Was too tired to post anything that really reflected my thoughts last night so i will do it now. Aside from the talented artists and devs who optimised the game let me focus on the actual game play and RPG. The companion system has been done before in RPG games and I love it, especially when the game is single player but as mentioned in my review these companions are nothing but extra spells hidden behind a clunky delivery system. They can't die and accessing the combo spells is a joke. Companions should feel like other players, they should be mortal, they should make a difference, you should value them and get attached to them. Starfield made the same mistake, they made them donkeys for carrying your shit and Dragon Age just made them extra spells for you, zero immersion, in fact I ended up hating the lot of them. The dialog options are horrible as is the writing and that is because they hired people more interested in pushing "the message" than making great character arcs and realistic banter between companions. Everyone is friendly, sympathetic, understanding, kind, generous no matter how much you try to piss them off, it's nuts, the entire game is treading on egg shells for fear of doing anything offensive while at the same time being highly offensive to many people. The combat has some amazing abilities that look and sound awesome, even abilities we have all seen before are brilliantly done such as frost nova and slow down time. Aiming is good, I never used lock on once, I love playing free in combat and this game let me do that. The problem is they made a poor interface, focused the combat around spammy light and heavy attacks as your mana runs out way too fast early game and made accessing and remembering your constantly changing team attacks very hard. They also designed the maps poorly, you know exactly when you are going to be attacked. I am saddened more than angry as I know I would have loved a proper version of this game where the characters are more realistic and gritty, where the combat was less focused on spam and more on your abilities, where companions meant more than just an extra few spells for you and where the writing would immerse me in a huge world linear or not. I often felt that I was surrounded by political activists not fantasy characters in an RPG. A massive wasted opportunity and how anyone can say this game is good is beyond all comprehension, it has some good things which I reflected in my score but as a fantasy RPG it's a disgrace.
I replied to a few people saying the problem lies with these narrative development companies, they force studios too use them, I said such as sweet baby inc as a example, I then looked up who and if this game had a narrative development company attached, and there it was on Reddit Dragon age veilguard.....sweet baby inc ....your honor I rest my case.
I replied to a few comments saying the problem lies with these narrative development companies , they force studios too use them, I said such as sweet baby inc as an example , I then looked up who, if any, narrative development company was attached, and there it was on Reddit Dragon age veilguard..sweet baby inc. I rest my case.
Matt, I was able to defeat the Ogre by not moving. I just stood there and either dodged or blocked while my INVULNERABLE teammates did the job. It was completely challengeless, a combat like this can NEVER be good if you CANT LOOSE, I played it on the hardest difficulty too but I can cheese any situation by...just moving since my teammates are invulnerable. Such a combat is not salvagable, its game journalist design in that you cant die. You cant even jump off a cliff and die, you cant even fall off those things you balance on - nothing! I agree it looks good but whats the point if you can never be defeated?
My grandmother: “you need to work more to buy a house!” Also my grandmother in 1964: “here’s your bag of raspberries, thanks for the 6 bedroom Victorian!”
He kukd out on his livestream too and said things like the anti woke are getting "as bad as the woke" etc. very disappointed. Where are the governments, consulting firms, and companies pushing anti woke messaging?
@@Andriej69 Guess it's more about the tone ... in pretty much any other review he just rips into these games with the "appropriate" language. This was indeed mild for him.
@@warmak4576 i made a beautiful women character in this game only to found out she is a trans then she they them convince another party member to go trans later in the game lol i am not even making this up, it happened at the small handheld mirror scene in this video
These honest reviews -- from gamers NOT "game journalists" -- these are the reviews I care about. I never pre-order anymore and I wait for honest reviews.
@@mamba101 Nope games always pull a fast one after the game is released, such as releasing parts of the game as DLC after its released, and wining and dining game journalists for a good score beforehand
@@mamba101 if you think this linear goofy casualized simplified fable clone without any depth, terrible writing and dialogues and no exploration is a 9/10 and as good as games like baldurs gate 3 and new vegas, you are a shill. Because there is no way you believe that.
Huge wasted opportunity here to make a spectacular RPG, they had the artists, sound and even the combat could have been worked to be great but nooooo they chose to pander to the tiny percentage of people that pretty much don't give a shit about video games and release this festering pile of RPG rubbish, no one wins, we all lose. At least they are the ones losing all the money.
The pandering in games is killing the writing and immersion (and player counts lmao). Sad to see games die, so many years of hard work from so many people.
DragQueen Age: Wokeguard On the other hand, im kinda glad theres no more amazing games every month like it used to be when we were kids. Cause now id never get to play them all. And like this, i can play that one good game slowly. My newest one is rdr2- started 2024, 165h so far, still in chapter 2😂 I dont know if there will be another one after, but i have a few online ones too, tarkov, squad. Dont buy this garbage guys, dont waste your time!
The fact you deleted my comment when I brought up a legit point I'm sorry is pathetic. I made no personal attack, I feel like I was respectful and you deleted my comment because you clearly can't handle any criticism. Shameful.
@@purefoldnz3070 Not quite. Several members have joined forces and continue to create their own things. Check out the upcoming Exodus. I wonder what it will be, it looks good although I have to note that I see "non-white" and "she" all over the trailer.
@@purefoldnz3070 Yep, the dude who was lead designer and director of DA Origins, DAII and DA Inquisition left Bioware in 2017, after EA cancelled the original version of DA4.
I remember back in the day playing origins thought it was awesome how the mighty have fallen you couldn't pay me to play this steaming pile of horse manure.
David Gaider left the team for good. Now it seems the writing reached a new bottom level including tavern talk about pronouns... IN THE TAVERN OF A FANTASY GAME!! PRONOUNS!! SERIOUSLY!? 🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔
Yeah it's really baffling for who this game is made, it should be not approved for kids to play this because all the confusing transgender pushing and adults think this is way too soft of a game, action wise and setting... Hope wokesters will pack their bags and move out of action games for good!
We are in a true creative drought across all forms of entertainment. Partly woke universities, and part people who grew up with the internet and can’t function in life without a search bar to formulate new ideas.
I'm playing Mafia. 'Wasn't expecting to empty my Tommy Gun into Don Morello today. But, you know, it's one of those days. Paulie, let's go for smoothies.'
The reality is it doesn't matter what the general public think, all of this is being funded by large investment companies who are turning round to developers with clauses that demand certain amounts of representation or certain types of of writing. You as a consumer can't hurt them with your wallet really, these companies are funding these projects entirely. It's a form of social engineering. BlackRock is one such investment firm and is very open with what it demands from corporations it's investing in.
TBH I deliberately avoided every chat option to discuss gender, you can see this at 1:59 when the chat option opens, I also immediately skipped all scenes with it on display, am done with being preached too by these people. Also there are loads of vids out there discussing it all, I wanted to focus more on the tiny bits of the game that are decent and get the point across that this could have been a great game.
@B-26354 Spot on mate vanguard is another like Blackrock they are major shareholders in most big companies. Sickening what's happening. Most of the masses are truly blind to the real sinister motives behind it all
When this game was called Dreadwolf, its director was MArk Darrah, a Bioware veteran. After he left a trans person, Corinne Busche took his role. We can clearly see the results.
He returned for the development of THIS game, and he is actually very happy with the results. He is nuts too. He had even trashed Origins to make this game look better.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Every bit of dialogue in this game sounds like it's straight up from a SCOOBY Doo episode. Rooks response wheen should simply be replaced with 3 options. "Zoinks" "Jinkies" "I'm a trans individual who is started to feel safe in they / thems own skin" Nothing has weight to it. No as actions happen on screen. You are told about stuff you didn't do later on and then the companions simply forget about it.
it is actually a good fun game combat, spells and exploration is better than God of War i just ignore that its a dragon age game with DEI marketing maybe because i play this after that god awful stalker 2 with non stop stuttering while this game combat is constant 100fps buttery smooth and looks 10x better and very fast shader compile time on every launch
Cant wait for the DLC where the Qunari have a story hour at the local library for the children of the village. And if you choose all the correct dialogue options the Qunari will trow a P Diddy party.
Bioware has repeated what theey said earlier.There won't be a dlc. They will have people of course patching bugs while the rest pivot to working on Mass Effect. It seems they don't have the people to make a dlc and also work on Mass Effect. No to repeat: No dlc for Veilguard.
There was a video about a young guy who grow up with Disney style “we are in a movie wink-wink” storytelling and was flabbergasted upon watching Lord of the rings where every single character took themselves seriously.
Main character is going to be transperplexual who has an identity crisis the whole game and preaches to the players constantly about the plight of the alphabet brigade. Oh and probably is afraid of guns because guns are bad, despite it just being a tool...
Expect nothing any more: Elder scrolls 6, GTA 6, whatever, expect nothing and not to buy. Wait and see if people say it's good , PEOPLE, not paid game reviewers.
From what I'm told, this game has your character being too nice and has no balls basically. Everyone in the game is too afraid to offend other people that they are all nice no matter what. Not sure how true it is, but every dialogue wheel option that I've seen in this game that's supposed to be "mean" or "assertive" always comes back pussy whipped
Hate the combat system. Hate when they try to make a mix of an RPG and action system geared towards the ultra casual. Making it mediocre. If you want to go action, go full devil may cry action. Don’t give us some half way BS. Or go full rpg with turn based or something. The gameplay with the combat system looks so generic and casual, it doesn’t interest me.
Feels like the only Dragon Age ever to have some tactical sense and need for strategy was the Origins. From there to here was only a downhill on the general gameplay and combat
you realize its the exact same combat as God of War right? the one that won GOTY and you guys loved it so much? his son behave exactly the same, invulnerable and just another spell extension of you
@@loucipher7782 yeah remember back in god of war 1 when you had 4 party members with a pause function and programmable "AI" and then they reduced it to 1 with generic boring hackandslash combat. oh.
The only good Dragon Age was Origins. The dark fantasy/horror, story was incredible. Everything after is just streamlined BS, blame EA that basically destroyed Bioware and this franchise!!
The media's really trying to push Dragon Age: Veil Guard as a success, but honestly, the numbers don’t back it up. For some perspective, DA peaked around 70-80k players on Steam, while Skyrim, a game over a decade old, had over 200k at its peak. Even Starfield hit 300k, and both Starfield and DA had similar budgets, Starfield was around $200 million, and DA supposedly cost between $150-250 million.
I lasted 53 minutes and then a refunded it through steam.. The game is extremely well optimized, The graphics look great maxed out but the art style is way too cartoonish and the gameplay is boring as hell..
Clean cartoonish graphics and linear levels with no open world, it SHOULD run well. (from gameplay I have seen, many assets seem a bit low quality too, textures a mixed bag, recycled stuff from previous games, the art style helps it look better, being stylized and not too realistic)
@@HiddenStr3ngthI've been seeing people say that it was originally going to be a mobile game and the map design makes more sense if thats the case lol.
