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So long as it’s not another Veilguard.

Are u gae😂😂

Look to bg3 if you want a good lgb friendly game. Bio ware was full of hacks, this is for yhe best.

This is where all the good devs pre veilguard went right? Im excited!

that is abso effin lutely Andromeda, or how it should've been.

if you made a game worth playing instead of making propaganda you can walk through, maybe the game would have done better. all for lgbtq in games as longas it adds to the story, same with straight couple bs. The game needs to be more fun than a message.

I was like, wow I never knew Matthew McConaughey was Scottish! That southern American accent he's always doing is amazing!

It looks interesting but Im not understanding the concept. It feels very much like Andromeda, maybe I'll check out the short stories.

If you had masterpiece like Baldur's Gate 3 you cannot afford your 10 years in development RPG game to be mediocre in the storytelling degree. Combat is just downgraded God of War with bland "RPG-esque" character building.

Ooo! I’m SO excited for this game. Your decisions have lasting multi-generational impact?! Yes please!!!

I am so excited for this game! 🤩

It looks fantastic ❤

Anyone is aware of a place to listen to the grey warden song that UniFadewalker plays in the background?

I'm not a Dragon Age fan, but I'm a fan of almost every other Bioware game. During my formative teen years, these games introduced me to gay characters for the first time, and helped me (a guy who grew up in a conservative household with a transgender sister) to learn compassion and to stand with the LGBTQ+ community. However, I've explored the content of Veilgard and watched playthroughs, and it seems like very low effort self-insert writing. One thing that's always troubled me about modern fantasy games is that they seem to stray further and further from a historically inspired world. In The Witcher games, I enjoyed that they displayed the dark reality of how a more primitive feudal society is racist, homophobic, and superstitious, where the religious authorities are literally burning people at the stake for being born a certain way. The world of the Witcher looked and felt more inspired by real world issues and real world problems a protagonist with strong values might encounter. The Witcher games distinctly lack diversity as they emulate a western medieval European world that lack contact with a variety of cultures. Back then before Europe had access to Africa, they used to take slaves from Slavic peoples; and Redania is actually based on medieval Poland. Cultures in the middle ages were more homogeneous than in today's world where people from all over can travel to almost any country, but they still had castes and smaller groups within their own cultures, and the Witcher games do not neglect to show how you're treated for being different in that way. My only major criticism of the social issues in the Witcher games is that they portray the love interests and women as stereotypical sex objects. It almost feels like a cheap anime the way the protagonist and his sexual partners are always vastly more physically attractive by modern beauty standards. There's nothing wrong with having women in games that have the hourglass shape men biologically find attractive, and are physically fit, but they makeup, hair, and outfits are highly serialized and less authentic. Now, Dragon Age isn't my kind of fantasy genre, as it's not trying to really emulate things in historical context, but it's more of a DnD-style fantasy world where societies can be more progressive; since Bioware isn't associated with DnD anymore. That said, the first gay character I encountered when I tried Dragon Age said "I prefer the company of other men", he didn't say "I'm gay". The mannerisms, acting, and writing conveyed a fantasy setting better. The writing in Veilgard too on the nose, and doesn't attempt to build a world that feels like a distant time and place from ours. A lot of character accents and conversations if heard out of context sound like they could be taking place on a university campus in the current year. The way cultural and social issues are presented feels more like pandering. I've seen professional writers examine the conversations and suggest better ways to write the dialogue, and I know that Bioware could've done better. The cultures in the game do not feel authentic or well developed compared to previous titles. It's very hard to find any praise in any article or from any player that isn't based purely on the game having diverse representation. In the end, that's not enough to carry a franchise and for many from the LGBTQ+ community I've heard from, it peeked their curiosity with it's attempt to introduce trans and non-binary characters, but they didn't keep playing it. They all got bored with it pretty fast. When I ask why, they either say they'll get back to it, but never do, or just didn't enjoy it that much.

Because I grew up watching The Addams family and he’s as close to Gomez as I’m getting

It is strange that my comment was deleted yet all these biggot commenty are apparently okay here.

