That's more of a Charlie problem than the game, tho. The game reviewed very well. And its #1 on Steam on several regions across the world. Its the best selling entry in the series.
How can a game, where the dialogue is apparently so important, do such a bad job with writing and voice acting? Look at Elden Ring, a game where a main thing about it is gameplay and they treat their lore and story is vague, mysterious, and open ended... they are miles ahead on terms of writing and voice acting. How is this a thing???
Elden Ring was worked on by GRRM. This game was worked on who clapped and cheered during every scene of Game of Thrones season 8, then posted their reactions online thinking everyone was on the same page until they updated their group think programming to what most people were saying.
This writing is abysmal...Neve is the detective and she constantly talks about investigating things, Harding talks abour scouting- Such surface level exposition. Absolutely criminal coming out of Bioware.
13:38 Minor issue but it ground my gears to fine dust; This is an automaton made of unconnected parts around a magical core, yet when the magical core dissipates the body still acts like a coherent whole despite being unconnected sheets of metal. They didn't even animate the parts falling apart its just light on = alive, light off = dead. It upsets me a little ngl. 14:14 MAJOR issue; this is forgotten lore, and the elves do not remember their history and yet these elves are aware of it all, even the fate of their gods which up until this game had been wreathed in myth legend and mystery. The elven pantheons situation being unknown to all except Solas, presumably Flemeth and the Inquisitor (thanks to speaking to Solas) yet everyone and their mother knows about it in this game for some reason.
They hand waved the elf lore by saying they found a bunch of stuff in the 10 years lead up to veilguard. Its pretty trash, would have been more interesting if the dalish flocked to the evanuris.
And the way everything seems so magical and everyone don't give a damn about it is so weird man. Is this the universe were mages were locked into towers?
I heard a line of dialogue earlier about how the Qun "take care of each other" and I just.... can't with the desecration of lore that is so established.
@@garroshhellscream594 Not in tevinter which is where this shit takes place I think so that actualy makes sense , still woke thrash tho sad to see dragon age go like this
Technical development looked solid. They literally ruined the game by replacing the talented designers with fools while keeping the dev team intact. Rest assured the devs should move yonder
Go back another 10 years, 90's Disney, and could have been amazing. I'm missing some Don Karnage of Tail Spin right now, too bad he'd probably be considered a problematic stereotype.
They already killed Mass Effect before with Andromeda. How people still have any expectation for Bioware after Anthem & Andromeda is completely beyond me.
I don't understand why they made Solas a secondary antagonist when Inquisition played him up so much. Most of all, he's actually an interesting and nuanced character, as opposed to the Elven gods who end up being the main antagonists, who are literally just moustache-twirling one-dimensional Saturday morning cartoon villains. Shame because their actual character designs look cool.
@abdeaubacktayes750 Probably because he played the same game I'm playing. Idk maybe we're both wrong, maybe Solas becomes more central in the later acts, or the other two gods become interesting.
Well... That's the common factor every time a game is woke. Super onedimentional characters. Cause in the mind of woke people, it really is just good vs evil - them vs all the racists, bigots and sexists. That's why the writing sucks in both games and movies that are woke... They don't see people, they just see labels.
the fact that even though theres a small floating text saying how to do a basic attack they still pop up a massive window pausing the game saying the same thing except as a giant paragraph with a preview video really says a lot about game design nowadays
And obviously it is needed since Charlie didn’t even realize why he couldn’t change the surname despite several indicators around that input box that denoted it was dictated by background choice. People don’t read. He didn’t even stop once to read a codex entry. It’s not surprising. This isn’t his style of game. That doesn’t t mean it’s bad. But plenty of people enjoy the pace and storytelling as well as the codex entries.
Outerworlds was really fun. People don't like fun anymore. They want their idea of perfection. It's sad af but goofy fun is no longer allowed to be considered good. Not every movie has to be citizen kane and not every video game has to be elden ring :(
bc they probably got paid to make a good review by ea, its really obvious when people who gave even minor critiques of the game were denied review codes
@@DeffoZappo And Sparking Zero a 7 the point is unless you pay IGN will give a shit take which is kind of weird since people pay IGN to give a shit take
Pretty convenient IGN was one of the very few outlets to receive a review copy despite the big embargo and just so happens to give almost a perfect score… Tell me IGN puts out paid reviews without telling me they put out paid reviews
I’m surprised Charlie skipped the scarring. He completely missed the top surgery scars. Also I find it comical you can give a male top surgery scars and adjust the size of his butt and budge, but if you a female you can’t give her breasts bigger than a 32 A and a flat butt
Likely because that's what the writers experience in their day-to-day at the workplace. Any negativity or disagreement is highly frowned upon, so everyone pretends to be chummy and get along and always share the same opinions, so it makes sense that's how their writing ends up.
Bro your background gets slammed in your face repeatedly it’s almost comical. If I I had to hear one more time how I saved that one village that one time
@@flampagan1994 just saying the closest this thing has to a 90's cartoon would be the porygon episode of pokemon because the pronoun scene in this game is a literal cognitohazard, its not worth the risk.
