Steam don't recommend games that have a character creator (like in general. What this game is doing is stupid) or a mute protagonist, just because it is now considered inclusive💀 Though more hilarious take can be found in ULTRAKILL's curator reviews.
Talking about character creation, for whatever reason many of the "woke detector" curators on Steam do not recommend games with any sort of character creator. Or mute protagonists. Or well, for whatever other issue they can find. Like for example the Steam curator "Woke Content Detector" has rated Space Marine 2 "Not Recommended".
When she said BG3 lacked on character creation I was annoyed af, sure, the base game didn't have much(has more than this when it comes to the body) but the mod creators gave us limitless creator options. These people are clowns.
They always talk about representation and inclusivity, but fail to give lesbians candy for the eyes just because they don't want to give straight men candy for the eyes.
@@YunotheheroI saw a brother with long white n gray dreds that were the big type ones yesterday But yeah the example i just gave….is more of the same. You are right I’ve played a few cc’s past couple weeks, and was impressed how many hair styles there was. Both had women hair in with the males 5 styles lol Boot up Madden last year, yup 5 hair styles lol
It's funny how the sliders perfectly mirror the devs own insecurities. Insane how they were put in charge of an entire multi-million dollar franchise when they can't even step over their own short comings as human beings.
"as a long time fan" I bet, a couple of months ago when she decided to be a game journalist as soon as she unlocked her new pronouns, she did not even know about the Dragon Age franchise. You can tell she is reading a script.
The sad thing is since the last game was a decade ago her statement could be true while her only exposure to the franchise is that dogwater game alone and no exposure to the last two.
People are actually saying the top surgery scars represent people with breast cancer... yeah because thats who they were thinking of when making this insane decision.
Having worked in healthcare for a short amount of time and helping women recovering from surgery related to breast cancer: it's super traumatic to lose your breasts. That's why women choose to get surgery to restore what can be restored with implants or, if that is not possible, get pads fitted and custom made to put in their bra. The only woman I got to know in that time who was fine with just the scars and who actually had both breasts taken off although only one was affected, was a 60+ yo woman with some deep trauma of awful things having been done to her in her childhood.
But wouldn't a cancer patient...NOT want those flaws in their escape from reality? If I was handicapped I sure as hell wouldn't want to play a fantasy game where my character rolls around on a wheelchair.
Yall are missing the point. If it was to give representation to breast cancer survivors they would call it "Mastectomy scars" because that's the medical procedure. "Top surgery" is a Trans thing only. Literally diminishing women's issues to pander to trannies
@@Vikingskog yeah I was thinking the same thing. 100% ahh slider looked like normal irl ahh. No representation for women with any sort of cake related genetics. I guess representation wasn’t the intent after all.
@@swish3814 Where did he say that all black girls have big asses? Just like not all white women love pumpkin spice latt-... okay actually I've never met a white girl that doesn't love pumpkin spice latte. But she exists! ... probably. Somewhere. Point is, it's a commonly celebrated trait, and the devs deliberately made sure thicc people are excluded from being represented.
@@swish3814 Ah yes, we only want to accurately portray the natural body shape of SOME black girls. Sounds like a great argument against what I said. Thanks for commenting. /s
Modern audience and woke is ruining every IP i used to love. These people claim they were fans of the franchise but when put in charge change everything about it
This seems to be her first and only game review article. Her other articles before this were about movies and tv series such as Barbie, The Little Mermaid, and Bridgerton.
@@wesleysolomon5364 Bro, all Bioware games are known for having shit hair styles. To me, it feels like a huge improvement. Plus, the journalist said that she does not care for combat, so it is only natural for her to discuss other aspects of the game that she found herself caring more for, like character customization.
"So many hair textures being represented...." Every time I hear the word representation, it makes my eyes roll. Don't get me wrong. I like that the game gives me a lot of options to customize my character, but the word "representation" implies that these different hairs were only added to the game because of "inclusivity", not because they wanted to give us players the freedom to creat whatever we actually want.
I think she kinda misspoke on that word, caught me off guard too. But other TH-camrs who have played the invite demo have said that the hair is well done
It’s all about intention. MonHunWilds have no gender locked armour and highlighted hair and everyone fucking loves it, because they know the devs heard about thigh windows armours and so they push those changes for more fashions options. These AAA games, on the other hands, everyone knows they are there to push an agenda
@Odder-Being I'll concede that she could have had it rekeybinded or a flipped controller scheme but I wouldn't be surprised if she didn't complete the game.
*Asmon:* Can you make the boobs bigger? *Dragon Age:* No, but you can give Rook double mastectomy scars, cause you know, that's what people cry out for?
I have Vitiligo. Its an affliction, not a feature. I don't want to mirror my affliction in a game to feel included. It's the most disappointing thing about my existence.
I dont have it and ive seen very very few people with it... but on this one ill be honest. Most of body positivity is usually about obese people that want to be praised for being lazy. But vitiligo is something i genuinely think we can collectively not see as bad. You have no influence on it and it quite literally is just patterns on skin. I personally think it looks pretty. Like chocolate artwork!
But you're represented in the game you should love that THEY WANT YOU TO LOVE THAT, WHY ARE YOU NOT KISSING THEIR FEET FOR REPRESENTING YOU AND OTHER PEOPLE WITH THE CONDITION
@@Iaotle I never make characters that look like me because I hate the way I look. Why tf would I want to see that in a game that’s meant to be escapism
@@AQS521 That is silly. Even for the 0.000001% of trans-male players it still makes no sense, as it is pushing a real-life bad surgical limitation in a magical fantasy setting.
She literally did the "I could talk about all the stuff you want to hear and want me to go into detail with, but I'm going to talk about the character creator instead". That there, is the target audience of this game. People who care more about the character creator and how the hair moves than anything else.
Tbh, as Asmon was saying, the hair+it's physics do look awesome. And even high quality hair like in Horizon with Aloy looks way worse and uncanny valley bad. It's the first game ever I've seen where I would say -based on this preview- yeah the hair looks fine. The problem is, if the game is lackluster in combat, story, companions and the rest of the character creator it's pointless how the hair looks.
i mean that is the video... there's other videos abut the other parts of the game, this ones about char creation lol like complaining there's no baseball coverage while watching nascar.
@@paulusapfel The only time i ever care about the character creator is to make the character look cool enough or beautiful enough to look at when i am playing the whole game. Dont want to have some ugly ass character i have to stare at the whole time. The only time i ever make ugly characters is in MMO games where i force other people to look at it lol.
The dragon ege audience wants a glorified dating sim. I'm not even kidding through the years of dogs sequels they've cultivated an audience with standards for gameplay that are inside the ground.
I bet they will post on X complaining about the gamers chosing the most basic white male dude characters and that they are pissed that no one is playing trans dwarf elves with pink beards and scars.
Im a woman and what he said about women shaming other women for being too well endowed is absolutely true. Women sabotage eachother by picking on eachothers appearances. You can shame someone to be insecure about things about her that are actually positive, influence her to do things that make her look worse etc. The entire fat positivity movement is about that imo. Eat whatever you want and stay ugly so I can look better than you, while you think you are loving yourself when you stuff your face. Its genious really.
I had a girlfriend in college that was well endowed. She ended up hating herself because of her breasts because she thought of it as ugly. I hated when she would put herself down like that and tried my best to dissuade or never enforce that thought. Her friends, however, were not so kind or never tried to stop her from thinking she was fat due to her breasts. It was sickening to me and made me realize how terrible some people are to continue shaming women for just having large breasts.
Considering today almost everything is outsourced, probably most of these games are made by some guy in India or Pakistan, who has only ever seen a mobile game. You can't really make a game if you don't know what a game is. A game is not a representation of reality... it doesn't need to be "modern" or anything. You can make whatever you want, however unreal you want. It's strange why in a fantasy story all females should be average or worse... you can make them better... why not?! There are games from 20 years ago with hotter females, than what they make today, all these "modern audience" games. I don't understand that whole trend to make females ugly on purpose. (or make them more men like, also on purpose). There are gams from 30 years ago with pixelated female who look hotter, with the right proportions.... but nah, they made the slider in a way you can't make a hot female.... why... this is just crazy. I don't know who wants to play with ugly "realistic" characters.