The entire old team is gone and their sense of design sadly. Nothing can really come close to Origins again i dont think.

All for inclusion and diversity but most titles feel like its forced to pander to a community and the writing to go along with that is terrible at worst and poorly fits into the worlds they are teying to portray at best. I dont think the game is terrible but the change in art direction and the writing is harder to get away with in existing ip's.

The game was a mess from the start singleplayer then multyplayer then again singleplayer . Companions didn't talk outside cut scene or personal quests (that's a first in DA) , dialogues were obviously written fast ( it didin't help it that the eriter himself wrote on X that Lucanis was written as generic bisexual person ). I think they even confuse themself , noone needs to die to kill the arcidemons anymore , the only mage dwarf in history the same that can change how you talk or use dwarfs in future content ; is set to suicide because she ended her quest . Bellara is part of a group that just overrided the dalish clans , and instead of preserving old ruins they are just magical . I mean , alm the game was written to end the saga , Taash is an annoying character not because of her gender but because she is a bully, she is written to not be smart and with a teen girl rebel rebel story . The enemies are less cool that Coripheus , and that guy is famous only for 1 line . The writing team that got fired to me is just normal , i would've fored even who made the skeleton of the characters because the fact that you cannot change bodies is so 2000 . Only the face was customizable . Dragons dogma has still the best character creation in the story of game (and that's why it sold so much"

I actually thought that VG should have leaned more heavily into the transDEI storyline. It really would have boosted sales.

Unfortunately the strikes are only going to increase the development of AI, just like the Holywood strikes did. It going to backfire. The AAA industry was already in decline but now they ask for more things, the insanity of these employees is well insane. If they wanted more money and protections, they should have done it right after the 2020/2021 events because they would have more leverage (which some should get but some deserved to see the door)

Not a fan of Veilguard but the people celebrating writers getting sacked have rocks in their head if they think the next mass effect will be better with less writing. The last time they talked about "agility" when laying off staff was in 2023 when they sacked Mary Kirby in a union busting drive. Veilguard was released afterwards.

They ruined DA. I have no problem with gay/trans what ever. Just do it rite. The writting in Veilgaurd is embarssing. Just make a good game. Its all we want.

Youve gotten, probably unwanted attention. I honestly dont know how much life experience you have so I cant say much to that. But im old, folks your age would probably disrespect me, they usually do and by just living their lives staring at their phone. I loved the old games, loved bio ware. But its not good, its pretty, but the brand was to bring out the old fans. It wasnt good, the writing, the hand holding, the pairing down of monsters to look age 8 appropriate. If it was good, imagine any atrocious thing you like, not a ytuber, not a article, not a review would stop word of mouth. We'd play it. Look, when i was a teen i was into anything that had a punk in it and in 79 that was 0, but i liked it even if it was bad. So maybe you dont read these i dont know. Id just like to say you just have to be happy with you, media isnt meant to represent you, you have to be happy with yourself. Whatever group, and i have no malice against anyone, that you feel apart of, if its a minority, companies will go for the money. Yes people should be more aware but there shouldnt be no agendas in something made for entertainment. You have a platform, instead of getting upset over a company wanting money and work on how you feel, show how you can show what youd like to represent. Dont trade silly comments. Look away from that desk once and a while, theres a world you can explore. I was lucky enough to turn a hard life into an amazing adventure over most of the world. An learned how all people live. If you did that youd be one up on 90% of the world. The forced laughter makes me sad. I wish you well, I hope you go out and feel youve made a difference, not about whether or not a video game is bad or good, i assume youre an adult, show them, dont fight about a video game.

