The thing that tipped me off as a massive red flag is how every previewer focuses on the one thing that does look decent, the game play. No one wants to talk about the writing.
I love how they're all talking about how it's like God of War.... I think people have been playing Bingo cards with the videos too. I want my dragon age game to be like Dragon age... If I wanted God of War I'd play God of War.
After watching Luality's review of her preview I got a ffing migraine from all the colours and clutter on the screen. I was afraid of it and this is MY MAIN reason why I am definetely not buying it. I already didn't like several other things that didn't jive with me. Tone, Dialogue, Combat system, Control ect. But after last night's pain from watching just her vid, it was the last drop.
Yes. Nonsense aside, Origins was damn near grimdark. This doesnt feel like the same genre, let alone series. Bioware hasnt been good for over a decade. You gotta be blind, deaf and dum to make this purchase.
The graphics seem very reminiscent of ME especially the lighting so I do understand the concern since ME gave my wife headaches from all of the bloom but you might be able to disable it. Can't do much if you don't like action combat but what are your issues with the tone and dialog? I am going to play it day 1 so if there is anything you want me to look into settings wise LMK and I'll get back to you.
@@beaucole446 The tone feels out of place. Maybe because I am an older millenial and therefore it annoys me more, but the pausing filler words & gagging in between as if they all quip all the time, it breaks my world immersion. That lighthearted joking tone that they put in with poor writing at an attempt at the gallows kind of humor, that's the best way I can describe it. Don't get me wrong I don't mind humour, sometimes they are able to pull it off, but from what they've shown us, it just is not to my taste, it felt cringy. Wolfheart attempted to turn the clutter (I'll name it that) all off, but couldn't do everything. The glow particularly being used everywhere is grating, if you pardon my phrasing; like a unicorn shat glitter and puked rainbows all over the place. Again this is not a slight saying you can't be happy or like the game, but to me, asking 70 bucks for a game that gives me headaches and potential cringing, I'd rather keep that for something else.
@@beaucole446 I'll be following YT for the reviews when it comes out, but sure if you're not too busy playing yourself, you can let me know if I am misreading it completely.
characters are Biowares biggest selling point (besides the story), in this case they are generic, agenda driven, excluding attractive females (bodies), aimed at a Fortnite audience DRIVEL..
No fr bro that legit what killed it for me. My favorite game race and they made them look like walking landing strips. Now I have seen some where the horns kinda dictate how big the forehead is but it was like 1 time. Also they had few hairstyles that covered the massive foreheads which doesn't help either.
Oh you don't have to wait! Go onto any of the "community panel" channels and make a passing mention of being "concerned" or "unsure" in amongst a wall of praise from the game... they'll put you right in your place. The amount of channels I've followed for YEARS and blocked over the past month is bonkers. SO many creators passing on the dev's disdain for "origins fanboys" and "oldschool gamers" and "origins outdated and slow gameplay". The gaslighting and cult mentality is very real.
Cmon people let's be honest people. Anyone who supports genital mutilation propaganda on children and pretends this isn't an issue is cosigning and enabling this bs leftwing radicalization in gaming. Besides all the gameplay and lore issues. Why would I play a game about medieval fantasy and escape if there is political modern day BS in it😂? ruclips.net/video/EEm0a0kZyQw/видео.htmlsi=LFHTyj5MEwuuILRO ruclips.net/video/AB_O5FfQEno/видео.htmlsi=P4Jqw-De9X-M6GV9
@Rickflair604 Bought it. I've seen enough now from all the people (not all megafans, but critical people too) who played 7 hours. I understand the stuff that bothers people. But i see enough that I love. I cant wait to play.
Paying youtubers to make gaslit marketing videos doesnt make the game good they give minor criticism to make it seem like theyre unbiased than praise literally everything
Go watch Wolf Video He pretty much will tell you 2 things 1, If you like Elder Ring Skip & 2, If you like CRPG's Skip. He so far Pretty honest on his Feeling for this Game.
Well you have to include the why though. if you like elden ring for the open world/exportability and don't like non-open games then skip. if you like c or trpgs and don't like action combat/games then skip.
I'm done with Bioware. I'm not even angry anymore. I'll just go play BG3 if I need loveable characters, a world-ending threat, several side-missions, a myriad of playstyles, great graphics and fun music. 👍 Thank you, Bioware, for steering me to your competition.
@@seriouslie9300 dont need to when the writing is on the wall, and the last two games in the series were trash. Origins is one of my favorite games ever. I beat 2... once. Never finished Inquisition. They keep getting worse and this one looks like it will be the magnum opus of crap Bioware has been building towards for over a decade.
@@fenixchief7 See me personally while I do love DAO its not my favorite. DA2 is. So to me it seems like the players wanted the game to go in two different directions. Set one (you) is the wanted it to become the type of game BG3 is, and set two (me) really like the way the game is looking.
SPOILERS: According to one vid I saw of the play testing, they got rid of VARRIC. I had a bad feeling, but yeah. Looks like the speculation was correct.
Cmon people let's be honest people. Anyone who supports genital mutilation propaganda on children and pretends this isn't an issue is cosigning and enabling this bs leftwing radicalization in gaming. Besides all the gameplay and lore issues. Why would I play a game about medieval fantasy and escape if there is political modern day BS in it😂? ruclips.net/video/EEm0a0kZyQw/видео.htmlsi=LFHTyj5MEwuuILRO ruclips.net/video/AB_O5FfQEno/видео.htmlsi=P4Jqw-De9X-M6GV9
A live service ‘retooling’ pretending to be an action game pretending to be an RPG. It’s a bit of a slap in the face of RPG’s as a genre. It even still plays like a live service, with Mission Launch screens instead of doors.
After multiple reviews, I almost bought it. The issue is I can play / enjoy a game when everything feels off. Maybe it is pretty good, but I shouldn't have to force myself to tolerate a art style for 50/60 hours that simply breaks al immersion or enjoyable escapism.
The combat looks so boring to be honest. It just does not seem that interesting.... and not being able to swap to companions? I mean come on.... Just... no....
Not sure if I can articulate this right, but I’m feeling pretty on guard and suspicious of the videos I’ve seen lately. Creators feel like they’re using a lot of buzzwords and stiff in their deliveries like there was an expectation placed on them on how they spoke about the features and gameplay etc. also the early criticisms being so drastically turning a content upon this wave of reviews also seems weird to me. The last thing that stood out to me is the lack of reviews stating that “this is their own words and there’s no input from devs about the review” that content creators seem to always push when they’re actually saying their opinions. The general lack of criticisms and overly positivity just make it feel a lot more disingenuous to me. I dunno why.
It's probably because Bioware has them at social gunpoint or else no sponsorship money to put food on the table, and that's the NICEST part of the fallout.
Its because most of them make their living on youtube and so they HAVE to be very careful about what they say. buzzwords only exist as buzzwords because they are used a lot aka the "hinterlands problem" existed since the release of DAI. Also they only got to play 6-7 hours that's not enough time to find actual criticism if the stuff they were shown was actually good. There are plenty of criticisms from those who played it but they are all things that are up to taste.
I hate how it looks, from the art style to the animations, everything looks magical now, like basic Genshin style anime hack and slash, which directly goes against the lore of the game too. The UI is a disaster, everything is huge and colorful, markers everywhere on everything, the enemy designs are so goofy, they look like enemies from an E for everyone platformer. It reads like all flashy colors and flips with no substance. 3 skills is so off putting, no companion control. I just do not see anything dark or even reminiscent of DAO. DA2 is the least popular one but that at least had a dark tone still, this feels like they took DA2 and made it family friendly. Absolutely not for me, not even on sale, I'm so tired.
@@PeskeyStrider2 I played Origins, 2, and Inquisition. It's more than the transition from tactical to action combat. I feel like the atmosphere and characters just don't match what was present in Origins. We'll never see another Oghren, and they've changed Morrigan so much that she's barely the same person.
@@deminisis If you've played all the Dragon Age games, you're definitely the target audience, so it's strange to think that you're not. Did you enjoy Dragon Age 2 and Inquisition, or did you have the same concerns with them? They are very different from Origins in terms of design, combat, etc. Also, I don't see that big of a difference in design from Inquisition Morrigan to Veilguard.
been a fan of Dragon Age since Origins. it’s crazy what it’s turned into and i cannot get behind it. i hope it’s a wake up call and they make the game we’ve been fucking asking for for over 10 years lol this is a $20 game for me. it just makes me wanna go do another Origins run and revisit KOTOR, and that’s exactly what i’m gonna do.
@@Darkbiter same here, just redownloaded Origins to my PC. If these game makers keep these trends up, people like us will continue to tune out. We have more than enough favorites to replay, and a huge backlog to get through lol
I’m not sold on this at all. I have a feeling that the people currently reviewing the game are being disingenuous to the consumer in service of the company.
@@lordfickle8900 this looks like the saints row reboot of Dragon age in terms of art style. Lighting, neon color palette, etc. Majority of the players complained about it, but none of the sponsored RUclipsrs didn’t even talk about it. In preview videos like these, RUclipsrs are told what they can talk about and what they can’t. They aren’t even allowed to capture their own footage. And on top of it, why would RUclipsrs miss their chance at future preview event invites because they didn’t give the review expected by the publisher?
@@xLionsxxSmithyx Majority of them specified that only the flight was paid for, not even the lodging. Also a couple of them refused the paid flight so nothing was paid for.
I have played all the DA and ME games dozens of times. I am not really happy with this one, I will try it on EA Play Pro and see how it is or just finish the game in a month for the story. If the game does not flop hoping they add a tactical mode down the line where you can control companions.
Yep, same. They're also the ONLY channels I've found that don't actively flame anyone who's expressing any kind of concern. I've blocked a LOT of my favourite creators this month, because they've suddenly decided to start piping into the comments with censure about any kind of negative opinions about THIS game, while they supported constructive dialogue about every other game they cover. It's baffling and frankly a little bit creepy.