The pronouns option is so redundant anyway because if you are making a character with the female body type, you are clearly making a woman aka a "she/her"
10 years to: 1. Make a SIMS like texture and less character customization that Dragon's Dogma 2. A button smash combat system 3. Poor map design and environmental 4. Poor Voice Acting and lack of likable companions 5. Dialogue options that do not actually represent the action/dialogue your character takes 6. An opening sequence and segment that makes it obvious that the story will be expositional heavy. They will be throwing words and names at rapid fire to make it feel like DnD, but it will all feel like random slop. I didn't have to know the realm of DnD to follow BG3 because it revealed info slowly and explained things in a way it didn't feel too expositional. It doesn't seem like this will do that. I will say they did good on 2 things: 1. Hair physics 2. Your character actually speaks and is animated during cut scenes and dialogue (Which I wish Bauldur's Gate 3 had)
@@Melon-Lord That is their power and greatest weapon: there is no logic, that is why they never "debate". They don't have a point or position based on facts, logic or simple reality just "feelings". Why do you think statements like "believe all women", "my truth" "gays for palestine" were just some of their slogans ?.
I would imagine it is because: 1) they are going through puberty and are uncomfortable with their changing body and are not actually trans. 2) they were brainwashed and feel they have to pretend to be trans to be seen as virtuous.
If someone wants to play an attractive character, give them the ability to make one. If someone wants to play a “modern audience approved” character, give them the ability to make one. Don’t just restrict it.
That's the whole issue, the people who want the 'modern audience' stuff wants that to be the only option, and you're with them or against them. There is no negotiation, no middle ground, no 'play what/how you want.' This is why they've been infecting IPs like crazy for a decade, instead of just making their own niche stuff. They want their views to be the only available, acceptable mainstream view.
@@beerosaurusrex And that's exactly "the agenda"... First it was music, then comics/movies/TV shows and then gaming, next is Anime and Manga until all media is infected with "the agenda" AKA THE MESSAGE. Welcome to the Woke World of 1984 (but current year) where only our view is the right view. Everything else is wrong think, and we can't have that. That's why we now have the Ministry of Information to keep you informed of the truth and only the truth (according to us).
Every single time she repeats being a long time Dragon Age fan makes me think she's like the bandwagon weirdos who joined in on Mass Effect and don't actually understand the franchise at all.
It's a paid shill marketing campaign trying to "market" tge game better, so it doesn't fail like concord. This is what they think they did wrong, not having gaslighting videos.
@@john24110 the only redeeming thing in that game was they finally had the Qunari design they originally wanted but my god is the new gameplay actually worse. At least the skills could be used unimpeded in 2. The new game looks slower than previous titles with the skill wheel. The whole reason Mass Effect had long cooldowns was to leave focus for the gunplay in between, this is just button mashing by a garbage player.
10 years, hundreds of thousands of hours of work,millions of dollars,billions of customization combinations and they still couldnt add hot women into the game. 💀 get this Concord shit outta here
@@softluxuryone2169 Many Japanese games even from much older consoles used "Body Type" instead of gender, possibly for localization reasons/simplicity. Nothing to do with agenda in this case. But when western games that used to have gender don't have it anymore, that's a different story.
The artists for these studios are aware of body positivity so they include that in character creation. "Imperfect bodies are perfect" is what they are obsessed with.
My prediction is that eventually more and more games will flop, studios will go bankrupt, and they’ll blame it on white men. After all that, hopefully, we’ll get a factory reset, things will go back to normal, we’ll get another good 20 years, and then the cycle will start all over again
Unfortunately... these cultural cycles don't usually reset until there is massive bloodshed, historically. Whether its Mussolini, Stalin, or Hitler (and probably many others before them) it typically doesn't reset until enough carnage has been reached that people finally can't just sit on their ass and ignore or ignorantly complain and civilization takes the hard road. The only hope that it doesn't lead to that is that we have the internet now, and that could make a difference in how its navigated. But typically extremist idealism eventually leads to an overreach for power that ends in massive bloodshed. And the grab for power doesn't always come from one side of the political spectrum. Sometimes it comes from the left, like in Stalin's case, and sometimes from the right, like in Mussolini, Hitler, or the Taliban's case. Eventually, the cultural divide becomes so strong that one side decides that it is "So correct" that they have the authority and moral duty to install their ideals onto the others even by force, and that is when they rise to power via populism and then the only way to stop them is through bloodshed. The overwhelming majority of human beings are just wired to be followers. And therefore idealism is almost like a cancer that just keeps growing until it gets so big that it must be culled, because human beings will just keep getting more and more extreme until what once was good becomes a bad thing and then violence becomes unavoidable in order to stop it and reset.
@@RuecianGray We will all get the chance to play the best first person shooter of all time! It will have the highest stakes too because once you lose you lose forever!
@@RuecianGray a thing that hasn't happened in a long while is large scale wars, you have ongoing conflicts like the middle east or the Ukraine war but outside of that this is the most peaceful period since we discovered agriculture as a species, so I'd say that in the future you wont need bloodsheds to incur change, you'll instead need massive financial losses, since now money is essentially lives. In that way then yeah a lot of "blood" is being spilled by these flop lgtv games.
the only hope we can have is that asian developer studios continue to go their own way and do not jump on the bandwagon of western developers... pray for rockstar and cdpr
The combat is designed for casual gamers because they're making it for them. That's why there's a large focus on the hair looking good and identity. Just look at how their panties become a waterfall over this shit. They aren't losing their minds over big swords and powerful spells, they're losing their minds over how their character looks, and 'cute' dialogue and cinematics.
"casual gamers" they made this game for female nerds who are chronically online and take ingame romance way too seriously, same audience as BG3 they ruined that game too by catering to that audience.
@@ValnirAesling If you stay offline and ignore the weirdos and play BG3 your way, that stuff is easily avoidable and it’s a great game though. Bg3 was more of an option to be “woke” if you want to, although I wish you could choose sexual orientation in character creator to avoid every dude who you think is a good buddy coming on to you 😂 this game throws it in your face and demands you accept it.
@@zadovrus1624 you never played there game then in 2006 you could be gay and date 2 different guys and in 2009 mass effect you could be as well bioware is always been (woke)
It feels like all these new games for "modern audiences" are being created by the theater kids that hissed at you from under the stairs in high school.
Yeah. 100%. If you apply the "revenge of the nerds" frame to the social/political climate, it makes a lot of sense. Trump is a jock/preppy, they're the nerds/theatre kids. Technology affords weak people a novel advantage over people who are physically stronger than them. The tables have turned in favor of the people who would have been the bottom of the hierarchy, and you're seeing the revenge phase play out. I think a lot of these cultural choices are made specifically to annoy us (i.e. normal people). That's what you do when you're a rebellious teenager, you take pleasure in making the lame adults squirm with your choice of clothes and music. This is no different. After you see these ridiculous "modern" things, imagine a voice that says "What do you think about THAT, Dad!?!?!?" And then it all makes sense.
@@simex909 except the actual nerds were the people making games in the first place. but those were the nerds who were socially awkward but at least decent enough people to have found friend groups. these weirdos aren't nerds or cool kids, they're the complete losers who had literally zero friends because they were completely insufferable.
@@powerbeard5653 Yeah it doesn't map perfectly, it's just an analogy and how I imagine they perceive it. I doubt they view themselves as insufferable losers. I'm still trying to figure out exactly what this spirit is that we're dealing with. I think OP is pretty close, and I'm using nerd broadly to just mean fringe. It's the fringe attempting to dominate the center as revenge for being on the fringes. Something like that.
@powerbeard5653 Yeah totally, but I get what he's saying. I'm a huge nerd, but I'm not a dweeb. There's a difference between being nerdy and being a dweeb. I'm also very active too and live a full life, but I love me a good book, game, TV series etc.
"We've spent 10 years making this next-gen dragon age installment. We've spent 9.5 of those years on bringing you HAIR, the other half of the year on the rest of the game. This is truly a next gen experience."
@@john24110 😚в этом ты прав. Мои взгляды по сравнению с ватой очень прогрессивные и великодушные. Мне просто плевать, остальные хотят геноцида или пародируют Иисуса и не выходят из депрессии. Даже в нашей стране женщины разные, что уж говорить обо всём мире. Так что не надо строить из себя эксперта по женщинам.
It's the fact that these people only consider representation in most superficial sense, to the point of being offensive Like Killmonger hair they give every black dude nowadays
10 years to take a shit is not healthy
based lmao
Nah 💀 this is too good.
Underrated comment
No shit! (pun intended)
Yeah, it's dangerous.
So top surgery scars, but does not believe in women who have cups larger than B?
yeah, ok.
@@Mako2401 That's what I've been saying for a decade. There's a disorder called "body integrity disorder" where people essentially think they have the 'mind' of an amputee, and so will want to remove healthy limbs. I've never understood how someone wanting to surgically modify their body to align with a mental perception ISN'T a mental illness, whether an arm, penis, breasts.
