Dragon Age Veil Guard Will Only let You Control 1 Character - The Rancid Remains Of Origins
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- Dragon Age Origins is an old favorite game of mine and Bioware has never even once managed to recreate what made it so great. But Veil guard is looking like an entirely new level of abuse for the once great entertainment and RPG franchise.
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Translation: The devs don't know how to code it, so they try to pass the blame on the customer.
lol Bioware is so incompetent now that I wouldn't be surprised if you were right
What does the costume designer have to do with the playability or features of the game?
Or do you mean the "CUSTOMER"?
Why do you think the modern games industry loves multiplayer games so much? Other players are free AI that they couldn't hope to code.
SO modern devs forgot the most basic knowledge behind RPG's controlling your party members actions. Gosh no that i think about it Everyone's creating Baby's first RPG or worse game now.
Modern Tech. Workers: Maybe you should learn to code.
Today's Customer: Maybe YOU should learn to code!
So they removed what made dragon age a bit unique compared to other action RPG
Yup
Always greedfall 2 it plays like the first dragon age game
action ? smells like console peasantry
@@motan7864He said the wrong genre, it isn't an action rpg... The fuck does that have to do with consoles?
Platform has nothing to do with genre. Sounds like dumbassery.
@@motan7864Thank you for reminding me that I hate PC elitists.
A dark age is upon us, so much knowledge has been lost and so much passion smothered by insatiable greed.
And activism. If you look at who's making the Veilguard, there are more they/thems than normal people.
It's not greed at all , greed is good they would make popular games that sell well , it's die hiring and woke
@RichardPhillips1066 not exactly. Its the greed of the executive boards that want the most money the fastest way possible and that just happens to be adhering to whatever the money lenders at Blackrock require so they can get those sweet sweet low interest rates with a favorible credit rating driven by compliance with Blackrocks social engineering demands. So no, greed is most certainly not always a good thing.
@@RichardPhillips1066 Exactly. If they were truly greedy they'd go out of their way to create a product that would earn them as much money as they possibly can. Instead they are going out of their way to make the exact opposite of that. They are intentionally making a product that chases any potential buyer away. It's not about the money. It's about sending a message.
I call this an "Entertainment Mass Extinction Event." Bonfire of the Mega Franchises.
However, Mass Extinction Events drive evolution so watch the indies rise out of the ashes of the old.
Veilguard is what the Tevinter magisters saw in the Golden City.
Hahaha
"I've seen the throne of the worthy sequel and it was empty."
I think they brought Veil guard into the Golden City and the Maker was so repulsed that he cursed them.
Yep what they found was not a golden City or even a black City but a rainbow City .
Lol! Worse part is that this makes sense.
Maybe this game was designed with the game journalists that couldn't follow 3 lines of instructions in the Cup Head tutorial in mind.
I think it's a romance sim with simple combat , for woke chicks and soyboys, the kind of people that play in storymode
"Jump _and_ Dash? Do I look like some sort of video game savant to you?"
@@RichardPhillips1066 This. They did not want to make action game. They wanted to make otome visual novel.
Never forget his name: Dean Takahashi. He lost to a pigeon and nearly lost to a toddler completing the tutorial. 😂
It apparently does have a "game journalist" difficulty setting, where you literally cannot die (or die and get instantly revived, not sure, basically no "death end game screen").
But the combat seems like it has potential to be interesting on higher difficulties, it did remind me of how Arkham handles its combat (but then, we did see only what amounts to a tutorial level)
So its officially Mass Effect Andromeda with magic and no guns... no thanks.
With fortnight kid humor
Dragon Age 2 was basically Mass Effect 2 in game design. I preferred origins voiceless dialogue options.
@@JammyONE except mass effect 2 was fun
Unironically after I saw the gameplay video and the name change. I unwishlisted the game. I knew the sludge was coming for it.
@@Sarcastic_Sophist based
2:30 "'You could not possibly understand the complexities of controlling multiple characters. What do you think this is?'--"
Dragon Age?
