Honestly just looking at it makes me sick, and the whole hand holding is going to be obnoxious. Do they think that you’ve never played a video game? I don’t need to be told that a ranged enemy is ranged, getting hit once will be enough. It looks so bad.
-The gameplay has been reduced to what appears to be a super simplified hack and slash. -tactical combat has been removed -the qunari look hideous -all races look human and are way too smooth skinned. -darkspawn look cartoonish -can only have 2 companions now -cant control companions -freedom to build our classes is gone -ability wheel copied from Mass effect. -limited to i think 3 or 4 abilities per companion -number of spells dramatically reduced. -hitting an enemy or attacking creates a mini light show -when enemies are hit it looks less like blood and more like a glitter bomb going off - press the dodge button when screen lights up is brain dead. -all companions being pan mean we probably wont get a cool story line like dorians who was persecuted for being gay BUT at least minrathos looked pretty cool am not gonna lie on that, and the skeleton that we can play rock, paper, scissors with was dope. Dragon age has been one of my favorite game series, and origins is my favorite game of all time. yet with every new entry in the series it gets dumbed down, changed, and IMO worse.
You can have fun and engaging gameplay with action combat, for sure, but people who loved DA:O hoped for more. EVERYONE hoped for a good DA title, but they don't even seem to get the atmosphere and the game art style right
Looks more like a Fable mobile game more than a Dragon Age, every class skill is light show of magic in a world where magic is reasonably rare, feared and dangerous to use. Yeah there were skill that looked like magic on the other games but they were few and far between.
It was never that bad, DA2 might've been 4 steps back, but certainly Inquisition was 1 step forward; indicating they've learned their lesson and hopefully DA4 (Dreadwolf/Veilguard) going to be where it gets balanced, sadly things turned over to be worse.
@@asydis7764 I played Inquisition and never finished it, it simply was to boring and the Characters to bland, i cared for noone i cant even name a single one there. On the other Hand i like Origins and think its one of the best RPG´s ever made. So be it pacing or storytelling, Origin was better. tldr: I agree :P
Yeah that game is not made with me in mind, eventhough I've played every game before it. So I won't play it. Hopefully, no one will blame their failure on me not playing the game.
@@LThomas1701 It happens a lot. Every time something fails now, it's because of White men. men in general. Racists. Misogynists. ista phoebs. homophoebes etc etc etc etc etc. Just watch how when they come out saying "this isn't made for you, don't watch it you wife beating racists" and then when it FLOPS they blame the people they just told were all sorts of things and told them to stay away.
@LThomas1701 well it is more of a Disney Star wars thing blaming fans for not liking things they said they won't like. However I believe Concord devs did it in that 'gamers are talentless freaks' rant.
@vojtam5063 cab you link to where star wars blamed fans for not liking something? Yea I remember one of the concord devs called haters talentless freaks. But if gamers are going to hate on the game, why can't a dev hate on the haters? Insults should go both ways. But that's not the same as blaming you that the game sold poorly.
I remember the backlash dragon age 2 got for being more hacknslash so it makes no sense to make it Even more hacksnslas🎉h. Not only that but the darkspawns oh my god😅 they looked fucking badass in origin and even in the second one with the qunaris. This looks more like a bad comic character and how come Duncan looks more realistic than anything in this game😅
@@MrHardcoreMode I love your content and I gave a like but I couldn't finish the video. When I saw Morrigan's outfit and the blood mage thing I got too mad. This game looks like Fable 4 or some $h!t. I just can't.
It kinda has, ign rated dustborn and concord as 7, and same for star wars outlaws. All are financial failures, with ass creed shadows soon to follow along with the closure or sale of ubisoft.
Im old enough to remember when Dragon Age was announced it was marketed as a modern Baldurs Gate and you could tell by DAO, that this was the approach they took. Why they completely overthrew that formula is a mystery to me, especially since DAO was well received.
Because they are targeting the MoDerN aUIdIAnCe. And children grew up on Mobile games, so they think making our games into this shit, they will receive a massive boost of players. Even if they loose 80% of their current audiance.
When Origins was announced it was a dark gritty world, one of the trailers has this song: this is the new shit, (or something) it was heavy and amazing, Veilguard is all the contrary in every aspect.
@1nvisibleAcropolis but they spend years and lots of money developing this game. Look at Concord. Same problem. They spend 200 million USD and 8 years of developement. This is not an issue of money or Time. They systematically kicked out the real Talent from the industry that made the great games for us. Now we are left with trans & activists who dont care their game is garbage.
DA:O was criticised on consoles at the time... it was built primarily as a PC game and they hodge-podged a 3rd person view into it to give console players "what they want" so it never played as good on those systems. Console games sold better at that time, ME sold VERY well so DA2 went from there. DA:I, I feel, went closer to DA:O that DA2 did but this is back to full Mass Dragon Effect Age.
It was overthrown because Mike Laidlaw was put in charge to make sure the shareholders would get even more money. To do that, they completely catered to the console crowd which for the most part disliked the classical tactical combat in DAO. So they went the flashy action route with DA2. Also appealing to the woke audience became a bigger priority as well which was clearly seen with Inquisition. The target audience is definetily not the old rpg gamers who played Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights and/or Dragon Age Origins.
The Crows? I fear they've sanitized those as well. Starts with Lucanis. I have read the novels. If you compare him to Zevran and what Zevran told you about what it was like to be trained as a Crow, then you'll quickly notice that Lucanis is more of an average hero than an assassin. He was trained by his grandma whereas Zevran was sold to the Crows at the age of 7, and his training included actual torture. Zevran was trained along with 17 other children. Only he and Taliesen survived. Then there's the fact that someone had to train him in the "art of seduction". Make of that what you will (it is heavily implied by Zevran that he did _not_ enjoy certain aspects of that). Yet all we learn of Lucanis is that his Nana sometimes beat him and his brother with her stick. The Veilguard Crows will be family friendly.
Zev was eatings grapes i know what you mean. its so OFF what they did with that faction and now we are friends with them? and we cant use blood magic? great....
Lucanis is a son of one the head of the crows though, I think it's reasonable to see why he had better treatment. That said I'm going to be disappointed if they changed things for regular Crows. Rook can be a Crow so we'll see
In one of the previews a crow member literally says that the crows are antiva military. So yeah they’re not the bad guys even though they are assassins for hire. I know it’s from comic but I’m pretty sure it was meant to reflect how corrupted the country was and how tight the control of the assassins organization has not that they were the good guys all along.
If they wait from the fans to pinpoint to them what"s wrong with their game and what they should do right to succeed, then we're talking about huge incompetence..Unless...There's an agenda to push through and boxes to tick while they hate games and gamers secretly and behind the scenes. And that shows...
not buying it. Dont see anyhting that interest me on it. Bought all the other games in this franchise this one is a skip for me. at best in few months this game will go into EA Play and then i can try it on my gamepass since gamepass gives us EA Play.
I think this will come to be Painfully true. How the series has fallen. I’m going to do the same. I’ll play it once it gets thrown to EA play/gamepass.
"Wow we are finally in Tevinter, thank you Bioware I can´t wait to play blood mage magister and finally be in position of power" "Best we can do is slave freedom fighter and Blood magic was found evil and you are railroaded to be goody two-shoes" "And where is my freedom in RPG?" "You can change your cheeckbones"
If you're a Dragon Age fan, you're not the target audience anymore. Also, this game is "inherently queer" (as per the devs) as well so unless you are also inherently queer, you are likely not the target audience.
What you wanted consistency and logic involved in the making of a game. It's all about the lights man and none of the old stuff. 😅 I doubt any of these developers actually know anything from prior games.
People hate DA2 for the repetitive environment, boring combat, restrictive and less meaningful choice(even though for the story being told, was great since the point was you are just an ordinary guy and DA2 delivered impactful story), rail road ending and just drab visuals. Whereas DAI supposedly "fixed" the issues and you have people saying it did, but what did it actually do? Well, it gave us a boring story, your typical "chosen one" narrative where he was more a scrub running fetch quests, destroyed the most interesting ideal logical conflict in Mages Vs Templars, gave us a single player MMO, gave us boring customisation that looked bad(I am looking at you terrible looking armour and weapons), forced you to do busy work and gate keep anything interesting behind that busy work. Gave us the boring darksoawn magister as an enemy and can't even be bothered to put him on screen more. Gave us Solas. Wreck the lore and wrecked the Grey Wardens to make them "evil" and thus, seems like a jabbed at the original game's protagonists and the people who liked the first game(because DAO is literally the best game ever created). Gave us like 90% full of boring and unlikeable companions. And frankly, I can go on and on and on and picked out all the problems with the game that makes it worst than DA2, design with 18 months of time and what seems to be a mandate either from EA or bad Browser higher ups to make the games more "accessible". Yet the story and RPG was great. At this point, DA is not for fans. It's for the "modern audience" who, strangely enough, never turn up whenever such projects, made for them, are created. Hard pass on the game and can't wait for EA to put Bioware out of their misery.
