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TAASH was a distillation of what the TRANS activists think they should be able to get away with in society. In the end its so gross and creepy and horrible that everyone is going to end up hating them cause of this character. They will now be compared to this character till the end of time cause of how vile TAASH is and how manipulative and misogynist she is. She really is the TRANS ideal.
I'm spamming a similar message to all RUclipsrs for a third day now. I always create different characters in RPG and roleplay them, In my first gameplay i created a Dwarf Female Warrior protagonist, and the interactions between her and the rest of the girls are totally different than what I see in the videos. Only the Male protagonist starts stupid dialogs! The game is still boring rpg wannabe but is a lot less cringy! Please do look into this, it's blatant misandry.
@@satzbau9185 Not really, HR gets infested first with Dlverslty Equlty and lncIusion hires because investor money giving out grants for that thing. Then they get their buddies in while getting the old devs fired, or harassed/threatened into compliance.
@@satzbau9185That’s the talent pool for the last 20 years due to DEI initiatives in ensuring a segment of society gets to be engineers too. People with no passion, skill, or talent.
It's great that Bioware was respectful and realistic in their depiction of a non-binary character by making them completely unhinged, unlikable and emotionally unstable.
I find that utterly baffling. What were their expectations? Are we supposed to cowtow to this character as stunning and brave, or feel sorry for them being so very apparently messed in the head and provide them therapy sessions through showing them respect and teaching them people skills? I'm all for dealing with difficult companions - I romanced Morrigan and Jack, after all - but with this Taash person I really miss the Renegade punch.
@@irena4545 All the characters in the game literally cowered in front of her for any and all reasons like she is a bomb about to go off. One of the characters ate the last of some cheese sticks that Tassh likes and when tassh asks about it the character cowers and starts groveling and apologizing. From these sorts of people that I have met in real life that is reality, they think that basic courtesy is everybody bowing down to their every whim.
@@irena4545I'd say Ugh to Jack But guess what? Options! now We're all forced To Romance Jack except she's not a woman but trans instead... Also Jack had a real tragic Backstory. This Taash has a come on Mom!! Backstory....
You reap what you sow 😂😂😂..I worked for blue chip companies atva senior level (non gaming) and we played the DEI objectives ...but never lost sight of our customer base and their expectations...Bioware have lost the plot in this regard
The character literally did the "chase your victim into a wall and then block with your arm so they can't escape move" that's a classic in 90's-2000's romance teen manga... They may seem to think that's sexy because they have seen it in manga but in real life that's how rapists behave... That tells me everything I need to know about the mindset of the writers.
@@zebnemmacall the problem by the name the writer is called trick weekes who took the lead writing spot in 2015 he oh my bad them as he calls himself needs to be fired asap just look him up he looks like the basic creepy reddit incel it is insane what he has done to the franchise with his ahh beliefs.
What list? You mean s** offender list? Yeah. Wonder how many times has that creep been arrested or told off for highly inappropriate behavior. Then Bioware hires that person as a writer.
Exactly. And someone actually wrote that. Meaning people had time to sit on the dialogue and polish it. Yet, among all the possible conflicts those two characters could've had, they chose to go with the one that exposes the narcissistic bully nature of the whole non-binary thing. You just need to be able to reverse the situation in your mind. But considering how flat the dialogues are and how all the information spoon-fed to you, the creators clearly don't have that degree of mental sophistication and don't expect the players to have it either.
4:20 Taash gets so upset and sensitive about getting called the wrong pronouns, but has no problem making up nicknames for Emmrich WHILE at the same time asking him for help, and then Emmrich gets gaslighted into apologizing to her after she insulted his job..
The simultaneous "the world is out to get me!" and "everyone else is trash" is common for that community. Its what happens when you believe everyone else is just as toxic as yourself.
It's because the Woke religion is a strict caste system, based on Intersectional Theory. Everyone gets a caste based on how many Oppression Points they have. Taash is "more oppressed" than Emmrich, therefore she's a much higher caste, therefore Emmrich must acknowledge this. Same reason why the whole "pull a Bharve" mess exists. Any lower caste person who does anything to which a higher caste person takes offense (even if it's just eating the last snack!) requires self-abasement by the lower caste person.
True. That’s how these people live. They gaslight EVERYONE and play the victim 💯 of the time. Can’t stand this. I don’t feel sorry for the companies one bit. I’m confused how tf this happened! These companies are imploding from within and act like they don’t understand how it doesn’t sell. Whoever is in charge of marketing is the NUMBER ONE PERSON TO BLAME.
And the fact schools entertain this nonsense drops all credibility of these institutions substantially. These people ignore biology and even make it up along the way to fit their narrative like “men can get pregnant” and can’t answer “what is a woman” which everyone learned in kindergarten or preschool (I’m sure they removed this like Bill Nye’s chromosome episode)
Unfortunately people with talent are being pushed to the side for these DEI hires. The good news unlike Hollywood comics and streaming gamers are the one group that doesn't put up with this and will quickly bankrupt your company if you keep going down this path. Don't like a game get your money back instant loss of profits.
Even as a "Teaching Tool" it's condescending and paints the Trans person in a terrible light. They're just a total asshole. Some idiot at Bioware that wrote this character was trauma dumping their own pathetic problems into this character and turned it into a poorly written toxic asshole. The people the game seems to be intent on painting as the bad guys, (It's mother and anyone accidentally using the wrong pronoun) actually shows them as being victims to this psychopath. I assume the only reason this character was allowed to be in the release version is because no one was brave enough to tell them how stupid the character was.
Emerik "It's Emerik!" Tosh "Im calling you what you are death mage!" Emerik "Ok woman." Tosh "How dare you!" This says its all. kudos to bioware to getting the woke mentality down toa T
Exactly what I was coming to comment! You want people to respect your abnormal pronouns, but you can't even refer to someone by their actual name? What a load of crap dude
you miss out that you can get it in monthly membership on EA Play. I played it on there. I can tell you most people with brains on PC would do that instead of dumping 60$ on this game.
Who could've seen that adding gender identity politics in a dark fantasy setting would fail I hope this game is the end of Bioware and the IP is given to a more passionate studio
Taash is absolutely inconsistant as a Qunari. Says she doesn't follow the Qun but uses it as a reason to do some stuff. Is distrubed about resurected bodies even though Qunari do not care for the bodies of the deceased as the body is not the person to them.
This is bioware. These are the people they have been hiring for well over a decade. They care more about hires that check boxes over writers that can actually do the job they’re being hired to do.
Exactly! You have a mentally underdeveloped tank who thinks her fellow adventurer is creepy and a mage who acts like a mad scientist but meddles with corpses to prevent more slaughter of the ones still living, the implications are far more profound than "Oh, sorry I've hurt your feelings, I'll do better". They have a common goal, prevent more deaths, despite doing it through different paths. Emmerich shouldn't be so conceding and Taash should take advantage of this moment to LEARN how not all things are black and white, there's a lot of grey area where a necromancer can actually do a lot of good. But noooo, let's respect everybody's fee fees and not learn through exposure and contrast.
And all the wokies that are used to the propaganda think it is just normal and they don't understand why others have problems with it, the same types of people that scream about any messaging that they don't like appearing anywhere.
It really feels like it is a deconfliction training that a corporation would make everyone watch once a year. Especially hearing “I am so sorry Taash, I didn’t realize necromancy made you so uncomfortable,” it gave me flashbacks to the Diversity Acceptance training I had to do when I was working for the government.
it litterally hit a new player count peak record two days ago, i like to dunk on this game but im not delusional to trick myself into thinking that everybody is refunding
Wants to be called They but refuses to call the other person by his name... Wont acknolage anything the other person says, but wants to force others to do the opposite with her. She is a real depction of a woke person
@@Primarch19thI am wondering about this too. I have a coworker defending this game like it was their life mission. One of their arguments is that having Taash on your team is optional and not forced to go through.. it’s.. dialogue. And that all the criticism around it can be skipped and ignored. So, is any of this force gender politics part of the main story?
So she can make fun of other people because "they're on the wrong side," but if someone questions her identity, they get a lecture or have to do 10 push-ups. Got it! 100% this was written by an actual trans person.
That was fucking wild. ""I hAvE tO dO 10 pUsh UpS BeCoS I MaDe a GrAvE MisTaKe bY mIslAbeLling sOmeOne" has gotta be the most immersion breaking cringe talk ever.
I saw this comment earlier and paid it no mind because I thought you were exaggerating as a joke. Then I saw a clip of it, holy crap, it almost came off like a parody.
Dear god, Taash sounds like the self-insert of a bad fanfic. She acts like a victim, but she's perfectly fine treating others the exact same way. Nobody calls her out on this and the player has no option but to agree and support her. Oh, and she's also one of the rare few Qunari who have the ability to breath fire, just to make her extra special and unique. An ability she continues to use, despite it drawing unwanted attention and making everyone else's lives harder.
Not a parody, this is how a majority of trans people I know in real life act. All the characters in the game literally cowered in front of Tassh for any and all reasons like she is a bomb about to go off. One of the characters ate the last of some cheese sticks that Tassh likes and when tassh asks about it the character cowers and starts groveling and apologizing. From these sorts of people that I have met in real life that is reality, they think that basic courtesy is everybody bowing down to their every whim.