One thing I always do in Inquisition is switch over to Solas between phases at a rift to have him use dispel on the spots where demons spawn (and similarly try to position Cassandra if she's in my party). If party members go down (including my player character), it also automatically switches to another party member, or perhaps there's times when I wish to have an ally use a specific ability on a specific enemy. Overall, even the last entry had us able to control our party members and if BioWare can't even accomplish what they did more than 10 years ago that's a bad sign, not to mention the fact that this direct sequel has needed so much time time to come out.o
To be fair, it's not Dragon Age.
You think any of devs are concerned that one of the top games of the last year was Baldurs Gate 3, a game that has a fairly complicated party system, skill trees, and item management?
@@JackOBlades0801 I mean, to play Devil's Advocate, BG3 is turn based, but yes, it's a stupid argument.
Its not like RTSs weren't a thing for ages, or even FPS games where you can swap control of AI characters on the fly.
Blood magic, arguably one of the key defining features of the whole setting, also won't be usable by the player. Apparently it "doesn't suit their heroes". *spits*
Using blood magic in Origins doesn't affect the karma system and you won't get witchunters grabbing your ass for using it.
They don't want you to be a certain way with all their pansexual queer (probably self insert) characters 😮💨
To be fair, I don't think any of the DA games did player blood magic well. All my mage characters used it and it barely mattered. IIRC all it did was let you use your HP in place of MP, and use a couple blood magic spells that were less effective than just vaporizing whatever you were fighting with other magic.
If there is some dark, forbidden power, there has to be a reason for people to turn to it lol.
The games also set in the only location lore wise where using blood magic is socially aceapted.
@@Zlyxonto be fair in Origins an Arcane warrior blood mage combo was by a wide metric the most OP thing around.
More health than a warrior tank. Your tiny mana pool could still activate the various Buffs that take a percentage and you could use heavy armor and a great sword.
Apart from needing a rouge to lock pick you have every roll covered in one character
It truly seems to be a Dragon Age for the modern audience, the same audience that doesn't buy games.
Getting closer and closer to those Asian auto clicker
@@bigalzo5311 It is not "closer", it IS asian auto clicker. From what we see it is not even at the level of destiny 2
@@bigalzo5311 Wo wo woooo there, hold your horses. Don't mindlesly slander asian nobrain clickers, there are cute pixels there. Here there's none.
The modern audience likes to screech on X/Twitter in their echo chambers or engage in unemployed behavior. They neither have time or money to spend on games.
These companies make games for their leftwing and DEI employees, not for customers. Thus, there is no ROI.
When it comes to Dragon Age the Warden saved the world, joined Morrigan in the void with their son and the story ends there.
Origins was the first & last Dragon Age game. There were no sequels.
Origins and it's DLC are all that dragon age is, the other shit is awful, a shame because the series could have been something cool and even have even have been a competitor to the shallow trash that is the elder scrolls (I love the lore of ES but the games are awful)
As much as everyone shits on the 2nd one, I love it (Mostly for Merrill). Origins and Awakening are far better games though. Inquisition was such a fucking letdown that I cannot put my rage into words.
@@imaxinsertnounherex nobody cares da2 sucked azz
That was such a great ending and that's where it ended for me as well, I just got through playing dragon age origin about a month ago for the first time in years and I forgot how good it was.
I have a deep seated disdain for Bioware now. There is no coming back, and their worst sin is that they've destroyed some of the most interesting gaming universes we've ever had, the best examples of SciFi Opera and Adventure Fantasy franchises around, now well and truly dead.
Yup
such a waste....
Click button, then click dot for multiple "abilities". I'm sorry, this screams that this was aimed at being a mobile game.
Probably because mobile games are the only thing the programing team was trained on. Lots of people are trained to produce fremium phone trash, realise the market is full and then try to find a job elsewhere with their "qualifications"
even worse, this is the corpse of the anthem-esque coop build that leaked a few years ago. bioware received so much backlash then that they reworked some of it, but obviously not enough.
they wanted to make this a action rpg live service probably.... i dont know but that is what it feels like... if they really wanted to make this a mobile game, what the hell they were thinking???! Its like who made the decisions doesnt even know the franchise... then again the Bioware we knew is dead and buried...
