This is how I felt about destiny's story the last few years. "There's the massive galaxy threatening force coming to kill us all, now listen to these two old men talk about their feelings for each other for 10 minutes, and no you can't skip it" 😂
Hey Asmon, I have a bit of possibly controversial news for you. I'm a game dev of 16 years with titles like DayZ, Kingdom Come Deliverance and Dying Light 2 in my portfolio and I used the recent Skill Up review and the points he was making in it to write a LinkedIn post about quality of writing in contemporary AAA games using Dragon Age Veilguard as an example, all in a very professional respectful manner ofc. Guess what happened? My linkedin profile got blocked and I'm now waiting for their team to hopefully reinstate it. I went to Bioware official UA-cam channel to tell them to stop using trolls to deplatfrom veteran devs from linkedin and ofc they blocked me there too and now I can't find their official UA-cam channel at all while signed in to this UA-cam account. Maybe it's time to start talking about their really shady practices to your huge audience.
Update: my linkedin profile got restored about 12 hrs after this incident, so when I regained access to it, I went to check the statistics of my post about the quality of writing in recent AAA games including Dragon Age Veilguard and what I found there made a lot of sense. Just for context in case people don't know this, if you have the paid "pro" account, which I do have, you get to see detailed stats of each post you make once it crosses a certain number of views and this post the morning I checked it before getting blocked already had some 8.6K views, so it did have the detailed stats. Anyway, the moment I regained access to my account I checked the stats and turns out that the biggest group of readers of my post were from EA. It was 2% which sounds small but no other post I made before, even if it had a higher number of views, ever had one company represented by over 1%. In absolute numbers this means that about 170 people that saw my post were from EA and I'm quite sure that is more than enough to mass report and get someone blocked on LinkedIn. I can prove all this with screenshots of both the email about my account getting blocked by linked and screenshot of the statistics of the post right after I got unblocked by their community team.
One of the high reviews said that whether your a mage, warrior or rogue, combat is not really affected. Thats an absurd statement for something we are going to call an RPG.
One of the 100 reviews said that different companions allow you to different special environmental things, but no worries if that companions not with you as youll have a device to allow you to do it anyway.
Because the focus of this wasn't combat or story. It was "rEpReSeNtAtiOn." This game is Dustoborn with a AAA budget. Good luck to anyone that bought this.
You have two distinct Biowares and understanding the timelines is key: 1. OG Bioware who made Baldurs Gate, Neverwinter Nights, KOTR, ME Trilogy, etc. Absolute classics, and gaming masterpieces that advanced the RPG genre, more than 99% of the gaming industry. Despite their flaws, these were crucial games in the genre and will forever hold a special place in many people's hearts 2. Modern Bioware: . The last two founders left in 2012, . Lead writers and key contributors started exiting in 2014, including: . Casey Hudson, the creator of the Mass Effect series, left in May 2014 . Dragon Age's writer David Gaider left BioWare in January 2016 . Chris Wynn and Chris Schlerf, key contributors for Andromeda, left in 2015 (2 years before release) . Mike Laidlaw, Creative Director for Dragon Age leaves in October 2017 after 14 years with the company . James Ohlen, the lead designer of the Baldur's Gate series, Neverwinter Nights, Knights of the Old Republic, Jade Empire, and Dragon Age: Origins, as well as the game director of The Old Republic MMO, left the studio after 22 years in July 2018) This is just to name some of the key contributors, hundreds of writers, and developers left during this time as well. And everything published since then has been completely demolished by corporate interest and tasteless creatives who clearly cannot fill the shoes of their previous colleagues and have been able to completely nuke an entire studio and their legacy
None of what you stated ACTUALLY matters, the single cause of the companies entire change was when it was purchased by ea who's major shareholders are BlackRock and vanguard which are small hat financial conglomerates. Watch Europa the last battle for more information on why every media source that they have a controlling share in turns "woke" and ignores it's core audience. Good luck.
Sadly this is the trend of today's corporate world where gaming is now another investment vehicle for people who have never played video games and a way for them to insert political messaging.
@@martinivanov1319 Unfortunately, this is true. There is nothing else: no inspiring ideas, no creative people, no brilliant mechanics, just old names of once great studios.
What I've been saying for a long time now. Inclusivity is fine, but when you become so inclusive that you inevitably become exclusive, that's when it becomes a problem.
@@janglalgoupiak1891 Wukong is by all means not a perfect game. I'd give it an 8.0 with proper analysis of the game if you take into account the biggest flaws it has BUT them giving it 6/10 and dragon age 10/10 is simply outrageous loooooool
So Eurogamer is telling me, this thing is equal or better to Baldur's gate 3? Have they completely turned to AI generated content? I think most human propagandist can generate somewhat more believable propaganda than this.
Here is a direct quote from Skillup's review: "The writing is, frankly, terminal. It lacks any nuance, wit or wisdom. It cannot communicate ideas, except to say them aloud to the camera. It manufactures petty, unbelievable tension because it doesn't know how to create anything more real, and it's too scared to ever be truly confronting or dark for fear that it might make the audience uncomfortable. Every interaction between the companions feels like HR is in the room, and every interaction led by the main character Rook sounds like he's addressing an under-12 soccer team before a semi-final or teaching toddlers to properly share toys."
Frankly his review was the most articulate one i've seen about Veilguard. Everyone else seems vague, but his explanations and examples created such a vivid image in my head, i just subbed to him then. Glad im skipping the game.
Dragon Age Inquisition is what did it for me, even though DA2 and ME3 showed some signs, I wasn't too involved at the time. DAI showed clear signs of development being directed to what was trendy/was thought to make money at the time instead of making the next great Dragon Age game. I've never bought anything from Bioware since then, and so far it has been the correct choice lol.
@@Vaios7GWhat was wrong with DA:I? That was my first DA game and it was enjoyable. It really goes to show the divisiveness gamers have all because of a previous entry they compare to. Which is understandable, but because DA:I was my first, I thought it was okay at best. Edit: I did see you said they changed it to be trendy and what would sell for that time, but I enjoyed the combat system the most.
@@Andy_Paris DAI wasn't a terrible game, I did, in fact, enjoy it, but it showed clear signs of confusion on what kind of game they wanted to develop. The mission table was such a bizarre addition to a series which focused heavily on story and companions, when the obvious way to go about it would've been for those missions to be actual characters and quests in the humongous world they created. The maps became huge, but they had little substance, or were filled with pointless fetch, MMO-like quests. This was unlike the other two games in the series, and Skyrim's success a few years before probably influenced this decision, despite DA series being a different type of RPG compared to Skyrim. Enemies in the world respawned. The best materials for your crafted gear (Fade-Touched) had a chance to drop, so you had to grind for them. That's a logic that fits in MMO games, but kinda weird for a single player, story-driven game. There's more examples, but lack of clear vision is what I would describe Bioware as of late, and information that came out on the development of Andromeda and Anthem lend to this assessment in my opinion. Counter examples of games from developers that have a clear vision of what type of game they're making would be Larian or FromSoftware. I'm not saying they're perfect games, but when you play games like Baldur's Gate 3 or Elden Ring, you get the overwhelming sense that they were developed they way they did because that's what was envisioned by the developers, not because a corporate directive said they need to have these specific features, because that's what sells at the moment.
Im sorry but the idea of 2015 trans tumblr sh*t in a medieval fantasy setting sounds genuinely hilarious, this game is a south park bit come to life lmfao
Do you know trans characters were in Dragon Age 1 that came out in 2009 do you? In one of the best RPGs ever :D Tell me you don't know anything about the universe without telling me you don't know anything about the universe.
@@jesperjohansson9857 it REALLY didn't , but you are right. The globalists who use marxist lies have been infiltrating free enterprises from at least the 90s
Most damming thing ive heard of this game so far is the amount of people turning down the difficulty just so they can get through the game faster and interact with it as little as possible. Which is that last thing you want to hear from a 40 hour long RPG.
@@BehindTheMatrixSo people are paying for an interactive movie. Kinda cool if that's what you're looking for. Me, I want a fun challenging combat system that puts an emphasis on making a good build. Loot and skill trees should matter, affecting gameplay in intuitive ways. That's why I love D4 so much.
Propaganda doesn't exist to convince dissenters that they are wrong. Propaganda exists to convince dissenters that they are _alone_ EDIT: Reply was correct -- adding a word makes it clearer
TotalBiscuit led the charge against devs gatekeeping access to media that gave bad reviews. I feel like his passing was a turning point that left consumers at the mercy of all sorts of bad behaviors. RIP TB, you are missed now, more than ever before.
TB was **THE** consumer advocate of the gamedev industry. He routinely went out of his way to call out anti-consumer behaviour and give publicity to scandals most industry giants would love swept under the rug. Sadly, after his passing, no major figure stepped up to fill that void. And so we end up with the gradual descent into more and more ridiculous behaviours.
Total Biscuit was my fave non-reviewer. (they were impressions 😛) I think the closest thing is Synthetic Man. He is as cynical as that guy but not as obsessed with indie pc games. We need more realistic reviewers who are not just on youtube for the money or clicks but actually see the videos as hobby on the side. A lot of youtuber who make all their income from youtube, tend to compromise their views once they get really famous and they are afraid of their subscriber count dropping if they say something that isn't popular opinion.
The fact that every single character feels like a dei check box is so annoying. So when the gameplay sucks, the story sucks and the visual sucks it just shows where the priorities are Btw welcome back man. Gaming space wasn’t the same without ya
This is the same argument I had on reddit with the Isabella changes. If they are so worried about making a woman look manly and flat chested instead of her da2 look then you see where their priorities lie. If chest size doesn't matter for their game why did they on purpose change her? It is so obvious that d.e.i. is the focus of veilguard. This reeks of sweet baby.