It reminds me of a G-rated Disney Marvel movie. Do you actually ever kill a human or elf, or are all the enemies just "magical creatures" that never bleed. I know there are cultists, but they are hooded and you cannot really tell what they are. Remember in DA:Origins and DA2 where your character would be literally covered in blood? Do they have any of that Grimdark stuff, or is this just a Disney movie?
It's insane the disparity between what reviews gave this game as score and the public score of this game. Reviews love it Actual real people and community sentiment is so sad and disappointed.
Let me be the millionth people to say it: publications and their writers have a very defined philosophical and political ideology/agenda through which they hand out ratings. This very often conflicts with what normal people like.
Kind of resembles the current political climate. It's like people see and hear one thing, but then the media tells us the opposite. Very weird time to live in.
But IGN and other citics gave it 9/10 or even 10/10. How can it be bad if it's (according to professional critics) in the same ballpark as RDR2, Elden Ring, GTAV or TW3?
What they did to Isabella legitimately convinced me to not even pirate the game. They disrespected the entire fanbase with this “game.” I can’t even imagine what they’ve done to fan favorites like varric or morrigan
@ nah listen to the dialogue it sounds so artificial and the consistent repeating of what the plot is, it’s like an ai trying to hold a long story together. Even a human that’s terrible at their job wouldn’t keep repeating the plot over and over and over like that
steam rating went from 64% to 77%, smells fishy, but skillup said he noticed the game was bad after the 10 hour mark, maybe people need to get to the bad stuff first to get the full picture :O
I'm not usually prone to conspiracy theories. But there is *alot* of fishy crap going on with this game. I'm interested to see what people find in the coming months, but the fact there is already a bunch of shady stuff out about it now speaks volumes.
It’s interesting in that the reviews had significant performance issues Then all of sudden there was a strange push for chat gpt reviews weird perfect spelling Similar language that kind of stuff appear to effectively hide those reviews
The biggest slap in the face over to me personally is the decision not to carry on major decisions and plot points players made that affected the story in previous games That told me these activists didn’t care about making a game out of passion for the franchise and to not even bother or care about it BioWare is dead and I hope it shuts down Long live old BioWare and the memories it created for all of us So I say this to all the captain shepherds out there, all the grey wardens! All the gamers that grew up in the golden age of video games! Find a game you love and have fun
Watch there be a DLC plot twist in which they actually didn't. And every step you take you hear them being surprised by this newfound information. Then at the end of it, you free the Elven Gods so that they can go back to saying it.
The thing I really appreciate about this game is that the elven gods have been freed, and they're killing everyone, but by working together and using our individual strengths as a team, we can defeat the elven gods that have been freed and are killing everyone.
Because Bioware are Disney now, so none of the enemies can be too human looking. It's all a big vortex from space and robot-like enemies that don't bleed.
I'm a Mass Effect guy so I didn't play Dragon Age, but I do know Bioware. Here's the immediate tell sign a company doesn't care about an IP and don't care for it: Changing its Genre radically from a dark fantasy, to something laid back friendly and more marketable to the masses. A action genre like the Avatar Airbender series can naturally go from kids to a teenager audience with Korra, but if you did a Comedy series and switched it into a War story where the characters die, you failed.
All they had to do was write a decent plot. Couldn't even do that. 1 hour in and they already assassinated the character of Solas, guy was my second favorite DA villain behind the Arishok. At least it explains why they changed the name from "Dreadwolf" to "Veilguard", it's not about Solas anymore.
@@johnpantag472 that questline was not given the love it deserved. especially since it after its done, it plays second fiddle to corypheus' boring ass. It should've been the focus of the whole game imo.
For the first few months to a year yeah. Then the backlash, led by video essays with titles like "Dickwood is NOT a Masterpiece" and "Elder Scrolls VI: Dickwood | An Utter Disappointment [runtime: 48 hours]"
It's a bad sign when Charlie's joke character is cooler, more interesting and more attractive than the official characters. They look straight out of Concord.
Ok now I know its not worth it. Ironically I'd love a cartoony god-of-war style game But I do not like EA, buying games full price or being attacked by the creator of the game I'll wait till it costs as much as a sandwich
@thebro6204 yet they had no hand at Anthem, look, I HATE EA for having my favorite IPs hostage, but sometimes we have to admit the publisher isn't always the one to blame
@@EldenLord-wh4ov ea literally replaced all of the bioware vets that made these franchises. It is most certainly EAs fault. These are just EA DEI hires masquerading in a bioware skin suit. That's why there is such a stark difference in writing, tone, and game play
@@EldenLord-wh4ov They have a long and storied history of turning good studios into slop. And even if not condemed here BW has boned itself enough. I feel like I'm being pretty biofair when I give this game a bio-glare. After all the bio(er be)ware
@@Nlgga231oh boy, your name says it all. You have much to learn young padawan. Understanding life means being in peace with yourself and you seem to carry a lot of hatred😘
I seem to remember this series being much more dark, and had a decent art style, if a little cartoony. Now it looks like all the enemies they had, they changed for saturday cartoons. Just looks bad I guess.
Btw the women in this game don't die, and the guys that get introduced literally even for a second gets atomized, idk if people noticed that at all or just ignore it.
The writing is wack, the combat is boring af and the story so far is pretty lackluster. I haven't been hooked unfortunately, feels very underwhelming from Bioware.