@@thomgizzizpsychologically is because they grew up thinking the opposite gender had more power T women see the power women have over men and society and lust for that power same for T men
@@thomgizziz Your description of Taash is precisely what makes that entire movement an abusive and manipulative one. People living in fear of offending people who absolutely should be offended because the only reason they conceived of their nonsense 'identity' in the first place was because nobody had the decency to slap them upside the head when they needed it.
@@thomgizziz Sad thing it is not even far from the truth, groups always need to watch what they say or do when one of these people walk into the room. Some companies are even rejecting non-binaries outright when applying/interviewing for a position because they know the can of worms they bring when hired.
I find it unintentionally hilarious. Taash would be the first person who'd run to HR for someone saying something innocuous, while at the same time being the reason everyone is running to HR to report sexual harassment. 🤣
Taash demands to be called "they" but doesn't respect the way more simple wish of Emmerich to be called by his actual name, not some derogative necromancer term. That is a wonderful example for how the left works. It always only goes one way. And of course a discussion about the morally deep and hard to answer question of "is necromancy ok if used for a good cause?" can be broken down to "Sorry, didn't mean to scare you / yeah, sorry I didn't communicate me being scared". I can only assume how the conversations of the devs look like in real life. "Oops, sorry my p3d0phelia scared you" "Yeah, but now that you apologized for not paying attention to me being uncomfortable with it, I forgive you. Please take care of my child" ... We need a new crusade.
"how the left works" you just lost all your credibility there. I'm left, and I hate DEI, maybe you shouldn't generalize otherwise you just look like an idiot. You think there aren't a bunch of people on the right who are massively hypocritical?
Credit where it's due: Taash actually is very representative of the trans community. Entitled, ignorant, self-absorbed, and really just an inconsiderate a-hole.
lol what community? The only people that will be left playing the game after the first month are the morons who enjoy HR training videos. There will be no "modding community" around this "game".
It would be fun, or something like the mod for Fallout 4 which turned Preston into a certain villain from WW2.... Not sure why anyone would wanna spend time on modding this game however.
@@retrospectivelyspectacular2331 EA is such a creatively bankrupt company, they're up there with Ubisoft and Bethesda, all terrible studios. Ea thrives off of their garbage sports games that they somehow got the contract to. Their sports games legit look like they're from 2006, especially the soccer ones, it's so bad.
Tash is the Bioware trans Devs, the corpse is Bioware itself, Emmerich is EA. Makes more sense now - the Devs don't want to admit Bioware is a corpse being strung along by EA. They also don't want to come to terms their jobs are at stake so lash out at EA who just doesn't have the balls to tell the Devs to fuck off.
It's funny how the character who wants to force us to use specific words to refer to her as, also is unable to even call people by their given names because "you are that, though," having the irony completely missed because they're literally unable to comprehend their own hypocrisy. Every character i've seen in a movie or game so far that is pushing this ideology has been an extreme narcissist, and you think it's them not understanding how people work, then you find out that they brought in ACTUAL PEOPLE from the movement to help make the character's have accurate reactions. And then they have the audacity to say we're wrong for disliking overly unlikable characters.
@@schen7913 Yeah, that's an apt point. But it's executed in such a way that defines them brilliantly on who they really are and what they are really like. 😂
@@schen7913 >to show that deadnaming is wrong< ... by making the people that complain about getting deadnamed seem like hypocrites. at some point you gotta wonder if someone's sabotaging them from the inside, or if they really are this ridiculous
@@pc14thenumber9 Maybe at smaller studios. Houses are being cleaned in most corners of the entertainment industry and corporate America has finally discovered the you can't pander your way into a wider audience. I think 2024 is going to be the year that woke as a business model died a sad death. It's probably going to be hard for people who are actually talented (and not insufferable) and happen to be LGBT to find work for some time... so great job, activists, you just set your cause back 20 years. Hope you're proud.
Man, that dialogue between Taash and Emmrich felt like a couple of toddlers fighting, while Rook just felt like the caretaker trying to stop the fighting and make up. Only thing missing was Rook asking if anyone needed their diaper changed.
"Ugh... fine." I literally have never heard anyone do this since high school, and that was typically between either preppy girls or those who didn't develop social skills. Anyone that still speaks like that has not grown up past elementary.
Honestly it sucks because it's SO close to being interesting. If this was the real Bioware you would have had the opportunity to actually take a side, and tell one of them to fuck off. And rather than having a feelings party afterwards about "caring about eachother" they would have been actual lasting conflict between characters. This has the stench of bad Saturday morning cartoon all over it.
Nah fr I was genuinely shocked when I was watching that clip. I don't get why they made the dialogue sound like we are watching a bunch of kids experience their own world that they were created in for the first time ???
I mean I doubt it's going to be as big of a loss as Concord was financially. But the reputational damage to Bioware isn't going to go away, especially given the games prior to Veilguard haven't exactly been amazing. I.e, Andromeda and Anthem.
I wish someone would honestly tell me if these numbers are indeed bad or not. I feel like there's a lot of confirmation bias going on around both sides, so I just wish I knew where the truth lies. Is this a flop? Underwhelming? Average? A big success? I still have no idea.
@@Mant111 Financially speaking, iI all depends on the development cost of the game. But for a big release that has been long awaited for 10 years to just peak 90k is comically low.
Taash: "You ARE a death mage!" Proper response: "You ARE a woman!" Taash: "You make them move like they're alive! But they smell wrong and they move wrong and none of it is okay!" Proper response: "You're right! Corpses aren't alive and shouldn't pretend to be. Also, men aren't women and vice versa and shouldn't pretend to be!"
🚩 It is *_SO_* obvious & such a perfect example of the hypocrisy that these ppl either narcissisticly or unconsciously live by, that it almost feels like a ringer was on the dev team & snuck it in. Fwiw, I always felt like the "my face is tired" line was snuck in the same way. ╮(🎀❛ ᴗ ❛)╭
You're falling for the propaganda. Yes, take your hatred out on trans people, and not the straight jews running the companies and deciding to push the "dei" in order to start a culture war. JFC.
If that convo had taken place between Taash and Morrigan, Morrigan would have told Taash to go f*ck themself. Wow, the dialogue is atrocious, I also don't like how suddenly everything's like "Oh jeez I offended you? I am so so so so sorry! Let me apologize, grovel and scrape! Friends?" The sheer drop in maturity level is mind boggling, it's like an episode of Sesame Street where we learn how to apologize for mildly upsetting someone. What's the rating for this? PG?
Hey me and my 3 brother n laws were some of the ppl playing BG3 when you took that data sample! BG3 is what DA VG wishes it was but could never even come close to.
For people coping, it has already been confirmed that Veilguard would not have DLC and that Bioware as a whole is focusing on Mass Effect 5. Their last Mass Effect title, Andromeda had a very similar pattern: the game was heavily criticized and Bioware was deflecting all criticism for a few months, until they had to announced that their DLC was cancelled due the game not reaching it sales goal, shortly after the branch that made the game (Bioware Montreal) closed down. In Veilguard's case is not exactly the same pattern, *it's worse:* The game wasn't even been out for a week and they have already stated that it will no feature DLC and they admitting the studio as a whole is just working on the next Mass Effect is PR speech for _Veilguard's team has been disbanded._ Andromeda sold 3 million and was deemed a failure, so not only Veilguard sold less but I'm willing to bet it didn't even passed a million, like I said the game is not even a week old and they already pull the plug.
I think IGN actually already told us this game was toast, as they say "if we never get another dragon age game..." they literally told us while shilling
You know, this genuinely feels like its a parody attempt at trying to make fun of non-binary people more than anything, like there is no way at all that this wasnt done ironically.
Everyone know that having horns is what makes you a Qunari. Not adhering to the fascist theocratic culture of the Qun. It's not like horned people who stray from it's teachings aren't even called Qunari anymore and are instead called Tal-Vashoth or anything. But yeah, even Vashoth shouldn't be so free spirited they develop traits shown by the new character here. The entire species has been molded (even down to education camps) to fit a strict culture that reviles individualism. Rejecting the very idea of gender classification while "respecting" the Qun is a bit like having a character who sacrifices Goats to Satan regularly while claiming to be a Christian who goes to church on Sunday. It's idiotic to the point of being parody.
The writers forgot the Qunari literally means 'people of the Qun', but that is not the name of their race. Even if you play one of them(the ancient name is Kossith), you are always referred to as Qunari, despite not following the Qun. Vashoth or Tal-Vashoth is not mentioned either. They're all just Qunari. You can read the dragon age wiki and learn that, the writers did not..
@@someone-ke4qj no, it's a lot closer to Plato philosophy than Islam. i thought like that too, but when you actually check their ideology there is very little remainding of Islam and tons of things associated with platonic social philosophy but taken to the extreme. THOUGH as a party in the world they look a lot like the ottoman empire, but their ideology is not the quran/islam.