@@Mako2401 You are in a fucking fantasy game. Who the hell cares about SURGERY SCARS
@@void1565 Why are they in the game then if no one cares? How stupid do you think people are?
@@Mako2401 Lunatics. That's who.
@@void1565 Why do we have modern day surgery scars in a fantasy medieval magic based game?
- We will have ass slider.
- What's the catch?
- It won't change anything.
😂
need a mod for it and the color pallet is so bright. Should be dark.
😂😂 the way she said she gave her character a big ass😂😂
The thing is to have it actually change they would have to put more triangles into the butt same with the boobs for the boob slider. They also would have had to do the same to all armors and outfits the character would wear can it fits correctly without part of the body clipping through. Can they do that? Most likely yes though will the game engine they are using support it? Maybe or maybe not that is why there are so many addons to each game engine to make what the developer want to do work. So if it couldn't they could make it so it would.
Now for performance would a high poly model make less sense than a not as high poly model? In most games lower poly count is better with exceptions but for the main character having it a high poly model if it can be should be a thing even if they had to reduce the poly count on other stuff like NPCs.
So it might be the 3D modeler as told to make it so it cannot happen instead of told to make it so it performs best. Yes lower poly count in most cases will perform better you still have some that it will not and depending on how the game's meshes are constructed it might have just looked bad if they allowed the player to adjust the boobs bigger.
In most stand alone 3D model character makers you get 2 sliders for the boob size then 2 sides for boob position. Game simplify it down to 1 slider to do all 4. You also have as they are in the code you also have the Y and W axis that they could adjust. W is mostly a value in the physics engine. In most games it is used to either make it move more or less.
So what i see is a manager wanted it but didn't want it to take time so all the easy to put in stuff was and the harder to get right stuff had minimal effort put in. In part it might be that Dragon Age isn't known for girls with big boobs and big butts so it would break the lore but also as it is in the ad video most likely not enough time to make it so it doesn't clip through the above mesh for clothing and/or amor.
play on PC and let mod fix the issue
She talks like a politician, 100% speech, 0% work, 100% lazy, 0% creativity, 100% promise, 0% contribution.
That girl's a professional script reader.
Wait They Made A Trump Video Game?
That's usually how it goes when you hire for gender.
@@leoric21 I think you mean a Kamala Harris video game
If trump made this game it would actually have attractive character models let’s be completely honest.
Yup, "inclusivity" does not include attractive people, as always.
Or sane people...
Because people do not become woke if they are attractive.
no place for me in the modern world
What do you expect from these people? it has never been about inclusivity, it's powerplay ... they want to dominate.
Precisely. I seek escape from mediocrity in games but the real world found me.
The Qunari look too human and soft now. I hate what they did to them. This is supposed to be a grimdark themed fantasy world, now it looks like a pixar fantasy.
I call it the Marvel treatment. But yeah, it's a shame what they did.
Definitely weird, I was looking at it like wtf? I also want to actually try out the character creation system because IGN is renown to be terrible reviewers and gamers.
that and the asian elf irk me the most, they don't look like elves, they look like asian girls wearing elf ears, same with the qunari which is just dudes with horns
I had no hope for this game when I first saw the trailer XD
Bruh, the OG DA1 Qunari were just tall, very human looking, black dudes with cornrows and no horns. They look radically different in each game, kind of like the Brutes in the Halo series get their look changed with each game.
I'm so sick of this "modern audience" quote, I feel like they don't even exist... Unless you're a game journalist...
They do, they're just still in kindergarten being indoctrinated with "modern" and "progressive" ideologies
You follow me everywhere. Why 😭
They do exist. They sit right in the Bioware offices.
they do exist in reddit and twitter
There's kids growing up right now who think this is normal because they have never seen past media. They are eschewing short term profit to eventually create this modern audience.
"I chose a short character" - has height set on 75%
CAP.
☕
@@kerfuritogonzales
*Revelation 3:20*
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
HEY THERE 🤗 JESUS IS CALLING YOU TODAY. Turn away from your sins, confess, forsake them and live the victorious life. God bless.
Revelation 22:12-14
And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
"Average is 6 feet"
So many sliders, but you can't create a shapely woman. We all expected this.
Wasn’t any different in Andromeda. Doubt it will be for this or ME 4 if they learn nothing.
Hell base game Skyrim had a batter customization sliders than this game, and that was 10 years ago
@@leviticusprime490413th anniversary on 11/11/24
Game needs mods.
The DEI hires at Bioware get triggered at the sight of natural beautiful busty women.
It comes from a place of envy and hate.
"Long time fan." Only played Inquisition.
Too be fair, she just doesn't know there are other DA games
She does reference DA2 in terms of the Arishok, but no mention or reverance of the OG GOAT Dragon Age Origins makes it easy to confirm she's the "modern audience"
@@Gladerunner2113 She had no reason to, in DAO sten was a hornless Qunari that looked nothing like them because they overhauled the Qunari design in every single game.
Well it is 10 years 😅
@@MasudaOfKorriban Are you actually trying to intellectually engage with these guys? You have that much free time on your hands mate?
It's so fucking dumb to make a game in a setting like this and then have all of the characters talk like modern day 20-somethings.
Ye olde Urban Dictionary
"Yeet it! Yeet it!"
This is what Elden ring did so right, like the old Shakespeare like voice lines make so much of a difference in immersion and giving gravity to the story
millennial writers never disappoint
You should try Witcher 3, Kingdom Come, Planescape, BG1/2 and DA:O. You'll love the writing
You make a character for a fantasy game with modern surgical scars but you cant have an ass.
And?
@@SakikoSenpai i remember when bait wasnt obvious
@@yaya_is_real how is it bait when the majority doesn’t want it?
@@SakikoSenpai.....you're one heck of a doofus
@@lightingthief4482 if insults are your best argument, I believe we are done here and everyone can see what kind of "man" you are 😌
Number of women with larger than a B cup: hundreds of millions or more
Number of women with wide hips: lol I dunno like almost all of them?
Number of women with double mastectomy scars: uhhh
Guess which of these options is in the game
the majority of women on earth have larger than b cups. these developers are weird and progressive but i repeat myself.
Well they only want to represent things that can make them feel better about themselves.
"this is why you can be sure that this story will be *flat* , dull and safe for modern audiences" oh, they'll be literally flat
D is actually the average in the U.S
@@GruntoSkunko AMEN BRUTHR
"i felt present during every encounter" is a hilarious statement, like, yep i was there-
i mean, i suppose she was faintly critiquing turn based games. or real time with pause.
"Really makes you **feel** like an unrelatable freak"
It's just a way of saying she was compelled and not bored. Journos can't just say "engaging" 100 times man.
There's more emotional weight and immersion in doing ONE parry against a basic undead in dark souls or elden ring than this entire combat showcase of button spam had
RePrEsEnTaTiOn ooooooooo
It's weird how women in real life are now more attractive than women in these video games.
Even most men have bigger chests and glutes than what these sliders allow... this aint it
I think that's kinda the point, so women who have self-esteem issues dont have to feel like they cant compete with fictional characters. But give them all the tall hot male characters all day and throw in some yaoi (that's a small group of vocal women, cuz most women want to play as hot women surrounded by hot women and men lol)
@@edattacks Almost as if men and women have different tastes let's not tell game developers they are busy trying to maike games for everyone
That's the point
@@edattacks idk man, i would never play male character that looks worse then me. From my experience most woman are not that different in that regard. I also think there's probably an issue with all those slider thingies, if it's not implemented properly controlling only parts of the body will always result in characters that seems a bit "off" for some reason.
She hyped hair physics's at 4:49 then she showed the hair braid solid as Spiro's tail on the PS1 😂 had me a good chuckle
"For a modern audience", "diversity", and "represented". When somebody says those words it makes me not want to play it or listen to their opinion on anything in life.
Yeah... wrong priorities. Wrong target group. Wrong game. Just move on, do not pay attention to it, dont buy the game, just move on. it is the best you can do.
Its action role playing game and i want proper crpg, 👺
@@Chef8898Concord and Dustborn send their regards, from the grave.
Thats how you know the game isnt for you, it might be sad but it happens
I mean, what's wrong with diversity? only privileged people feel like something is being forced onto them or taken from them when minorities get representation and fight for their rights.
that being said, when it's done poorly, or just for a "checkmark", I'm not a fan of it either. but determining whether it's good or not requires not hating on things the moment you see the word "diversity". (the "you" here is hypothetical)
When she said she gave her character "one hell of an ass" i chuckled 😂
It went from paper flat to pancake flat lmao
I didn't even chuckle it felt like a bad joke. As you said it went from flat to flat again
I did chuckle, then say: "My arse is literally bigger than that."
