@Oram-77 I made a comment but I think it got deleted so I'll say it here. I was right. Now the question is will ea keep bioware alive to reboot og dragon age or will they shut them down and get a cheap company to do it
The first thing I did when Harding was talking in wonder how dwarves don't dream but wonder how she was there was think about Oghren in Dragon Age Origins: Awakening. He is absolutely freaking out when he realizes he's in the Fade because dwarves don't belong there. His fear and anxiety is palpable and his reaction was far more realistic than Harding's.
@@SilentTheViewer But but Harding's VA is also the VA of Liara from ME. Sure, she's pretty one note in nearly all of her performances, but she's no ROOKie...
Oghren, one of my most favorite characters in Origins. Too bad that he would be too offensive for the modern audience nowadays. It appears we will never know what happened to him and Nathaniel, or even to our Hero of Ferelden (if alive). By the way, did you know that spiders were removed from the game because some people said they were afraid of spiders? 🤦🏻♂️
After BG3s animation and voiceacting I can't look at this shit. And Larian had no EA money behind them just passion, something bioware has lost long ago.
My brother in the Maker, don't you know BioWare isn't AAA game studio and just can't afford to make such expensive projects? They don't have that kind of money. - Average modern BioWare fan, probably.
@@SithEmpiredidnothingwrong If few good devs could make DA Origins in there free time after work the today they can make it good with money of EA that most likely they god from FIFA players and there dream team
I disagree, bg3 got the same amount of lore problems and character butchering... it is a good game when it comes to mechanics, and some of the acting, but that's about it.
@@marcussawyer4751 Most of the lore issues are 5e inventions aren't they? Not that I have much to say on that, I didn't play the previous Baldur's Gate games.
So if anyone here played Origins, do you remember when your followers would talk to each other and you stopped everything you were doing to listen to it all? That's never happening in this game. It's the opposite: wishing the Veilguard characters would shut up.
Can I get you a ladder? So you can get off my back! i remember that from origins,it was either MC or maybe Alistair who was always repeating that line it drove me crazy,just remember that,i do agree with you for dialogue between companions it was great,game is great i was lost in that world for days,and then came mass effect,my god what a great time that was,i'm afraid we will never get games like that,maybe i'm just pessimistic.
They want to brag about their hair physics, but BG3 literally never felt the need to brag about theirs. Did you know in BG3 the hair is a completely physical entity that cannot clip through a character's clothes or body? Now you'd never know that because all hair is shoulder length in vanilla BG3, but I used mods to access the cambion (devil) race for my character giving her devil wings, and another mod to access Orin the red's long braided hair. The braid would not clip through my character's wings and would constantly get stuck laying over the top of her left or right wing. That's the first game I've ever seen that has such realistic hair physics and it was never even mentioned by the devs, it was an after thought!
Comparing Rook to Tav from Baldur's Gate 3 is like night and day. I'll be using 'he' as I typically play male characters. As you pointed out, Rook has a weird habit of placing his knuckles on his waist. Even when he's sitting, he rarely moves and has very little in the way of body language. He also doesn't emote all that often. Can't really tell what he is thinking just by looking at him. Going back to Tav, even the dragonborn version emotes very often. He smiles, he shows fear and grimaces in anger, narrows his eyes, etc. In addition, he changes his posture regularly. He also places hands on his waist. But he also crosses his arms, fidgets and adjust his weight, places his arms in front of him defensively or in surprise, postures to reach for his weapon, etc. Even though Tav doesn't have a voice, I can tell he has more of a personality than Rook. He acts more like a person standing around having a conversation than a robot trying to act normal. It's kind of uncanny watching Rook really.
It was like that DA:O. Character didn't speak but still seemed to have a lot of emotion. It has been about 10 years since I last played the game though lol
Tav does the Hero Stance ironically. Rook is drawn that way UNIRONICALLY.... And ironically that makes me ashamed and embarrassed to look at Rook standing that way. It's cringy, whereas Tav makes me laugh doing the same pose.
Young lady keep speaking your mind. I been playing video games since PONG. And this looks bad. Don't be silenced be others and keep voicing your own thoughts. BRAVO BRAVO
He didn't even know that dwarves don't dream!!!! How did he get access to early play?!?!? Has he ever even played a DA game before or watched a lore video?
@@MsInnersanctum If BioWare had guts they’d have haters and skeptics play the game early too. It could change people’s minds about Veilguard, but guess they don’t have that much faith in their own product
@@justcast1429 Yeah send Asmongold. He wouldn't have held back lmao. That gave me a lot of respect for Dragon's Dogma 2 that they included. Cringe authoritarian left banshee shrieking be damned.
For anyone interested, here is just a short dialogue I got chatgpt to write about Dragon Age and a short exchange between the MC and 2 companions about Elven gods. Main Character: Have you ever wondered what it would be like to meet an Elven god? Elara: gazing thoughtfully I imagine it would be a mix of awe and serenity. They embody such grace and wisdom. Brynn: crossing her arms Or a sense of dread. We can't forget that the Elven gods are tied to the Fade-and the dangers that lurk there. Elara: True, but think of the knowledge we could gain! The stories of their past could help us understand our present. Main Character: Do you think they’d even want to interact with us? The way the world has changed, we might seem... insignificant. Brynn: firmly We cannot presume to know their intentions. They may see us as a threat or an inconvenience. Elara: But what if they see the potential for hope? Maybe they would guide us, not hinder us. Main Character: smirking Always the optimist, Elara. It’s refreshing. Brynn: sighs Optimism is well and good, but let’s not forget the weight of our choices. We tread a delicate path. Elara: nodding Then let’s tread it together, with both caution and hope. Main Character: Agreed. Whatever happens, we’ll face it as a team. Here's the prompt.. "Great, so, imagine you are a writer for the new dragon age game. Can you come up with a short conversation dialogue between the main character and 2 of his companions? So, one of his companion is a more soft and gentler woman and the other is a more serious woman, talking about an Elven god." Maybe I shouldn't have told it to think like a Bioware writer.
It's my guilty pleasure to chat with an AI bot of my comfort character (with a plot and detailed messages, not just one-liners), I made a couple of bots myself too. I 100% agree, a good bot with a minimal personality description can come up with better and more "human" answers than this embarrassment in Veilguard, not even mentioning a bot with 800+ token personality. And two sites I use are free. AI is very flexible (can even understand humor and make witty jokes), but not all responses are good, so you can really affect the quality of the conversation by adding more details, picking the best ones, adjusting them a bit, etc. Knowing all this, EVEN if they used AI to write this to cut costs, save time or for whatever reason, they are still just so lazy, incompetent and uncreative. THE RITUAL thing is hilarious, honestly
It just dawned on me. Scout Harding should know Dwarves can go to the Fade because Varric went into the Fade in Inquisition when dealing with the Wardens turning their own ranks into Abominations. Scout Harding would have seen the report on that mission.
It's because people who made this game do not know lore of Dragon Age. Dwarves cannot enter the fade via dreams. They don't dream, but they can enter fade physically if they are forcibly transported there. If these people played dao they would know this, but we know Corrine's only expert in sims 4...
@@deafshark9932 dwarves can go to fade if they are transported there by demons, like in Broken Circle quest in dao and that one quest in da2 or Adamant fortress quest in dai. However dwarves *cannot* enter the fade via sleep, because they do not dream and dreams are experiences of sleeping individual in the fade, according to dragon age lore.
@@occorner2502 right, but the point is that this should be old hat for Varric, and not a surprise for anyone form the Inquisition. Since you could literally be a Dwarf Inquisitor who went to the Fade multiple times.
I honestly wish creators were called out more for BS like this. I've lost count of how many red flags I've stumbled upon in how this game is being advertised by creators and everyone acts like everything is perfectly normal. Don't even get me started on the whole Council BS with people acting like it's perfectly ethical to consult on a game and then act like they're squeaky clean neutral third parties.