I don't get why people pre-order. We used to pre-order back in 90s and 2000s because they only made a set amount of cassette and disks. If you don't pre-order, sometimes you got to wait 2-3 weeks longer to get a copy. They also used to give you little gifts for pre-order, like Tiberium Sun gave me a 3" metal NOD soldier! Now it is all digital sales. Why not just wait for reviews than buy the game???
To cite my friend who I asked the very same: „I really want the physical version and by preordering GameStop knows how many copies to order! :D“ Sometimes I don’t know why I’m still friends with her >__>
@@sabaqumurasaki7513 the last game I pre-ordered was Mass Effect Andromeda (2017). I did it since I was at a remote job site and hotel had slow wifi. I wanted the disk for a quick install. I went to the Best buy, brought home the "Physical Copy" box, opened it to find a piece of paper with key code on it and they tell me to download it on EA Origin. I cursed so loud the neighbor called management and police lol.
If the developer has a good track record, i.e Fromsoft, or Capcom when it comes to Monster Hunter I'll usually pre order because I trust I'll get a good product. It's a reward to the developers who've earned that trust. However if I can't trust the developer I'll wait for reviews if I'm somewhat interest. Usually through I won't even bother doing that and simply not buy the game regardless.
for most people it's "treat others the way you want to be treated." for these people it's "demand to be treated better than you treat everyone else, and if they don't, ruin their entire existence."
Big facts. She is an unflinching hypocrite like so many people like her. She can't stand people giving her labels but labels other people without remorse. I hate people and characters like this.
You can't be mean to that character because it's a fanfic self-insert. The writer won't let you be mean to *the writer* and that's also why everything about the character and dialog is so cringe.
The fact that Bioware is going to focus all its efforts into Mass effect 5 and abandon Veliguard is terrifying. Mass Effect 5 might as well be dead now.
Yup. If they go for a canon destroy ending route with Liara as the canon companion in the previous games (speculation only from the trailer), then I can already see them writing in shepherd and liara's kid as confused ardat yakshii who looks more masculine than the rest of the asari race and identifies as a nonbinary with the geth companion being overly sympathetic in dialog to said child despite being robots. Oh and the krogan are mexican now, who doesnt like violence.
Taash is the perfect example of these devs self-inserts combined with millennial style writing. This character is made by people who expect everyone to cater to them and their feelings. While being the same insensitive asshats they claim upset them. They are insufferable and they talk in condescending and ironic tones. As if nothing is serious. And when it is serious, the character and these people have the emotional capacity of a toddler to actually handle it. The characters and writers all just come off emotionally and mentally stunted adult-children. Who’s writing never moved past that of the Borderlands or Marvel style of humor and writing. The dialogue with Taash and DA:V. Feels that akin to conversations you’d hear on a modern day college campus. Made by people, who were never funny or cool outside their own group of friends and the people they surrounded themselves with. So no surprise, when you get all these types of people together to make a game. This is the writing you get.
At least you have the option to tell Halsin to not turn into a bear even while romancing him lmao I was more uncomfortable with the fact that every dialogue with him feels like a landmine. Like I just wanna talk to you bro I'm straight I ain't tryna get my ass burnt 💀💀
yeah halsin's bear scene is definitely... out there. but at least it was consensual; you can't get it to trigger if you don't choose it. the game even gives you loads of opportunities to back out (like every romance in the game)
Tbf not every trans person is like that… the majority aren’t but the ones in the media are the loudest and most desperate narcissistic pieces of shit looking for attention and pity
Honestly, it just sounds like tosh is a carbon copy of the real life equivalent. No one likes the real thing, let alone having them forced on us in video games. BioWare just needs to be disbanded now, it’s not BioWare anymore anyway.
This game is like a kid writing a D&D adventure with a character made in their image. You know it will be the center of attention, the most important person in the world, overpowered, untouchable, and they must be loved by everyone because they are nerver wrong.
The level of writing in this game is actually what is the game breaker for me. In comparrison to previous games the downgrade is astonishing. The lack of vocabulary and basic inteligence that those writers have is baffling to me.
Although the game is rated for adults they're making it for children, as the rainbow gestapo always sing about indoctrinating kids...not creepy at all...
Their life is not sustainable. They can’t reproduce so indoctrination is the only thing they have. It’s disgusting and needs to be shut tf down!!!! They are creeps
Everyone’s talking about bad writing but Taash perfectly captures a non-binary person in their terrible, narcissistic glory. It’s actually 10/10 writing.
@@ohsweetmystery It really is painfully bad writing that's so out of place in an RPG. Accurate for the character though, even if that wasn't their intention!
My favorite characters are emmerick and lucanis because they’re just cool. But I usually take bellara and griffon trainer with me(daverik?) because their auto trigger abilities can just make you extremely hard to kill
The dialogue....oh my god....its like an episode of Peppa the Pig wtf "you got peanut butter on my plate Taash! I dont like peanut butter!" "Now emerich, use your good boy voice, sometimes accidents hapoen, okay sweetheart? Have you tried talking to Taash about how peanut butter makes you feel?"
If the game sold well you will normally hear about it from the developers, Example was when black myth and palword celebrated their sales. When it's not so good they keep quiet. So the silence is your answer.
TAASH was a distillation of what the TRANS activists think they should be able to get away with in society. In the end its so gross and creepy and horrible that everyone is going to end up hating them cause of this character. They will now be compared to this character till the end of time cause of how vile TAASH is and how manipulative and misogynist she is. She really is the TRANS ideal.
Then only things I didn't like about DA2 were the reused maps, the crapshoot of the ending, and the middling male Hawke love interests. (Merril > Isabella) Then again, it's been a decade since I played it.
@@SomeDigitalGhost it also had Anders turning bi and becoming a possible gay romance option. Thankfully it was never shoved in your face, you just had an option to flirt with him once and you could ignore it. Though I'm not sure if he was bi because of the spirit possessing him, or if it was actually just him.
I’m not. It’s like the Star Wars prequels to me. People may not have liked it at the time but sometimes it takes see a truly bad DA game to appreciate DA2
but its not, its tracking higher than star wars survivor which ended up at 10 mil, the previous dragon age was 12 mil so this is looks to be on part with the last one. not a failure as hard as these obsessed youtubers want it to be
youtubers and streamers have already made exponentially more collectively from the games release than bioware themselves.. and damn the tracking, theres no way this game even hits 5m..
The dialog is like an after school special. Its like its written for little kids and they have really weird pauses in conversation that feel very out of place.
Taash: "What??? Who doesn't like dragons" Erm.... Aren't Dragons in Dragon Age the Archdemons that bring about the blight? The entire purpose of Dragon Age Origins is to defeat the Dragon that's why it is called DRAGON AGE as it is the Age of Dragons and these Dragons are the intelligent powerful demons that lead each blight upon the world The people who wrote Veilguard really haven't played Dragon Age at all have they??!?!
Even without Taash, this game is weird, childish, too light- hearted, the. Tone is off, its characters are ugly, the writing sucks and, I mean, the game looks totally different from previous installments....just everything about it is *wrong* and removing the DEI hire from the game would only be 1 of *many* things this game would need done to it to make it better.
What did they do to the Darkspawn? They were never zombies. They were twisted, corrupted versions of the races based on the race of the poor woman that got turned into a broodmother. They were intelligent, could use arms and armor, set traps, and plan ambushes. They weren't some Dead Space necromite knock-off you could superglue some scythe hands on and say "job done."
The tone shift, the Dreamworks-esque art style, the sanitised character interactions, the constant lecturing that feels like it's aimed at children with how safe all of the dialogue is, the very blunt messaging and the absolute lack of idealogical nuance throughout... Why do I get the horrible sinking feeling that this game, from a writing perspective at least, was made first to push woke propaganda onto children?
It was subtler before the mentally ill consultancy companies were exposed. They're out of control now because apparently they're doubling down because of the legitimate and immense sane people repulsion. It's as if they're trying to capture the stragglers, the unaware.
they didnt include space marine 2, stellar blade, or black myth wukong, so these show game of the year award game always were crap, these is already taking the mask off, and spit on the mask
@@Krysnha Wukong is on the list. According to Forbes: Animal Well Astro Bot Balatro Black Myth: Wukong Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Dragon Age: The Veilguard Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Helldivers 2 Metaphor: ReFantazio Satisfactory Silent Hill 2 Tekken 8
@@ParrishT3, Helldivers 2 and Ballatro were literally social phenomenons, rarely seen in gaming. That Ballatro is even on the nominees list is a feat in itself for a one Dev game (same for Animal Well). If one of these two doesn't win, I just don't get it any longer. And where's Dragon Dogma 2?
@@ChristmasLore DD2 had a LOT of issues with optimization with their engine. That's the reason I never purchased the game. Their engine still memory leaks terribly bad.
I might play and buy the game if someone releases a mod that makes the game an RPG, replaces most of the characters, revokes all the dialogue and fixes the combat so it doesn't feel like ur swinging at air
Dude, did you even google when the term 'binary' was first used? I did. *The term "binary" was first used in the Middle English period (1150-1500). The word comes from the Latin words binarium and binarius.* Do we use binary to refer to electronics? Yes, but in a world with complicated magic, there's no reason such a term wouldn't have been developed. It's literally the number representation of Off/On, Locked/Unlocked, Powered/Unpowered. The far more 'modern day' concept is 'gender and sex are separate.' That shit didn't start until the 1960s
There’s a rule as a chef that I feel carries over to this situation: It doesn’t matter if you don’t like a certain type of food. Cook it, and cook it well, or fail. Don’t like seafood? Too damn bad, it’s on order so get moving. You give the customer what they want, what they ordered. I feel like that’s video games as well.