I tell you, buddy, complete respect. This paragraph alone is the most coherent and balanced critique I've seen of the game at all yet from someone who ultimately didn't like it much who wasn't a reviewer. Jesus that's refreshing. 😂
Against my advice my grandson bought this game on launch. I watched him play for about an hour before he turns to me and says "grandpa this game is lame". I said, okay let's ask for a refund from steam and get our money back. When a 13 year-old calls a video game "lame", there's no hope for it.
Your grandson was raised very well I must say. My 9 year old nephew played it for 15 minutes, turned to me and said 'This is a big pile of c*nting sh*te!'
@@stateazure My wife is Latina. She doesn't tolerate bad language, bad grades, or any kind of disrespect. She is a great mom who raised our daughters right. My grandson is a good kid because of my daughter and my wife.
I still feel that dragon age origins was a bit of a lightning in a bottle moment that they've not quite recaptured in any other version. But at least it did have a bar across the bottom and you could put whatever spells in the slots. So weird to remove such a simple but effective design.
@@phanor you are the one that brought up politics. I see where your head is at. The rest of us just want a good game and don't want our favorite franchises ruined like this.
@@Axern89 The irony is that Mack tried to avoid turning his review into an 'anti-woke' screamfest because of the sort of people that stuff attracts. I mean, they're all here anyway, waiting for it - but still.
@@mrhades652 Once you find out who runs Blackrock, and what agenda(s) they have.. everything that's been going on in the world will start to make sense
sadly, the new 'religion' is the number one priority above all else - even profit. so, when you understand that, you understand why everything is turning to garbage. ain't getting my cash on my principles.
When I first came across an Ogre in Origins I was genuinely scared and worried if I could beat it. In Failguard I couldn't stop laughing when the thing popped out. It went from terrifying slaughter hobo to cosplayer dressed in his mums milk cartons. 😘
I tried to play this for myself and I could not stand it for more than 3 hours. The biggest sinner for me was the dialogue. It's so bad. It's like half the people are behaving as if they are talking to babies. It just gets on my nerves.
Unfortunately, after three hours you missed the window for a refund. Now you're stuck with a game you despise and EA and Bioware have your money and will count that as a success and approval even though it isn't.
Veilguard is, indeed, an action-adventure with RPG elements, just as you said. BioWare made that choice, and they have every right to do so. Dragon Age now feels more like Mass Effect, which I personally love! This decision opens it up to fans of games like God of War, The Last of Us, and the Star Wars Jedi series. Hardcore RPG players are disappointed, which is understandable. But no one has the right to judge BioWare for their style and choices. Art is individual, and if you don’t like the game, just let it go. There’s no reason to troll online and keep bothering those of us who do love the game. Let us have our fun, and go play what you enjoy. I’m lucky enough to love both complex RPGs like Baldur’s Gate 3 and action RPGs like Dark Souls, along with entertaining and polished mainstream games like God of War or Veilguard. I’m 30 hours in and loving every minute of it. Sure, the game isn’t particularly challenging and it does guide you along quite a bit. Plus, it’s geared toward younger players, which I think is great. And if I’m ever in the mood for blood, gore, and complexity, there are plenty of games that focus on that. I get the criticism and disappointment, really. But please stop trolling and let those of us who enjoy it have our fun. I’m extremely happy with it and especially thrilled that BioWare didn’t make this game dependent on multiplayer, monetization, or season passes. Plus, Veilguard is highly polished and bug-free-a rarity these days. Thank you, BioWare, for this fantastic game! I’m already looking forward to Mass Effect 5 and hope you stay true to your style.
Mass Effect 2, the game most people (not me) agree is the best Mass Effect, really started Bioware down the path of the "walk along this empty corridor and you're completely safe, but as soon as you enter a room and you see conveniently placed cover dotted around - prepare for a fight"-trope. Completely immersion-breaking console damaged crap. In ME1 sometimes you had to fight out in in open or in tight corridors without cover - as it should be because sometimes life is hard. Andromeda actually managed to pull the gameplay back towards good, but is seriously flawed in many other ways instead (2D characters, my face is tired etc). I'm sorry to say that Bioware peaked with ME1 and DA1 IMO. New exciting worlds to explore. Many well written characters and story. Lots of impactful options for gear and skills for both you and your companions. All this made those games feel like proper epic RPGs. Sadly, Bioware will never top those games again.
I could only ever describe the art style of this game as fake pre-rendered mobile game ad. Same with UI. All the left extremist pandering aside it has even bigger problems. This is one of the most sterile, uninteresting, generic fantasy worlds that has ever existed. And it's a setting for a story that wouldn't even pass as a fanfic to a real deal. It's very very sad. Reviewers that called this "bioware's return to form" can only be two things - actual paid shills, or complete morons. And one does not exclude the other.
Probably both. John Epler tweeted that he'd hoped the reviews would call it "a triumphant return to form" (his exact words). I wonder what they got paid to do it.
Oh you sweet summer child, there are so many more beloved franchises that have been ruined. Fable, Baldurs Gate, Fallout, Final Fantasy, just to name a few. I could probably list another dozen if I thought on it some more.
Well, this comment on Bluesky from David Gaider (22/9/2024) hasn't aged very well..... Thank you for the kudos, but I think you overestimate my influence. By all reports, the writing is stellar (which I’d expect no less from Patrick and their team). As for the rest, whether you think it’s good or not it would be no different if I was still at BioWare.
This is so depressing, why are they catering games to an extreme minority of identity abbreviation nitpickers ? Isn't it proven enough now that almost everyone is tired of this kind of shite?
"A TV licence in the UK costs £169.50 per year" Christ Mack, no wonder you don't have a TV anymore. I wouldn't either as an American with that, thanks for the review my guy.
youre legally required to have it but the TV goons thugs they hire to bully people cant legally enter your house because theyre not cops so really its optional. There a lot of videos on YT of BBC tv license goons trying to coerce their way into homes.
They need to stop paying for those. The TV license commissars can't enter one's house without one's permission, like vampires they have to be invited in. There's no way I'd pay for that propaganda slop. But I only use my TV as a screen for games or DVD movies. American TV is trash just like British TV.
The worst thing is, the BBC has a crazy huge archive of some amazing TV shows, documentaries and news broadcasts spanning nearly 90 years. If they put them up online, and offered them to a global audience, they'd be making an absolute fortune.
@@Matthewjs33origins and Da2 is good bro. You might have to go back and play them and you’ll see why we are so pissed. I get 2 was rushed and hated on but it is very good writing and the villains are so good it makes you care about the ending.
The reality is it doesn't matter what the general public think, all of this is being funded by large investment companies who are turning round to developers with clauses that demand certain amounts of representation or certain types of of writing. You as a consumer can't hurt them with your wallet really, these companies are funding these projects entirely. It's a form of social engineering. BlackRock is one such investment firm and is very open with what it demands from corporations it's investing in.
@ninochaosdrache3189 1. This is entirely true with AAA game development and Black Rock has even released the clauses it expects CEOs to follow for projects they invest in. 2. Those are AA games funded largely via different capital streams. 3. It would pay you to actually research things before typing them out, I'm extremely knowledgeable on this subject.
Anyone ever hear people try to justify this and other products by saying “All fiction has politics and social commentary in it”? Well there’s a difference between them being inspired from historical politics and contemporary politics. The best fictional universes ALWAYS use the former give me ONE example of a modern politics inspired universe (Or shoehorned into an established universe) that works AT ALL 🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️
Disco Eylsium. But politics there are about how to structure a society and it's finances mostly and it has a default 'all viewpoints are shit' stance on things.
That's what always cracks me up about these people, they act like there's been no total ideological shift in the last 25 years and you're a conspiracy theorist for even noticing 😂😂😂
Baldur’s Gate 3 is the wokest game ever made. Dragon Age Origins was woke. Dragon Age 2 was woke. Dragon Age Inquisition was woke. There’s never been a dragon age game that wasn’t super woke.
Yeah and what they usually mean when they say that are actually movies that highlight core human values that make you rethink politics. They cannot see the difference from that and political lecturing /propaganda. It's a real sad state our western society is in.
@@fozzle6503 25 years ago it was 1999. 25 years before that it was 1974. There was a total ideological shift between 1974 and 1999. In 1974 the boomers were objectively racist in the majority. Over those 25 years, Gen X stopped hanging out with their racist friends and the baby boomers stopped being vocally racist for the most part. White people stopped saying the N-word in public by 1999, when it was very common in 1974. By 1999, gay people had come out of the closet, and just a few years later Queer Eye for a Straight Guy would cause Gen X and the boomers to start accepting gay people in the mainstream. Culture changes, man. Gen X and the baby boomers are the 2 most culturally similar generations in American history, and there was still a massive ideological shift for those generations. What you’re describing is called “growing up,” and as you get older you’ll start to figure that out. Culture always changes. Think about it this way: when dragon age origins was gay as fuck, nobody cared. When dragon age 2 was gay as fuck, nobody cared. When dragon age inquisition was the most trans inclusive/gay inclusive AAA game ever made, nobody cared. Now culture has changed over the last 10 years, and now people are throwing anti-gay tantrums and whining about wanting games to be their safe space.
Bioware looked at Baldur's Gate 3 and said they wanted NONE of that success They really could've gone back to Dragon Age Origins style of Dark Fantasy and Tactical Combat
Yeah, his channel started to stink of corporate money a while since. His reviews are incredibly generous to big budget games and a lot of smaller games he talks about in a way that makes you think he can't be bothered to play them.
I’ve heard people say he couldn’t possibly 100% all the games he says he does in the time he says he does. Idk I don’t care to look into it, I have enjoyed some of his videos especially his Divinity 2 series but man truly disappointing to see him pandering for a few bucks. Even people praising him for doing a build video after…
he liked starfield as well, honestly i have stopped watching his videos because there is no way this guy plays games 100% in such a short time, he is lying to you.
This honestly points out the one part of woke ideology that pisses me off the most: they aren’t the only ones who made the game. There were actual talented developers who slaved away on a combat system, on level design, on stability and sound and this and that. Every little thing needs a crafting hand. Then, after all their sweat and tears and strain, the writing team steps in, paints it hot pink and glues a dildo on. If you speak out against this, you’ll be fired.
That’s probably exactly how it goes. A small set of talentless activists bullied themselves into these jobs and positions and basically damage everyone and everything. I do think however this wont go on much longer , most of the public are annoyed by them and companies are losing money
The entire game pushing virtue signaling, to the point where you have to apologize for using the ‘wrong’ pronouns through an in-game cutscene that plays out for 2 min. Forcing political agendas and pressuring players to adapt to certain moral views takes away from the enjoyment and genuine immersion that gaming should offer. I play games to escape and experience new worlds, not to have my worldview questioned or policed. If this kind of one sided moral imposition isn’t a form of bigotry, then what is? Games should be about the story, the challenge, and the experience, not pushing personal ideologies on players.
We've all been there. A game that could have been great but it was ruined by the woke mind virus. You dont feel mad you just feel like you've lost something.
I remember the first time I went through that . . . when TLOU2 made Joel stupidly blurt out his and Ellie's real names to strangers, and was then golf-clubbed to death by Abbeast, a creature who somehow managed -- in a post-apocalyptic world -- to have a supply of testosterone, and enough extra food to dirty-bulk. Now, I expect the worst, until an occasional great game like Black Myth Wukong comes along.