It is perfectly normal. The problem is, why are people not having a problem with it being perfectly normal? This goes against every journalistic ethic there is, freelance or otherwise.
Should people that were on the council be promoting the game without telling people they were involved in the game’s development? How was this council chosen?
The dialogue sounds atrocious. Can't see how any of the voice actors were happy when reading the scripts. Can't wait to see how they explain morrigan without breaking anyone's DA origins canon.
@@dragonhitman1071 it really does sound like the actors were horribly depressed, rather than the emotions they conveyed being related to the story. They all sound like I do after a really depressing day at work. Toxic positivity IS exhausting to maintain I guess.
This game is no RPG. It is a sophisticated 3D action platformer with a bare minimum RPG element (a skilltree). I've yet to see a choice or decision that would have been any different by choosing another character background at creation. No stats, no abilities, no way to express ones own feeling about things in speech OR action, no choices to make, no moral issues to solve, no unique solutions for riddles (what riddles anyway?), no interaction with locals, no lore to learn, no hints or forshadowing for future missions, no stories to learn, no effing nothing. Just: Storybit -> move from A to B -> next Story Bit -> move from A to B -> ... Nothing meaningful happening inbetween missions other than creatures being tossed at you randomly (there is no mean for them to being there at all). What a crappy design.
@@professorwright1428 We've already seen enough from the gameplay videos to judge the role-playing component (or rather, the fact that the game has a minimum of the basic features that were in previous games)
Hey Nuhre, could you do me a favor? Nobody has done anything for the passing of Peter Renaday. He was the voice actor for Duncan and many more video game characters. With Veilgaurd being the trash it is,it would be great to see a part of the Origin honored. Thanks😊
i watched a bunch of videos comparing sims 2 to sims 4, its like we went backwards, they do everything in their power to cut time and money and dont have any passion for it.
Wait... I do not get it: Rook bled during the ritual a little and it connected him and Solas, but Varric got straight down (accidentally) stabbed by Solas and *that* amount of blood did not get Solas attached to Varric? Wtf kind of logic is that? 😂
7:08 that blur effect is scuffed as hell. She's soft focused, but her outline is ridiculously hard and sharp. Sharper than without the blur. I think stuff like this is giving away that there are genius people behind the Frostbite engine, and there are Bioware idiots trying to use it. Poorly.
The whole game screams of poor technical skills. They're trying to stitch together completely different art styles, the dialogues are just poor, I get bored watching it. The "gameplay trailer" that was supposed to be "better" bored me to tears in the first minute. I think it's gonna be a waste of my precious life to play this, which I'm not planning on doing, no matter how cheap they're trying to sneak it with the EA subscription.
The one thing I will give them is Frostbite game engine was built by DICE for DICE's games (read: Battlefield). It is built for first person shooter engines, not third person rpgs or racing games (and iirc Inquisition was fighting the engine every step of the way for things like mounts and even saving/loading games). A manager decided it should be used for all of their games. I still think this is a stylistic choice and whatever the reason it looks bloody terrible.
Something is really wrong with direction of this game. Ali Hillis (Harding) isn't this wooden VA as in here. It has to be on the voice director fucking up telling VAs how to act.
Yeah, it's really weird. Ali Hillis is a great voice actress, but whoever directed the voice recording sessions must have had some really bad directions they told the VAs. Even Varric sounds bad, and Brian Bloom is top-tier.
Still remember the first time they showed off character creation, and I legitimately thought it was a Dragon Age mod for Sims 4... Lost all my hopes of this being a true Dragon Age experience right then.
I finally can describe what Veilguard feels like - it’s as if someone took a corpse of someone I loved for a long time, put it in sitting position, did some makeup and changed into new clothes, saying that it’s just like the person it was before and I should instantly fall in love. It’s uncanny, upsetting, feels like sacrilege and the highest form of disrespect. The franchise is officially dead and I’m just gonna enjoy the stories we’ve had so far. Ain’t no way I’m gonna purchase this game at this point.
AAA devs are basically overly ambitious necromancers. They can't create anything new but they want to have a minion to serve their own ambitions. So they approach a patron in the hopes of convincing them to give them the resources needed to resurrect a beloved fallen hero. The patron agrees and the devs dig up the corpse of an old IP. However, instead of utilizing the resources to resurrect it, they cast Animate Dead and puppet the corpse to do things that are antithetical to its nature. Then, when they show off the bloated corpse of the thing you once loved, they're surprised at how your intense passion and love immediately twists into hatred and revulsion at the sight of the unrecognizable bloated corpse of the thing you once loved.
One of the worst part of these people that got early access is that they defend the character creation so much, and so far I haven't seen any single character from these RUclipsrs that look remotely good.
10:05 - I know it's not a big deal... but where's aggressive option? like okay, we got that, they decided to copy da2, but rob dav of everything that made da2 unique and intresting (rivalry, dark themes, PERSONALITY OF MC), but... where's aggressive option then? Like, i like Harding, she's literally the only companion i have no host feelings to, but why can't i act like "oh, you're whine! what a pathetic" or something like that? WHY I CAN'T BE A JERK IN F*KING ROLE-PLAYING GAME IT WAS SOMETHING SO BASE THAT YOU CAN MESS WITH YOUR COMPANIONS AND THEY TOOK EVEN THAT AWAY and they DARE to call it the best da, seriously? I could slaughter elves, mages, sell my cousin to a rapist, leave my sibling to die because of taint and do many other things, but now i can't even be a jerk to companions, because Busche and co want found family of compaions and make their shitty solavellan-fanfiction to a game. And they ask 70$ for that!
@@nuhre I have feelings it will be "ough you're so cool i love you!" +15 friendship or "oh you're so cool even through you're having literally the same world-views as we all do in general, but you don't like skeletons, you should change that!" +15 rivalry, because some people complained that rivalry was so toxic and they can't handle when there's toxic option in game, how dare devs to give OPTIONS to players that aren't all ultimately good? And I have very bad feeling Busche is one of those people
I'll never understand why the subpar modern writers of Bioware constantly try to tear down Origins when it's their best Dragon Age game by far. I do get the phenomenon of people without skill trying to tear down the great accomplishments of old so their mole hill looks like a mountain in comparison to the rubble, but you'd think they'd want to still have a job in the coming years. I guess pride truly is a more powerful demon than greed to rule the weak willed.
They keep comparing with other DA games thinking that just because it's new it's better. They also know if they compare it to games like BG3 or the Witcher 3 people would laugh in their faces.
@@nuhre Yeah the comparison with only their own games acting as if they are releasing in a vacuum is insane. BG3 especially with the actor's performances and character writing is something they know they can't compare to.
Ok, okay I need to rant because I know you'll get it. The BLATANT AND OBVIOUS RETCONNING IN THIS TINY PORTION OF THE GAME IS ASTOUNDING!! A) Oghren, Dwarf HOF, Varrick at the VERY least, have been physically in the fade before. HARDING KNOWS THIS!! B) Rook did NOT say Solas was using blood magic! Solas doesn't NEED BLOOD MAGIC to enter dreams, he's a DREAMER. Entering dreams is LITERALLY WHAT THEY DO. It's their inherent mage power to enter dreams! C) According to Corrine Bushe -and I quote - "yeeeess, Healing magic is back in the game!!"... So WHY IS SHE BRUISED UP FOR DAYS?! Heal her. Problem solved! D) the eluvians in this game are WAAAY too big. Merrill was repairing one in her LIVING ROOM. THEY'RE MADE OF WOOD. whhhyyyyyy are the 2 stories tall with no glass. They're supposed to be mirrors! Gods I feel like im in a fever dream. How are people okay with this shit 😭😅
I feel you. I pointed these out on stream... it's just painful at this point, like we are watching someone try to write fanfiction about Dragon Age but they've never played the games and they get all their information from Twitter.