😂😂😂😂
I looked up this presenters profile. Her work mainly includes articles on Barbie, Bridgeton and Polyamory. A grand total of four video game articles, two of which are Veilguard.
So... bog standard games journo, then.
Post the link
Then go watch Luality review
@@cloudstrike5225links get deleted in comments
@@cloudstrike5225 only the channel owner can post links. It's not hard to look up
Part of the reason behind the breast size being so small, if it's not directly an agenda, is actually just lazy game design. Breast size changes the way clothes work in games. Skyrim modders had to retexture all of the armor sets in the game just to work with larger breast mods. HOWEVER, this is an issue from over a decade ago. Should be part of the basics by now.
Yeah... Pretty sure if they wanted they would've solved it fairly easily...
It's really dumb how inclusive they are by excluding people...
So the double masectomy scars thing totally breaks verisimilitude. We're supposed to believe that a gender affirmation surgery is an option in a pseudo-medieval fantasy setting with literal magic. Utterly absurd. This is the most bold-faced example of prioritising modern day sensibillities over a coherant, well-written narrative.
0/10 garbage
It's like characters in Harry Potter having glasses 😂 they have magic to fix everything they could ever need fixed but dont use it for eyes and here we have literal world remaking magic available but people are getting dangerous surgeries with lackluster medical equipment 😂
Your first mistake was not to notice they put the scars there to indoctrinate people into believing experimental surgery for a mental health condition... is not only normal, it is to be celebrated.
I’ve seen it a lot in other fandom spaces too, and it really highlights what a fetish trans sexuality is for a lot of these people. People with dysphoria don’t want it evident that they are not their chosen gender. They don’t embrace surgical scars or show them off. That is a quality that is only highlighted by people who don’t understand the condition, or get their rocks off to it.
If we're being realistic, I think the fat characters need to be clumsier and slower. And women bods need to be slow and weak.
Not only is this a thinly veiled paid promotion from IGN. The woman speaking ticks all the boxes for a modern audience fan:
- Fake gaming experience
- Over hyping mundane features
- Focus on diversity
- Avoids providing any actual criticism
It's a paid review with a sprinkle of toxic positivity.
Modern audience? So that 1000 players worldwide? :)
because ign IS their target audience
Take a shot each time she says 'gorgeous' for something totally ordinary. This is a friggin ad.
Or maybe she actually enjoyed the game🤷🏿
"top surgery scars" toggle is so fucking stupid
I've always wanted to make fantasy characters but find them unrelatable due to them not being affected by rare conditions. Specially conditions that could never naturally occur in a fantasy setting.
Nobody cares, bro. Baldur's Gate 3, Hogwarts legacy, Elden Ring all had DEI elements and still sold extremely well. There is a huge disconnect between terminally online anti-wokesters who bother to review bomb things and the general majority of the public, the normies, who treat this more as a casual thing. We play the game and just enjoy it and not pick it apart. It is time to admit you have lost the culture war. Most Americans lean left on social issues, climate, LGBTQIA+ stuff, abortion, etc. The center gets farther left all the time. The good old days are over and it's time to move on.
I know a couple of trans people who proudly posted their top surgery scars on facebook and then got allot of praise, so maybe the scars are the goat. *shrugs*
Meh. Some people have them so why not include it?
@@KaylaJones2000🤡
People seem to be a little confused, this isn’t shit graphics, this is shit art direction. Remember Arkham Knight was made on UE3.
Jesus christ why nobody talk about it, doesn't have anything to do with graphics
Also, what's with fucking purple and light blue in modern games
@@Rvdis Blues and golden colours are also heavily used in movies because they invoke certain feelings/emotions, and I think Marvel movies really made this a super thing that everybody nowadays wants to emulate. Your brain likes certain colours as they remind you of sunsets and such and people/companies use this psychological trick to make their stuff look better/impressive/etc.
The way this woman talks fits the game perfectly
You took the words right outta my mouth
Yea, it's the California upper class priviledged girl.
Almost as if it was made for her 🤷🏽♀️
OMG! I was totally like, thinking the same thing. That’s so crazy! 😂
It’s like nails on a chalkboard.
"inauthentic" is the word that comes to mind.
The Qunari look like humans cosplaying as Qunari.
Klingons on Botox. It's awful 😔
Its weird that this only goes for the main character, the npc qunari we see standing around as guards in one of the gameplay videos look like they looked in DA2
And very low quality cosplay at that
Not humans, megaminds cosplaying
Female character has male skeleton structure with wide shoulders and tiny pelvis.
And notice the sliders. The hips are at 60%, while the shoulders are at -15%. So you could easily maker her even more manly if you wanted to.
Looks so off, barely seen any females here who look like that
And the male has a feminine one. Very narrow shoulders and low muscle mass. This is straight up subversion, trying to make it seem that males and females are more physically similar than they actually are.
Nooo! You aren't supposed to notice that woke ideology wants to make you and your children gay! Stop noticing! Big pharma won't be happy about this.
tbf it's an elf and elves are much thinner and more skeletal than humans in Dragon Age
Women - body-shaming each other
Guys - "I would still hit that."
Who is the toxic one?
turning dragon age into the sims. what a shitty fate
I don’t know if you knew this or it was just ironic but the game director literally has one game on their CV and it’s a sims DLC 😂
Sims 4 had great character creator. The game itself is dogshit though and a downgrade on literally everything from Sims 3.
The sims is better than this lol
@@Collerz7 lol.. not even the whole game? just DLC?
DAO was the only truly good dragon age video game. It's unfortunate but bioware juat isn't capable of making games like they did with kotor DAO and mass effect. I think being Canadian got them started on the stupid woke censorship even before the US companies. You could see the slide and this is the end result
Her voice is an example of what "toxic positivity" sounds like.
Is this positive? Sounds more like toxic stupidity to me. I realize I'm very negative as a person, but I like to think I could recognize the inverse of my personality.
Her voice sounds boring like it’s AI
I get you. She sounds uppity and always right, despite not allowing opposing opinions or actual facts to ruin their thunder. That's how I perceive toxic positivity; "I'm always right!"
trump won
Sounded like the vocal fry Valley Girl accent to me.
She really sounds like she is being paid by bioware and not IGN. I know its a meme but she sound like she is throwing a Tupperware party.
Most women do at one point
Completely off point I know. But...
Tupperwear are about to go under. Fitting after watching this trash lol
They have a weird cadence to the way they speak and enunciate. The IGN "reporters" and also the "community Panel" influencers. It's uncanny. It reminds me of the Jehovah's Witness videos to be honest. That quiet, earnest, trying to sound knowledgeable but basically just monotoning their way through a sermon and making a drinking game out of buzz words. Maybe it's a "Cult of BioWare" thing...
IGN is getting payed by EA and since Bioware died a long long time ago after EA bought them. EA only care about money, not quality.
Atleast tupperware is a good product.
There is an ass slider, and it goes from mirror finish to flat.
🤣from flat to non existent, at 0% it goes back into the body
🌈“Hair representation”🌈
🌈“body diversity”🌈
I really hate modern media and their buzzwords. Maybe they didn’t mean it to be woke garbage buzz words but I honestly can’t tell anymore. It’s just all annoying and cringe.
Nobody cares, bro. Baldur's Gate 3, Hogwarts legacy, Elden Ring all had DEI elements and still sold extremely well. There is a huge disconnect between terminally online anti-wokesters who bother to review bomb things and the general majority of the public, the normies, who treat this more as a casual thing. We play the game and just enjoy it and not pick it apart. It is time to admit you have lost the culture war. Most Americans lean left on social issues, climate, LGBTQIA+ stuff, abortion, etc. The center gets farther left all the time. The good old days are over and it's time to move on.
Back in the day we just called it hairstyles and bodytypes lol
@@KaylaJones2000if it doesnt align with how they feel or what they think, the game wont/shouldnt sell at all because of the buzzword the devs uses. When they themselves use buzzwords for these type of games 💀💀. Literally it becoming a there no more white men games, when there hundreds being pumped out
@@KaylaJones2000 BG3 sure. Hogwarts got crap from woksters as you so put it and that's partially why it sold so well, anti-woksters supported it. Elden Ring's only and singular wokster element was the fact it had body type A and B. Not really much of one even though it is a negative element.
