My Review of Failguard is officially here! :D Check it Out: ruclips.net/video/GfN56m-QXso/видео.html ultimately, everything I've said in This video is proven correct; it's at best Painfully Mediocre and at worse its an Insult
@michaelelmes2135 corporations wouldn't be doing all this BS if the people spouting the BS weren't always whining about the games not including the BS. This comment is HIGHLY appropriate. They bitch about not being able to self-insert themselves, then end up not even playing the games at all. Meanwhile, a great game has been ruined. Studios are closing and franchises are dying because of it. The right is the only side making any damned sense at this point.
I remember hearing that crap through my whole play though and didn’t realise for a long time that it was my character saying that. Now I just think it’s kinda funny
DAO had an atmosphere so fucking thick I can STILL taste it. There is no other way to describe it. Like a hidden line running through the game that tied everything together so well. Perfection.
@@a.m.pietroschek1972 So I liked Hawke and the whole story but unfortunately it already started with this incredibly ugly comic look >-< they should have just stuck with the great medieval style of Orgins.
Yep, something like 12-18 months, barely a Year and Less than two. It could've been something great if they were allowed to put more love into development :( but it was still a decent experience and a good story :)
It's really a miracle what they managed to pull off for DA2. Recycled environments and a cut down 3rd act, but aside from that they told a fantastic story and even perfected the follower system with the rivalries. Meanwhile they've had ten years to work on DAV.
DA 2 could have been saved by modding but no one bother to try it to remade it, guess the tools were not good enough r the plot was just underwhelming.
Every game has become less and less ‘Dragon Age’. The reason I got into the franchise from Origins was because it was dark fantasy. Now it is anything but
@@vanyadolly The issue was they decided to make the Darkspawn look... weird as hell for DA2. Like, they had less than two years and they put resources into making the darkspawn look WORSE than the gritty monsters that were in the original. It was dark, sure, but a lot of the evil things just... didn't look as good.
@@kuronanestimare darkspawn was bad in 2 and Dai but look what they have done to them in Dav so sad and dont even care that it is for a reason that they have become more corrupted they just look shit now
as someone who played this from the start i will never understand why people called it dark , its the most classic a fantasy can get . Elf , dwarfs dragons , save the world , bkla bla bla . But put some zombies in to it not pooped out of a necromancer ass and suddenly is dark
The thing I remember most about Inquisition was what a damn good job some writer did on recognizing your Origins play through if your Warden romanced Morrigan and survived. The Morrigan dialogue about the Warden, what he was up to, and how she felt was perfect.
That's really the peak of DAI for me. Not a fan of the game otherwise, but at least it gave us some sense of conclusion and showed they cared about the world people had been playing. I even got an update on what happened to Warden Carver.
What gets me about forcing in of all the DEI rubbish is that games in the DA series are about escapism. Heck, all RPGs are about escapism. When I play a RPG I don't want to represent myself. Who the fuck would want to play a 'hero' who has a knackered back, dodgy leg with damaged nerves, aching knees is over weight and couldn't run if you paid him? I want to play a hero who can run all day, cast spells, shoot a bow, parkour up vertical cliffs etc. If I did have gender dysphoria I'd want to play as the gender I felt I was and not a surgically changed being with surgery scars or any representation of the real me. I'd want the escapism not the reminder of real life.
Nice cope. Mark my words THE MODERN AUDIENCE WILL SHOW UP! Probably on twitter and not in the game. But their voices will be heard! All 5 of them.. Just joking, im actually just trying to cope with the fact that dragonage is done 😢
I've found that a person never learns anything, yet alone humility, when all criticism they face is dismissed as "racist" or "sexist" or "insert buzzword" to ultimately create individuals that believe their work is beyond reproach. You'd have better luck convincing a brick wall than you'd have with people like that lol
The problem is that it was profitable, because Gamers years ago bought games just because of brands, they didn't care about if its good or not. Every Assassin's creed is bought up immediately because it is EA and Assassin's Creed, no one cared about game play or if it was actually good. Every AAA game was selling like hot cake even when it is broken and bad because the journalists eats it up if it checks all of its boxes for its political messaging. It is only recently that we realized that we didn't have to buy broken games that we actually deserve better games because of Elden Ring, Baldur's gate 3 , Space marine 2 and many others that actually caters to gamers and not politics. So we stop buying games that sucks, and start actually paying attention, this all happened this year. I was surprised that concord burned to the ground so quickly, I honestly thought there was gonna be thousands of stupid gamers that would have bought into the hype of a new hero shooter that offers nothing at all just because it is new. I am quite happy there was only 250 gamers that was like that. Games takes years to make, so when they are released this year, they were still building off the premise that was 2 years ago where they are not doing anything wrong. Veilguard if it was released 2 years ago before Baldurs Gate 3 would immediately sell 5 million the first week off the Bioware and Dragon age name , that 5 million buyers wouldn't care about the quality of the game or if it fits within the world and lore of Dragon Age. Luckily I believe this changed this year, I believe that 5 million number is going to drop down to less than 2 million and that is a win for Gamers in General.
It's gradual, but I'll agree we're seeing improvements, less blind consumer energy and more proper criticism of a system that has been exploiting fans for years; that's why the industry pushes back against games like BG3 being how they are - concern that standards will be raised - because if people start to expect better, they'll be able to get away with less and less shady behaviour. It'll still take a Long time but so long as people hold their ground and demand standards, you'll see more AAA Companies hurt where they care: profit margins :) We'll see, there's always Indie games and companies like Larian to hold the torch for now...
@@SoulGamesInc Part of the problem is that what i would call genuine critique, such as art style and some (not all) aspects of the past choices are getting lost in a swathe of 'anti-woke' and pretty brainless hatred. The former is rational. The latter, not so much. Leaving nuance broken on the floor.
Dragon Age The Veilguard is dead or arrival. When you have core DAO fans hating the game you know Bioware fucked up. I see Dragon age IP ending up like Saints Row reboot. The studio closed down and the IP is dead.
Sadly an apt comparison, if Veilguard doesn't do well (and I highly doubt it will) you're looking at the end of BioWare, although frankly what's left of BioWare at this stage is a hollow shell of its former self :(
Try and wrap your brain around this..... They had a franchise with a large player base who were begging for another installment of the series. So they say ok, they make the game and it doesn't look, feel, play or follow the story of the previous games. They made a sequel to a game and shunned the people who made it profitable enough to sell for some nebulous "modern audience" which hasn't materialized and doesn't seem to exist. It is astounding to see how many games have come out in the last couple of years that have done this. It's head scratching, basic business is to have and know your customers and cater to them while trying to expand your base. They've decided to shun, ignore, and even insult their customers while selling to people who don't play video games. There is a really interesting book that is going to be written on what these AAA developers did during this time
Not even Inquisition's choices, except for your romance. The last two are only about the last 5 minutes of a DLC, and only focused on Solas 🙄, I don't even like him.
Based DA2 enjoyer. Despite it's rushed development Hawke's story was distinct from the Warden's. It was a very depressing and bleak game where no one wins in the end.
@@SoulGamesInc Pirate it, they already said it won't have Denuvo....which should tell you how much faith they have in this dumpster fire when they won't even pay Denuvos fee.
While Origins is my favorite, I love DA2 too. Glad to see someone else gives love to it. I am very fond of my Elven Magi Warden and for Hawke. It hurts to see Dragon Age being desteoyed like that, but Veilguard has MANY red flags that I (personal case and opinion) am not sure I will be willing to ignore. The neglect to our choices in past games is the worst offender to me, that along with ignoring the Hero of Ferelden's quest to cure the calling. For now, I haven't bought the game, but I am also of the idea that if I want to have a deep critique of the game, I should play it myself.
Few things to say regarding Dragon Age and Veilguard. 1, Veilguard, even if it weren't trying to push weird ideology and was just purely on being a fun game, still would NOT work as a DA game because just like Inquisition, it tossed everything the previous lore set up, like the Qunari society structure, out the window because newer DA creators seem to hate and be ashamed of DA for some reason. See Grey Wardens and well, Leliana. 2. Mass Effect is still so well beloved, even bad ending aside, because unlike with DA having EA's meddling hands in it, was still ultimately a Mass Effect game. So that's why it's beloved. DA has been and seems to always will be the red headed stepchild, due to how you see the quality decline with each game and lore and story decisions seem to be tossed out the window each game. 3. I too love DA2 and always will maintain and defend it as being better than DAI, due to the fact it is A, a better paced and structured story, where even most of the side quests add on to the main story, where DAI is just fetch quest simulator, bad single player MMO game. And based on how the developers talked about DA2's story, if they were given even just another half a year to develop the game, we would have seen a way more dramatically different and more beloved game. 4. Anders was a terrible choice for companion, both lore wise and how it ultimately played out. I maintained too that till this day, Justice being a companion and becoming vengeance was a great story, especially since it directly led to the greatest conflict Bioware tossed out like trash, in Mage Vs Templar, but it should have been another character he inhabited. But it's sad instead we got Anders. Ultimately though, Veilguard is on track to be Bioware's last game and I say, good riddance. And before anyone say anything, even if Veilguard sold like 5 million copies, due to how long it's been in development hell for, just like with the Tomb Raider reboot, the first game, where Square Enix said 5 millions copies sold was a failure, this too will be a failure unless it sells Battlefield, FIFA numbers. And considering all the design choices, combatitive developers and just bad optics, I just don't see the game selling that many copies. And you know EA isn't in the game to only make a small ROI.
