Dragon Age: The Veilguard is finally here, and lots of people are liking it. And one person liking it very publicly is …
    • sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      31·
      7 days ago

      I think DA2 knew what it wanted to be, EA just decided to not let Bioware have the time or manpower to do it.

      I personally think that it still has the best overarching story, environ and atmosphere in the series so far, and (controversial opinion) I LIKED that I played as Hawke. The Warden and the Inquisitor are the typical “thrown into a world changing even they have tenuous connections to”, and feel a degree removed from anything but the main event sometimes.

      But Hawke? They are in the thick of it. Does not matter what class Hawke is, my guy/girl is going through it at every (repeated dungeon) stage of the game. I honestly felt more for Hawke in my playthrough of DA2 than my personal avatars in Origin and Inquisition. Kirkwall sucks soooo bad, man.

  • leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nlEnglish
    11·
    7 days ago

    BG3 exec-bro played it well with the words.

    truly knows what it wants to be could mean different things depends on how you spin it.

  • parpol@programming.devEnglish
    101·
    7 days ago

    A lot people are liking it because the people who didn’t during the early preview didn’t receive their early access copies.

    • misk@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
      7·
      7 days ago

      I’ve only seen Skill-Up review but it looks like this guy assumes BioWare is toast and won’t be sending many early copies in the future. I’m confused at who’s the target audience of this game. Is it the League of Legenda crowd? It kinda looks like Arcane now that I think about it. Low hardware requirements also suggest it’s aimed at younger players but I can’t reconcile it with how dorky it is.

      • parpol@programming.devEnglish
        3·
        7 days ago

        Just guessing, but maybe a 6.4 / 10 customer score. More copies sold than Concord, but not enough to go net positive. It looks polished so I doubt it’ll be overwhelmingly negative, but it just won’t be that interesting to gamers so most will probably just not buy it.

        It’ll probably be review bombed in both directions.

        • overload@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          1·
          7 days ago

          I’m feeling a mixed reception obviously. Probably more review bombing in the negative direction by the Gamer™ crowd perceiving it as woke.

  • WastingCommentSpace@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    5 days ago

    Do we have to humanize and anthropomorphize everything? We have ship girls. Gun girls. All kinds of girls. Do we really need sentient video games as “waifu’s” and “husbando’s”? Also side note. Is animal crossing a guy? And does he know what he wants? I assume based on the pronoun of “it” that dragon age veilguard is probably nonbinary.

  • Hal-5700X@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    72·
    7 days ago

    Dragon Age want from a RPG to an action game with some light RPG elements. So they want to be shit. Okay got it.

      • zecg@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        6 days ago

        It’s all insultingly preachy and puerile, apart from taking me right out of the setting. GTA didn’t make me a serial killer, this whiny shit won’t make anyone a decent person.