Two of the wokest investment firms own a large portion of EA, so EA has sold their souls to them to push wokeness. Blackrock and Vanguard are two of the largest institutional investors in Electronic Arts (EA).Their stakes in EA are significant and represent a substantial portion of the company's ownership. Here's a breakdown of their current holdings: Blackrock: As of June 2024, Blackrock owns approximately 10.2% of EA's outstanding shares. This makes them one of the largest shareholders of the company. Vanguard also holds a significant stake in EA, owning approximately 8.4% of the company's shares as of June 2024. Even with a 10% stake, an investor has considerable voting rights at shareholder meetings. While a 10% stake may not be a controlling interest, it can still provide significant influence
Blackrock/Vanguard (same thing) own the major shares in practically every major company in any industry you can think of and have done for some time. Look on TH-cam for a video called MONOPOLY: FOLLOW THE MONEY. It explains plainly and shows how anyone can see for themselves. The fashionable politics of the times have no bearing on this and vice versa.
Why Blackrock and vanguard are so adamantly against straight people is odd. Pretty sure they don't want anyone to have babies lol only reason I can think of as to why they invest so much in medical abortions/contraceptives, LGBT crap and buying all the family sized homes and leaving them empty or too expensive to rent
Companies need to stop making these deals with the devil. BlackRock and Vanguard may have money to burn, but studios need to make a profit on occasion.
If someone is considering getting into Dragon Age, just get Origins. It started it all, is half the price of Veilguard (on sale it goes for about 10%) and mainly: it's a truly fantastic game.
@@ninochaosdrache3189 I played it again last year and I wouldn't say it aged poorly. Few technical issues and other hurdles can be solved by some fan-patch or modes. Anyway, it was and remains a worthwhile experience.
Writing seems to be the number one issue with any entertainment media in the past five years. So many talented people who put their heart and soul into a project, only to be completely wasted and shadowed by incompetent, woke, childish, braindead writers. Supervisors and leadership is a close second.
My god, why the Ogre looks that way we will never know. Remember how good and intimidating they looked in Origins... that first boss fight with one at Ostagar? So great. This? I don't even know what they were thinking here 😐
Also you briefly see Morrigan at the start of the video. If her name wasnt on screen I wouldnt have recognized her. The darkspawn look has been changed like the Ogre as well.
@Nomisdoowtsae Yeah they butchered the wonderful Morrigan too X.X Also completely ignoring any of the choices and decisions related to her from previous games. Agree, the darkspawn look goofy as all hell here.. they were so well done in Origins, Orzimmar and the deep roads section was a highlight.
Bioware a studio that once made you cry for the death of an alien becuase the time you spent with them made them feel like family is now the studio that makes humans, dwarfs and elves feel like robots with no social skills or character beyond trying to be the most individualistic person in the room. Hot tip for you Bioware, If you are intresting people will want to ask things about you, Nobody want's you to talk about yourself non fucking stop for hours on end, or know your sexuality or pronouns. If anyone gave a shit they would ask. Characters are so one dimensional they might aswell be straight lines. Did anyone at Bioware actually play the previous games in the series? or any of the games from before Andromeda, We had Inclusivity and for almost everyone it felt like it really fit into those games becuase it wasn't applied with a fucking sledgehammer then smeared into the cracks with a oversized tube of glow in the dark lipstick. And what the fucks up with none of the characters having any meaningful conflict or internal contradictions, You could ask me right here and now what the main themes of conflict almost any companion character had in thier respective games, They even have quotes that sum these up pretty perfectly. Jack : “I figure, every time someone dies and it’s not me, my chances of survival go up.” - Loneliness and trust issues Garrus : "It's So Much Easier To See The World In Black And White. Gray? I Don't Know What To Do With Gray." - Conflicting moralities Allister : What? Lead? Me? No, no, no. No leading. Bad things happen when I lead. We get lost, people die, and the next thing you know I’m stranded somewhere without any pants. - Doesn't trust himself, confidence issues disguised as humor. These are just quotes and they speak volumes more than the bollucks we get in Veilguard. Hell even the antagonists of previous bioware games Malak : Still... still spouting the wisdom of the Jedi, I see. Maybe there is more truth in their code than I ever believed. I... I cannot help but wonder, Revan. What would have happened had our positions been reversed? What if fate had decreed I would be captured by the Jedi? Could I have returned to the light, as you did? If you had not led me down the dark path in the first place, what destiny would I have found? - Always held himself as second best, Too far gone to save but not far enough to not see that thing's might have been differnt. I feel like the whole writing team could have done with playing some of these games before having started drawing up the story and characters for Veilguard. I would expect a better story from a cookie cutter MMO designed for teenagers than what we have here. There is no substance, Moral ambiguity or even atmosphere to think about beyond what's essentially a drivel being spouted non stop in the most self centered way possible. What happened to the rebellious streak we used to love Bioware for? Where have all the good development staff gone? Why did they leave? Is this the Future of Bioware you are aiming for? A future where is doesn't fucking exist?!
im about 25 hours in so far and cannot see what you are talking about.. I do not understand how this whole game is woke?? It hasnt forced sexual orientation into any of the dialogue, and has given me the option to romantically pursue whatever relationship I want. I do no see political correctness anywhere in the characters or story. The characters all have their own personalities, and I have enjoyed them all. As far as the combat, I really like that you can specialise each character with differing skills to complement something you need as a utlity or something to take effect during battle. Graphics are gorgeous! I mean, I really think this game is a visual feast! Loads of detail and atmosphere and variety. I love exploring nooks to find loot chests. There are some light puzzle elements as well. The whole thing feels cohesive and some of ther lighting is incredible. So far, the only time I noticed LGBTQ+ was in the character creator. It gives you a choice. Didnt bother me. I made my characters and jumped in. The game didnt throw any of it in my face from that point onwards. Just on a side note; I have played games that really pissed me off with the polical correctness. 2 examples; Racthet and Clank Rift apart, where Clank has to remain with one arm because we have to accept that people and apparently robots can be disabled. The second was the Devil In Me, I was penalised for not pursuing a gay relationship at the begining and instead 'friend zoning'. When comparing this to other dragon age games, it isnt nearly as dark or gruesome as origins. Not as moody as inquisition. But I have enjoyed the vibrancy of this outing. I like the overall design of the quests, being that I have found no fetch quests. Some decisions have had serious weight and have been paying for those decisions. So this is my bottom line for this game, based on the time I have had with it. It is a well made, AAA game, sold for a fair price (I purchased it for $79 AUD for PS5), it looks and plays great, it doesnt crash or require any kind of patches, great characters, decent story, lots to see and do, and a proper adventure to save the world from the blight and the gods. I do not know if everyone is taking the piss with these kind of reviews? Or just taking gaming for granted? I dunno. This is definitely the front runner for GOTY for me this year and I do not give a damn about who agrees.. Edit: I have now completed the game after 75 hours. Yes, there was political correctness with identity politics that was short horned into the game. I do have a somewhat different feeling for the experience overall. Positives: I think the story was good with Solas. It did tie the game's story together. I think the art style was great and I really enjoyed building and specializing my character. I can see replays. Combat was fluid, decent implementation of dodge and parry systems, nice effects on abilities and great overall animation. I thought all the characters were very likable, even though Bioware tried it's hardest to make me hate Taarsh. Negatives: Never really felt like high stakes until the very end. Decisions I made didn't have any real consequences. Dialogue options didn't offer enough delivery variety and choices felt fake when outcomes were the same irrespective of choice. Overall final thoughts: This game is not really Dragon Age. It is an action, adventure spinoff. Reminded me more of Final fantasy 16 style adventure game. While there is political correctness sprinkled through it, it thankfully didn't ruin the whole game for me. I think Bioware made a great game here, but I don't think this is the game people wanted, especially after BG3 has seen a huge following and this series is very D&D based at its core and this game strays completely from it. It was a fun time though and I can see myself giving this another run in the future. If I was to give it a score, as a Dragon Age game, it is 4/10, as a spin off action/adventure, 8/10. It is no longer my GOTY game. That may have to go to Astro Bot just because of the joy factor I had with it.
3:25 Even without the incessant political sermons, you'd still have writing so bad that even the characters aren't immersed in the world of the game. Modern entertainment is full of this stupid, unfunny, insincere garbage. I'm a millennial and my generation have already ruined countless games and movies with their horrible writing.
@@CurtOntheRadio ... did you not watch the video? Also theres a famous video going around that EA is banning every second they find it that includes pushups, take a hard look for it if u can
@@unstableordinance Yeah that insufferable way Isabella (of all people!) turned into a pathetic pile of self-abasement, just because she called a she a she.
@@unstableordinance Even if true, you're on about one clip - one short instance. The claim was "incessant political sermons". And your best shot is a single short sequence that nobody could call "a sermon". So, neither is it incessant nor is it sermonising.
Thats the messege of the game, when you missgender someone you say sorry and kneel and do 10 push ups because you facked up. Before this modern games, games used to be about friendships, brotherhood, about self sacrifice, about doing the right thing but now its about your pronoun is more important than saving the world.
No Mac, it's complete trash. Stop saying "what if, could have been, you can see the potential" or other phrases, all games made by these activists pretending to be developers are always going to be the same. Stop your adoration for production quality, it's keeping gaming in the pockets of gaming corporations. Also, i am not going to give them even an inch, the game is complete trash, propaganda and no person under 20 years should play it because it's extremly damaging for their mental health. Especially people in depression
The writing wasn't great by any means. It's no legacy of kain. But it was fine. A lot of rpgs have cringe dialogue and this was about average. At least it was comprehensible. It didn't take me out of the gameplay. It could've done more to set the tone but it didn't ruin it. It seems like you just have some kind of personal hangup about it that has nothing to do with the quality of the writing
I have to disagree about the art style. I think it looks like trash. Not that “Pixar” is necessarily shit, but it really just doesn’t fit the content, the more adult themes… it doesn’t fit, and it feels weird and creepy… why do you want the characters you are getting to have smecks with each other to look like Pixar characters?? It’s really creepy to want that…
Is an awful, not inmersive and boring game. Save your money, don´t buy it. Asmongold give this game a 6/10, but honestly is a 4/10 at best. Doesn´t worth it, even on sale.
I'm soooo bored with encounters like @7:29 , where you enter a room with some baddies that just wait around for no reason and only aggro once you get close enough, even if they should have spotted you so much earlier... give me Shadow of War sort of enemies...
This was a 100% buy for me as a big Dragon Age fan, until I saw "transgender identity unlocked" a few days ago. Then it was a post on everything and hurt their sales as much as possible. Gutted.
My Conspiracy theory: there are some people who hate games and gamers and they want to see them less, so in order to destroy the industry, they infiltrated every successful gaming company and they forced this kinda stuff to annoy gamers, gamers buy less games, gaming companies will bankrupt, less games, less gamers. Mission accomplished!