Agreed on all points :) and it'll need to Surpass expectations for EA to be happy here, after a string of repeated failures BioWare hasn't had a win since 2014... that's a Long time to go without releasing a big hit... and I've no faith in their ability to do ME4 justice at this stage unfortunately. As you say, good riddance, I'd rather seem the company fall at this stage than see them continue to fall down - there's always the old titles to go back and enjoy...
The first rule when you do any sequel to any sort of art medium is to RESPECT it's identity. Respect what came before and it's history. EA and this Bioware team have destroyed everything from that original foundation. This is not Dragon Age. Great video, keep it up!
Yeah sadly accurate, I'm reminded of a BioWare writer who stream themselves playing Origins; whom said how "we'd never do this nowadays" and claimed Origins was "too dark and too problematic" lol glad you liked the video tho :)
Was gonna sit down and enjoy a video but then It got revealed there's dog whistles before I gave the vid a minute. Thanks it's a skip for me 🙏🏽 quartering wanna be
When 99% of the entire human population views the world like this with just 2 only....why do you think people in Thailand still call chicks with dicks as "lady-boys"(even the lady-boys themselves say it)?....
a buddy of mine introduced me to inquisition like 4 years ago. I thought that was pretty alright. So then i decided to play origins and was an instant dragon age fan. I even enjoyed 2. Now here comes veilguard, I'm thinking hell yea. But now, hell naw. They took the dragon age out of dragon age.
Honestly, if one wishes to be optimistic (and I'm all for "if you can enjoy something, that's all that matters to You" life is too short bla bla etc) then you can hope that Veilguard will effectively be an "Alright Action-Slash Adventure Game" buuut it is 100% not a Dragon Age game. It's just got the DA title slapped on there...
I feel genuinely bad for Dragon Age fans. Witcher fans have 2 and a half games, Divinity fans have 5 games, BG fans have 5 games Dragon Age fans have like 1 and a half good games over 15 years. Bioware and EA have really done you guys so, so dirty after showing such promise with Origins.
Taking away the woke stuff let's acknowledge some of the list of the problems with dragon age The veil guard shall we? -dialogue that treats you like a toddler and keeps reminding you of stuff that happened 5 minutes ago -not allowed to be evil -the complete erasure of spiders to please arachnophobic! -Rook has no origins! just some he or her who showed up at a bar! -cannot control your own companions anymore and tactical combat has been replaced with hack and Slash! Need I go on!? 😑
If you want some hope, most of the devs that left BioWare have made their own studio called Archetype and the game their making (Exodus: Become the Traveler) is looking really good 👀
I've heard about that yeah, keeping an eye on it :) plus there's always the new projects Larian are working on to look forward to :) there's also an offshoot of old Bethesda devs that are making Their own thing too, tho I forget its name lol
I love Dragon Age 2 (and Mass Effect). Dragon Age 2 is a rare RPG where you are NOT the Chosen One and does NOT save the world. Since I am not a Chosen One and will not save the world IRL, I find Hawke the most relatable and fun protagonist ever. :)
I always defended it - still prefer Origins, but always enjoyed DA2 - still felt like Dragon Age and I actually liked the combat changes because it felt impactful and fun but not Too over the top. There's plenty of moments with Hawke that are outstanding writing/story that I still remember :) looking forward to replaying it soon. Edit: I've been meaning to for ages, need to find the time lol I only wish they'd had more than 1 Year to develop the game, would've been far larger and even better...
Interestingly, one of the earlier concepts for "Veilguard" put a focus on NOT being the chosen one, they'd planned to have us be a nobody, not special, more in line with Hawke... but that got scrapped...
@@SoulGamesInc Yes! DA2 had so much potential. DA:O wins on characters (BioWare's great strength) but DA2 had so much potential in its story, especially in the unfinished Act 3. Other than the unique protagonist, Varric's framing also leaves much to the player's imagination, sort of like a Crusading Kings 3 game.
I liked it a lot and replayed DA2 a good number of times, not as much as Origins, but still multiple times; bought all the DLC too as I was enjoying the game - it's the last DA title I remember fondly and replayed :)
I agree with you about DAII. The environments are recycled to hell, due to them being rushed by EA, but I really enjoyed the story of Hawke's life over the 10yrs. I enjoyed the companions too.
The story had some great moments, the characters shined (mostly) and if it had more than 1Yr of development, it might've been something real special to rival Origins; given enough love - sadly it was rushed so we got what we got, but even then, I still greatly enjoyed DA2 :)
@@SoulGamesInc The quest to find your mum. That had me crying. Then I went back and tried the other route, thinking I can save her! The game was like, no, no you can't. It was a heartbreaking scene for my Hawke. The banter between Aveline and Isabela was funny. I always had them in my party. 😆 Reminds me of FO NV. They were given 18 months to make it. It was a fantastic game. My favourite out of the 3D ones.
@FoxyFoxlyn Yeah exactly, had some examples of pretty great writing and memorable moments :) I look forward to replaying it as soon as I find the time in my chaotic as hell schedule lol
Dragon Age was mortally wounded with Mark of the Assassin and what it did to the Qunari. DA II itself had the bones of a good game, it just needed 6 months to a year to expand the reused areas, whjch as a concept wasn't horrible and have them change more between timeskips as well as fill out more of the side quests.
Just try to respect your fans (where possible, people can be terribly rude creatures) and don't grow too arrogant as to think yourself above criticism :) best of luck to you in the wars to come
It’s less about an identity crisis and more about the deliberate repurposing of art to advance a specific ideological narrative at the expense of artistic integrity and more complex narrative themes. That’s why they’ve been trying to make it less dark fantasy and more action oriented glob
Not sure, but most don't realize this. Movies and games pushing an agenda are funded by blackrock. The ceo has stated they will force their agenda on society. Remember, they can't account for 10's of billions of $$$ from Ukraine, Afghanistan etc. Lots of extra to lose on movies, games and media. Not a conspiracy theory, its happening.
weird to see the people behind it choose a style like it where every character look flawless skin smooth as a baby when ( every person is gorgeous to them no matter how they look) is what they chant and preach all the time.
The faction names (Shadow Dragons, seriously? Why am I suddenly hearing "CRAWWWLING INNNN MY SKINNNN?") have no sense of history, nothing that really links them in any meaningful way to the setting. They all sound like names they just snagged from a random name generator and decided to go with, putting in zero effort to do anything remotely resembling world building. And the only faction that ties in at all, the Veil Jumpers, is stupid in concept because they've turned the Veil, something that was supposed to be alien and terrifying and a place that nobody should go and was the source of mage's powers but also the plane through which demons could possess them... well now we just have a faction of thrill seekers that apparently just go hopping into the Veil with all the concern of someone hoping in and out of their neighbors yard and thinking they're being cool and edgy.
yeah the shadow dragons could have had their own tevinter sounding name like the venetori have would fit so much better and the veil jumpers could have been elven nerds instead looking for dales/arlathan artifacts and tomes instead of risking death or possesion 90% of the time they go in to the fade makes no sense unless you are the Dreadwolf himself or Hof
I gotta play through Inquisition again at some stage, I feel like my view on it of "Meh" is potentially unfair simply because the game ran poorly on my old rig and they cut up the ending into DLC that I never bought, so the "ending" felt lacklustre. It's still the downward spiral of DA's identity but looking at Veilguard... well at least it isn't Veilguard...
fun fact- the final boss of the descent dlc is still broken lol, the only way to kill it is a cheese strat 😭 be a mage, get knocked off the edge, respawn on edge, don't move, hit from range
Is it haha? Sounds about right - I never played it - DAI just bored me, the "ending" was lacklustre so I didn't bother with the DLC once I realized that BioWare had cut up the games to re-sell after the fact lol
A playthrough of all 3 games where you carry over the data would be a fun series. Veilfraud ignores all your choices and only gives you 3 at the beginning.
Yeah, I heard about the 3 choices lol as for the replaying yeah that's what I've been thinking :) just need to find the time - whole lot on my plate atm on top of many other videos that need doing; but we'll get there
Inquisition was pretty clearly intended to be the last dragon age game by the creator David Gaider as well. He was pretty openly vocal on twitter about wanting to do another IP now, even stating he wanted to work on a Kotor 3 of all things before quitting the next year. Biowares higher ups said no, made a dlc for sequel bait that undid all your choices regarding the inquisition. and now we got Veilguard which is basically made by a studio comprised entirely of people who never even worked on the originals.
