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Yeah, DAO was better roleplaying for all three classes! But, it was the first, so they COULD NOT YET tell us in each subsequent part how ALL our friends, moments, lovers, choices, achievements in the game world were utterly meaningless, coz ONE deranged programmer got a job in a company! 🤣

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Nobody mention anything about a path or exiles. This person is having a good time or getting paid. Either way, let them live in their bubble.

It sure gave Yuffie a lot more depth compared to OG

Just realized the great games bioware made some I played some I didnt and some Im playing like Bauldurs gate,Neverwinter nights Kotor dragons age better then blizzard in my opinion.I also just recently picked up all the mass effect series remastered and none for 5 bucks each.mass efffect played it on the xbox initially so dragons age on the ps3 but not on pc.

Video game music adds to the ambience and keeps the player focused on what is happening. Mass Effect, Dragon Age Origins, Final Fantasy, ActRaiser and the Black Isle catalog treated us to the works of Jeremy Soule, Michael Honig, Inon Zur and Nobuo Uematsu. We experienced their very best from 1999-2016.

Great video!

Great story telling, really looking forward to this game. No woke ideology I hope.

Great video and really nicely presented

Well before this blows up I wiill say nice video

"YOU GOT THIS!" You damn straight! That's real positivity!

You're right

Final Fantasy: A crafted story that allows some choice and freedom. Veilguard: ... no.

Sorry for the short stream, but the cough was really killing me...

I can't wait

Writing is such a rare talent that there are maybe 10 class A writers in the entire world. Most of authors are class B and the vast majority is C plus.

Todd Howards interest intensifies.

I will always remember them as the inventors of the gamelike genre.

Bioware might be able to come back if they don't make Mass Effect 5. They need to make something entirely new that won't have a legacy attached to it which they honestly just seem to resent now. They can make something that will have to, and be allowed to, stand on it's own and leverage the skill set they have rather than try to force themselves to develop a skill set the old team used to have. If it works well, then they'll have something new to build from and even if it doesn't, well better bombing out trying something grand than bombing while also doing something they don't have confidence in.

And to think, i thought Andromeda would be as bad as the industry would get in terms of wokism and terrible story... what an innocent man i was

Just in case it's not already on your radar (whoever reads this :); check out a new sci-fi game coming in the next few years that looks to be heavily focused on it's writing and world building called Exodus. It's by Archetype, a studio whose leads include the writers and minds behind Dragon Age: Origins, Mass Effect 1-2 and some of 3 and Knights of the Old Republic. When developing the setting for Exodus, they even brought in Peter F Hamilton, a sci-fi author, to expand and deepen the setting. He even wrote a novel in the setting that's already out; The Archimedes engine. The lore and Q&A videos that are out so far, make it look extremely promising.

Writing is like cooking, and other arts. Anyone *can* do it, true. But not everyone can do it *well*. It is also important to understand what is meant by writing, or cooking, or art. Technically speaking heating meat is cooking, but many would agree that that alone is not difficult/proper cooking. Yet despite that it is still cooking. Writing is the same. Whenever someone speaks of writing, one must understand what aspect they are referring to. Some can describe scenery; entirely fictional places, in beautiful detail that leaves people longing to visit, but would not be able to describe a fight between two entities, of any kind. The writers for DA:tV could possibly write what some call smutty fan fiction, or an autobiography to an acceptable level of quality, but they are unable to move beyond their own life, and real world experience to tell a fantasy story, about wholly different people operating under different rules and in situations they themselves have never, let alone *can never* experience. I for example am able to describe how a fictitious character feels, and to a limited experience make them seem like real people, but would genuinely struggle to explain what I am feeling when I am happy. The mark of a great/above average artist; of any kind, is how far they are willing to go to improve their work. Will you go out and study how blood interacts with snow to improve your crime story? Will you study silver smithing to improve your sculpture? Will you willingly find a cook book and both follow, and repeatedly cook some food to make a better meal? Those that are unwilling to grow their experience, and understanding of the world are akin to someone running a race after tying their shoes together, they *can* still win, but it will never be as easy, or as great as it could have been.

I get your disappointment and emotion. I got kind of emotional in my review of the game too. I even named that chapter "saying goodbye to bioware" 😢 because this is the end of an era for us old fans... we lost more than just a game with DATV, we lost our childhoods and came face to face with the fact that we will never get that feeling back or game world back 😭

Veilguard is the only example we need to see BioWare doesn't have any talented writers working on Failguard. I hope Mass Effect will be different with Mary DeMarle.

Gaider is a really bad writer, if you read anything he alone made you see how hard he was carried!!! Its good hes gone!

Ah yes good old JayJay R Tolkien, the often overlooked yet superior brother of J.R.R Tolkien

"How can we do less writing"...by abandoning your IP's and making crappy cash grab games. If the last decade of media has taught us anything, its that writing is really important no matter how advanced your graphics and systems are.

And for a similar reason we have so many terrible books flooding the market...but that's part of capitalism...art is just a annoying burden in capitalist ideology

The only company to have more story with none, is FromSoft. Prove me wrong. Also the Last of Us 2 is bad. The end doesn't "human" with me.

I dont blame Bioware as much as i do EA. Once the Doctors left and got paid.....downhill

Their next Mass Effect game is going to be worse than Andromeda!