And tevinter not having tevinter blood mages in the blood mages haven just because rook cant use blood magic doesn't stop tevinter from using blood magic and just all suddenly forgot and if Solas could use blood magic why couldn't the tevinters
@noctoi Yeah, and I believe he only lectured you if you took the stance of "Blood Magic is evil." If you didn't, he just stated, "Magic is magic." if you agreed or remained neutral. So the fact that now all of a sudden he "abhors the use of blood magic" is so ridiculous. They could have just had him say that he didn't need to resort to blood magic. Why didn't they consult someone who actually knows the established lore? Stuff like this, be it tiny or large oversights, have killed any hope I had for the game. The combat alone was a big dent in the confidence but this... along with the devs not even knowing who tf Zevran is just...to the bin with all of them!
Can we talk how empty and soulless Lighthouse and other locations look? Inquisition beats this f*cking game in how beautiful it was by comparison. Veilguard looks like empty alpha build which was leaked early by hackers...
@@occorner2502 even when you first arrived at the home base in inquisition, it had soul. It wasn't just a muted blank slate. I know it's the fade, but they NEED to make it engaging 🤦
@@noctoi exactly. I hoped Lighthouse will have nooks to explore, just like skyhold did, but nah it's just empty and boring. They probs will have you buy all the furniture and stuff in game just to make you grind for money more
"Just say that you signed an NDA and you are obligated to play it for views." Yeah, well, I'm fairly certain that saying that would violate that NDA, if it exists.
@@a_lost_one oh it exists, it was multi staged, and it was brutal. His vids have been blocked/chopped down repeatedly by BioWare. He says as much in the original upload of his second vid before he was made to edit the hells out of it. Others have said the same. They had teirs of dates where they can show certain things, say certain things, and release certain details. They were expressly forbidden from even saying anything negative OR giving personal opinion that didn't align with biowares roadmap scripts. It's full on.
Second commentary because I just saw voice acting and I must point this thing out Random "ladies of the night" from Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines had more emotions in their three lines of entire game than Neve in first hour of Veilguard Also I blame BG3 for setting up some meassure for newer RPG´s and that chars oozed with charisma first moment they came in
@@Keram-io8hv yep... They were right to be worried, because DAMN RIGHT I'll be judging the multi billion dollar companies by the Barely Out Of Indie Status studio who made BG3 standards from now on. Hells the two person team making Banquet For Fools has better dialogue and direction than this game.
Just because it has the name Dragon Age that does not mean that it is. I could call myself Bruce Wayne, that does not make me him. But you know that is going to get people to buy this game. Just because it has Dragon Age in the title.
As a former business manager I can tell you this, getting free stuff or a code in this case is free advertising for the company the more you ad the more you and the company make but it's greedy if you don't offer the consumers a great deal while both a profiting from said deal. As a gamer I never trust anyone who gets a game for free
Something is off with the sound design; the voice acting appears plastered over rather than blended with the ambient sounds. I'm afraid we've been spoiled by the quality of BG3, both in terms of sound design and life-like facial animations.
I would never go after the voiceactors alone for things like this... Because a voice director has the power and JOB DESCRIPTION that says they can make the actor do a line until they think it's perfect, and most actors are willing to do one line 50 times in different ways until it works, it's just part of the job. An actor might know they are suppossed to be angry, but not if it's "i dropped my favorite mug" or "you killed my entire family" mad, or any variation of those, and it's up to the director to get the tone, emotion and nuances just right... So when a character does a deadpan lineread and the director just says "Perfect! Let's move on...", why should the actor then change their delivery or ask questions? So i would always put at least 90% of the blame on bad directing when it comes to voiceacting... Most actors just get a script with the lines and a bit of context, and every time the director wants something different, the actor might draw a bit on their notes to say that this line needs to be a faster than you thought, and this part needs to go up in intensity instead of staying consistent through the entire line. But if the director never really ask for much change, the actor has no real overall idea of their performance.
@@mytotim8978 i think it's just a weak director, afraid to make the actors do more than a few takes of every line... Plus, time might also be a factor, as it's common today to not spend the time needed to be perfect, but just have a set timeframe to do the voice work, and you do what you can with that time...
What bothers me the most about these sellouts besides having NOTHING bad to say about Disaster Age : Veilguard (Failguard) is the fact that they delete every negative commentary about Veilguard.
A small part of me feels a bit bad for him because (so far) he doesn't seem to be a jerk like our Scottish friend...but he made this decision and now he'll have to sit with it. I should thank him for showing people more of this game so they can see what BioWare and IGN have tried to hide from consumers behind "amazing hair"
@@CombativeMedic yeah same. It's extremely sad to think about, but he's actually one of the better and more balanced reviewers. At least he admitted he's got a promo code and has the quads to say the things he doesn't like. It's a low bar, and he's one of only 3 creators who were at their "unpaid" (🤦😅😅) event that are brave enough to be honest.... Even if he IS still very subdued about the problems. I genuinely think he just got the invite and code offer out of the blue, not knowing the franchise or the monumental shitstorm he was about to fall into 😅
Compare this voice acting to Trespasser DLC specifically when Solas tells the Inquisitor the truth you can hear the pain in his voice and feel how much it was eating him alive like he was ashamed with the music playing and now this ? What a disappointment literally waited a decade for this game. Thank you Nuhre for speaking what so many fans of the series feel keep it up 👍 oh the old censor noise was better 😅
That awful blurring effect is called Depth of Field... It would only be good when wielded with actual grace. Ergo - the form it takes in this, is that of a tar drenched brick with a missing tooth.
Honestly, the only character I noticed actually moving and not just standing around was Lucanis. After seeing so many other characters-and even Rook-have so little expression or movement, whether it’s facial or body language, I found myself really enjoying his cutscene by the fireplace. I’m not sure if you’ve seen it or not, but I guess I’m asking if you could do a video on it because I’m curious about your thoughts on that scene. The part I’m referring to is when he’s hit by spite, and Lucanis actually shows it. When others jump up to help, he quickly turns to them, holding up his hand, telling them to stop. Heck, even Spite moves around more then other I’ve seen. 😅😂
I really find it hard to understand why people are going to bat for this game, millennial writing, horrible acting, horrible gameplay, shit character creator, all the race designs took 5 steps off a cliff into lava. Make it make sense. I even have people who said they were long time fans saying they love the way this game is going and I just cannot understand why.
Writing has had rules for so long. Show, dont tell. When you have dialogue, make it necessary and even moreso not extraneous. Less is more. Any writer worth their salt would have thrown away 95% of this dialogue and told the staff to start over again.
When the guy admitted in the video, "Oh- I didn't know that (Dwarves don't dream)" told me everything I needed to know about him. Its explained in-depth in Origins.. I doubt he even played Inquisition because I'm pretty sure it's mentioned there as well. This is 100% a guy being paid to promote the game. So many simmers with codes are all massive shills as well. So sad the game is dead for me. I really hope others find enjoyment from Veilguard, because everything thus far from it has done nothing but disappoint me.
I wonder if companions can leave the party if rook pisses them off or it would be too upsetting for the non-existant “modern audience”? It’s funny, that people like myself, who has loved the franchise from the beginning, played every game to death, bought all of the DLCs, etc, are not the “target audience “! I had mentioned in messenger chat the fact that all of the companions look ugly, and that attractiveness unfortunately is a taboo, and was called all sorts of names 🤷♀️. And I was very polite.
@@ZeroOmega-vg8nq pretty much, part of me is praying it'll have a decent story to make it at least a little worth it. But after mass effect, Anthem and the face the entire marking for this has been I can bang anyone I want, I can look have scars and the disrespect of the previous choices I don't have high hopes
@@jamesbuxton5585 then stop ignoring the red flags dude. save your money. wait for a youtuber to fo the obvious reveal of solas not really being a bad guy but forcefully awakened the evanuris to kill the. and rook was the last gamble..