Bro, this video was the best critique of bioware I have ever seen. You explained our frustrations with the direction of the franchise. You got a new subscriber 🤙
I liked DA2, was fun 50 hours. I thought DA2 looked incomplete, the graphics were goofy and it seemed like I was perpetually exploring the same areas. Otherwise, I liked the combat fine, and the story was DA.
Could not agree with your sentiments more great video! oh and super stoked for the Medieval 2 Dragon Age conversion mod I have been following the progress for years it looks great
that's what happens to an industry that seems to exclusively hire people who openly and strongly despise and hate both the product they're meant to create and the people that consume it, ain't that right body types 1s and 2s?
Yeah, that's certainly part of the issue - they also drive away any talented people that don't obey their views, leads to a creative team in a safety bubble whom dismiss all critics of their work as "hate" regardless of context. It's really no wonder we end up with so many poor quality products lol
@@SoulGamesInc imagine being one of the original group of nerds who created an entire massively successful franchise and seeing a bunch of brainwashed blue haired degenerate freaks of nature coming in, saying they understand the franchise better than you then disneyfying it, and after it inevitably flops they call the comunity you've created and nurtured a bunch of ists and phobes. damn it must hurt, no wonder they all quit eventually
dragon ages fandom is weird because one half is exactly people like the devs for veilguard and the other half is people that agree with this video or maybe not 50/50 cuase there are those myself included that like all three games before veilguard even tough Dai wasent as good as the other 2. There is just such a big leap from one side to the other😅
@@gnarlynarly1350 guess we're about to see what the percentage for each type is when it launches. but yeah, dai wasn't that bad despite the boring sidequests, virtue signaling and worst of all, the retcons to qunari and elf lore and culture.
Didn't even know this 'game' was in the making, not until two days ago when my younger brother asked me what I thought about the new Quanari look. I was at a genuine loss for about 10 seconds as the word veilbreak also meant nothing to me. Eventually my research lead me here. It's about damn time people realized the difference between a good game and a bad game & are FINALLY Investing their wealth and time into the Good Ones. We just might have a chance to turn it around in the next decade. Five years if we're are lucky. At this rate the label 'Gamer' can be worn with pride rather then a thing kept hidden in the closet. Keep fighting Stormcloaks. The war can only be won one battle at a time.
Dragon Age Fans: Veilguard is like the Titanic that's about to get hit by the iceberg. Bioware: Well, if the Titanic really "hit an iceberg" then how come no pieces of an iceberg were ever found in the wreckage? See? Our game will be fine.
It's so heartbreaking to see what has become of DA. DAO is still one of the best games I've ever played. There was not a minute where something boring happened, it was all story through and through. The dialogue was written so well, it had a very good balance between funny and absolutely horrifying moments (broodmother *shivers*). Also amazing worldbuilding. DA2 was great, too, not as great and emotional as DAO but still great. I also liked that they didn't just copypaste their story but tried sth new with Hawke. I loved how we played through his life, helping him work himself from bottom to the top. You were invested because you could see how things changed throughout the years (tension between mages and templars rising, the Quonari arriving in Kirkwall and Hawkes mom being killed by a psychopathic serial killer). I just miss the awesome writing :( I felt sooo let down by DAI, some parts were cool (like the ball at the Winter Palace) but I really disliked most of the companions (especially Sera, Cole, Solas, Bull and Blackwall, Bull and Blackwall were just acting like perverted creeps towards my Quonari and Solas was a racist bitch lol which at least was kinda interesting). Edit: Also WHY THE FUCK did they get rid of Inon Zur??? His music was the CORE of DA for me!
7:50 I had my problems with inquisition (so many nonsensical and usless side quests that I never actually do), but I actually enjoyed the story for the most part. Seriously though, DAI is the first DA game where I don't complete every last side quest before finally finishing the game.
@SoulGamesInc I'm not saying you'll enjoy it, but you are the first person I heard say they hated DAI. There have certainly been complaints, no game is perfect, but I wouldn't say it was the "Disney era" of DA. Although we might be about to get the Disney era of DA with DAV.
If you rewatch the video, I never say I hated it, it simply had no outstanding memories unlike 1&2 and its a sentiment you'll find shared by a lot of other comments here; so I'm far from the only person to feel "Meh" about DAI :) That said, as I said, I intend to replay it soon as I've the time ;) Edit: I also followed the "Disney Era" comment with "eh kinda sort of, you can hear it approaching" as in its not Quite that but its the step towards Veilguard.
@SoulGamesInc I chose my words poorly. I didn't mean to say you absolutely hated it, but the level of your indifference towards DAI is on a level I have never seen before. Although a suppose most people who have that level of indifference towards DAI are not content creators so they simply don't talk about DAI, whereas this video was, you giving your opinions about all the games.
I find most "creators" that cover Dragon Age anymore these days aren't originally Origin fans (and/or don't want to get blacklisted by BioWare haha) but you can scan through the comments here alone to see its an experience shared by many people who agree with the sentiment and the overall video. There's a whole Lot of other videos lately with other creators expressing similar opinions/experiences. In my experience, the DA community is very much split on the matter, with the vast majority of everyone I talk to about DA having 0 intention of buying Veilguard and thinking that DAI (and/or DA2) is the weakest entry - but that same community has a habit of censoring opinions they happen to dislike... end of the day though, as I've told many, enjoy what you enjoy :) I wish everyone the best, even if they disagree with me lol
Hnestly, the fact that Dragon Age origins legacy could hold up this franchise so long despite every single other game ranging from average to bad just show how good of a game it was. It's crazy
"Dragon Age 2 wasn't as bad as everyone made it out to be." Correct. Never watched this channel before but seems based. Edit. "It's not going to be bad because it has some woke character customization options. It's bad because Bioware has lost all of its talent." Thank you. I've been looking for a video like this. I keep seeing all this rage against wokeness which is such a cop out of actual criticism. Dragon Age has always been woke af, but this just seems like a shit game.
I love Dragon Age: Origins and really enjoy 2 and Inquisition and as such, will not be playing Veilguard, very much looking forward to the Total War Dragon Age mod.
The best way I can describe Veilguard's artstyle is "2004 Fable but worse". There is actually something good underneath that mess but the proportions look so weird, especially the big bobble heads. I actually like the models for the hairstyles, though. It's really sad because I love the series and I want this game to succeed, but almost all early reviews from dedicated fans are trashing it really hard.
To this day i still think that the blood magic vs child life choice is the best choice in videogame history due to the sheer fact that it absolutely nails down what kind of world it was. Shame bioware became biowere, it loved dragon age so much and i really though inquisition was a step on the right direction even with it many flaws you can see that they learned by the time they released trespasser and the descent felt like they knew how they would finish the story with a bang. But veilguard is just a wet fart instead. Would be great as a spinoff, but not as a mainline.
>To this day i still think that the blood magic vs child life choice is the best choice I only half agree. I would've removed the copout "let's gather some mages to send someone into the Fade" option. For example, by making a child an abomination while you're traveling to get the mages. So you're either kill someone to save a child, murder a child or you waffle, go to the mages and then you're still murdering a child because it's too late.
The only downside with it is that you can meta your way out of it once you know the outcome. But I really don't get how people can say DAI is just as dark as the first two games. Where's the child murder?
You know, I had never put it in perspective how I wish Inquisition had a darker tone to it, but your parallels with Origins do make me think about it now. I guess Inquisition is so successful in its own premises that I hadn't notice the lack of grit in its story. I think it also helps that decisions have consequences in Inquisition. Very interesting video, mate.
Inquisition has its flaws but at least it still feels like an RPG with actual choices - playing through Veilguard now, I can honestly say, I look forward to being done with it so I can replay DA2 and Inquisition lol
@SoulGamesInc I've recently played through both origins and 2 so I could play Inquisition before I'd get my hands in Veilguard. While I'm still very eager to replay Inquisition for the hundredth time, I think I might just skip this other Veilguard game I had the displeasure to wait 10 years for. Bless your soul for putting up with it.
What DA2 truly was good at is Qunari design. They really looked like aliens to the Thedas, so hatred and misunderstanding was well put in. In DAI they became somewhat less alienating. And here we’ve got some abomination of KSI with horns
The inquisition was great to me. Very dark at times, and I did love the world's I explored. Veil guard looks SO much worse besides maybe fluid combat?! Maybe?!?
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Its not a identity crisis - its a failure of epic proportions. Dragon Age the Transguard 😂
Your story of Dragon Age Origins is the story of me playing Dragon Age 2 for the first time. That summer I played for over 300 hours.. It introduced my to the Trinity or what a DPS even was. I'll never forget what this game did for me.
