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What went wrong? Wokism.

What happened? They hired people that no longer wanted to make games for an audience... but for themselves. Just look at the narcissistic people investing every hobby nowadays. All they ever talk about is how they made the IP "Their own" and how they allways wanted to see themselves "represented" in these games and now finaly got what they wanted. These freaks arent interested in anything but themselves. Thats why so many of these "diverse and inclusive" games are utter garbage.. cause they are made for no one except the game director and their in company clique of chosen ones.

DAMN YOU FOR MAKING THIS BEFORE ME. It's great and spot on. I think your faith is misplaced. I think Bioware has lost to much of it's talent to make Vielguard a win. I will gladly be wrong. But don't think I will be. Still a great video.

I loved the old bioware, they where gods in the gaming industry. Sadly they are no more but thankfully live on in spirit with owlcat and larian studios. And also, fuck ea.

Great job with this video! 👍🏻

I'm the only one afraid of ME4? If Bioware messed up DA, i don't wanna think about ME

What do you mean wrong? The last one sold more than the first 2 combined lol

that was a very well put together video incredible! for me imho i just feel that bioware forgot two things that made those games incredible for me at least, agency and tone, i still miss KOTOR 1/2 and DAO, thank god Larian exists and made BG3 or i would miss it too.

10 was Dragon age origins? Funy guy. That game was not that good.

Larian has claimed the rpg throne. Bioware can't compete for it and I sincerely hope they won't even try. I want them to rise from the ashes with fresh ideas and a new style that will characterise them for the next decade. Larian is my GOAT now, but I will still keep my eye on Bioware, for old times sake.

I'm gonna try it, even if it looks a little uh... Questionable. Just gonna wait for the inevitable 75% sale 6 months after release.

Dragon age has always kind of been the underdog at this point the game just needs to come out.

I absolutely loved DA:O, beat it at least 4 times! I hope Veilguard can pull it off. I’ve been hesitant to play Baulder’s Gate 3. Even though I loved DA:O, Divinity 2: OS kicked my ass so quickly out the gate, I tucked my tail and ran as fast as I could, so BG3 has me a little gun shy

DEI and ESG kill everything.

DA2 was the last game that Bioware broke after. This game was so bad that I couldn't believe my eyes in 2011. Horrible story, horrible characters, horrible writing, horrible locations (like the basement of a house can be 10 times bigger than the house itself, makes sense), horrible combat system, evil red stone plot, flying woman as the final boss like in a shitty comic book. It's just garbage. Dragon Age 2 is garbage.

The main problem is that DAO started being made long before EA bought Bioware. Several years before that. So when EA got the studio in their hands, DAO was already deep in development, Bioware made that game the way they wanted it with the help of EA money who didn't interfere with the process. But none of that applies to DA2 and subsequent games. Not to mention that the people who created DAO are long gone from Bioware.

casey has his own studio now, developing a scifi game.

If ur upset about fail guard heres an idea when the game comes out out stream Any of the older dragonage games instead. That would send a message to the higher ups

No , no and no. They won't get my money for all the reasons that are all over the place on Internet. When a game is praised bacuse your character can have skin diseases, you know that something went horribly wrong.

29:30 I strongly disagree. I was a huge Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 fan, actually best game I have ever played, before and after, but I LOVED that Dragon Age origins trailer with "this is the new sh" music - actually fitted superb into the mood - the game itself was also amazing - while 2 was boring, 3 wwas less boring but still boring, and 4 now looks like made for someone else, not me, who like good game and zero grinding or real life politics in it.

Great history lesson💯👍

I played Origins. It felt like an ever descending stair to a final fate. I wasn't wrong. Afterwards I added mods for character models, and used what I learned from the first time to play a different way and eventually finished again. I've not felt the desire to return to that depressing world since. Even The Witcher 3 feels like a day in paradise compared to the story tone. All the disappointment in the sequels validated my choice to move on. But then EA earned a reputation I could no longer support and feel dirty years later for trying the Star Wars games with Ginger Jedi and Angst ridden pilot. I won't be back.

Well I hate BG3 and I can't wait for this game. For reference I love Origins and Divinity Original Sin 2 but BG3 is so trash and everybody seems to be blinded by some magic that isn't working on me. I'm not even trolling.

They truly sold their soul to the devil... I really miss the BioWare of the good old days. And im still waiting for Kotor 3...

I'm less optimistic in you as I didn't like the second trailer any more than the first. But I also hate Inquisition and think it's so bad, that it retroactively made Dragon Age 2 look good by comparison

What went wrong is girls invaded the gaming space. Dei diversity hires were put in charge at development studios, rather than passionate Gamers who want to make amazing games. Gaming has become an industry, and no longer a hobby

Your blind optimism is remarkable 😂

The Lead Designer on DA:Origins was Brent Knowles. Laidlaw was brought in when the game was finished for the port to consoles and Knowles left because he didn't like the direction for DA2. Just this small thing for an otherwise excellent video! I've been a follower of Bioware for, I think, almost as long as you and am so not hyped for Veilguard.

32:20 - The ‘Bioware Magic!’ Begins.

*THEDAS-* *THE* *D* ragon *A* ge *S* etting.

They went woke now they go broke, that went wrong!

unpopular opinion: Dragon age 2 was pretty ok, But shouldnt have 2 in its title

Quite the fan of DA2 despite its issues, i really wish it had had been given a reasonable development time to allow for better environments. But the smaller scale combined with time skips where you see the long term consequences of your choices is great. I have my doubts about Veilguard and certainly won't pre-order it in a million years but I'm willing to give it a chance and see what people are saying after release. I have heard some good things from creators who were able to play some of it at events particularly about the fact that there are player choices that carry heavy consequences for your companions. However, it'll be hard for me to get over my dislike of the aesthetic, it all seems like over-the-top high fantasy with floating buildings and giant glowing portals which is a big departure from the fairly gritty and grounded setting of Origins and 2. The models have weird cartoony proportions with big heads and the colour palette is very disney/marvel and i don't just mean the attack animations but the whole UI itself is bright and cluttered and immersion breaking :/ But, i really do like the franchise and it's lore, i've even played the TTRPG, so hopefully the writing is good enough to get passed all that, and maybe there will be mods to tone it down a bit eventually too?