@@beaucole446 I sincerely doubt that. Drama sells. Nah I'm pretty sure it's a combination of doing what BioWare insinuates they should do combined with needing the ongoing exposure from bioware invitations to play testing. They're paid in exposure for this stuff. That said, a lot of them are on teh community panel and THOSE content creators are generally pretty culty to be blunt. Nah I'll trust the honest ones. No reason for me to take anyone's word for it when they sound so ingenuous. We'll see when it comes out. I really hope I'm wrong, but I doubt it.
I hated the reveal trailer, was Lukewarm on the first gameplay reveal but after the previews I actually kind of like it. Not going to rush out to buy it but will see how it reviews. Probably 70% a purchase from me at the min, there’s nothing much else that’s coming out at the minute that really interests me.
One of the biggest problems for me is how they make companions essentially degraded into human-sized accessories, enemies wont even attack them when next to them, all the aggro is on the MC, the companion AI is also tuned to just pretty much waiting for you to give order for wombo-combos. In the first 2 games, if you tweak companion tactics well, you can have a hand-free experience on nightmare difficulty, and it's very rewarding to me. It is sad to see Dragon Age being morphed into Mass Effect + God of Assassin's Witcher, also sad that no one's making RTWP games with tactics tweaking ( from what I've played, only Pillars 2 has that). Moreover, mass effect's gameplay is largely TPS, I'm doubtful that does it hold up here without guns.
Ive seen a ton of positive stuff from those CC who got a free trip to the event. They seem OVERLY POSITIVE. i dont know why people are praising the combat, who wanted God of war in Dragon age?
The art style is my biggest gripe as well, especially when they're trying to be dark and gritty. It's not going to be a deal breaker for me. And yes it is very Pixar looking.
The combat is the thing that kills it for me. Instead of turn base and real time with pause combat, they go for full 3D, twitchy, fortnitey, FPS shooter combat, where mage jumps around like energizer ADHD bunnies and shoot their magic at the enemy THEN jump into the creature to stab them in order to "activate the explosion". And the warrior shoot their shield, and then run into the enemy and bash the enemy in their face with the sword, and so that they can activate "the explosion. And Rogue? Rogue is like a hyper hedgehog on steroid jumping and leaping and backflipping around and shooting enemy with their bow THEN dash into the enemy to stab them with their daggers to "activate the explosion". And when the companions are reduced to nothing more than skill mule, with truncated skill tree of their own that is not like the PC's. And when the PC's own skill tree is limited as it is shared between THREE sub classes and with not enough skill points nor enough skill effect or major skill set to use ... No it is clear that they are catering to brainless ARPG shooter type gameplay and this is not meant for old fogey old timer fans and we should take our money some where else.
so you interrelation of "active explosion" is combos and they were in ME2, ME3, MEA and DAI. subclasses have been a thing in every DA game and at least now your not forces to stay a lane also the way the PC's skill tree works has deeper build customization than any DA/ME game except for DAO. Also the aim shot is just one of your abilities. This seems A LOT like the new God of war games if you have played those before.
@eatupsidedown try baldur's gate 1,2, icewindale 1,2, and never winter nights. That's the shit origins was inspired from. Loved those games. If you are stuck on origins love, give those games a go. Origins was over 10 years ago, things are going to change friend :)
Sadly, the series has struggled, for its entire existence after DA1, with these artists that just toss everything form the last game because they think they know better. Makes the vibe and other things just not feel cohesive.
@@ciggylegz The real debate is a question of how much change like this can be tolerated before you just tell them "bro, that's a different IP". Most of these issues with NOT Dragon Age Not Dread Wolf would kind of be solved or vastly less of an issue if this was just a new IP with Dragon Age inspiration.
In the words of Az “if this fails, BioWare is dead.” I am looking forward to that as BioWare has delivered trash for years now and deserves to fail. A shame given how much I loved Origins, ME1-3, and ideas from DA2-I.
Dwarves can't be mages in Dragon Age lore, there's never been an exception to that rule.... until now. Check the dragon age wiki for Dwarfs if you dont believe me.
@@Joe-it2dh i saw an interview with the developers and none of them knew anything about the other dragon age games. Heck none of them knew who zevran was so not suprised by this making a dwarf mage Even though the they can only work runes.
@@timjacobsen253 tbf, the descent sets up a possible explenation for why thats the case, the descent is a dlc for inquisition. wether they'll have remembered that or not...i dont know
Agree that character models look weird. Proportions are awkward. Ui is also not great. But the environments look stunning. I think art style is quite good. Also cleanness is lore reason. First game was at ferelden. Ferelden is mostly medieval human civilisation. They are tired because of long conflicts. That’s why it looks darker. This game is at Tevinter. They are the most advanced civilisation.
Yes. But. The setting in general used to be Dark Fantasy. Has nothing to do with the continent. The existence of Darkspawn. The existence of Blood Magic and Demons (actually more releveant in Tevinter than in Ferelden). Backstabbing, intrigue, grabs for power. Cruel histories of racism and bloodshed and deep theological themes.
You nailed Dragon Age from Origins to Inquisition perfectly. It’s only been downhill since the second game and Bioware has been running on nostalgia for its IPs instead of creating actual good games.
Not really. Inquistion was awesome and won Game of the Year for a reason. Was it still flawed? Absolutely. But it was way better than 2 in every regard. I haven't beaten origins so I won't say it is better than that but I couldn't even stomach 2.
@@SageOfLimitlessHands Inquisition was really bad at the release, they improved it later with patches and DLCs. That's pretty much the consensus of everyone around the game. It was heavily criticized at the release. From pointless empty open world to the removal of some features in the final product. I pre-ordered it because "it's dragon age, insta buy!", played for 1h and never again.
@CRVSE I didn't play it on release do I can't comment on that. I didn't play it to years later specifically because 2 was such a dumpster fire of a game. As far as being heavily criticized and it being a general belief it was bad that is entirely false as I never heard people complain about it until much much later. In fact most people(I worked for games top at the time) said they loved it so I don't think it was the general consensus especially given it won Game of the Year against Destiny of all games which was universally praised. I think many didn't like it and they all have valid excuses as to why but I don't think most didn't like it. The data kinda contradicts this statement
@@SageOfLimitlessHands put it into this perspective... Inquisition was a 5/10 while the other games were a 3/10... That was a really terrible year for video games. I personally like Inquisition but it's not a great game tbh.
@xLionsxxSmithyx Destiny was a 3/10? No sir destiny is one of thr most popular franchises out there especially when it came put. It was a global phenomenon. To even try and pretend that game when it came out was a 3/10 is pure opium because Inquisition won Game of the Year in a pre gamerga*e era. Before the DEI came rolling in and ruined gaming. Before all the stuff we hate now, Inquistion earned it's spot. Lol It objectively is a great game. Whether one is a huge fan of it is irrelevant.
@@beaucole446 well it’s weird they did it in a children’s art style, I’m sure it’s great but just like fortnight I can’t do that kinda animation if I was 12 I’d be all over it
Bioware always makes kinda ugly characters this is probably the best they have ever done one characters faces. Not saying they are great, just better than the norm for bioware.
Edited because people are deliberately obtuse: Yes blood magic is still in the game, but it's CLEARLY not playable which is clearly what I meant. 🤦 Also thanks for hte spoilers guys 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Eh, the top surgery is cannon. Krem and Dorian talk about it... BUT... they removedblood magic, but blood and spirit magic, which is how it's canonically supposed to be performed. A VERY cynical part of me wonders if that's why they took those kinds of magic out of the game. No canon blood magic flesh crafting and scar free spirit healing, and presto, a "canon reason for scars". Course it also gives them an excuse for having a girl all beat up for Act 1 when there's supposed to be "a return of healing magic" to the game so there's that... Gotta pull those heartstrings or something, because "choices matter".
Ill probably wait until it releases and more RUclipsrs like AJS are able to get their hands on it to review it before i make my final decision on buying or passing on the game.
I’m not about to say a game is good or bad without even playing it. That’s one of the biggest issues in game reviews nowadays, someone will play a game for 2 hours and call it goty or gutter trash.
The companion combat combos reminds me of the combat system from Xenoblade games, which I'm very much up for. But does it suit for Dragon Age? Maybe not. But that fast paced combat system with the dodge spamming just doesn't suit for Dragon Age game in my opinion. There's also something in the art style that doesn't appeal to me, maybe it's because its so colorful or the amount of particle effects. I don't know.
Considering the build diversity thing. To me it is not going to be even close to proper crpg games or previous Dragon Age games. You will have roughly 5 skills + maybe 2 ultimates to choose from. And a few weapon attacks (light and heavy) and a movement skill. That is your selection roughly what I have seen from videos if you do not decide to respec yourself at all. That is a seriously a low amount of skills to play with when you think about what this game could have had. Look at the skill list for Baldur's Gate 3, Divinity Original Sin 2, Pathfinder: WotR and Pillars games. Dragon Age Veilguard is a joke when compared to those games. The difference with peoples builds I suspect was that they used a bit different version of said base class: like necromancer vs evoker vs spellblade. And gear that alters your damage type / efficiency is not a replacement for proper selection of skills. As skills actually change the feel of your gameplay and approach. Sure some action rpg games out there pretty much have a similar amount of skills. Like Dragons Dogma 2. But that is my biggest issue with that game and other similar games too. 4 spells in combat + light and heavy is not fun in the long run. Even if I can change those out now and then. It is still annoyingly limiting. More so if the available list is barely more than what you can choose to use in combat. Also the gameplay for a mage in this game look horrible. Dashing, teleporting, twirling and posing 24/7. Like what on earth happened. The original concept of a mage in Origins is dead in this game. DA2 and Inquisition already eroded that to some degree but it was still hanging on there. But not anymore. And just the overall combat change to completely action is a middle finger to a portion of the fan base. I do not want a migraine iducing version of a God of War type of game. I want an improved and iterated Dragon Age Origins. Sigh. And you can still have those primer and detonator things. Such things are not limited to action games.
@leecroft7311 have you never played a bioware game? Those "woke" stuff is par for the course and they handle it very well without it becoming virtue signaling
@@maccagrabme I agree virtue signaling is an actual issue in modern media but DA has always been inclusive without it feeling like it is being shoved down your throat.