If you think the game sucks and is full of cringe then the most charitable and reasonable score would be 5, an average. 6 means not bad/good enough, which kinda contradicts your impression about the game.
I love DA. Origins is GOATed. 2 is an unremarkable, if not decent, romp through Kirkwall. Inquisition is comfort food for me. Really thought about trying this. I really did 😒
Same until I saw Isabella pull a Barve, the pirate character ironically made it such that I went from on the verge of hitting buy, to not even wanting to pirate it.
(fights a boss while having around 35% hp). "Im at low health, but im not healing like a b..." (0,3 secs later: gets hit, now down to 20% hp). "Im healing!" (a single quickheal brought him up to like 80% hp). Me: "Lmaoooo"
You know what they did.. ask Don Corleone what they did to his beautiful baby boy and you’ll have the right answer. The Second game was peak Horn boy design
What are you talking about? This game is much better than inquisition it’s def the best dragon age game I’ve played I’m not going back and playing the old outdated crap games
@ who cares about the writing MF’s play games for the writing? I’ve never given a crap about a games writing it’s about gameplay and graphics that’s all that matters in the game fun
Dragon Age Origins came out in 2009 and it has better animation than this. The animation is worse, the voice acting is worse, the dialogue and writing is worse, and the characters AND character DESIGN are WORSE than a game that came out 15 YEARS ago. How is that even possible??? (Let that sink in. Dragon Age Origins is almost 20 years old and it's BEATING this game by miles. How the HELL did they manage to FUCK this up so badly?)
It's weird to me how some people shit on Origins, like if it wasn't for that game you wouldn't even be playing whatever this watered down generic mess is.
Its crazy how Baldurs Gate 3 was more Dragon Age than this game but then again Baldurs Gate 1 and 2 were the inspiration for Dragon Age 1. So I guess it makes sense.
They killed literally the only character I remember from the series after DA1 at the start of the game...killed by his "friend" who simply never bothered to explain that he wasn't evil and it is then quickly brushed off as an "oopsie" because the writers have been hitting the galaxy gas since before it was even a thing. Holy shit, I am sooo invested
Considering most reviews are from people who played less than 30 minutes and are review bombing because it’s “woke” it’s not surprising steam is rightfully removing spam reviews.
Seems like Charlie had more fun in the character creator than the actual game itself
Didn't ask my content is better"
Yeah, I'm watching him customize his character right now and so far he seems to be having a lot of fun with it.
One thing that's always fun no matter how terrible the game is, making your character as horrific as possible
That's more of a Charlie problem than the game, tho. The game reviewed very well. And its #1 on Steam on several regions across the world. Its the best selling entry in the series.
@@TatankaTaylorthe game payed for those good reviews buddy
How can a game, where the dialogue is apparently so important, do such a bad job with writing and voice acting? Look at Elden Ring, a game where a main thing about it is gameplay and they treat their lore and story is vague, mysterious, and open ended... they are miles ahead on terms of writing and voice acting. How is this a thing???
Didn't ask
Elden Ring's dialogue sounds like AI Shakespeare... if they even write any.
@@Nlgga231 i asked him
Elden Ring was worked on by GRRM. This game was worked on who clapped and cheered during every scene of Game of Thrones season 8, then posted their reactions online thinking everyone was on the same page until they updated their group think programming to what most people were saying.
Oh easy, severe lack of talent.
All you need to become a AAA writer is to have watched at least 10 Disney movies
None of the old good ones though.
millennial writer resume in a nutshell. God they're awful
All you need to be is woke and not give an actual shit about the players that buy your garbage AAA games.
And IGN had the nerve to give it a 9.. ain’t no way .
Who asked
IGN has been a shill org for sooo long now, I just expected it
It's so weird its like we are all pretending it's not a scam lol
Well reviewer said n i quote "as a non-binary person myself" is an automatic 9 from ign
I mean, it's IGN, what do you expect?
You can't spell Ignorant without IGN.
this looks like a fake videogame that someone would be playing on a tv show
Holy shit, your right, thats what the melted clay look reminds me of.
OMG spot on
IS THAT…… JOINT IN THE TEN YEARS MAN!!??
ten years
Super spot on. It feels like a game made by someone who’s only ever heard of video games
This writing is abysmal...Neve is the detective and she constantly talks about investigating things, Harding talks abour scouting- Such surface level exposition. Absolutely criminal coming out of Bioware.
They need Chris Avellone back.
@@williammoore1030they need to quit following woke politics. They gotta keep trying to weave woke shit in and it makes the writing horrible
Have you considered that you're just a bigot for not liking this obviously stunning and brave game??? 😗
JK, JK 😙
Just joshin' ya
@@RenegadeSpider2 They're not even trying to weave it in they're trying to build the entire game around it
@@RenegadeSpider2 zzzzzzzzzzz so tired, get new material, anti-woke grifting is so tiresome
13:38 Minor issue but it ground my gears to fine dust; This is an automaton made of unconnected parts around a magical core, yet when the magical core dissipates the body still acts like a coherent whole despite being unconnected sheets of metal. They didn't even animate the parts falling apart its just light on = alive, light off = dead. It upsets me a little ngl.