Always loved writing, but was never confident to start, but anytime i watch games or any other form mediums that have incredible writing, makes me feel every facet of the world is alive, the world building, history, and how certain characters interact with each other and their unique worlds, it really breath life into it.

I think you can make games without requiring highly skilled writers, by utilizing simple tropes and archetypes. This is what Nintendo does all the time. However, if you try to play Nintendo games for the story, you will not get very happy. If you remove gameplay, art direction, Nintendo polish, music etc from a Nintendo game and just look at the story, there is not much left there to be considered a "masterpiece." This is very intentional: a simple, shallow, inoffensive story can have much greater mass appeal than a complex narrative. And maybe that's what Bioware is trying to chase. _However_, you can't do that and still have the story take center place. Nintendo games don't have many hours of cutscenes. They don't include political messages. They don't have massive worlds with consistent, deep lore and history. Almost every game creates a new world or redefines how an existing world works, to fit the theme of the game overall. This approach just doesn't match a deep fantasy persistent universe. So trying to chase this mass appeal means you will have to completely refocus your game. Bioware did not do this. They wanted to have their cake and eat it, too. They wanted to appeal to their fans, and at the same time, a broader audience. So they tried to create a simpler story while still implying the existence of the grand universe the previous games built. At the same time, they did not have good writers that would have done a better job at representing real-world politics in a more subtle, metaphorical way that fits the setting. So what they ended up with is a mess that instead of appealing to everyone, appealed to only a small number of people that agree not only with their politics, but also their idea about how these politics should be included in media.

I can have a stranger read me a book and feel nothing....put that same book in the hands of a person you know/ trust and the story comes to life......The heart and passion of dragon age is gone.....

I like the gameplay and the overall lore that got continued in Veilguard. It's the ingame storyline and many characters that should carry the lore that bother me. Taash for example is simply a horrible person. I don't mind them being non-binary, that is what could have been the most interesting thing about Taash. It's how she acts against her mother who tries to accept it and aligne it with her own world view only to get talked down immediatly. "My mother doesn't support me" is an essential character trait for Taash while Alistair despite hating his heritage wants to do what's best for others. He doesn't make the visit with Goldanna not about himself, for him it's the people arround him that are more important as shown in the Veil in the mage tower. Even after that visit he tries to understand Goldanna and to sone degree does because he has something Taash lacks: Empathy.

Veilguard feels like someone killed Dragon Age is and wearing its skin as a suit. It’s trying to mimic Dragon Age, but they don’t understand what made Dragon Age special, so it all feels false. It superficially looks like Dragon Age, but it isn’t.

What Do You Think? Do you agree with David Gainer’s perspective? Has BioWare’s change in priorities ruined the studio's legacy, or is there still hope for a comeback? Share your thoughts in the comments.

I'll say this, I don't think you're wrong to consider your playthrough your story. Because everyone made different choices even if only one choice was different from another person's playthrough. That is why we fans of dragon age care so much and why veilguard feels like a slap in the face. For over a decade we were in our own way shaping this grand epic for ourselves. Then veilguard basically came and said none of that matters and even worse destroyed everything we had built (it's heavily implied the blight destroyed all of southern thedas). I'll admit it makes me want to go and do a grand homebrewing endeavor to create a campaign for my friends and I. All in hope of maybe drawing this story to a close in a way that feels satisfying to me. Thank you for the video.

Dragon Age Origins(and the others ones) will always give me nostalgia. The companions felt alive and they actually would break away if the player pissed them off enough. Dragon Age Inquisition is still the last good/decent game that came out of Bioware and it might stay that way at this rate.

The story in Veilguard is bad. The game sucked.

Veilguard even tells via text that Ferelden falls and almost everyone there starves and perish during the game. It is so disrespectful and awful. It is a classic move from political extremists: The old world must perish so a new one can arise. They don't care about our love for what was, they only care about what they want us to love today. I hope current Bioware gets axed for doing this to the IP that we loved.

Origins: Everything is intertwined and produces a tapestry that all comes together at the end. There are stakes in this story. Veilguard: "I'm non-binary..."

I think its time for a lot of beloved franchises to be retired tbh. If we do that then we can make way for their spiritual successors.

When this came out, apparently Alistair disagreeing with you in this manner made him seem whiny and unlikeable. However, it is now considered excellent writing. It is intriguing to observe how perceptions can evolve over time. I always liked him.

I will never forget the first time Alistair (rightly) yelled at me. I was SO shocked. The voice acting and emotion was perfect. I ACTUALLY felt shame and guilt and remorse for my character's actions. The only game that's ever come close is BG3.

I've come to figure out that this wasn't entirely Buoware's fault They were well on track to making Dragon Age Dreadwolf, and based on the teasers, it was going to be epic A real Bioware game But then Sweet Baby Inc. took over, fired most of the writers and programmers, and turned what was left of Bioware into a cult

consequence of allowing troons to dictate policy

BioWare: 1999-2012 You are in charge of your own story. EA/BioWare: No. Absolutely not.

Origins: You can really make some 'harmful' decisions. Veilguard: Don't misgender or you have to perform a Barve.

The Voice Over alone sounds so much more raw and real in older games. Either they had a shit director, or the people didn't care enough.