99% mobile games are better than anything bioware ever vomited on the market, including some "classic", like dao and messed up effect
Honestly i am not surprised that the people that think a sexuality is a personality think that "If enemy is in melee range attack with sword, if no enemy in melee range use bow" is a "complex and compleet character"...
I swear these devs could fail at making a sandwich, let alone a video game...
Fairness said, many millenials and zoomers complained they had to learn to cook during the koof lockdowns, because otherwise they would have starved, so the sandwich thing might be true.🥪
"If you don't like it don't buy it"
- Got it.
Works for me , hopefully when ea dusts this franchise off this dei crap will be gone
Hopefully this will be the game that finally gets Bioware shut down.
Players can control a full party in Baldur's Gate 3 and that game was a massive mainstream hit. Their excuse just does not hold water.
It toke Arch 1 minute to describe Dragon Age,here is the summary :Great Unclean One.
Slaanesh cultists somehow end up making a game that looks like a Nurgle abomination. Whilst fans rightfully rage like khornates, and the tzeentchian Black-rock small hats in the shadows go 'Just as planned.'
Has Arch dug up more Nergal lore again?
but what a description that was!
This reminds me of Dungeon Siege 3. A game series defined by the party replaced with controlling a single character.
How will these people understand that they will never be as talented as FromSoftware devs? 😂😂😂
Oh someone else remembers that? What a friggin disappointment. Glad I sailed the seas to test that one. Never even finished the start cave it was so off putting going from expecting another good party rpg.
that was shitty f@ckyou move for any game sequel
What is this Dungeon Siege 3 you speak of? There's only two such games in that series. Just as there is only two Sacred games.
I still haven’t finished that game…and my saves are like, years apart. 🥲
Jokes on them. If I recall correctly, Gameinformer has ALL of the promotional interviews and such for this game... And now it's all gone.
I thought the Veilguard reveal trailer was a trailer for a mobile game, the style felt more like an ad for a suicide squad battle royale game than Dragon Age.
I never thought that I would look back wistfully to the years of Peter molyneux....
I'm sorry peter. We judged you too harshly...
At least Peter delivered some damn games, this is just dreck!
Peter’s problem was his ambitions for a game outpaced what you could actually develop for a game.
He’s still a liar but he is actually passionate about his profession.
Acorn boy was a liar... But he did put some artistry into crafting games.
Perhaps we judged Dragon Age 2 too harshly
We did
I did not. Origin is objectively better, but I liked "most of it" more subjectively. Minus what they did to some legacy characters.
What you are describing is akin to Stockholm syndrome... They abuse you enough that eventually you like the abuse, this is what DA2 is.
No, never. We didn't judge that horrid game harshly enough, just like games journalists.
No. We simply need to develop harsher judgments for this.
"You press a button, something awesome happens"
You press the off button and you don't have to play it.
"I do not remember your love. I have tried to, to spark it anew in my memory but it is gone. A hollow, dead thing. For years I clung to the memory of it, then the memory of the memory and then nothing, the Seldarine took that away from me too! I look upon you and feel nothing, I remember nothing but you turning your back on me alongside all the others."
~ Jon Irenicus - Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn
If you take that quote, remove mention of BG2, and show it to current Bioware devs - they won't even know what you're talking about.
Now that I think about it... even doppelgangers would....
@@NGMK You're not wrong.
The shattered one today is the frustrated customer. Great quote by the way.
@BloingDidoing Once I only wanted my video games to be left alone, now I hunger only for revenge... and I. WILL. HAVE IT!
Grandfather Nurgle would be proud of this
Goodbye, BioWare. You became a corpo in a game maker skin-suit. Before that, we had fun.
Oh Dragon Age Origins, that game I bought expecting absolutely nothing, without any hype whatsoever and it became one of the best games of all time... It's incredible that not even the creators of the game seem to know what they did to make such a good game.