After learning just how little dev time they had for DA2 while still working on Origins, I can forgive the game for its flaws. What else could they do but cut corners and make compromises when you only have just over a year to make a sequel? As for Inquisition, while there are aspects of it that I do like and overall I do like the game, I agree with pretty much everything you said.
@@dkirby9052 Yup. Also, not sure if you've seen it, but the original ending with the Chantry being blown up by Anders was gonna be significant. Like, people complained about the rush ending but originally, from what the in charge, Mike Laidlaw or someone else from the dev team mentioned, they originally planned out a much deeper and much more complex ending for DA2 and wanted to implement it, but would you know it, turns out 14 - 16 months to create a game from scratch, while still working on an already existing game, was not enough time to implement it. would you look at that, Also, yup, the dev time was actually less than what I remembered. Which is sad cause we got robbed by EA of something better.
The only dragon age series game that was respecting classical rpg fans was Dragon Age Origins. DA2 catered to the consoles. DAI catered to MMO and woke players. And this one goes FULL woke and can barely qualify as a rpg.
they destroyed classes completly and they took away my precious utility items too, i hoped as a qunari i warrior i could use gatlock bombs but nope , instead they force you to be some warrior mage hybrid jumping around like a circus clown using only dodge and combos troughout the whole fight, completly taking out the tactical gameplay we enjoyed in dragon age games
This woke stuff is seeping through all media. Yes it saves you cash but the flipside is there is nothing to look forward to and it has been for quite some time.
Companions sound like ME:Andromeda all over again. Very bad teen writing. Blattle looks like Black Desert just worse. Look how they massacrad Morrigan. lol 3 characters wo control, dialogue circle, etc. The most atractive in the game is the name Dragon Age. I'll pick it up for $10 in the complete edition a couple of months later. If I ever play it.
I think she was showing clips of bad things on purpose almost like it was a subtle hint of "I am being paid to review this but it sucks but I can't say it sucks"
Bro i cannot stand hat Neve voice actor literally Sounds like AI. Also a small nitpick, the Solas voice actor obviously forgot how to voice him like he did in inquisition because it sounds so off.
This is so freaking sad. Anybody remember in Origin, after seeing your Noble Family all murdered in front of your eyes (assuming you took Human NOble Origin, but if you where like me, you had a toon with each Origin), and you escape half dead to the Frontlines of the war looking for the King. Upon finding the King he accepts you into his service, and says once the Battle is won he will help you take back you House and Name. The Battle is than joined. the action continues to ramp until the battle reaches it's climax. It looks like Victory is still possible, you are still in the fight, than?... The King falls, and so does the entire army, Kingdom and Region all in one death. I specifically remember, this was the first time in any game wherre I actually felt despair along with them, becaues you really did ask "Now what the hell do I do?" Then your cring wingman buddy turns out to be the Bastard Son of the Kings Father... Hope was, again returned! (The Lelianna/Moragan "3-way Romance mod also contributed heavily..... Morale SOARED!)
No Blood magic in this, when blood magic in Dragon Age is such a huge thing. There was literally a secret dragon berserker class you unlocked by consuming the desecrated remains of a Saint mixed with dragon blood!
You can clearly see, without knowing anything about the developers at all, but just going by the design and the gameplay, that this was made by female Developers... Targeting the activist audience, that doesnt exist outside of twitter, and reddit.. This was designed for the people who discoveres Dragon Age after Inquisition released
Well said, dragon age changing combat system to be more action based than even DAI is a total misfire. This is dragon age flavored mass effect, where the focus is on the main character primarily for dealing with combat. People who work at bioware should understand that the crossover of those two titans was because of story and characters, not combat crossover. Dragon age has always been more tactical, mass effect always more action based. This, along with every other mistake from on rails experience, smooth non gritty characters, no masculinity, everyone pansexual, enemies looking soft and friendly, neon rave demons, and the focus primarily being on romance and characters, is going to cause this to plummet hard. This isn't BG3, where romance was supe engaging and a big part of the story that wasn't advertised, so if they tout it as the selling point I feel it will undoubtedly be compared to BG3, where the characters are at least attractive. Rip bioware.
There is a difference between people bitching online and those who will actually buy this game… the author of this comment is correct. The audience doesn’t exist.
It feels like they are combing Dragon Age and Mass Effect code bases, so they only have one code base (and thus, one combat system) to minimize work. The problem with combining two distinct games is that one (or both) game(s) can lose its/their identity, and it looks like Dragon Age is losing its combat identity (losing the strategic combat of 4 controllable party members and instead getting a more action combat of 1 controllable party member).
Oh great, look it's a purple haired witch type female, that is hardly ever used in fantasy! Oh LOOK giant hammer, not at all an anim'e trope, and we all know that young people hate animé and it's ALL people make now a days because it's just the go to thing when you lack creativity and vision. OH MY lots of lights YES that is ALL I want from magic, just more and more lights, if you think it's too much, USE MORE LIGHTS!!!! What more is very popular? PATH OF EXILE let's make such a progression system! Am I all negative? No, not at all, but all this is an indicator of something very bad. Go watch "Mythic quest" and you'll understand.
@@MrHardcoreMode It's a show about a game developer studio, how it "functions" how it has to bow to streamers and such. It is really fun. One episode deals with people making a dark game and how the studio slowly changes everything to appeal to as many as possible
@@tiffk5768 Ah yes, this is true, I forgot. I hate it though lol. I am OK with more realistic weapons, and you have your tweihander, gutentag and so on, which are very large weapons, but they make sense, I don't like animé style weapons... Let me be a little more clear lol. Overly huge weapons as you see them in animé, it's dumb and only fun if you want over the top, I prefer the more down toned but fantastic style, if that makes sense?
when I saw they yet again changed how combat works I was immediately like " oh boy what else did they do?" and just saw less and less appeal in this game its sad
So sad. Im a hard core DA fan. Love all three games. But im not a fan of this mobile looking game with flashes and ugly characters that are made with dei characters for “modern audiences”. I actually want something beautiful, difficult, dark, rewarding and thoughtful. This…. Is not it. Im a woman and with a cat …. So i guess im a catlady. 😅 But im not the target audience either. It seems that kids with tik tok brain and “lefties loosing it” with purple hair and a nose ring is…. And the irony is…. they dont play games only candy crush and fortnite…… well so the devs really fcked this up.
World states is basically going to be like andromeda except you can create the inquisitor probably. Screw howk or the grey warden am i right. They'll give you a few options to select and say that all you get. Inquisition at least tried with the tapestry website. This doesn't sound good to me.
It's ugly, it's woke, and all those ridiculous effects going on makes it impossible to see anything. I just want the tactical, party based combat, that was my favorite part about Origins
@@ORKQUEEN it's a bright cartoony fortnite looking game. It looks nothing like the dark and grim Grim, Dragon Age that they created... in the magical effects look ridiculous! Even plain weapon swings have bright effects, it's so silly looking.. And theyre all clean, and shiny! No it's not biased. It's observation
The combat looks bad and, as you say, chaotic. There is also no verticality, no real tactical element and all the melee looks ultra simplistic with no weight to weapons, no subtlety, nothing. Spawning loads of similar enemies repeatedly also undermines any sense of foreboding or power - they almost do nothing to attack you (just repeat the same old AI behaviour) and so it's more like mindless zombie wave, hack hack hack. And the mess on the screen! Makes me think of it as R-Type: Darkspawn. And I hate that shit. I like to know what is going on, which ability is doing what, assessing every move. But this is closer to Doom. Faceless bollox.
The producers are the ones that put Sims out so they have nothing to go on based on this kind of game just Sims so it is all about how to design your character.
Watching what footage we have been shown this far, it does look very sad affair, and I do not get any classic DA feel from it. Is is quite clear they went woke first, content second.
I had the same impressions when watching it. I'd like to see the series move towards classic RPGs rather than mobile action games. And I liked the grim tone of parts 1 and 2 of the series. I loved the concept of blood magic, and as far as I know, they removed blood magic from that part of the game. It's sad.
One thing they have to understand is that an old series... the target audience are the people who it was originally designed for. They are shedding off their original fanbase for a new one that wasn't there originally and doesn't care about the series
You know people always say that but I don't think that's the case. They very much do care about the series. They might not care about the same things you care about or they might not care the same way you do but trust me they do care.