Sorry, there is no 'lost' culture war. In fact young men are more right leaning than they ever have been. And even if we were to lie and pretend you were correct, the mob being the majority, doesn't make them correct. The good old days are gone that's true, but it doesn't mean we can't make things better and that's a reason to fight than any. Better than give up and allow people who can't even define what a chick is without a circular definition to control the culture. Or rather, the hyper rich that want people to believe that.
Snowflake
I have 1 friend I know for sure would be very disappointed by the butt and chest sliders, because she always makes her character look like her, but in this game she can't. These developers talk so much about inclusivity, but then exclude so many people.
Didn't you know, attractive people can never be into games.
@@obliviouz attractive people dont exist
If i may be honest. I feel like most females, whether attractive or unattractive, have larger features than what this slider allows, and that's sort of upsetting..I agree.
because inclusivity has nothing to do with inclusivity, it's about power.
@@Danuxsy It's to invert common sense and morality in people.
I'm convinced the devil is at work.
What was that glute slider? It literally didn't change at all from 0% to 100%. She just proved that the sliders are just there to lie to players, and not actually be functional.
It's interesting how fast she skipped over the details of the Human-like characters.
It technically did.
Just do what I did, and point a mouse at full screen over the pixel where ass ends at 0% and see 2 aadditional pixels added to the left at 100%.
what a joke
It’s just sad. Rather pointless to give the option of a big butt if you barely see the difference.
@@Poctyk I'm just going to say it: Armored Core 6 mech customization was a more realistic representation of a human than this game is.
Went from non existent to lesbian
DEI sliders are not inclusive to female body types 😓
If you're wondering about the weird choices like having "top surgery scars" in a fantasy game, it's because the game director is trans. Otherwise, the body sliders aren't impressive likely because the character is an elf, and elves in Dragon Age are super skinny and lanky. Like an average male elf has less body mass than the average human female -kind of skinny. If you want to see an example, search "Dragon Age 2 Merrill" and then search "Dragon Age 2 Isabela" and you can see what a huge difference there is between elves and humans
They Make games for people who would rather play victim on twitter than actually playing
"modern audience"
True
People who hate video games making video games for people who don’t play video games. This is woke culture.
It looks like that's exactly true
Couldn’t have said it better
Dragon Age has always been "woke" since Origins. Where have you been?
Who cares if it's woke if the game is good
@@sonnenblumefrau2048I doubt the first Dragon Age was made by people who hate games...
I can't believe this is the same studio that gave us Mass Effect 2's Miranda. They've really lost their touch.
Helps that Miranda was modelled and voiced by Yvonne Strahovski.
A lot of the people who worked on that have either retired or moved on to new game companies (source: looking up credit names on LinkedIn)
You gotta remember that was before this DEI bs, back when people kinda didn't really cared what your orientation was and weren't as PC. They also had the awesome Renegade or Paragon system which in my opinion was awesome with the special triggers based of where you stood on the karma scale
Bioware is now a veryyyyyy different studio. Most original developers left a long time ago.
And EDI.
The gender swap thing bothered me in Hogwarts Legacy aswell. You have magic, spells and potions to alter your body - but Sirona has a male voice, even though even the polyjuice potion does change the voice.
It was just lazy virtue signalling and taking a stance "against" J. K. Rownling. The same with the witch who just *had* to tell you about her wife.
If you want acceptance, implement these characters natually and don't let them stick out just so everyone gets it.
Yup. Very stupid, especially when it’s set like 200 years before trans characters would even make sense. Sure, they existed, but it was never on the scale we see today and in a world with magic any trans person has the capability to just… cast a spell? It’s all very stupid and obvious
Not to mention sir Rona would probably look like a very attractive woman post transformation and not the rough approximation of a very ugly one which is the closest to being a woman most men can hope to achieve with modern science.
"As a Dragon Age fan, it feels like a homecoming of sorts" - Well clearly you aren't a fan then. How about everyone stops kissing up to big corpo with bad games?
I’ve seen other Dragon Age fans say similar things. Maybe they just have a different opinion than you?
@@YourDadYoda or they are just wokies repeating what other wokies say.
As soon as I heard a female voice I knew it was over. Long time dragon age fan; yeah right 😂
Saying she is a big fan of DA and the only good thing she spoke about its comparing to DA2 says everything to me...
@@uvveshlurvvesh6515I guess skill up and Luke stephens and fextralife are wokies. Or maybe the game is good.
They made the female character models look exactly like in all of the other dei games. They just slapped a female head on top of a male body and called it a day.
Definition of a modern woman
most guys in the gym have better asses.
There are women in the game???
No, they called it a "gay"
Not even, women dont have jaw lines like the hulk.
The "modern audience" is approximately 25k people, MAX, based on what we've been seeing in sales numbers for "woke" games. Until more CEOs accept this, more studios are going to be burned to the ground.
Baldurs Gate 3 is so woke that they brag about their gay gaming awards they win and their diversity.
@Aeeeoi Happens when you have a competent production team, doing the coat tails of a massive IP like DnD.
As to DnD, let's not pretend that it hasn't gone down in quality since 3.X. They dumbed it down to the lowest common denominator, and then pandered with stuff like the combat wheelchair.
@@darklelouchg8505 This. BG3 was massive because they nailed DnD game mechanics.
@@Aeeeoibalders gate 3 is a superb game tho...
@@ArnoldJudasRimmer.. Maybe this is? No one outside of youtubers have played it and all the youtubers, even the ones who were hating on it months ago, are saying it's a good game.
Maybe we should stop trying to judge games either way before they release?
People were crying about BG3 being woke before it released then just suddenly stopped when it became a generational game because it didn't fit their 'Woke ruins everything' narrative lol.
Ever since the large heads and small shoulders got pointed out. I can’t stop noticing it now. It really is super cartoony.😅
Chest size goes from -%55 (7:47)to +45 (8:48) and there is no noticeable difference in breast size, exactly like the ass size, there is almost no discernable difference from maximum to minimum. Those sliders are clearly there just to trick consumers.
Defeating the male gaze, one broken slider at a time 😂
Had to check your timestamps: they check out. +45% chest equals a soft B at best, so unless -100% doesn't turn the chest concave, the range is no/A cup =-100% up to ~0% and ~0% to +100% = B cup.
How do I get to this assessment? If +45% is a small B cup, and assuming the slider is evenly distributed, there's no way the maximum can reach higher than a small C at best.
You tricked yourself absolute neet behaviour touch grass
@@Omfguwu stop projecting
It's stupid how 100% butt slider is just a very average butt size. It should definitely be the 50% mark.
you can hear the D.E.I in her voice
I just can’t help but feel it’s more so obligatory praise than an actual objective look at the game. Then again, it is IGN.
Vocal fry
She sounds mutli boostered
All the previewers liked it though, even white dudes.
@@superbrobor6458 That’s their prerogative, ain’t nothing necessarily wrong with that
Making women look like 13@ year old boys makes sense when you know who is in charge of this game
Brilliant
Diddy approved
Ohhhh damn~
@@Vampireinarm1oh no you Diddy!
every woman in this game looks like they are judging you for playing this....lmao
The ability to give your character vitiligo is something every gamer needed
it's a cool feature, but the focus should be on gameplay
Represents the two people I've seen in my life with it lol
it's such a weird woke fetish.
Saints Row 3 character creator was objectively more diverse than this shit and it wasn't even trying to cater to "modern audiences"
Loved SR3, such a gleefully absurd game that was also very entertaining.
exactly what i was about to comment here , yes thats right
Speaking of which, many "anti-woke" curators on Steam don't recommend games that have a character creator (like in general. What this game is doing is stupid) or a mute protagonist, just because it is now considered inclusive💀
Though more hilarious take can be found in ULTRAKILL's curator reviews.
Talking about character creation, for whatever reason many of the "woke detector" curators on Steam do not recommend games with any sort of character creator. Or mute protagonists.
Or well, for whatever other issue they can find. Like for example the Steam curator "Woke Content Detector" has rated Space Marine 2 "Not Recommended".
When she said BG3 lacked on character creation I was annoyed af, sure, the base game didn't have much(has more than this when it comes to the body) but the mod creators gave us limitless creator options. These people are clowns.
Everything about female body customizable is hyper masculine
We all know what to strive for, they just change the words, but we know.
Yeah, its clear they gave it the androgynization treatment.
You can even increase the bulge size. They clearly made the whole character creator with the intent of having explicitly trans characters
They always talk about representation and inclusivity, but fail to give lesbians candy for the eyes just because they don't want to give straight men candy for the eyes.