I'm tired of good games coming out, then getting sequels that are way too different from the original game. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. I mean, eventually you get to a point where artistic iteration on the product goes too far and it's no longer a similar product.
Elden Ring is a perfect example of fixing something that wasn't broke. The only difference is that it was still a good game just not as fun as past Souls entries. The open world killed it. That's just me though.
I'll try it out and see how it is, not convinced I'll enjoy the action focus or the character design. If it really kills my immersion I'll have to refund it mid-game, MSQ narrative and immersion is big for me
This looks like a bargain bin type of game that not worth spending more than $4.99 on, until then I'll just play dozens of other games that have come out this year that are significantly better.
I understand that RUclipsrs/Reviewers want to not say anything negative about the Pronounces and Top Surgery Scars because it's a touchy subject. However as someone who genuinely has nothing against that sort of thing, i just wanna say that there has to be a fine balance and a certain finesse to these things beeing implemented into video games. Especially having to keep in mind the setting of the game and overall tone, my main issue with how it is handled inside this game is mostly because of it beeing a fantasy game. It's hard for me to think in a world where magic exists would also be a world where top scars would be a thing. Besides that i also just dont appreciate how the character creator obviously steers people into making a certain type of character (slim,petite, none exaggerated body parts.) I also just overall dont like the aesthetic of the game either, nor do i think the gameplay has anything worthwhile to it, just seems like a pretty boring smash button and press evade when prompted to combat.
This is exactly my issue with it. They loudly and proudly said "healing magic is back in the game" then proceeded to remove blood magic and spirit healing alltogether... the two types of magic that *canonically* form the basis for reassignment surgery... and then ALSO have a choice between two female characters getting unavoidably beat up for a whole act. In a world where there's HEALING MAGIC!! And HEALTH POTS!! WHYYYYYYY?!?!?! And as a personal grip, I feel like it's extremely tokenistic to put this ONE type of scarring into its own menu when there's literally a "scars" slider/menu. If we're including and normalising, put if in the damn scars menu so it's not a token statement. Would it not be better to have Maeveris - a canon proud trans character - just living her best life? Or a trans character just being effing happy? It's already (supposed to be) a dark fantasy game, why are we inserting real world stress into it? Honestly, BG3 did this better. An unassuming choice for genitals, voice, and pronouns that you can ignore if you don't want to think about it, and actual dialogue changes if you DO choose to have those options turned on. Magic is actually magic, so you ROLE PLAY any surgery/real world angst like it's (gasp) a role playing game. And yeah, I won't get started on that ass slider. It's a bit of a joke, and even SWTOR did it better.
"Magic is meant to serve man, not rule over them" is what every circle mage is/was taught.... and even after the events of Inquisition there are still Circles... all one has to do is Request a Mage and one will arrive from A Circle and the Circles are ran by the Chantry which are Charity organisations... so it's free for the people.
It's literally canon that they don't exist. Krem talks in-depth about the procedure in Inquisition. The only way to have gender affirming procedures done in Thedas is through flesh-crafting using blood magic/spirit healing magic. It's painful, it's SCAR FREE and there are no other ways to do it safely with the technology of the canon game world. It's right there in the Inquisition codex entries and from Krem's mouth. It shits me to tears that they had a canon way of being *actually* inclusive, but instead they deliberately removed that canon method of doing the procedure and sparked a fan war in the most toxic way possible. I'm so, SO angry at BIoWare right now. They're literally fuelling dogpiling for $$
@@noctoi oh I know, just for clarification I think it's stupid to have Top surgery Scars because that implies surgery without magic was performed and the recovery was Natural recovery over time and I think that's a very low survival chance for that kind of surgery in a medieval environment.
The character design looks fine, I'll most likely get it at some point. From what I've seen so far it just doesn't look like a Dragonage game. The only way I can explain it to people is to say, _"Imagine playing Mortal Kombat, but they changed the art direction to be more like Capcom v/s Marvel or a Street Fighter game."_ I mean, it looks pretty cool, and if I'm being honest I do want to play it. Yet, it looks like it was made for another IP, like Disney or Pixar and this is a video game in that sorta world. I'm worried while I play it, that there will be some dark stuff happening or a story told but then it just won't hit me in the right way because I'm sparkling at the moment and the birds are chirping with happy songs! LOL, it just looks terribly wonderful but just not the right *feel* for this game franchise.
I'm still on the fence. I'm not sure if I will pre-order, or wait for a sale. However, I am happy to see that the standard edition is only $60 USD, and the Deluxe Edition only includes cosmetics, no "pay to play" or early access garbage. I'm mostly interested in the story. That's about the only reason I play games, any more. Reminds me of the "choose your own adventure" books I read as a child.
@@CharlesBurleigh Luckily we have a online game rental site in England, called Boomerang Rentals. I have been using them since 360 days. I rent a lot of my games now, as it saves me money. I have popped it on my list.
What worries me aside from the goofy art design, is the fact that the game seems to be too linear. As always game devs love to do 180° turns when listening to fan feedback. After how small and repetitive DA2 was they turned Inquisition into an offline-MMO and after the complaints about Inquisition they seem to be turning Veilguard into Final Fantasy 13. The sweetspot is the CRGP style of Dragon Age Origins. You have an open world map with decently sized instanced maps. As for the combat, I'm way past that. I willing to accept it for what it is now.
Waiting on actual post release reviews. I wish they'd drop a demo and the character creator ahead of release like dragons dogma did. I think those 2 things would go a long way with assuaging/confirming peoples concerns.
I have 0 interest in this game, it's turning an RPG series with some great tactical combat, with a wide variety of class abilities where you cna mix a lot of abilities for your team set up, into a simplistic action game with much less variety. It's such a dam waste. I guess not much else can be expected from the current Bioware. I don't knowwhat's wrong with Bioware. They can't seam to resist making insanely massive changes to their series combat systems with each game. Either in Dragon Age or Mass Effect, they pivoted pretty hard with each game. Personally, for both series, 1 and 3 are my favorites for combat systems. Yes, I know that Mass Effect 1 was too ambition for the time so it cut corners for its scope, Mass Effect 3 had its story issues, and Inquisition had the maps issue and a DLC ending that I didn't bother with but the combat is where those games win. Mass Effect 2 was fun but not the same level of freedom. Dragon Age's even numbered entries just seam cursed at this point. If they somehow survive this incoming flop, we may be in for a good Mass Effect game and a good Dragon Age game after each series will have put out unmitigated disasters. Assuming EA doesn't take them out back and shoot them after this game. I absolutely despise that we only have 3 abilities active on our main character at one time. In Inquisition you had 8! That game was fun for variety but this looks like monotonous shit by comparison.. Yes, I know, Mass Effect 3 also cut down the powers to that but it's a shooter so more of an action game in combat anyway so it fits better than in a fantasy RPG. Is he talking Biotic combos? The combo system was in ME3. In 1 the biotics were mainly just for making it so enemies could never move or to kill them with fall damage on the planets when you were outside, in ME2 they were just for either moving enemies out of cover or doing more damage against biotic barriers and some abilities of biotic and tech were good at breaking armor. Andromeda's only positive was its strange class system that took the ME3 system but let you make your protagonist into a Frankenstein's monster of a hybrid class. Depending on powers you chose you got passives from 2 of the classes at a time, depending on your mix of the 3 kinds of powers that you had but you could level any of them and combine the ones you got at will. The combat system sucked because the gun customization they added as convoluted and the worst part was the enemy design was so bad that none of it was worth it. ME3 has the best enemy design and combat, by light years.
Someone on reddit pointed out to me, how the proportions of the character models are off (heads too big, almost as if they're bloated) and now I can't unsee it
Apart from that I'm not sold either. The praise it gets might just be mandatory glazing so those folks won't lose access to review copies from that publisher
I’m going to reserve judgment as I do with every game until post launch. I really don’t think the visuals look bad at all. I rather like them, but I like the highly stylized art style as much as I like a gritty art style so meh. If the combat is good enough none of that will really matter to me anyways, and hey it might just surprise us and I hope it does because BioWare used to make some great games long ago.
Yeah the over the top colour saturation and bloom/flare are some of my biggest gripes with the art style. The 'stage' is fine, the backdrops are gorgeous (in some shots), but the actual characters and spells are a hot mess during combat, and it's ALL masked by the flash and super-bright colours and flare. If you pause practically any combat shot at any point, you can see significant inconsistencies if you look PAST the flash and really look closely at the characters. Weapons disappear, characters become hollow, squash and stretch does WEIRD things, weapons and effects miss targets wildly while still "hitting", it's not great. If you pause DA:O, DA:2, DA:I, BG3 etc. at any point in combat, you can basically take a screenshot and use it as an action wallpaper. Not so much with this game. And it's bright enough that I know I'll end up with a migraine if I don't turn that crap down when I play. I know a lot of people like it, but I HATE the combat too. I despise button combos and I would never choose to play an RPG with action combat. I honestly don't even care if it's "good", I freaking hate that style of combat. If I wanted to play mortal combat, I wouldn't be buying Dragon Age lol. The blight is now a DEBUFF too. That really, REALLY ticks me off. It craps all over the lore, just like the retconning of blood magic, templars, and spirit healers. And speaking of healers, if we "have healing back in the game", why are there scars and characters being bruised up for hours and unhealable?! I have absolutely no issue with mastectomy/top surgery - it's canon, and both Krem and Dorian talk about it being done routinely via a mix of blood and spirit healing magic - but if we're in TEVINTER, why can't we heal cleanly on command? Especially when one of the big selling points when the teaser drops started was "healing magic is back!!!". I dunno, it has moments of looking absolutely beautiful, but the gaslighting, the bullying from BOTH sides, but particularly the 'community panel' bandwagon, and the retconning is turning me off the game even more than the combat changes and thinly veiled issues with the models and graphics. They've made it clear they want a "new" audience, and they might be right... I"m to damn old for this shit - especially when Owlcat and Larian exist. Having better options won't stop me from being salty about Dragon Age and the way it's been gutted/put back together wrong though. 😔
I'm already not a big fan of dragon age, but if I was thinking about giving this a try then the existence of that is an automatic no. If a dev is willing to put that into the game I expect far more woke ideologies to creep their way into the actual gameplay. Pronouns are one thing, top scars are the next level.
did you see the chest and glute sliders when set to max? ... Basically you can create whatever freak show you can imagine but god forbid if you want to create a "well endowed" female. Such diversity, much inclusion, very stunning and brave.