@@DarksideGmss0513 oh excuse me, we can just look at all the now failing franchises that are chasing "the modern audiences" and or "wider audience" Gosh the failures go burrrrrr. The people they are chasing for don't care
@@Wolfstanus They are only "failing" because they have changed. People don't like change. But it's a fact of life. Come back to this in a few years and see. I'm sure there were a lot of people who said the same thing back then about those franchises. Take, Star Wars for example, I remember when the prequels came out, people hated them. But then the people who grew up watching those movies actually really love them and now the prequels are fine. It'll be the same here.
@@DarksideGmss0513Be me; live through over 30 years of change in the gaming space, with some of the most extreme changes. Going from primitive 2D graphics to cinematic experiences in a game. Get told I can't handle change by a random online. Get told gamers just can't handle change. lol, that gaslight, though. Typical. It's also weird that this has only been an issue in the last 10 years. Even the younger generation isn't buying a lot of this new stuff that's being advertised to them. No, we can handle change just fine. Change doesn't mean it's going to be good. Let's take Halo as an example. Halo 1 through reach were massively successful. With changes in narrative story, how the campaigns are laid out, and even the game mechanics, game play loop, etc. Then you get to the 343 era, and you find that its been going downhill ever since, despite the changes being sound in other games... They abandoned the core identity of how the games play, and you also have the move to E-Shops being a priority and other issues with an overall worse experience with each iteration as they try to get that "new" audience. Mass Effect 1-3. Lots of changes in that series despite the oversimplification of the RPG elements, dialogue, changes to combat, etc. Then Mass Effect Andromeda came out, and that sold a lot of copies, sure. Is it looked on fondly? No, it's not because it abandoned the core identity of the series and became bland generic scifi games trying to chase that "new audience." BTW, as hated as ME3 is, it plays more than Andromeda. Now you look at Dragon Age. It's abandoning what it originally was. A dark fantasy series and was advertised as such. Then you look at their more modern advertising, and you see they are trying to grab the fortnight-type players. You replace the name Dragon Age and place fortnight in its place for the main advertising poster. It looks a lot like a fortnight advertisement, huh? Same thing with lots of stuff going on all at once, with numbers flying up, clustered menus and submenus, etc. They have slowly been abandoning its core identity. With even more oversimplification. The other issue with all these is the contradiction between established lore and ignoring world-building to be safer for the "modern audience" (basically, they think the modern audience is dumb and can't handle being slightly uncomfortable). While also smashing your face with the games political narratives and the message it's trying to get across. Dustborn being a prime example of just smashing you in the face with its messaging. Oh, and on the world-building and lore thing. The new stuff coming out contradicts itself along with the established lore and world-building. Because reasons. Star Wars Acolyte being a good recent example, and the two Star trek shows that came out in recent years being another example. BTW, as a big Star Wars fan and one who grew up with the prequels. People hated aspects of episodes 1-3. like jar jar, the bad lines and jarring 3D graphics that aged like milk. It's not as good as the originals. thought the originals have their own issues. People have cooled on them because of the absolute shitfest that the sequels are. We can see how well that's playing out for the new stuff. It's not playing out well on the shows, movies, games, etc. Lots and lots of failures and not selling well. Rings of Power being a failure, Acolyte, Borderlands, the Minecraft movie is expected to flop, etc. Lots of things are failing too. Can you explain why? It's pretty obvious as young and old are complaining about the same issues and these issues extend to gaming because these are the same exact issues. All we want is a fun game with a good story and cohesive world-building-a cohesive story that doesn't ignore the lore and world-building its set in. Look at SM2-a game that knows what it is and what the previous game was and knows its core identity and the subject lore. A 6-hour game has beat most games this year, and the only people complaining about it are journalists and certain people who don't even know what warhammer is.
@@Wolfstanus You literally proved my point, you went on and on about how those games and franchises are shadows of their former selves, and that's what's caused them to fail. You might be correct about that. What do they all have in common? They've all changed. Whether that be for the better or the worse. In art and in life change has to happen because if not then it becomes stagnant and boring. Thing's might be failing now then in a few years it can be good again. There was a little thing in the 1980s called the video game crash the stock of video games plummeted and so didn't the quality of the game's. Then in 1985 the NES was released and game's started getting better again. There's a pattern to these things, ebb and flow. They can be bad for a number of years and then they can be good that's just how things are. Edit: I look at it like this thing's have to get worse before they can get better. We might be in a recession currently when it comes to entertainment whether that be games, or movies, or TV shows, but I'd wait a few years to see if it turns around.
I don't care about action, I don't care about flashy graphics. I just want a good RPG with choice and consequence. I don't care about who the other characters want to sleep with as long as they're not pushy about it. Make them whatever sexuality you want, I don't care, just don't make them annoying. I want build choices that feel distinct without forcing classes into tiny boxes that only play one way.
Alphanet people shoving their beliefs down everyone's throats... As much as i want to play this game, im not going to. This is the year of woke games failing. Long over due.
I'll translate, the game has trans stuff and hedonistic relationships therefore it's a great game. The game play is so easy you could play it with one hand so it's perfect. 7/10.
The more and more I see of this game the more I’m disappointed. I ended up refunding my preorder. That being said, if they give this Qunari treatment to the Iron Bull (if he shows up) I will riot lol.
Mark Darrah, the executive producer of the franchise up until DAI said im one of his podcast the gameplay style of Origins was a result of limitations of the time, the top down perspective felt like a compromise from the previous BG games. Veilguard's combat is more akin to what the team, wich granted is now different after over ten years, had always wanted to do.
BS! I don't believe that lmao. Limitations at that time? Look at some of the other games back then with hack & slash/ magic/ shooters/open worlds and what have you. It probably took ALOT of time to code in such tactical combat (each companion tactics etc). Origins was deep! It was more due to DA 2 being smashed together in 1 year and new kids/players loving it as their first game (or close to it). Then those new players trying Origins and hating it because they don't know about the tactics menu/slots and setting it up being too time consuming and hurting their little brain. DA2 was dumbed down, they saw alot of people loving the dumbed down combat and it's easy money for them.
Thats not Morrigan, It is Flameth 100%, Morrigan is not that polite. Side note she is in her late 40s early 50s, her clothing and hair kinda fits since she could depending on your choices be a mother of a full grown adult.
Yeah, definitely too much going on. The animations are all very busy for no reason. If someone had an option between this and FF16, i don't see why they wouldn't just purchase a game that has the better action combat.
The Qunari have with each game become less Qunari and more "human" I mean, this Qunari look like a less cool version of DnD thieflings. While the original Qunari (DA2- Not DA1 since DA1 Qunari was just a grey dude) looked like an actual other race. Qunaris have been the greates victms of DA "Normielization" or "Wokefization". They went from a race of Totalizing religious fanatics to a bunch of "misunderstood" hippies.
With bloat of neon particles effect on screen at any given time i would not be surprised the development team even notice or cared for that matter. They were to focused on the hair physics cause that will sell the game for sure and not create a weird uncanny valley effect with the rest of the game.
The title is exactly how i felt. I am no longer the title male 20 to 40s. Even though we buy most of the games the "modern audience." Which ad we see, never shows up to buy.
You know, I would easily pass the DEI, the diversity, everything... But never the ability to control each party member, the pause and play menu with the tactic camera, why?? I mean why did they take away the thing that made Dragon Age, a Dragon Age game?? Also, I noticed why there's no gameplay with the qunari party member? I saw, Bellara, Neve, the dwarf, the crow, the warden, etc everyone except the qunari woman who looks like a man or something.
She’s supposed to be swinging the sword so fast you can’t see it, that’s why the tracers show up when the sword disappears. It’s dumb, but I see what they were going for.
Why do people even make a big deal about Dragon Age? It had one great game in its entire series and the others are just average versions of game that already existed at the time of their release. Why does it get so much hype?
Cause it had a book series with it as well. A lot of people just like Witcher fans wanted to play through the stories in the books and such. However the developers don't get that and made their own stupid shit.
@CaptScrotes yeah that was part of why so many liked origins, it was each different start was a characters background from the series I think. I honestly didn't know about the book series till a friend of mine showed me them.
I have just replayed Origins for the 14th time since 2009.. I have not been able to bring myself to finish part 2 or Inquisition a second time for either, having purchased all three as new releases.. I wont even be buying Veilguard.. what I enjoyed most beyond the story in the dark setting, was the Tactical gameplay and setting up tactics. I love that and you can't get that in a handful of other games. Now one less franchise has that option
Everything they are making now is seeking this mythical new audience. There is a lot she is choosing not to talk about due to the controversial nature of those things. I for one am not going to choose to get it for a long time. I will wait to see the reviews. They babyfied the qunary to make them less intimidating and interjected way to many modern day nonsence into a world that is completely different. I can't speak for other gamers but when I play a game it's to escape the nonsense of the world we live in. I bought the latest Sims game and never made it to gameplay due to the over complicated character creation. What made DAO so good was the different background and histories for the different type of characters . This is to much social justice with a single character that you can spend 30 minutes to an hour trying to detail out. This combat will not take long to get used to. The mobile game industry is super similar combat. I have seen nothing spectacular about anything I've heard or seen.