Thank you for watching! This is...yikes. Not good. And we need to ask ourselves & BioWare, was the companion TAASH the non-binary Qunari really worth the backlash? Let's dive into it
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Do you have to recruit her (or whatever)? Is there no way of not doing so?
I know this pretty much a gaming news channel but I would love to watch an in-dept analysis on how Veilguard breaks Dragon Age canon.
Why is Taash misidentifying Emmrich? Calling him names? 🤔 Aren't those high crimes to those people?
TAASH was a distillation of what the TRANS activists think they should be able to get away with in society. In the end its so gross and creepy and horrible that everyone is going to end up hating them cause of this character. They will now be compared to this character till the end of time cause of how vile TAASH is and how manipulative and misogynist she is. She really is the TRANS ideal.
I'm spamming a similar message to all RUclipsrs for a third day now. I always create different characters in RPG and roleplay them, In my first gameplay i created a Dwarf Female Warrior protagonist, and the interactions between her and the rest of the girls are totally different than what I see in the videos. Only the Male protagonist starts stupid dialogs! The game is still boring rpg wannabe but is a lot less cringy!
Please do look into this, it's blatant misandry.
Wild how the character who's entire personality is formed around their preferred labels, doesn't respect anyone else's preferred labels.
Honestly this is the most accurate representation I've ever seen of one of those kinds of people
literally refers to people by what they are and not who they are. Encapsulates the left in its entirely.
@@squgieman Art imitating life.
That's how the pronoun freaks act in real life. They don't respect anyone else's preferred labels but their own.
So realistic.
They made a game for their own employees... and confuse why it didn't sell worldwide
It's very confusing why these people were even employed there in the first place
DEI and intimidation @@satzbau9185
@@satzbau9185 Not really, HR gets infested first with Dlverslty Equlty and lncIusion hires because investor money giving out grants for that thing. Then they get their buddies in while getting the old devs fired, or harassed/threatened into compliance.
@@satzbau9185That’s the talent pool for the last 20 years due to DEI initiatives in ensuring a segment of society gets to be engineers too. People with no passion, skill, or talent.
@@thedivide3688 at least the real engineers can get paid more via contracting I suppose
It's great that Bioware was respectful and realistic in their depiction of a non-binary character by making them completely unhinged, unlikable and emotionally unstable.
I find that utterly baffling. What were their expectations? Are we supposed to cowtow to this character as stunning and brave, or feel sorry for them being so very apparently messed in the head and provide them therapy sessions through showing them respect and teaching them people skills? I'm all for dealing with difficult companions - I romanced Morrigan and Jack, after all - but with this Taash person I really miss the Renegade punch.
😂😂😂 best comment
@@irena4545 All the characters in the game literally cowered in front of her for any and all reasons like she is a bomb about to go off. One of the characters ate the last of some cheese sticks that Tassh likes and when tassh asks about it the character cowers and starts groveling and apologizing. From these sorts of people that I have met in real life that is reality, they think that basic courtesy is everybody bowing down to their every whim.
@@irena4545I'd say Ugh to Jack But guess what? Options! now We're all forced To Romance Jack except she's not a woman but trans instead... Also Jack had a real tragic Backstory. This Taash has a come on Mom!! Backstory....
You reap what you sow 😂😂😂..I worked for blue chip companies atva senior level (non gaming) and we played the DEI objectives ...but never lost sight of our customer base and their expectations...Bioware have lost the plot in this regard
Ok that "flirt" scene was shockingly horrible. My jaw dropped. Whoever wrote that needs to be on a list.
The character literally did the "chase your victim into a wall and then block with your arm so they can't escape move" that's a classic in 90's-2000's romance teen manga... They may seem to think that's sexy because they have seen it in manga but in real life that's how rapists behave... That tells me everything I need to know about the mindset of the writers.
@@zebnemmacall the problem by the name the writer is called trick weekes who took the lead writing spot in 2015 he oh my bad them as he calls himself needs to be fired asap just look him up he looks like the basic creepy reddit incel it is insane what he has done to the franchise with his ahh beliefs.
@@zebnemma checks out. Usually the loudest feminists are predators in sheeps clothing
What list? You mean s** offender list? Yeah. Wonder how many times has that creep been arrested or told off for highly inappropriate behavior. Then Bioware hires that person as a writer.
reheated aids. i dont even want to think about it
She says "you ARE a death mage" while if you point out she IS a woman youre evil. 😂 love those double standards
That was my first thought 😂😂😂
Exactly. And someone actually wrote that. Meaning people had time to sit on the dialogue and polish it. Yet, among all the possible conflicts those two characters could've had, they chose to go with the one that exposes the narcissistic bully nature of the whole non-binary thing. You just need to be able to reverse the situation in your mind. But considering how flat the dialogues are and how all the information spoon-fed to you, the creators clearly don't have that degree of mental sophistication and don't expect the players to have it either.
Game is realistic 😅
Rules for thee, but not for he
Nope, they're just rubbing it in. "We can do it and you can't. Whatcha gonna do about it?"
My respoinse: "Turn non-buynary."
4:20 Taash gets so upset and sensitive about getting called the wrong pronouns, but has no problem making up nicknames for Emmrich WHILE at the same time asking him for help, and then Emmrich gets gaslighted into apologizing to her after she insulted his job..
Yeah, fuck her. I'd have kicked her garbage ass out of the party. Or not recruited her like in prior BioWare games! Remember those days?
The simultaneous "the world is out to get me!" and "everyone else is trash" is common for that community. Its what happens when you believe everyone else is just as toxic as yourself.
It's because the Woke religion is a strict caste system, based on Intersectional Theory. Everyone gets a caste based on how many Oppression Points they have. Taash is "more oppressed" than Emmrich, therefore she's a much higher caste, therefore Emmrich must acknowledge this.
Same reason why the whole "pull a Bharve" mess exists. Any lower caste person who does anything to which a higher caste person takes offense (even if it's just eating the last snack!) requires self-abasement by the lower caste person.
True. That’s how these people live. They gaslight EVERYONE and play the victim 💯 of the time. Can’t stand this. I don’t feel sorry for the companies one bit. I’m confused how tf this happened! These companies are imploding from within and act like they don’t understand how it doesn’t sell. Whoever is in charge of marketing is the NUMBER ONE PERSON TO BLAME.
you misspelled Trash.
This character's complete lack of self-awareness is astonishing.
This was an IP killer. I don't need a fantasy RPG to teach me real-world trans preferences.
Ones that we could as a society ignore if we just said, the labels are not about what you believe but what you are.
And the fact schools entertain this nonsense drops all credibility of these institutions substantially. These people ignore biology and even make it up along the way to fit their narrative like “men can get pregnant” and can’t answer “what is a woman” which everyone learned in kindergarten or preschool (I’m sure they removed this like Bill Nye’s chromosome episode)
And talk to you like what they think a family therapy session involving immature 12 year olds is like.
Unfortunately people with talent are being pushed to the side for these DEI hires. The good news unlike Hollywood comics and streaming gamers are the one group that doesn't put up with this and will quickly bankrupt your company if you keep going down this path. Don't like a game get your money back instant loss of profits.
Even as a "Teaching Tool" it's condescending and paints the Trans person in a terrible light. They're just a total asshole. Some idiot at Bioware that wrote this character was trauma dumping their own pathetic problems into this character and turned it into a poorly written toxic asshole. The people the game seems to be intent on painting as the bad guys, (It's mother and anyone accidentally using the wrong pronoun) actually shows them as being victims to this psychopath. I assume the only reason this character was allowed to be in the release version is because no one was brave enough to tell them how stupid the character was.
Emerik "It's Emerik!"
Tosh "Im calling you what you are death mage!"
Emerik "Ok woman."
Tosh "How dare you!"
This says its all. kudos to bioware to getting the woke mentality down toa T
So wait…. TRASH doesn’t respect how Emeric prefers to be addressed?
How interesting…
they ALL do this. If you tell them not to call you cis they dont' care, they just keep doing it.
Exactly what I was coming to comment! You want people to respect your abnormal pronouns, but you can't even refer to someone by their actual name? What a load of crap dude
Honestly accurate to the hypocrisy of the attention seeking deviant types.
Maybe it's cause he's the only white male in the game?
Wouldn't surprise me if that's the case
Buzz, Geralt, Siegmyer, Batman: *intense HHHHMMMMM*
People really paid 70$ for an HR lecture 😂
Why would anyone buy this?
Not me I saved £70 thank you bio
you miss out that you can get it in monthly membership on EA Play. I played it on there. I can tell you most people with brains on PC would do that instead of dumping 60$ on this game.
Got the cracked version to give it a chance went back to origin after this filth
@@beg4mercy890 Normies fooled by IGN or something.