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eh RUclips tends to block a lot of random things for seemingly no reason with 0 input from Me sadly, I've no settings turned off/on that limit comments in any way - it's just RUclips being RUclips - you probably said a "trigger word" of theirs lol
As of today I still haven’t completed Inquisition, for multiple reasons. For one, I like to do every possible thing in a game, which includes all side quests and everything. Inquisition felt like it had too much bloat, as well as not enough depth at the same time. There were too many side quests and that stupid table of war where you have to wait real life time to complete, for some small rewards and some flavour text and minor impact. The jam packed so much into the hinterlands and little in everything else that all the maps just felt too open with little in between. I think Dragon Benefited from the somewhat linear maps and limited open world, as Origins had an open world (sort of) but Inquisition just had too much map without direction to hum the story along
My First Impressions of Veilguard: ruclips.net/video/FoXFtF9SPLw/видео.html ultimately, everything I've said in This video is proven correct; it's at best Painfully Mediocre
U made some great points about the talent leaving but what makes the problem worse is not trying to replace the talent with actual talent. Not hiring folks based completely on merit, but hiring people based on boxes u want to check.
That's the thing, those remaining are openly hostile to anyone that has differing opinions - so a lot of talent gets the door shut on their faces - you end up with an echo-chamber who dismiss all criticism etc
I like how you can predict this game being bad just by hearing its development cycle, the poor quality we see in gameplay trailers is just conformation
We've been discussing the subject of DA4's fate amongst the Dragon Age Total War team/devs for a great many years now - since before we even Had the officially name for Dreadwolf. The red flags have been piling up for a lifetime now haha
I would argue that inquisition still had dark fantasy it just failed to implement proper open world areas and a lot of that came from haveing to adapt the engine to work with rpgs but veilguard though is such a massive departure from dark fantasy completely
DAI still has some bits, it was the furthest away from its roots tho before Veilguard showed up to sprint further down the road - I am at least somewhat looking forward to giving DAI another playthrough... but Veilguard is just ehh... very Very low expectations for it as a DA game lol
@@SoulGamesInc They have even got worse just in the past few years. They already removed the Mass Effect Miranda butt shots, and toned down the sx scenes. Thanks to mods, all that was restored, and more. I believe, with a woke Dragon Age Origins remaster, modders will come to the rescue again. Unless they are so woke as to prevent mods. MELE wouldn't launch directly modded, you have to launch from ME3Tweaks mod manager. They might even prevent that.
As a longtime fan of Dragon Age, not just Origins but the entire series and BioWare games, I'll leave my opinion here. 1) Inquisition sold the best of the entire series and it even dominated on consoles (PC was only 10% of the first million units sold), so it makes sense to continue in a similar style and just get rid of the open world, that was the most frequent criticism of DAI and the tactical mod was the least used feature, so it also makes sense as a precursor to an action RPG. 2) The Tevinter Nights short story anthology by the same creative team has great stories, it's mature, horror, dark and gives me a lot of hope for the story and I'm very curious. For me personally, the only thing that deserves criticism so far is the discarding of DA Keep and only taking back three choices, and maybe the art style may not suit everyone. The rest can only be judged when I play it. So I'm definitely buying DATV because as a fan I want to see where the story will go.
My Review of Failguard is officially here! :D Check it Out: ruclips.net/video/GfN56m-QXso/видео.html
ultimately, everything I've said in This video is proven correct; it's at best Painfully Mediocre and at worse its an Insult
Bioware didn't just take your dog behind the shed, they replaced it with a skunk that identifies as a dog
Hilarious analogy
ahahahahahahaa
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What a needlessly mean way to put it. Be mad at the corporation sure but why the gross right wing hate thrown in?
@michaelelmes2135 corporations wouldn't be doing all this BS if the people spouting the BS weren't always whining about the games not including the BS. This comment is HIGHLY appropriate. They bitch about not being able to self-insert themselves, then end up not even playing the games at all. Meanwhile, a great game has been ruined. Studios are closing and franchises are dying because of it. The right is the only side making any damned sense at this point.
"... DAO doesn't have a voiced protagonist..."
Meanwhile the DAO protagonist; "Can I get you a ladder so you can get off my back?!"
Haha, yeah except for that 🤣
I remember hearing that crap through my whole play though and didn’t realise for a long time that it was my character saying that. Now I just think it’s kinda funny
Dragon age went from Dreadwolf to Dreadful lmao.
With just "dread" in between
The Draq-Wolf...
DAO had an atmosphere so fucking thick I can STILL taste it. There is no other way to describe it. Like a hidden line running through the game that tied everything together so well. Perfection.
Well said :)
Dragon age 2 is so good when you consider it was made in a year.
Yep, always defended it even then, could've been something even better given more time :)
The sheer amount of quality mods for DA2 sure shows many agreed!
@@a.m.pietroschek1972 So I liked Hawke and the whole story but unfortunately it already started with this incredibly ugly comic look >-< they should have just stuck with the great medieval style of Orgins.
We played different games or we have different opinions about what "good" means. I loved da origins but hated da2 with passion.
Dragon Age 2 game is my favourite DA geame, but Origins and Inquistion were fantastic in their own rights. Sadly I'm going to pass on Veilguard.
“All two of them” had me on the ground
Haha yeah I made myself chuckle with that one :D
It is funny because it's true :)
I spit coffee
Same, holy shit that was a good delivery for that joke.
Dragon Age Origins is GOAT. DA2 was pretty good considering the ridiculous deadline that Bioware was given from EA, 12 to 18 months I think it was.
Yep, something like 12-18 months, barely a Year and Less than two. It could've been something great if they were allowed to put more love into development :( but it was still a decent experience and a good story :)
@@SoulGamesInc EA and their vp at the time Patrick Soderlund were a cancer for the organization.
It's really a miracle what they managed to pull off for DA2. Recycled environments and a cut down 3rd act, but aside from that they told a fantastic story and even perfected the follower system with the rivalries. Meanwhile they've had ten years to work on DAV.
DA 2 could have been saved by modding but no one bother to try it to remade it, guess the tools were not good enough r the plot was just underwhelming.
Every game has become less and less ‘Dragon Age’. The reason I got into the franchise from Origins was because it was dark fantasy. Now it is anything but
You can say a lot of things about DA2, but not that it was less dark.
@@vanyadolly The issue was they decided to make the Darkspawn look... weird as hell for DA2. Like, they had less than two years and they put resources into making the darkspawn look WORSE than the gritty monsters that were in the original.
It was dark, sure, but a lot of the evil things just... didn't look as good.
@@kuronanestimare darkspawn was bad in 2 and Dai but look what they have done to them in Dav so sad and dont even care that it is for a reason that they have become more corrupted they just look shit now
to be fair dragon age origins - was the only great dragon age . i just couldnt get into da2 or inquisition .
as someone who played this from the start i will never understand why people called it dark , its the most classic a fantasy can get . Elf , dwarfs dragons , save the world , bkla bla bla . But put some zombies in to it not pooped out of a necromancer ass and suddenly is dark
Former Bioware fan, now 'tourist'. I wish I had an angry response. But you are right.
Hell, I wish I was wrong; would be great to have a proper return to form - sadly not happening :(
Bioware used to be my favorite studio... but that died many years ago. Being a tourist implies I give them money still.
i feel more like the CEO and writers are the real tourists in the world of DA
The thing I remember most about Inquisition was what a damn good job some writer did on recognizing your Origins play through if your Warden romanced Morrigan and survived. The Morrigan dialogue about the Warden, what he was up to, and how she felt was perfect.
Yeah, whatever my Meh memory is of DAI at least it acknowledged the past choices you'd made :)
That's really the peak of DAI for me. Not a fan of the game otherwise, but at least it gave us some sense of conclusion and showed they cared about the world people had been playing. I even got an update on what happened to Warden Carver.
I've played DAO for more than 500h . And I still think that was the best game I ever played.
I've long lost count of how many times I replayed DAO but I know that it Never got old lol
What gets me about forcing in of all the DEI rubbish is that games in the DA series are about escapism. Heck, all RPGs are about escapism.
When I play a RPG I don't want to represent myself. Who the fuck would want to play a 'hero' who has a knackered back, dodgy leg with damaged nerves, aching knees is over weight and couldn't run if you paid him?
I want to play a hero who can run all day, cast spells, shoot a bow, parkour up vertical cliffs etc.
If I did have gender dysphoria I'd want to play as the gender I felt I was and not a surgically changed being with surgery scars or any representation of the real me.
I'd want the escapism not the reminder of real life.
It looks like it's a non-buy-nary game.
HA that's good, why didn't I think of that :D
Nice cope. Mark my words THE MODERN AUDIENCE WILL SHOW UP!
Probably on twitter and not in the game.