@@Isaygoodday5 Literal inversion of reality, making a fringe minority the norm while removing options for the majority.
"how is it inclusive to remove language that 99% of people use" DAM i aint ever heard a truer statement.
Because it was never about inclusion it was always about power.
Here's a more true statement: My father hated me.
I can already bet you there will less than 5 hair styles for my black brothers. Why do that think we only have 4 hair styles😂
They didn't.
@@YunotheheroI saw a brother with long white n gray dreds that were the big type ones yesterday
But yeah the example i just gave….is more of the same. You are right
I’ve played a few cc’s past couple weeks, and was impressed how many hair styles there was. Both had women hair in with the males 5 styles lol
Boot up Madden last year, yup 5 hair styles lol
It's funny how the sliders perfectly mirror the devs own insecurities. Insane how they were put in charge of an entire multi-million dollar franchise when they can't even step over their own short comings as human beings.
I audibly laughed when the ass-slider was literally one polygon slightly portruding
"as a long time fan"
I bet, a couple of months ago when she decided to be a game journalist as soon as she unlocked her new pronouns, she did not even know about the Dragon Age franchise. You can tell she is reading a script.
That and that annoying singsong cadence she talks in.
The sad thing is since the last game was a decade ago her statement could be true while her only exposure to the franchise is that dogwater game alone and no exposure to the last two.
@@PixelPigEntertainment*first 2
They are only using her because she basically "sold" most people over in her last coverage of the game
@@tilting_cat3344 my bad I’m 3 beers in lol
People are actually saying the top surgery scars represent people with breast cancer... yeah because thats who they were thinking of when making this insane decision.
Something tells me medical practices in Thedas probably don't allow them to detect cancer lol
Having worked in healthcare for a short amount of time and helping women recovering from surgery related to breast cancer: it's super traumatic to lose your breasts. That's why women choose to get surgery to restore what can be restored with implants or, if that is not possible, get pads fitted and custom made to put in their bra.
The only woman I got to know in that time who was fine with just the scars and who actually had both breasts taken off although only one was affected, was a 60+ yo woman with some deep trauma of awful things having been done to her in her childhood.
Breast cancer has existed for decades, but top surgery scars only started appearing in games half a decade ago. Don't get gaslit.
But wouldn't a cancer patient...NOT want those flaws in their escape from reality? If I was handicapped I sure as hell wouldn't want to play a fantasy game where my character rolls around on a wheelchair.
Yall are missing the point. If it was to give representation to breast cancer survivors they would call it "Mastectomy scars" because that's the medical procedure. "Top surgery" is a Trans thing only. Literally diminishing women's issues to pander to trannies
One of the leaders on the project is a "trans woman." So at the end of the video, you're wrong, Asmon. This is his agenda being put into a game.
I can tell by the narrator's vocal tone that she doesn't play video games.
Am I the only one? You can just *tell*
Nahh! She’s just reading a script
@@Cultur2298 I read scripts for my channel and don't sound that stilted. People who understand the subject just don't sound like that.
I can tell by the camera movement and button smashing "combat". Actually sad.
She sounds like she mocking the listener
Its the vocal tear. So gross.
The chest slider was at 3/4 full and she still had an A-B cup size.
I betcha the fat sliders work real well though.
Looks like the chest slider only affects the width of the thorax?
😂 100%
And the ass slider is even worse, that slider on 100% is basically what the average (50%) size is IRL for non-fat people, men included.
@@Vikingskog yeah I was thinking the same thing. 100% ahh slider looked like normal irl ahh. No representation for women with any sort of cake related genetics. I guess representation wasn’t the intent after all.
I wouldn't be surprised if the bulge slider worked well, too, especially on the "female body type"
"We need top scars, but make sure there's no way to accurately represent the ass of a black girl" is what they said in their day 1 design meeting.
Wrong, first they said, "Hail comrades!"
Not all black girls have big asses. That's stereotyping
@@swish3814 Where did he say that all black girls have big asses?
Just like not all white women love pumpkin spice latt-... okay actually I've never met a white girl that doesn't love pumpkin spice latte. But she exists! ... probably. Somewhere.
Point is, it's a commonly celebrated trait, and the devs deliberately made sure thicc people are excluded from being represented.
@@swish3814 bruh.....
@@swish3814 Ah yes, we only want to accurately portray the natural body shape of SOME black girls. Sounds like a great argument against what I said. Thanks for commenting. /s
Modern audience and woke is ruining every IP i used to love. These people claim they were fans of the franchise but when put in charge change everything about it
"i felt present during every encounter"
"And acomplished after boss fights"
Who da fuck writes like that????? Ai?
This seems to be her first and only game review article. Her other articles before this were about movies and tv series such as Barbie, The Little Mermaid, and Bridgerton.
@@Magnifico145 Shocking /S.
What IGN ran out of "gaming activists" ?
worse.
"women"
@@Magnifico145 lmao ironic list
A non-gamer
Gamers: *looking for quality, combat, gameplay, and atmosphere
Review: "LOOK AT THAT HAIR BOI!"
Right?! She spent 2/3s of the video gushing over playing dress up. I like character creation as much as the next gamer, but she couldn't get enough.
Why can't that include good hair?
You seriously never downloaded hair and face mods for Skyrim?
@@wesleysolomon5364 Bro, all Bioware games are known for having shit hair styles. To me, it feels like a huge improvement. Plus, the journalist said that she does not care for combat, so it is only natural for her to discuss other aspects of the game that she found herself caring more for, like character customization.
"DAT LOOK GOOD"
@@GeorgeMonetit can, they need to stop focusing on it, because it feels like they are trying to redirect.
"So many hair textures being represented...."
Every time I hear the word representation, it makes my eyes roll.
Don't get me wrong. I like that the game gives me a lot of options to customize my character, but the word "representation" implies that these different hairs were only added to the game because of "inclusivity", not because they wanted to give us players the freedom to creat whatever we actually want.
I think she kinda misspoke on that word, caught me off guard too. But other TH-camrs who have played the invite demo have said that the hair is well done
Facts I love more blsck hairstyles because I'm black but stop pandering to me like I need it putting me in a box
@@Werman20 She definitely didn't misspeak. They know what they are doing.
I have black hair, and I've rarely given my character black hair in games. The way people use the word ''representation'' nowadays makes me cringe.
It’s all about intention. MonHunWilds have no gender locked armour and highlighted hair and everyone fucking loves it, because they know the devs heard about thigh windows armours and so they push those changes for more fashions options.
These AAA games, on the other hands, everyone knows they are there to push an agenda
Never trust a scripted review
This is the kind of game CEO of Saber was talking about and he's right all along. Heresy.....heresy never changes
Objection, heresay.
Professional "gaming journalist"
Can't learn the controls in 5 hours.
Can't make this up
Why is vitiligo everywhere now?
She said combat is much better, in Inquisition i just stood there holding down the " left trigger " haha right trigger is attack.
@Odder-Being I'll concede that she could have had it rekeybinded or a flipped controller scheme but I wouldn't be surprised if she didn't complete the game.
Professional DEI hire.
I am so tired of these "politically correct" projects disguised as "games", is just social engineering and is so tiresome at this point.
Social engineering is right
True, this has to stop.
Got slop games
The good news is that it's not working...because we can talk to each other and call this B.S. out.
Black rock will rent you housing and games and you'll be happy.. if you don't think about it..
the modern audience is more mythical than actual dragons
Let's be real, Eastern character creators are a million times better.
Correction : Are allowed to be better.
@@sirazazeloflowkey6424 Allowed? Tf? 😂
There are plenty of western character creators that are good.
name one
@@genautelevishn5999baldara gaye 3,
Me using healing spells on my male trans friend to grow his boobs back for the 4th time this week
Damn man 😂👌
Lmfao
This itd what im talking about..... Brooooooo, they have magic healing they dont have magic for that why the scars
It’s strange how despite living in a fantasy world the residents of it use modern day surgeries?
you know if they allowed this i would immediately +2 the number of points I would have given without it.
*Asmon:* Can you make the boobs bigger?
*Dragon Age:* No, but you can give Rook double mastectomy scars, cause you know, that's what people cry out for?
I have Vitiligo. Its an affliction, not a feature. I don't want to mirror my affliction in a game to feel included. It's the most disappointing thing about my existence.
I dont have it and ive seen very very few people with it... but on this one ill be honest.
Most of body positivity is usually about obese people that want to be praised for being lazy.
But vitiligo is something i genuinely think we can collectively not see as bad. You have no influence on it and it quite literally is just patterns on skin. I personally think it looks pretty. Like chocolate artwork!