They should have noticed how Baldurs Gate 3 was received that I wonder if Bioware understands that people are still replaying Origins for a reason and I get the feeling the whole game was made with a cartoon aesthetic and now they're desperately trying to make it dark. You just have to look at how smooth the environment is like a jumping castle because Imagine making a sequel that’s not for fans of the original. What are they doing
I really like your videos because you don't just bash but logically explain why the problems are problems and they make perfect sense. Taking away the ability to fully control the companions is BS. The artstyle being kid friendly is something we MIGHT look past if the story and the companions are good. But the core mechanics taken away? Yellow markers everywhere so I don't even need to explore or use my brain? Ah... so tired of this. You're right, it's not for us, lemme go back to playing BG3 for the third time.
I replayed Final Fantasy X recently and FF is a franchise that slowly improved on their gameplay WHILE coming out with banger stories. They don't focus on character creation or making changes so that everyone feels included because by the time the story ends, you WILL feel like you were a part of that story, regardless of your irl background.
*[sees title]* Yeah I don't think any of us are. Such a shame too. Origins was absolute fire. It just went downhill from there and now years later here we are. At this point all it has left of what made dragon age is the name.
What's there to see? It's IGN reviewing a game in 2024. You should already know what to expect. Their reviews, much like their "journalism," have ZERO credibility.
WHy do people keep saying that this is ´dark fantasy´? How can anybody look at this and think 'yep, that's dark fantasy' The original DA was dark fantasy alright... . But that was it. None of the other were. And this is definitely not either. When I think of dark fantasy, I think of the looks of Aragorn, f.i.... Not these cute dresses and dance-like moves and posh talk . No wonder it isn't btw... Just listen or simply look at the devs. Nope. No chance they can make anything near ''dark'' other than their obscure ideology..
I mentioned this on Abyssal Critic's vids, ill say it here. The reviewers from companies, the art designers, the writers, the devs, I bet my left kidney none of them even played half of DA:O. Itd explain part of why they're so "fond" of this game. Thats the sad thing with a lot of western game development culture. These companies arent promoting talented devs, those are expendable to them. They don't even look for good new devs. Why would they? The same way Uwe Bull got money from the German government for making his awful movies despite no one watching them and being God awful, the western game company is looking at the DEI money the same way. Pay to win, loot drops, endless DLC, theyre old grift. The EAs and what not are on that Blackrock money
Iwant to boycott this game. The art style decision is truly unforgivable. I think my overwhelming curiosity is going to cause me to buy it anyway though; I really want to see what happens next, 10 years after DAI and how the story unfolds. I really can't get over how lame and sanitized the whole thing is though. If I hadn't played previous games and had no investment, I wouldn't even be interested. Why does it look like a mobile game with goofy pixar characters? Bobbleheads with no defined skin textures? It looks absolutely awful. Why does my character have to be a good guy? I've read the backstories. Compare this game to bg3 and you realize how beyond pathetic it looks. It feels like a kids game. I am almost 40. I was young when DAO came out. Yeah, I'm not the target audience, but who actualy wants this game to be like this?
I don't understand how this game looks worse than DA:I (that is already 10 years old). And *NO* ridiculous amount of particle effects and nearly everything glowing *does not* mean that it looks good (also the f***ing cartoonish looks don't help).
Having to be the carry and the companions not rly doing anything on there own made me not want to get this anymore. I loved making a real team I would play as the healer/CC have a tanky person and then some dmg dealers. But this is just MC being the dmg dealer and no other options no other playstyles then damage dealer. I rly hope that ppl that get it will enjoy it but it's not for me anymore. Way to flashy screamy and I wanted a team not me carrying the " companions" cause they are so weak.
I’m going to be honest, the combat does look awesome. I’m a sucker for action rpg combat like this. But everything else? Can’t be bothered to support this at full price.
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We're not the target audience but we'll be the target for blame when it craters.
god i hope not...
No one is the target audience
I wouldn't be surprised, blaming the consumer for failed projects seems all the rage these days.
Truer words have never been spoken. They will blame the audience they alienated when it flops, and then get shutdown for yet another failure.
@@MrHardcoreMode God I hope so. If it happens often enough someone will go 'Wonder what happens if we make a game for these people?'
This game almost feels like it's built for people that can't be bothered to learn or pay attention without a big explosion for 10 seconds.
Not almost. That's right on the money.
It's for those redditors that posted pictures of their MRIs showing large portions of their brains missing.
It's for the tiktok generation that only have a 5 second attention span.
Honestly just looking at it makes me sick, and the whole hand holding is going to be obnoxious. Do they think that you’ve never played a video game? I don’t need to be told that a ranged enemy is ranged, getting hit once will be enough.
It looks so bad.
@@GrekeFenris And for the lgbtq+_123qrt2X@3 crowd. The ones known for their wealth and their interest in video games!
-The gameplay has been reduced to what appears to be a super simplified hack and slash.
-tactical combat has been removed
-the qunari look hideous
-all races look human and are way too smooth skinned.
-darkspawn look cartoonish
-can only have 2 companions now
-cant control companions
-freedom to build our classes is gone
-ability wheel copied from Mass effect.
-limited to i think 3 or 4 abilities per companion
-number of spells dramatically reduced.
-hitting an enemy or attacking creates a mini light show
-when enemies are hit it looks less like blood and more like a glitter bomb going off
- press the dodge button when screen lights up is brain dead.
-all companions being pan mean we probably wont get a cool story line like dorians who was persecuted for being gay
BUT at least minrathos looked pretty cool am not gonna lie on that, and the skeleton that we can play rock, paper, scissors with was dope.
Dragon age has been one of my favorite game series, and origins is my favorite game of all time. yet with every new entry in the series it gets dumbed down, changed, and IMO worse.
This is so true and also how I feel about the Elder Scrolls series as well. Everything is just watered down "rpg's" for dummies.
It was made for casuals and for the Alphabet mafia. Opposite of the people who wanted it to begin with.
You can have fun and engaging gameplay with action combat, for sure, but people who loved DA:O hoped for more. EVERYONE hoped for a good DA title, but they don't even seem to get the atmosphere and the game art style right
Looks more like a Fable mobile game more than a Dragon Age, every class skill is light show of magic in a world where magic is reasonably rare, feared and dangerous to use. Yeah there were skill that looked like magic on the other games but they were few and far between.
I really hate the new artstyle. It's like they want to appeal to fortnite kids or something. Oh well, time to start my 30th playthrough of BG3, lol
Hate is a strong word. You shouldnt have such a negative emotional reaction to a vapid consumer product. Just trying to help.
@@Chuck9852 You know what he meant. You shouldn't bother strangers with your dumbass nonsense. Just trying to help.
@@madmagic228 💯
@@Chuck9852 You're not helping, you're just being condescending.
I loved Bg3 and just started dragons dogma 2 and its really good and very similar to Bg
Dragon Age has had a identity crisis since DA2. It's clearly still a problem.
It was never that bad, DA2 might've been 4 steps back, but certainly Inquisition was 1 step forward; indicating they've learned their lesson and hopefully DA4 (Dreadwolf/Veilguard) going to be where it gets balanced, sadly things turned over to be worse.
@@perfectheretic I don't see Inquisition as a step forward. I think people went to easy on this game and it's a part of the problem
We'll it's mostly ea that is causing it. There telling bioware they want it to play like this then they go back and change it. Happened with anthem
dragon age's identity crisis is just a myth, the only identity crisis were the ones experienced by the lady boys that now work at bioware.
@@asydis7764 I played Inquisition and never finished it, it simply was to boring and the Characters to bland, i cared for noone i cant even name a single one there. On the other Hand i like Origins and think its one of the best RPG´s ever made. So be it pacing or storytelling, Origin was better.
tldr: I agree :P
I can’t get over how terrible the Qunari look.
Yeah that game is not made with me in mind, eventhough I've played every game before it. So I won't play it.
Hopefully, no one will blame their failure on me not playing the game.
If this game flops I don't want to hear a damn thing from the devs saying it's our fault
Has anyone blamed you for games failure before?
@@LThomas1701 It happens a lot.
Every time something fails now, it's because of White men.
men in general.
Racists.
Misogynists.
ista phoebs.
homophoebes etc etc etc etc etc.
Just watch how when they come out saying "this isn't made for you, don't watch it you wife beating racists" and then when it FLOPS they blame the people they just told were all sorts of things and told them to stay away.