@ 100%, but it’s so clearly a must have when developing the game now. They pretty much said “okay we need 1 black character, one handicapped person, we non binary character; that’s got to be worth at least our gay/ lesbian/ trans slot, we got dwarfs covered, we have to put a dashing rouge like bisexual character and oneeeeeee Asian.” Non of which would be an issue if it wasn’t the main objective of the game. BioWare has forgotten they make games. If the game was good none of the above would matter
Have you maybe concidered that the permanently online crowd like yourselves and asmon are just weird by focussing on a small aspect on a game that is good? No? Okay continue the anti-woke hurr duurrr
Don't ever treat ideas like sports teams. Remove the emotion. Remove the constant drive in the mind to find community to be around those you accept and those that accept you. Yeah, it is comfortable to be part of a group that accepts each other based on simple ideas that anyone can write about, showing support for the group and feeling part of it. Don't do that. Instead, think logically. Never abandon logic to fit in. IS what you wrote enough said? No, it's not. As we both know, in situations where there are two sides of an emotional drama featuring two mobs going at it with various figureheads spiking the drama higher at any chance, you always have people putting in fake 1/10 reviews and fake 10/10 reviews without having even played the game. Less worse, you also have some who have played the game, but they transform their actual score into a 1/10 or 10/10 due to their emotions. Stay logical and stay out of mobs of emotion. Your post isn't a good line of reasoning... clearly. And I'm saying that as a person who has consumed the same drama videos here as you -- someone who generally SUSPECTS the game might feel like an HR meeting with sterile writing. I'm still fair though. I SUSPECT the game will not be good due to unrealistic, sterile writing. However, I'm not going to CONCLUDE it is bad based on the opinions of figureheads who benefit from sensationalism. And I'm going to take individual reviews for either side with a grain of salt, because many of them are written by people belonging to one of the two emotional mobs. Value your own perception. Wait until you've played the game or at least seen someone else play the game before thinking out what you believe the quality of the entire game is. And actually play/watch hours of the game. Don't watch a couple of the lamest moments in the writing, extrapolating that the entire game must be that constantly throughout.
This was the exact thing I was feeling about them. The Qunari are a people who belong to an absolute Fascist Theology. That's more important than them having horns. It's what makes them Qunari. You can have fringe members that don't believe in the Qun properly but you have to remember that those are outcasts from the society and extremely small in number. Even Iron Bull was pushing it in Inquisition. But he had the excuse of being conditioned to serve as a spy in the area so he was essentially the Qun's idea of what a "normal" person is.
Reminds me of the 1980's, when it was discovered that record companies were buying up thousands of their own artists vinyl records to manipulate a bands music chart position.
I remember the intense meat riding that occurred anytime someone dared criticise starfield for the first few weeks, thinking back on it that shit was crazy. Anyways which triple A do you guys think is worse? It was starfield for me but veilguard is some tough competition.
Meanwhile a JRPG that is all about unison of all races/tribes: Kill characters left and right, sometimes in brutal ways, straight up acknowledge that there will be frictions when trying to be inclusive, drop nightmarish eldritch horror in combat, bad guy is literally Griffith, hot chicks and dudes and old men in the party, etc… I’ve been saying this for a while, but how the fuck is Japan doing inclusivity better than the west?
@@KhangNguyen-ij4xh Because inclusivity and diversity were never the real issue. Its propagandizing and pandering that annoy the hell out of people. Western studios hired too many activists and too few writers, so we get propaganda instead of entertainment from them.
@@KhangNguyen-ij4xh They always did it, that is the key difference. There are a lot of ancient anime's that already had these facits of characters. Hell even japanese folklore is far more "inclusive" than what is now called by that name. It's actually the west being racist against a culture that never needd to "learn" while still turning out abominations like AC Shadows in the hopes of signifying their virtue. Tldr: This is the end point of clown world and we are literally living through it at this point. Racism will infact win at the end of it if this insanity is not stopped, not joking.
"I'm a woman who feels like I should've been a man, but instead of just creating my character as a man... I want my character to have chest scars where they removed their breasts." NONE OF THIS MAKES ANY SENSE!!
I hate how the party members have been erased from combat. They dont participate or have health or use abilities. They are just extra ability slots. Its like they took the MMO version, and instead of incorporating the party based system of DA, said F it lets just make them ability slots. Remember freezing enemies then shield smashing them? Felt good.
Being able to script your party to do different things on their own, based on the situation at hand was fuckin amazing. They watered it down badly for Inquisition... And I'd bet it's almost, if not a completely gutted mechanic now.
@@abduljabars And even with how gutted Inquisition was, people that spent a lot of time figuring out how the AI works ultimately managed to still come up with essentially Companion Setups that would let them essentially 3-man an entire Nightmare + Challenges Playthrough on their own. But getting rid of ALL of it? Bro, these Developers weren't cooking on a grill or using the oven, they fucking full sent this Game in a microwave for 10 years.
Exactly, nightmare in inquisition meant you had to think and figure things out. This new version you're basically playing a generic ARPG. Even Atreus was more helpful!
It's so funny when a recent free gacha game which three capital letters imply sleeping have much better combat gameplay and party abilities than Veilguard despite being designed mostly for the mobile market.
Under any other circumstances, I'd be inclined to agree with you. In this case, however, I believe they were simply too incompetent to do anything besides generic Pixar-style characters. I mean, look at these things!
Comics, movies, games, from the mainstream AAA studios seems to all want to go after the woke message. And the cult comminuty keeps saying they are under repressented when the last dozen products out of each of these mainstream studios is all woke check boxes. Its the Message, and check boxes. ITs why they keep getting crushed by indie and AA studios.
@@bdanbauer6048 Bruh, have you seen the gameplay footage and release trailer, it doesn't take someone with a functioning brain to know how bad it looks. Granted, I don't think you have that kind of mental capacity.
Tired of seeing Dark Fantasy get destroyed by these weirdo's. I didn't even mind Dragon Age inquisition despite it's obvious flaws but Veilguard seems like it's trying to appeal to a far smaller audience rather than to DA fans or even Baldur's Gate fans. Bioware disappointed me with Andromeda and Anthem I no longer care what happens to this company or the employees there.
DA:I was more heroic fantasy and I liked it because the story still felt like Dragon Age and Trespasser really set my hopes high. Veilguard? Feels like it’s Woke Fantasy? Which is a way too far from the original dark fantasy to be considered from the same universe, and considering they dropped Solas for two random bad guy-bad guys is a joke in itself. All that to say I agree with you lol
You can’t trust large streamers that stream video games too. One good example is Brian Menard. Bro gets paid to shill to his audience but hides it very well.
Basically everyone that looks at the gaming community or just a singular game on the surface level, with normal lives that don’t want to spend time looking into a game, and just want the number out of 10 that reviewers give.
They're about as trustworthy as most YT " let's stick to a certain bandwagon narrative to get more views" reviews at this point. Yet doing the rounds on YT, it seems a fair number of gamers love doing this without a second thought.
Nah, just screech at that it for being ist/phobe for attacking the minority characters and shame it into being publicly canceled until no hero wants to be associated with having dealt with it.
That's not the issue, its just dog shit. Larian wrote a woke game and it was widely accepted, so did CDPR with CP2077. It's the people in charge of these projects that are creatively bankrupt because they got to their position through being the most diverse individual. Look at the creative director of Failguard and you would've known from day 1 it was going to be trash. People making executive decisions when they lack the skill to do so is the problem. I so hope BioWare collapses due to this though.
The difference with larian and CDPR with those games is that the woke part wasn’t forced into a genre it didn’t fit into already. Weird, androgynous society in the future? Sure, more likely than not probably. BG3 it also wasn’t heavy handed or forced. I don’t care if it’s there, I care if it’s forced into the game for no reason other than to be there. That’s what this feels like. The irony is that this is also the biggest news about the game, which tells me the game is shit if this is all people are talking about. I don’t see anyone saying “hey, it’s woke but the gameplay and story are so good otherwise you really need to give it a try.” A bad game is a bad game whether it’s woke or not.
"Woke" isn't a valid criticism, sorry. The game just looks boring, unispired and overall, safe. They didn't take any risk, these people "learned" that this is the right way do things. It is why old games have charachter and authorship. Now, AAA game are technically good, but they lack a distinctive personality and setting.
@@no_harm AAA aren't technically good either, when they cannot consistently release games bug and performance issue free. Game is a story driven game, without a good story it's still dog shit if the gameplay is good.
Larian Studio: Add evil endings for each character - blood, deaths, power, murders etc. Bioware (2024): Noooooo, just don't call a fellow party member a fool (((((
TBH. Baldurs gate is cringy woke too. Brilliant game, but not short on political message. It constantly panders, and tries to force. Female fighters, female barbarians and male wizards. Every other npc is gay. Fortunately game is really good. I have a thousand hours. But this is absolutely last time I am buying such game. Even if it is good.
I was banned form the forums for this comment and I quote ""It's a joke really, I was exited for this game. Too bad it will be ruined with wokeness. Oh well, there are other games coming out." This is how scared they are of the bad press.
saying Skill Up was critical is an understatement. I've watched him for years, and I don't think I have ever seen him hate a game like this. he seemed to truly regret ever even playing this game.
He talked about basically being over it something like 20 hours in out of 50 and saying he would not get that time back. He did not talk about game-breaking bugs or major technical issues, so his thoughts were basically entirely on the content of the game - gameplay, characters, story, dialogue, etc.