14:14 MAJOR issue; this is forgotten lore, and the elves do not remember their history and yet these elves are aware of it all, even the fate of their gods which up until this game had been wreathed in myth legend and mystery. The elven pantheons situation being unknown to all except Solas, presumably Flemeth and the Inquisitor (thanks to speaking to Solas) yet everyone and their mother knows about it in this game for some reason.
They hand waved the elf lore by saying they found a bunch of stuff in the 10 years lead up to veilguard. Its pretty trash, would have been more interesting if the dalish flocked to the evanuris.
And the way everything seems so magical and everyone don't give a damn about it is so weird man. Is this the universe were mages were locked into towers?
I heard a line of dialogue earlier about how the Qun "take care of each other" and I just.... can't with the desecration of lore that is so established.
@@garroshhellscream594 Not in tevinter which is where this shit takes place I think so that actualy makes sense , still woke thrash tho sad to see dragon age go like this
Doesn't help the automatons look straight copy-pasted from BG3
Animation, Dialogue, Writing, etc… basically all the most important pillars of the game are just…not there
Animation is janky af
"I'll make him all skin and bones..." -Charlie
10/10
Technical development looked solid. They literally ruined the game by replacing the talented designers with fools while keeping the dev team intact. Rest assured the devs should move yonder
Here before the “Dragon age situation is crazy” people
Who asked
The comment section situation is crazy
I think the situation is already there before the game release.
@@Nlgga231 bro why so aggro? 😭🙏
Dragon age situation is crazy
I heard some of the writing earlier today and it sounds more like something you would hear in an early 2000s Disney channel show than a fantasy series
Who asked
I did.
@@Nlgga231 Everybody?
Go back another 10 years, 90's Disney, and could have been amazing. I'm missing some Don Karnage of Tail Spin right now, too bad he'd probably be considered a problematic stereotype.
youre incorrect, this is just somebodies fan project
They killed dragon age :(
The original devs left long ago, it's been dead for awhile now.
Another bag for the fishes
@@Ninj7 real and true
They already killed Mass Effect before with Andromeda. How people still have any expectation for Bioware after Anthem & Andromeda is completely beyond me.
look how they massacred my boy :(
I don't understand why they made Solas a secondary antagonist when Inquisition played him up so much. Most of all, he's actually an interesting and nuanced character, as opposed to the Elven gods who end up being the main antagonists, who are literally just moustache-twirling one-dimensional Saturday morning cartoon villains. Shame because their actual character designs look cool.
To be fair, I don't expect the average gamer to pick up on nuance
I swear i heard shillup say the exact same thing.
Then forgot about the Architect I guess
@abdeaubacktayes750 Probably because he played the same game I'm playing. Idk maybe we're both wrong, maybe Solas becomes more central in the later acts, or the other two gods become interesting.
Well... That's the common factor every time a game is woke. Super onedimentional characters.
Cause in the mind of woke people, it really is just good vs evil - them vs all the racists, bigots and sexists. That's why the writing sucks in both games and movies that are woke... They don't see people, they just see labels.
the fact that even though theres a small floating text saying how to do a basic attack they still pop up a massive window pausing the game saying the same thing except as a giant paragraph with a preview video really says a lot about game design nowadays
Who asked
@@Nlgga231who asked you to ask who asked?
And obviously it is needed since Charlie didn’t even realize why he couldn’t change the surname despite several indicators around that input box that denoted it was dictated by background choice. People don’t read. He didn’t even stop once to read a codex entry. It’s not surprising. This isn’t his style of game. That doesn’t t mean it’s bad. But plenty of people enjoy the pace and storytelling as well as the codex entries.
@@chrisperry4014 He did see it after trying to put one the first time.
The game is not good, it is heavily on story and the story is bad, period
@ have you played the game yet? Please shut tf up
I know Obsidian gets a lot of heat but for anyone who has played the outer worlds you can at least be evil.
Outer Worlds was mid, this is mid
@@visionforetold4568L take
@@visionforetold4568you're mid
Outerworlds was really fun. People don't like fun anymore. They want their idea of perfection. It's sad af but goofy fun is no longer allowed to be considered good.
Not every movie has to be citizen kane and not every video game has to be elden ring :(
@visionforetold4568 Outer worlds was mid. This is awful
The fact that IGN gave it a 9 is beyond believable. They gave Stellar Blade a 7 and Black Myth Wukong an 8.
I hate IGN, they are so fake.
true, stellar blade should have been a 3
@@Sinaeb Nice bait
bc they probably got paid to make a good review by ea, its really obvious when people who gave even minor critiques of the game were denied review codes
@@Fr00stee all they were missing is the "sponsored" part.
Meanwhile IGN
9/10 😂😂😂
IGN: Doom 2016 =7.1
@@DeffoZappo And Sparking Zero a 7 the point is unless you pay IGN will give a shit take
which is kind of weird since people pay IGN to give a shit take
@Y.T.STachi sparking zero has dogshit balancing and doom 2026 was lowkey ass, eternal was peak
@@Y.T.STachigave tlou2 a 10💀..ig whoever pays them the most🤷🏻♂️
Pretty convenient IGN was one of the very few outlets to receive a review copy despite the big embargo and just so happens to give almost a perfect score…
Tell me IGN puts out paid reviews without telling me they put out paid reviews
Jaw simulator
Didn't ask my content is better"
Mewing simulator
@@Nlgga231bot
MOGGED 💀💀💀
I’m surprised Charlie skipped the scarring. He completely missed the top surgery scars. Also I find it comical you can give a male top surgery scars and adjust the size of his butt and budge, but if you a female you can’t give her breasts bigger than a 32 A and a flat butt
That weird purple disneyland ui bugs the shit out of me
bisexual lighting, not even joking.