Not as effective with games, when small indie companies push out amazing games, also other countries aren;t neccessarily affected as much with the mind virus, and Countries like Japan push out generally better games then the West does.
The people they pander to couldnt care less about buying their game, those that do are a vanishingly small proportion of the revenue they could make. When Are They Going To Realise This ?
Past DA games had always had that "bullshit" as you call it, they just used to be more subtle about it. Wish it was still that way since I hate having my hand held in an rpg, but it's not a dealbreaker. As a fan it doesn't get in the way of love for the characters. I can play this game and then go back to Origins. Role-playing options are a good thing to have in a role-playing game. I don't feel like making a gender-questioning Rook at the moment, but I'm glad to have it as an option. When things aren't an option in an rpg, people get pissed! It's why I'm pissed off rn! All the hairs to choose from aren't to my taste!
I agree. Games should be detach from IRL problems and BS. Because it will ruin the game completely. For example. you ordered a juicy steak and very delicious but there's shit within the vicinity of where you are going to eat the steak. just like this game. It probably a good game but they put shit in there and ruined everything
I don't think that a game which is classed as AAA and has been in development for ten years is considered successful if it only attracts 70k players on it's release date. Plus I really don't think word of mouth is going to help this one regardless of the main stream shills trying to mislead players. My personal opinion is that Dragon Age: The Lecturing doesn't have legs and that the player count will start to drop off next week as people become bored of it, if not sooner.
I have put a few hours in to Dragon Age Veilguard now and it immediately hit me how this is a decent arpg but absolutely nothing like a Dragon Age game. The graphics are quite decent, ambient sound is fine and the rpg mechanics are typical of an arpg, but not a rpg typical of the depth of Dragon Age. But the writing is abysmal. It feels like a high school student wrote the interactions between characters. The banter between characters is so out of place in a fantasy game. These characters are battle-worn, most likely jaded, yet feels more like how teenagers would excitedly talk, and is completely immersion breaking. Especially as these are not new characters so we know how they have previously behaved. This is obviously for what Bioware describe as the "modern audience". All in all, as a standalone arpg, it is fine, as a Dragon Age game, utterly atrocious. It is like if Disney or Pixar did Dragon Age 🤷
Imagine being an artist or area designer working on these modern games, doing a great job in creating a beautiful world, only to see the pathetic writing and dialogue, with every character talking like a 2024 woke college student, instead of a person living in a medieval fantasy world. You'd feel like all your work and effort was completely wasted.
-I didnt hear the bell, so I was expecting Mack to tell us how great this game is...... Is the bell broken ? :3- Nevermind, I heard it at the end... I thought it'd hear it more. I guess 4 push ups out of 10 is best it deserves.
Funny fact, his video has about 3/4 (50248 at the time of writing) of the top amount of players at peak time *chuckles*, and the views are still climbing... the top concurrent players, is not... Go woke, go broke.
Good on you for calling this out. I refunded my Steam version without even playing it. I am a gamer of near fifty years in the scene and I am pissed off of having real world ideology and politics pushed into what was once an amazing escape from the real world. Gaming used to be creativity, amazing worlds and characters, fun and interesting design and stories. Now it's mundane shite that also includes political nonsense to spread someone's ideology and worst still not even give you a choice. Other games use Diversity. BG3 is an example but it was well written and not rammed down my throat. It gave the players choices ...it allowed you to avoid or interact with it. Garbage like Veilguard is an invasion of personal privacy, it's brainwashing and is disgusting to force this into anyone, regardless of whether they like it or not. If gaming continues this way then rest assured AAA games will vanish. Political themes and agendas should never cross into video games and also who did the writing for this game? It's an embarrassment. How can you have Hans Zimmer on the soundtrack and then make such a poorly written game?...
BG3 was well written when it comes to DEI? Mate, most people in that game are gay/bi. The world in BG3 has that typical American metropolitan diversity. You can't not interact with these things. I like the game, but let's not pretend it's not full of "modern audience" nonsense that makes observant players cringe at best.
Looks like the typical game with decent core gameplay but cursed by awful writing(regardless of the "political content"). I actually like the simpler, cartoonish artstyle, it would have looked even GREATER with some splatter, gorey elements. This style it's easy to read. Most enemies looks way too basic, instead. A missed chance it seems. It's not my genre anyway, the last proper(non action)RPG i've played was Arcanum back in 2003.
Was too tired to post anything that really reflected my thoughts last night so i will do it now.
Aside from the talented artists and devs who optimised the game let me focus on the actual game play and RPG. The companion system has been done before in RPG games and I love it, especially when the game is single player but as mentioned in my review these companions are nothing but extra spells hidden behind a clunky delivery system. They can't die and accessing the combo spells is a joke. Companions should feel like other players, they should be mortal, they should make a difference, you should value them and get attached to them. Starfield made the same mistake, they made them donkeys for carrying your shit and Dragon Age just made them extra spells for you, zero immersion, in fact I ended up hating the lot of them.
The dialog options are horrible as is the writing and that is because they hired people more interested in pushing "the message" than making great character arcs and realistic banter between companions. Everyone is friendly, sympathetic, understanding, kind, generous no matter how much you try to piss them off, it's nuts, the entire game is treading on egg shells for fear of doing anything offensive while at the same time being highly offensive to many people.
The combat has some amazing abilities that look and sound awesome, even abilities we have all seen before are brilliantly done such as frost nova and slow down time. Aiming is good, I never used lock on once, I love playing free in combat and this game let me do that. The problem is they made a poor interface, focused the combat around spammy light and heavy attacks as your mana runs out way too fast early game and made accessing and remembering your constantly changing team attacks very hard. They also designed the maps poorly, you know exactly when you are going to be attacked.
I am saddened more than angry as I know I would have loved a proper version of this game where the characters are more realistic and gritty, where the combat was less focused on spam and more on your abilities, where companions meant more than just an extra few spells for you and where the writing would immerse me in a huge world linear or not. I often felt that I was surrounded by political activists not fantasy characters in an RPG. A massive wasted opportunity and how anyone can say this game is good is beyond all comprehension, it has some good things which I reflected in my score but as a fantasy RPG it's a disgrace.
they want us fans to buy it for our kids. indoctrination at it's finest.
I replied to a few people saying the problem lies with these narrative development companies, they force studios too use them, I said such as sweet baby inc as a example, I then looked up who and if this game had a narrative development company attached, and there it was on Reddit Dragon age veilguard.....sweet baby inc ....your honor I rest my case.
@@lastmanstanding80 Saddly as I would stay away from a word indoctrination som time ago, here, in this game it is scary accurate. Sad times.
I replied to a few comments saying the problem lies with these narrative development companies , they force studios too use them, I said such as sweet baby inc as an example , I then looked up who, if any, narrative development company was attached, and there it was on Reddit Dragon age veilguard..sweet baby inc. I rest my case.
Matt,
I was able to defeat the Ogre by not moving. I just stood there and either dodged or blocked while my INVULNERABLE teammates did the job. It was completely challengeless, a combat like this can NEVER be good if you CANT LOOSE, I played it on the hardest difficulty too but I can cheese any situation by...just moving since my teammates are invulnerable. Such a combat is not salvagable, its game journalist design in that you cant die.
You cant even jump off a cliff and die, you cant even fall off those things you balance on - nothing!
I agree it looks good but whats the point if you can never be defeated?
Dragon Age 2024:
-How do I get to the library?
-Go straight and to the right. By the way, I'm gay.
Library in spanish is called Biblioteca, by the way, i´m gay even inside the biblioteca
☠😂😂😂
Mate you're a fool it would never tell you to go straight.
Do characters literally say that?
Dragon Age 2013
- How do I get to the library?
- North of town, it has a excellent collection of Petshop boy albums.
You have saved me so much money that if this was 2006 I could buy a house. Unfortunately it's 2024 and I can only afford a small block of cheese.
Same!
U can afford cheese? u most be wealthy.
@@OneofInfinity.Cheese? I wish I had cheese, luxury stuff
@@BartRocksRocks wait, cheese still exists? I thought they wanted everyone to eat ze bugs?
My grandmother: “you need to work more to buy a house!”
Also my grandmother in 1964: “here’s your bag of raspberries, thanks for the 6 bedroom Victorian!”
You were MUCH nicer than I was expecting.
yes, even 4/10 i wonder how bad it needs to be to be 1/10
He kukd out on his livestream too and said things like the anti woke are getting "as bad as the woke" etc. very disappointed.
Where are the governments, consulting firms, and companies pushing anti woke messaging?
"Garbage" every two words? That was nice? Sounded pretty accurate to me
@@Andriej69 Guess it's more about the tone ... in pretty much any other review he just rips into these games with the "appropriate" language. This was indeed mild for him.
Mac may be a prick, but hes a fair prick
Nice of you to model your character after the lead developer
This should be pinned. =]
Hhhh I notice 😂
Needs pinning
Looks trans...
Best comment so far :)
They certainly put the Drag into Dragon age
aw god :D
That's a strange way to "come out", but good on you we are proud of you!!
this should be top comment
Even în fantasy we can,t find the mythical creature called women.
@@warmak4576 i made a beautiful women character in this game
only to found out she is a trans
then she they them convince another party member to go trans later in the game lol
i am not even making this up, it happened at the small handheld mirror scene in this video
Another example of the hard work by the developers (programmers, QA testers, sound designers etc) being wasted by the writers
Orders, not writers
Activists
Not to mention the art directors. Whoever saw Concord and said, "Hey that looks really good!", shouldn't work in the industry.
I'm guessing HR have been "hard at work" here
Don't act like devs are saint. Most of the models in this game are garbage. Characters, monsters and etc. All look something from circus
And now the real reviews come out.
Yes
These honest reviews -- from gamers NOT "game journalists" -- these are the reviews I care about.
I never pre-order anymore and I wait for honest reviews.
@@zxyatiywariii8 You mean reviews that confirm your biases I think.
@@mamba101 Nope games always pull a fast one after the game is released, such as releasing parts of the game as DLC after its released, and wining and dining game journalists for a good score beforehand
@@mamba101 if you think this linear goofy casualized simplified fable clone without any depth, terrible writing and dialogues and no exploration is a 9/10 and as good as games like baldurs gate 3 and new vegas, you are a shill. Because there is no way you believe that.
The only thing this game did good is exposed the shills 9/10 my azz.
The metacritic scores are ABSURD
It's getting crushed by user scores on Metacritic
see about that, even mrmatty shills and shillup bashed this game, the professional critic sites are clearly paid off.
For real. Worth a buy inclduded.
@@arkgaharandan5881 they probably took the money but decided to trash the game anyways
With "heroes" like this, I want to be the villain.
yep.
Even with characters this bad, I could never kill Varric or Hardding.
Yep that would be a good option you get to play the anti woke. I find myself cheering on the villans in most things i watch now.
If you are a white male, like in this game. Then you already are the villain 😂
Huge wasted opportunity here to make a spectacular RPG, they had the artists, sound and even the combat could have been worked to be great but nooooo they chose to pander to the tiny percentage of people that pretty much don't give a shit about video games and release this festering pile of RPG rubbish, no one wins, we all lose. At least they are the ones losing all the money.