It's amusing because he's sometimes referred to as "Shill Up" and his comment about how the characters talk "like HR is in the room" really goes to show just how bad woke tropes are becoming if someone like him recognizes it indirectly despite how hard he tried to avoid its prominence in his review. I'm waiting for the moment where Angry Joe finally acknowledges it as well rather than pretending that nothing is wrong, that the game sucks for mostly other reasons, as if it all doesn't culminate into a failure of a product equally. But I think he's stubborn, and he and his friends would never want for the community to be correct the whole time while he was wrong.
Yeah, and having watched him for a long time, I knew his initial preview was his honest thoughts as a DA fan as well as a Bioware fan in general, so it made sense that he was optimistic about what turned out to be EXTREMELY curated content, which he addresses in his video. He is a pretty genuine dude and will both admit when he is wrong and when his mind has changed on something.
I hope he doesn't fold to manufactured backlash, access journalism need to end, I would rather have genuine but very late review than day 1 propaganda.
Matty liked CP77 on launch and game was buggiest & glitchest. I don't trust him nor ACG. And ACG praised Dead rising remaster with ignoring heavy censorship.
And 90% of the other reviewers and "gaming" journos. You check and most of them are just more of the same weird bunch, they are here for politics and bs in our games, not the game itself.
@@orthodox-mp6hv Game of Thrones was good for the first 4 seasons, then the writing got progressively worse. Season 8 is so bad, people stopped talking about it within a week which is very telling for a show that was *the* main conversation topic at any job's water cooler.
@@TheReaLcatniP Indeed, now that you mention it after watching it all I never wanted to speak with anyone about it at all, I made a grand total of one remark about how dark the battle episode was and that's it. No one really wanted to discuss anything about it. People just wanted to forget.
Bruh, WTF is this comment. I dont think you have ever played dragon age in your life to say this type of shit. None of the games have any artistic consistency, every single entry in the franchise looks completely different from onde another. If youre gonna criticize something at least make up some valid points.
@@JoaoPedro-cj7ff Origins and DA2 are different but they feel similar enough in style to be in the same universe, Inquisition is a departure and Veilguard looks to be even more unrelated in terms of style and theme.
The only thing preventing access journalism has been the cost of maintaining records that can be relied upon. Now that an executive at EA can prompt an LLM to "show me a list of social media content creators who's reviews were less than positive" and within seconds they can make a reliably informed decision about who gets codes, and who doesn't... those barriers are gone.
Its also called chasing very young teens E for Everyone audience. Games aren't made for adults. I'm fine with kids games being sensitive but I'm an adult.
@@dbank6107 Positivity is usually seen as a good thing, but toxic positivity describes a situation where positivity becomes an almost compulsory behaviour where no criticism or negative opinion, however fair or justified is allowed to be expressed. Nobody is allowed to say anything other than "This is great...". "Your ideas are brilliant...", etc, etc.
“Every interaction between companions feels like HR is in the room” - Skillup That is probably the most damming thing I could have heard and every last shred of hope went out the window when I heard it.
@@imanrique8999 Yeah, I know, and if it was anyone other than IGN I'd say it's a clever joke. The headline of their review is "If this is the last Dragon Age", so they know this will kill the IP and they don't care, they got the money. It's almost impressive how remorseless they are.
So.....they have a non binary writer who wrote the character. So...is it your take that isn't allowed in games? Could be interesting given the win dictates everything about how you have to live and the character left the qun and is free to make choices. Is that going to be bad? We shall see. But it seems to fit the world tbh.
It's kind of ridiculous how in earlier games you were always addressed as "Grey Warden" or "Shepard" (from Mass Effect), so pronouns weren't really needed. This is a step backwards.
Plenty of these reviewers keep claiming they haven't been paid, when they know they mean they haven't been "directly" paid. They profit financially in others ways, but blatantly trying to fool their viewership.
They didnt get paid Devs just sent review keys only to woke reviewers ofcource they gave 10/10 The spanish reviewer just wrote she is nonbinary and immediatly got a key And when review was negative devs just dmca blocked the video
No direct pay, just review copies and a free trip. With the unspoken agreement that they would receive the same treatment again for the next game if they gave the game a review it doesn't deserve.
I like that, the Mortalitasi were a nice breath of fresh air, though the air of macabre and sinister coolness was replaced with something that could've safely been in the film Coco (2017), dark fantasy my foot.
Bioware literally did not consider what kind of personality or moral outlook would it take for someone to WILLINGLY raise the dead to serve them, or the kind of disregard for life that would lead to.
To be fair, the idea is actually quiet creative, cool and decently executed...but designed to appeal to children. Like... this charakter would be very cool, if he was a gentleman but it was still clear that necromancy is quiet a grim, serious thing... about raising rotten bodies and disturbing the peace of the dead and not about some cutesy wutsy lil skeleton with twinkly gems for eyes. But that would be controversial within the Dragon Age universe, which Bioware obviously doesn't want, when in fact it should be!
I am SHOCKED he had anything negative to say considering he’s such a pro-woke guy. To my point he criticized the combat, character design, dialogue and story but didn’t touch the woke stuff. He’s very crafty that way.
Skill up has been wrong on almost every games he’s reviewed the last couple years. Dude loves Destiny, the division and Diablo 4 lmao he’s not exactly a beacon of good games
@@fawkesandhoundnot sure you actually watched it because most of his review was about the tone. The biggest example he gave was the books on the camping trip argument. I've never seen an Ozzy called woke too, that's a first 😂
@@fawkesandhoundYeah I think Skillup nailed my concerns as a longtime fan of the series,especially regarding the tone switch from dark fantasy to this juvenile cartoonish garbage. You seem to be the one obsessed with identity nonsense tbh and assume that Skillup is super woke just cause he doesn’t rant about tiny details in every review.
Veilguard is the worst Dragon Age game. It's like the entire company forgot how to write good stories, quests, maps are repetitive BS, combat system simplistic to the point of idiocy, level up system reduced to ridiculous amount hell games like these in the 90's and early 2000's weren't considered RPGs but hack and slash adventure games. I think they are trying to entice pre teens and teens to enter the franchise and made a jolly little PG 13 title.
It has to be noted too that Luke Stephens and Fextra at least are pretty non political in their reviews they were critical of literally only the gameplay and game choices, not any “culture war” stuff so if that is the reason they were not given review copies, that would be very telling. Typically the excuse when a game is more “woke” that they give is that they only want the game judged on merits not themes. And yet… I wonder if they’re choosing to interpret disliking the choice in character design as something
Every single opinion, objection or thought that deviates from the "party line" is treason. That is why they default to "-ists and -phobes" hate the "current thing" whenever someone points out any problem with the game.
I'd go one step further and say they avoid it like the Plauge they will ignore the Elephant you put in the room with them as they walk around it just so you'll give them a review copy and even they didn't get one.
I'd imagine EA's goal with this was to just minimise any and all negativity surrounding the game at launch. They could probably see from a mile away that the game was a dud and would flop, but since they've invested so much money into it they decided to rig the reviews to make as much money as possible from the game, before actual players get their hands on it and people see what the game is really like without journo influence tainting the experience.
This tactic is so predictable. eg Wicked I have made nearly a dozen reviews on IMDB that were negative that all got deleted because they were 'homophobic' or whatever simply for stating that I personally dont want to see those things when I watch a movie.
The Left protects its ideology and advances it whenever they can. They do it with book reviews and best seller lists. They do it with movie reviews. They do it with TV show reviews. Why would video games be any different?
@@chc2650The "right" is just being dragged along the center line. People don't understand when they say they don't want politics in their games. Dragon age is the exact example of letting HR types sanitize the dialogue for you. It's extremely on the nose
@@chc2650 The Right doesn't own popular culture so none. If a game inserted Right Wing/Conservative viewpoints every corpo game reviewer would give it a poor rating, it would probably be hard to even find funding to make the game in the first place.
As a dad, husband and a sole bread winner of the fam, I need demos to come back. This is a 50+ hour game. Give me the first 5 hours. Prove to me the game is not bad.
I think that’s the only true solution to the access journalism issue. Make the access for everyone. That way 50 UA-camrs can’t bury your game pre-launch (if it’s a good game) or sell a junk game to millions of potential customers (if it’s a bad game).
I agree, but they would never give us that much. They know the static saying people decide in the first 2 hours, so they'll only ever give us the best first 30 minutes, often on a timer. I honestly think the first 10% of the game, no matter how long it is, is what we need to make an informed decision and not a gamble
I want my games to all have cutscenes that lecture me on nuanced, first-world social issues in a fantasy setting to totally drag me out of any fun i may have been having
Concord wasn't bad because politics it was just a really shit game that came out at the wrong time with incredibly outdated mechanics when compared to hero shooters from a decade ago. Political messaging was just a cherry on the cake.
@chillociraptor5007 Nice try friend, but when the clowns in charge are neck deep in the "we must teach the players a lesson" mode that stuff ends up infecting the gameplay too.
@@SammEater outside of the character roster there is nothing in the gameplay itself that is indicative of political virtue signaling. Reviewers who don't give a damn about wokeness said it was shit because it was just straight up shit. Poltical messaging was a rotten egg on top of an already dog shit cake. Though, you are right that this woke nonsense in our games needs to boot. I don't mind it if it isn't affecting the experience, but if its shoehorned in a way that hurts the core game then it should go. Dragon age is shit because its combat sucks, its story sucks, its dialogue and characters suck, AND its got that woke dogma on top.
I would not care as much if it was a new IP doing its own new thing...this is NOT dragon age...this looks like a Disney/Pixar product stuffed with hamfisted, in your face, LGBTQIA+ propaganda. This is a franchise that has been followed for over a decade...the switch up in the style and feel of the world and the characters is jarring for DA fans
Its the fate of all game developers once they go public, it's not a matter of if but when it happens. Never go public with a game development company. The best companies are all private. You know why Arizona iced tea cans are 99 cents for past 20-30 years? Cause there a private company. Indies make a lot of slop but they also make gems because they are privately owned so can take risks.