@ZeroOmega-vg8nq I'm not ignoring red flags, I can clearly see them. That doesn't mean I won't have at least a little hope it has a decent story, if it's not then it's not.
i remember ....every ...single... detail... from dragon age origins lore, hell i even remember How Many NIPPLES the broodmother had, and i am not even a youtube content creator or game creator this is inexcusable to try to claim you are a fan when you havent played the original work
Of course people are gonna watch playthroughs of this game! The alternative is to buy it and play it yourself... And that's a fate we don't wish on ANYONE!
This whole scene reminds me of Tommy Wiseau's The Room movie. "I DID NOT HIT HER, IT'S NOT TRUE, IT'S BULLSHIT, I DID NOT HIT HER, I DID NOT!" "Oh hi Mark." No emotion whatsoever.
Wow the facial and body animations and lipsyncing are so bad. It's so so so obvious they had super junior people in way higher positions than they should have been. A combinations of the talented people leaving, getting pushed out or fired over 10 years and with that 50 person layoff in 2023 to make the team more "agile". And I'm familiar with Bethesda and how their lead animator is a friend of Tod's so he hasn't been pushed out and they put up with his mediocrity. That's why we had those horribly wooden face and body animations ib Fallout 4. So I'm used to looking at amateur animation. Add on top of that Neve's piss poor monotone delivery and I want to die. There's just nothing there. The millenial writung is there but even that's subdued. Enough to be cringe. The Office "HR wants you to point out the difference between these two pictures: meme: 1) "To whom? And your goddamned father. Sorry, my face is tured frim dealing with... everything." 2) "Lately? What we know. Or knew. Before Solas changed the game." It's the same picture! Seriously the low energy performances and lack if animation are almost identical to that scene. My fears are correct, very little has changed in their development since Andromeda. Why should we expect it to be better? Andromeda shit on all canon and wimped out doing a soft reboot in a new galaxy. And even that was a laughing stock. No good quests, giant empty environments, no alien races. The overarching plot is about some vague technology that's not immersuve and never properly explained like it would have been in the older games. Leviathan was a sick DLC and did this much better in an hour. Combat looks good to me but damn the story will be in shambles.
I've been replaying Skyrim, a game that came out in 2011, and even there the facial animations look better... Also, currently doing another BG3 run as the Dark Urge, I couldn't help but be in awe at the amount of emotion even in a creature like Sceleritas Fel! Or any dragonborn characters. BioWare's redesign of Qunari has people defending it because it would be too difficult to have DA2-style Qunari characters. Bullshxt! Just go look at the damn dragonborn and their range of emotions!
Don't ask questions, Just consume product...
Then get excited for next product! Nice reference
I wonder how many people get the reference
@@conservativefelon4350 not nearly enough
Don't ask questions just consume.
@Oram-77 I made a comment but I think it got deleted so I'll say it here. I was right. Now the question is will ea keep bioware alive to reboot og dragon age or will they shut them down and get a cheap company to do it
The first thing I did when Harding was talking in wonder how dwarves don't dream but wonder how she was there was think about Oghren in Dragon Age Origins: Awakening.
He is absolutely freaking out when he realizes he's in the Fade because dwarves don't belong there. His fear and anxiety is palpable and his reaction was far more realistic than Harding's.
yeah but he's also voiced by VA Vet Steve Blum who has great emotional range for his work as opposed to Harding's VA lol
@@SilentTheViewer. Very true. In that game he voices at least 3 different characters, and all of them sound different.
Oghren, Irving and Gorim.
@@SilentTheViewer But but Harding's VA is also the VA of Liara from ME. Sure, she's pretty one note in nearly all of her performances, but she's no ROOKie...
Oghren, one of my most favorite characters in Origins. Too bad that he would be too offensive for the modern audience nowadays.
It appears we will never know what happened to him and Nathaniel, or even to our Hero of Ferelden (if alive).
By the way, did you know that spiders were removed from the game because some people said they were afraid of spiders? 🤦🏻♂️
your assuming the current writers actually took the time to play through the old games and learn the lore
After BG3s animation and voiceacting I can't look at this shit. And Larian had no EA money behind them just passion, something bioware has lost long ago.
My brother in the Maker, don't you know BioWare isn't AAA game studio and just can't afford to make such expensive projects? They don't have that kind of money.
- Average modern BioWare fan, probably.
@@SithEmpiredidnothingwrong Ah that's true I forgot, they are a small indie studio 😂
@@SithEmpiredidnothingwrong If few good devs could make DA Origins in there free time after work the today they can make it good with money of EA that most likely they god from FIFA players and there dream team
I disagree, bg3 got the same amount of lore problems and character butchering... it is a good game when it comes to mechanics, and some of the acting, but that's about it.
@@marcussawyer4751 Most of the lore issues are 5e inventions aren't they? Not that I have much to say on that, I didn't play the previous Baldur's Gate games.
So if anyone here played Origins, do you remember when your followers would talk to each other and you stopped everything you were doing to listen to it all? That's never happening in this game. It's the opposite: wishing the Veilguard characters would shut up.
So true 😭😭😭 I haven’t made the comparison of the banter so far and you are spot on mate.
I really do wish they’d shut up, what a dumpster fire.
Can I get you a ladder? So you can get off my back! i remember that from origins,it was either MC or maybe Alistair who was always repeating that line it drove me crazy,just remember that,i do agree with you for dialogue between companions it was great,game is great i was lost in that world for days,and then came mass effect,my god what a great time that was,i'm afraid we will never get games like that,maybe i'm just pessimistic.
@@EyefyourGf the banter between Morrigan and Alistair were always worth a listen
@@EyefyourGf hahaha yeah my noble human warrior was ALWAYS saying that when I clicked on her. At least she had a personality 🤣
@@Michellex1 when navi was the hero we needed
They want to brag about their hair physics, but BG3 literally never felt the need to brag about theirs. Did you know in BG3 the hair is a completely physical entity that cannot clip through a character's clothes or body? Now you'd never know that because all hair is shoulder length in vanilla BG3, but I used mods to access the cambion (devil) race for my character giving her devil wings, and another mod to access Orin the red's long braided hair. The braid would not clip through my character's wings and would constantly get stuck laying over the top of her left or right wing. That's the first game I've ever seen that has such realistic hair physics and it was never even mentioned by the devs, it was an after thought!
Comparing Rook to Tav from Baldur's Gate 3 is like night and day. I'll be using 'he' as I typically play male characters. As you pointed out, Rook has a weird habit of placing his knuckles on his waist. Even when he's sitting, he rarely moves and has very little in the way of body language. He also doesn't emote all that often. Can't really tell what he is thinking just by looking at him.
Going back to Tav, even the dragonborn version emotes very often. He smiles, he shows fear and grimaces in anger, narrows his eyes, etc. In addition, he changes his posture regularly. He also places hands on his waist. But he also crosses his arms, fidgets and adjust his weight, places his arms in front of him defensively or in surprise, postures to reach for his weapon, etc.
Even though Tav doesn't have a voice, I can tell he has more of a personality than Rook. He acts more like a person standing around having a conversation than a robot trying to act normal. It's kind of uncanny watching Rook really.
It was like that DA:O. Character didn't speak but still seemed to have a lot of emotion. It has been about 10 years since I last played the game though lol
Tav does the Hero Stance ironically. Rook is drawn that way UNIRONICALLY.... And ironically that makes me ashamed and embarrassed to look at Rook standing that way. It's cringy, whereas Tav makes me laugh doing the same pose.
Young lady keep speaking your mind. I been playing video games since PONG. And this looks bad. Don't be silenced be others and keep voicing your own thoughts. BRAVO BRAVO
He didn't even know that dwarves don't dream!!!! How did he get access to early play?!?!? Has he ever even played a DA game before or watched a lore video?