Leave a like if you weren't surprised by this
Who could've seen that adding gender identity politics in a dark fantasy setting would fail
I hope this game is the end of Bioware and the IP is given to a more passionate studio
leave a like if you are also wondering why that comment exists at all
It's 2024 and people are still pursuing likes like it gives them physical nourishment
when i saw non binary bs in a fantasy game i knew whats coming .
no
Taash is absolutely inconsistant as a Qunari. Says she doesn't follow the Qun but uses it as a reason to do some stuff. Is distrubed about resurected bodies even though Qunari do not care for the bodies of the deceased as the body is not the person to them.
To be fair, the Qunari have a general distrust of magic and view it as borderline heretical most of the time.
She discriminates against corpses, not very inclusive of her...
It's especially bad considering her creators are doing the same thing with biowaste corpse
I don’t know why the characters were written as oversized children and you are their caretaker. This is so out of place in a medieval fantasy setting.
The real mystery is why Bioware hired the writers that it did lmaoo
Because it was written by oversized children... Duh
The dumbing down.
This is bioware. These are the people they have been hiring for well over a decade. They care more about hires that check boxes over writers that can actually do the job they’re being hired to do.
@@maccagrabme Just like everything else. . . .
Ok, just watched your Taash / necromancer clip. My brain is leaking. This isn’t an RPG, it’s a touchy-feely corporate training session. No, really.
Exactly! You have a mentally underdeveloped tank who thinks her fellow adventurer is creepy and a mage who acts like a mad scientist but meddles with corpses to prevent more slaughter of the ones still living, the implications are far more profound than "Oh, sorry I've hurt your feelings, I'll do better". They have a common goal, prevent more deaths, despite doing it through different paths. Emmerich shouldn't be so conceding and Taash should take advantage of this moment to LEARN how not all things are black and white, there's a lot of grey area where a necromancer can actually do a lot of good. But noooo, let's respect everybody's fee fees and not learn through exposure and contrast.
And the Lesson is children, that is a prime example how to NOT MAKE A GAME
And all the wokies that are used to the propaganda think it is just normal and they don't understand why others have problems with it, the same types of people that scream about any messaging that they don't like appearing anywhere.
It really feels like it is a deconfliction training that a corporation would make everyone watch once a year. Especially hearing “I am so sorry Taash, I didn’t realize necromancy made you so uncomfortable,” it gave me flashbacks to the Diversity Acceptance training I had to do when I was working for the government.
A weird-sex RPG with some action thrown in to justify stealing the 'Dragon Age' name.
After watching their conversation, man, I feel like I lost 10 IQ points. And I don't have many to spare.
Player numbers drastically drop off?
Who could have forespoken?
The game was basically....born in the dust, dustborn you could say. Their last concord
it litterally hit a new player count peak record two days ago, i like to dunk on this game but im not delusional to trick myself into thinking that everybody is refunding
@@callmera0uf560lol sure…
I see what you did there 💀
I see what you did there 💀
Dragon Age Veilguard - made by losers, for losers.
So they lost 😂
yet, the losers this was made for, won't even buy the game...😂
@@OGplushvideos They never do, and even if they did there aren't enough of them to matter.
I miss when they were made by nerds
so you don't like the game and if someone does they are losers, sound like a real world taash to me :)
This year will be remembered as the year of failed woke games
Like how 2007 was the year of champions.
Nah…year that the general public says they’ve let this cultish agenda gone too far. When Trump wins this is the year we make the country great again.
I think you're right. I welcome a return to being the target audience of things I pay for.
Wow…RUclips censored me again. It’s the year taking back America.
Good.
This game isnt even worth pirating
That "flirting" scene is fucking replusive
I cringed so hard, I think I took damage
It would be SA, if it were a binary male(white or black)
i was thinking predatory or Weinstein like
I literally couldn't watch, fucking hell.
Tash romance (giggles) sooo steamy
- the gendermancer's words
Wants to be called They but refuses to call the other person by his name... Wont acknolage anything the other person says, but wants to force others to do the opposite with her.
She is a real depction of a woke person
PST !!!!!!!!!!!! Is there any way to keep Tasha out of the game?
@@Primarch19thI am wondering about this too. I have a coworker defending this game like it was their life mission. One of their arguments is that having Taash on your team is optional and not forced to go through.. it’s.. dialogue. And that all the criticism around it can be skipped and ignored. So, is any of this force gender politics part of the main story?
@@aaronschmitz241 There are several missions that require her in your party, she makes playing this game quite awful.
So she can make fun of other people because "they're on the wrong side," but if someone questions her identity, they get a lecture or have to do 10 push-ups. Got it! 100% this was written by an actual trans person.
it was, yes
That was fucking wild. ""I hAvE tO dO 10 pUsh UpS BeCoS I MaDe a GrAvE MisTaKe bY mIslAbeLling sOmeOne" has gotta be the most immersion breaking cringe talk ever.
@@tristan4893Especially coming from a returning character.
I saw this comment earlier and paid it no mind because I thought you were exaggerating as a joke.
Then I saw a clip of it, holy crap, it almost came off like a parody.
As badly as Taash is written, I wonder if it's a poison pill by the dev team. Yeah, they got a non-binary character in the game, but at what cost? lol
Dear god, Taash sounds like the self-insert of a bad fanfic. She acts like a victim, but she's perfectly fine treating others the exact same way. Nobody calls her out on this and the player has no option but to agree and support her. Oh, and she's also one of the rare few Qunari who have the ability to breath fire, just to make her extra special and unique. An ability she continues to use, despite it drawing unwanted attention and making everyone else's lives harder.
Basically, they created a parody of themselves, a mirror, and they didn't even realize it. It is extremely ironic.
Not a parody, this is how a majority of trans people I know in real life act.
All the characters in the game literally cowered in front of Tassh for any and all reasons like she is a bomb about to go off. One of the characters ate the last of some cheese sticks that Tassh likes and when tassh asks about it the character cowers and starts groveling and apologizing. From these sorts of people that I have met in real life that is reality, they think that basic courtesy is everybody bowing down to their every whim.
@@thomgizzizpsychologically is because they grew up thinking the opposite gender had more power T women see the power women have over men and society and lust for that power same for T men
@@thomgizziz Your description of Taash is precisely what makes that entire movement an abusive and manipulative one. People living in fear of offending people who absolutely should be offended because the only reason they conceived of their nonsense 'identity' in the first place was because nobody had the decency to slap them upside the head when they needed it.
That’s why we call it psychological projection.
@@thomgizziz Sad thing it is not even far from the truth, groups always need to watch what they say or do when one of these people walk into the room. Some companies are even rejecting non-binaries outright when applying/interviewing for a position because they know the can of worms they bring when hired.
A product made for 2 people can't maintain sales 😮
Which two people? They and Them? 😏
@alderaancrumbs6260 exactly
@@Mojaveknight17 for Smeagles
@@alderaancrumbs6260 Re and Tards probably
Nah, Who and Where 😂@@alderaancrumbs6260
BioWare both inploded and exploded at the same time.
The fuse, the message and hubris.
That dialog you showed was insufferable.
you forgot to mention the debris. (loss of money and employees)
Imploded* but yes you are correct.
bioware went supernova
Sheer fu..ing hubris 😂
I find it unintentionally hilarious. Taash would be the first person who'd run to HR for someone saying something innocuous, while at the same time being the reason everyone is running to HR to report sexual harassment. 🤣
Taash demands to be called "they" but doesn't respect the way more simple wish of Emmerich to be called by his actual name, not some derogative necromancer term. That is a wonderful example for how the left works. It always only goes one way.
And of course a discussion about the morally deep and hard to answer question of "is necromancy ok if used for a good cause?" can be broken down to "Sorry, didn't mean to scare you / yeah, sorry I didn't communicate me being scared".
I can only assume how the conversations of the devs look like in real life. "Oops, sorry my p3d0phelia scared you" "Yeah, but now that you apologized for not paying attention to me being uncomfortable with it, I forgive you. Please take care of my child"
... We need a new crusade.
taash seems to be average toxic twitter user who moan and dont know if info they use is correct when going after person because they got called out.
"how the left works" you just lost all your credibility there. I'm left, and I hate DEI, maybe you shouldn't generalize otherwise you just look like an idiot. You think there aren't a bunch of people on the right who are massively hypocritical?
Credit where it's due: Taash actually is very representative of the trans community. Entitled, ignorant, self-absorbed, and really just an inconsiderate a-hole.
This isnt the left chief. Take your dribble elsewhere. These losers dont speak for anyone but their own mental issues
The dialogue scene sounds like a kindergarten teacher mediating between two children.
"u ARE a death mage"
"and u ARE a woman"
Exactly!
Only one of those is correct … and it’s the second
REEEEEE!!
Barve perform your barve!
taash molesting other characters is really creepy especially knowing about author's tendecies of self-inserting
Skyrockets trans acceptability years forward and totally doesnt reinforce negative stereotypes and concerns.
I hope the community makes a mod that removes this monster from the game..
lol what community? The only people that will be left playing the game after the first month are the morons who enjoy HR training videos. There will be no "modding community" around this "game".