Thanks for reviewing Wuss Age: The Transguard for us. Too bad they're not doing DLC for this game... A real shame.
*losing
The pandering in games is killing the writing and immersion (and player counts lmao). Sad to see games die, so many years of hard work from so many people.
DragQueen Age: Wokeguard
On the other hand, im kinda glad theres no more amazing games every month like it used to be when we were kids. Cause now id never get to play them all. And like this, i can play that one good game slowly. My newest one is rdr2- started 2024, 165h so far, still in chapter 2😂
I dont know if there will be another one after, but i have a few online ones too, tarkov, squad.
Dont buy this garbage guys, dont waste your time!
The fact you deleted my comment when I brought up a legit point I'm sorry is pathetic.
I made no personal attack, I feel like I was respectful and you deleted my comment because you clearly can't handle any criticism.
Shameful.
A return to form for Bioware. Unfortunately, their form is garbage like 'Anthem' and 'Mass Effect 4'.
The old Bioware is long since dead
@@purefoldnz3070 Not quite. Several members have joined forces and continue to create their own things. Check out the upcoming Exodus. I wonder what it will be, it looks good although I have to note that I see "non-white" and "she" all over the trailer.
@@purefoldnz3070 Yep, the dude who was lead designer and director of DA Origins, DAII and DA Inquisition left Bioware in 2017, after EA cancelled the original version of DA4.
@@acurisur yes exactly, plus Bioware wasnt the same once the original founders left.
Anthem was an absolute shame! That game could have been amazing! I really wish they'd had done the 2.0 and really tried!
Imagine showing the original devs that made the first dragon age this tripe? They would barf.
I remember back in the day playing origins thought it was awesome how the mighty have fallen you couldn't pay me to play this steaming pile of horse manure.
David Gaider left the team for good. Now it seems the writing reached a new bottom level including tavern talk about pronouns... IN THE TAVERN OF A FANTASY GAME!! PRONOUNS!! SERIOUSLY!? 🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔
@@firstclaw1that’s so ridiculous
James Ohlen who was the creative director of Origins, actually opened a new studio called Archetype Entertainment.
@@firstclaw1 Gaider is woke AF
This game looks soft, soft characters, soft environments, soft combat, soft dialogue. Safe corporate gaming.
Yeah it's really baffling for who this game is made, it should be not approved for kids to play this because all the confusing transgender pushing and adults think this is way too soft of a game, action wise and setting... Hope wokesters will pack their bags and move out of action games for good!
Agreed. Your 10 ply bud! The 10 ply of video games.
"Well, wasn't expecting to fight an ogre today!"
Another victim of millennial writing. Well, THAT just happened!
the amount of cringe in a few sentences is beyond staggering
I wouldn't be surprised if they threw in a : "Wait, if you're here, then that means; Oh BOY!"
This is Gen X cringe. It started with the likes of Daria
We are in a true creative drought across all forms of entertainment. Partly woke universities, and part people who grew up with the internet and can’t function in life without a search bar to formulate new ideas.
More like Gen X or Z if you ask me
The characters speak like they know they're in a videogame, and that everything will be ok in the end.
zero immersion, 100% Disney
Omg that is top description how it feels!
I'm playing Mafia. 'Wasn't expecting to empty my Tommy Gun into Don Morello today. But, you know, it's one of those days. Paulie, let's go for smoothies.'
"If you know what i mean"... **wiggles eyebrows**
I'm surprised you didn't mention the scene where a character does pushups to apologize for misgendering a female.
What a clown world we live in.
Its being enabled with lots of financial backing, divide and... tactics.
The reality is it doesn't matter what the general public think, all of this is being funded by large investment companies who are turning round to developers with clauses that demand certain amounts of representation or certain types of of writing.
You as a consumer can't hurt them with your wallet really, these companies are funding these projects entirely.
It's a form of social engineering.
BlackRock is one such investment firm and is very open with what it demands from corporations it's investing in.
TBH I deliberately avoided every chat option to discuss gender, you can see this at 1:59 when the chat option opens, I also immediately skipped all scenes with it on display, am done with being preached too by these people. Also there are loads of vids out there discussing it all, I wanted to focus more on the tiny bits of the game that are decent and get the point across that this could have been a great game.
@B-26354
Spot on mate vanguard is another like Blackrock they are major shareholders in most big companies.
Sickening what's happening. Most of the masses are truly blind to the real sinister motives behind it all
I genuinely thought this was a joke comment. But no, just Googled it - this is actually a thing in the game.
Wow.
When this game was called Dreadwolf, its director was MArk Darrah, a Bioware veteran. After he left a trans person, Corinne Busche took his role. We can clearly see the results.
He returned for the development of THIS game, and he is actually very happy with the results. He is nuts too.
He had even trashed Origins to make this game look better.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Every bit of dialogue in this game sounds like it's straight up from a SCOOBY Doo episode. Rooks response wheen should simply be replaced with 3 options.
"Zoinks"
"Jinkies"
"I'm a trans individual who is started to feel safe in they / thems own skin"
Nothing has weight to it. No as actions happen on screen. You are told about stuff you didn't do later on and then the companions simply forget about it.
get the pronouns right ffs, today it's Xiberdy/Xerberdy.
i feel like i am my true self playing this game
Here we go.
The bell is going to have a bad time.
Insert: the dark knight joker.gif
@@cael_84 i only know of the jenkelr
and no i wont even bother fixing that typo now lmao
@@Angry_KarakuriI'm the jenkler baby 😂
@@cael_84 lmao
IGN and the other reviews websites have been paid by EA. This is a real review
ign reviewer gave the game a 9/10 because he is nonbinary.
@@arkgaharandan5881 and this reviewer gave it a 4/10 because he's a triggered bigot
it is actually a good fun game
combat, spells and exploration is better than God of War
i just ignore that its a dragon age game with DEI marketing
maybe because i play this after that god awful stalker 2 with non stop stuttering while this game combat is constant 100fps buttery smooth and looks 10x better and very fast shader compile time on every launch
@@loucipher7782 "it runs well and plays like god of war instead of a rpg so tis good"
Cant wait for the DLC where the Qunari have a story hour at the local library for the children of the village. And if you choose all the correct dialogue options the Qunari will trow a P Diddy party.
Good news, they dont plan to have any DLC or Expansion.
Bioware has repeated what theey said earlier.There won't be a dlc. They will have people of course patching bugs while the rest pivot to working on Mass Effect. It seems they don't have the people to make a dlc and also work on Mass Effect. No to repeat: No dlc for Veilguard.
Looking back at old DA games they all had DLCs.
There was a video about a young guy who grow up with Disney style “we are in a movie wink-wink” storytelling and was flabbergasted upon watching Lord of the rings where every single character took themselves seriously.
Yes, please let's keep that '4th wall' intact
I'm getting VERY scared for GTA6
Main character is going to be transperplexual who has an identity crisis the whole game and preaches to the players constantly about the plight of the alphabet brigade. Oh and probably is afraid of guns because guns are bad, despite it just being a tool...
rockstar hasnt made a good game a long time now.
@@arkgaharandan5881 yeah they've not made a good game since their last game, 6 years ago, which was the 6th best selling game of all time.
Expect nothing any more: Elder scrolls 6, GTA 6, whatever, expect nothing and not to buy. Wait and see if people say it's good , PEOPLE, not paid game reviewers.
@@arkgaharandan5881 rdr2? what are you smoking?
0:24 ARGH! I hate when you select a* conversation option and they say something completely different, a modern staple of a totally 💩 RPG.
This is why I stick to traditional-style CRPGs. And a few JRPGs, but those are really their own animal.
From what I'm told, this game has your character being too nice and has no balls basically. Everyone in the game is too afraid to offend other people that they are all nice no matter what. Not sure how true it is, but every dialogue wheel option that I've seen in this game that's supposed to be "mean" or "assertive" always comes back pussy whipped
@@Foxador hahaha
@@Foxador I've heard the same. Whenever a group of people are like that IRL, I assume they all loathe each other.
Mass Effect used to do this shit, I hate it
Hate the combat system.
Hate when they try to make a mix of an RPG and action system geared towards the ultra casual. Making it mediocre. If you want to go action, go full devil may cry action. Don’t give us some half way BS. Or go full rpg with turn based or something. The gameplay with the combat system looks so generic and casual, it doesn’t interest me.
Same! I feel like they're doing this with all new RPGs - FF16 being a big disappointment for me....sigh
Feels like the only Dragon Age ever to have some tactical sense and need for strategy was the Origins. From there to here was only a downhill on the general gameplay and combat
@@noobhue1997 Indeed! Exactly how i feel.
@@noobhue1997Thats all i would need in a game like this. Good tactical combat. It’s more fun when I have to use my brain vs this chaos
the combat is the exact same as God of War
remember the one that won GOTY and you people loved it? lol
There's nothing good about this game even the combat is trash. You literally don't have any party members they're invincible and do minimal damage.
Yeah they are literally extra spells, they could have made this so much better
from what I've seen combat is very flashy without the need to use all the abilities @WorthABuyreviews
@@clementine2001 players will be sticking to good games, yes thats true, and these studios will start heading south
you realize its the exact same combat as God of War right?
the one that won GOTY and you guys loved it so much?
his son behave exactly the same, invulnerable and just another spell extension of you
@@loucipher7782 yeah remember back in god of war 1 when you had 4 party members with a pause function and programmable "AI" and then they reduced it to 1 with generic boring hackandslash combat. oh.
The only good Dragon Age was Origins. The dark fantasy/horror, story was incredible. Everything after is just streamlined BS, blame EA that basically destroyed Bioware and this franchise!!
The media's really trying to push Dragon Age: Veil Guard as a success, but honestly, the numbers don’t back it up. For some perspective, DA
peaked around 70-80k players on Steam, while Skyrim, a game over a decade old, had over 200k at its peak. Even Starfield hit 300k, and both Starfield and DA had similar budgets, Starfield was around $200 million, and DA
supposedly cost between $150-250 million.
Fuck man I dont follow game development, thats such a fuckton of money to destroy decades of franchise
I lasted 53 minutes and then a refunded it through steam.. The game is extremely well optimized, The graphics look great maxed out but the art style is way too cartoonish and the gameplay is boring as hell..
Clean cartoonish graphics and linear levels with no open world, it SHOULD run well. (from gameplay I have seen, many assets seem a bit low quality too, textures a mixed bag, recycled stuff from previous games, the art style helps it look better, being stylized and not too realistic)
@@HiddenStr3ngthI've been seeing people say that it was originally going to be a mobile game and the map design makes more sense if thats the case lol.
I tell you, buddy, complete respect. This paragraph alone is the most coherent and balanced critique I've seen of the game at all yet from someone who ultimately didn't like it much who wasn't a reviewer.
Jesus that's refreshing. 😂
The fact you didn't go into a rant about "woke" makes this the best review on the internet. Thank you.
@why? Wokeness is the big reason why this game turned out the way it did and this can’t be disputed.