Melonie Mac pointed out the UI and character/gear screens look like a ripoff of Hogwarts Legacy and I can’t unsee it
Long ago i realised.
Games has purple=trash.
I remember mires morales spiderman game woke me up, so trashy
I'm noticing a trend of excessive amounts of purple and blue being in every piece of modern media
It’s gross
This looks and sounds like a 90's cartoon, why are everyone standing around spouting the same plot synopsis and having a circle jerk about team work?
Honestly that sounds like every jrpg to me
Wait you're comparing what decent well regarded media to...this?!
DON'T YOU BLASPHEME IN HERE, DON'T YOU BLASPHEME!
Likely because that's what the writers experience in their day-to-day at the workplace. Any negativity or disagreement is highly frowned upon, so everyone pretends to be chummy and get along and always share the same opinions, so it makes sense that's how their writing ends up.
Bro your background gets slammed in your face repeatedly it’s almost comical. If I I had to hear one more time how I saved that one village that one time
@@flampagan1994 just saying the closest this thing has to a 90's cartoon would be the porygon episode of pokemon because the pronoun scene in this game is a literal cognitohazard, its not worth the risk.
wait till he sees the push up scene
Who asked
He doesnt adress at all the cultural war he is to mainstream to say something about it
@@soldiermainsaregay9421you're right but it's so unbelievably bad I have a hard time believing he won't say anything about it
@@soldiermainsaregay9421facts dude has no balls
@@soldiermainsaregay9421you don’t have to be into culture war stuff to see how ridiculous and cringe it is
It reminds me of a G-rated Disney Marvel movie. Do you actually ever kill a human or elf, or are all the enemies just "magical creatures" that never bleed. I know there are cultists, but they are hooded and you cannot really tell what they are. Remember in DA:Origins and DA2 where your character would be literally covered in blood? Do they have any of that Grimdark stuff, or is this just a Disney movie?
and the wise cracking snarky dialogue too
genuinely the first enemies in the game are venatori?? who are known to be humans??
It's insane the disparity between what reviews gave this game as score and the public score of this game.
Reviews love it
Actual real people and community sentiment is so sad and disappointed.
@@RomnysGonzalez 10/10 for me
@@user-fo1ow1jq3bthat's fucking wild. I'd probably need a shovel in order to dig to your standards
Let me be the millionth people to say it: publications and their writers have a very defined philosophical and political ideology/agenda through which they hand out ratings. This very often conflicts with what normal people like.
theres a ton of forced hate. most of these people aren't playing the game
Kind of resembles the current political climate. It's like people see and hear one thing, but then the media tells us the opposite. Very weird time to live in.
But IGN and other citics gave it 9/10 or even 10/10. How can it be bad if it's (according to professional critics) in the same ballpark as RDR2, Elden Ring, GTAV or TW3?
I don't think listening to IGN is a good idea mate
@@jiero3253that is the joke
Hell yeah brother listen to the same journalists who gave gotham knight a 9
What a cancerous community this is, absolute sheep
Money talks.
What they did to Isabella legitimately convinced me to not even pirate the game. They disrespected the entire fanbase with this “game.”
I can’t even imagine what they’ve done to fan favorites like varric or morrigan
Who asked
@@Nlgga231 i did
@@Nlgga231 who asked
Same person who asked you@@Nlgga231
what did they even do to isabella?
This game is 100% AI written
I honestly don’t think so. AI would do better than this. This was written by incompetent children with extremely low self esteem.
@ nah listen to the dialogue it sounds so artificial and the consistent repeating of what the plot is, it’s like an ai trying to hold a long story together. Even a human that’s terrible at their job wouldn’t keep repeating the plot over and over and over like that
nah just self inserts
I’m not convinced Ai could write something this bad. It took effort to be this bland.
@@rileydicaire1621its literally not ai. Someone wrote that garbage.
Why the f*** do they keep changing the demons!?!? In Origins they were unique and scary now they’re just kiddie grim reapers
Charlie created the guy on the warheads candy wrapper
Underrated comment
Seeing old beloved characters from previous Dragon Age games forced to be a part of this abomination of a game upsets me as a Dragon Age fan.
steam rating went from 64% to 77%, smells fishy, but skillup said he noticed the game was bad after the 10 hour mark, maybe people need to get to the bad stuff first to get the full picture :O
I'm not usually prone to conspiracy theories.
But there is *alot* of fishy crap going on with this game.
I'm interested to see what people find in the coming months, but the fact there is already a bunch of shady stuff out about it now speaks volumes.