Well, most of those people have left the studio ages ago.
Some ended up starting Archetype Studio with James Ohlen, but their game (Exodus) also seems like a mess of totally unfocused time travel stuff... (or the reason for it being unfocused is they don't actually have any idea so far for the game itself, and are just building backdrop stories)
If you doubt the competence crisis is real, Bioware programers lost the ability to code game mechanics Dragon Age Origins had 15 years ago.
Never played the Dragon Age games, so I have no dog in this. However, your opening fully summarizes my feelings about the Assassin's Creed franchise since "Origins" released.
Origins is peak 0 to hero RPG plus a great expansion and good DLC. DA2 had the political intrigue and companions. Inquisition tries to do both and fails
Play Origins if you like RPGs it's one of the greats
@@WeOnlyEatSoup I gotta say my brain broke a little since I completely forgot that both Assassin's Creed and Dragon Age have games with the subtitle of Origins. I hope you are referring to the Dragon Age game, because I absolutely hated the AC one.
Especially Ubisoft Quebec's games
@@65firered Yeah, I thought Syndicate was okay but it was the obvious downturn of the franchise. I personally consider it the end of the series, and everything that has come out since (everything set before the first game) as non-canon.
I think even Veil Guard is going to be too complicated for 'game journalists'.
Gotta give them credit: they removed "death" to help the helpless game journalists.
This thing looks like poor man's Kingdoms of Amalur. Probably it's gonna sell similarly too. There's only one Dragon Age game.
Yes the 1977 DND clone. Oh the things we could do.
@@TempoLOOKING yup instant classic of a game
I also remembered Kingdoms of Amalur. While I liked that game and even bought a 2020 remaster in Steam, it was kinda action-like, and its visual style was too bright and cartoonish to consider it seriously. It was a good colourful action-RPG game, but not a serious RPG for me. I don't think that such visual style suits Dragon Age series.
Thank you for speaking out! The community is riddled with toxic fans / actual devs that reply and bring down people who criticize the crazy awful choices made by the devs
*Starts new Origins playthrough*
I remember that DA:O let you even program the fucking AI of your companions so you don't even have to control them in battle if you don't want to, how far have we fallen when they think you are so dumb you can't handle more than 1 character on this surely casual action game.
Why bother with such things in a dating simulator where you can date anyone (and that's important after all!)...
It was super complicated and made no sense to me but damnit I like that they included it
Translation "We were too stupid or too lazy to put it in, and it's you fault for not liking it.
For the people behind this to think: "Wow! This was a bad idea." requires said people to have enough self awareness to understand when things going wrong are their fault.
Can't tell a woman anything is ever her fault you know.
Oh great, thank God I'm not going to buy it. Ah, another franchise that's going to die.
Tbf inquisition was mid af so this isn't that much different
@@realtalunkarkuyeah, I found the combat abysmal in 3 as well, it was just spamming 3 attacks over and over which were just different coloured lasers. Freezing enemies was just a 2 second debuff so it really meant nothing to combat except spam more attacks faster
“47 sales and a refund….”
Yes. That line right there, got my sub!!
Ah, It's Diversity Hire Journo friendly.
It doesn't matter that you can only control 1 character when the game is dead on arrival. Everyone who saw the party members will not touch this game even if it is discounted.
As a Huge Dragon age Fan, i have become distant to the francise after the Book "Last Flight" where they introduced a gender fluid warden in the 4th Blight. i don't mind the gay characters or a strong female one as long as its greatly writen. and to see where it went now feels like seeing your ownly son come to you dressed as a female with a stupid hearcut and a Palasine flag into your home.
also i remembert playing the first one on a bigger monitor and seeing that you could pull out the quick bar all the way to the end. i sometimes had like 20 combat abilities then a few toggles and enouph potions on the bar to supplie a army.