But their voices will be heard! All 5 of them..
Just joking, im actually just trying to cope with the fact that dragonage is done 😢
True, I currently identify as a closed wallet.
Exactly right! lol
Looks like "nonbuynary" is becoming a thing
Twitter fantasy. That's how this genre called.
Nice set of decorations to live up your fenitishization of mentaly and physicly disabled.
You’d think at this point these companies would realize that “ThE MeSsAgE” is not profitable.
I've found that a person never learns anything, yet alone humility, when all criticism they face is dismissed as "racist" or "sexist" or "insert buzzword" to ultimately create individuals that believe their work is beyond reproach. You'd have better luck convincing a brick wall than you'd have with people like that lol
Maybe they don't need sales. Blackrock money is enough
The problem is that it was profitable, because Gamers years ago bought games just because of brands, they didn't care about if its good or not.
Every Assassin's creed is bought up immediately because it is EA and Assassin's Creed, no one cared about game play or if it was actually good.
Every AAA game was selling like hot cake even when it is broken and bad because the journalists eats it up if it checks all of its boxes for its political messaging.
It is only recently that we realized that we didn't have to buy broken games that we actually deserve better games because of Elden Ring, Baldur's gate 3 , Space marine 2 and many others that actually caters to gamers and not politics.
So we stop buying games that sucks, and start actually paying attention, this all happened this year.
I was surprised that concord burned to the ground so quickly, I honestly thought there was gonna be thousands of stupid gamers that would have bought into the hype of a new hero shooter that offers nothing at all just because it is new. I am quite happy there was only 250 gamers that was like that.
Games takes years to make, so when they are released this year, they were still building off the premise that was 2 years ago where they are not doing anything wrong. Veilguard if it was released 2 years ago before Baldurs Gate 3 would immediately sell 5 million the first week off the Bioware and Dragon age name , that 5 million buyers wouldn't care about the quality of the game or if it fits within the world and lore of Dragon Age. Luckily I believe this changed this year, I believe that 5 million number is going to drop down to less than 2 million
and that is a win for Gamers in General.
It's gradual, but I'll agree we're seeing improvements, less blind consumer energy and more proper criticism of a system that has been exploiting fans for years; that's why the industry pushes back against games like BG3 being how they are - concern that standards will be raised - because if people start to expect better, they'll be able to get away with less and less shady behaviour. It'll still take a Long time but so long as people hold their ground and demand standards, you'll see more AAA Companies hurt where they care: profit margins :)
We'll see, there's always Indie games and companies like Larian to hold the torch for now...
@@SoulGamesInc Part of the problem is that what i would call genuine critique, such as art style and some (not all) aspects of the past choices are getting lost in a swathe of 'anti-woke' and pretty brainless hatred. The former is rational. The latter, not so much. Leaving nuance broken on the floor.
Dragon Age The Veilguard is dead or arrival. When you have core DAO fans hating the game you know Bioware fucked up.
I see Dragon age IP ending up like Saints Row reboot. The studio closed down and the IP is dead.
Sadly an apt comparison, if Veilguard doesn't do well (and I highly doubt it will) you're looking at the end of BioWare, although frankly what's left of BioWare at this stage is a hollow shell of its former self :(
The modern audience let them down AGAIN? What a surprise.
Try and wrap your brain around this..... They had a franchise with a large player base who were begging for another installment of the series. So they say ok, they make the game and it doesn't look, feel, play or follow the story of the previous games. They made a sequel to a game and shunned the people who made it profitable enough to sell for some nebulous "modern audience" which hasn't materialized and doesn't seem to exist. It is astounding to see how many games have come out in the last couple of years that have done this. It's head scratching, basic business is to have and know your customers and cater to them while trying to expand your base. They've decided to shun, ignore, and even insult their customers while selling to people who don't play video games. There is a really interesting book that is going to be written on what these AAA developers did during this time
The Evil Empire always finds a way in destroying the game companies they buy. Surprised Bioware lasted this long
I cant wait to watch this game crash and burn then the devs blame everyone else but themselves
remember! Origins and DA2 choices don't matter on Veilguard.
Not even Inquisition's choices, except for your romance.
The last two are only about the last 5 minutes of a DLC, and only focused on Solas 🙄, I don't even like him.
Yeah, heard this, sadly not surprised :(
When I hear the protagonists voice in a game that let's me pick multiple dialogue options :
I DONT REMEMBER ASKING U A GOD DAMNED THING!
Based DA2 enjoyer. Despite it's rushed development Hawke's story was distinct from the Warden's. It was a very depressing and bleak game where no one wins in the end.
so true king, RIP DA:O
RIP :( I have to replay it soon lol
This will be the first Dragon Age game I don't buy. This looks like garbage.
I'm genuinely on the fence, but only to Record it or Not. If I didn't have the channel, I wouldn't bother at all.
@@SoulGamesInc Pirate it, they already said it won't have Denuvo....which should tell you how much faith they have in this dumpster fire when they won't even pay Denuvos fee.
No Denuvo you say.............
@@MeltonCrest Intriquing 🤔
I will buy on 75% discount
Sad to see a big studio being so internally discouraged to make good products.
I will not put my pitchfork down. Best I can do is lower the pointy bits for a while
Lower it towards Veilguard, is my advice :D
cover it with hand ha
2:03 *slowly puts down pitchfork* go on
Pick it back up and point it at Veilguard lol
I wish Baldurs gate 3 had the same combat as Dragon Age Origins. It was perfect. It was tactical, but also fluid(realistic) at the same time.
While Origins is my favorite, I love DA2 too. Glad to see someone else gives love to it.
I am very fond of my Elven Magi Warden and for Hawke.
It hurts to see Dragon Age being desteoyed like that, but Veilguard has MANY red flags that I (personal case and opinion) am not sure I will be willing to ignore. The neglect to our choices in past games is the worst offender to me, that along with ignoring the Hero of Ferelden's quest to cure the calling.
For now, I haven't bought the game, but I am also of the idea that if I want to have a deep critique of the game, I should play it myself.
Sadly, those red flags have been piling up for years now. I could do a whole 1hr video covering them all lol
Few things to say regarding Dragon Age and Veilguard.
1, Veilguard, even if it weren't trying to push weird ideology and was just purely on being a fun game, still would NOT work as a DA game because just like Inquisition, it tossed everything the previous lore set up, like the Qunari society structure, out the window because newer DA creators seem to hate and be ashamed of DA for some reason. See Grey Wardens and well, Leliana.
2. Mass Effect is still so well beloved, even bad ending aside, because unlike with DA having EA's meddling hands in it, was still ultimately a Mass Effect game. So that's why it's beloved. DA has been and seems to always will be the red headed stepchild, due to how you see the quality decline with each game and lore and story decisions seem to be tossed out the window each game.
3. I too love DA2 and always will maintain and defend it as being better than DAI, due to the fact it is A, a better paced and structured story, where even most of the side quests add on to the main story, where DAI is just fetch quest simulator, bad single player MMO game. And based on how the developers talked about DA2's story, if they were given even just another half a year to develop the game, we would have seen a way more dramatically different and more beloved game.
4. Anders was a terrible choice for companion, both lore wise and how it ultimately played out. I maintained too that till this day, Justice being a companion and becoming vengeance was a great story, especially since it directly led to the greatest conflict Bioware tossed out like trash, in Mage Vs Templar, but it should have been another character he inhabited. But it's sad instead we got Anders.
Ultimately though, Veilguard is on track to be Bioware's last game and I say, good riddance. And before anyone say anything, even if Veilguard sold like 5 million copies, due to how long it's been in development hell for, just like with the Tomb Raider reboot, the first game, where Square Enix said 5 millions copies sold was a failure, this too will be a failure unless it sells Battlefield, FIFA numbers. And considering all the design choices, combatitive developers and just bad optics, I just don't see the game selling that many copies. And you know EA isn't in the game to only make a small ROI.
Agreed on all points :) and it'll need to Surpass expectations for EA to be happy here, after a string of repeated failures BioWare hasn't had a win since 2014... that's a Long time to go without releasing a big hit... and I've no faith in their ability to do ME4 justice at this stage unfortunately. As you say, good riddance, I'd rather seem the company fall at this stage than see them continue to fall down - there's always the old titles to go back and enjoy...
The first rule when you do any sequel to any sort of art medium is to RESPECT it's identity. Respect what came before and it's history. EA and this Bioware team have destroyed everything from that original foundation. This is not Dragon Age. Great video, keep it up!
Yeah sadly accurate, I'm reminded of a BioWare writer who stream themselves playing Origins; whom said how "we'd never do this nowadays" and claimed Origins was "too dark and too problematic" lol glad you liked the video tho :)
"Every Gender: All Two of them... "
Hear hear 🍻🍻 1:15
Hehe yeah I amused myself with that one lol
Was gonna sit down and enjoy a video but then It got revealed there's dog whistles before I gave the vid a minute. Thanks it's a skip for me 🙏🏽 quartering wanna be
When 99% of the entire human population views the world like this with just 2 only....why do you think people in Thailand still call chicks with dicks as "lady-boys"(even the lady-boys themselves say it)?....