It’s interesting in that the reviews had significant performance issues
Then all of sudden there was a strange push for chat gpt reviews weird perfect spelling
Similar language that kind of stuff appear to effectively hide those reviews
Maybe some people just like the game? What’s wrong with that
I noticed it was bad after 5 mins. Are people that bad at games they need 10hrs to see trash
Oh skillup, the reviewer who said nothing wrong about cyberpunk 77 at launch, lmao.
This is so weird how they’re facing an apocalyptic situation and battling and killing all these creatures and still all so jolly.
its the joss wheadon/marvel mcu dialogue style
The biggest slap in the face over to me personally is the decision not to carry on major decisions and plot points players made that affected the story in previous games
That told me these activists didn’t care about making a game out of passion for the franchise and to not even bother or care about it
BioWare is dead and I hope it shuts down
Long live old BioWare and the memories it created for all of us
So I say this to all the captain shepherds out there, all the grey wardens! All the gamers that grew up in the golden age of video games!
Find a game you love and have fun
Don't you choose your inquisitor ending and it changes stuff though...?
Hey, Charlie, did you know the Elven Gods escaped from their prison?
Watch there be a DLC plot twist in which they actually didn't. And every step you take you hear them being surprised by this newfound information. Then at the end of it, you free the Elven Gods so that they can go back to saying it.
Don't spoil it for him. Sheesh. He was just beginning to pick up the subtle clues in the dialog as well.
For real?? They should have mentioned that..
those are probably the least demonic demons i have seen since... idk, warhammer games got my standards for demons high
The demons in the previous games were pretty demonic looking. Iconic too.
All the demons/darkspawns got a cartoonish redesign, look the same creatures up in previous games.
It's an art students rendition of a demon which is always a humanoid with some fucked up eyes or something
Its not a demon its a pride demon😂😂😂
The thing I really appreciate about this game is that the elven gods have been freed, and they're killing everyone, but by working together and using our individual strengths as a team, we can defeat the elven gods that have been freed and are killing everyone.
Everything else I expected but why the Darkspawn design?? Why does every game after Origins keep downgrading the Darkspawn?!
Because Bioware are Disney now, so none of the enemies can be too human looking. It's all a big vortex from space and robot-like enemies that don't bleed.
The only one that looked better to me after Origins was aspects of the Ogre’s in the second game
My same 1st efin thoughts with the darkspawn appearing in game 😂
(26:08) In case you missed it, their gods have escaped. I love Charlie's "this must be how Dormammu felt" comment. 🤣
I had no those were darkspawn when I saw them. Darkspawn wear armor and use weapons. These just look like generic zombies/ghouls with red eyes
This game is the culinary equivalent of eating a raw stick of unsalted butter.
“This *game* is the *culinary equivalent* “ lmao.
90 Bucks you haven’t even touched the game.
@@karaltar7914 you're not gonna get the money you wasted on your pre-order back that way man
@@karaltar7914"How dare you criticize game!"
@@karaltar7914 Seen nearly half a dozen hours of gameplay already. It’s bland and disappointing. Like unsalted butter.
Look at how they massacred my boy. This is nothing like the names I grew up with and cherished so much :(
This isn't dragon age, this is woke age
@andypaul3788 wait what's wrong with it?
@drcheesecak3 dragon age has always had gays
I'm a Mass Effect guy so I didn't play Dragon Age, but I do know Bioware. Here's the immediate tell sign a company doesn't care about an IP and don't care for it: Changing its Genre radically from a dark fantasy, to something laid back friendly and more marketable to the masses. A action genre like the Avatar Airbender series can naturally go from kids to a teenager audience with Korra, but if you did a Comedy series and switched it into a War story where the characters die, you failed.
@@user-fo1ow1jq3byet again, it isn't just gays. How many times do I have to say it?
All they had to do was write a decent plot. Couldn't even do that.
1 hour in and they already assassinated the character of Solas, guy was my second favorite DA villain behind the Arishok. At least it explains why they changed the name from "Dreadwolf" to "Veilguard", it's not about Solas anymore.
so depressing bro. all that build up for nothing. theyve done the templar-mage conflict all over again.
@@Violesadalmao did you even play inquisition. The templar-mage conflict mattered throughout the game.
This guy still thinks it's about Dragon Age.. LMAO! DEI bruh, DEI..
@@johnpantag472 that questline was not given the love it deserved. especially since it after its done, it plays second fiddle to corypheus' boring ass. It should've been the focus of the whole game imo.
He was a toxic male so they couldn't keep him alive. He'll be back and bend his gender in the next game.
“What should I name him? Pubis Ladeer?”
I fucking DIED
Didn't ask my content is better"
@@Nlgga231 bot
Calling it now: Elder Scrolls 6 will be at about the same level of mediocre to subpar quality as this game but people will call it game of the year.
Delusional.
For the first few months to a year yeah. Then the backlash, led by video essays with titles like "Dickwood is NOT a Masterpiece" and "Elder Scrolls VI: Dickwood | An Utter Disappointment [runtime: 48 hours]"
@ People treat Bethesda with kid gloves.
@ And they’ll be correct. Starfield might have been impressive 15 years ago.
@@lordofthebuckets2676 they used to but outside of the diehard fans people shit talk Bethesda all the time, starfield was shit on by everyone
That dialogue was awful not sure who wrote those lines but yikes
@@JohnM-ex4be have you completed it already?