@@markvt22 Even Inquisition at least had a whole hotbar's worth of abilities. If I remember right (been a while since I played) it was 6 to 8, with those just being the active combat abilities and stuff like the potions were still separate commands. 3 abilities and no control over companions is just terrible. I'm probably going to check this out simply for the story continuation, but it's pretty much guaranteed that I'll be waiting and picking up a copy for my playstation from the pre-owned game store and not giving Bioware any money. If the thing somehow, despite everything I've seen and heard, manages to wow me, I can always support them through the inevitable dlc but none of what has been revealed makes me think that I should buy it new day 1 to support more of this crap.
I'm fine with diversity, but an asian and black Dalish elf on the same team from the most racially homogenous group in Thedas is really stretching the bounds of believability. It would have fit the lore better to just make them human, or even half elves. At least we have seen one of those.
@@sixgunsuperman Half-elves in Dragon Age world all look like humans for "reasons" that are still not known, so that wouldn't work. But If an elven clan lived for centuries in a desert regions, they presumably would develop melanin?
We haven't really ventured anywhere civilized but "fantasy England" and "fantasy France" in any of the games.
@@Japaneseanimeguy Inquisition is capped to 8 active abilities, because of console controllers (two sets of 4, to make switching doable on a single button press without having to pause). But a lot of stuff in Veilguard is supposedly moved to the basic "attack"/"parry" buttons (e.g. parry for mage is barrier, heavy attack is an arcane explosion, basic combo is magic missile swarm, etc), the marketing for the game is just full of morons who refuse to show advanced combat, instead showing a tutorial intro level.
So they are using "AAAA game" reasoning ? So the opposite will be true, got it
The genuine AAAA(H) gaming experience.
Can't wait for "next gen" when we get AAAAA games.
'You could not possibly understand the complexities of controlling multiple characters"
SSI D&D/Forgotten Realms/Buck Rogers, 6 characters to control each one rolled and their class and equipment decided by the player.
Curse those old white men for being better coders than us.
So you’re telling me, GBA RPG’s like Fire Emblem are kicking Veilguards ass?
To be fair gba fire emblem kicks a lot of modern game's butts, gba fire emblem is probably the number 1 thing I play on the phone these days, something about that 2d artwork is just timelessly great.
@@rustyshackleford1062Oh I’m not saying it’s a bad game, far from it. I think it’s one of the GBA’s best. But I’m trying to illustrate the point that games like Fire Emblem, Golden Axe, Early Final Fantasy, and even Persona 1 let you control multiple characters.
The fact that a game in 2024, is saying this is to hard. No, it’s not to hard, you’re either hamstrung, lazy, or the company said no.
Don't forget Golden Sun! Pretty deep for a gba one
GBA fire emblem also has a huge Romhack community for modding the game.
So the GBA games are fully modable if you know how, and it's easier than using bethesda's creation kit.
Fire Emblem 7 is a masterpiece...
If you play it with an emulator so that you have access to save states and easier data manipulation so you can have infinite stat boosting items and infinite uses of equipment and infinite turns without being penalized. I never liked the RNG levelups or the equipment breaking.
Apathy is the superior way to feel towards all the modern trash.
Bioware was the flagship of casualising and simplifying WRPG, so they merely reached a logical conclusion.
It's ME: Andromeda all over agin. Bioware has learned nothing.
We get to choose our race and chose a background/faction are returning in a way, so by default it can't be as bad as Andromeda squandering the opportunity to be free of Shepard and you're still a boring human.
I still say: It's Dragonage just by name.
Nope as someone else owns Dragonage and Dragon AGE. I smell another Hasbro situation in the future. Dragon AGE is owned by the Creators of Fantasy Age.
@@TempoLOOKING But you get the point I was trying to make?
That game is nothing like the grim-dark-fantasy that came before under that IP.
@@Varg235 remember Civ vs Civ call 2 power
"there's so much to do (for the programmers and game designers), they doesn't want you (the programmers and game designers) to be overwhelmed "
This just reminds me of the countless films made over the past few years where the director clearly wants to make something else but is forced to make it within the bounds of a video game or comic book adaptation.
Or an older property like Star Wars.