No probably not, he was probably selected because he’s brand safe and has large audience to cater to.
They give early access to people who haven't played DA before, that way there's nothing to compare DATV to
@@MsInnersanctum If BioWare had guts they’d have haters and skeptics play the game early too. It could change people’s minds about Veilguard, but guess they don’t have that much faith in their own product
@@justcast1429 it would be a genius move for sure
@@justcast1429 Yeah send Asmongold. He wouldn't have held back lmao. That gave me a lot of respect for Dragon's Dogma 2 that they included. Cringe authoritarian left banshee shrieking be damned.
For anyone interested, here is just a short dialogue I got chatgpt to write about Dragon Age and a short exchange between the MC and 2 companions about Elven gods.
Main Character: Have you ever wondered what it would be like to meet an Elven god?
Elara: gazing thoughtfully I imagine it would be a mix of awe and serenity. They embody such grace and wisdom.
Brynn: crossing her arms Or a sense of dread. We can't forget that the Elven gods are tied to the Fade-and the dangers that lurk there.
Elara: True, but think of the knowledge we could gain! The stories of their past could help us understand our present.
Main Character: Do you think they’d even want to interact with us? The way the world has changed, we might seem... insignificant.
Brynn: firmly We cannot presume to know their intentions. They may see us as a threat or an inconvenience.
Elara: But what if they see the potential for hope? Maybe they would guide us, not hinder us.
Main Character: smirking Always the optimist, Elara. It’s refreshing.
Brynn: sighs Optimism is well and good, but let’s not forget the weight of our choices. We tread a delicate path.
Elara: nodding Then let’s tread it together, with both caution and hope.
Main Character: Agreed. Whatever happens, we’ll face it as a team.
Here's the prompt.. "Great, so, imagine you are a writer for the new dragon age game. Can you come up with a short conversation dialogue between the main character and 2 of his companions? So, one of his companion is a more soft and gentler woman and the other is a more serious woman, talking about an Elven god."
Maybe I shouldn't have told it to think like a Bioware writer.
It's my guilty pleasure to chat with an AI bot of my comfort character (with a plot and detailed messages, not just one-liners), I made a couple of bots myself too. I 100% agree, a good bot with a minimal personality description can come up with better and more "human" answers than this embarrassment in Veilguard, not even mentioning a bot with 800+ token personality. And two sites I use are free.
AI is very flexible (can even understand humor and make witty jokes), but not all responses are good, so you can really affect the quality of the conversation by adding more details, picking the best ones, adjusting them a bit, etc. Knowing all this, EVEN if they used AI to write this to cut costs, save time or for whatever reason, they are still just so lazy, incompetent and uncreative. THE RITUAL thing is hilarious, honestly
@@cttommy73 JFC this is actually MUCH better than the existing dialogue in the game 👀🤣🤣🤣
It just dawned on me. Scout Harding should know Dwarves can go to the Fade because Varric went into the Fade in Inquisition when dealing with the Wardens turning their own ranks into Abominations. Scout Harding would have seen the report on that mission.
It's because people who made this game do not know lore of Dragon Age.
Dwarves cannot enter the fade via dreams. They don't dream, but they can enter fade physically if they are forcibly transported there.
If these people played dao they would know this, but we know Corrine's only expert in sims 4...
Afaik if you are a dwarf, you still go to the fade in DAO during the mages tower mission.
@@deafshark9932 Same with the dream walking in Dragon Age 2. You can take Varric with there as well.
@@deafshark9932 dwarves can go to fade if they are transported there by demons, like in Broken Circle quest in dao and that one quest in da2 or Adamant fortress quest in dai.
However dwarves *cannot* enter the fade via sleep, because they do not dream and dreams are experiences of sleeping individual in the fade, according to dragon age lore.
@@occorner2502 right, but the point is that this should be old hat for Varric, and not a surprise for anyone form the Inquisition. Since you could literally be a Dwarf Inquisitor who went to the Fade multiple times.
For DragonAge Failhard I identify as “non-buy-nary”
@@Python_Bacon 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Nice... 👍 💯
More emotion from you in this 23 minute video than I assume this entire game will have
And just remember, this is the good stuff. This is what they thought would sell the game.
That makes it sadder😢
I'm depressed now
I honestly wish creators were called out more for BS like this. I've lost count of how many red flags I've stumbled upon in how this game is being advertised by creators and everyone acts like everything is perfectly normal. Don't even get me started on the whole Council BS with people acting like it's perfectly ethical to consult on a game and then act like they're squeaky clean neutral third parties.
It is perfectly normal. The problem is, why are people not having a problem with it being perfectly normal? This goes against every journalistic ethic there is, freelance or otherwise.
It's toxic positivity. Journalists and people within the company won't call out anything or have any criticism because it'll hurt someone's feelings
Should people that were on the council be promoting the game without telling people they were involved in the game’s development?
How was this council chosen?
Gonna be one of the hypest games of the year when it hits that 2nd week 80% discount! I can't wait to hear how it's my fault when it fails.
The dialogue sounds atrocious. Can't see how any of the voice actors were happy when reading the scripts. Can't wait to see how they explain morrigan without breaking anyone's DA origins canon.
@@dragonhitman1071 it really does sound like the actors were horribly depressed, rather than the emotions they conveyed being related to the story.
They all sound like I do after a really depressing day at work.
Toxic positivity IS exhausting to maintain I guess.
This game is no RPG. It is a sophisticated 3D action platformer with a bare minimum RPG element (a skilltree).
I've yet to see a choice or decision that would have been any different by choosing another character background at creation. No stats, no abilities, no way to express ones own feeling about things in speech OR action, no choices to make, no moral issues to solve, no unique solutions for riddles (what riddles anyway?), no interaction with locals, no lore to learn, no hints or forshadowing for future missions, no stories to learn, no effing nothing. Just: Storybit -> move from A to B -> next Story Bit -> move from A to B -> ...
Nothing meaningful happening inbetween missions other than creatures being tossed at you randomly (there is no mean for them to being there at all). What a crappy design.
The game isn't out yet babes. How could you say any of that with any certainty.
@@professorwright1428 We've already seen enough from the gameplay videos to judge the role-playing component (or rather, the fact that the game has a minimum of the basic features that were in previous games)
It's literally a poorly written dating SIM fanfic with sporadic "action" combat. It's awful 😔
@@professorwright1428 I've seen the prologue & the start of Act I...and I'm concerned. Real concened.
@@professorwright1428there have been other games that were crap when they released, doesn't protect other games from not being crap
Hey Nuhre, could you do me a favor? Nobody has done anything for the passing of Peter Renaday. He was the voice actor for Duncan and many more video game characters. With Veilgaurd being the trash it is,it would be great to see a part of the Origin honored. Thanks😊
I'm currently playing Origins on stream and his loss is sorely felt. What a legend he was.
i watched a bunch of videos comparing sims 2 to sims 4, its like we went backwards, they do everything in their power to cut time and money and dont have any passion for it.
Wait... I do not get it: Rook bled during the ritual a little and it connected him and Solas, but Varric got straight down (accidentally) stabbed by Solas and *that* amount of blood did not get Solas attached to Varric?
Wtf kind of logic is that? 😂
Listen, just ignore the very obvious plot hole and consume the product, okay?
@@nuhre corrine would love that, I am sure of it🤣
Skyrim Logic Level: 100
@@RealKeetz ai writing probably... Or of someone very very stupid
They're obviously going for a plot twist involving it, but they have no idea how subtly works.
7:08 that blur effect is scuffed as hell. She's soft focused, but her outline is ridiculously hard and sharp. Sharper than without the blur. I think stuff like this is giving away that there are genius people behind the Frostbite engine, and there are Bioware idiots trying to use it. Poorly.