@@fiveam8626 And because of being based I'll be leaving a like on his video.
Who would of thought common sense would be considered a dog whistle.
Those people are always saying "trust the science" unless it deals with scientific fact on two genders
a buddy of mine introduced me to inquisition like 4 years ago. I thought that was pretty alright. So then i decided to play origins and was an instant dragon age fan. I even enjoyed 2. Now here comes veilguard, I'm thinking hell yea. But now, hell naw. They took the dragon age out of dragon age.
Honestly, if one wishes to be optimistic (and I'm all for "if you can enjoy something, that's all that matters to You" life is too short bla bla etc) then you can hope that Veilguard will effectively be an "Alright Action-Slash Adventure Game" buuut it is 100% not a Dragon Age game. It's just got the DA title slapped on there...
I feel genuinely bad for Dragon Age fans.
Witcher fans have 2 and a half games, Divinity fans have 5 games, BG fans have 5 games
Dragon Age fans have like 1 and a half good games over 15 years. Bioware and EA have really done you guys so, so dirty after showing such promise with Origins.
@@boblionia indeed. Im more of a sports guy. I feel bad for all the sports game fans. Can't even get a good golf game. Lol
Taking away the woke stuff let's acknowledge some of the list of the problems with dragon age The veil guard shall we?
-dialogue that treats you like a toddler and keeps reminding you of stuff that happened 5 minutes ago
-not allowed to be evil
-the complete erasure of spiders to please arachnophobic!
-Rook has no origins! just some he or her who showed up at a bar!
-cannot control your own companions anymore and tactical combat has been replaced with hack and Slash!
Need I go on!? 😑
Sadly all accurate points 😢
forgott about not being able to be evil or atleast a douche origins was fantastic in that regard
tbh im massively disappointed after 10 years of waiting for a funko dragonrok of pixar wokeness
i share your pain.
In War, Victory. In Peace, Vigilance. In Death, Sacrifice.
If you want some hope, most of the devs that left BioWare have made their own studio called Archetype and the game their making (Exodus: Become the Traveler) is looking really good 👀
What if they let you select pronouns?
I've heard about that yeah, keeping an eye on it :) plus there's always the new projects Larian are working on to look forward to :) there's also an offshoot of old Bethesda devs that are making Their own thing too, tho I forget its name lol
The idea that this creative bankruptcy is deliberate is shocking.
Couldn't agree more. Been saying the same thing myself for years. God I wish we could just get a decent remake of Origins.
Would be nice, but I wouldn't trust BioWare anywhere near Origins at this stage lol
"Shadow Dragons" has big Tunnel Snakes energy.
I love Dragon Age 2 (and Mass Effect). Dragon Age 2 is a rare RPG where you are NOT the Chosen One and does NOT save the world. Since I am not a Chosen One and will not save the world IRL, I find Hawke the most relatable and fun protagonist ever. :)
I always defended it - still prefer Origins, but always enjoyed DA2 - still felt like Dragon Age and I actually liked the combat changes because it felt impactful and fun but not Too over the top. There's plenty of moments with Hawke that are outstanding writing/story that I still remember :) looking forward to replaying it soon. Edit: I've been meaning to for ages, need to find the time lol
I only wish they'd had more than 1 Year to develop the game, would've been far larger and even better...
Interestingly, one of the earlier concepts for "Veilguard" put a focus on NOT being the chosen one, they'd planned to have us be a nobody, not special, more in line with Hawke... but that got scrapped...
@@SoulGamesInc Yes! DA2 had so much potential. DA:O wins on characters (BioWare's great strength) but DA2 had so much potential in its story, especially in the unfinished Act 3. Other than the unique protagonist, Varric's framing also leaves much to the player's imagination, sort of like a Crusading Kings 3 game.
I liked it a lot and replayed DA2 a good number of times, not as much as Origins, but still multiple times; bought all the DLC too as I was enjoying the game - it's the last DA title I remember fondly and replayed :)
Nah, DA allowed choice of species (Human, Elf, Dwarf), and DA 2 enforced a human.
I agree with you about DAII. The environments are recycled to hell, due to them being rushed by EA, but I really enjoyed the story of Hawke's life over the 10yrs. I enjoyed the companions too.
The story had some great moments, the characters shined (mostly) and if it had more than 1Yr of development, it might've been something real special to rival Origins; given enough love - sadly it was rushed so we got what we got, but even then, I still greatly enjoyed DA2 :)
The companion mods allowing to adapt their style or see them naked, if needed, sure mean plenty of fans agree!
@@SoulGamesInc The quest to find your mum. That had me crying. Then I went back and tried the other route, thinking I can save her! The game was like, no, no you can't. It was a heartbreaking scene for my Hawke.
The banter between Aveline and Isabela was funny. I always had them in my party. 😆
Reminds me of FO NV. They were given 18 months to make it. It was a fantastic game. My favourite out of the 3D ones.
@@a.m.pietroschek1972 🤣
@FoxyFoxlyn Yeah exactly, had some examples of pretty great writing and memorable moments :) I look forward to replaying it as soon as I find the time in my chaotic as hell schedule lol
Dragon Age was mortally wounded with Mark of the Assassin and what it did to the Qunari. DA II itself had the bones of a good game, it just needed 6 months to a year to expand the reused areas, whjch as a concept wasn't horrible and have them change more between timeskips as well as fill out more of the side quests.
There was no reason Felicia Day had to be in that DLC, essentially playing herself. A pure ego project.
egh, okay don't remind me about Mark of the Assassin lmao
Boy oh boy is it absolutely astonishing how EACH AND EVERY prediction came true(as bitter as it is for DA), you Sir are AWESOME. Like, subscription!
As the head of a tiny studio my hope is that I will never debase a franchise to this extent.
Just try to respect your fans (where possible, people can be terribly rude creatures) and don't grow too arrogant as to think yourself above criticism :) best of luck to you in the wars to come
@@SoulGamesInc Thanks.
@@SoulGamesInc many big studios like bestesda or blizzard got a big head due to their long years of sucsess no longer caring about their fans
It’s less about an identity crisis and more about the deliberate repurposing of art to advance a specific ideological narrative at the expense of artistic integrity and more complex narrative themes. That’s why they’ve been trying to make it less dark fantasy and more action oriented glob
Not sure, but most don't realize this. Movies and games pushing an agenda are funded by blackrock. The ceo has stated they will force their agenda on society. Remember, they can't account for 10's of billions of $$$ from Ukraine, Afghanistan etc. Lots of extra to lose on movies, games and media. Not a conspiracy theory, its happening.
weird to see the people behind it choose a style like it where every character look flawless skin smooth as a baby when ( every person is gorgeous to them no matter how they look) is what they chant and preach all the time.
The faction names (Shadow Dragons, seriously? Why am I suddenly hearing "CRAWWWLING INNNN MY SKINNNN?") have no sense of history, nothing that really links them in any meaningful way to the setting. They all sound like names they just snagged from a random name generator and decided to go with, putting in zero effort to do anything remotely resembling world building. And the only faction that ties in at all, the Veil Jumpers, is stupid in concept because they've turned the Veil, something that was supposed to be alien and terrifying and a place that nobody should go and was the source of mage's powers but also the plane through which demons could possess them... well now we just have a faction of thrill seekers that apparently just go hopping into the Veil with all the concern of someone hoping in and out of their neighbors yard and thinking they're being cool and edgy.
yeah the shadow dragons could have had their own tevinter sounding name like the venetori have would fit so much better and the veil jumpers could have been elven nerds instead looking for dales/arlathan artifacts and tomes instead of risking death or possesion 90% of the time they go in to the fade makes no sense unless you are the Dreadwolf himself or Hof
I gotta play through Inquisition again at some stage, I feel like my view on it of "Meh" is potentially unfair simply because the game ran poorly on my old rig and they cut up the ending into DLC that I never bought, so the "ending" felt lacklustre. It's still the downward spiral of DA's identity but looking at Veilguard... well at least it isn't Veilguard...
fun fact- the final boss of the descent dlc is still broken lol, the only way to kill it is a cheese strat 😭
be a mage, get knocked off the edge, respawn on edge, don't move, hit from range
Is it haha? Sounds about right - I never played it - DAI just bored me, the "ending" was lacklustre so I didn't bother with the DLC once I realized that BioWare had cut up the games to re-sell after the fact lol
A playthrough of all 3 games where you carry over the data would be a fun series. Veilfraud ignores all your choices and only gives you 3 at the beginning.