@@shmekelfreckles8157 only on lower difficulty levels do the enemies "just stand around" in most if not all DMC games I have ever played. Not defending Dragon Age or anything just stating my experience with the 4 or 5 DMC games I have played and beat on the highest difficulties.
This is hilarious. The game got a 9 from the same exact IGN guy who gave Baldurs Gate 3 a 9. They clearly have his balls in a vice or abducted his family.
The xbox rating system doesn't allow you to rate a game unless you have bought and installed it. But since the day that veilgard got announced it has had multiple 5 star ratings. There's obvious shenanigans happening there. Those dodgy ratings will affect the ratings when the game does release.
That's not true. As long as you have pre-ordered a copy, you're allowed to review it. The game isn't even released yet, but there is already reviews posted.
That happened with concord on ps5 too. About 12k players had given it 5 stars yet the trophy for 'get your first kill' was only achieved by 900 players. Make it make sense.
40 year old gamer here. The last game I bought brand new was Cyberpunk 2077. Learned my lesson. I will never buy a brand new game, i will wait a minimum of 6 months to do so.
It's amazing how so many people still don't do this, if you see a studio constantly astroturfing a game and all they show are cinematic trailers and 'amazing' shots of procedural terrain it's probably going to be an unfinished mess, one thing I will give streamers and the like they are doing a service compared to reviewers just by showing the gameplay properly
Arch demons ... Tyvinter* imperium... Ancient GODS threating to destroy all existence..... But in the end... Diversity Equity and Inclusion ended their world...
True, he's the goat, i remember i thought ff16 is fucking garbage and only tasteless morons would enjoy it but felt like a psycho because everyone was glazing it (because of gay character, maybe?), yet he is like the only one with somewhat big channel who had a good opinion on it
@@fredrikhultman557 He kinda did indirectly. The story being 'safe' and the dialogue sounding like HR talk is because of politically correct writers being favoured over skilled ones.
Almost to the end, one thing I didn't see mentioned is the frightening number of reviews that use "return to form" verbatim. It's more than just giving free stuff, these people are clearly given prompts of what they want the reviews to say. Or at least keywords they want them to use.
Why are anyone suprised after what happened with concord? They probably spent tens of millions extra at drumming up positive vibes before release. The 7/10 package isn't good enough, gotta pay for the 9/10 package now.
Dude this looks way the fuck worse. It's honestly making me question if this or starfield might be the worse games in recent memory, at the very least out of triple a. If you call that cringeworthy kindergarten level writing a 7 out of 10 I really don't know what you tell you.
As an seasoned(not senior..yet) gamer. You learn a few things: 1. Never pre-order 99.99% of games 2. Learn to "read the room" with reviews. Know the reviewers biases. Generally listening to "both sides" you can get an idea of what things are like. 3. Notice patterns of the developer. Comments of them. Past work. 4. Video clips and screen shots can say 1000 words. 5. Don't trust million dollar + companies. This game is going to suck. You can't insert "current day" politics into a story narrative. Or rather it is beyond the skill of any writers and developers who wish to insert such politics to do so without ruining story narrative. Why? They all got their jobs because of their "s*x, skin color, political leaning, who they like to bang or "gender". Not because they have talent. The proof is in the shit pudding called DA4.
To be honest bg3 was probably in parallel development with this game, but yeah, they haven't not done basic ass research for games that gave massive success in the genre.
@@304enjoyer3 No, it's not. The only "woke" elements in BG3 are that there are gay characters, and that's it. The game's narrative doesn’t mention anything about sexuality even once.
At 18:40 or so, there's a name for that phenomenon. It's Goodhart's Law. Any metric used as an indicator of success is unreliable. Games companies start realizing that their success relies on people seeing good reviews of their games leading to launch, so they start restricting who is allowed to review the game prior to launch. Same thing happens with schools whose funding relies on grade averages. They start teaching students how to pass the tests, not how to learn new information in a meaningful way. Get out of high school and try using the skills or information they "taught" you, and most people find they can't.
The pharmaceutical industry does the same shit with doctors. Sure, they can't pay the doctor to prescribe their pill, but there's no law against their reps taking the doctor out to a $300 dinner or a ski trip to talk about their new products for giggles.
Let's not forget the added incentive of if they sell lots of the product they are more likely to be invited to the next all expense paid vacation. Sorry "demonstration" **cough**
It goes so much deeper than that too. Private doctor offices are often incentived/forced to prescribed certain drugs or they will lose their discount from said pharmaceutical company on all their medications (which their practice desperately needs to treat their patients).
Except there’s a public database that reports these transactions. Both parties are legally required to acknowledge their participation. Patients are encouraged to look their providers up. Some systems don’t allow pharm reps in at all.
What pisses me off the most isn’t just that they’re making “woke” games- I don’t care, I’m not buying that anyway, but that they’re taking over and twisting great franchises. It feels like they’re trying to “re-educate” people who don’t think like them. I’ve said it a million times-this all started back during GamerGate. They seem to see us gamers as the enemy, and it feels like a planned attack on us. They don’t care if the games are good or if the franchises succeed; all they care about is pushing their agenda. This needs to stop.
That's exactly how I felt when I learned they turned Victor Freeze into a fat lesbian and destroyed Velma. None of it was necessary and what ended up happening was summed up in one of my favorite youtube comments to date pertaining to Concord. "Yall made a game for yourselves and YALL didn't even play it"
@mohammedyusuf1590 outside of not limiting the player in the options on who they wish to romance, how in any way does BG3 focus it's identity around non-binary politics and gender inclusion hand holding?
@@mohammedyusuf1590 Verily, good sir, I hath partaken in the playing of 'Baldur's Gate 3', finding delight in the gameplay and tale that, in sooth, did seem most natural to the realm of fantasy and true to its forerunner. Veilguard (read it thus: Failguard) doth strike me as naught but a slothful pretext to introduce/maintain an *agenda* to/on a renowned franchise, a practice that hath been oft accepted of late.
Some of my favorite memories playing the Dwarven Campaign in Origins, killing Wyverns as Hawk in DA2 and killing Dragons in DA3. Rest In Peace I will always remember the good times.
In my opinion it makes a lot of sense. For him, access was just the air he breathed. It's sort of like how fish probably don't have a concept for water anywhere in their little brains until suddenly you take them out of it and then they're flopping around on the ground like "holy shit what the fuck is happening i need to talk about this" Obviously it's kind of shocking that he can't even notice the fact that him getting invited to this early play test event, while grummz didn't, is already a huge problem but like i said, it was just the water he swam in, he didn't have any way to notice it until it fucked him over
Fextralife. They are awful, they talk a community while always skirting on the outside of the rules, having some of the worst maintained so-called wikis. If this is the beginning of a turn around for Fextra, great. I’ll believe them if they are still doing right in a year. Large channel? Let’s talk about how you have that channel. Not bragging because it was built in an underhanded and unethical fashion. No access? Hurts doesn’t it? Means your channel is less relevant in the lead up to launch? Welcome to the real world Fex For now, I still don’t like them. Also his commentary sounds like a failed NPR audition
@@kylemichel3006 They're just a bad wiki website that embeds their streams on them to boost up their number with your 'view', they don't update wiki's after a game is popular but they're also the top google search so it leaves dead wiki's with loads of misinformation and wrong data. Build videos can be good at times but again they don't edit them as game progresses/updates and they usually just take them from reddit anyway
They're literally mocking us. They're only after that guaranteed Blackrock money. They don't care about their fans like at all. The reason why they need Blackrock money, is because they ruined their studio first and now they depend on them.
I identify as *non-buynary.*
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Haha good one😂
Hell yeah.
nailed it 😅🤌
@@gtabro1337 you killed me bro
Dragon Age 2024:
-How do I get to the library?
-Go straight and to the right. By the way, I'm gay.
Hahah dude comment literally had me on the floor 🤣
You put more emphasis on directions than you did with them outing themselves. Not accurate.
You said straight. It would be more: Directly ahead on the right.
So straight?
We don't use words like that, we accept all directions here.
This is how I felt about destiny's story the last few years.
"There's the massive galaxy threatening force coming to kill us all, now listen to these two old men talk about their feelings for each other for 10 minutes, and no you can't skip it" 😂
The word "straight" would never be uttered in that game, let's be honest
"every interaction sounds like HR is in the room"
-SkillUp
@@kornishpasty thanks Trump Pepe 👍
@@kornishpasty Wasn't that Yongyea? Or they both just did the same thing
@@kornishpasty Interesting. Do you have any sources or links you can share? I never heard about (t)his mistake.
@@kornishpasty So that invalidates all his opinions? Even if he is right?
I believe he had PS5 versions.
Which was better version.
PS4 and Xbone should had the game@@inciacci549
Hey Asmon, I have a bit of possibly controversial news for you. I'm a game dev of 16 years with titles like DayZ, Kingdom Come Deliverance and Dying Light 2 in my portfolio and I used the recent Skill Up review and the points he was making in it to write a LinkedIn post about quality of writing in contemporary AAA games using Dragon Age Veilguard as an example, all in a very professional respectful manner ofc. Guess what happened? My linkedin profile got blocked and I'm now waiting for their team to hopefully reinstate it. I went to Bioware official UA-cam channel to tell them to stop using trolls to deplatfrom veteran devs from linkedin and ofc they blocked me there too and now I can't find their official UA-cam channel at all while signed in to this UA-cam account. Maybe it's time to start talking about their really shady practices to your huge audience.
Up.