@LThomas1701 well it is more of a Disney Star wars thing blaming fans for not liking things they said they won't like.
However I believe Concord devs did it in that 'gamers are talentless freaks' rant.
@vojtam5063 cab you link to where star wars blamed fans for not liking something?
Yea I remember one of the concord devs called haters talentless freaks. But if gamers are going to hate on the game, why can't a dev hate on the haters? Insults should go both ways. But that's not the same as blaming you that the game sold poorly.
Let's replace strategic rpg combat with hack 'n slash sparkle animations! That'll sell.
I swear. Bring back crpg games
No one is interested in crpg anymore, that's why Baldur's Gat... Oh wait, something is off with this script
Worked great for D&D: Dark Alliance, right?
I never played da in tactical always played with hitting one button on controller. So most of us never played it that way
I remember the backlash dragon age 2 got for being more hacknslash so it makes no sense to make it Even more hacksnslas🎉h. Not only that but the darkspawns oh my god😅 they looked fucking badass in origin and even in the second one with the qunaris. This looks more like a bad comic character and how come Duncan looks more realistic than anything in this game😅
I think at this point getting IGN to promote your game hurts the sales.
ign first is like saying. "yeah im gonna shill"
@@MrHardcoreMode I love your content and I gave a like but I couldn't finish the video. When I saw Morrigan's outfit and the blood mage thing I got too mad. This game looks like Fable 4 or some $h!t. I just can't.
@ominai1877 my previous video I talk about Morrigan outfit at full length. The trailer one
It kinda has, ign rated dustborn and concord as 7, and same for star wars outlaws. All are financial failures, with ass creed shadows soon to follow along with the closure or sale of ubisoft.
Im old enough to remember when Dragon Age was announced it was marketed as a modern Baldurs Gate and you could tell by DAO, that this was the approach they took.
Why they completely overthrew that formula is a mystery to me, especially since DAO was well received.
Because they are targeting the MoDerN aUIdIAnCe. And children grew up on Mobile games, so they think making our games into this shit, they will receive a massive boost of players. Even if they loose 80% of their current audiance.
When Origins was announced it was a dark gritty world, one of the trailers has this song: this is the new shit, (or something) it was heavy and amazing, Veilguard is all the contrary in every aspect.
@1nvisibleAcropolis but they spend years and lots of money developing this game. Look at Concord. Same problem. They spend 200 million USD and 8 years of developement. This is not an issue of money or Time.
They systematically kicked out the real Talent from the industry that made the great games for us. Now we are left with trans & activists who dont care their game is garbage.
DA:O was criticised on consoles at the time... it was built primarily as a PC game and they hodge-podged a 3rd person view into it to give console players "what they want" so it never played as good on those systems. Console games sold better at that time, ME sold VERY well so DA2 went from there. DA:I, I feel, went closer to DA:O that DA2 did but this is back to full Mass Dragon Effect Age.
It was overthrown because Mike Laidlaw was put in charge to make sure the shareholders would get even more money. To do that, they completely catered to the console crowd which for the most part disliked the classical tactical combat in DAO. So they went the flashy action route with DA2. Also appealing to the woke audience became a bigger priority as well which was clearly seen with Inquisition. The target audience is definetily not the old rpg gamers who played Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights and/or Dragon Age Origins.
The Crows? I fear they've sanitized those as well. Starts with Lucanis. I have read the novels. If you compare him to Zevran and what Zevran told you about what it was like to be trained as a Crow, then you'll quickly notice that Lucanis is more of an average hero than an assassin. He was trained by his grandma whereas Zevran was sold to the Crows at the age of 7, and his training included actual torture. Zevran was trained along with 17 other children. Only he and Taliesen survived. Then there's the fact that someone had to train him in the "art of seduction". Make of that what you will (it is heavily implied by Zevran that he did _not_ enjoy certain aspects of that). Yet all we learn of Lucanis is that his Nana sometimes beat him and his brother with her stick.
The Veilguard Crows will be family friendly.
Zev was eatings grapes i know what you mean. its so OFF what they did with that faction and now we are friends with them? and we cant use blood magic? great....
@@MrHardcoreMode Not just friends, you can be from that faction.
Lucanis is a son of one the head of the crows though, I think it's reasonable to see why he had better treatment. That said I'm going to be disappointed if they changed things for regular Crows. Rook can be a Crow so we'll see
@@MrHardcoreMode Bianca 😢 ruined
In one of the previews a crow member literally says that the crows are antiva military. So yeah they’re not the bad guys even though they are assassins for hire. I know it’s from comic but I’m pretty sure it was meant to reflect how corrupted the country was and how tight the control of the assassins organization has not that they were the good guys all along.
If i wasnt told it was dragon age i wouldnt be able to tell.
Top surgery scars… that’s all you need to know
Thanks, I love to have more options in cc :) Just preordered!
@@inciak8537 A strange flex and even stranger justification
@@inciak8537 Found the room temp IQ.
@inciak8537 same it looks like fun can't wait to play
It's optional bud
If they wait from the fans to pinpoint to them what"s wrong with their game and what they should do right to succeed, then we're talking about huge incompetence..Unless...There's an agenda to push through and boxes to tick while they hate games and gamers secretly and behind the scenes. And that shows...
the old bioware wasnt laid off they LEFT! which raises an eyebrow
Fans didnt want the hacknslash in the second one so this makes no sense.
not buying it. Dont see anyhting that interest me on it. Bought all the other games in this franchise this one is a skip for me. at best in few months this game will go into EA Play and then i can try it on my gamepass since gamepass gives us EA Play.
I think this will come to be Painfully true. How the series has fallen. I’m going to do the same. I’ll play it once it gets thrown to EA play/gamepass.
And the Qunari still looks like bull droppings!
if ditto mimicd a qunari.
Someone said they look like discount tieflings.
They actually look worse. They used to look decent now there the forehead people
They took a sand blaster to the character models and put them right into the game as is.
They destroyed the qunari and made "discount tieflings", as it was said in a comment i saw before. They're not lying.
It took 8 years at one time it was going to be a mobile game and it shows in the UI.
Yup big finger sized buttons smach tab covering half the character
No previous iteration was gonna be a mobile game.
No blood magic is a critical failure…
Sure it is. All blood mages around will complain because the game its not enougth inclusive.
"Wow we are finally in Tevinter, thank you Bioware I can´t wait to play blood mage magister and finally be in position of power"
"Best we can do is slave freedom fighter and Blood magic was found evil and you are railroaded to be goody two-shoes"
"And where is my freedom in RPG?"
"You can change your cheeckbones"
If you're a Dragon Age fan, you're not the target audience anymore.
Also, this game is "inherently queer" (as per the devs) as well so unless you are also inherently queer, you are likely not the target audience.
Also how tf does Neve have time magic? Only Dorian had that and it was a major part of his quest. Can anyone just use time magic now?
What you wanted consistency and logic involved in the making of a game. It's all about the lights man and none of the old stuff. 😅 I doubt any of these developers actually know anything from prior games.
I think the idea is using ice to slow the enemies but calling it time magic but thats just a hunch
yeah always had ice magic to slow or freeze enemies but time magic damn near doesn't exist in da
Just like Harding can apparently use magic even though dwarves aren't supposed to be able to?
This is 2024, consistency and canon no longer exist in any IP
People hate DA2 for the repetitive environment, boring combat, restrictive and less meaningful choice(even though for the story being told, was great since the point was you are just an ordinary guy and DA2 delivered impactful story), rail road ending and just drab visuals.
Whereas DAI supposedly "fixed" the issues and you have people saying it did, but what did it actually do? Well, it gave us a boring story, your typical "chosen one" narrative where he was more a scrub running fetch quests, destroyed the most interesting ideal logical conflict in Mages Vs Templars, gave us a single player MMO, gave us boring customisation that looked bad(I am looking at you terrible looking armour and weapons), forced you to do busy work and gate keep anything interesting behind that busy work. Gave us the boring darksoawn magister as an enemy and can't even be bothered to put him on screen more. Gave us Solas. Wreck the lore and wrecked the Grey Wardens to make them "evil" and thus, seems like a jabbed at the original game's protagonists and the people who liked the first game(because DAO is literally the best game ever created). Gave us like 90% full of boring and unlikeable companions. And frankly, I can go on and on and on and picked out all the problems with the game that makes it worst than DA2, design with 18 months of time and what seems to be a mandate either from EA or bad Browser higher ups to make the games more "accessible". Yet the story and RPG was great.
At this point, DA is not for fans. It's for the "modern audience" who, strangely enough, never turn up whenever such projects, made for them, are created. Hard pass on the game and can't wait for EA to put Bioware out of their misery.