The whole game screams of poor technical skills. They're trying to stitch together completely different art styles, the dialogues are just poor, I get bored watching it. The "gameplay trailer" that was supposed to be "better" bored me to tears in the first minute. I think it's gonna be a waste of my precious life to play this, which I'm not planning on doing, no matter how cheap they're trying to sneak it with the EA subscription.
The one thing I will give them is Frostbite game engine was built by DICE for DICE's games (read: Battlefield). It is built for first person shooter engines, not third person rpgs or racing games (and iirc Inquisition was fighting the engine every step of the way for things like mounts and even saving/loading games). A manager decided it should be used for all of their games.
I still think this is a stylistic choice and whatever the reason it looks bloody terrible.
Her skin looks like Muppet skin.
Something is really wrong with direction of this game. Ali Hillis (Harding) isn't this wooden VA as in here. It has to be on the voice director fucking up telling VAs how to act.
Yeah, it's really weird. Ali Hillis is a great voice actress, but whoever directed the voice recording sessions must have had some really bad directions they told the VAs. Even Varric sounds bad, and Brian Bloom is top-tier.
Ali Hills was legendary as Liara T'soni in mass effect. I agree her Harding in veilguard feels terribly hollow and dead inside
@@occorner2502 "Terribly hollow and dead inside". Just like how this game will be overall.
The voice actors for this game are currently on strike against AI being used to take over their jobs. 🤔
@@N7.Tenebris fully agreed👍
Still remember the first time they showed off character creation, and I legitimately thought it was a Dragon Age mod for Sims 4...
Lost all my hopes of this being a true Dragon Age experience right then.
Some of the devs worked on the Sims games so that's why
I finally can describe what Veilguard feels like - it’s as if someone took a corpse of someone I loved for a long time, put it in sitting position, did some makeup and changed into new clothes, saying that it’s just like the person it was before and I should instantly fall in love. It’s uncanny, upsetting, feels like sacrilege and the highest form of disrespect. The franchise is officially dead and I’m just gonna enjoy the stories we’ve had so far.
Ain’t no way I’m gonna purchase this game at this point.
They call these things Skinwalkers in America.
Yep. Every interaction in Veilguard feels wooden and artificial
Perfect simile of this game.
Dragon Age Veilguard feels like Tomb Raider on netflix.
AAA devs are basically overly ambitious necromancers. They can't create anything new but they want to have a minion to serve their own ambitions.
So they approach a patron in the hopes of convincing them to give them the resources needed to resurrect a beloved fallen hero.
The patron agrees and the devs dig up the corpse of an old IP. However, instead of utilizing the resources to resurrect it, they cast Animate Dead and puppet the corpse to do things that are antithetical to its nature.
Then, when they show off the bloated corpse of the thing you once loved, they're surprised at how your intense passion and love immediately twists into hatred and revulsion at the sight of the unrecognizable bloated corpse of the thing you once loved.
One of the worst part of these people that got early access is that they defend the character creation so much, and so far I haven't seen any single character from these RUclipsrs that look remotely good.
Damn, the writing sucks. I didn't know it's that bad.
diversity hire eho only worked on sims4 is the director. this game was screwed from that reveal
Where did the money go? Probably in hiring Hans Zimmer to do the score...😢
10:05 - I know it's not a big deal... but where's aggressive option? like okay, we got that, they decided to copy da2, but rob dav of everything that made da2 unique and intresting (rivalry, dark themes, PERSONALITY OF MC), but... where's aggressive option then? Like, i like Harding, she's literally the only companion i have no host feelings to, but why can't i act like "oh, you're whine! what a pathetic" or something like that? WHY I CAN'T BE A JERK IN F*KING ROLE-PLAYING GAME IT WAS SOMETHING SO BASE THAT YOU CAN MESS WITH YOUR COMPANIONS AND THEY TOOK EVEN THAT AWAY and they DARE to call it the best da, seriously? I could slaughter elves, mages, sell my cousin to a rapist, leave my sibling to die because of taint and do many other things, but now i can't even be a jerk to companions, because Busche and co want found family of compaions and make their shitty solavellan-fanfiction to a game. And they ask 70$ for that!
And they have the audacity that they brought the rivalry/friendship dynamic back. They keep lying to us as if we cannot see it's shit.
@@nuhre I have feelings it will be "ough you're so cool i love you!" +15 friendship or "oh you're so cool even through you're having literally the same world-views as we all do in general, but you don't like skeletons, you should change that!" +15 rivalry, because some people complained that rivalry was so toxic and they can't handle when there's toxic option in game, how dare devs to give OPTIONS to players that aren't all ultimately good? And I have very bad feeling Busche is one of those people
No redeeming qualities? I disagree. It serves as a perfect example of what NOT to do when making a sequel to a beloved franchise
Their lines are genuinely like the characters lines in Disney Dreamlight Valley.
I'll never understand why the subpar modern writers of Bioware constantly try to tear down Origins when it's their best Dragon Age game by far.
I do get the phenomenon of people without skill trying to tear down the great accomplishments of old so their mole hill looks like a mountain in comparison to the rubble, but you'd think they'd want to still have a job in the coming years.
I guess pride truly is a more powerful demon than greed to rule the weak willed.
They keep comparing with other DA games thinking that just because it's new it's better. They also know if they compare it to games like BG3 or the Witcher 3 people would laugh in their faces.
@@nuhre Yeah the comparison with only their own games acting as if they are releasing in a vacuum is insane.
BG3 especially with the actor's performances and character writing is something they know they can't compare to.
Ok, okay I need to rant because I know you'll get it.
The BLATANT AND OBVIOUS RETCONNING IN THIS TINY PORTION OF THE GAME IS ASTOUNDING!!
A) Oghren, Dwarf HOF, Varrick at the VERY least, have been physically in the fade before. HARDING KNOWS THIS!!
B) Rook did NOT say Solas was using blood magic! Solas doesn't NEED BLOOD MAGIC to enter dreams, he's a DREAMER. Entering dreams is LITERALLY WHAT THEY DO. It's their inherent mage power to enter dreams!
C) According to Corrine Bushe -and I quote - "yeeeess, Healing magic is back in the game!!"... So WHY IS SHE BRUISED UP FOR DAYS?! Heal her. Problem solved!
D) the eluvians in this game are WAAAY too big. Merrill was repairing one in her LIVING ROOM. THEY'RE MADE OF WOOD. whhhyyyyyy are the 2 stories tall with no glass. They're supposed to be mirrors!
Gods I feel like im in a fever dream. How are people okay with this shit 😭😅
I feel you. I pointed these out on stream... it's just painful at this point, like we are watching someone try to write fanfiction about Dragon Age but they've never played the games and they get all their information from Twitter.
And tevinter not having tevinter blood mages in the blood mages haven just because rook cant use blood magic doesn't stop tevinter from using blood magic and just all suddenly forgot and if Solas could use blood magic why couldn't the tevinters
Or the fact that in this game, Solas says he abhors the use of blood magic whilst in Inquisition he thought nothing of it. Magic is magic, after all.
@@NancyvanD OOh I forgot about that one, yeah. He full on lectured the Inquisitor about it outside his hut!
@noctoi Yeah, and I believe he only lectured you if you took the stance of "Blood Magic is evil." If you didn't, he just stated, "Magic is magic." if you agreed or remained neutral. So the fact that now all of a sudden he "abhors the use of blood magic" is so ridiculous. They could have just had him say that he didn't need to resort to blood magic. Why didn't they consult someone who actually knows the established lore?
Stuff like this, be it tiny or large oversights, have killed any hope I had for the game. The combat alone was a big dent in the confidence but this... along with the devs not even knowing who tf Zevran is just...to the bin with all of them!
Varric almost died, wtf was that " You have plants." line as a response?
how did this come out 4 years after Cyberpunk, how did they see that and think "yeah these cut scenes and conversations look great!"