Update: my linkedin profile got restored about 12 hrs after this incident, so when I regained access to it, I went to check the statistics of my post about the quality of writing in recent AAA games including Dragon Age Veilguard and what I found there made a lot of sense.
Just for context in case people don't know this, if you have the paid "pro" account, which I do have, you get to see detailed stats of each post you make once it crosses a certain number of views and this post the morning I checked it before getting blocked already had some 8.6K views, so it did have the detailed stats.
Anyway, the moment I regained access to my account I checked the stats and turns out that the biggest group of readers of my post were from EA. It was 2% which sounds small but no other post I made before, even if it had a higher number of views, ever had one company represented by over 1%. In absolute numbers this means that about 170 people that saw my post were from EA and I'm quite sure that is more than enough to mass report and get someone blocked on LinkedIn. I can prove all this with screenshots of both the email about my account getting blocked by linked and screenshot of the statistics of the post right after I got unblocked by their community team.
Hope more people upvote dude!
Get this comment to the top guys.
Dev , you gotta repost this for a few times, until assmongler sees it ✌️
@@skibidi.G I don't wanna spam under every video to be honest and I tried to post it on Reddit, but the AI moderation didn't like it and deleted it
One of the high reviews said that whether your a mage, warrior or rogue, combat is not really affected. Thats an absurd statement for something we are going to call an RPG.
One of the 100 reviews said that different companions allow you to different special environmental things, but no worries if that companions not with you as youll have a device to allow you to do it anyway.
Because the focus of this wasn't combat or story. It was "rEpReSeNtAtiOn." This game is Dustoborn with a AAA budget. Good luck to anyone that bought this.
so... like Diablo4?
@@adreanmarantz2103 you people are sheep.
@@DS-uf4qw?
You have two distinct Biowares and understanding the timelines is key:
1. OG Bioware who made Baldurs Gate, Neverwinter Nights, KOTR, ME Trilogy, etc. Absolute classics, and gaming masterpieces that advanced the RPG genre, more than 99% of the gaming industry. Despite their flaws, these were crucial games in the genre and will forever hold a special place in many people's hearts
2. Modern Bioware:
. The last two founders left in 2012,
. Lead writers and key contributors started exiting in 2014, including:
. Casey Hudson, the creator of the Mass Effect series, left in May 2014
. Dragon Age's writer David Gaider left BioWare in January 2016
. Chris Wynn and Chris Schlerf, key contributors for Andromeda, left in 2015 (2 years before release)
. Mike Laidlaw, Creative Director for Dragon Age leaves in October 2017 after 14 years with the company
. James Ohlen, the lead designer of the Baldur's Gate series, Neverwinter Nights, Knights of the Old Republic, Jade Empire, and Dragon Age: Origins, as well as the game director of The Old Republic MMO, left the studio after 22 years in July 2018)
This is just to name some of the key contributors, hundreds of writers, and developers left during this time as well.
And everything published since then has been completely demolished by corporate interest and tasteless creatives who clearly cannot fill the shoes of their previous colleagues and have been able to completely nuke an entire studio and their legacy
Pin this comment.
None of what you stated ACTUALLY matters, the single cause of the companies entire change was when it was purchased by ea who's major shareholders are BlackRock and vanguard which are small hat financial conglomerates. Watch Europa the last battle for more information on why every media source that they have a controlling share in turns "woke" and ignores it's core audience. Good luck.
Sadly this is the trend of today's corporate world where gaming is now another investment vehicle for people who have never played video games and a way for them to insert political messaging.
this is literally EVERY big gaming studio now. they are just names now with none of the people behind them left
@@martinivanov1319 Unfortunately, this is true. There is nothing else: no inspiring ideas, no creative people, no brilliant mechanics, just old names of once great studios.
Dragon Age: Veilguards is so woke, my character apologized to a Darkspawn for ‘invading its space’ before the fight started. 😂
no way fr? I might be too gullible but I wouldn't put it past these developers 😂
Cast Reperations!
Summon drag queens!
You leveled up! Oh sorry you asian, give the level to the black elf!
The fact I cannot tell if you are joking is a perfect example of where we are.
@@Fickled_65bruh
@@Fickled_65 You know we're screwed when reality and satire is indistinguishable from each other.
We never had any problems when every game had a demo
Hell, the demos used to be free for anyone that wanted to try em too
@@sidvicious666ified They used to put them on disks on the front of Magazines at their own expense ...
Yea … we used to have no problems when games were developed by game developers instead of by activists who stayed at a holiday inn last night
I use to steal the disk 😅@lyntoncollins2758
@@lyntoncollins2758 almost like they were actually "TRYING" to sell their product by advertising it correctly
They removed spiders, one of the main enemies in the series because a dev is afraid of them.
I thought the darkspawn were the main enemies
@@Samagachi did you not read "one of"?
this is a joke, right?
@@gobarash6279 Nope, it's true, they did indeed remove spiders because someone was afraid of them, I didn't know it was a developer though.
Wouldn't want a scary monster
It's funny how they enhance inclusivity, but they exclude reviewers who dont' have the same opinion
My guy they didn’t give codes to people who were positive either, it’s an ea thing not a BioWare thing, good good you guys don’t do any research
That's true. There is a spanish streamer who wrote bioware and told them she was non binary and they instantly gave her a review code.
What I've been saying for a long time now. Inclusivity is fine, but when you become so inclusive that you inevitably become exclusive, that's when it becomes a problem.
They are Pretenders that Inverse any and all ideals and values, so no surprise.
Basically mainstream media too
Eurogamer giving a perfect score is insane. I've been gaming for 40 years and I can count on two hands the number of games I would give a 10/10.
Yea the reviewer even comments on a lack of enemy variety and that he found the game "choresome" at times, how that equates to 5 stars is baffling
Yeah if there's anything negative to say about a game you have to knock off 0.1 - 0.5 from the review
And they gave 6/10 to Wukong. They should switch to a different profession at this point. Anything but Game Critic.
@@janglalgoupiak1891 Wukong is by all means not a perfect game. I'd give it an 8.0 with proper analysis of the game if you take into account the biggest flaws it has BUT them giving it 6/10 and dragon age 10/10 is simply outrageous loooooool
So Eurogamer is telling me, this thing is equal or better to Baldur's gate 3?
Have they completely turned to AI generated content? I think most human propagandist can generate somewhat more believable propaganda than this.
Steam has been removing negative reviews all day, keeps going mixed to overwhelmingly positive then back down slowly.
I knew something was wrong with the reviews. Discussions are basically empty as well
Steam censor reviews by default, need to enter account settings and "enable all reviews".
that makes so much sense; I was seeing a lot of thumbs up that talked shit on valguard, it was confusing the hell out of me
Steam now censors “review bombs” which just equates to just censoring loads of legitimate negative reviews nowadays
Tbf, tons of the bad reviews are accounts with game time of 0.1 hours, those reviews are just people jumping on the band wagon, not real
Here is a direct quote from Skillup's review:
"The writing is, frankly, terminal. It lacks any nuance, wit or wisdom. It cannot communicate ideas, except to say them aloud to the camera. It manufactures petty, unbelievable tension because it doesn't know how to create anything more real, and it's too scared to ever be truly confronting or dark for fear that it might make the audience uncomfortable. Every interaction between the companions feels like HR is in the room, and every interaction led by the main character Rook sounds like he's addressing an under-12 soccer team before a semi-final or teaching toddlers to properly share toys."
Frankly his review was the most articulate one i've seen about Veilguard. Everyone else seems vague, but his explanations and examples created such a vivid image in my head, i just subbed to him then. Glad im skipping the game.
@@fistan5447 its the examples that really drives it home. You could easily be like yeah ok he's just remembering wrong, but then the examples play.
It’s the Shrek / Pixar comparisons he made for me. I cannot unsee Prince Charming’s head superimposed on characters in veilguard.
Here is a direct review from IGN and many others:
"This game is really good. Bioware is back."
@@honkyjesuseternal Lmao nobody cares about them
Bioware been dead for a looong time.
I think ME3 was the one that killed them. Everything after that has just been death spiral.
Dragon Age Inquisition is what did it for me, even though DA2 and ME3 showed some signs, I wasn't too involved at the time. DAI showed clear signs of development being directed to what was trendy/was thought to make money at the time instead of making the next great Dragon Age game.
I've never bought anything from Bioware since then, and so far it has been the correct choice lol.
@@Vaios7GWhat was wrong with DA:I? That was my first DA game and it was enjoyable. It really goes to show the divisiveness gamers have all because of a previous entry they compare to. Which is understandable, but because DA:I was my first, I thought it was okay at best.
Edit: I did see you said they changed it to be trendy and what would sell for that time, but I enjoyed the combat system the most.
@@Vaios7Gfor me da:i was pretty good and the last good bioware game, mass effect andromeda was okey at best, and anthem wasnt even a complete game
@@Andy_Paris DAI wasn't a terrible game, I did, in fact, enjoy it, but it showed clear signs of confusion on what kind of game they wanted to develop.
The mission table was such a bizarre addition to a series which focused heavily on story and companions, when the obvious way to go about it would've been for those missions to be actual characters and quests in the humongous world they created.
The maps became huge, but they had little substance, or were filled with pointless fetch, MMO-like quests. This was unlike the other two games in the series, and Skyrim's success a few years before probably influenced this decision, despite DA series being a different type of RPG compared to Skyrim.
Enemies in the world respawned. The best materials for your crafted gear (Fade-Touched) had a chance to drop, so you had to grind for them. That's a logic that fits in MMO games, but kinda weird for a single player, story-driven game.
There's more examples, but lack of clear vision is what I would describe Bioware as of late, and information that came out on the development of Andromeda and Anthem lend to this assessment in my opinion.