After learning just how little dev time they had for DA2 while still working on Origins, I can forgive the game for its flaws. What else could they do but cut corners and make compromises when you only have just over a year to make a sequel?
As for Inquisition, while there are aspects of it that I do like and overall I do like the game, I agree with pretty much everything you said.
@@dkirby9052 Yup. Also, not sure if you've seen it, but the original ending with the Chantry being blown up by Anders was gonna be significant. Like, people complained about the rush ending but originally, from what the in charge, Mike Laidlaw or someone else from the dev team mentioned, they originally planned out a much deeper and much more complex ending for DA2 and wanted to implement it, but would you know it, turns out 14 - 16 months to create a game from scratch, while still working on an already existing game, was not enough time to implement it. would you look at that,
Also, yup, the dev time was actually less than what I remembered. Which is sad cause we got robbed by EA of something better.
The only dragon age series game that was respecting classical rpg fans was Dragon Age Origins. DA2 catered to the consoles. DAI catered to MMO and woke players. And this one goes FULL woke and can barely qualify as a rpg.
they destroyed classes completly and they took away my precious utility items too, i hoped as a qunari i warrior i could use gatlock bombs but nope , instead they force you to be some warrior mage hybrid jumping around like a circus clown using only dodge and combos troughout the whole fight, completly taking out the tactical gameplay we enjoyed in dragon age games
I haven't been the target audience for much at all anymore... and it's saved me tons of cash!!!!!!
;)
aayyyyeee you win some you lose some
Other companies you support are the same you think you escape but you haven’t
same here havent bought a game since april.
This woke stuff is seeping through all media. Yes it saves you cash but the flipside is there is nothing to look forward to and it has been for quite some time.
Kr/jp/cn games are what I mostly play nowadays,exept some gems like BG3
They butchered Morrigan. She looks like a cosplayer from LA now. Hard pass.
I can only hope Leliana does not show up at any point.
Companions sound like ME:Andromeda all over again. Very bad teen writing.
Blattle looks like Black Desert just worse.
Look how they massacrad Morrigan. lol
3 characters wo control, dialogue circle, etc.
The most atractive in the game is the name Dragon Age. I'll pick it up for $10 in the complete edition a couple of months later. If I ever play it.
Well, this is very likely going to be Mass Effect Andromeda all over again. I can't wait to make jokes while people are dying to demons.
@@dkirby9052I hope after this failure EA finaly shot down bioware
Them ripping our blood magic since the third game was a mistake. Not to mention now there is a necromancer in the group?!!! How is that better?
Dragon Age: The DEIguard.
I think she was showing clips of bad things on purpose almost like it was a subtle hint of "I am being paid to review this but it sucks but I can't say it sucks"
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 lol, but It could be true.
@karltech1012 that would be hilarious
It's ALL bad.
Bro i cannot stand hat Neve voice actor literally Sounds like AI. Also a small nitpick, the Solas voice actor obviously forgot how to voice him like he did in inquisition because it sounds so off.
could be the voice direction too.
This is so freaking sad. Anybody remember in Origin, after seeing your Noble Family all murdered in front of your eyes (assuming you took Human NOble Origin, but if you where like me, you had a toon with each Origin), and you escape half dead to the Frontlines of the war looking for the King. Upon finding the King he accepts you into his service, and says once the Battle is won he will help you take back you House and Name. The Battle is than joined. the action continues to ramp until the battle reaches it's climax. It looks like Victory is still possible, you are still in the fight, than?... The King falls, and so does the entire army, Kingdom and Region all in one death. I specifically remember, this was the first time in any game wherre I actually felt despair along with them, becaues you really did ask "Now what the hell do I do?"
Then your cring wingman buddy turns out to be the Bastard Son of the Kings Father... Hope was, again returned!
(The Lelianna/Moragan "3-way Romance mod also contributed heavily..... Morale SOARED!)
No Blood magic in this, when blood magic in Dragon Age is such a huge thing. There was literally a secret dragon berserker class you unlocked by consuming the desecrated remains of a Saint mixed with dragon blood!
You can clearly see, without knowing anything about the developers at all, but just going by the design and the gameplay, that this was made by female Developers... Targeting the activist audience, that doesnt exist outside of twitter, and reddit.. This was designed for the people who discoveres Dragon Age after Inquisition released
The MtF trans director would be flattered.
@@777Looper one person does not make up a development team... And you can clealry see his influence all over the game as well
Well said, dragon age changing combat system to be more action based than even DAI is a total misfire. This is dragon age flavored mass effect, where the focus is on the main character primarily for dealing with combat. People who work at bioware should understand that the crossover of those two titans was because of story and characters, not combat crossover. Dragon age has always been more tactical, mass effect always more action based. This, along with every other mistake from on rails experience, smooth non gritty characters, no masculinity, everyone pansexual, enemies looking soft and friendly, neon rave demons, and the focus primarily being on romance and characters, is going to cause this to plummet hard. This isn't BG3, where romance was supe engaging and a big part of the story that wasn't advertised, so if they tout it as the selling point I feel it will undoubtedly be compared to BG3, where the characters are at least attractive. Rip bioware.
Their new audience doesn't exist.
Remember, they started developement before the backlash of this year. Before that, they thought it exists. And this whole year Will be this garbage.
No it actually does. Reddit is full of them. It is pretty annoying
@@dakotakinert1994 the audiance that doesnt buy/play their games is not an audiance. Those guys are just talking.
There is a difference between people bitching online and those who will actually buy this game… the author of this comment is correct. The audience doesn’t exist.
It does, it's just smaller. They're more like EA fans than DA fans.
It feels like they are combing Dragon Age and Mass Effect code bases, so they only have one code base (and thus, one combat system) to minimize work. The problem with combining two distinct games is that one (or both) game(s) can lose its/their identity, and it looks like Dragon Age is losing its combat identity (losing the strategic combat of 4 controllable party members and instead getting a more action combat of 1 controllable party member).
That's what I think too. Fantasy masseffect and masseffect to cut down dev time.
Oh great, look it's a purple haired witch type female, that is hardly ever used in fantasy!
Oh LOOK giant hammer, not at all an anim'e trope, and we all know that young people hate animé and it's ALL people make now a days because it's just the go to thing when you lack creativity and vision.
OH MY lots of lights YES that is ALL I want from magic, just more and more lights, if you think it's too much, USE MORE LIGHTS!!!!
What more is very popular? PATH OF EXILE let's make such a progression system!
Am I all negative? No, not at all, but all this is an indicator of something very bad.
Go watch "Mythic quest" and you'll understand.
i never watched it. ill give it a try
@@MrHardcoreMode It's a show about a game developer studio, how it "functions" how it has to bow to streamers and such. It is really fun. One episode deals with people making a dark game and how the studio slowly changes everything to appeal to as many as possible
Giant two-handed weapons were in dao though…
@@tiffk5768 Ah yes, this is true, I forgot. I hate it though lol. I am OK with more realistic weapons, and you have your tweihander, gutentag and so on, which are very large weapons, but they make sense, I don't like animé style weapons... Let me be a little more clear lol. Overly huge weapons as you see them in animé, it's dumb and only fun if you want over the top, I prefer the more down toned but fantastic style, if that makes sense?
Dragon age has gotten worse and worse since the OG. This is a fem boy nightmare
when I saw they yet again changed how combat works I was immediately like " oh boy what else did they do?" and just saw less and less appeal in this game its sad
So sad. Im a hard core DA fan. Love all three games. But im not a fan of this mobile looking game with flashes and ugly characters that are made with dei characters for “modern audiences”. I actually want something beautiful, difficult, dark, rewarding and thoughtful. This…. Is not it. Im a woman and with a cat …. So i guess im a catlady. 😅 But im not the target audience either. It seems that kids with tik tok brain and “lefties loosing it” with purple hair and a nose ring is…. And the irony is…. they dont play games only candy crush and fortnite…… well so the devs really fcked this up.
DA1 and 2 were really good. DA3 pretty wack imo. Too open. I enjoyed building the groups in DA1 and 2
Im not the Target Audience of those AAA Devs for a long time now.
It looks like Andromeda. The companions do F-all damage and you have to kill everything. Only time companions seem to matter is when you combo. Wtf.
World states is basically going to be like andromeda except you can create the inquisitor probably. Screw howk or the grey warden am i right. They'll give you a few options to select and say that all you get. Inquisition at least tried with the tapestry website. This doesn't sound good to me.
It’s plain ugly. Not touching it
It's ugly, it's woke, and all those ridiculous effects going on makes it impossible to see anything. I just want the tactical, party based combat, that was my favorite part about Origins
Ugly? are we looking at the same game the game looks awesome the characters,environment,effects they look good you're clearly just biased
@@ORKQUEEN it's a bright cartoony fortnite looking game. It looks nothing like the dark and grim Grim, Dragon Age that they created... in the magical effects look ridiculous! Even plain weapon swings have bright effects, it's so silly looking.. And theyre all clean, and shiny!