Am I disappointed? Sure, who isn't, this is a beloved franchise. Sadly, I can't say I'm surprised.
Mack, you've saved me so much money over the years.
Cheers mate.
If you haven't played Origins, get it on sale, it still holds up because it is a masterpiece.
This one even not worth pirating. It's already free, but I wouldn't even dare risking to damage my brain with sick propaganda.
Against my advice my grandson bought this game on launch. I watched him play for about an hour before he turns to me and says "grandpa this game is lame". I said, okay let's ask for a refund from steam and get our money back. When a 13 year-old calls a video game "lame", there's no hope for it.
Your grandson was raised very well I must say. My 9 year old nephew played it for 15 minutes, turned to me and said 'This is a big pile of c*nting sh*te!'
@@stateazure My wife is Latina. She doesn't tolerate bad language, bad grades, or any kind of disrespect. She is a great mom who raised our daughters right. My grandson is a good kid because of my daughter and my wife.
I still feel that dragon age origins was a bit of a lightning in a bottle moment that they've not quite recaptured in any other version. But at least it did have a bar across the bottom and you could put whatever spells in the slots. So weird to remove such a simple but effective design.
I have been waiting for this rant all day.
Finally.... a review that aligned with your political views.
@@phanor ...wat
@@phanormy politics = normalcy
@@phanor you are the one that brought up politics. I see where your head is at.
The rest of us just want a good game and don't want our favorite franchises ruined like this.
@@Axern89 The irony is that Mack tried to avoid turning his review into an 'anti-woke' screamfest because of the sort of people that stuff attracts. I mean, they're all here anyway, waiting for it - but still.
Well Blackrock made this game so tbh no surprise here what the priority was.
Seriously? Fuck. Makes sense then.
@@Budd631 Yeah, they have a large stake in EA.
At one point, all this Blackrock stuff would sound like conspiracy theories.
Seeing it played out over and over again, it simply cannot be denied.
@@mrhades652 Once you find out who runs Blackrock, and what agenda(s) they have.. everything that's been going on in the world will start to make sense
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I'm 23 seconds in and can already feel the anxiety of Mack's Bell.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
End.
sadly, the new 'religion' is the number one priority above all else - even profit. so, when you understand that, you understand why everything is turning to garbage.
ain't getting my cash on my principles.
You should look up BlackRock. EA would have made a crazy amount of money on is.
When I first came across an Ogre in Origins I was genuinely scared and worried if I could beat it. In Failguard I couldn't stop laughing when the thing popped out. It went from terrifying slaughter hobo to cosplayer dressed in his mums milk cartons. 😘
I tried to play this for myself and I could not stand it for more than 3 hours.
The biggest sinner for me was the dialogue. It's so bad. It's like half the people are behaving as if they are talking to babies. It just gets on my nerves.
Yeah it's pretty godawful
Unfortunately, after three hours you missed the window for a refund. Now you're stuck with a game you despise and EA and Bioware have your money and will count that as a success and approval even though it isn't.
@ianhenshaw2930 When I said I "tried" the game I can assure you there are other means other than steam. 🏴☠️🦜
@@ianhenshaw2930The game's anti-piracy was cracked like 40 minutes after it released (though almost no one is seeding it)
Long time lurker. You're one of the few reviewers I still watch. Props for calling it out like it is.
Veilguard is, indeed, an action-adventure with RPG elements, just as you said. BioWare made that choice, and they have every right to do so. Dragon Age now feels more like Mass Effect, which I personally love! This decision opens it up to fans of games like God of War, The Last of Us, and the Star Wars Jedi series. Hardcore RPG players are disappointed, which is understandable. But no one has the right to judge BioWare for their style and choices. Art is individual, and if you don’t like the game, just let it go. There’s no reason to troll online and keep bothering those of us who do love the game. Let us have our fun, and go play what you enjoy.
I’m lucky enough to love both complex RPGs like Baldur’s Gate 3 and action RPGs like Dark Souls, along with entertaining and polished mainstream games like God of War or Veilguard. I’m 30 hours in and loving every minute of it. Sure, the game isn’t particularly challenging and it does guide you along quite a bit. Plus, it’s geared toward younger players, which I think is great. And if I’m ever in the mood for blood, gore, and complexity, there are plenty of games that focus on that.
I get the criticism and disappointment, really. But please stop trolling and let those of us who enjoy it have our fun. I’m extremely happy with it and especially thrilled that BioWare didn’t make this game dependent on multiplayer, monetization, or season passes. Plus, Veilguard is highly polished and bug-free-a rarity these days. Thank you, BioWare, for this fantastic game! I’m already looking forward to Mass Effect 5 and hope you stay true to your style.
Mass Effect 2, the game most people (not me) agree is the best Mass Effect, really started Bioware down the path of the "walk along this empty corridor and you're completely safe, but as soon as you enter a room and you see conveniently placed cover dotted around - prepare for a fight"-trope. Completely immersion-breaking console damaged crap. In ME1 sometimes you had to fight out in in open or in tight corridors without cover - as it should be because sometimes life is hard. Andromeda actually managed to pull the gameplay back towards good, but is seriously flawed in many other ways instead (2D characters, my face is tired etc).
I'm sorry to say that Bioware peaked with ME1 and DA1 IMO. New exciting worlds to explore. Many well written characters and story. Lots of impactful options for gear and skills for both you and your companions. All this made those games feel like proper epic RPGs. Sadly, Bioware will never top those games again.
I could only ever describe the art style of this game as fake pre-rendered mobile game ad. Same with UI. All the left extremist pandering aside it has even bigger problems. This is one of the most sterile, uninteresting, generic fantasy worlds that has ever existed. And it's a setting for a story that wouldn't even pass as a fanfic to a real deal. It's very very sad. Reviewers that called this "bioware's return to form" can only be two things - actual paid shills, or complete morons. And one does not exclude the other.
Probably both. John Epler tweeted that he'd hoped the reviews would call it "a triumphant return to form" (his exact words).
I wonder what they got paid to do it.
they admitted they came from the sims.
@@zxyatiywariii8 Agreed, both.
And there goes another series of games ruined first was mass effect then was saints row and now this 😥😞
Don't forget Homeworld. Same people ruined that one too.
Command and Conquer
GTA is probably next :(
Oh you sweet summer child, there are so many more beloved franchises that have been ruined. Fable, Baldurs Gate, Fallout, Final Fantasy, just to name a few. I could probably list another dozen if I thought on it some more.
@@Sothpawman Sonic fan here lol. That franchise got ruined over 25 years ago.
Popcorn is ready for this one
I've been running low the entire year with the amount of AAA garbage
I've gone through more popcorn this year than ever before
Well, this comment on Bluesky from David Gaider (22/9/2024) hasn't aged very well.....
Thank you for the kudos, but I think you overestimate my influence. By all reports, the writing is stellar (which I’d expect no less from Patrick and their team). As for the rest, whether you think it’s good or not it would be no different if I was still at BioWare.
what the hell is he thinking. why do all these previously good peeps kiss ass so much and drink the 'aide
This is so depressing, why are they catering games to an extreme minority of identity abbreviation nitpickers ? Isn't it proven enough now that almost everyone is tired of this kind of shite?
Because pushing the message is more important.
"A TV licence in the UK costs £169.50 per year" Christ Mack, no wonder you don't have a TV anymore. I wouldn't either as an American with that, thanks for the review my guy.
youre legally required to have it but the TV goons thugs they hire to bully people cant legally enter your house because theyre not cops so really its optional.
There a lot of videos on YT of BBC tv license goons trying to coerce their way into homes.
They need to stop paying for those. The TV license commissars can't enter one's house without one's permission, like vampires they have to be invited in. There's no way I'd pay for that propaganda slop.
But I only use my TV as a screen for games or DVD movies. American TV is trash just like British TV.
in Germany iirc they just dont even ask, they just include it in ure taxes...
The worst thing is, the BBC has a crazy huge archive of some amazing TV shows, documentaries and news broadcasts spanning nearly 90 years. If they put them up online, and offered them to a global audience, they'd be making an absolute fortune.
@@GangsterFrankensteinComputer Would take too long to review and censor all of them, can't have the sheep getting any ideas from them.
Dragon Age 4 - user meta critic scores. 1.9 on PC, 2.3 xbox, 2.7 PS5.
Steam Score : 7.8/10
Me : OKAY bro.
hmm they will need to do something about that, can't have the players giving their opinion.
You are not very smart are you?@@davidrenton
One requires you to own the game
The others do not
Amazing huh..
fucking tourist.
@@Draven.G smart enough not to have brought Dragon age 4
mama, did'nt raise no fool.
I see you have it
It's almost like you have to buy a game on Steam before you can review it.
This game made Inquisition look like a gem
Even DA2 looks alright in comparison.
Inquisiton was always a gem. The best game in the franchise imo. This is still dogshit though
@@Matthewjs33origins and Da2 is good bro. You might have to go back and play them and you’ll see why we are so pissed. I get 2 was rushed and hated on but it is very good writing and the villains are so good it makes you care about the ending.
The literal equivalent of "Perhaps I treated you too harshly"
5:28 Wow. Such combat. So engaging.
How anyone thinks this is fun gameplay is beyond me. Fallout 3 has better combat. IGN gave this a 9/10 🤦🏻♂
The reality is it doesn't matter what the general public think, all of this is being funded by large investment companies who are turning round to developers with clauses that demand certain amounts of representation or certain types of of writing.
You as a consumer can't hurt them with your wallet really, these companies are funding these projects entirely.
It's a form of social engineering.
BlackRock is one such investment firm and is very open with what it demands from corporations it's investing in.
If that was true, we wouldn't get games like Space Marine 2 or black myth Wukong that reject wokeness.
@ninochaosdrache3189
1. This is entirely true with AAA game development and Black Rock has even released the clauses it expects CEOs to follow for projects they invest in.
2. Those are AA games funded largely via different capital streams.
3. It would pay you to actually research things before typing them out, I'm extremely knowledgeable on this subject.
Anyone ever hear people try to justify this and other products by saying “All fiction has politics and social commentary in it”?
Well there’s a difference between them being inspired from historical politics and contemporary politics. The best fictional universes ALWAYS use the former give me ONE example of a modern politics inspired universe (Or shoehorned into an established universe) that works AT ALL 🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️
Disco Eylsium. But politics there are about how to structure a society and it's finances mostly and it has a default 'all viewpoints are shit' stance on things.
That's what always cracks me up about these people, they act like there's been no total ideological shift in the last 25 years and you're a conspiracy theorist for even noticing 😂😂😂
Baldur’s Gate 3 is the wokest game ever made. Dragon Age Origins was woke. Dragon Age 2 was woke. Dragon Age Inquisition was woke. There’s never been a dragon age game that wasn’t super woke.
Yeah and what they usually mean when they say that are actually movies that highlight core human values that make you rethink politics. They cannot see the difference from that and political lecturing /propaganda.
It's a real sad state our western society is in.