Nothing went wrong. They made four drastically different games that were the expression and product of the time the studio delivered them. The main component, though, was always the story, which I would argue has been excellent in all three previous games and seems exciting in the next one as well.

20 mins in and no dragon age 😅😅

Man DA2 was really special despite their circumstances. I'd argue the companions were the best of the 3. Even Origins. The story was great for its smaller scope (maybe that helped). Not as epic as 1 but alot of really memorable moments.

I loved Dragon Age, both 1 and 2. The sequel had its issues, to be sure, but that was mostly in the reused locations. In terms of gameplay, a simple fight against a pair of ogres became one of the most memorable experiences I've had in all my years of gaming. If they released a new game like either of these two, it would make me very happy. Unfortunately, I've seen the glory of Mass Effect get subverted into ME2, and continued its decline into ME3. I gave up on Inquisition after discovering it was a single-player MMO, and not in the way SWTOR should have been. When I gave Anthem a chance, it turned out to be even worse than expected. These days, the name Bioware does not inspire confidence. If they announced a Jade Empire 2, I would be devastated by the horrors we would inevitably see. So I can't see any hope whatsoever for DA4. As a best case scenario, it would be Dragon Age Andromeda. Insufferable characters, nonsensical story, atrocious worldbuilding with no regard for the setting... and gameplay mechanics that I can't call good, but that are strangely compelling. Unfortunately, everything I've seen implies this will be Inquisition 2 instead. When the benchmarks for quality are the worst Mass Effect game and the worst Dragon Age game, both of which are part of the series in name only, I can't agree with your optimism. I hope we get something halfway decent, but at this point I'd be just as happy if the entity calling itself Bioware finally got the EA treatment. They had a good run, and deserve to rest in peace.

Dude its literally Shovelware...

DragGay Age

Veilguard looks garbage. Your party looks like the DMV waiting room. I'm sorry but in my fantasy world, women come in 3 forms. Stunningly beautiful elven maids, the tom-boyish but still stunning female rogue or Valkyrie/Amazon Battle Goddesses, (who wear bikini armor, because I like bikini armor). I was looking forward to joining the Dalish elves, in the reconquista of their homeland, purgin

DEI is what went wrong. Hiring based 9n everything but merit.

ME is peak videogaming, even in your face problems are overshadowed by the tv-show-like presented characters, worldbuilding & storytelling + movie-like spectacle presentation. There is no ME:A, and even if there was an soulless abomination like that, it would be a glorious erectile dysfunction. DA:O was good, for the bigger part, but that story should've been a trilogy as well, and I realy hate it when your character is an empty shell that doesn't even talk. I mean, ME did this so much better, even the 1st one aged like fine wine, so to speak. The sequels were fine to meh, both at the same time. It didn't impress me in the slightest, that's just how I see it.

lock .. well done mate well done.

>What Went Wrong? Bro, you don't need one hour video to explain this.

Very good work, I did not tought I could learn so much about Bioware that i already knew. I'm surprised you didn't mention Drew Karpishyn writing. But for myself I have absolutely no faith in Bioware anymore. I guess we will know soon

Bioware used to be my favorite game company for many years up until about 10 years ago. That's why I was so happy that Baldurs Gate 3 got so much success. It shows that games like Dragon Age Origins and Baldurs Gate can appeal to the mainstream without sacrificing that crpg identity. I don't mean to sound negative but in my mind Bioware has already been dethroned and I'm waiting excitedly for Larian's next release. Also as a side note the Boogie clips were hilarious lol.

Every Dragon Age feels like a entirely new game and not a sequel, that's the problem. There's no unique traits to the series, because every fricking game they change the art style, the combat, etc. They say it's to appeal to the modern audience, but who is this audience? If we ever get another game after Veilguard they will probably change everything else again instead of improving and making things consistent. I honestly wouldn't recommend this series for none of my friends, because there's no quality control and every game is a different things.

WHat a great video! I felt all kinds of emotions during it and ended on sadness but hope. I really hope Bioware doesn't let us down.

Some good points throughout the video, especially towards the first half, sadly it seems that no matter how hard I look I can't find somebody that thinks DA2 was good and that isn't just completely wrong from there on out. The upcoming installment has nothing of what the roots of the series held, DA:I was actually the closest they got since the very beginning and even that was a weird mess of ideas that felt like some corpo stuck his nose into the wrong meetings. While I and many others can't put our fingers on it cause the game isn't out, it is clear that this emanates really bad vibes, we can feel that there's something rotten behind all the veneer of "oooh look at this oooh look at that". The combat is dumbed-down and mediocre, new age console kiddies would probably love it, the designs of the characters and the weird things the community pages are focusing on are also red flags (articles like "here's why every character being pansexual is integral to the plot"), this game doesn't have the same direction the original had, it feels like it is made by some random vogue writers. I still remember vividly going through the deep roads and being relayed to what those poor dwarven women who were captured went through, we're never getting chilling stuff like that again, not from disney's marvel's defenders of the veil™ And if this is what Dragon Age is going to be, if this is what I have to endure seeing in the future, let it die and be forgotten, let it rust away and become dust, the first one looks to be the only one worth remembering.

They spent more time making sure you can have self-mutilation scars than they did working on the story and gameplay. That's what happened.