Dragon age 1 - Many options, a tactical gameplay
Dragon age 2 - Make it simple... people hate it
Dragon age 3 - OK some more options, we are getting back don't rack
Dragon age 4 - You cant handle it, go back to dragon age 2 but now even simpler
Bioware is no longer their namesake. No one who started that company is there anymore. The people who made the games that made the studio, are long, LONG gone.
Dragon Age hasn't been Dragon Age since the first Dragon Age. I'll always praise Dragon Age Origins, but the fact is this series has no consistent identity. I'm not sad to watch it fall, because I no longer care. They waited 10 years to put this game out, why would I bother looking at it when there are so many better alternatives on the market.
I imagine some scatterbrain at Bioware thought this was an upgrade.
Is anyone suprised from Bioware, the studio that told us we didn't understand their 'artistic vision' after Mass Effect 3 then talked down to us like children telling us what we wanted...
I dont' hate Vale Guard either... Dragon Age died long ago and i'd have to give a shit about Vale Gard to hate it.
Exactly. I only clicked on the video because I like watching Arch.
@@canaan_banana likewise
Amen to that friend. I'm tired of hate especially since they get a sort of gratification from it. Now? Just pure apathy.
This game is not made for you. It's made for kotaku 😂😂😂
Gorilla Hernandez and Jim sterling
Playing Rogue Trader right now
Boy do I love being able to play an actual 40k RPG with, intriguing story, multiple companions, narrative choices & consequences, deep upgrading level up system, colony management and void ship battles
Compared to other “Modernday” AAAs it is so refreshing!
Peter: would hype the game by saying all these things you could do (he over exaggerated)
Modern game devs: hype the game by saying how stupid you are and what they removed. You can pay extra later for it.
It is not a quote by the devs, it is a ragebait by the gaming urinalist.
I had zero expectations for this game. Yet somehow, I still feel like it's going to disappoint me.
This truly saddens me. Mass effect 2 is my favourite game with origins a close second. Fun gameplay, beloved characters and stories that tug at your heart.
And now I know that it is probably better the company that made them dies rather than corrupt them further😢
Honestly after the abomination of Inquisition I'm just here for the fireworks.
Origins remains the only Dragon Age game I consider canon
Dragon Age Origins is still the peak of the series
Isabella's arse cheeks in DA2 are great though
I liked looking for Isabella's treasure 'chest' and 'booty'.
True, on both accounts. Honestly DA2 is "Guilty Pleasure" status. Nowhere near as good, but still fun in a way.
Dragon Age 2 was.... not the best, but I did think it did a number of things right. a lot of the characters (some... obvious ones not included) were done decently well. Merill, Isabel, and Varric being the top 3. I also think that some of the plot points from Anders could have worked if they didn't butcher his character. his ending choice to blow up the chantry worked if nothing else though it certainly needed more build-up. its nowhere near as good as DA:O or even DA:O DLC but it did a number of things decently well. I even think having it centered on a smaller area would have been fine if they had the ability to make the city far larger, with many more maps and environments to make it feel like the scale was the same as before, simply focused. almost like if we focused DA on a hive city lol. really the main reason to play DA:2 is for Isabell, Merril, and Varric but the MC wasn't the worst either as they were written relatively well as well, but I don't think it was enough to warrant a voiced MC for dragon age.
@@calorinedarkness5232 Agreed, in my opinion the DA:Exodus (2, I still remember EA) game was badly implemented, but salvageable. For example the templar ending is very well written and executed... excepting the initial choice. Most don't chose it as Meridith's insanity is entirely obvious. If Ander's reveal was set slightly after the choice it would function much better, as you would make the choice ignorant of which mage was responsible. Meredith's response would be more reasonable, the largest group of mages in the city with a consistent blood magic, and obedience issue is the most likely culprit. Orsino could point out that that is the single stupidest thing they could of done, and Meredith could point out Orsino doesn't have control of his people.
Then you make your choice in ignorance, and find the truth out later.
It's small changes to timing and things like that that would fix the narrative issues with the game.
DA2 was pretty good until the start of Act 3 when it instantly turned to shit. When characters did things that made no sense for the character to do.