It’s crazy how this is the 4th game in the series yet it looks like an entirely different game from the first dragon age. Compare this to like a dragon: pirate yakuza in Hawaii and even tho its like the 100 game and it’s this crazy pirate spin off of the yakuza series, it still looks like it still belongs to the yakuza franchise. BioWare is dead and buried imo, AAA gaming is heading to the graveyard if they keep this up.
"I mean, I've heard some rumours about DA:V, but it can't be that bad, right? Let's watch some combat..." The main character jumps 10 feet into the air. "... and like that, you lost me."
Combinations have been in every bioware title from the mass effect and dragon age franchises. They keep trying to pass this off as a "new feature", yet every game had it, even ME1 and DAO, with warp, and all other combinations in the DAO codex.
I think if you take the game as what it is, it seems fine. Combat looks interesting and it just is what it is. It's just sad that they use the Dragon Age name.
When this game bombs they'll blame all the people they told not to buy it. The gameplay looks terrible, the characters look like plastic. I've seen next to nothing about the story, the things i have heard about the story sounds like it's been shifted and changed repeatedly from what was originally set up at the end of inquisition and not in a good way.
@@ninjafohhiya they all had a similar gameplay, you could constantly switch between characters, deploy spells ans skills, create much more detailed strategies that made you actually feel like a commander, this game does not have that, they removed every aspect (shown so far) that made dragon age gameplay be dragon age gameplay. What they present here is nothing but a failed attempt to create a similar feeling, wich they faild as of now.
It doesnt look bad, but i have a big backlog, so i m fine waiting for it to come to gamepass, i played all the DA games, but it has been too long to get hyped by this....
The warning signs: 1.When they invite ppl to play specific polished sections of the game! 2.when IGN gets exclusive access! 3. EA has been trying to hard to please players to maximize the potential sales. 4.its a single player game, you dont need to pre-order you can wait for a review!
Well, it just seems that if you are used to the disappointment of Bioware games post 2010, then you'll like Veilguard. If you were hoping this is was gonna be the game to turn Bioware around and bring it backs to it's roots, well, we're shit outta luck.
YOu can, but Wolfheart and a few others have shown their own footage where they turned it all off and it was still like playing under a strobe. The bloom and flash and flare effects are still there, and because of the over the top saturation and ray tracing it reflects off every surface like a mirror ball.
I appreciate the honest opinion. My positives: no multiplayer/liveservice Extensive character creator. Combat looks fun(to me at least) Best hair physics i have ever seen. Negatives: Character designs seem lacklustre, art style is too Pixar-esque Top-scars and all that BS makes me worried they might force that stuff into the writing. All in all it screams Andromeda to me. Great combat, bad everything else.
i'd rather replay dragon's dogma 1 for the 30th time and maybe dragon's dogma 2 for the 3rd time even tho i still think DD1 beats DD2 hands down in a lot of areas.
I'm a huge dragon age fan, this game doesn't even look like dragon age, not the same vibe as the first ones I had this problem a little with dragon age inquisition but I still liked the game but this one has the same problem x5.
Every time I see footage my eyes glaze over because of all the particle effects. I assume there are animations, but all I see is a light show of nonsense that does nothing for me.
when i see 2024 , this DA core design is a hub + door to jump on map ... i'm all ready off more i see info about this game more its reminds the case BF 2042 , core design to be game service battle royale focus and they just put some stuff for the empty pace ( the features core fan wanted ) .. DA Veilgauds looks the same way so i'm afraid the story , the narrative 'll be just some "gimick" .. the illusion to jump of and adventure but just a dungeon crawler to unlock addiotional dialogue . at end the player mostly won't feel to a be on the world , just do some task/mission this is not an rpg ( not talking about the combat , or having customization , inventory .. ) . DA origins was a good mix , you feel the world can live without the player , the player can impact the world , your choice make sense :)
My Thoughts on the game so far: I have alot of concerns myself too. But the biggest reason im holding out and wanting to play the game is because of the continued story from inquisition with solas. I want to see that story hopefully come to a satisfying close. I really hope it does because i dont feel like waiting another 8 to almost 10 years for another game. I still have the next mass effect to look forward to hopefully releasing if its not canceled by EA anyway..🙄 Nevertheless, The fact that Harding, my favorite ginger dwarf Is finally romancable, makes it the canon romance for me.😍 I am upset at the slidders though. The butt and chest sliders suck.. i know women who want the options to make their characters have big butts or chests and cant cause of how limiting the options are.. they talk about inclusion and yet refuse to include options for plus sized women with big butts or chests. Its quite hypocritical and sad..🙄 I completely understand why people feel the way they do. I am worried about the game but want to play it for myself to form a proper educated opinion by the end. I would say if this game does fail, mass effect will be in great danger i fear.. ive been a bigger fan of mass effect than DA. So that game for me will be the deciding factor in wether or not bioware is dead as a studio and that i wont care anymore. But ill wait and see what happens to that game.🤷♂️
I had almost the same experience as you with the DA series :) I really loved Origins, 2 was ok-ish, and for Inquisition, at the very moment when I took control of my character, clicked on my mouse and my character did an attack animation, I closed the game and uninstalled it right there.
The thing that tipped me off as a massive red flag is how every previewer focuses on the one thing that does look decent, the game play. No one wants to talk about the writing.
@@TheHeartThatRunsCold ummm yeah multiple reviewers did and they said it's promising sooooo idk where you got that idea from
@@thatredhead3613 Sponsored or non-sponsored?
I love how they're all talking about how it's like God of War....
I think people have been playing Bingo cards with the videos too.
I want my dragon age game to be like Dragon age...
If I wanted God of War I'd play God of War.
After watching Luality's review of her preview I got a ffing migraine from all the colours and clutter on the screen. I was afraid of it and this is MY MAIN reason why I am definetely not buying it. I already didn't like several other things that didn't jive with me.
Tone, Dialogue, Combat system, Control ect.
But after last night's pain from watching just her vid, it was the last drop.
Yes. Nonsense aside, Origins was damn near grimdark. This doesnt feel like the same genre, let alone series. Bioware hasnt been good for over a decade.
You gotta be blind, deaf and dum to make this purchase.
The graphics seem very reminiscent of ME especially the lighting so I do understand the concern since ME gave my wife headaches from all of the bloom but you might be able to disable it. Can't do much if you don't like action combat but what are your issues with the tone and dialog?
I am going to play it day 1 so if there is anything you want me to look into settings wise LMK and I'll get back to you.
@@beaucole446 The tone feels out of place. Maybe because I am an older millenial and therefore it annoys me more, but the pausing filler words & gagging in between as if they all quip all the time, it breaks my world immersion.
That lighthearted joking tone that they put in with poor writing at an attempt at the gallows kind of humor, that's the best way I can describe it.
Don't get me wrong I don't mind humour, sometimes they are able to pull it off, but from what they've shown us, it just is not to my taste, it felt cringy.
Wolfheart attempted to turn the clutter (I'll name it that) all off, but couldn't do everything.
The glow particularly being used everywhere is grating, if you pardon my phrasing; like a unicorn shat glitter and puked rainbows all over the place.
Again this is not a slight saying you can't be happy or like the game, but to me, asking 70 bucks for a game that gives me headaches and potential cringing, I'd rather keep that for something else.
@@beaucole446 I'll be following YT for the reviews when it comes out, but sure if you're not too busy playing yourself, you can let me know if I am misreading it completely.
The change in design of the qunari was enough to make me pass
Which one?
All of them, they all look like Yakub.
characters are Biowares biggest selling point (besides the story), in this case they are generic, agenda driven, excluding attractive females (bodies), aimed at a Fortnite audience DRIVEL..
game is peak mediocrity all around and i can't stand the excessively effeminate walk, run and pick up animation for male characters
No fr bro that legit what killed it for me. My favorite game race and they made them look like walking landing strips. Now I have seen some where the horns kinda dictate how big the forehead is but it was like 1 time. Also they had few hairstyles that covered the massive foreheads which doesn't help either.
Yes.. not enough Blood.. Remember DAO? where everything was filled with blood decals :D
Not wasting money on this one.
Agreed.
Me too
Waste your money on me
@@Vislow
Femboy?
@@VislowI’d rather buy concord
It looks like a phone game being ported to console.
and if it actually plays like how phone games look like they play?
I can't wait to be called names by the Devs for not buying this.
Oh you don't have to wait! Go onto any of the "community panel" channels and make a passing mention of being "concerned" or "unsure" in amongst a wall of praise from the game... they'll put you right in your place. The amount of channels I've followed for YEARS and blocked over the past month is bonkers. SO many creators passing on the dev's disdain for "origins fanboys" and "oldschool gamers" and "origins outdated and slow gameplay". The gaslighting and cult mentality is very real.
Cmon people let's be honest people. Anyone who supports genital mutilation propaganda on children and pretends this isn't an issue is cosigning and enabling this bs leftwing radicalization in gaming. Besides all the gameplay and lore issues. Why would I play a game about medieval fantasy and escape if there is political modern day BS in it😂?
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You are so eager to be a victim holy shit. Beyond pathetic.
cant wait to be called names by """true gamers"""" for buying this
@@JoaoPedro-io9yd Oh sweetie, I don't give a toss if you buy it. Go have fun.
Not buying it.
I believe it wont have Denuvo so its a easy to get a pirated version
@Rickflair604 Bought it. I've seen enough now from all the people (not all megafans, but critical people too) who played 7 hours. I understand the stuff that bothers people. But i see enough that I love. I cant wait to play.
@@RandomWandrerenjoy dei trash
@@Cookiedough101 Not even worth pirating, discs space and my time is more important to me and I can play way better games instead.
@@RandomWandrer I’m glad. Some of us have standards, and I can’t shill for entertainment’s sake.