Counter examples of games from developers that have a clear vision of what type of game they're making would be Larian or FromSoftware. I'm not saying they're perfect games, but when you play games like Baldur's Gate 3 or Elden Ring, you get the overwhelming sense that they were developed they way they did because that's what was envisioned by the developers, not because a corporate directive said they need to have these specific features, because that's what sells at the moment.
Im sorry but the idea of 2015 trans tumblr sh*t in a medieval fantasy setting sounds genuinely hilarious, this game is a south park bit come to life lmfao
I think its tragic
Yeah tumblr went to shit and all the weirdos got normie jobs but they're still weird and it SHOWS man.
The problem is Veilguard is not funny while South Park is hilarious.
@@jacobd6315 this sounds way too accurate xD
Do you know trans characters were in Dragon Age 1 that came out in 2009 do you? In one of the best RPGs ever :D Tell me you don't know anything about the universe without telling me you don't know anything about the universe.
2014: Dragon Age
2024: Drag Age
🤡
Hopefully soon to be 'gone'.
@@Mereologist if they dont kill us - all normal ppl..
i mean 2014 dragon age had as much "woke" stuff. Its almost like many of you didnt play the old DA games.
2034: Strapon Gays
@@jesperjohansson9857 it REALLY didn't , but you are right. The globalists who use marxist lies have been infiltrating free enterprises from at least the 90s
There's an actual female to male trans quest with surgery scars and everything - in a medieval styled fantasy game.
This game is a fucking disgrace.
Did you know that’s also a side quest in real life? It means it’s optional
WTF
Yep. The trans director inserted himself into the game, absolutely disgusting stuff
@@McKillaboy no way. Where did you hear this
@@seangiglio You are clearly missing the point mate :)
They sure put the "Drag" in Dragon.
Final boss is a Drag-Dragon😂
Not the Drugon😭😭😭
Final boss is actually a multi-phase RuPaul...you first fight him/they/she until him/they/she turn into their true 'Final-transformation'.
@@ArnoldJudasRimmer..with the proper surgical scars for identity sake.
Dragqueen Age: Failhard
Most damming thing ive heard of this game so far is the amount of people turning down the difficulty just so they can get through the game faster and interact with it as little as possible. Which is that last thing you want to hear from a 40 hour long RPG.
At least we have a good story here. 😉
@@BehindTheMatrixSo people are paying for an interactive movie. Kinda cool if that's what you're looking for. Me, I want a fun challenging combat system that puts an emphasis on making a good build. Loot and skill trees should matter, affecting gameplay in intuitive ways. That's why I love D4 so much.
@@Andy_Paris D4 is trash
@@henssiej580 I enjoy the combat system, just like Anthem's.
@@Andy_Paris I beat D4 story, and was done with it...very boring game.
Nothing scares a "Video game journalist" than Freedom of Speech
Propaganda doesn't exist to convince dissenters that they are wrong. Propaganda exists to convince dissenters that they are _alone_
EDIT: Reply was correct -- adding a word makes it clearer
And create an impression that "people" support the thing. That's how a vocal minority controls the silent majority.
Underrated comment, actually.
I get the idea, but you can word that better.
@@brunosouza3326 Gaslighting propaganda bot example of ops message detected.
@@brunosouza3326 It seems pretty clear and concise, maybe you can read that better.
TotalBiscuit led the charge against devs gatekeeping access to media that gave bad reviews. I feel like his passing was a turning point that left consumers at the mercy of all sorts of bad behaviors. RIP TB, you are missed now, more than ever before.
Go watch the DF review though, TB would LOVE DAV for the PC options and accessibility.
it is like TotalBiscuit was an anchor person like Wolverine, R.I.P. TB
TB was **THE** consumer advocate of the gamedev industry. He routinely went out of his way to call out anti-consumer behaviour and give publicity to scandals most industry giants would love swept under the rug. Sadly, after his passing, no major figure stepped up to fill that void. And so we end up with the gradual descent into more and more ridiculous behaviours.
Total Biscuit was my fave non-reviewer. (they were impressions 😛)
I think the closest thing is Synthetic Man. He is as cynical as that guy but not as obsessed with indie pc games. We need more realistic reviewers who are not just on youtube for the money or clicks but actually see the videos as hobby on the side. A lot of youtuber who make all their income from youtube, tend to compromise their views once they get really famous and they are afraid of their subscriber count dropping if they say something that isn't popular opinion.
The John Bane of all those bad reviewers.
The fact that every single character feels like a dei check box is so annoying. So when the gameplay sucks, the story sucks and the visual sucks it just shows where the priorities are
Btw welcome back man. Gaming space wasn’t the same without ya
This is the same argument I had on reddit with the Isabella changes. If they are so worried about making a woman look manly and flat chested instead of her da2 look then you see where their priorities lie. If chest size doesn't matter for their game why did they on purpose change her? It is so obvious that d.e.i. is the focus of veilguard. This reeks of sweet baby.
It's weird, cuz dragon age already has gay characters and represented various racial groups...
@@lolimmuneExactly, so why are they fucking with it?
@ 100%, but it’s so clearly a must have when developing the game now. They pretty much said “okay we need 1 black character, one handicapped person, we non binary character; that’s got to be worth at least our gay/ lesbian/ trans slot, we got dwarfs covered, we have to put a dashing rouge like bisexual character and oneeeeeee Asian.” Non of which would be an issue if it wasn’t the main objective of the game. BioWare has forgotten they make games. If the game was good none of the above would matter
U played the game?
84 on metacritic with 54 critic reviews, 2.5 user score based on 1100 reviews. Nuff said.
Have you maybe concidered that the permanently online crowd like yourselves and asmon are just weird by focussing on a small aspect on a game that is good? No? Okay continue the anti-woke hurr duurrr
Don't ever treat ideas like sports teams. Remove the emotion. Remove the constant drive in the mind to find community to be around those you accept and those that accept you. Yeah, it is comfortable to be part of a group that accepts each other based on simple ideas that anyone can write about, showing support for the group and feeling part of it. Don't do that. Instead, think logically. Never abandon logic to fit in. IS what you wrote enough said? No, it's not. As we both know, in situations where there are two sides of an emotional drama featuring two mobs going at it with various figureheads spiking the drama higher at any chance, you always have people putting in fake 1/10 reviews and fake 10/10 reviews without having even played the game. Less worse, you also have some who have played the game, but they transform their actual score into a 1/10 or 10/10 due to their emotions.
Stay logical and stay out of mobs of emotion. Your post isn't a good line of reasoning... clearly. And I'm saying that as a person who has consumed the same drama videos here as you -- someone who generally SUSPECTS the game might feel like an HR meeting with sterile writing. I'm still fair though. I SUSPECT the game will not be good due to unrealistic, sterile writing. However, I'm not going to CONCLUDE it is bad based on the opinions of figureheads who benefit from sensationalism. And I'm going to take individual reviews for either side with a grain of salt, because many of them are written by people belonging to one of the two emotional mobs. Value your own perception. Wait until you've played the game or at least seen someone else play the game before thinking out what you believe the quality of the entire game is. And actually play/watch hours of the game. Don't watch a couple of the lamest moments in the writing, extrapolating that the entire game must be that constantly throughout.
Steam ratings - 7/10, interesting that people who played it actually love it (personally i would give it 3/10).
Qunari used to be awesome. Now they're walmart Tieflings.
This was the exact thing I was feeling about them. The Qunari are a people who belong to an absolute Fascist Theology. That's more important than them having horns. It's what makes them Qunari. You can have fringe members that don't believe in the Qun properly but you have to remember that those are outcasts from the society and extremely small in number.
Even Iron Bull was pushing it in Inquisition. But he had the excuse of being conditioned to serve as a spy in the area so he was essentially the Qun's idea of what a "normal" person is.
From chads to goat humans.
Tieflings after being oiled up and their hairline messed up😭😭
The Queernari 🤦♂️
Man, what did Walmart ever do to deserve being mentioned in the same breath as Veilguard Qunari?
Starfield early 10/10s "game of a generation" reviews all over again
Ya that was just weird, star field apparently was going to save going...worst triple a game I've ever played
Yeah. Altho Starfield has some redeeming features (if you like Bethesda games) and didnt destroy an already existing franchise.
Reminds me of the 1980's, when it was discovered that record companies were buying up thousands of their own artists vinyl records to manipulate a bands music chart position.
I remember the intense meat riding that occurred anytime someone dared criticise starfield for the first few weeks, thinking back on it that shit was crazy. Anyways which triple A do you guys think is worse? It was starfield for me but veilguard is some tough competition.
I still don't understand why so many people went to bat so hard for Starfield. It looked like garbage from the start
Glad to see my favorite rich hobo back
He’s back!!! Now I won’t get bored at work haha
Been a boring couple
weeks for sure.
Same
Same
Why is he such a bum? Isn't he a trillionaire?
Game journalist's reviews are invalid. IGN gave that game a "9" and wukong a "7" for some reason. This is disgusting...
The sentiment is widespread here, 🤮
Enemies be like "do I have permission to touch you? BTW I'm they them "
Meanwhile a JRPG that is all about unison of all races/tribes: Kill characters left and right, sometimes in brutal ways, straight up acknowledge that there will be frictions when trying to be inclusive, drop nightmarish eldritch horror in combat, bad guy is literally Griffith, hot chicks and dudes and old men in the party, etc…
I’ve been saying this for a while, but how the fuck is Japan doing inclusivity better than the west?
@@KhangNguyen-ij4xh Because inclusivity and diversity were never the real issue. Its propagandizing and pandering that annoy the hell out of people. Western studios hired too many activists and too few writers, so we get propaganda instead of entertainment from them.