Veilguard disappointed me because I wanted solas to be the main villain not a side character but we got kinda trash villains compared to solas and his impact on dragon age franchise. Inclusion isn't a problem it was the lack of good writing or nuance in the game. Like tenviter wasnt very well represented we got lower town and docktown. But we never got to see the slavery, the circles of magi in tenviter, war with qunari impact. Plus the choices imported really didn't effect shit

One of the reasons Veilguard did not sell as well as Bioware wanted, was because EA media promotion team doing a terrible job, Bioware told them not to use the promotion clips that came out. Also some big name gamers weren't invited to do the trial game play and their noses were out of joint so they trashed it before it came out, which brought in all the trolls! Which in turn caused people not to buy it. 😢 If I hear that it wasn't a dragon age game, I'm going to scream! Too many people have rose coloured glasses on when it comes to DAO. I found it's game mechanic slow and clunky. Admittedly I played DAE (2) first and preferred it's game mechanics. I found it's storyline better than DAO and found DAO, Awakening boring. Also the whole, I waited 10 years for this! Well no, Veilguard was done in maybe 3 years. If EA had just kept the corporate nose out of Bioware, then we would have gotten Mike Laidlaw's heist game years earlier! But shit happens, and I personally liked Veilguard, just wished the pacing was a bit better.

If there are Asari in the next Mass Effect game there will still be gay romance. They can't change that from the trilogy. I enjoyed DA: Veilguard, I'm still playing it and am on my 3rd play through.

If you like the Mass Effect trilogy, those names mentioned are veterans of Mass Effect. Michael Gamble: Manager and Producer on Mass Effect 2, Mass Effect 3, and Andromeda. Preston Watamaniuk: Lead Designer on the original trilogy. Parrish Ley: Cinematic Animator for the original trilogy. Derek Watts: Art Director for the original trilogy. Also, the main writers for Mass Effect were Drew Karpyshyn and Mac Walters. Patrick Weekes only wrote Garrus for Mass Effect 2, he created Mordin, Tali and Jack. In Dragon Age, they only wrote Solas for Inquisition but they were never lead writer until Tresspasser DLC and Veilguard. David Gaider was the Lead Writer for Dragon Age series. As far as the lore of Mass Effect, that credit belongs to Casey Hudson, Drew Karpyshyn and Mac Walters.

video aged like milk

'You're going down a path I can't follow'🙁

Just looked up all the names on the people still at bioware. They are all straight white males. Their linked in pages have no pronouns. One of them is quoted as saying that the new Mass effect will have realistic artwork as opposed to the veilguards interpretive artwork.

Yeah, just deleted my Sims and EA apps. I can't forgive EA for this.

All the good writers left years ago. Cleaning out the writers room gives me hope for the new NE

Youll be doing push ups for Jesus in the next game lol

I was so sad to see trick weeks leave 💔 they wrote two of my favourite characters from BioWare. Garrus & Solas 💔💔

I played dragon age properly for the first time in 2023 after seeing your videos on tiktok and I loved it so much and really enjoyed watching vods of your old dragon age streams and I got so excited for veilguard watching you talk about it. Your love for dragon age and mass effect is so contagious and beautiful and it made me excited too! And then I ventured to the wider fandom and I was so shocked by the toxic levels of hate and how there are arguments over everything people could think of. People have been making fun of everything about veilguard before giving it a genuine chance (pre-release) and I had to step away and really filter my feed because everything I see is so negative all the time and then I come back here and watch your videos and see how much you love the world and even the things you aren't 100% on you just move past with maybe a "not really my fav but lets keep moving" and its so refreshing and lovely. Basically, I just want to say thank you for 1. showing me the brilliance of dragon age and mass effect (I had literally given up on it after rage quitting years ago but I saw your passion and love for it and it convinced me to give it another go) and 2. making such a welcoming and calm corner of the fandom where people can enjoy what they enjoy and disklike what they dislike with no judgement or hate <3

Patrick Weekes also wrote that abomination Taash, and the opinion of abomination isn't directed at the nonbinary identity, it is directed at the simple fact that the character is just horrible on every conceivable level, from interactions with other party members, to...well everything else, the dialogue is horrid enough they really didn't have to make it nightmarish to look at too. But that's besides the point, the staff that worked on Veilguard were canned because they released a subpar product that underperformed, in short they lost daddy EA money and it this isn't the first bomb from Bioware in recent memory, Mass Effect Andromeda and Anthem are two others that were failures, add Veilguard to the mix and that's three strikes, I am honestly amazed they are being given the opportunity to shoot Mass Effect again...but who knows, maybe with some fresh blood they can churn out something good. That said this isn't a knock on anyone who happened to enjoy Veilguard, if you did more power to you, I myself tried to play the game and found it lacking in every meaningful way from the story, to the character's, to the repetitive mobile game worthy combat and gods awful dialogue. Bioware was once one of my favorite developers, but they haven't put out anything I would call a win in quite a long time now.