Paying youtubers to make gaslit marketing videos doesnt make the game good they give minor criticism to make it seem like theyre unbiased than praise literally everything
Ah yes the good old conspiracy theorist approach
@@MerrillDragonAgeUbisoft is literally trying the gaslight people into buying AC Shadows lol WTF are you talking about?
@coreydillon4330 exactly it isn't a conspiracy theory if it can be proven
@@coreydillon4330 I'll take your word for it
@@MerrillDragonAge Access journalism is a thing
I do miss when devs were brave enough to have a vision that didn't squarely revolve around the modern world.
wont change until yall dont buy shit and let them flop
You're looking for Kojima games ;)
Once afeminate man and masculine women took over, everything has been worse in all areas of life.
They are trying to reshape reality and delete the past... even if 99% of people hate it.
And I miss a world where Tik Tok and political stuff hasn't fried our brains...
Go watch Wolf Video He pretty much will tell you 2 things 1, If you like Elder Ring Skip & 2, If you like CRPG's Skip. He so far Pretty honest on his Feeling for this Game.
Wolf who? Can't find the channel
@@palosrobinson6190 WolfheartFPS.
Well you have to include the why though. if you like elden ring for the open world/exportability and don't like non-open games then skip. if you like c or trpgs and don't like action combat/games then skip.
I'm done with Bioware.
I'm not even angry anymore.
I'll just go play BG3 if I need loveable characters, a world-ending threat, several side-missions, a myriad of playstyles, great graphics and fun music. 👍 Thank you, Bioware, for steering me to your competition.
I'll just be waiting until it's released and decide.
The sensible thing to do. Seems a lot of people forgot about that secret technique...
Totally fair. I was going to wait for reviews. But having seen loads of reviews (good and critical) of the first 7 hours, it's a safe purchase for me.
@@seriouslie9300 dont need to when the writing is on the wall, and the last two games in the series were trash.
Origins is one of my favorite games ever. I beat 2... once. Never finished Inquisition. They keep getting worse and this one looks like it will be the magnum opus of crap Bioware has been building towards for over a decade.
@@RandomWandrer Metaphor looks way better than this trash. Have fun pissing your money away.
@@fenixchief7 See me personally while I do love DAO its not my favorite. DA2 is. So to me it seems like the players wanted the game to go in two different directions. Set one (you) is the wanted it to become the type of game BG3 is, and set two (me) really like the way the game is looking.
They got rid of Varic’s chest hair. Enough said.
Heresy!
SPOILERS:
According to one vid I saw of the play testing, they got rid of VARRIC. I had a bad feeling, but yeah. Looks like the speculation was correct.
Cmon people let's be honest people. Anyone who supports genital mutilation propaganda on children and pretends this isn't an issue is cosigning and enabling this bs leftwing radicalization in gaming. Besides all the gameplay and lore issues. Why would I play a game about medieval fantasy and escape if there is political modern day BS in it😂?
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They didn't get rid of Varric's chest hair, they moved it to his face. 😆
Body hair was sacrificed for the much more important breast mutilations.
A live service ‘retooling’ pretending to be an action game pretending to be an RPG.
It’s a bit of a slap in the face of RPG’s as a genre. It even still plays like a live service, with Mission Launch screens instead of doors.
After multiple reviews, I almost bought it. The issue is I can play / enjoy a game when everything feels off. Maybe it is pretty good, but I shouldn't have to force myself to tolerate a art style for 50/60 hours that simply breaks al immersion or enjoyable escapism.
The combat looks so boring to be honest. It just does not seem that interesting.... and not being able to swap to companions? I mean come on.... Just... no....
Yeah. The very last thing I want to think about when playing a mage is face-rolling button combos. Where's the immersion?!
Not sure if I can articulate this right, but I’m feeling pretty on guard and suspicious of the videos I’ve seen lately.
Creators feel like they’re using a lot of buzzwords and stiff in their deliveries like there was an expectation placed on them on how they spoke about the features and gameplay etc. also the early criticisms being so drastically turning a content upon this wave of reviews also seems weird to me. The last thing that stood out to me is the lack of reviews stating that “this is their own words and there’s no input from devs about the review” that content creators seem to always push when they’re actually saying their opinions.
The general lack of criticisms and overly positivity just make it feel a lot more disingenuous to me. I dunno why.
It's cause they are all mostly shills that got the early access. Once it's open to the general public you'll start seeing the real takes on this game.
Your alarm bell for access media was going off. Rightly so. Manufactured positivity is a tell tale sign.
Stop this man, he's noticing!!!
It's probably because Bioware has them at social gunpoint or else no sponsorship money to put food on the table, and that's the NICEST part of the fallout.
Its because most of them make their living on youtube and so they HAVE to be very careful about what they say. buzzwords only exist as buzzwords because they are used a lot aka the "hinterlands problem" existed since the release of DAI. Also they only got to play 6-7 hours that's not enough time to find actual criticism if the stuff they were shown was actually good. There are plenty of criticisms from those who played it but they are all things that are up to taste.
I hate how it looks, from the art style to the animations, everything looks magical now, like basic Genshin style anime hack and slash, which directly goes against the lore of the game too. The UI is a disaster, everything is huge and colorful, markers everywhere on everything, the enemy designs are so goofy, they look like enemies from an E for everyone platformer. It reads like all flashy colors and flips with no substance. 3 skills is so off putting, no companion control. I just do not see anything dark or even reminiscent of DAO. DA2 is the least popular one but that at least had a dark tone still, this feels like they took DA2 and made it family friendly. Absolutely not for me, not even on sale, I'm so tired.
This isn't the Dragon Age I remember. I'm no longer the target audience.
Am guessing your a Orgins fans? have you not played any dragon age games since then?
@@PeskeyStrider2 I played Origins, 2, and Inquisition. It's more than the transition from tactical to action combat. I feel like the atmosphere and characters just don't match what was present in Origins. We'll never see another Oghren, and they've changed Morrigan so much that she's barely the same person.
@@deminisis Bro you do realize Oghren was generally despised by most players yes
@@deminisis If you've played all the Dragon Age games, you're definitely the target audience, so it's strange to think that you're not. Did you enjoy Dragon Age 2 and Inquisition, or did you have the same concerns with them? They are very different from Origins in terms of design, combat, etc. Also, I don't see that big of a difference in design from Inquisition Morrigan to Veilguard.
@@pricewright8030 I've rarely seen criticism of Oghren. There's tons of videos on youtube about his comedic dialogue.
Origins was BLOOD, blood everywhere even in the cutscenes WHY space marine 2 selling? cos of BLOOD.
Here you have shadow sludge instead of red blood.
Bioware is dead.
been a fan of Dragon Age since Origins. it’s crazy what it’s turned into and i cannot get behind it. i hope it’s a wake up call and they make the game we’ve been fucking asking for for over 10 years lol
this is a $20 game for me. it just makes me wanna go do another Origins run and revisit KOTOR, and that’s exactly what i’m gonna do.
@@Darkbiter same here, just redownloaded Origins to my PC. If these game makers keep these trends up, people like us will continue to tune out. We have more than enough favorites to replay, and a huge backlog to get through lol
Same, on the positive side by the time it hits $20 the modders might have made it better!
I'm in the middle of my first Origins play through. I have a huge backlog, so may not get to this game until it is on deep discount.
@@CharlesBurleighhope you enjoy it, dude! it’s awesome even to this day.
I’m not sold on this at all.
I have a feeling that the people currently reviewing the game are being disingenuous to the consumer in service of the company.
They invited too many to buy them all. And some of those reviewers like Wolfheartfps are pretty respected.
@@Bairyhalls47 What a ridiculous comment. "Anybody who likes this game is a paid actor" really?
@@lordfickle8900 what's more ridiculous, is assuming that there isn't an incentive to have opinions that favor the company that has sponsored them.
@@Bairyhalls47 so they are all shills while everybody else is a true, free thinking individual?
@@lordfickle8900 this looks like the saints row reboot of Dragon age in terms of art style. Lighting, neon color palette, etc.
Majority of the players complained about it, but none of the sponsored RUclipsrs didn’t even talk about it.
In preview videos like these, RUclipsrs are told what they can talk about and what they can’t. They aren’t even allowed to capture their own footage.
And on top of it, why would RUclipsrs miss their chance at future preview event invites because they didn’t give the review expected by the publisher?
I guess i dont belong in this club
just keep in mind, the "early access" folks are all paid for, take for what they say with a grain of salt.
just the flight...
@@beaucole446 They are also promoting a 'code' that if you use will 'help' their channel. FYI
@@beaucole446 "Paid for holiday to go play a game"
@@xLionsxxSmithyx Majority of them specified that only the flight was paid for, not even the lodging. Also a couple of them refused the paid flight so nothing was paid for.
@@beaucole446 lmao..
I have played all the DA and ME games dozens of times. I am not really happy with this one, I will try it on EA Play Pro and see how it is or just finish the game in a month for the story. If the game does not flop hoping they add a tactical mode down the line where you can control companions.
exactly! a very "Disney-like" version of DA..
You know what's wild to me I just thought of this. The game kind of looks like "Forspoken" to me
Oh my god you're right!!!
I thought I was the only one who thought this! Oh dear...
WolfheartFPS had a take similar to yours, and I agree with both of you
@@ChimpoTalksGaming The diference is that one played the game te other didn’t. Wolfheart is a guy from crpg’s.
Yep, same. They're also the ONLY channels I've found that don't actively flame anyone who's expressing any kind of concern. I've blocked a LOT of my favourite creators this month, because they've suddenly decided to start piping into the comments with censure about any kind of negative opinions about THIS game, while they supported constructive dialogue about every other game they cover. It's baffling and frankly a little bit creepy.
@@nunoleitao1231? what is that even supposed to mean
@@noctoi It's because of the hostility and the political debating about wokeness that could genuinely ruin a content creators career.
@@beaucole446 I sincerely doubt that. Drama sells.
Nah I'm pretty sure it's a combination of doing what BioWare insinuates they should do combined with needing the ongoing exposure from bioware invitations to play testing. They're paid in exposure for this stuff.