These Identification and consent questions towards the enemies work like a curse, that's why 😂
Enemies: Do I have permission to touch you? What are your pronouns? 😂😂😂😂
@@KhangNguyen-ij4xh They always did it, that is the key difference. There are a lot of ancient anime's that already had these facits of characters. Hell even japanese folklore is far more "inclusive" than what is now called by that name. It's actually the west being racist against a culture that never needd to "learn" while still turning out abominations like AC Shadows in the hopes of signifying their virtue.
Tldr: This is the end point of clown world and we are literally living through it at this point. Racism will infact win at the end of it if this insanity is not stopped, not joking.
"I'm a woman who feels like I should've been a man, but instead of just creating my character as a man... I want my character to have chest scars where they removed their breasts."
NONE OF THIS MAKES ANY SENSE!!
It does when you view it as a Cult
@@frosty848lmao right and 5 min on reddit and you'll see all of those types thinking everyone else are the ones in a cult. It's utterly bizarre.
It does when you have a mental illness
@@LayerZeroDesign Lack of self-awareness/reflection.
@dustinbiester4401 just like wheelchair users wouldn't choose to play as a wheelchair bound character
I hate how the party members have been erased from combat. They dont participate or have health or use abilities. They are just extra ability slots. Its like they took the MMO version, and instead of incorporating the party based system of DA, said F it lets just make them ability slots. Remember freezing enemies then shield smashing them? Felt good.
Being able to script your party to do different things on their own, based on the situation at hand was fuckin amazing. They watered it down badly for Inquisition... And I'd bet it's almost, if not a completely gutted mechanic now.
@@abduljabars And even with how gutted Inquisition was, people that spent a lot of time figuring out how the AI works ultimately managed to still come up with essentially Companion Setups that would let them essentially 3-man an entire Nightmare + Challenges Playthrough on their own. But getting rid of ALL of it? Bro, these Developers weren't cooking on a grill or using the oven, they fucking full sent this Game in a microwave for 10 years.
Exactly, nightmare in inquisition meant you had to think and figure things out. This new version you're basically playing a generic ARPG. Even Atreus was more helpful!
It's so funny when a recent free gacha game which three capital letters imply sleeping have much better combat gameplay and party abilities than Veilguard despite being designed mostly for the mobile market.
Oh boy if this doesn't put Bioware in the dirt, I can't wait for the squadmates to stay on the ship in Mass Effect 4
PLS GUYS DONT BUY THIS. THEY ARE GOING TO RUIN GAMING FOR ALL FUTURE GENERATIONS
They sure will try… 😂
I'm quite positive they changed Qunary design because the original design was too masculine.
The old design was best, fail decision on their part.
100%
They also made the Quanari non binary lol
Under any other circumstances, I'd be inclined to agree with you. In this case, however, I believe they were simply too incompetent to do anything besides generic Pixar-style characters. I mean, look at these things!
The Veilguard version is the direct result of consuming too much soy products.
They are now the Soynari.
It's not about games anymore
Comics, movies, games, from the mainstream AAA studios seems to all want to go after the woke message. And the cult comminuty keeps saying they are under repressented when the last dozen products out of each of these mainstream studios is all woke check boxes.
Its the Message, and check boxes. ITs why they keep getting crushed by indie and AA studios.
It's about "the message™"
They're mask-off selling ideology now, not games.
It hasn't been for a while now unfortunately...
Just like Joker said: "it's not about money, it's about sending a message"
They gave Black Myth Wukong 8/10 and this garbage a 9/10? IGN ain't even hiding what kind of company they are anymore
One point doesn't prove anything.
@@chasejackson7248 I see my comment completely went over your head, my point is that you really think Dragon Age is a 9/10 game?
@@DenLim123 You played it? Oh that's right
@@bdanbauer6048 Bruh, have you seen the gameplay footage and release trailer, it doesn't take someone with a functioning brain to know how bad it looks. Granted, I don't think you have that kind of mental capacity.
@@DenLim123 I have, looks pretty great to me and all the other people who have made it the top preordered game on Steam 👍
I refunded this before it even became live. I'm not going to pay a game studio to shove their woke BS down my throat.
Tired of seeing Dark Fantasy get destroyed by these weirdo's. I didn't even mind Dragon Age inquisition despite it's obvious flaws but Veilguard seems like it's trying to appeal to a far smaller audience rather than to DA fans or even Baldur's Gate fans. Bioware disappointed me with Andromeda and Anthem I no longer care what happens to this company or the employees there.
DA:I was more heroic fantasy and I liked it because the story still felt like Dragon Age and Trespasser really set my hopes high. Veilguard? Feels like it’s Woke Fantasy? Which is a way too far from the original dark fantasy to be considered from the same universe, and considering they dropped Solas for two random bad guy-bad guys is a joke in itself.
All that to say I agree with you lol
@@tbarf I feel like people will start giving dai more props when this slop comes out
God Damn ME Adromeda SUCKED, that was my final pre order
BG 1-2 was dark and violent. The newest one is woke.
@@si-jd9oqwhich is undeserved. DAI was trash. I found it to be worse than DA2 which was rather bad too.
Remember Dragon Age Origins: "Warden's Calling" or "This is War" trailers? Yep, Dragon Age is no more.
Sacred ashes
Dragon Age Origins also had jank-ass trailers too. Lets not try to rewrite history now.
We told everyone a year ago that the company is run by” opinion only matters and I’m always right and your wrong Karen’s “
@@jwbartle Nah, the Sacred Ashes trailer was pretty fucking awesome.
@@willl676 I don't mean that one. I mean "The New Shit" teaser. It's generic af.
Who still trust corporates' reviews at this point?
You can’t trust large streamers that stream video games too. One good example is Brian Menard. Bro gets paid to shill to his audience but hides it very well.
Yeah but different between big steamers and actually gamers who also agree when games are bad. It not rocket science
Unfortunately a lot of people
Basically everyone that looks at the gaming community or just a singular game on the surface level, with normal lives that don’t want to spend time looking into a game, and just want the number out of 10 that reviewers give.
They're about as trustworthy as most YT " let's stick to a certain bandwagon narrative to get more views" reviews at this point. Yet doing the rounds on YT, it seems a fair number of gamers love doing this without a second thought.
why does every game we wait for so bad turn out to be so disappointing
Companies no longer care about the consumer they care about profit margins
Because they hire people who write books like "Me & My Dysphoria Monster" ...
You waited for this?
@@Davandmorthey don’t even care about the profit, they just want to be buddy buddy’s with woke people.
@@luna775 dam😆
Dragon Gay: Queerguard
- How do we beat the dragon?
- Use magic, stab it with a sword. My pronouns are they/them
Me: Is that a dragon?
My team: Well have to ask first what it identifies as.
you just have to tell the Dragon that you're trans and it will surrender.
*tro0nguard, fixed it for ya
Just pull out a biology book and you defeat everything in the game
Nah, just screech at that it for being ist/phobe for attacking the minority characters and shame it into being publicly canceled until no hero wants to be associated with having dealt with it.
If the game is soo woke that even Skillup gave it a bad review, you know it has to be hot garbage…
That's not the issue, its just dog shit. Larian wrote a woke game and it was widely accepted, so did CDPR with CP2077. It's the people in charge of these projects that are creatively bankrupt because they got to their position through being the most diverse individual. Look at the creative director of Failguard and you would've known from day 1 it was going to be trash. People making executive decisions when they lack the skill to do so is the problem. I so hope BioWare collapses due to this though.
When even ShillUp isn't shilling, you KNOW it's bad....
The difference with larian and CDPR with those games is that the woke part wasn’t forced into a genre it didn’t fit into already. Weird, androgynous society in the future? Sure, more likely than not probably. BG3 it also wasn’t heavy handed or forced. I don’t care if it’s there, I care if it’s forced into the game for no reason other than to be there. That’s what this feels like. The irony is that this is also the biggest news about the game, which tells me the game is shit if this is all people are talking about. I don’t see anyone saying “hey, it’s woke but the gameplay and story are so good otherwise you really need to give it a try.” A bad game is a bad game whether it’s woke or not.
"Woke" isn't a valid criticism, sorry. The game just looks boring, unispired and overall, safe. They didn't take any risk, these people "learned" that this is the right way do things. It is why old games have charachter and authorship. Now, AAA game are technically good, but they lack a distinctive personality and setting.
@@no_harm AAA aren't technically good either, when they cannot consistently release games bug and performance issue free. Game is a story driven game, without a good story it's still dog shit if the gameplay is good.
Larian Studio: Add evil endings for each character - blood, deaths, power, murders etc.
Bioware (2024): Noooooo, just don't call a fellow party member a fool (((((
Lol, it deserves a like and a top
TBH. Baldurs gate is cringy woke too. Brilliant game, but not short on political message. It constantly panders, and tries to force. Female fighters, female barbarians and male wizards. Every other npc is gay. Fortunately game is really good. I have a thousand hours.
But this is absolutely last time I am buying such game. Even if it is good.
You can literally cause an untimely end for every single party member possible. And a few extra when you're playing as Durge.
@@dova-oj1ktmale wizards are woke now? Female barbarians have been in popular media since the 80s, at least. 😅
@@Southeni That was from the publishing director of Larian, so basically irrelevant.
I was banned form the forums for this comment and I quote ""It's a joke really, I was exited for this game. Too bad it will be ruined with wokeness. Oh well, there are other games coming out." This is how scared they are of the bad press.
It's because you spelt "excited" wrong 😏
@shinzoux5912 banned by the grammar police...
They're disgusting.
Instead of fixing the game, this.
saying Skill Up was critical is an understatement. I've watched him for years, and I don't think I have ever seen him hate a game like this. he seemed to truly regret ever even playing this game.