No it's not biased. It's observation
The combat looks bad and, as you say, chaotic. There is also no verticality, no real tactical element and all the melee looks ultra simplistic with no weight to weapons, no subtlety, nothing. Spawning loads of similar enemies repeatedly also undermines any sense of foreboding or power - they almost do nothing to attack you (just repeat the same old AI behaviour) and so it's more like mindless zombie wave, hack hack hack.
And the mess on the screen! Makes me think of it as R-Type: Darkspawn. And I hate that shit. I like to know what is going on, which ability is doing what, assessing every move. But this is closer to Doom. Faceless bollox.
it almost feels like you are fighting nothing. and why havent i seen one boss fight?
It isn’t about the game anymore. It’s a story for people to sleep with everyone. It looks horrible.
The producers are the ones that put Sims out so they have nothing to go on based on this kind of game just Sims so it is all about how to design your character.
Watching what footage we have been shown this far, it does look very sad affair, and I do not get any classic DA feel from it. Is is quite clear they went woke first, content second.
I had the same impressions when watching it.
I'd like to see the series move towards classic RPGs rather than mobile action games.
And I liked the grim tone of parts 1 and 2 of the series.
I loved the concept of blood magic, and as far as I know, they removed blood magic from that part of the game. It's sad.
One thing they have to understand is that an old series... the target audience are the people who it was originally designed for. They are shedding off their original fanbase for a new one that wasn't there originally and doesn't care about the series
You know people always say that but I don't think that's the case. They very much do care about the series. They might not care about the same things you care about or they might not care the same way you do but trust me they do care.
@@DarksideGmss0513 oh excuse me, we can just look at all the now failing franchises that are chasing "the modern audiences" and or "wider audience"
Gosh the failures go burrrrrr. The people they are chasing for don't care
@@Wolfstanus They are only "failing" because they have changed. People don't like change. But it's a fact of life. Come back to this in a few years and see. I'm sure there were a lot of people who said the same thing back then about those franchises. Take, Star Wars for example, I remember when the prequels came out, people hated them. But then the people who grew up watching those movies actually really love them and now the prequels are fine. It'll be the same here.
@@DarksideGmss0513Be me; live through over 30 years of change in the gaming space, with some of the most extreme changes. Going from primitive 2D graphics to cinematic experiences in a game. Get told I can't handle change by a random online. Get told gamers just can't handle change.
lol, that gaslight, though. Typical. It's also weird that this has only been an issue in the last 10 years. Even the younger generation isn't buying a lot of this new stuff that's being advertised to them.
No, we can handle change just fine. Change doesn't mean it's going to be good. Let's take Halo as an example. Halo 1 through reach were massively successful. With changes in narrative story, how the campaigns are laid out, and even the game mechanics, game play loop, etc.
Then you get to the 343 era, and you find that its been going downhill ever since, despite the changes being sound in other games... They abandoned the core identity of how the games play, and you also have the move to E-Shops being a priority and other issues with an overall worse experience with each iteration as they try to get that "new" audience.
Mass Effect 1-3. Lots of changes in that series despite the oversimplification of the RPG elements, dialogue, changes to combat, etc. Then Mass Effect Andromeda came out, and that sold a lot of copies, sure. Is it looked on fondly? No, it's not because it abandoned the core identity of the series and became bland generic scifi games trying to chase that "new audience." BTW, as hated as ME3 is, it plays more than Andromeda.
Now you look at Dragon Age. It's abandoning what it originally was. A dark fantasy series and was advertised as such. Then you look at their more modern advertising, and you see they are trying to grab the fortnight-type players. You replace the name Dragon Age and place fortnight in its place for the main advertising poster. It looks a lot like a fortnight advertisement, huh? Same thing with lots of stuff going on all at once, with numbers flying up, clustered menus and submenus, etc. They have slowly been abandoning its core identity. With even more oversimplification.
The other issue with all these is the contradiction between established lore and ignoring world-building to be safer for the "modern audience" (basically, they think the modern audience is dumb and can't handle being slightly uncomfortable). While also smashing your face with the games political narratives and the message it's trying to get across. Dustborn being a prime example of just smashing you in the face with its messaging.
Oh, and on the world-building and lore thing. The new stuff coming out contradicts itself along with the established lore and world-building. Because reasons. Star Wars Acolyte being a good recent example, and the two Star trek shows that came out in recent years being another example.
BTW, as a big Star Wars fan and one who grew up with the prequels. People hated aspects of episodes 1-3. like jar jar, the bad lines and jarring 3D graphics that aged like milk. It's not as good as the originals. thought the originals have their own issues. People have cooled on them because of the absolute shitfest that the sequels are. We can see how well that's playing out for the new stuff. It's not playing out well on the shows, movies, games, etc. Lots and lots of failures and not selling well.
Rings of Power being a failure, Acolyte, Borderlands, the Minecraft movie is expected to flop, etc. Lots of things are failing too. Can you explain why? It's pretty obvious as young and old are complaining about the same issues and these issues extend to gaming because these are the same exact issues.
All we want is a fun game with a good story and cohesive world-building-a cohesive story that doesn't ignore the lore and world-building its set in. Look at SM2-a game that knows what it is and what the previous game was and knows its core identity and the subject lore. A 6-hour game has beat most games this year, and the only people complaining about it are journalists and certain people who don't even know what warhammer is.
@@Wolfstanus You literally proved my point, you went on and on about how those games and franchises are shadows of their former selves, and that's what's caused them to fail. You might be correct about that. What do they all have in common? They've all changed. Whether that be for the better or the worse. In art and in life change has to happen because if not then it becomes stagnant and boring. Thing's might be failing now then in a few years it can be good again. There was a little thing in the 1980s called the video game crash the stock of video games plummeted and so didn't the quality of the game's. Then in 1985 the NES was released and game's started getting better again. There's a pattern to these things, ebb and flow. They can be bad for a number of years and then they can be good that's just how things are.
Edit: I look at it like this thing's have to get worse before they can get better. We might be in a recession currently when it comes to entertainment whether that be games, or movies, or TV shows, but I'd wait a few years to see if it turns around.
The proportions are weird, it does not look good. This over stylization looks good in 2D. In 3D it looks weird and plastic-y
I don't care about action, I don't care about flashy graphics. I just want a good RPG with choice and consequence. I don't care about who the other characters want to sleep with as long as they're not pushy about it. Make them whatever sexuality you want, I don't care, just don't make them annoying. I want build choices that feel distinct without forcing classes into tiny boxes that only play one way.
Alphanet people shoving their beliefs down everyone's throats...
As much as i want to play this game, im not going to.
This is the year of woke games failing. Long over due.
They're not shoving anything down your throat it's optional
Nobody with an drop of testosterone flowing through his veins is the target audience for Dragon Age.
I'll translate, the game has trans stuff and hedonistic relationships therefore it's a great game. The game play is so easy you could play it with one hand so it's perfect. 7/10.
I am wheezing.
Nope. They're going the "modern audience" route hence why pre orders are immensely low.
WAIT!...We can have top surgery scars ! I am def buying this game now, its all I ever wanted...was top surgery scars.
Super satire
I can't stand this purple everywhere!
The more and more I see of this game the more I’m disappointed. I ended up refunding my preorder. That being said, if they give this Qunari treatment to the Iron Bull (if he shows up) I will riot lol.
Mark Darrah, the executive producer of the franchise up until DAI said im one of his podcast the gameplay style of Origins was a result of limitations of the time, the top down perspective felt like a compromise from the previous BG games.
Veilguard's combat is more akin to what the team, wich granted is now different after over ten years, had always wanted to do.
BS! I don't believe that lmao. Limitations at that time? Look at some of the other games back then with hack & slash/ magic/ shooters/open worlds and what have you.
It probably took ALOT of time to code in such tactical combat (each companion tactics etc). Origins was deep!
It was more due to DA 2 being smashed together in 1 year and new kids/players loving it as their first game (or close to it). Then those new players trying Origins and hating it because they don't know about the tactics menu/slots and setting it up being too time consuming and hurting their little brain. DA2 was dumbed down, they saw alot of people loving the dumbed down combat and it's easy money for them.
Thats not Morrigan, It is Flameth 100%, Morrigan is not that polite. Side note she is in her late 40s early 50s, her clothing and hair kinda fits since she could depending on your choices be a mother of a full grown adult.