That said, a lot of them are on teh community panel and THOSE content creators are generally pretty culty to be blunt.
Nah I'll trust the honest ones. No reason for me to take anyone's word for it when they sound so ingenuous. We'll see when it comes out. I really hope I'm wrong, but I doubt it.
I hated the reveal trailer, was Lukewarm on the first gameplay reveal but after the previews I actually kind of like it.
Not going to rush out to buy it but will see how it reviews. Probably 70% a purchase from me at the min, there’s nothing much else that’s coming out at the minute that really interests me.
This! idk why so many people are calling it trash when it hasn't even been released yet.
One of the biggest problems for me is how they make companions essentially degraded into human-sized accessories, enemies wont even attack them when next to them, all the aggro is on the MC, the companion AI is also tuned to just pretty much waiting for you to give order for wombo-combos. In the first 2 games, if you tweak companion tactics well, you can have a hand-free experience on nightmare difficulty, and it's very rewarding to me. It is sad to see Dragon Age being morphed into Mass Effect + God of Assassin's Witcher, also sad that no one's making RTWP games with tactics tweaking ( from what I've played, only Pillars 2 has that). Moreover, mass effect's gameplay is largely TPS, I'm doubtful that does it hold up here without guns.
Ive seen a ton of positive stuff from those CC who got a free trip to the event. They seem OVERLY POSITIVE. i dont know why people are praising the combat, who wanted God of war in Dragon age?
The art style is my biggest gripe as well, especially when they're trying to be dark and gritty.
It's not going to be a deal breaker for me.
And yes it is very Pixar looking.
The combat is the thing that kills it for me. Instead of turn base and real time with pause combat, they go for full 3D, twitchy, fortnitey, FPS shooter combat, where mage jumps around like energizer ADHD bunnies and shoot their magic at the enemy THEN jump into the creature to stab them in order to "activate the explosion". And the warrior shoot their shield, and then run into the enemy and bash the enemy in their face with the sword, and so that they can activate "the explosion. And Rogue? Rogue is like a hyper hedgehog on steroid jumping and leaping and backflipping around and shooting enemy with their bow THEN dash into the enemy to stab them with their daggers to "activate the explosion".
And when the companions are reduced to nothing more than skill mule, with truncated skill tree of their own that is not like the PC's. And when the PC's own skill tree is limited as it is shared between THREE sub classes and with not enough skill points nor enough skill effect or major skill set to use ...
No it is clear that they are catering to brainless ARPG shooter type gameplay and this is not meant for old fogey old timer fans and we should take our money some where else.
so you interrelation of "active explosion" is combos and they were in ME2, ME3, MEA and DAI. subclasses have been a thing in every DA game and at least now your not forces to stay a lane also the way the PC's skill tree works has deeper build customization than any DA/ME game except for DAO. Also the aim shot is just one of your abilities. This seems A LOT like the new God of war games if you have played those before.
@@beaucole446 If I wanted God of War... I'd play God of War...
I wanted Dragon age not God of War.
It doesn’t look like it resembles Dragon Age Origins at all. I want an Origins 2, not this.
@eatupsidedown try baldur's gate 1,2, icewindale 1,2, and never winter nights. That's the shit origins was inspired from. Loved those games. If you are stuck on origins love, give those games a go. Origins was over 10 years ago, things are going to change friend :)
Sadly, the series has struggled, for its entire existence after DA1, with these artists that just toss everything form the last game because they think they know better. Makes the vibe and other things just not feel cohesive.
This is exactly how I feel. The first game was so good! I remember loading up the second one was a slap in the face
dragon age has always changed drastically over its sequels, no idea why u would expect something similar to origins
@@ciggylegz The real debate is a question of how much change like this can be tolerated before you just tell them "bro, that's a different IP". Most of these issues with NOT Dragon Age Not Dread Wolf would kind of be solved or vastly less of an issue if this was just a new IP with Dragon Age inspiration.
In the words of Az “if this fails, BioWare is dead.” I am looking forward to that as BioWare has delivered trash for years now and deserves to fail. A shame given how much I loved Origins, ME1-3, and ideas from DA2-I.
Dwarves can't be mages in Dragon Age lore, there's never been an exception to that rule.... until now.
Check the dragon age wiki for Dwarfs if you dont believe me.
@@Joe-it2dh i saw an interview with the developers and none of them knew anything about the other dragon age games. Heck none of them knew who zevran was so not suprised by this making a dwarf mage Even though the they can only work runes.
@@timjacobsen253 tbf, the descent sets up a possible explenation for why thats the case, the descent is a dlc for inquisition.
wether they'll have remembered that or not...i dont know
It looks story related...
Agree that character models look weird. Proportions are awkward. Ui is also not great. But the environments look stunning. I think art style is quite good. Also cleanness is lore reason. First game was at ferelden. Ferelden is mostly medieval human civilisation. They are tired because of long conflicts. That’s why it looks darker. This game is at Tevinter. They are the most advanced civilisation.
Yes. But. The setting in general used to be Dark Fantasy. Has nothing to do with the continent. The existence of Darkspawn. The existence of Blood Magic and Demons (actually more releveant in Tevinter than in Ferelden). Backstabbing, intrigue, grabs for power. Cruel histories of racism and bloodshed and deep theological themes.
The artstyle is extremely generic with no bite in it.
You nailed Dragon Age from Origins to Inquisition perfectly. It’s only been downhill since the second game and Bioware has been running on nostalgia for its IPs instead of creating actual good games.
Not really. Inquistion was awesome and won Game of the Year for a reason. Was it still flawed? Absolutely. But it was way better than 2 in every regard. I haven't beaten origins so I won't say it is better than that but I couldn't even stomach 2.
@@SageOfLimitlessHands Inquisition was really bad at the release, they improved it later with patches and DLCs. That's pretty much the consensus of everyone around the game. It was heavily criticized at the release. From pointless empty open world to the removal of some features in the final product.
I pre-ordered it because "it's dragon age, insta buy!", played for 1h and never again.
@CRVSE I didn't play it on release do I can't comment on that. I didn't play it to years later specifically because 2 was such a dumpster fire of a game. As far as being heavily criticized and it being a general belief it was bad that is entirely false as I never heard people complain about it until much much later. In fact most people(I worked for games top at the time) said they loved it so I don't think it was the general consensus especially given it won Game of the Year against Destiny of all games which was universally praised. I think many didn't like it and they all have valid excuses as to why but I don't think most didn't like it. The data kinda contradicts this statement
@@SageOfLimitlessHands put it into this perspective...
Inquisition was a 5/10 while the other games were a 3/10...
That was a really terrible year for video games.
I personally like Inquisition but it's not a great game tbh.
@xLionsxxSmithyx Destiny was a 3/10? No sir destiny is one of thr most popular franchises out there especially when it came put. It was a global phenomenon. To even try and pretend that game when it came out was a 3/10 is pure opium because Inquisition won Game of the Year in a pre gamerga*e era. Before the DEI came rolling in and ruined gaming. Before all the stuff we hate now, Inquistion earned it's spot. Lol
It objectively is a great game. Whether one is a huge fan of it is irrelevant.
to cartoony cool for the kids though
There's a scene where a dude gets ripped apart... like drawn and quarter style... its like saying made in abyss is for kids.
@@beaucole446 well it’s weird they did it in a children’s art style, I’m sure it’s great but just like fortnight I can’t do that kinda animation if I was 12 I’d be all over it
People saying this gonna be reliving mass effect 2 experience is like what are they smoking 😂
@@waleedangel1385 well they played it lol
because it likely feels like that to play which is fine good even, but it's not dragon age feel
I don’t smoke but if I can get some of that I might start 😂
Mass effect 2 is quite a dark world. This? To call it childlike is insulting to a child's intelligence. This is just... devoid of any meaning.
AI knows what attractive characters look like, these designs are made this way on purpose...
Bioware always makes kinda ugly characters this is probably the best they have ever done one characters faces. Not saying they are great, just better than the norm for bioware.
@@beaucole446 Nah, Mass Effect had at least one or two conventionally attractive women, and the rest of the designs fit different niches.
Glad I'm not the only one that feels this way the comments on the dragon age page is positive and I'm surprised
First time I'm not interested about a new dragon age game.
when they add top surgery scars in a fkin FANTASY GAME it says enough about their priorities and what the story is going to be like
Top surgery? Like transformers have?
@@LovelessGentleman it's trans stuff...body chop chop
Edited because people are deliberately obtuse: Yes blood magic is still in the game, but it's CLEARLY not playable which is clearly what I meant. 🤦 Also thanks for hte spoilers guys 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Eh, the top surgery is cannon. Krem and Dorian talk about it... BUT... they removedblood magic, but blood and spirit magic, which is how it's canonically supposed to be performed. A VERY cynical part of me wonders if that's why they took those kinds of magic out of the game. No canon blood magic flesh crafting and scar free spirit healing, and presto, a "canon reason for scars". Course it also gives them an excuse for having a girl all beat up for Act 1 when there's supposed to be "a return of healing magic" to the game so there's that... Gotta pull those heartstrings or something, because "choices matter".
@@carlyofearth uuuhh... so what? I have no idea what your point is?
Ill probably wait until it releases and more RUclipsrs like AJS are able to get their hands on it to review it before i make my final decision on buying or passing on the game.
I've never heard someone say "We shall see" so many times in one video
not enough conviction to take a stand and make a choice
I’m not about to say a game is good or bad without even playing it. That’s one of the biggest issues in game reviews nowadays, someone will play a game for 2 hours and call it goty or gutter trash.
@@rurikhan I get what you mean! I just found it funny is all. There are so many pros and cons it's kind of just a "we shall see" game at the moment.
@@Bookworm214-y3d He hasn't played the game yet so wtf do you expect?
@@rurikhansounds like you need to work on your gamer eyes
This will be the first BioWare game I don’t buy
Welcome to the no-buy-Bioware club! Wish I had never bought DA II and ME: Andromeda, personally. But I learned after that.
@@Vo0Do0o You bought Anthem?
The artstyle is so bad, idk anyone who likes it. The combat looks floaty and bland. This is a wait for sale for me, if at all.