Such as the Mage leader turning himself into a monster even though you saved all the mages by killing all the Templars.
And there is no way that Anders could have used magic to blow up the temple. Magic in DA works by using Lyrium to overlay impermeable reality with permeable Fade that can be controlled with the mind. The more lyrium you have the more reality that can be overlaid with Fade. The ONLY way to produce magical effects is to use this Lyrium Fade overlay process. Well poop is not lyrium so poop cannot be used to cause an explosion. The only thing that could cause that type of explosion would have been a very large amount of Lyrium. Which Anders did not have.
Hopefully we won't have to control any of their characters once this comes out and EA shuts the studio down.
"We made a fully realised character, who does what they want to do."
I didn't know we've managed to create fully autonomous sentient AIs already, because anything less wouldn't really be a 'fully realised character'.
No, you've made just another NPC in the most literal sense, not a companion. You made a character that YOU control, rather than letting the PLAYER have control. A character that does what YOU want them to do, and only what you want them to do, which takes away from what the PLAYER wants them to do.
I'm really starting to see the world is devided between those that see and love, and those who project and hate. The people who project have had the controls for too long, we don't need to be subjected to their self loathing anymore.
This is what happens when you hire phemails to make games
Bioware incapable of developing a "Pause" feature for combat anymore...
And their office has not imploded yet?
Man, your English has gotten so much better over the years, that was very eloquent, far more so than many a native speaker!
Dragon age the failguard looks like garbage, smells like crap and I don't want to have any piece of it.
Yup
Now, now. I believe they may be right with the difficulty. Remember that the "modern audiences" are the target and if we include certain "journalists"... I'm sure many of you remember the Cuphead tutorial video.
I've noticed a trend where game devs are trying to remove difficulty as a concept for the sake of "inclusivity" going so far as adding a setting that either makes you literally invincible or somehow removes the punishment for failure. Why bother making a game at all if you think your audience is too stupid to be challenged?
Hopefully studios that do that will go out of business why would I want a game that doesn't pose some challenge.
*dead cells enters the chat with a near 'i win' button.
this is why dark souls and AC6 are legends
@@zarthemad8386 Up till the elden ring dlc where they seem to drop the ball for an 'arcade' level difficulty and almost ubisoft level of gating by item collectibles.
Then again no one is perfect.
Let's not act like cheats and god mode were not a thing in the past. While I agree that many devs are choosing to underdesign the experience and eliminating challenge, the truth is invincibility cheats and the likes have been in games for the longest time (either using codes or unlocking it via gameplay).
"They are fully realized characters. This one is fat, this one puts the L in LGBTQIA2+, this one checks the vitiligo box."
“We’ve decided the new Super Mario, you can only stay grounded and not jump”
The ability to play every character created a unique gameplay experience where there was no player character, just a main character. With as many party members as you could muster, you could create as many different builds as you desired all in ONE playthrough.
in the gameplay they even show that enemies will just... rotate on the spot, without any foot-work, to face the character :P
Funny how FF12 - a game nearly two decades old now - allowed you to set up quite sophisticated real-time NPC If/Then/Else action sequences on a PS2, but somehow Bioware can't manage. Almost like they're not hiring the best or something.
It's certainly skill issue on the devs side
You could do with simple scripting in NWN even. I always got the impression these studios just didnt want to assist the players in making games better than they could, as to give some reasoning behind the colossal steps back we keep seeing in these kind of examples.
You know what sucks?
The first fantasy RPG I ever played was Dragon Age Origins. It was in 2017: my folks got me a 360 a few years prior, and my dad a while back got Xbox Gold for me. And it was the first game I ever got. I already had Fallout and thought "why not? I'll get it."
Thst day, it became one of my Top 10 games of all time. I did chores around the house for the DLC; esoecially bigger tasks like cleaning up treelimbs as big as I was. After high school, I got the Awakening edition just to have a physical copy.
After that, I tried DA2. While nit as great as the first, I can still find good things in that giant mess of a game. And Inquisition? If it were a woman, I'd propose.