Rip... I also never make characters that look like me. I think it's fine if some people want to though, don't you think? Better to have the option
But you're represented in the game you should love that THEY WANT YOU TO LOVE THAT, WHY ARE YOU NOT KISSING THEIR FEET FOR REPRESENTING YOU AND OTHER PEOPLE WITH THE CONDITION
@@Iaotle I never make characters that look like me because I hate the way I look. Why tf would I want to see that in a game that’s meant to be escapism
@@TheIcarusEffect it's not all about you though, which is what I'm saying
The fact they introduced breast reduction surgery scars as an option is…….. well, I’m lost for words.
If you are trans, why would you want those? Wouldn't you just pick the gendered character that you want to be?
@@AQS521plenty of non-trans women get it
@@nine9nine9why would you want it to be represented on your fantasy video game character is what I'm wondering.
@@nine9nine9 Non-trans? What, you mean normal? Default? Un-mentally ill?
@@AQS521 That is silly. Even for the 0.000001% of trans-male players it still makes no sense, as it is pushing a real-life bad surgical limitation in a magical fantasy setting.
She literally did the "I could talk about all the stuff you want to hear and want me to go into detail with, but I'm going to talk about the character creator instead". That there, is the target audience of this game. People who care more about the character creator and how the hair moves than anything else.
Tbh, as Asmon was saying, the hair+it's physics do look awesome. And even high quality hair like in Horizon with Aloy looks way worse and uncanny valley bad. It's the first game ever I've seen where I would say -based on this preview- yeah the hair looks fine.
The problem is, if the game is lackluster in combat, story, companions and the rest of the character creator it's pointless how the hair looks.
i mean that is the video... there's other videos abut the other parts of the game, this ones about char creation lol like complaining there's no baseball coverage while watching nascar.
@@paulusapfel The only time i ever care about the character creator is to make the character look cool enough or beautiful enough to look at when i am playing the whole game. Dont want to have some ugly ass character i have to stare at the whole time. The only time i ever make ugly characters is in MMO games where i force other people to look at it lol.
She went on to talk about all the other stuff, did you even watch the video? At least have real critiques.
The dragon ege audience wants a glorified dating sim. I'm not even kidding through the years of dogs sequels they've cultivated an audience with standards for gameplay that are inside the ground.
I bet they will post on X complaining about the gamers chosing the most basic white male dude characters and that they are pissed that no one is playing trans dwarf elves with pink beards and scars.
And then they will make body type 1 female, and the default for human will be diverse
i can see people playing number 2 as a joke when trying to make them as funny as possible
still all characters look so unappealing...
Nah, that won't happen. They will be more mad that no one bought their mid overpriced game.
I'm totally playing trans female qnari mage with pink horns and scars. EDIT: And beard, if possible.
Im a woman and what he said about women shaming other women for being too well endowed is absolutely true. Women sabotage eachother by picking on eachothers appearances. You can shame someone to be insecure about things about her that are actually positive, influence her to do things that make her look worse etc. The entire fat positivity movement is about that imo. Eat whatever you want and stay ugly so I can look better than you, while you think you are loving yourself when you stuff your face. Its genious really.
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@@pylotlightremoves competition lol
I had a girlfriend in college that was well endowed. She ended up hating herself because of her breasts because she thought of it as ugly. I hated when she would put herself down like that and tried my best to dissuade or never enforce that thought. Her friends, however, were not so kind or never tried to stop her from thinking she was fat due to her breasts. It was sickening to me and made me realize how terrible some people are to continue shaming women for just having large breasts.
You're name is lenny, no you're not
You aint no woman lenny wtf beard bigger than mine
The modern audience of a staggering 63 players?
I’m a member of the modern audience and I can fully say this game Dragons Dogma Vanguard is such an amazing game, even though I don’t play games.
Yeah, I don't know where these so called "modern audience" start from. Unless the other term for it is "journalist".
Also, is that number come from Concord perchance? Good one.
This game will make Concords playercount look like the population of china
@@thechoseone456 I fell for that. Like bad. Really nice comment.
“After ten years, we’re just little over a month from playing Dragon Age Veilguard.”
Umm no we’re not..
I’m definitely not playing this trash
Some of these games actually seem like they were developed by someone who has very literally never played a videogame.
Considering today almost everything is outsourced, probably most of these games are made by some guy in India or Pakistan, who has only ever seen a mobile game. You can't really make a game if you don't know what a game is. A game is not a representation of reality... it doesn't need to be "modern" or anything. You can make whatever you want, however unreal you want. It's strange why in a fantasy story all females should be average or worse... you can make them better... why not?! There are games from 20 years ago with hotter females, than what they make today, all these "modern audience" games. I don't understand that whole trend to make females ugly on purpose. (or make them more men like, also on purpose). There are gams from 30 years ago with pixelated female who look hotter, with the right proportions.... but nah, they made the slider in a way you can't make a hot female.... why... this is just crazy. I don't know who wants to play with ugly "realistic" characters.
Or hate video game characters.
Modern audiences = 0.001% of the population
And 0% of YOUR previous audience.
Right? These people don't even buy games!
Why are they so eager to make games for people that don't even play them?
At least this game will single-handedly remove this franchise from existence
@@sakuraa2008 they make what the true owner wants them to make
Modern audience aka someone who hasn't played good games in the past before
@@real_Schrooten Really it just means permanently online twitter land whales.
You have to be a very boring individual if you have to make your own sexuality / gender your defining personality trait and interest.
Without that, the group would level down to just gay.
@@zealgaming8161Probably because human males are badass warriors. Makes sense to me.
The pronouns option is so redundant anyway because if you are making a character with the female body type, you are clearly making a woman aka a "she/her"
More like, pathetic.
@@AQS521But “what is a woman?”
10 years to:
1. Make a SIMS like texture and less character customization that Dragon's Dogma
2. A button smash combat system
3. Poor map design and environmental
4. Poor Voice Acting and lack of likable companions
5. Dialogue options that do not actually represent the action/dialogue your character takes
6. An opening sequence and segment that makes it obvious that the story will be expositional heavy. They will be throwing words and names at rapid fire to make it feel like DnD, but it will all feel like random slop. I didn't have to know the realm of DnD to follow BG3 because it revealed info slowly and explained things in a way it didn't feel too expositional. It doesn't seem like this will do that.
I will say they did good on 2 things:
1. Hair physics
2. Your character actually speaks and is animated during cut scenes and dialogue (Which I wish Bauldur's Gate 3 had)
she called the forehead "stylistic growing pains" as if the race didnt have an established look 4 games ago.
TRUE
"Modern Bioware Hates Big Butts"
but likes you top surgery scars
This have to stop man. Someone need to be the sacrifice for the message to send.
@@justsomechatters studios are failing, there's just nothing/nobody to replace them yet.
modern bioware hates modern culture
Are you sure i thought meg the skelly twerked for them
If you're trans who identifies as male, why tf would you pick the female character model to begin with?
Maybe they're double trans. Don't be phobic, bro!
I honestly had the same thought. I don’t care if people want to be trans but I don’t understand the logic
Because all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
@@Melon-Lord That is their power and greatest weapon: there is no logic, that is why they never "debate". They don't have a point or position based on facts, logic or simple reality just "feelings".
Why do you think statements like "believe all women", "my truth" "gays for palestine" were just some of their slogans ?.
I would imagine it is because:
1) they are going through puberty and are uncomfortable with their changing body and are not actually trans.
2) they were brainwashed and feel they have to pretend to be trans to be seen as virtuous.
Why play as an actual woman WHEN YOU CAN PICK A MAM WITH MASECTOMY SCARS INSTEAD in a high fantasy game?
If someone wants to play an attractive character, give them the ability to make one. If someone wants to play a “modern audience approved” character, give them the ability to make one. Don’t just restrict it.
That's the whole issue, the people who want the 'modern audience' stuff wants that to be the only option, and you're with them or against them. There is no negotiation, no middle ground, no 'play what/how you want.' This is why they've been infecting IPs like crazy for a decade, instead of just making their own niche stuff. They want their views to be the only available, acceptable mainstream view.
HERESY! reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
@@beerosaurusrex And that's exactly "the agenda"... First it was music, then comics/movies/TV shows and then gaming, next is Anime and Manga until all media is infected with "the agenda" AKA THE MESSAGE.
Welcome to the Woke World of 1984 (but current year) where only our view is the right view. Everything else is wrong think, and we can't have that. That's why we now have the Ministry of Information to keep you informed of the truth and only the truth (according to us).