@@fozzle6503
25 years ago it was 1999. 25 years before that it was 1974. There was a total ideological shift between 1974 and 1999. In 1974 the boomers were objectively racist in the majority. Over those 25 years, Gen X stopped hanging out with their racist friends and the baby boomers stopped being vocally racist for the most part. White people stopped saying the N-word in public by 1999, when it was very common in 1974. By 1999, gay people had come out of the closet, and just a few years later Queer Eye for a Straight Guy would cause Gen X and the boomers to start accepting gay people in the mainstream.
Culture changes, man. Gen X and the baby boomers are the 2 most culturally similar generations in American history, and there was still a massive ideological shift for those generations.
What you’re describing is called “growing up,” and as you get older you’ll start to figure that out. Culture always changes. Think about it this way: when dragon age origins was gay as fuck, nobody cared. When dragon age 2 was gay as fuck, nobody cared. When dragon age inquisition was the most trans inclusive/gay inclusive AAA game ever made, nobody cared. Now culture has changed over the last 10 years, and now people are throwing anti-gay tantrums and whining about wanting games to be their safe space.
Bioware looked at Baldur's Gate 3 and said they wanted NONE of that success
They really could've gone back to Dragon Age Origins style of Dark Fantasy and Tactical Combat
I would be so all over that.
What, there's no bear fkn in this one?
Mortismal Gaming is one of the biggest shills now after his positive review of this garbage!
Bro took Sweet Baby Inc. money and promoted Unknown 9 on his channel and then pretended that he's apolitical. What a rodent.
Yeah, his channel started to stink of corporate money a while since.
His reviews are incredibly generous to big budget games and a lot of smaller games he talks about in a way that makes you think he can't be bothered to play them.
I’ve heard people say he couldn’t possibly 100% all the games he says he does in the time he says he does. Idk I don’t care to look into it, I have enjoyed some of his videos especially his Divinity 2 series but man truly disappointing to see him pandering for a few bucks. Even people praising him for doing a build video after…
he liked starfield as well, honestly i have stopped watching his videos because there is no way this guy plays games 100% in such a short time, he is lying to you.
@@peepopoo4387 really?
This honestly points out the one part of woke ideology that pisses me off the most: they aren’t the only ones who made the game. There were actual talented developers who slaved away on a combat system, on level design, on stability and sound and this and that. Every little thing needs a crafting hand.
Then, after all their sweat and tears and strain, the writing team steps in, paints it hot pink and glues a dildo on. If you speak out against this, you’ll be fired.
That’s probably exactly how it goes.
A small set of talentless activists bullied themselves into these jobs and positions and basically damage everyone and everything.
I do think however this wont go on much longer , most of the public are annoyed by them and companies are losing money
Sorry to say it, but those devs need to wise up and find a proper game studio to work for ....
The entire game pushing virtue signaling, to the point where you have to apologize for using the ‘wrong’ pronouns through an in-game cutscene that plays out for 2 min. Forcing political agendas and pressuring players to adapt to certain moral views takes away from the enjoyment and genuine immersion that gaming should offer. I play games to escape and experience new worlds, not to have my worldview questioned or policed. If this kind of one sided moral imposition isn’t a form of bigotry, then what is? Games should be about the story, the challenge, and the experience, not pushing personal ideologies on players.
This was a MILD RANT review compared to the Test Drive Solar Crown MEGA RANT review.
It's the stages of grief. He's moving from anger to depression
We've all been there. A game that could have been great but it was ruined by the woke mind virus. You dont feel mad you just feel like you've lost something.
I remember the first time I went through that . . . when TLOU2 made Joel stupidly blurt out his and Ellie's real names to strangers, and was then golf-clubbed to death by Abbeast, a creature who somehow managed -- in a post-apocalyptic world -- to have a supply of testosterone, and enough extra food to dirty-bulk.
Now, I expect the worst, until an occasional great game like Black Myth Wukong comes along.
Because he's more passionate about the Test Drive series. I don't think he went into this being a Dragon age fan.
Two of the wokest investment firms own a large portion of EA, so EA has sold their souls to them to push wokeness.
Blackrock and Vanguard are two of the largest institutional investors in Electronic Arts (EA).Their stakes in EA are significant and represent a substantial portion of the company's ownership.
Here's a breakdown of their current holdings: Blackrock: As of June 2024, Blackrock owns approximately 10.2% of EA's outstanding shares. This makes them one of the largest shareholders of the company. Vanguard also holds a significant stake in EA, owning approximately 8.4% of the company's shares as of June 2024.
Even with a 10% stake, an investor has considerable voting rights at shareholder meetings. While a 10% stake may not be a controlling interest, it can still provide significant influence
Blackrock/Vanguard (same thing) own the major shares in practically every major company in any industry you can think of and have done for some time.
Look on TH-cam for a video called MONOPOLY: FOLLOW THE MONEY. It explains plainly and shows how anyone can see for themselves. The fashionable politics of the times have no bearing on this and vice versa.
Why Blackrock and vanguard are so adamantly against straight people is odd. Pretty sure they don't want anyone to have babies lol only reason I can think of as to why they invest so much in medical abortions/contraceptives, LGBT crap and buying all the family sized homes and leaving them empty or too expensive to rent
Companies need to stop making these deals with the devil. BlackRock and Vanguard may have money to burn, but studios need to make a profit on occasion.
The weird thing is these Ruthless companies and investment groups are pushing DEI, when we know they could care less about it and are soulless
You might as well put Blackrock and Vanguard on the same side of voting, so it's more like 18.6% company share.
If someone is considering getting into Dragon Age, just get Origins.
It started it all, is half the price of Veilguard (on sale it goes for about 10%) and mainly: it's a truly fantastic game.
Yes! I love that game.
Is it easy to get into? It looks pretty clunky from a modern point of view.
@@ninochaosdrache3189 I played it again last year and I wouldn't say it aged poorly. Few technical issues and other hurdles can be solved by some fan-patch or modes. Anyway, it was and remains a worthwhile experience.
5:07 Common. The reason why it's not "normal for every game of this type" because gamepads do not have "any key you want". That's the sole reason.
Writing seems to be the number one issue with any entertainment media in the past five years. So many talented people who put their heart and soul into a project, only to be completely wasted and shadowed by incompetent, woke, childish, braindead writers. Supervisors and leadership is a close second.
X ray vision, xray vision XXX!
I said that's not Fun!!!!!!!
more like RAINBOW VISION RAINBOW VISION, STRONK AND PROUD.
X X X
Rolling around on the floor like a complete prick!
Why does this dude hates every game that has this feature?I swear he shits on some of the best games out there just because of this feature alone
My god, why the Ogre looks that way we will never know. Remember how good and intimidating they looked in Origins... that first boss fight with one at Ostagar? So great. This? I don't even know what they were thinking here 😐
Looked comic relief
They are the soft modern versions of ogres
Also you briefly see Morrigan at the start of the video. If her name wasnt on screen I wouldnt have recognized her. The darkspawn look has been changed like the Ogre as well.
@Nomisdoowtsae Yeah they butchered the wonderful Morrigan too X.X Also completely ignoring any of the choices and decisions related to her from previous games. Agree, the darkspawn look goofy as all hell here.. they were so well done in Origins, Orzimmar and the deep roads section was a highlight.
77.400 players on Steam can't be a good indicator of great sales for this garbage.
It's the second best selling game on steam right now and overtook BO6 for a while
That's an oddly specific number of players. Did someone get .4 of a game somewhere? Must be a demo :D
@snarkywombat155 is what's on steamdb🤷♂️
@@snarkywombat155 77 thousand not 77
Thats only concurrent on steam on a single day…
Bioware a studio that once made you cry for the death of an alien becuase the time you spent with them made them feel like family is now the studio that makes humans, dwarfs and elves feel like robots with no social skills or character beyond trying to be the most individualistic person in the room.
Hot tip for you Bioware, If you are intresting people will want to ask things about you, Nobody want's you to talk about yourself non fucking stop for hours on end, or know your sexuality or pronouns. If anyone gave a shit they would ask. Characters are so one dimensional they might aswell be straight lines.
Did anyone at Bioware actually play the previous games in the series? or any of the games from before Andromeda, We had Inclusivity and for almost everyone it felt like it really fit into those games becuase it wasn't applied with a fucking sledgehammer then smeared into the cracks with a oversized tube of glow in the dark lipstick.
And what the fucks up with none of the characters having any meaningful conflict or internal contradictions, You could ask me right here and now what the main themes of conflict almost any companion character had in thier respective games, They even have quotes that sum these up pretty perfectly.
Jack : “I figure, every time someone dies and it’s not me, my chances of survival go up.” - Loneliness and trust issues
Garrus : "It's So Much Easier To See The World In Black And White. Gray? I Don't Know What To Do With Gray." - Conflicting moralities
Allister : What? Lead? Me? No, no, no. No leading. Bad things happen when I lead. We get lost, people die, and the next thing you know I’m stranded somewhere without any pants. - Doesn't trust himself, confidence issues disguised as humor.
These are just quotes and they speak volumes more than the bollucks we get in Veilguard.
Hell even the antagonists of previous bioware games
Malak : Still... still spouting the wisdom of the Jedi, I see. Maybe there is more truth in their code than I ever believed. I... I cannot help but wonder, Revan. What would have happened had our positions been reversed? What if fate had decreed I would be captured by the Jedi? Could I have returned to the light, as you did? If you had not led me down the dark path in the first place, what destiny would I have found? - Always held himself as second best, Too far gone to save but not far enough to not see that thing's might have been differnt.
I feel like the whole writing team could have done with playing some of these games before having started drawing up the story and characters for Veilguard.
I would expect a better story from a cookie cutter MMO designed for teenagers than what we have here. There is no substance, Moral ambiguity or even atmosphere to think about beyond what's essentially a drivel being spouted non stop in the most self centered way possible.
What happened to the rebellious streak we used to love Bioware for? Where have all the good development staff gone? Why did they leave?
Is this the Future of Bioware you are aiming for? A future where is doesn't fucking exist?!
im about 25 hours in so far and cannot see what you are talking about.. I do not understand how this whole game is woke?? It hasnt forced sexual orientation into any of the dialogue, and has given me the option to romantically pursue whatever relationship I want. I do no see political correctness anywhere in the characters or story. The characters all have their own personalities, and I have enjoyed them all.
As far as the combat, I really like that you can specialise each character with differing skills to complement something you need as a utlity or something to take effect during battle.
Graphics are gorgeous! I mean, I really think this game is a visual feast! Loads of detail and atmosphere and variety. I love exploring nooks to find loot chests. There are some light puzzle elements as well. The whole thing feels cohesive and some of ther lighting is incredible.
So far, the only time I noticed LGBTQ+ was in the character creator. It gives you a choice. Didnt bother me. I made my characters and jumped in. The game didnt throw any of it in my face from that point onwards. Just on a side note; I have played games that really pissed me off with the polical correctness. 2 examples; Racthet and Clank Rift apart, where Clank has to remain with one arm because we have to accept that people and apparently robots can be disabled. The second was the Devil In Me, I was penalised for not pursuing a gay relationship at the begining and instead 'friend zoning'.