Dragon Age, alongside Fallout and Mass Effect, became one if my most favorite games ever. Even after discovering Dark Souls and FromSoft's RPG's.
In Veilguard, I do not simply see a bastardization of a series I love; no it's worse. I see the final dying wail of this self-wounded beast. I see the cancer coming close to taking out the host, and that host is begging me to (metaphroically) shoot it to end its misery. Granted, that was really all the way back when Dragon Age Absolution came out; now it simply begs to die.
Ah well, at least the latest project by Archetype games looks very promising. Headed by Bioware old guard, including Drew Karpyshyn as writer, it might be worth something as long as the Woke mind cancer doesn't claim it.
Being a Dragon Age Fan sounds like a really depressing experience when you realize that the ship was starting to sink after the first one which came out 14 fucking years ago.
This looks and sounds to me like someone had an idea for a shallow action fantasy game but knew nobody would care about it, so they decided to slap "Dragon Age" title on top.
So, DAVG will be crushed by the fans, much in the same manner as the Ogre that crushed King Cailan's spine, screaming for his life.
click on an enemy and sometimes press one out of 3 abilities! Yes its complex... FOR YOUR AVERAGE GAME JOURNALIST THAT IS
This is very reminiscent of DA2's "awesome button."
cept DA2 was playable and had a decent story....
Keep burning that money.
Years and years later and there still hasn't been a sequel to Origins. Just a whole lot of: *_WTF are you doing Bioware?_*
The Bioware of old hasn't existed for a loooong time. All the important people who made the games of old are gone. The new Bioware is nothing but a skinsuit.
I gotta say arch, I'm appalled at what has been done to dragon age. They had such an amazing setting with great characters, history, and lore. This is what they did with so much promise... I'm not even angry anymore, hell maybe I'll run a DND game based in dragon age instead. I feel like I could do better with it.
Also had to laugh that you referenced vtmb and deus ex. Some of my all time favorite games. I do hope you cover some of the bloodlines 2 stuff as well as how paradox has handled the IP. I managed to talk to a community manager once and it was disappointing to say the least.
Indeed,..........had.🧐
Thanks for that very vivid image. I had just eaten.
Now you can eat again!
@@JKavanagh-tq8rp I wish I could be that optimistic...
Well, there goes any squad control wishes for Mass Effect 4
When the new Final Fantasy 7 is more of a party based real time with pause RPG than you, you really can't be calling yourself a RPG anymore.
Totally agree, Bioware should have been shuttered after Anthem honestly.
Guess I'm going back to Kenshi to play my 20 men squad and raid a base again.
In DA:O the devs believed you are as intelligent as they are.
In DATVG the devs believe you are as stupid as they are.
I'm betting that what's left of Bioware has been hit by the Competency Crisis HARD, and the programmers they have left can't figure out how to get the character swap function to work, so their management is instead using DEI talking points to market the bug/downgrade as a """feature"""...
I just hope that after this - Bioware is put under enough "earth" that it never rises again. Andromeda, Anthem, now this abomination... Enough is Enough.
Dragon Age peaked with the origins, and it's worth noting that all the talent in bioware has long gone in fact one of them has formed a studio and hired all their old colleagues 😂
Origins is one of my favorite games of all time..this is just a husk of a once great franchise
I said it once and now I will say it again:
This game makes me want to join the darkspawn, to end the world.
There's only one good Dragon Age and it's origin + awakening. One of the best RPG I've ever played and it is a self-suficient story that does not need any other iterations.
... I remember when these games had a PAUSE button and SWITCH PARTY MEMBER
Good times, good times.
But this is AAAA gaming in 2024 so can't have that right!
... I hope that Bioware is lying through their teeth and just couldn't be assed to make a better game. The alternative is that they legit think we are all mouth breathing gormless morons.
But if we have multiple characters at once, the game journos might get confused!
Anyone else have noticed this brain dead 3 button model has sneaked itself every so called "rpg" these days. Specially if it's made by amazon