I love how these companies insult the customers and then they want you to buy their game. Cukoo for coco puffs. Gamers unite!
Imma overdose on red lyrium to forget the failguard exists..
I was made tranquil by Templars and yet I cry while watching Veilguard
You should use the word ritual as the censor sound😂😂😂😂😂
Yes
And have @Nuhre have a meltdown? Ay ay ay... 😅
Even with the bad writing and acting ppl will still gobble this up as peak cinema.
Romances will sell this shit off... Most modern Bioware audience care for these games on the level of dating simulator...
@@occorner2502 they’re no different from gooners
@@occorner2502 If the romance scenes are like the regular ones...this might not bode well.
@@RealKeetz well i assume bioware at least tried with those... They cannot be that stupid...
Dragon age fans and their toxic positivity.
But what about the hair physics! Omg slay queen, slayyyy. So gorgeouss, why be beautiful when you have beautiful hair
Can we talk how empty and soulless Lighthouse and other locations look? Inquisition beats this f*cking game in how beautiful it was by comparison.
Veilguard looks like empty alpha build which was leaked early by hackers...
@@occorner2502 even when you first arrived at the home base in inquisition, it had soul. It wasn't just a muted blank slate.
I know it's the fade, but they NEED to make it engaging 🤦
@@noctoi exactly. I hoped Lighthouse will have nooks to explore, just like skyhold did, but nah it's just empty and boring.
They probs will have you buy all the furniture and stuff in game just to make you grind for money more
@@occorner2502filler content
They can't give discounts, the game is only going to sell 100 copies, they need all the money they can get!
They used all their budget in dining and wining content creators.
"Just say that you signed an NDA and you are obligated to play it for views."
Yeah, well, I'm fairly certain that saying that would violate that NDA, if it exists.
@@a_lost_one oh it exists, it was multi staged, and it was brutal. His vids have been blocked/chopped down repeatedly by BioWare. He says as much in the original upload of his second vid before he was made to edit the hells out of it.
Others have said the same. They had teirs of dates where they can show certain things, say certain things, and release certain details. They were expressly forbidden from even saying anything negative OR giving personal opinion that didn't align with biowares roadmap scripts.
It's full on.
the journey was full of ups and downs, but the facial animations couldn’t keep up! 😆
You can put lipstick on a pig, but that wont change the fact that its still a pig
You gotta turn the lights off and ignore the squealing sounds.
Second commentary because I just saw voice acting and I must point this thing out
Random "ladies of the night" from Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines had more emotions in their three lines of entire game than Neve in first hour of Veilguard
Also I blame BG3 for setting up some meassure for newer RPG´s and that chars oozed with charisma first moment they came in
@@Keram-io8hv yep... They were right to be worried, because DAMN RIGHT I'll be judging the multi billion dollar companies by the Barely Out Of Indie Status studio who made BG3 standards from now on.
Hells the two person team making Banquet For Fools has better dialogue and direction than this game.
Its sterile and tame.
Just because it has the name Dragon Age that does not mean that it is. I could call myself Bruce Wayne, that does not make me him. But you know that is going to get people to buy this game. Just because it has Dragon Age in the title.
We should start a consulting firm called "Sour Adult Corp." and have nuhre be the CEO.
I would make a great CEO
It’s nice to see a dragon age fan and a woman tell it like it is with this pos version of dragon age. “Dragon age fans are happy”, huh?
As a former business manager I can tell you this, getting free stuff or a code in this case is free advertising for the company the more you ad the more you and the company make but it's greedy if you don't offer the consumers a great deal while both a profiting from said deal.
As a gamer I never trust anyone who gets a game for free
Something is off with the sound design; the voice acting appears plastered over rather than blended with the ambient sounds. I'm afraid we've been spoiled by the quality of BG3, both in terms of sound design and life-like facial animations.
Nuh-huh! Not spoiled. That's the bare minimum, bestie.
Oh no…they “Captain Marveled” Neve
Honestly, you and SnackishRaccoon were the only good thing to come out of The Veilguard 😂 the memes and commentary are just making my day! 😂
Dragon Age: The Walletguard bravely persuading me not to spend money on this dross. They "sold me another option."
Remember that this game was aimed at bringing in new fans. That is why they keep explaining everything in baby steps.
It's what they did with Mass effect 3, and we all know how that turned out.
@@PrimaItalia not an excuse. The Witcher 3 and BG3 were also made for new players to their franchise and were leagues better than this.
That doesn't mean the game should be talking to people like they're 5 years old, though.
Harding asked you what do you mean when you are describing something that happened in front of her, and she is supposed to be the SCOUT.
It's crazy how bad the writing is for DA:V.
Merciful Christ what a train wreck this whole ass game is....
I would never go after the voiceactors alone for things like this... Because a voice director has the power and JOB DESCRIPTION that says they can make the actor do a line until they think it's perfect, and most actors are willing to do one line 50 times in different ways until it works, it's just part of the job.
An actor might know they are suppossed to be angry, but not if it's "i dropped my favorite mug" or "you killed my entire family" mad, or any variation of those, and it's up to the director to get the tone, emotion and nuances just right... So when a character does a deadpan lineread and the director just says "Perfect! Let's move on...", why should the actor then change their delivery or ask questions?
So i would always put at least 90% of the blame on bad directing when it comes to voiceacting...
Most actors just get a script with the lines and a bit of context, and every time the director wants something different, the actor might draw a bit on their notes to say that this line needs to be a faster than you thought, and this part needs to go up in intensity instead of staying consistent through the entire line. But if the director never really ask for much change, the actor has no real overall idea of their performance.
Probably they want the character to be more stoic, and it came off emotionless, like always
@@mytotim8978 i think it's just a weak director, afraid to make the actors do more than a few takes of every line... Plus, time might also be a factor, as it's common today to not spend the time needed to be perfect, but just have a set timeframe to do the voice work, and you do what you can with that time...
Oh Nuhre, just rant off in your mother tongue. It is glorious! Don't censor yourself, besides YT probably wouldn't be able to pick it up then anyway.
I think in English most of the time. The Spanish comes out when I'm really mad.
@@nuhre The Spaniard crept out. 🤣
why when these payed reviewers make there Rooks, why all of them looks like Lord Farquaad from Shrek
This channel is so funny. Her anger is palpable lol. I thought I hated the direction of the new DA, but she reeeeealllly hates it. I feel ya.
You can't hate Veilguard more than me
@@nuhre nice played
It is crazy to me that in 2024, the Animation in a AAA Game are so bad.
So mass effect adromeda team is working here?
What bothers me the most about these sellouts besides having NOTHING bad to say about Disaster Age : Veilguard (Failguard) is the fact that they delete every negative commentary about Veilguard.
A small part of me feels a bit bad for him because (so far) he doesn't seem to be a jerk like our Scottish friend...but he made this decision and now he'll have to sit with it.
I should thank him for showing people more of this game so they can see what BioWare and IGN have tried to hide from consumers behind "amazing hair"
@@CombativeMedic yeah same. It's extremely sad to think about, but he's actually one of the better and more balanced reviewers. At least he admitted he's got a promo code and has the quads to say the things he doesn't like.
It's a low bar, and he's one of only 3 creators who were at their "unpaid" (🤦😅😅) event that are brave enough to be honest.... Even if he IS still very subdued about the problems.
I genuinely think he just got the invite and code offer out of the blue, not knowing the franchise or the monumental shitstorm he was about to fall into 😅
I’m totally down to watch you play Veilguard and suffer on behalf of us
The censorship sounds are temporary. I'm trying to find a sound that isn't grating to the ears.
Use your voice but use frick for Fu*k for example.
Seagulls or dolphin sounds
Squeak toy squeaker
Usually just a quick mute Is fine.
Enchantment!
The hands on his hips thing is such a Wonder Woman TV series pose.
Ok, someone has to simp over your always immaculate room.