When comparing this to other dragon age games, it isnt nearly as dark or gruesome as origins. Not as moody as inquisition. But I have enjoyed the vibrancy of this outing. I like the overall design of the quests, being that I have found no fetch quests. Some decisions have had serious weight and have been paying for those decisions.
So this is my bottom line for this game, based on the time I have had with it. It is a well made, AAA game, sold for a fair price (I purchased it for $79 AUD for PS5), it looks and plays great, it doesnt crash or require any kind of patches, great characters, decent story, lots to see and do, and a proper adventure to save the world from the blight and the gods. I do not know if everyone is taking the piss with these kind of reviews? Or just taking gaming for granted? I dunno. This is definitely the front runner for GOTY for me this year and I do not give a damn about who agrees..
Edit: I have now completed the game after 75 hours. Yes, there was political correctness with identity politics that was short horned into the game. I do have a somewhat different feeling for the experience overall.
Positives: I think the story was good with Solas. It did tie the game's story together. I think the art style was great and I really enjoyed building and specializing my character. I can see replays. Combat was fluid, decent implementation of dodge and parry systems, nice effects on abilities and great overall animation. I thought all the characters were very likable, even though Bioware tried it's hardest to make me hate Taarsh.
Negatives: Never really felt like high stakes until the very end. Decisions I made didn't have any real consequences. Dialogue options didn't offer enough delivery variety and choices felt fake when outcomes were the same irrespective of choice.
Overall final thoughts: This game is not really Dragon Age. It is an action, adventure spinoff. Reminded me more of Final fantasy 16 style adventure game. While there is political correctness sprinkled through it, it thankfully didn't ruin the whole game for me. I think Bioware made a great game here, but I don't think this is the game people wanted, especially after BG3 has seen a huge following and this series is very D&D based at its core and this game strays completely from it. It was a fun time though and I can see myself giving this another run in the future. If I was to give it a score, as a Dragon Age game, it is 4/10, as a spin off action/adventure, 8/10. It is no longer my GOTY game. That may have to go to Astro Bot just because of the joy factor I had with it.
They don't even bother trying to be subtle in their subversion anymore.
3:25 Even without the incessant political sermons, you'd still have writing so bad that even the characters aren't immersed in the world of the game. Modern entertainment is full of this stupid, unfunny, insincere garbage. I'm a millennial and my generation have already ruined countless games and movies with their horrible writing.
"incessant political sermons". Have you played it? Because yours is an invention, pure and simple. Does the truth not matter, at all?
@@CurtOntheRadio ... did you not watch the video? Also theres a famous video going around that EA is banning every second they find it that includes pushups, take a hard look for it if u can
@@unstableordinance Yeah that insufferable way Isabella (of all people!) turned into a pathetic pile of self-abasement, just because she called a she a she.
@@unstableordinance Even if true, you're on about one clip - one short instance.
The claim was "incessant political sermons".
And your best shot is a single short sequence that nobody could call "a sermon". So, neither is it incessant nor is it sermonising.
@@CurtOntheRadio countless clips online proving the point.
A dark fantasy game and characters are apologising for misgendering people. 🤦 Roll on Mass Effect 4 🥴
Thats the messege of the game, when you missgender someone you say sorry and kneel and do 10 push ups because you facked up. Before this modern games, games used to be about friendships, brotherhood, about self sacrifice, about doing the right thing but now its about your pronoun is more important than saving the world.
The end of Dragon Age, what a shame. Going from DA: Origins, a masterpiece... to this..
Jim Sterling would love this game. Looks like it was designed just for him.
No Mac, it's complete trash. Stop saying "what if, could have been, you can see the potential" or other phrases, all games made by these activists pretending to be developers are always going to be the same.
Stop your adoration for production quality, it's keeping gaming in the pockets of gaming corporations.
Also, i am not going to give them even an inch, the game is complete trash, propaganda and no person under 20 years should play it because it's extremly damaging for their mental health. Especially people in depression
Agreed. We have to stop this molly-coddling talk giving them a little leeway and need to put our hands up and say, "NO!"
I agree it is "Garbage". Thats why we need the "Garbage" Man. Thumb up if you get the reference.
MAKE RPGS GREAT AGAIN 😂
This makes me feel less stupid for loving Mass Effect Andromeda
The writing wasn't great by any means. It's no legacy of kain. But it was fine. A lot of rpgs have cringe dialogue and this was about average. At least it was comprehensible. It didn't take me out of the gameplay. It could've done more to set the tone but it didn't ruin it. It seems like you just have some kind of personal hangup about it that has nothing to do with the quality of the writing
I have to disagree about the art style. I think it looks like trash. Not that “Pixar” is necessarily shit, but it really just doesn’t fit the content, the more adult themes… it doesn’t fit, and it feels weird and creepy… why do you want the characters you are getting to have smecks with each other to look like Pixar characters?? It’s really creepy to want that…
1:58 doesn't Mack know it's a hate crime not to watch Tell A Vision?
Shhh, don't give them ideas, they already want to scan all eyes against the "ai" problem they created for this long ago planned "solution".
I owe you several beers.
You have saved me wasting £50.
Is an awful, not inmersive and boring game. Save your money, don´t buy it. Asmongold give this game a 6/10, but honestly is a 4/10 at best. Doesn´t worth it, even on sale.
6/10 from someone who plays WoW, so in reality it's a 2/10 lol.
I'm soooo bored with encounters like @7:29 , where you enter a room with some baddies that just wait around for no reason and only aggro once you get close enough, even if they should have spotted you so much earlier... give me Shadow of War sort of enemies...
This was a 100% buy for me as a big Dragon Age fan, until I saw "transgender identity unlocked" a few days ago. Then it was a post on everything and hurt their sales as much as possible. Gutted.
Baldurs Gate 1 & 2, KOTOR, Neverwinter Nights, Mass Effect, DA: Origins...how mighty have fallen.
Well, they sold out when they got bought by EA. Anyone could have seen this coming, given EA's record on acquisitions.
My Conspiracy theory: there are some people who hate games and gamers and they want to see them less, so in order to destroy the industry, they infiltrated every successful gaming company and they forced this kinda stuff to annoy gamers, gamers buy less games, gaming companies will bankrupt, less games, less gamers.
Mission accomplished!
Yes, it's about destroying a hobby that a certain demographic(white guys) enjoy.
They did the same thing with movies. Comic books. Tabletop games. All forms of entertainment have been infected.
Not as effective with games, when small indie companies push out amazing games, also other countries aren;t neccessarily affected as much with the mind virus, and Countries like Japan push out generally better games then the West does.
Don't forget: creating excuses to push streaming instead = monthly fee = endless profits.
Now now, don't be antisemitic
I knew this game would be horrific the second I saw LGBT+ as the very first tag
And 'politics' as one of the other tags.....(Shudder)
The people they pander to couldnt care less about buying their game, those that do are a vanishingly small proportion of the revenue they could make.
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Past DA games had always had that "bullshit" as you call it, they just used to be more subtle about it. Wish it was still that way since I hate having my hand held in an rpg, but it's not a dealbreaker. As a fan it doesn't get in the way of love for the characters. I can play this game and then go back to Origins. Role-playing options are a good thing to have in a role-playing game. I don't feel like making a gender-questioning Rook at the moment, but I'm glad to have it as an option. When things aren't an option in an rpg, people get pissed! It's why I'm pissed off rn! All the hairs to choose from aren't to my taste!
I agree. Games should be detach from IRL problems and BS. Because it will ruin the game completely. For example. you ordered a juicy steak and very delicious but there's shit within the vicinity of where you are going to eat the steak. just like this game. It probably a good game but they put shit in there and ruined everything
I don't think that a game which is classed as AAA and has been in development for ten years is considered successful if it only attracts 70k players on it's release date. Plus I really don't think word of mouth is going to help this one regardless of the main stream shills trying to mislead players. My personal opinion is that Dragon Age: The Lecturing doesn't have legs and that the player count will start to drop off next week as people become bored of it, if not sooner.
ye, word-of-mouth will always be king. I can't see anyone talking about this game after a couple of days.
Lost Greatness of Bioware, Total Queef of a game.
I have put a few hours in to Dragon Age Veilguard now and it immediately hit me how this is a decent arpg but absolutely nothing like a Dragon Age game. The graphics are quite decent, ambient sound is fine and the rpg mechanics are typical of an arpg, but not a rpg typical of the depth of Dragon Age. But the writing is abysmal. It feels like a high school student wrote the interactions between characters. The banter between characters is so out of place in a fantasy game. These characters are battle-worn, most likely jaded, yet feels more like how teenagers would excitedly talk, and is completely immersion breaking. Especially as these are not new characters so we know how they have previously behaved. This is obviously for what Bioware describe as the "modern audience". All in all, as a standalone arpg, it is fine, as a Dragon Age game, utterly atrocious. It is like if Disney or Pixar did Dragon Age 🤷
Imagine being an artist or area designer working on these modern games, doing a great job in creating a beautiful world, only to see the pathetic writing and dialogue, with every character talking like a 2024 woke college student, instead of a person living in a medieval fantasy world. You'd feel like all your work and effort was completely wasted.
-I didnt hear the bell, so I was expecting Mack to tell us how great this game is...... Is the bell broken ? :3- Nevermind, I heard it at the end... I thought it'd hear it more.
I guess 4 push ups out of 10 is best it deserves.
Funny fact, his video has about 3/4 (50248 at the time of writing) of the top amount of players at peak time *chuckles*, and the views are still climbing... the top concurrent players, is not...
Go woke, go broke.
Drag Queen Age: The Gay Ol’ Guard
Good on you for calling this out. I refunded my Steam version without even playing it.
I am a gamer of near fifty years in the scene and I am pissed off of having real world ideology and politics pushed into what was once an amazing escape from the real world. Gaming used to be creativity, amazing worlds and characters, fun and interesting design and stories. Now it's mundane shite that also includes political nonsense to spread someone's ideology and worst still not even give you a choice.
Other games use Diversity. BG3 is an example but it was well written and not rammed down my throat. It gave the players choices ...it allowed you to avoid or interact with it.
Garbage like Veilguard is an invasion of personal privacy, it's brainwashing and is disgusting to force this into anyone, regardless of whether they like it or not.
If gaming continues this way then rest assured AAA games will vanish. Political themes and agendas should never cross into video games and also who did the writing for this game? It's an embarrassment.
How can you have Hans Zimmer on the soundtrack and then make such a poorly written game?...
BG3 was well written when it comes to DEI? Mate, most people in that game are gay/bi. The world in BG3 has that typical American metropolitan diversity. You can't not interact with these things. I like the game, but let's not pretend it's not full of "modern audience" nonsense that makes observant players cringe at best.
Looks like the typical game with decent core gameplay but cursed by awful writing(regardless of the "political content"). I actually like the simpler, cartoonish artstyle, it would have looked even GREATER with some splatter, gorey elements. This style it's easy to read. Most enemies looks way too basic, instead.
A missed chance it seems. It's not my genre anyway, the last proper(non action)RPG i've played was Arcanum back in 2003.
I was more excited for this review than the actual game