I hope it's good but... based on what I've seen personally, I don't know if it'll be what I'm looking for in a DA game.
Pretty much exactly how I feel.
The companion combat combos reminds me of the combat system from Xenoblade games, which I'm very much up for. But does it suit for Dragon Age? Maybe not.
But that fast paced combat system with the dodge spamming just doesn't suit for Dragon Age game in my opinion.
There's also something in the art style that doesn't appeal to me, maybe it's because its so colorful or the amount of particle effects. I don't know.
I dunno, im tired of the "appeal to the modern audience" thing, not gonna support this one, im tired of games lecturing me.
And what is this game lecturing you about lol
Considering the build diversity thing.
To me it is not going to be even close to proper crpg games or previous Dragon Age games.
You will have roughly 5 skills + maybe 2 ultimates to choose from. And a few weapon attacks (light and heavy) and a movement skill. That is your selection roughly what I have seen from videos if you do not decide to respec yourself at all.
That is a seriously a low amount of skills to play with when you think about what this game could have had.
Look at the skill list for Baldur's Gate 3, Divinity Original Sin 2, Pathfinder: WotR and Pillars games. Dragon Age Veilguard is a joke when compared to those games.
The difference with peoples builds I suspect was that they used a bit different version of said base class: like necromancer vs evoker vs spellblade. And gear that alters your damage type / efficiency is not a replacement for proper selection of skills. As skills actually change the feel of your gameplay and approach.
Sure some action rpg games out there pretty much have a similar amount of skills. Like Dragons Dogma 2. But that is my biggest issue with that game and other similar games too. 4 spells in combat + light and heavy is not fun in the long run. Even if I can change those out now and then. It is still annoyingly limiting. More so if the available list is barely more than what you can choose to use in combat.
Also the gameplay for a mage in this game look horrible. Dashing, teleporting, twirling and posing 24/7. Like what on earth happened. The original concept of a mage in Origins is dead in this game. DA2 and Inquisition already eroded that to some degree but it was still hanging on there. But not anymore.
And just the overall combat change to completely action is a middle finger to a portion of the fan base. I do not want a migraine iducing version of a God of War type of game.
I want an improved and iterated Dragon Age Origins. Sigh.
And you can still have those primer and detonator things. Such things are not limited to action games.
I’m not playing this garbage. They have ruined a once good franchise.
How so?
@@beaucole446Woke culture infected this game, shame.
@leecroft7311 have you never played a bioware game? Those "woke" stuff is par for the course and they handle it very well without it becoming virtue signaling
None of us want w0ke games.
@@maccagrabme I agree virtue signaling is an actual issue in modern media but DA has always been inclusive without it feeling like it is being shoved down your throat.
I'm tired of good games coming out, then getting sequels that are way too different from the original game. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. I mean, eventually you get to a point where artistic iteration on the product goes too far and it's no longer a similar product.
Elden Ring is a perfect example of fixing something that wasn't broke. The only difference is that it was still a good game just not as fun as past Souls entries. The open world killed it. That's just me though.
I'll try it out and see how it is, not convinced I'll enjoy the action focus or the character design. If it really kills my immersion I'll have to refund it mid-game, MSQ narrative and immersion is big for me
This looks like a bargain bin type of game that not worth spending more than $4.99 on, until then I'll just play dozens of other games that have come out this year that are significantly better.
And even then you can find actual hidden gems for that amount.
I understand that RUclipsrs/Reviewers want to not say anything negative about the Pronounces and Top Surgery Scars because it's a touchy subject. However as someone who genuinely has nothing against that sort of thing, i just wanna say that there has to be a fine balance and a certain finesse to these things beeing implemented into video games. Especially having to keep in mind the setting of the game and overall tone, my main issue with how it is handled inside this game is mostly because of it beeing a fantasy game. It's hard for me to think in a world where magic exists would also be a world where top scars would be a thing. Besides that i also just dont appreciate how the character creator obviously steers people into making a certain type of character (slim,petite, none exaggerated body parts.)
I also just overall dont like the aesthetic of the game either, nor do i think the gameplay has anything worthwhile to it, just seems like a pretty boring smash button and press evade when prompted to combat.
Your assuming everyone has access to magic or knows someone who is capable of healing scars which I'm pretty sure isn't the case
This is exactly my issue with it. They loudly and proudly said "healing magic is back in the game" then proceeded to remove blood magic and spirit healing alltogether... the two types of magic that *canonically* form the basis for reassignment surgery... and then ALSO have a choice between two female characters getting unavoidably beat up for a whole act. In a world where there's HEALING MAGIC!! And HEALTH POTS!! WHYYYYYYY?!?!?!
And as a personal grip, I feel like it's extremely tokenistic to put this ONE type of scarring into its own menu when there's literally a "scars" slider/menu. If we're including and normalising, put if in the damn scars menu so it's not a token statement.
Would it not be better to have Maeveris - a canon proud trans character - just living her best life? Or a trans character just being effing happy? It's already (supposed to be) a dark fantasy game, why are we inserting real world stress into it? Honestly, BG3 did this better. An unassuming choice for genitals, voice, and pronouns that you can ignore if you don't want to think about it, and actual dialogue changes if you DO choose to have those options turned on. Magic is actually magic, so you ROLE PLAY any surgery/real world angst like it's (gasp) a role playing game.
And yeah, I won't get started on that ass slider. It's a bit of a joke, and even SWTOR did it better.
"Magic is meant to serve man, not rule over them" is what every circle mage is/was taught.... and even after the events of Inquisition there are still Circles... all one has to do is Request a Mage and one will arrive from A Circle and the Circles are ran by the Chantry which are Charity organisations... so it's free for the people.
It's literally canon that they don't exist. Krem talks in-depth about the procedure in Inquisition. The only way to have gender affirming procedures done in Thedas is through flesh-crafting using blood magic/spirit healing magic. It's painful, it's SCAR FREE and there are no other ways to do it safely with the technology of the canon game world. It's right there in the Inquisition codex entries and from Krem's mouth.
It shits me to tears that they had a canon way of being *actually* inclusive, but instead they deliberately removed that canon method of doing the procedure and sparked a fan war in the most toxic way possible.
I'm so, SO angry at BIoWare right now. They're literally fuelling dogpiling for $$
@@noctoi oh I know, just for clarification I think it's stupid to have Top surgery Scars because that implies surgery without magic was performed and the recovery was Natural recovery over time and I think that's a very low survival chance for that kind of surgery in a medieval environment.
Same Concord's level of toxic positivity culture in their studio
The character design looks fine, I'll most likely get it at some point. From what I've seen so far it just doesn't look like a Dragonage game. The only way I can explain it to people is to say, _"Imagine playing Mortal Kombat, but they changed the art direction to be more like Capcom v/s Marvel or a Street Fighter game."_ I mean, it looks pretty cool, and if I'm being honest I do want to play it. Yet, it looks like it was made for another IP, like Disney or Pixar and this is a video game in that sorta world. I'm worried while I play it, that there will be some dark stuff happening or a story told but then it just won't hit me in the right way because I'm sparkling at the moment and the birds are chirping with happy songs! LOL, it just looks terribly wonderful but just not the right *feel* for this game franchise.
I'm still on the fence. I'm not sure if I will pre-order, or wait for a sale. However, I am happy to see that the standard edition is only $60 USD, and the Deluxe Edition only includes cosmetics, no "pay to play" or early access garbage. I'm mostly interested in the story. That's about the only reason I play games, any more. Reminds me of the "choose your own adventure" books I read as a child.
@@CharlesBurleigh Luckily we have a online game rental site in England, called Boomerang Rentals. I have been using them since 360 days. I rent a lot of my games now, as it saves me money. I have popped it on my list.
What worries me aside from the goofy art design, is the fact that the game seems to be too linear. As always game devs love to do 180° turns when listening to fan feedback. After how small and repetitive DA2 was they turned Inquisition into an offline-MMO and after the complaints about Inquisition they seem to be turning Veilguard into Final Fantasy 13. The sweetspot is the CRGP style of Dragon Age Origins. You have an open world map with decently sized instanced maps.
As for the combat, I'm way past that. I willing to accept it for what it is now.
Bloom doesn't make the image look blurry or like Vaseline. Bad AA implementation does.
Waiting on actual post release reviews. I wish they'd drop a demo and the character creator ahead of release like dragons dogma did. I think those 2 things would go a long way with assuaging/confirming peoples concerns.
Man, I’m 100% with you as still not sold either
Looks like a polished Dark Alliance 2021.
I won't even bother to try it.
They put top surgery scars in the character creation. Hard pass.
Everyone's head is too big.
I have 0 interest in this game, it's turning an RPG series with some great tactical combat, with a wide variety of class abilities where you cna mix a lot of abilities for your team set up, into a simplistic action game with much less variety. It's such a dam waste. I guess not much else can be expected from the current Bioware. I don't knowwhat's wrong with Bioware. They can't seam to resist making insanely massive changes to their series combat systems with each game. Either in Dragon Age or Mass Effect, they pivoted pretty hard with each game. Personally, for both series, 1 and 3 are my favorites for combat systems. Yes, I know that Mass Effect 1 was too ambition for the time so it cut corners for its scope, Mass Effect 3 had its story issues, and Inquisition had the maps issue and a DLC ending that I didn't bother with but the combat is where those games win. Mass Effect 2 was fun but not the same level of freedom. Dragon Age's even numbered entries just seam cursed at this point. If they somehow survive this incoming flop, we may be in for a good Mass Effect game and a good Dragon Age game after each series will have put out unmitigated disasters. Assuming EA doesn't take them out back and shoot them after this game.
I absolutely despise that we only have 3 abilities active on our main character at one time. In Inquisition you had 8! That game was fun for variety but this looks like monotonous shit by comparison.. Yes, I know, Mass Effect 3 also cut down the powers to that but it's a shooter so more of an action game in combat anyway so it fits better than in a fantasy RPG.