Every single time she repeats being a long time Dragon Age fan makes me think she's like the bandwagon weirdos who joined in on Mass Effect and don't actually understand the franchise at all.
Or the only game they played was the latest and weakest entry in the series so they assume all the other games were like that too.
It's a paid shill marketing campaign trying to "market" tge game better, so it doesn't fail like concord. This is what they think they did wrong, not having gaslighting videos.
@@john24110Which qunari should they have shown from dragon age 1?
@@john24110 the only redeeming thing in that game was they finally had the Qunari design they originally wanted but my god is the new gameplay actually worse. At least the skills could be used unimpeded in 2. The new game looks slower than previous titles with the skill wheel. The whole reason Mass Effect had long cooldowns was to leave focus for the gunplay in between, this is just button mashing by a garbage player.
10 years, hundreds of thousands of hours of work,millions of dollars,billions of customization combinations and they still couldnt add hot women into the game. 💀
get this Concord shit outta here
"non-binary" ain't a thing, and the glorification for self-mutilation is actually disgusting
People keep saying Body Type 1 & 2, and yet this game actually says 'Woman'. Look at 2:54. Even Elden Ring couldn't cope with saying Woman.
@@softluxuryone2169 Many Japanese games even from much older consoles used "Body Type" instead of gender, possibly for localization reasons/simplicity. Nothing to do with agenda in this case. But when western games that used to have gender don't have it anymore, that's a different story.
The artists for these studios are aware of body positivity so they include that in character creation. "Imperfect bodies are perfect" is what they are obsessed with.
@@LocrianDorianis your name referring to modes or the people the modes were named after.
@@tukos7370as they all take Ozempic
My prediction is that eventually more and more games will flop, studios will go bankrupt, and they’ll blame it on white men. After all that, hopefully, we’ll get a factory reset, things will go back to normal, we’ll get another good 20 years, and then the cycle will start all over again
Unfortunately... these cultural cycles don't usually reset until there is massive bloodshed, historically. Whether its Mussolini, Stalin, or Hitler (and probably many others before them) it typically doesn't reset until enough carnage has been reached that people finally can't just sit on their ass and ignore or ignorantly complain and civilization takes the hard road.
The only hope that it doesn't lead to that is that we have the internet now, and that could make a difference in how its navigated.
But typically extremist idealism eventually leads to an overreach for power that ends in massive bloodshed.
And the grab for power doesn't always come from one side of the political spectrum. Sometimes it comes from the left, like in Stalin's case, and sometimes from the right, like in Mussolini, Hitler, or the Taliban's case. Eventually, the cultural divide becomes so strong that one side decides that it is "So correct" that they have the authority and moral duty to install their ideals onto the others even by force, and that is when they rise to power via populism and then the only way to stop them is through bloodshed.
The overwhelming majority of human beings are just wired to be followers. And therefore idealism is almost like a cancer that just keeps growing until it gets so big that it must be culled, because human beings will just keep getting more and more extreme until what once was good becomes a bad thing and then violence becomes unavoidable in order to stop it and reset.
@@RuecianGray We will all get the chance to play the best first person shooter of all time! It will have the highest stakes too because once you lose you lose forever!
@@RuecianGray a thing that hasn't happened in a long while is large scale wars, you have ongoing conflicts like the middle east or the Ukraine war but outside of that this is the most peaceful period since we discovered agriculture as a species, so I'd say that in the future you wont need bloodsheds to incur change, you'll instead need massive financial losses, since now money is essentially lives. In that way then yeah a lot of "blood" is being spilled by these flop lgtv games.
That’s what we are all hoping
the only hope we can have is that asian developer studios continue to go their own way and do not jump on the bandwagon of western developers... pray for rockstar and cdpr
The combat is designed for casual gamers because they're making it for them. That's why there's a large focus on the hair looking good and identity. Just look at how their panties become a waterfall over this shit. They aren't losing their minds over big swords and powerful spells, they're losing their minds over how their character looks, and 'cute' dialogue and cinematics.
Let's see how the game sells then.
It's not for casual gamers. It's for Californian 20+ old female activists that are not even real gamers to begin with.
"casual gamers" they made this game for female nerds who are chronically online and take ingame romance way too seriously, same audience as BG3 they ruined that game too by catering to that audience.
@@ValnirAesling If you stay offline and ignore the weirdos and play BG3 your way, that stuff is easily avoidable and it’s a great game though. Bg3 was more of an option to be “woke” if you want to, although I wish you could choose sexual orientation in character creator to avoid every dude who you think is a good buddy coming on to you 😂 this game throws it in your face and demands you accept it.
Yeah, females.
She talks about enjoying this game like she has a job at some giant company that requires her to talk about enjoying his game. Oh, wait.
Goodbye, Bioware. You won't be missed.
This isn't Bioware that we once knew😢
literaly every youtuber who played this said it was amazing
They died back during Inquisition
.. by more than 63 people
@@zadovrus1624 you never played there game then in 2006 you could be gay and date 2 different guys and in 2009 mass effect you could be as well bioware is always been (woke)
How did they manage to make the Qunari look worse than Dragon Age 1?
That's what so jarring. Iron Bull and the other Qunaris looked so cool. Now they look... dopey...
Because Dragon Age 1 had its own art style.
Whatever this is is just modern generic style.
It feels like all these new games for "modern audiences" are being created by the theater kids that hissed at you from under the stairs in high school.
Yeah. 100%. If you apply the "revenge of the nerds" frame to the social/political climate, it makes a lot of sense. Trump is a jock/preppy, they're the nerds/theatre kids. Technology affords weak people a novel advantage over people who are physically stronger than them. The tables have turned in favor of the people who would have been the bottom of the hierarchy, and you're seeing the revenge phase play out. I think a lot of these cultural choices are made specifically to annoy us (i.e. normal people). That's what you do when you're a rebellious teenager, you take pleasure in making the lame adults squirm with your choice of clothes and music. This is no different. After you see these ridiculous "modern" things, imagine a voice that says "What do you think about THAT, Dad!?!?!?" And then it all makes sense.
@@simex909 except the actual nerds were the people making games in the first place. but those were the nerds who were socially awkward but at least decent enough people to have found friend groups.
these weirdos aren't nerds or cool kids, they're the complete losers who had literally zero friends because they were completely insufferable.
@@powerbeard5653 Yeah it doesn't map perfectly, it's just an analogy and how I imagine they perceive it. I doubt they view themselves as insufferable losers. I'm still trying to figure out exactly what this spirit is that we're dealing with. I think OP is pretty close, and I'm using nerd broadly to just mean fringe. It's the fringe attempting to dominate the center as revenge for being on the fringes. Something like that.
@powerbeard5653 Yeah totally, but I get what he's saying. I'm a huge nerd, but I'm not a dweeb. There's a difference between being nerdy and being a dweeb. I'm also very active too and live a full life, but I love me a good book, game, TV series etc.
"We've spent 10 years making this next-gen dragon age installment. We've spent 9.5 of those years on bringing you HAIR, the other half of the year on the rest of the game. This is truly a next gen experience."
These graphics are good for an MMO released in 2015 💀
Which is what this game originally was supposed to be...
But then they merged VeilGuard and Dreadwolf into one project.
Even for a MMO released in 2009, 2011 and 2012 like Aion Online, Tera Online and Blade & Soul
for a second I thought it was genshin impact
Vanilla WoW had better graphics and combat.
I'd give it a mobile free-to-play (pay-to-win) level of visuals at best)
"A woman only calls another woman a "10" if they look at her and see she isn't a threat to herself.
😂проснись. Видел бы ты мой групповой чат с коллегами, в котором мы чуть ли не любви друг другу признаёмся. И да, у всех нас есть парни или мужья
@@ЕленаСергеевна-ф3юwell if you all have boyfriends there’s no threat
@@john24110 gottem
unless they are attracted to them.
@@john24110 😚в этом ты прав. Мои взгляды по сравнению с ватой очень прогрессивные и великодушные. Мне просто плевать, остальные хотят геноцида или пародируют Иисуса и не выходят из депрессии. Даже в нашей стране женщины разные, что уж говорить обо всём мире. Так что не надо строить из себя эксперта по женщинам.
"so many different hair texture are REPRESENTED"
diversity of everything except ideas
@@Black_Emmanius_Prime video games aren't about representing that's what.
I fucking HATE this lingo.
@@johnway8819 he's one of them devs probably
It's the fact that these people only consider representation in most superficial sense, to the point of being offensive
Like Killmonger hair they give every black dude nowadays