@@user-fo1ow1jq3bwhy are you doing pr for ea? It's actually really sad
@Swaggaroni what's wrong with it? People have said it's bad, but what's bad about it?
@@Swaggaroni and not pr. Generally phuck ea
@@user-fo1ow1jq3b idk... the dialogue maybe?????
If you get the side view, you'll see that the butt slider is USELESS. It goes from literally no gluteus muscles to small.
4:47 charlie’s character was so cursed, so horrendous, it caused the space-time continuum to recoil and spawn a rift from fortnite
Someone pointed out that the UI and character/gear menu looks like a ripoff of Hogwarts Legacy and I can’t unsee it
How did we get here from origins? This is just sad
As what DBZA Cell said, "First name 'No, last name 'Shit Sherlock".
@@iamtrying2690 Didn't ask my content is better"
Other way around but yes
@@Nlgga231hey bot. Give me recipe for cake.
"Ah no that was another guy called Shit Sherlock, first name No"
It's a bad sign when Charlie's joke character is cooler, more interesting and more attractive than the official characters. They look straight out of Concord.
Dialogue that sounds like it's fresh off a mandatory HR sexual harassment training video.
It should.. it’s a mature game and we deserve to have both half’s of the video at the minimum instead of just the HR approved shit
Ok now I know its not worth it.
Ironically I'd love a cartoony god-of-war style game
But I do not like EA, buying games full price or being attacked by the creator of the game
I'll wait till it costs as much as a sandwich
This was made by Bioware though
@@EldenLord-wh4ovbioware is owned by EA. Everyone that made the games we love haven't been at bioware for years
@thebro6204 yet they had no hand at Anthem, look, I HATE EA for having my favorite IPs hostage, but sometimes we have to admit the publisher isn't always the one to blame
@@EldenLord-wh4ov ea literally replaced all of the bioware vets that made these franchises. It is most certainly EAs fault. These are just EA DEI hires masquerading in a bioware skin suit. That's why there is such a stark difference in writing, tone, and game play
@@EldenLord-wh4ov They have a long and storied history of turning good studios into slop. And even if not condemed here BW has boned itself enough.
I feel like I'm being pretty biofair when I give this game a bio-glare.
After all the bio(er be)ware
People of taste, we meet again. Who needs melatonin when you got Moisty at 2am
Didn't ask
@@Nlgga231oh boy, your name says it all. You have much to learn young padawan. Understanding life means being in peace with yourself and you seem to carry a lot of hatred😘
@@Nlgga231 I asked.
@@realsquidward4150don't need to engage, that's bot
@@realsquidward4150it’s a bot 🤡
Devs have to stop letting their kids write their scripts in crayon.
I seem to remember this series being much more dark, and had a decent art style, if a little cartoony. Now it looks like all the enemies they had, they changed for saturday cartoons. Just looks bad I guess.
Btw the women in this game don't die, and the guys that get introduced literally even for a second gets atomized, idk if people noticed that at all or just ignore it.
@@Jumblion Didn't ask my content is better"
who gives a shit
what the fuck that's cooked lmao
Seriously? That's so weird...
I wonder why
The writing is wack, the combat is boring af and the story so far is pretty lackluster. I haven't been hooked unfortunately, feels very underwhelming from Bioware.
The bioware you know has been gone for years
You’re wack just stop playing games if you don’t like this
Charlie’s character in every RPG looks like an inbred version of Giga Chad meme
Gigacest.
Lmao
I forgot. Have the elven gods been released? And are they or are they not blighting the land?
You'll just have to keep playing the game to find out.
They escaped yes.
Some people lowered the difficulty on purpose so they could be done quicker with the game. That's a big red flag
I was bored watching Charlie play it. I assume he played on normal. Some of the enemies were so spongy even then.
But COD was good? We live in strange times.
I don't usually laugh out loud but "people always die, its what they do" got me pretty good.
an rpg where your choice doesnt even matter, wow
Who knew the Archdemon was the real hero all along? It tried to spare us from this future and we killed it.
Today's Fact: The world's largest video game collection is owned by a man in Texas and contains over 20,000 games.
Thank you, daily fact man
Cool
And what's his name?
He has already given his 1 fact of the day @@skipskip342
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I already lost it at the first cutscene.
“You really think you can come into my place and make demands?”
*cuts to Pubis’s little smile
Just wait until he sees that hour long pushup scene....what...what do you mean it's barely 5 minutes long?
Didn't ask my content is better"
You need to do a Barve now for making fun of that brilliantly written scene you bigot
1 hour? you misremembering something. it definitely was infinity and half long.
A 6/10 is the most charitable I can be for the cringe I just witnessed. That’s the best I can do.
After everything I've seen the most I'd go is a 5
@@thebro6204in today's standard, journalist can't even give a rating below 5 so it's considered a 0/5.
If you think the game sucks and is full of cringe then the most charitable and reasonable score would be 5, an average. 6 means not bad/good enough, which kinda contradicts your impression about the game.
@@buggart I'd have to start digging with a shovel to reach modern gaming journalists standards
I'd give it a 5, but the price drops it down to 4.
it’s like they were so afraid to make their characters unlikable, to the point they made all their characters unlikable
Even tons of mods won't be enough to fix this.