Yeah, I heard about the 3 choices lol as for the replaying yeah that's what I've been thinking :) just need to find the time - whole lot on my plate atm on top of many other videos that need doing; but we'll get there
Inquisition was pretty clearly intended to be the last dragon age game by the creator David Gaider as well. He was pretty openly vocal on twitter about wanting to do another IP now, even stating he wanted to work on a Kotor 3 of all things before quitting the next year. Biowares higher ups said no, made a dlc for sequel bait that undid all your choices regarding the inquisition. and now we got Veilguard which is basically made by a studio comprised entirely of people who never even worked on the originals.
Bro, this video was the best critique of bioware I have ever seen. You explained our frustrations with the direction of the franchise.
You got a new subscriber 🤙
Great minds think alike as they say :)
I find myself replaying DAO every 2-3 years. The story itself is just too replayable
Replayed it just recently :) half a mind to replay it again too, do a "evil" playthrough if time permits lol
Evil bride is what I've in mind.
The Dragon has Aged like milk.
Ha that's a good one 🤣
That's an insult to yogurt and cheese.
I liked DA2, was fun 50 hours. I thought DA2 looked incomplete, the graphics were goofy and it seemed like I was perpetually exploring the same areas. Otherwise, I liked the combat fine, and the story was DA.
The modding community sure crafted plenty of mods fixing stuff, upgrading optics to HD, and similar. DA2 & DAI.
You could say they 'transitioned' 🤣🤣🤣
Yeeeeah, I amuse myself lmao
3:45 never thought that a Dragon Age Total War could work, amazing man!
Not far off completion now :) can check the discord in the discription for previews/updates on that
Ahh yess DragonRage : Failguard The Raid Shadow legends Spinoff game
Don't forget to buy the £69.99 DLC to unlock the ending :)
Darn, my bet was on Dragon's Dogma copycat!
Could not agree with your sentiments more great video!
oh and super stoked for the Medieval 2 Dragon Age conversion mod
I have been following the progress for years it looks great
Progress is coming along :) all My work is done, Octs just working solo on everything else; the chad
that's what happens to an industry that seems to exclusively hire people who openly and strongly despise and hate both the product they're meant to create and the people that consume it, ain't that right body types 1s and 2s?
Yeah, that's certainly part of the issue - they also drive away any talented people that don't obey their views, leads to a creative team in a safety bubble whom dismiss all critics of their work as "hate" regardless of context. It's really no wonder we end up with so many poor quality products lol
@@SoulGamesInc imagine being one of the original group of nerds who created an entire massively successful franchise and seeing a bunch of brainwashed blue haired degenerate freaks of nature coming in, saying they understand the franchise better than you then disneyfying it, and after it inevitably flops they call the comunity you've created and nurtured a bunch of ists and phobes. damn it must hurt, no wonder they all quit eventually
dragon ages fandom is weird because one half is exactly people like the devs for veilguard and the other half is people that agree with this video or maybe not 50/50 cuase there are those myself included that like all three games before veilguard even tough Dai wasent as good as the other 2. There is just such a big leap from one side to the other😅
@@gnarlynarly1350 guess we're about to see what the percentage for each type is when it launches. but yeah, dai wasn't that bad despite the boring sidequests, virtue signaling and worst of all, the retcons to qunari and elf lore and culture.
Didn't even know this 'game' was in the making, not until two days ago when my younger brother asked me what I thought about the new Quanari look. I was at a genuine loss for about 10 seconds as the word veilbreak also meant nothing to me. Eventually my research lead me here.
It's about damn time people realized the difference between a good game and a bad game & are FINALLY Investing their wealth and time into the Good Ones. We just might have a chance to turn it around in the next decade. Five years if we're are lucky.
At this rate the label 'Gamer' can be worn with pride rather then a thing kept hidden in the closet. Keep fighting Stormcloaks.
The war can only be won one battle at a time.
I liked DA2 more than DAI. Origins still peak though.
Same here, I replayed Origins 100 times; DA2 three or four :D DAI never got replayed, but I aim to go back and give it another go with some Mods :)
God damn just take my sub. Spoken out of my soul, lovely man.
Many of my hate comments would disagree about the lovely part :D but welcome to the channel haha
Dragon Age Fans: Veilguard is like the Titanic that's about to get hit by the iceberg.
Bioware: Well, if the Titanic really "hit an iceberg" then how come no pieces of an iceberg were ever found in the wreckage? See? Our game will be fine.
Flawless logic if I've ever seen any, everything is finnnnnnne
It's so heartbreaking to see what has become of DA. DAO is still one of the best games I've ever played. There was not a minute where something boring happened, it was all story through and through. The dialogue was written so well, it had a very good balance between funny and absolutely horrifying moments (broodmother *shivers*). Also amazing worldbuilding. DA2 was great, too, not as great and emotional as DAO but still great. I also liked that they didn't just copypaste their story but tried sth new with Hawke. I loved how we played through his life, helping him work himself from bottom to the top. You were invested because you could see how things changed throughout the years (tension between mages and templars rising, the Quonari arriving in Kirkwall and Hawkes mom being killed by a psychopathic serial killer). I just miss the awesome writing :( I felt sooo let down by DAI, some parts were cool (like the ball at the Winter Palace) but I really disliked most of the companions (especially Sera, Cole, Solas, Bull and Blackwall, Bull and Blackwall were just acting like perverted creeps towards my Quonari and Solas was a racist bitch lol which at least was kinda interesting).
Edit: Also WHY THE FUCK did they get rid of Inon Zur??? His music was the CORE of DA for me!
i bet if they remastered Dragon Age Origin it would sell well than Veilguard
Please no, I don't trust them anywhere near Origins - they'd ruin it lmao
The original sold more than #BG3, so yeah!
They would probably add 10 genders and make Darkspawn look like clowns like they do in the Failguard.
There is a good reason why Bioware is not in charge of remastering KOTOR.
Possibly the best vid I've seen on this topic.
7:50 I had my problems with inquisition (so many nonsensical and usless side quests that I never actually do), but I actually enjoyed the story for the most part. Seriously though, DAI is the first DA game where I don't complete every last side quest before finally finishing the game.
I aim to replay it when I've the time, give it another shot; see how it holds up to my memory of it etc :)
@SoulGamesInc I'm not saying you'll enjoy it, but you are the first person I heard say they hated DAI. There have certainly been complaints, no game is perfect, but I wouldn't say it was the "Disney era" of DA. Although we might be about to get the Disney era of DA with DAV.
If you rewatch the video, I never say I hated it, it simply had no outstanding memories unlike 1&2 and its a sentiment you'll find shared by a lot of other comments here; so I'm far from the only person to feel "Meh" about DAI :) That said, as I said, I intend to replay it soon as I've the time ;) Edit: I also followed the "Disney Era" comment with "eh kinda sort of, you can hear it approaching" as in its not Quite that but its the step towards Veilguard.
@SoulGamesInc I chose my words poorly. I didn't mean to say you absolutely hated it, but the level of your indifference towards DAI is on a level I have never seen before. Although a suppose most people who have that level of indifference towards DAI are not content creators so they simply don't talk about DAI, whereas this video was, you giving your opinions about all the games.
I find most "creators" that cover Dragon Age anymore these days aren't originally Origin fans (and/or don't want to get blacklisted by BioWare haha) but you can scan through the comments here alone to see its an experience shared by many people who agree with the sentiment and the overall video. There's a whole Lot of other videos lately with other creators expressing similar opinions/experiences.
In my experience, the DA community is very much split on the matter, with the vast majority of everyone I talk to about DA having 0 intention of buying Veilguard and thinking that DAI (and/or DA2) is the weakest entry - but that same community has a habit of censoring opinions they happen to dislike... end of the day though, as I've told many, enjoy what you enjoy :)
I wish everyone the best, even if they disagree with me lol
15:39 It's ironic you say it's like a modded Hogwarts Legacy when the dragon here has the same name as the main baddie in Hogwarts Legacy - Ranrok.
That's because that IS hogwarts legacy 🤣 I was swapping in and out between clips of Veilguard, GodOfWar and Hogwarts combat to make a point 😂
every gender, all 2 of them LMAO, that'll trigger some new dragon age fans
I know that's why I said it :D hahaha
This video speaks to my soul. $25 isnt enough
Glad you liked it, much appreciated
Anyone ever said you sound like Total Biscuit?
Yes :) and I take it as the highest compliment haha I started RUclips in part because of TB
May he rest in peace.
I was thinking the same thing just now and saw your comment!!!!
Hnestly, the fact that Dragon Age origins legacy could hold up this franchise so long despite every single other game ranging from average to bad just show how good of a game it was. It's crazy
"Dragon Age 2 wasn't as bad as everyone made it out to be."
Correct. Never watched this channel before but seems based.
Edit. "It's not going to be bad because it has some woke character customization options. It's bad because Bioware has lost all of its talent."