I understand the want to be represented, but the representation in Veilguard is abhorrent. Tash comes across as a rude, self entitled and spoiled child. Every character are artificially putting up with and submitting to their rude and condescending behavior, and should one tell them off then to the rescue comes Rook. The character of Tash is simply off putting, and makes a very bad impression, is this really how anyone would want people to view them? On top of it you have Isabella rant in a condescending way about people that feel bad about misgendering someone, saying that they make it all about them, for then to make a huge commotion with her as the center of attention. A small slip of the tunge that anyone could make, especially if you are part of the majority for whom gendering is no big deal. Yet you have to sit there being mocked and told that you should punish yourself physically, because an unlikeable character had their feelings hurt and a genuine apology is not enough.

They got rid of Great Swords as a useable weapon. Unforgivable.

The bizarre level of unsolicited vitriol this game, and fans of this game, get from GamersTM just speaks volumes about how toxic fandom and social media outrage mongers are nowadays.

45:07 ive actually gotten into a few fist fights with girls who think they were men, its funny how qucikly they remember they are women. they never fight like men, cant take a punch like us either.

People said that this channel is extremely left-wing so i went to listen because i wanted to broaden my perspective and understand the arguments of the "other side" but what i heard in this video does not indicate any extremes to me but a reasonable approach to the subject with a great deal of authenticity from the creator. Greetings from Poland!

veilguard didn't fail because of the "transgender button". it was just a bad game. sorry. i couldn't finish it. bg3 was also accused of wokeism. but it was a great game..

EA would never sell the IP, they would rather run them to the ground and let it be so broken and dead no one can revive it. EA is a scum company. I enjoyed SOME aspects of Veilguard but it couldve been so much more if EA couldve dropped their ego even just a bit

Piease find the middle. Far right,far left? both parties are too far! I dont want the bullsit politics in video games. Video games are entertainment. I play games to escape the real world. Find the middle.

Thank for sharing your honest feelings with us. I think many LGBTQ persons relate to you saying “I don’t think BioWare is on my side anymore”.

Been thru layoffs before. Sorry this is happening to you. Business do layoffs when the product doesn't work. It's ok happens to everyone at different companies. You will recover

dysgenic freak

"Corporate Bullshiiitttt" "F*cking liars" Pretty much sums it up. Love you, Eddie! 🤣

I'm an older gamer, I played every Bioware entry there is from BG1 to DAV. I can remember when Bioware announced DAO on their website 20 yrs ago. I was so excited about it and followed its development. I recall the days of chatting away on their forums with David Gaider, other devs, and fans fondly, it was good internet times! There was a huge shift in the company when EA bought them, but I understand if that never happened - Bioware would have been dead and gone after Jade Empire "flopped". EA has slowly been chipping away at the artistry and creativity at Bioware for years. They still managed to make Inquisition despite the hardships and it was their largest selling title. When I heard EA wanted the next installment to be a live service game and David Gaider and others had left - I knew the end was coming. EA really should have allowed Bioware to make the game they were planning after Inquisition. EA basically messed around and found out. I feel any failure (to sell) of Veilguard is squarely on the suits shoulders. A decade between titles in a franchise that has always been niche and not the huge juggernaut some think it was, is far too long a wait. I was so shocked when Veilguard actually happened, but I loved almost every second of the game (not sorry about enjoying DAV at all!) I am so disgusted EA abandoned DA and its team. They suffered for ten years to bring us Veilguard, support your titles, improve on them, be PROUD of them, but most importantly support your employees who make the products that bring in those fat bonus checks. You think Gary McKay took a loss in pay to cut costs? Nope, his answer is to get rid of the team! I'm really not sure about being excited for the next Mass Effect, unless something changes, I more than likely won't support it, especially if they abandon the values (inclusions, etc..) Bioware has always stood up for.