It would be fun, or something like the mod for Fallout 4 which turned Preston into a certain villain from WW2.... Not sure why anyone would wanna spend time on modding this game however.
I'm so glad this failed and i hope EA closes down Bioware before they can infect Mass Effect with this bullshit.
Amen
Problem is, even if they were to close Bioware these people would just go to other game companies and drive them into the ground.
Bioware should have closed down yesterday.
I hope in the long run EA closes down, Amen to that!
@@retrospectivelyspectacular2331 EA is such a creatively bankrupt company, they're up there with Ubisoft and Bethesda, all terrible studios.
Ea thrives off of their garbage sports games that they somehow got the contract to. Their sports games legit look like they're from 2006, especially the soccer ones, it's so bad.
They already killed the studio years ago. It's an undead corpse of its former self kept alive by a transmancer.
Troonamancer
Tash is the Bioware trans Devs, the corpse is Bioware itself, Emmerich is EA. Makes more sense now - the Devs don't want to admit Bioware is a corpse being strung along by EA. They also don't want to come to terms their jobs are at stake so lash out at EA who just doesn't have the balls to tell the Devs to fuck off.
Gendermancer
Yeah... bioware was gone over a decade ago.
Actually it's a "queer sexual Gender mancer" 🤮
It's funny how the character who wants to force us to use specific words to refer to her as, also is unable to even call people by their given names because "you are that, though," having the irony completely missed because they're literally unable to comprehend their own hypocrisy.
Every character i've seen in a movie or game so far that is pushing this ideology has been an extreme narcissist, and you think it's them not understanding how people work, then you find out that they brought in ACTUAL PEOPLE from the movement to help make the character's have accurate reactions. And then they have the audacity to say we're wrong for disliking overly unlikable characters.
It might well be that the writers intended to do this on purpose, to show that deadnaming is wrong.
But it's so hamfisted and dumb by comparison.
Yep, this writing is so bad...
@@schen7913 Yeah, that's an apt point. But it's executed in such a way that defines them brilliantly on who they really are and what they are really like. 😂
I mean they did get the rainbow brigade ideology pretty spot on 😂 " you will refer to us how we want but we will not respect your wishes!!"
@@schen7913 >to show that deadnaming is wrong<
... by making the people that complain about getting deadnamed seem like hypocrites. at some point you gotta wonder if someone's sabotaging them from the inside, or if they really are this ridiculous
I've heard people say that if this game was its own original story, NOT AFFILIATED WITH Dragon Age, it might have been a bit less controversial
11 years for bioware to redeem itself but they just had to play the woke roulette and piss on the fans just for DEI points
What are the odd these point being put into BioWoke dev resume and leech easily into another gaming studio.. where end up making same slop.
11 years is the mental age of the writers... Maybe less
@@pc14thenumber9 Maybe at smaller studios. Houses are being cleaned in most corners of the entertainment industry and corporate America has finally discovered the you can't pander your way into a wider audience. I think 2024 is going to be the year that woke as a business model died a sad death. It's probably going to be hard for people who are actually talented (and not insufferable) and happen to be LGBT to find work for some time... so great job, activists, you just set your cause back 20 years. Hope you're proud.
Is it a roulette if the gun is loaded with 6 rounds ?
Tbh it hasn’t been the same BioWare for 11 years
Man, that dialogue between Taash and Emmrich felt like a couple of toddlers fighting, while Rook just felt like the caretaker trying to stop the fighting and make up. Only thing missing was Rook asking if anyone needed their diaper changed.
"Ugh... fine."
I literally have never heard anyone do this since high school, and that was typically between either preppy girls or those who didn't develop social skills. Anyone that still speaks like that has not grown up past elementary.
Honestly it sucks because it's SO close to being interesting. If this was the real Bioware you would have had the opportunity to actually take a side, and tell one of them to fuck off. And rather than having a feelings party afterwards about "caring about eachother" they would have been actual lasting conflict between characters. This has the stench of bad Saturday morning cartoon all over it.
Nah fr I was genuinely shocked when I was watching that clip. I don't get why they made the dialogue sound like we are watching a bunch of kids experience their own world that they were created in for the first time ???
Wtf was that? Literally two "adults" behaving like elementary school children talking about who's stronger Goku or Superman.
Ikr, the dialog is like a video for kindergarten kids where the teacher says, "Now class, what did we learn from this?"
Why is Taash not "pulling a Barve" since she failed to call Emmerich by his name?
Because she is doing it a straight white male no doubt
Don't ask questions. Just consume product and then get excited to consume next product.
Because the rule only apply to everyone except themself
Because she is going to make it about herself, wait how am I supposed to reffer to her using they/them in the sentence? It's confusing.
Sorry, they, them...I'm doing my barves now.....in my world "tosh...trite shite"
WTF WAS THAT FLIRT SCENE WHY ARE YOU DOING THAT TO ME HOLY FUCK
Somehow this shit managed to be worse than concord and dustborn, against all odds
I mean I doubt it's going to be as big of a loss as Concord was financially. But the reputational damage to Bioware isn't going to go away, especially given the games prior to Veilguard haven't exactly been amazing. I.e, Andromeda and Anthem.
What's sadder is the people are proud of this shit and are happy with having 90k player peak.
I wish someone would honestly tell me if these numbers are indeed bad or not. I feel like there's a lot of confirmation bias going on around both sides, so I just wish I knew where the truth lies. Is this a flop? Underwhelming? Average? A big success? I still have no idea.
@@Mant111It’s probably not going to make money so i don’t know how much money lost would be considered a flop
@@Mant111 Financially speaking, iI all depends on the development cost of the game. But for a big release that has been long awaited for 10 years to just peak 90k is comically low.
Taash: "You ARE a death mage!"
Proper response: "You ARE a woman!"
Taash: "You make them move like they're alive! But they smell wrong and they move wrong and none of it is okay!"
Proper response: "You're right! Corpses aren't alive and shouldn't pretend to be. Also, men aren't women and vice versa and shouldn't pretend to be!"
Yes, exactly!
🚩 It is *_SO_* obvious & such a perfect example of the hypocrisy that these ppl either narcissisticly or unconsciously live by, that it almost feels like a ringer was on the dev team & snuck it in.
Fwiw, I always felt like the "my face is tired" line was snuck in the same way.
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Taas was supposed to be male here ? I thought she still a female who just act tough 😅, as introduction from Harding she is a woman who hunts dragon.
You're falling for the propaganda. Yes, take your hatred out on trans people, and not the straight jews running the companies and deciding to push the "dei" in order to start a culture war. JFC.
@@Spychopunk2077Non-Binary 😂
If that convo had taken place between Taash and Morrigan, Morrigan would have told Taash to go f*ck themself. Wow, the dialogue is atrocious, I also don't like how suddenly everything's like "Oh jeez I offended you? I am so so so so sorry! Let me apologize, grovel and scrape! Friends?" The sheer drop in maturity level is mind boggling, it's like an episode of Sesame Street where we learn how to apologize for mildly upsetting someone. What's the rating for this? PG?
Sesame Street taught lessons far better than this, and generally didn’t come across as finger wagging.
💯
It’s rated “bitchmade”
Hey me and my 3 brother n laws were some of the ppl playing BG3 when you took that data sample!
BG3 is what DA VG wishes it was but could never even come close to.
Watching this is physically painful
sounds like my 7 year old playing a scene with his toys
That's what Bioware gets for catering to activists and DEIs.
They’ve been doing this shit for more than 10 years. It’s why every game they release is worse than the last one.
Fuck Bioware,woke fucks
It’s why more people are turning to indie, AA, older games, and games form overseas. Because they aren’t watered down and half baked with all this bs.
@@garrettviewegh9028yh no politics that mainstream follows because devil forces them to
They probably hired one of Sweet Baby Inc.'s contemporaries for "consultation"
For people coping, it has already been confirmed that Veilguard would not have DLC and that Bioware as a whole is focusing on Mass Effect 5.
Their last Mass Effect title, Andromeda had a very similar pattern: the game was heavily criticized and Bioware was deflecting all criticism for a few months, until they had to announced that their DLC was cancelled due the game not reaching it sales goal, shortly after the branch that made the game (Bioware Montreal) closed down.
In Veilguard's case is not exactly the same pattern, *it's worse:* The game wasn't even been out for a week and they have already stated that it will no feature DLC and they admitting the studio as a whole is just working on the next Mass Effect is PR speech for _Veilguard's team has been disbanded._
Andromeda sold 3 million and was deemed a failure, so not only Veilguard sold less but I'm willing to bet it didn't even passed a million, like I said the game is not even a week old and they already pull the plug.
I think IGN actually already told us this game was toast, as they say "if we never get another dragon age game..." they literally told us while shilling
Except I liked Andromeda
It all becomes obvious that BioWare should have died forever ago. But dei kept it alive
@@coldsteelblue7275But IGN gave it a 9/10!!!! I stopped trusting their reviews bc sometimes it seems like they’re getting paid for them.
@@foetaeyungla oh the score is defo a reflection of them being paid, no doubt, it's just it's an odd line to add if the game's worth that rating
You know, this genuinely feels like its a parody attempt at trying to make fun of non-binary people more than anything, like there is no way at all that this wasnt done ironically.