Oh, John... if you only saw what's not on camera... Thank you!
Compare this voice acting to Trespasser DLC specifically when Solas tells the Inquisitor the truth you can hear the pain in his voice and feel how much it was eating him alive like he was ashamed with the music playing and now this ? What a disappointment literally waited a decade for this game. Thank you Nuhre for speaking what so many fans of the series feel keep it up 👍 oh the old censor noise was better 😅
Absolutely felting that paid off fool.
I love Dragon Age too, in fact I love Dragon Age so much that I despise Veilguard with every fiber of my being.
That’s what people don’t fully understand, we love DA enough to walk away from it when should be creaming our pants for it
That awful blurring effect is called Depth of Field...
It would only be good when wielded with actual grace.
Ergo - the form it takes in this, is that of a tar drenched brick with a missing tooth.
Funny Enough you cant fine any information about the "influencer codes" any where and no-one is talking about it.
this is popular feature in sims community, basically creators get 5% of each game bought using their code
Honestly, the only character I noticed actually moving and not just standing around was Lucanis. After seeing so many other characters-and even Rook-have so little expression or movement, whether it’s facial or body language, I found myself really enjoying his cutscene by the fireplace. I’m not sure if you’ve seen it or not, but I guess I’m asking if you could do a video on it because I’m curious about your thoughts on that scene.
The part I’m referring to is when he’s hit by spite, and Lucanis actually shows it. When others jump up to help, he quickly turns to them, holding up his hand, telling them to stop.
Heck, even Spite moves around more then other I’ve seen. 😅😂
Haven't seen it! BioWare might have a favorite.
Seeing shills getting destroyed is the most hilarious thing ever.
Bro did not know dwarves dont dream yet we are the tourists
I really find it hard to understand why people are going to bat for this game, millennial writing, horrible acting, horrible gameplay, shit character creator, all the race designs took 5 steps off a cliff into lava. Make it make sense. I even have people who said they were long time fans saying they love the way this game is going and I just cannot understand why.
1:00 sounds exactly like a sponsorship to me. Wtf is this world? Maybe they identify as not sponsored 😂
Writing has had rules for so long. Show, dont tell. When you have dialogue, make it necessary and even moreso not extraneous. Less is more.
Any writer worth their salt would have thrown away 95% of this dialogue and told the staff to start over again.
The moment I see Veilguard's the first trailer, the game is straight to my Do Not Buy list.
They had the audacity to say the trailer wasn't an accurate representation of the game, but it a hundred percent was
When the guy admitted in the video, "Oh- I didn't know that (Dwarves don't dream)" told me everything I needed to know about him. Its explained in-depth in Origins.. I doubt he even played Inquisition because I'm pretty sure it's mentioned there as well. This is 100% a guy being paid to promote the game. So many simmers with codes are all massive shills as well. So sad the game is dead for me. I really hope others find enjoyment from Veilguard, because everything thus far from it has done nothing but disappoint me.
Ah
My favourite Ecuadorian RUclipsr!
11:08 - What the actual hell is that voice acting?!
"Lesged d'ah croo t'geh-ha"
No, that was the RUclipsr playing the game LOL
@@nuhreOh, haha. God, I can't even tell the difference between the characters and the RUclipsr.
My sanity is slipping again. 😂
I wonder if companions can leave the party if rook pisses them off or it would be too upsetting for the non-existant “modern audience”? It’s funny, that people like myself, who has loved the franchise from the beginning, played every game to death, bought all of the DLCs, etc, are not the “target audience “! I had mentioned in messenger chat the fact that all of the companions look ugly, and that attractiveness unfortunately is a taboo, and was called all sorts of names 🤷♀️. And I was very polite.
Nope. The game is absolutely linear, and there's no "bad" options or endings.
The more I see of the character animations the more Jank and issues I see wtf
We gave up the legion of the dead and casting inferno for the Muppet babies.
I know I'm going to play this and hate what they've done to my favourite rpg universe
so youre going to pay full price to be insulted
@@ZeroOmega-vg8nq pretty much, part of me is praying it'll have a decent story to make it at least a little worth it. But after mass effect, Anthem and the face the entire marking for this has been I can bang anyone I want, I can look have scars and the disrespect of the previous choices I don't have high hopes
@@jamesbuxton5585 then stop ignoring the red flags dude. save your money. wait for a youtuber to fo the obvious reveal of solas not really being a bad guy but forcefully awakened the evanuris to kill the. and rook was the last gamble..
@ZeroOmega-vg8nq I'm not ignoring red flags, I can clearly see them. That doesn't mean I won't have at least a little hope it has a decent story, if it's not then it's not.
@@ZeroOmega-vg8nqIt's his money
i remember ....every ...single... detail... from dragon age origins lore, hell i even remember How Many NIPPLES the broodmother had, and i am not even a youtube content creator or game creator
this is inexcusable to try to claim you are a fan when you havent played the original work
i'm so tired of them ruining these amazing IP's man, someone make it stop please. poor Fable too.. ugh.
Of course people are gonna watch playthroughs of this game! The alternative is to buy it and play it yourself... And that's a fate we don't wish on ANYONE!
I'm playing it 🥹
Thanks again for pointing out the hypocrisy
Old swearing censorship was better. Gave the videos a more unhinged of-the-rails feel.
People have been complaining that it hurts their ears. So I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place.
@@nuhreI like the old censorship too but yeah probably just go with the one that doesn’t hurt ppls ears !😁better safe than sorry
@@thetrashcanman7537 I'M TRYING! Give me suggestions.
@@nuhre mine is a whale or some other soothing animal sound clip 😂 it would be hilarious and easy on the ears
Was this game made for the tiktok kids with zero attention span? What's with the constant repetition and hand holding? MAKER
This whole scene reminds me of Tommy Wiseau's The Room movie.
"I DID NOT HIT HER, IT'S NOT TRUE, IT'S BULLSHIT, I DID NOT HIT HER, I DID NOT!" "Oh hi Mark."
No emotion whatsoever.
Wow the facial and body animations and lipsyncing are so bad. It's so so so obvious they had super junior people in way higher positions than they should have been. A combinations of the talented people leaving, getting pushed out or fired over 10 years and with that 50 person layoff in 2023 to make the team more "agile". And I'm familiar with Bethesda and how their lead animator is a friend of Tod's so he hasn't been pushed out and they put up with his mediocrity. That's why we had those horribly wooden face and body animations ib Fallout 4. So I'm used to looking at amateur animation.
Add on top of that Neve's piss poor monotone delivery and I want to die. There's just nothing there. The millenial writung is there but even that's subdued. Enough to be cringe.
The Office "HR wants you to point out the difference between these two pictures: meme: 1) "To whom? And your goddamned father. Sorry, my face is tured frim dealing with... everything."
2) "Lately? What we know. Or knew. Before Solas changed the game."
It's the same picture! Seriously the low energy performances and lack if animation are almost identical to that scene. My fears are correct, very little has changed in their development since Andromeda. Why should we expect it to be better? Andromeda shit on all canon and wimped out doing a soft reboot in a new galaxy. And even that was a laughing stock. No good quests, giant empty environments, no alien races. The overarching plot is about some vague technology that's not immersuve and never properly explained like it would have been in the older games. Leviathan was a sick DLC and did this much better in an hour. Combat looks good to me but damn the story will be in shambles.
I've been replaying Skyrim, a game that came out in 2011, and even there the facial animations look better...
Also, currently doing another BG3 run as the Dark Urge, I couldn't help but be in awe at the amount of emotion even in a creature like Sceleritas Fel! Or any dragonborn characters. BioWare's redesign of Qunari has people defending it because it would be too difficult to have DA2-style Qunari characters. Bullshxt! Just go look at the damn dragonborn and their range of emotions!
I’m not sure who has worse looking elves, Rings of Power or Dragon Age The Veilgaurd