Is he talking Biotic combos? The combo system was in ME3. In 1 the biotics were mainly just for making it so enemies could never move or to kill them with fall damage on the planets when you were outside, in ME2 they were just for either moving enemies out of cover or doing more damage against biotic barriers and some abilities of biotic and tech were good at breaking armor. Andromeda's only positive was its strange class system that took the ME3 system but let you make your protagonist into a Frankenstein's monster of a hybrid class. Depending on powers you chose you got passives from 2 of the classes at a time, depending on your mix of the 3 kinds of powers that you had but you could level any of them and combine the ones you got at will. The combat system sucked because the gun customization they added as convoluted and the worst part was the enemy design was so bad that none of it was worth it. ME3 has the best enemy design and combat, by light years.
Someone on reddit pointed out to me, how the proportions of the character models are off (heads too big, almost as if they're bloated) and now I can't unsee it
Apart from that I'm not sold either. The praise it gets might just be mandatory glazing so those folks won't lose access to review copies from that publisher
Thanks for the balanced, unbiased and honest thoughts. Very much appreciated.
I’m going to reserve judgment as I do with every game until post launch. I really don’t think the visuals look bad at all. I rather like them, but I like the highly stylized art style as much as I like a gritty art style so meh. If the combat is good enough none of that will really matter to me anyways, and hey it might just surprise us and I hope it does because BioWare used to make some great games long ago.
Damn, those games that put circles on the floor to show the player the area of effect of a hostile attack, so immersion breaking....
Yeah the over the top colour saturation and bloom/flare are some of my biggest gripes with the art style. The 'stage' is fine, the backdrops are gorgeous (in some shots), but the actual characters and spells are a hot mess during combat, and it's ALL masked by the flash and super-bright colours and flare. If you pause practically any combat shot at any point, you can see significant inconsistencies if you look PAST the flash and really look closely at the characters. Weapons disappear, characters become hollow, squash and stretch does WEIRD things, weapons and effects miss targets wildly while still "hitting", it's not great. If you pause DA:O, DA:2, DA:I, BG3 etc. at any point in combat, you can basically take a screenshot and use it as an action wallpaper. Not so much with this game. And it's bright enough that I know I'll end up with a migraine if I don't turn that crap down when I play.
I know a lot of people like it, but I HATE the combat too. I despise button combos and I would never choose to play an RPG with action combat. I honestly don't even care if it's "good", I freaking hate that style of combat. If I wanted to play mortal combat, I wouldn't be buying Dragon Age lol.
The blight is now a DEBUFF too. That really, REALLY ticks me off. It craps all over the lore, just like the retconning of blood magic, templars, and spirit healers.
And speaking of healers, if we "have healing back in the game", why are there scars and characters being bruised up for hours and unhealable?! I have absolutely no issue with mastectomy/top surgery - it's canon, and both Krem and Dorian talk about it being done routinely via a mix of blood and spirit healing magic - but if we're in TEVINTER, why can't we heal cleanly on command? Especially when one of the big selling points when the teaser drops started was "healing magic is back!!!".
I dunno, it has moments of looking absolutely beautiful, but the gaslighting, the bullying from BOTH sides, but particularly the 'community panel' bandwagon, and the retconning is turning me off the game even more than the combat changes and thinly veiled issues with the models and graphics. They've made it clear they want a "new" audience, and they might be right... I"m to damn old for this shit - especially when Owlcat and Larian exist. Having better options won't stop me from being salty about Dragon Age and the way it's been gutted/put back together wrong though. 😔
I'll save everyone the time with one phrase: Top Surgery Scars in character creator...
I'm already not a big fan of dragon age, but if I was thinking about giving this a try then the existence of that is an automatic no. If a dev is willing to put that into the game I expect far more woke ideologies to creep their way into the actual gameplay. Pronouns are one thing, top scars are the next level.
did you see the chest and glute sliders when set to max? ... Basically you can create whatever freak show you can imagine but god forbid if you want to create a "well endowed" female. Such diversity, much inclusion, very stunning and brave.
@@DonkeyBuns seethe
Who actually cares about this tho it's just a character creator if this offends you take a break from the internet
I'm sure that's not his reason but it's OK that it's yours. I'm skipping this too
It’s crazy how this is the 4th game in the series yet it looks like an entirely different game from the first dragon age. Compare this to like a dragon: pirate yakuza in Hawaii and even tho its like the 100 game and it’s this crazy pirate spin off of the yakuza series, it still looks like it still belongs to the yakuza franchise. BioWare is dead and buried imo, AAA gaming is heading to the graveyard if they keep this up.
"I mean, I've heard some rumours about DA:V, but it can't be that bad, right? Let's watch some combat..."
The main character jumps 10 feet into the air.
"... and like that, you lost me."
Not my original comment, but I saw someone on another video say "Bioware is just giving me another reason on why I need to save my money."
Combinations have been in every bioware title from the mass effect and dragon age franchises. They keep trying to pass this off as a "new feature", yet every game had it, even ME1 and DAO, with warp, and all other combinations in the DAO codex.
I think if you take the game as what it is, it seems fine. Combat looks interesting and it just is what it is. It's just sad that they use the Dragon Age name.
Man, I love you Ruri. Your commentary never fails to be spot on.
When this game bombs they'll blame all the people they told not to buy it. The gameplay looks terrible, the characters look like plastic. I've seen next to nothing about the story, the things i have heard about the story sounds like it's been shifted and changed repeatedly from what was originally set up at the end of inquisition and not in a good way.
The character in the thumbnail kinda looks like Kraven from Spiderman 2 lol
This doesn’t look like a DA experience. Could be good, but definitely a departure.
What exactly is a Dragon Age experience, though? Each game has been vastly different from its predecessor.
@@ninjafohhiya they all had a similar gameplay, you could constantly switch between characters, deploy spells ans skills, create much more detailed strategies that made you actually feel like a commander, this game does not have that, they removed every aspect (shown so far) that made dragon age gameplay be dragon age gameplay. What they present here is nothing but a failed attempt to create a similar feeling, wich they faild as of now.
@@JoaoPedro-pc7mq i think that's just one aspect. But each dragon age game has been almost different from each other.
It doesnt look bad, but i have a big backlog, so i m fine waiting for it to come to gamepass, i played all the DA games, but it has been too long to get hyped by this....
The permanent gloss on everything just takes me out of it and makes this DA Disney edition
imagine even being close to sold on this game though. It's clearly going to be a dumpsterfire
You don't throw your shield, it's just a glowy thing that gets thrown out while you still hold it in your hand
The warning signs:
1.When they invite ppl to play specific polished sections of the game!
2.when IGN gets exclusive access!
3. EA has been trying to hard to please players to maximize the potential sales.
4.its a single player game, you dont need to pre-order you can wait for a review!
@@marcelfab7551 Exactly. Chosen people playing specific polished sections of the game. And it's still not impresive. Their "best" is not enough.
Well, it just seems that if you are used to the disappointment of Bioware games post 2010, then you'll like Veilguard. If you were hoping this is was gonna be the game to turn Bioware around and bring it backs to it's roots, well, we're shit outta luck.
You can set all the ui on or off in the settings menu
YOu can, but Wolfheart and a few others have shown their own footage where they turned it all off and it was still like playing under a strobe. The bloom and flash and flare effects are still there, and because of the over the top saturation and ray tracing it reflects off every surface like a mirror ball.
I appreciate the honest opinion. My positives: no multiplayer/liveservice
Extensive character creator.
Combat looks fun(to me at least)
Best hair physics i have ever seen.
Negatives: Character designs seem lacklustre, art style is too Pixar-esque
Top-scars and all that BS makes me worried they might force that stuff into the writing.
All in all it screams Andromeda to me. Great combat, bad everything else.
i'd rather replay dragon's dogma 1 for the 30th time and maybe dragon's dogma 2 for the 3rd time even tho i still think DD1 beats DD2 hands down in a lot of areas.
I'm a huge dragon age fan, this game doesn't even look like dragon age, not the same vibe as the first ones I had this problem a little with dragon age inquisition but I still liked the game but this one has the same problem x5.
Every time I see footage my eyes glaze over because of all the particle effects. I assume there are animations, but all I see is a light show of nonsense that does nothing for me.
when i see 2024 , this DA core design is a hub + door to jump on map ... i'm all ready off
more i see info about this game more its reminds the case BF 2042 , core design to be game service battle royale focus and they just put some stuff for the empty pace ( the features core fan wanted ) .. DA Veilgauds looks the same way so i'm afraid the story , the narrative 'll be just some "gimick" .. the illusion to jump of and adventure but just a dungeon crawler to unlock addiotional dialogue .
at end the player mostly won't feel to a be on the world , just do some task/mission
this is not an rpg ( not talking about the combat , or having customization , inventory .. ) . DA origins was a good mix , you feel the world can live without the player , the player can impact the world , your choice make sense :)
My Thoughts on the game so far:
I have alot of concerns myself too. But the biggest reason im holding out and wanting to play the game is because of the continued story from inquisition with solas. I want to see that story hopefully come to a satisfying close. I really hope it does because i dont feel like waiting another 8 to almost 10 years for another game. I still have the next mass effect to look forward to hopefully releasing if its not canceled by EA anyway..🙄
Nevertheless,
The fact that Harding, my favorite ginger dwarf Is finally romancable, makes it the canon romance for me.😍
I am upset at the slidders though. The butt and chest sliders suck.. i know women who want the options to make their characters have big butts or chests and cant cause of how limiting the options are.. they talk about inclusion and yet refuse to include options for plus sized women with big butts or chests. Its quite hypocritical and sad..🙄
I completely understand why people feel the way they do. I am worried about the game but want to play it for myself to form a proper educated opinion by the end. I would say if this game does fail, mass effect will be in great danger i fear.. ive been a bigger fan of mass effect than DA. So that game for me will be the deciding factor in wether or not bioware is dead as a studio and that i wont care anymore. But ill wait and see what happens to that game.🤷♂️
I had almost the same experience as you with the DA series :) I really loved Origins, 2 was ok-ish, and for Inquisition, at the very moment when I took control of my character, clicked on my mouse and my character did an attack animation, I closed the game and uninstalled it right there.
That is actually a good take it does feel like the art style is AI generated. I am also not a fan of the combat.