*cheek bones left the chat*
Didn't ask my content is better"
These bots again??
I love DA. Origins is GOATed. 2 is an unremarkable, if not decent, romp through Kirkwall. Inquisition is comfort food for me.
Really thought about trying this. I really did 😒
Same. 😕
Yeah idk how many times I’ve played origins
Bruh, I feel you. I made it a point to replay the whole trilogy in preparation and now.....😔 well at least I have the memories....
Maybe its a hot take, but inquisition was ubisoft-ified slop too.
Same until I saw Isabella pull a Barve, the pirate character ironically made it such that I went from on the verge of hitting buy, to not even wanting to pirate it.
(fights a boss while having around 35% hp).
"Im at low health, but im not healing like a b..."
(0,3 secs later: gets hit, now down to 20% hp).
"Im healing!" (a single quickheal brought him up to like 80% hp).
Me:
"Lmaoooo"
9:03 pride demon definitely got a downgrade
This can’t be real.
Don’t know why this game even has dialogue choices when it doesn’t change a thing.
The Mass Effect trilogy had multiple dialog trees where each choice provided the exact same response. It's just way worse now
Not being able to be evil in a choice based bioware game is a crime.
Could they GET anyone more wimpy sounding to voice the character? It's a Qunari but it sounds like it was voiced by a Starbucks hipster.
I'm convinced they fed the DA wiki to an AI to write their plot and script then hoped for the best.
damn.. the enemies cant even harm your teammates.
We all agree that this isn’t Cannon from the lore.?
I havent heard anything good about this game yet, from anyone.
Just access shill journalists I think. Actual authentic gamers aren't so hot on it.
Been Watching Asmondgold live today, he's enjoying it overall.
Mortismal gaming called it his game of the year and the best Dragon Age game ever made. Then I saw footage and ended my subscription to his channel.
@@ArturoGonzalez-st7xjanti woke cornball it’s a video game
Asmongold likes it lol
1:29 successfully made an inbred character 😂
What I imagine handsome squidward looks like.
Yeehaw, he's just a good Ole boy!
what did they do to the quanari
is that how the default they look now
You know what they did.. ask Don Corleone what they did to his beautiful baby boy and you’ll have the right answer. The Second game was peak Horn boy design
I identify as non-buynary
what a way to ruin a franchise....
What are you talking about? This game is much better than inquisition it’s def the best dragon age game I’ve played I’m not going back and playing the old outdated crap games
@@dimes305 Infinitely worse writing than Inquisition, definitely better combat/gameplay.
@ who cares about the writing MF’s play games for the writing? I’ve never given a crap about a games writing it’s about gameplay and graphics that’s all that matters in the game fun
Charlie saving me money, what a swell fella. This looks like generic garb.
I like how Charlie basically just made Nic Cage from Longlegs as his character, lol
Dragon Age Origins came out in 2009 and it has better animation than this. The animation is worse, the voice acting is worse, the dialogue and writing is worse, and the characters AND character DESIGN are WORSE than a game that came out 15 YEARS ago. How is that even possible??? (Let that sink in. Dragon Age Origins is almost 20 years old and it's BEATING this game by miles. How the HELL did they manage to FUCK this up so badly?)
Even if this was free to play day 1 I wouldn’t touch it.
27:58 "The power one. The power of two. The power of manyyyyyy," ahhh energy 💀
Man, even Charlie couldn't make watching this entertaining, I zoned out in the middle, holy hell this is bad.
Dragon Age Situation is crazy
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Didn't ask my content is better"
@@Nlgga231enjoy the ban kid 😂🤡
Who asked you? @@Nlgga231
@@Nlgga231 Cringe ass
"Disappointed but not surprised" - Sun Tzu
Bros trying to make his character a rizzler and a mewing king☠️ 0:29
The Dragon Age Subreddit Is Literal Copium and Gatekeeping people from even Trying to have a Different opinion of the game.
Sounds about right for subreddits these days
Bro’s character is built look a Scooby Doo villain.
Dragon Age: Origins was a masterpiece. Everything after has just been a master piece of ass.
It's weird to me how some people shit on Origins, like if it wasn't for that game you wouldn't even be playing whatever this watered down generic mess is.
Its crazy how Baldurs Gate 3 was more Dragon Age than this game but then again Baldurs Gate 1 and 2 were the inspiration for Dragon Age 1. So I guess it makes sense.
They killed literally the only character I remember from the series after DA1 at the start of the game...killed by his "friend" who simply never bothered to explain that he wasn't evil and it is then quickly brushed off as an "oopsie" because the writers have been hitting the galaxy gas since before it was even a thing.
Holy shit, I am sooo invested
perfect little jaw boi fr fr
Better than mine
veilmaxxing
Who asked
@@Nlgga231 me
@@Nlgga231nahhhhh you bot either one you
the fact steam is allegedly removing negative reviews, is crazy LOL
no way it's at a positive ratio.
Considering most reviews are from people who played less than 30 minutes and are review bombing because it’s “woke” it’s not surprising steam is rightfully removing spam reviews.
How do you know this?
@@nightrain1121 I've been seeing reviews disappear with my literal eyes lmfao
@@Faminetheblack so your proof is “trust me bro”? Nice