Thank you. I've been looking for a video like this. I keep seeing all this rage against wokeness which is such a cop out of actual criticism. Dragon Age has always been woke af, but this just seems like a shit game.
Exactly, is why I don't harp about "woke this woke that" end of the day it's about Quality.
Dragon Age Veilguard IS the Blight
I love Dragon Age: Origins and really enjoy 2 and Inquisition and as such, will not be playing Veilguard, very much looking forward to the Total War Dragon Age mod.
All my work on the project is done :) just Oct working on everything else, progress is steady; shouldn't be forever now lol
All this game does is make me wanna play origins
I enjoyed dragon age 2
The best way I can describe Veilguard's artstyle is "2004 Fable but worse". There is actually something good underneath that mess but the proportions look so weird, especially the big bobble heads. I actually like the models for the hairstyles, though. It's really sad because I love the series and I want this game to succeed, but almost all early reviews from dedicated fans are trashing it really hard.
To this day i still think that the blood magic vs child life choice is the best choice in videogame history due to the sheer fact that it absolutely nails down what kind of world it was. Shame bioware became biowere, it loved dragon age so much and i really though inquisition was a step on the right direction even with it many flaws you can see that they learned by the time they released trespasser and the descent felt like they knew how they would finish the story with a bang. But veilguard is just a wet fart instead. Would be great as a spinoff, but not as a mainline.
That exact choice, one DAI Writer called "too problematic" while streaming themselves playing Origins for the first time lol
>To this day i still think that the blood magic vs child life choice is the best choice
I only half agree. I would've removed the copout "let's gather some mages to send someone into the Fade" option. For example, by making a child an abomination while you're traveling to get the mages.
So you're either kill someone to save a child, murder a child or you waffle, go to the mages and then you're still murdering a child because it's too late.
The only downside with it is that you can meta your way out of it once you know the outcome. But I really don't get how people can say DAI is just as dark as the first two games. Where's the child murder?
You know, I had never put it in perspective how I wish Inquisition had a darker tone to it, but your parallels with Origins do make me think about it now. I guess Inquisition is so successful in its own premises that I hadn't notice the lack of grit in its story. I think it also helps that decisions have consequences in Inquisition. Very interesting video, mate.
Inquisition has its flaws but at least it still feels like an RPG with actual choices - playing through Veilguard now, I can honestly say, I look forward to being done with it so I can replay DA2 and Inquisition lol
@SoulGamesInc I've recently played through both origins and 2 so I could play Inquisition before I'd get my hands in Veilguard. While I'm still very eager to replay Inquisition for the hundredth time, I think I might just skip this other Veilguard game I had the displeasure to wait 10 years for.
Bless your soul for putting up with it.
Veilguard is 100% not worth bothering with, enjoy the first 3 then go play BG3 or something lol
In a few weeks were gonna see a lot of tweets blaming us for not liking Drag Queen Flopguard 🤷
Naturally, it'll be the incel/sexist/racist/whatever/buzzwords fault. We're terrible people :D
What DA2 truly was good at is Qunari design. They really looked like aliens to the Thedas, so hatred and misunderstanding was well put in. In DAI they became somewhat less alienating. And here we’ve got some abomination of KSI with horns
There’s no way the art department is so bad at BioWare they managed to make every male quanari look like Yakub right?
I'm quite sure the art design of the characters is a direct layover of past project versions being aimed at Mobile/Live Service
The inquisition was great to me. Very dark at times, and I did love the world's I explored. Veil guard looks SO much worse besides maybe fluid combat?! Maybe?!?
Its not a identity crisis - its a failure of epic proportions.
Dragon Age the Transguard 😂
There's so many funny alt-titles for it haha :D
Transguard, Wokeguard, Failguard, the list goes on lol
You are clearly a Queernari spy infiltrating Ferelden! Or, a nonBUYnari person? Stuff. 🤣
Womp womp
One leads to the other
Your story of Dragon Age Origins is the story of me playing Dragon Age 2 for the first time. That summer I played for over 300 hours.. It introduced my to the Trinity or what a DPS even was. I'll never forget what this game did for me.
Veilguard has gone through more identity crises than what little is left of its development team...
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As of today I still haven’t completed Inquisition, for multiple reasons. For one, I like to do every possible thing in a game, which includes all side quests and everything. Inquisition felt like it had too much bloat, as well as not enough depth at the same time. There were too many side quests and that stupid table of war where you have to wait real life time to complete, for some small rewards and some flavour text and minor impact. The jam packed so much into the hinterlands and little in everything else that all the maps just felt too open with little in between.
I think Dragon Benefited from the somewhat linear maps and limited open world, as Origins had an open world (sort of) but Inquisition just had too much map without direction to hum the story along
My First Impressions of Veilguard: ruclips.net/video/FoXFtF9SPLw/видео.html
ultimately, everything I've said in This video is proven correct; it's at best Painfully Mediocre
Bioware was so concerned with identity politics they ended up forgetting their own identity. How ironic. Great vid mate!
Inquisition is a GREAT GAME
Compared to Veilguard? Sure, I'd 100% rather play Inquisition
U made some great points about the talent leaving but what makes the problem worse is not trying to replace the talent with actual talent. Not hiring folks based completely on merit, but hiring people based on boxes u want to check.
That's the thing, those remaining are openly hostile to anyone that has differing opinions - so a lot of talent gets the door shut on their faces - you end up with an echo-chamber who dismiss all criticism etc
It is set to release on Holloween. It seems like EA agrees that it is going to be dead on arrival releasing it on that day.
They'll start handing it out for free to trick or treaters, then calling thoses "sales" haha
"Every Gender, all two of them"
I amused myself with that one lmao
The character design alone in Inquisition made me fall in love with it. Origins will always be the GOAT.
With the release of Dragon Age Homo the series will be finished forever. Such a sad end to a great series.
Dragon Age Homo lmao
"dad is so far under the ocean that it witnessed that submersible explode" That got me even better then "all two of them" did.
1k+ comments and you're the first to mention the submersible joke 🤣 I thought it was pretty good lol
I *think* you are mixing in footage from Hogwarts: Legacy and I really can't tell which is which, or which looks better, lol.
I am haha that's by design yes :D nice catch, it's very similar combat lol
I like how you can predict this game being bad just by hearing its development cycle, the poor quality we see in gameplay trailers is just conformation
We've been discussing the subject of DA4's fate amongst the Dragon Age Total War team/devs for a great many years now - since before we even Had the officially name for Dreadwolf. The red flags have been piling up for a lifetime now haha
I don't like the new design of Qunari forehead. It look like goldfish.😢
Yeeeeah, they've turned Qunari into just Humans with Horns 🤣 and the cartoony vibes do it no favours
I LOVED Inquisition's prologue. Through to where you get your butt kicked by Corephy. Then it becomes bland bland bland Ubisoft game.
Dragon Age 2 was the beginning of the end.
Unfortunately, yes, but at least I can always go back play Origins and pretend nothing bad ever happened haha
I get u bro, I played origins 7.5 times. Mad props for ur work In dragon age total war.
I would argue that inquisition still had dark fantasy it just failed to implement proper open world areas and a lot of that came from haveing to adapt the engine to work with rpgs but veilguard though is such a massive departure from dark fantasy completely
DAI still has some bits, it was the furthest away from its roots tho before Veilguard showed up to sprint further down the road - I am at least somewhat looking forward to giving DAI another playthrough... but Veilguard is just ehh... very Very low expectations for it as a DA game lol
Bioware needs to save themselves by remastering Dragon Age Origins with all its DLC. I want a DAO Legendary!
I do not remotely trust them to do that, they've already openly called the choices in origins "problematic" lol
@@SoulGamesInc They have even got worse just in the past few years. They already removed the Mass Effect Miranda butt shots, and toned down the sx scenes. Thanks to mods, all that was restored, and more. I believe, with a woke Dragon Age Origins remaster, modders will come to the rescue again. Unless they are so woke as to prevent mods. MELE wouldn't launch directly modded, you have to launch from ME3Tweaks mod manager. They might even prevent that.
As a longtime fan of Dragon Age, not just Origins but the entire series and BioWare games, I'll leave my opinion here.
1) Inquisition sold the best of the entire series and it even dominated on consoles (PC was only 10% of the first million units sold), so it makes sense to continue in a similar style and just get rid of the open world, that was the most frequent criticism of DAI and the tactical mod was the least used feature, so it also makes sense as a precursor to an action RPG.
2) The Tevinter Nights short story anthology by the same creative team has great stories, it's mature, horror, dark and gives me a lot of hope for the story and I'm very curious.
For me personally, the only thing that deserves criticism so far is the discarding of DA Keep and only taking back three choices, and maybe the art style may not suit everyone. The rest can only be judged when I play it. So I'm definitely buying DATV because as a fan I want to see where the story will go.