The idea of a non binary Qunari is also ridiculous from a lore perspective given the strict nature of Qunari roles in society
Everyone know that having horns is what makes you a Qunari. Not adhering to the fascist theocratic culture of the Qun. It's not like horned people who stray from it's teachings aren't even called Qunari anymore and are instead called Tal-Vashoth or anything.
But yeah, even Vashoth shouldn't be so free spirited they develop traits shown by the new character here. The entire species has been molded (even down to education camps) to fit a strict culture that reviles individualism. Rejecting the very idea of gender classification while "respecting" the Qun is a bit like having a character who sacrifices Goats to Satan regularly while claiming to be a Christian who goes to church on Sunday. It's idiotic to the point of being parody.
Closer to Islam.
The writers forgot the Qunari literally means 'people of the Qun', but that is not the name of their race. Even if you play one of them(the ancient name is Kossith), you are always referred to as Qunari, despite not following the Qun. Vashoth or Tal-Vashoth is not mentioned either. They're all just Qunari. You can read the dragon age wiki and learn that, the writers did not..
@@someone-ke4qj no, it's a lot closer to Plato philosophy than Islam. i thought like that too, but when you actually check their ideology there is very little remainding of Islam and tons of things associated with platonic social philosophy but taken to the extreme. THOUGH as a party in the world they look a lot like the ottoman empire, but their ideology is not the quran/islam.
It depends, if you’r born in wokistan or not…
I don't get why people pre-order. We used to pre-order back in 90s and 2000s because they only made a set amount of cassette and disks. If you don't pre-order, sometimes you got to wait 2-3 weeks longer to get a copy. They also used to give you little gifts for pre-order, like Tiberium Sun gave me a 3" metal NOD soldier!
Now it is all digital sales. Why not just wait for reviews than buy the game???
Ah, C&C Tiberium Sun, now that's a solid game.
To cite my friend who I asked the very same:
„I really want the physical version and by preordering GameStop knows how many copies to order! :D“
Sometimes I don’t know why I’m still friends with her >__>
@@sabaqumurasaki7513 the last game I pre-ordered was Mass Effect Andromeda (2017). I did it since I was at a remote job site and hotel had slow wifi. I wanted the disk for a quick install. I went to the Best buy, brought home the "Physical Copy" box, opened it to find a piece of paper with key code on it and they tell me to download it on EA Origin. I cursed so loud the neighbor called management and police lol.
Consumerism
If the developer has a good track record, i.e Fromsoft, or Capcom when it comes to Monster Hunter I'll usually pre order because I trust I'll get a good product. It's a reward to the developers who've earned that trust.
However if I can't trust the developer I'll wait for reviews if I'm somewhat interest. Usually through I won't even bother doing that and simply not buy the game regardless.
Bioware has been dead for a while this was just the final nail in the coffin
Please don’t compare Trash with Karlach
Is there a "Cringe of the Year" award I'm not aware of that all these games are trying to win?
We need a Razzies for video games.
Whoa. Taash getting up in Rooks business was a little...assault-y. Like not even in an interesting character way. It just felt really uncomfortable.
I've played pron games on newgrounds with bad scenarios and Taash made me uncomfortable.
@@Saltedroastedcaramel yeah same xd it's almost a talent to top that
4:50 So.... she is mad at her mother bc she don't call her the way Trash wants but calling some1 else the way he don't want is ok? Hmmm... 🤔
The hypocritical personality is a normal thing I've seen with the woke ideology.
for most people it's "treat others the way you want to be treated." for these people it's "demand to be treated better than you treat everyone else, and if they don't, ruin their entire existence."
Big facts. She is an unflinching hypocrite like so many people like her. She can't stand people giving her labels but labels other people without remorse. I hate people and characters like this.
Yeah that would piss me off
Typical, lol
You can't be mean to that character because it's a fanfic self-insert. The writer won't let you be mean to *the writer* and that's also why everything about the character and dialog is so cringe.
Tash feels like someone you constantly need to walk on eggshells around to avoid a confrontation.
Nah, I'm certain the modders will make it where we can just avoid her entirely or just delete the character XD
The person that can't be fired because it will be a PR nightmare.
@@gravemistakes8427ain't no moder touching that pile of doo doo crap
Dragage rearguard: We are going to teach you a lesson.
Players: No, we are going to teach you a lesson!
The fact that Bioware is going to focus all its efforts into Mass effect 5 and abandon Veliguard is terrifying.
Mass Effect 5 might as well be dead now.
it is allready dead dont have false hope we just have seen it with Dragon Age nothing will be diffrent besides EVEN MORE DEI!
It's that bad of a situation with all crew on deck, huh..
Yup. If they go for a canon destroy ending route with Liara as the canon companion in the previous games (speculation only from the trailer), then I can already see them writing in shepherd and liara's kid as confused ardat yakshii who looks more masculine than the rest of the asari race and identifies as a nonbinary with the geth companion being overly sympathetic in dialog to said child despite being robots. Oh and the krogan are mexican now, who doesnt like violence.
@@neonlightcabasag4043surprised you didn’t say the Krogan were black now but maybe that’s too on the nose lol
It's already done ain't nobody buying that
9:46 i think they are just aware how “ordinary non-binary” people are and they got their right representation
Taash is the perfect example of these devs self-inserts combined with millennial style writing. This character is made by people who expect everyone to cater to them and their feelings. While being the same insensitive asshats they claim upset them. They are insufferable and they talk in condescending and ironic tones. As if nothing is serious. And when it is serious, the character and these people have the emotional capacity of a toddler to actually handle it. The characters and writers all just come off emotionally and mentally stunted adult-children. Who’s writing never moved past that of the Borderlands or Marvel style of humor and writing.
The dialogue with Taash and DA:V. Feels that akin to conversations you’d hear on a modern day college campus. Made by people, who were never funny or cool outside their own group of friends and the people they surrounded themselves with. So no surprise, when you get all these types of people together to make a game. This is the writing you get.
As in self inserts.
The 18+ scene with the bear in BG3 made me uncomfortable but this scene with tash or whatever her name is made me feel violated in the worst way.
At least Halsin was nice about it, and even apologised.
At least you have the option to tell Halsin to not turn into a bear even while romancing him lmao I was more uncomfortable with the fact that every dialogue with him feels like a landmine. Like I just wanna talk to you bro I'm straight I ain't tryna get my ass burnt 💀💀
yeah halsin's bear scene is definitely... out there. but at least it was consensual; you can't get it to trigger if you don't choose it. the game even gives you loads of opportunities to back out (like every romance in the game)
So Tosh is like every Trans person. Well, mission accomplished BioWare. You captured the unlikability perfectly.
Tbf not every trans person is like that… the majority aren’t but the ones in the media are the loudest and most desperate narcissistic pieces of shit looking for attention and pity
Nailed it
yeah she acts like 90% of T people . the sad part is there are others who say "its not true"
Honestly, it just sounds like tosh is a carbon copy of the real life equivalent. No one likes the real thing, let alone having them forced on us in video games. BioWare just needs to be disbanded now, it’s not BioWare anymore anyway.
5:37 she’s not afraid of necromancy, she’s just disgusted by it. Hmmm 🤔
Isn’t one of the factions you can make your character be part of in Character creation, a faction of necromancers??
I swear, if a man said this line, they'd call it "fragile masculinity" 🤣🤣🤣
That was pretty necrophobic of her
Maybe those corpses identify as being alive.
They've transitioned from being dead to being alive and Taash isn't respecting that.
This game is like a kid writing a D&D adventure with a character made in their image. You know it will be the center of attention, the most important person in the world, overpowered, untouchable, and they must be loved by everyone because they are nerver wrong.
The level of writing in this game is actually what is the game breaker for me. In comparrison to previous games the downgrade is astonishing. The lack of vocabulary and basic inteligence that those writers have is baffling to me.
God that discussion between over their feelings was cringe as hell!!!
Felt like I was watching children talking.
I refuse to listen to that sort of blather at work, and I'm actually paid to be there, why would I want it in my entertainment?
It would have actually been funny if she had said. "I'm sorry I called you a skull fucker"
The Iron Bull said Fucker didn't he. It's been a while what the hell happened to M-rated games having curses and gore in it.
Although the game is rated for adults they're making it for children, as the rainbow gestapo always sing about indoctrinating kids...not creepy at all...
@@coldsteelblue7275 they learned from The Teletuby creator. Dude was trying from the start to indoctrinate.
Their life is not sustainable. They can’t reproduce so indoctrination is the only thing they have. It’s disgusting and needs to be shut tf down!!!! They are creeps
Everyone’s talking about bad writing but Taash perfectly captures a non-binary person in their terrible, narcissistic glory. It’s actually 10/10 writing.
The bad writing is that we can’t call her behavior out. Aw shit….
But 1/10 for writing that anyone wants to read.
@@ohsweetmystery It really is painfully bad writing that's so out of place in an RPG. Accurate for the character though, even if that wasn't their intention!
It also perfectly capture how they usually look.