I also thought that by the looks of it... Looks like DA2 Flemeth
Yeah, definitely too much going on. The animations are all very busy for no reason. If someone had an option between this and FF16, i don't see why they wouldn't just purchase a game that has the better action combat.
If I had the game and played I'd get sick with the color splatter.
@@MrHardcoreModeIt reminds me of WoW raids, but just for casual non raid boss fights.
The Qunari have with each game become less Qunari and more "human"
I mean, this Qunari look like a less cool version of DnD thieflings.
While the original Qunari (DA2- Not DA1 since DA1 Qunari was just a grey dude) looked like an actual other race.
Qunaris have been the greates victms of DA "Normielization" or "Wokefization". They went from a race of Totalizing religious fanatics to a bunch of "misunderstood" hippies.
With bloat of neon particles effect on screen at any given time i would not be surprised the development team even notice or cared for that matter. They were to focused on the hair physics cause that will sell the game for sure and not create a weird uncanny valley effect with the rest of the game.
I always played DA for the story, not the combat system. It's always been janky.
you deserve more. even if you just focus on the story.
@@MrHardcoreMode yassifying the qunari was a horrible decision, i'll admit
All that purple everywhere you just know
The title is exactly how i felt. I am no longer the title male 20 to 40s. Even though we buy most of the games the "modern audience." Which ad we see, never shows up to buy.
You know, I would easily pass the DEI, the diversity, everything... But never the ability to control each party member, the pause and play menu with the tactic camera, why?? I mean why did they take away the thing that made Dragon Age, a Dragon Age game?? Also, I noticed why there's no gameplay with the qunari party member? I saw, Bellara, Neve, the dwarf, the crow, the warden, etc everyone except the qunari woman who looks like a man or something.
She’s supposed to be swinging the sword so fast you can’t see it, that’s why the tracers show up when the sword disappears. It’s dumb, but I see what they were going for.
Or... they messed up the animation and the engine is only displaying the attack effects instead of the attack and weapon model.
Don't feel bad, neither is anyone else.
Why do people even make a big deal about Dragon Age? It had one great game in its entire series and the others are just average versions of game that already existed at the time of their release. Why does it get so much hype?
Cause it had a book series with it as well. A lot of people just like Witcher fans wanted to play through the stories in the books and such. However the developers don't get that and made their own stupid shit.
@@erikschaeffer8419 oh I see. I didn't realise it had a book series behind. Sheesh, what a waste of potential.
found the gay dev who made this shite
@CaptScrotes yeah that was part of why so many liked origins, it was each different start was a characters background from the series I think. I honestly didn't know about the book series till a friend of mine showed me them.
She said it "Gone are the days of Dragon Age."
I have just replayed Origins for the 14th time since 2009.. I have not been able to bring myself to finish part 2 or Inquisition a second time for either, having purchased all three as new releases.. I wont even be buying Veilguard.. what I enjoyed most beyond the story in the dark setting, was the Tactical gameplay and setting up tactics. I love that and you can't get that in a handful of other games. Now one less franchise has that option
Dragon Age 2 had the best art style. The change in Elves and Qunari were excellent.
omg poor solas, we ll never get his true ending
this looks awful bliah
It seems I’m the only person on this planet that thinks this game is light years ahead of the old games, I hate origins, I hate inquisition
They designed the Qunari to be more gender neutral, that's why the redesign is less masculine from past games
Everything they are making now is seeking this mythical new audience. There is a lot she is choosing not to talk about due to the controversial nature of those things. I for one am not going to choose to get it for a long time. I will wait to see the reviews. They babyfied the qunary to make them less intimidating and interjected way to many modern day nonsence into a world that is completely different. I can't speak for other gamers but when I play a game it's to escape the nonsense of the world we live in. I bought the latest Sims game and never made it to gameplay due to the over complicated character creation. What made DAO so good was the different background and histories for the different type of characters . This is to much social justice with a single character that you can spend 30 minutes to an hour trying to detail out. This combat will not take long to get used to. The mobile game industry is super similar combat. I have seen nothing spectacular about anything I've heard or seen.
They should have noticed how Baldurs Gate 3 was received that I wonder if Bioware understands that people are still replaying Origins for a reason and I get the feeling the whole game was made with a cartoon aesthetic and now they're desperately trying to make it dark. You just have to look at how smooth the environment is like a jumping castle because Imagine making a sequel that’s not for fans of the original. What are they doing
I really like your videos because you don't just bash but logically explain why the problems are problems and they make perfect sense.
Taking away the ability to fully control the companions is BS. The artstyle being kid friendly is something we MIGHT look past if the story and the companions are good. But the core mechanics taken away? Yellow markers everywhere so I don't even need to explore or use my brain? Ah... so tired of this. You're right, it's not for us, lemme go back to playing BG3 for the third time.
As Shepard, Wrex & Garrus are my brothers for life. This aint the Bioware we knew and loved
like honestly. who is gonna be your brother in arms now. maybe darvin but hes just there for the bird. made him boring on purpose
I replayed Final Fantasy X recently and FF is a franchise that slowly improved on their gameplay WHILE coming out with banger stories. They don't focus on character creation or making changes so that everyone feels included because by the time the story ends, you WILL feel like you were a part of that story, regardless of your irl background.
*[sees title]*
Yeah I don't think any of us are. Such a shame too. Origins was absolute fire. It just went downhill from there and now years later here we are. At this point all it has left of what made dragon age is the name.
If ever a game needed character appearance mods it's this one.
I will forever hate Dragon Age's shift from dark fantasy to high fantasy. It lost me so badly
Duncan died for this? should've let the darkspawn win... Darkspawn Chronicles is the canon story to me now!
Have you seen who’s in charge of this game?
If you have then it should be self explanatory.
had to be sure.
I really hate this superhero-ish direction. It all feels too small and shiny.
What's there to see? It's IGN reviewing a game in 2024. You should already know what to expect. Their reviews, much like their "journalism," have ZERO credibility.
The target audience doesn't exist. How many times will games have to totally fail before companies realize that?
Im gonna wait for this game to be free and then play it.
WHy do people keep saying that this is ´dark fantasy´? How can anybody look at this and think 'yep, that's dark fantasy'
The original DA was dark fantasy alright... . But that was it. None of the other were. And this is definitely not either.
When I think of dark fantasy, I think of the looks of Aragorn, f.i.... Not these cute dresses and dance-like moves and posh talk .
No wonder it isn't btw... Just listen or simply look at the devs. Nope. No chance they can make anything near ''dark'' other than their obscure ideology..
I mentioned this on Abyssal Critic's vids, ill say it here.
The reviewers from companies, the art designers, the writers, the devs, I bet my left kidney none of them even played half of DA:O. Itd explain part of why they're so "fond" of this game.
Thats the sad thing with a lot of western game development culture. These companies arent promoting talented devs, those are expendable to them. They don't even look for good new devs.
Why would they? The same way Uwe Bull got money from the German government for making his awful movies despite no one watching them and being God awful, the western game company is looking at the DEI money the same way.
Pay to win, loot drops, endless DLC, theyre old grift. The EAs and what not are on that Blackrock money
Iwant to boycott this game. The art style decision is truly unforgivable. I think my overwhelming curiosity is going to cause me to buy it anyway though; I really want to see what happens next, 10 years after DAI and how the story unfolds.
I really can't get over how lame and sanitized the whole thing is though. If I hadn't played previous games and had no investment, I wouldn't even be interested. Why does it look like a mobile game with goofy pixar characters? Bobbleheads with no defined skin textures? It looks absolutely awful. Why does my character have to be a good guy? I've read the backstories. Compare this game to bg3 and you realize how beyond pathetic it looks.
It feels like a kids game. I am almost 40. I was young when DAO came out. Yeah, I'm not the target audience, but who actualy wants this game to be like this?
Excellent hair, glitter everywhere, and nonthreatening aesthetic. This is what you get when your third string video game director is trans.
It looks like a Disney adventure.... not the graphic, visceral world we had with previous games.
I don't understand how this game looks worse than DA:I (that is already 10 years old).
And *NO* ridiculous amount of particle effects and nearly everything glowing *does not* mean that it looks good (also the f***ing cartoonish looks don't help).
Having to be the carry and the companions not rly doing anything on there own made me not want to get this anymore. I loved making a real team I would play as the healer/CC have a tanky person and then some dmg dealers. But this is just MC being the dmg dealer and no other options no other playstyles then damage dealer.
I rly hope that ppl that get it will enjoy it but it's not for me anymore. Way to flashy screamy and I wanted a team not me carrying the " companions" cause they are so weak.
The end of an age.
I’m going to be honest, the combat does look awesome. I’m a sucker for action rpg combat like this.
But everything else? Can’t be bothered to support this at full price.
I cant find this modern audience these video games are being marketed to. Did anyone see them?