😂😂😂
My favorite characters are emmerick and lucanis because they’re just cool. But I usually take bellara and griffon trainer with me(daverik?) because their auto trigger abilities can just make you extremely hard to kill
"Go woke, go broke" - Jason Shreier
The dialogue....oh my god....its like an episode of Peppa the Pig wtf "you got peanut butter on my plate Taash! I dont like peanut butter!"
"Now emerich, use your good boy voice, sometimes accidents hapoen, okay sweetheart? Have you tried talking to Taash about how peanut butter makes you feel?"
If the game sold well you will normally hear about it from the developers,
Example was when black myth and palword celebrated their sales.
When it's not so good they keep quiet.
So the silence is your answer.
Yeah if it did sell decently well every woke AS in X would be shouting it out to high heaven.
NO PLANS for DLC being dropped that fast means it was a MASSIVE flop.
@@braddl9442 The most bizarre thing is. The publisher already know this way before the game was even released.
15:15 "I just want milk that tastes like real milk"
An Aussie milk ad played which tripped me out
damn i lost braincells wathing that conversation between Taash and Emmrich.
This dialog reminds me of my daughter's kindergarten.
Pretty sure that my 5 year old niece is more socially aware than this.
I refuse to walk eggshells around anyone. I will say what is on my mind and sometimes it won't come out in the way that I intended it to.
TAASH was a distillation of what the TRANS activists think they should be able to get away with in society. In the end its so gross and creepy and horrible that everyone is going to end up hating them cause of this character. They will now be compared to this character till the end of time cause of how vile TAASH is and how manipulative and misogynist she is. She really is the TRANS ideal.
If someone doesn’t like something I say, that’s their problem, not mine.
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Jesus, if you remove the cursing from that dialogue, you could fit it in a Discovery Kids cartoon, no problem.
I bet there are a lot of people looking at DA2 going “Perhaps I treated you too harshly”.
DA2 was a very good game, stop shitting on it for no reason other than it just wasn't Origins level masterpiece.
Then only things I didn't like about DA2 were the reused maps, the crapshoot of the ending, and the middling male Hawke love interests. (Merril > Isabella)
Then again, it's been a decade since I played it.
@@SomeDigitalGhost it also had Anders turning bi and becoming a possible gay romance option. Thankfully it was never shoved in your face, you just had an option to flirt with him once and you could ignore it. Though I'm not sure if he was bi because of the spirit possessing him, or if it was actually just him.
I’m not. It’s like the Star Wars prequels to me. People may not have liked it at the time but sometimes it takes see a truly bad DA game to appreciate DA2
@@cloudfair2no…the prequels were always bad. Worse stuff doesn’t magically make them not bad. This is nonsense.
Up next...
Ma'am Effect 5 "I'm ComMa'amder Shepherd and I yell at Managers for misgendering me... Here, on The Citadel."
Lmao I’m dying at coma’amder
Non-binary Shepard: We won't bang ok.
🤣
Bioware: Mass Effect 5 will cost $130.
Commander Shepard: Hey, everyone. This company discriminates against the poor.
@ it will cost $130 for men but only $97.50 for women
I am afraid of what is to come in ME 5 ... I had high hopes but seeing this brain damaged people doing this to Failguard , I am really afraid.
From the player numbers alone I knew this game was already a flop. Glad to know we were right!
80k might be underwhelming but its nowhere as bad as concord's 600 players or suicide sqaud's 13k
Its a win/success from the wokes perspective
but its not, its tracking higher than star wars survivor which ended up at 10 mil, the previous dragon age was 12 mil so this is looks to be on part with the last one.
not a failure as hard as these obsessed youtubers want it to be
youtubers and streamers have already made exponentially more collectively from the games release than bioware themselves.. and damn the tracking, theres no way this game even hits 5m..
@@Caelc15 What? Are you saying they've sold or will sell upwards of 10 million copies of this?
5:26 This is hilariously cringe. 🤮
Who wrote this? It's like a 12 year old put this dialogue together 😮
Who talks to another person who's not 5 years old like this?
God this dialogue is so cringe it’s hard to believe this was an honest effort and not satire. 6:45
The dialog is like an after school special. Its like its written for little kids and they have really weird pauses in conversation that feel very out of place.
Pre-schooler morality tale
I hate every dialogue I've seen from this game. It's like a kindergarten teacher simulator...
Worst dialogues ever, stopped playing this garbage
Taash: "What??? Who doesn't like dragons"
Erm.... Aren't Dragons in Dragon Age the Archdemons that bring about the blight? The entire purpose of Dragon Age Origins is to defeat the Dragon that's why it is called DRAGON AGE as it is the Age of Dragons and these Dragons are the intelligent powerful demons that lead each blight upon the world
The people who wrote Veilguard really haven't played Dragon Age at all have they??!?!
It now makes sense why the mother volunteered Taash to go away lol
"Please, take her away from here, she's UNBEARABLE!"
They made a character that's a total crybully modeled after themselves and couldn't even manipulate them to be the slightest bit likeable
Even without Taash, this game is weird, childish, too light- hearted, the. Tone is off, its characters are ugly, the writing sucks and, I mean, the game looks totally different from previous installments....just everything about it is *wrong* and removing the DEI hire from the game would only be 1 of *many* things this game would need done to it to make it better.
What did they do to the Darkspawn? They were never zombies. They were twisted, corrupted versions of the races based on the race of the poor woman that got turned into a broodmother. They were intelligent, could use arms and armor, set traps, and plan ambushes. They weren't some Dead Space necromite knock-off you could superglue some scythe hands on and say "job done."
I’m sorry, I agree with you, but… “You’re speaking like you’re asking a question? Even though you’re not?”
The tone shift, the Dreamworks-esque art style, the sanitised character interactions, the constant lecturing that feels like it's aimed at children with how safe all of the dialogue is, the very blunt messaging and the absolute lack of idealogical nuance throughout...
Why do I get the horrible sinking feeling that this game, from a writing perspective at least, was made first to push woke propaganda onto children?
Because it has been happening for years you’re only now noticing because they’re begging you to notice
my thoughts exactly after playing this game for 2 hours only (i'm so glad i didn't buy it and i never will no matter how discounted it gets)
It was subtler before the mentally ill consultancy companies were exposed. They're out of control now because apparently they're doubling down because of the legitimate and immense sane people repulsion. It's as if they're trying to capture the stragglers, the unaware.
Oh, hey! I love your videos!
At least Dreamworks is good, lol.
Hell, they check off diversity checkboxes better than anyone... Praise Shrek.
And they dared put Veilguard in the GoldenJoystick GOTY candidates but didn't include Super Marine 2. So stupid.
they didnt include space marine 2, stellar blade, or black myth wukong, so these show game of the year award game always were crap, these is already taking the mask off, and spit on the mask
@@Krysnha Wukong is on the list.
According to Forbes:
Animal Well
Astro Bot
Balatro
Black Myth: Wukong
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
Dragon Age: The Veilguard
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
Helldivers 2
Metaphor: ReFantazio
Satisfactory
Silent Hill 2
Tekken 8
@@ParrishT3 Ok i didnt know, the last time i checked was not, well lets see if it wins because from all the game there, none is near
@@ParrishT3, Helldivers 2 and Ballatro were literally social phenomenons, rarely seen in gaming.
That Ballatro is even on the nominees list is a feat in itself for a one Dev game (same for Animal Well).
If one of these two doesn't win, I just don't get it any longer.
And where's Dragon Dogma 2?
@@ChristmasLore DD2 had a LOT of issues with optimization with their engine. That's the reason I never purchased the game. Their engine still memory leaks terribly bad.
I might play and buy the game if someone releases a mod that makes the game an RPG, replaces most of the characters, revokes all the dialogue and fixes the combat so it doesn't feel like ur swinging at air
Tash doesn't feel like she belongs in a fantasy universe. He dialogue is like an angsty and confrontational teenager.
She is a fantasy universe
The fun part is imagine Tosh with Morgan on the party Morgan would kill her in the first 5m. This isnt Dragon Age.
Why the hell would the term binary even exist in a dark fantasy dragon world where they don't have computers?
Binary is a system of 1s and 0s.
the unabomber was right! technology is the end of us
Binary isn’t strictly related to computers nor were computers it’s origin. Think binary stars as the most common example.
@@louguenschery2062 that's still besides the point. Would a modern day term like nonbinary or binary even have any business being in dragon age?
@@louguenschery2062 the poit is binary term is a modern thing not something in dark medieval fantasy
Dude, did you even google when the term 'binary' was first used? I did.
*The term "binary" was first used in the Middle English period (1150-1500). The word comes from the Latin words binarium and binarius.*
Do we use binary to refer to electronics? Yes, but in a world with complicated magic, there's no reason such a term wouldn't have been developed. It's literally the number representation of Off/On, Locked/Unlocked, Powered/Unpowered.
The far more 'modern day' concept is 'gender and sex are separate.' That shit didn't start until the 1960s
There’s a rule as a chef that I feel carries over to this situation: It doesn’t matter if you don’t like a certain type of food. Cook it, and cook it well, or fail. Don’t like seafood? Too damn bad, it’s on order so get moving. You give the customer what they want, what they ordered.
I feel like that’s video games as well.