He talked about basically being over it something like 20 hours in out of 50 and saying he would not get that time back. He did not talk about game-breaking bugs or major technical issues, so his thoughts were basically entirely on the content of the game - gameplay, characters, story, dialogue, etc.
And he loves the other DA games. It's so damning
It's amusing because he's sometimes referred to as "Shill Up" and his comment about how the characters talk "like HR is in the room" really goes to show just how bad woke tropes are becoming if someone like him recognizes it indirectly despite how hard he tried to avoid its prominence in his review.
I'm waiting for the moment where Angry Joe finally acknowledges it as well rather than pretending that nothing is wrong, that the game sucks for mostly other reasons, as if it all doesn't culminate into a failure of a product equally. But I think he's stubborn, and he and his friends would never want for the community to be correct the whole time while he was wrong.
@@WigglyBro Angry Joe is the biggest shill ever.
Thought austin would do it for him
The fact that MrMattyPlays hates the game is enough said. He has been a HUGE BioWare fan like forever and even he says it’s terrible.
Yeah, and having watched him for a long time, I knew his initial preview was his honest thoughts as a DA fan as well as a Bioware fan in general, so it made sense that he was optimistic about what turned out to be EXTREMELY curated content, which he addresses in his video. He is a pretty genuine dude and will both admit when he is wrong and when his mind has changed on something.
I hope he doesn't fold to manufactured backlash, access journalism need to end, I would rather have genuine but very late review than day 1 propaganda.
I didn't really have much respect for him until he fessed up that DA4 is bad. He went up in my estimation right then.
Matty liked CP77 on launch and game was buggiest & glitchest.
I don't trust him nor ACG.
And ACG praised Dead rising remaster with ignoring heavy censorship.
"It panders to my mental illness 9/10" -ign
And 90% of the other reviewers and "gaming" journos. You check and most of them are just more of the same weird bunch, they are here for politics and bs in our games, not the game itself.
And to be clear yes it is a mental illness
IGN - Incredibly Gay Now
This was funny, thanks
That's the thing. The DSMV doesn't consider this as a mental illness "anymore" and it's just so bloody dumb.
- Hy, welcome to mcdonald's, what can I get you today?
- I'm non binary, quant gender.
The fact that the people that got denied review codes have more subscribers combined then all the people they gave codes to is very telling
DigitalFoundry is part of this conspiracy now?
That got proven false by the folks who were critical of the game in the lead up to the reviews and ended up getting a review code
Bots ofcause
I was confused watching the IGN review. It showed a woman-like picture at the bottom with a woman's name then a dude started talking.
😂
Bro forgot to take off his Halloween costume before making the review
He's doing irl RP
IGN creeps
The twist! Sneetches scars, a star here, a removed star there. You'll never know the real gender.
Imagine watching 5 seasons of game of thrones and they make season 6 with dreamworks/pixar style. Thats how dragon age fans are feeling right now.
Didn't they do something similar anyway, it wasn't disney level but it was still pretty awful?
@@orthodox-mp6hv Game of Thrones was good for the first 4 seasons, then the writing got progressively worse. Season 8 is so bad, people stopped talking about it within a week which is very telling for a show that was *the* main conversation topic at any job's water cooler.
@@TheReaLcatniP Indeed, now that you mention it after watching it all I never wanted to speak with anyone about it at all, I made a grand total of one remark about how dark the battle episode was and that's it. No one really wanted to discuss anything about it. People just wanted to forget.
Bruh, WTF is this comment. I dont think you have ever played dragon age in your life to say this type of shit. None of the games have any artistic consistency, every single entry in the franchise looks completely different from onde another.
If youre gonna criticize something at least make up some valid points.
@@JoaoPedro-cj7ff Origins and DA2 are different but they feel similar enough in style to be in the same universe, Inquisition is a departure and Veilguard looks to be even more unrelated in terms of style and theme.
The only thing preventing access journalism has been the cost of maintaining records that can be relied upon. Now that an executive at EA can prompt an LLM to "show me a list of social media content creators who's reviews were less than positive" and within seconds they can make a reliably informed decision about who gets codes, and who doesn't... those barriers are gone.
Dragon Age DEIGuard looks like the type of game that even pirates don't want.
not even worth the bandwidth
true, i dont.
ARrrghh, that be a truth, mate.
Imagine if Fitgirl doesn't even make the repackage 😂
Best anti piracy measure
Dragon Age: Veilguards is so censored you have to apologize before each combat, because your ancestors may have used blood magic at some point!
Blood magic reparation when????
"would you like to do a "welcome to country" to get blessings from the custodians of this land"
Lol good one. They don't want your character to use blood magic because it's bad...
>your ancestors may have used blood magic
But my Warden is probably still alive.
Blood magic is just misunderstood.
So-called "Toxic positivity" is more damaging than negative feedback.
Anything toxic is anything but positive. A play on words that really cant fall us for long [well not at all]
Its also called chasing very young teens E for Everyone audience. Games aren't made for adults. I'm fine with kids games being sensitive but I'm an adult.
@@dbank6107 Positivity is usually seen as a good thing, but toxic positivity describes a situation where positivity becomes an almost compulsory behaviour where no criticism or negative opinion, however fair or justified is allowed to be expressed. Nobody is allowed to say anything other than "This is great...". "Your ideas are brilliant...", etc, etc.
The writing is the most offensive part……I used a dagger to open a veil in a rift of the fade to lock two gods into a prison…..wait, what?
“Every interaction between companions feels like HR is in the room”
- Skillup
That is probably the most damming thing I could have heard and every last shred of hope went out the window when I heard it.
A throat chop like no other.
The Dragon Age authors focused on imposing their propaganda rather than creating engaging narratives 😔
They arent game developers, they are activists
And they didn't even do that very well...
They already suck at Political Activism, but they thought it was a good idea to become not just game devs, but also activist game devs.
Welcome to modern games bro
@@SuperBlitzKing welcome to going out of business and becoming homeless than. volition learned that lesson are you next bioware?
"As a non-binary myself", hes not even trying to hide it LMAOOOOOO
For those who don't know where is this from, it's from the "IGN"orance review
@@imanrique8999nice
Thats great but is the game fun?
"The what?" - IGN
@@imanrique8999 Yeah, I know, and if it was anyone other than IGN I'd say it's a clever joke. The headline of their review is "If this is the last Dragon Age", so they know this will kill the IP and they don't care, they got the money. It's almost impressive how remorseless they are.
So.....they have a non binary writer who wrote the character. So...is it your take that isn't allowed in games? Could be interesting given the win dictates everything about how you have to live and the character left the qun and is free to make choices. Is that going to be bad? We shall see. But it seems to fit the world tbh.
Me: Choosing pronoun he/him
Every companion in Dragon Age Veilguard: Rook is they/them.
Me: Shiet
It's ironic that the game disrespects your pronouns because according to the DEI consultants that's worse than murder.
It's kind of ridiculous how in earlier games you were always addressed as "Grey Warden" or "Shepard" (from Mass Effect), so pronouns weren't really needed.
This is a step backwards.
🤮 it's on purpose.
Plenty of these reviewers keep claiming they haven't been paid, when they know they mean they haven't been "directly" paid. They profit financially in others ways, but blatantly trying to fool their viewership.
gaslighting
access journalism is a cancer on the industry
They didnt get paid
Devs just sent review keys only to woke reviewers ofcource they gave 10/10
The spanish reviewer just wrote she is nonbinary and immediatly got a key
And when review was negative devs just dmca blocked the video
No direct pay, just review copies and a free trip. With the unspoken agreement that they would receive the same treatment again for the next game if they gave the game a review it doesn't deserve.
@@alex25509 lmao. Source tho? I wanna check it out xD
DA:2 necromancer is an evil blood mage that makes our mom into franken bride
DA:4 necro is gentleman with cute Skelly
I like that, the Mortalitasi were a nice breath of fresh air, though the air of macabre and sinister coolness was replaced with something that could've safely been in the film Coco (2017), dark fantasy my foot.
Bioware literally did not consider what kind of personality or moral outlook would it take for someone to WILLINGLY raise the dead to serve them, or the kind of disregard for life that would lead to.
To be fair, the idea is actually quiet creative, cool and decently executed...but designed to appeal to children.
Like... this charakter would be very cool, if he was a gentleman but it was still clear that necromancy is quiet a grim, serious thing... about raising rotten bodies and disturbing the peace of the dead and not about some cutesy wutsy lil skeleton with twinkly gems for eyes.
But that would be controversial within the Dragon Age universe, which Bioware obviously doesn't want, when in fact it should be!
@@easy8077 No kidding. Even original Medievil on ps1 has a more mature approach to raising the dead, and that's saying something.
Skill up murdered this game. It looks like a Disney cartoon
As he should have. Nothing about this game looked like it was going to be good from the very beginning
I am SHOCKED he had anything negative to say considering he’s such a pro-woke guy. To my point he criticized the combat, character design, dialogue and story but didn’t touch the woke stuff. He’s very crafty that way.
Skill up has been wrong on almost every games he’s reviewed the last couple years. Dude loves Destiny, the division and Diablo 4 lmao he’s not exactly a beacon of good games
@@fawkesandhoundnot sure you actually watched it because most of his review was about the tone. The biggest example he gave was the books on the camping trip argument. I've never seen an Ozzy called woke too, that's a first 😂
@@fawkesandhoundYeah I think Skillup nailed my concerns as a longtime fan of the series,especially regarding the tone switch from dark fantasy to this juvenile cartoonish garbage. You seem to be the one obsessed with identity nonsense tbh and assume that Skillup is super woke just cause he doesn’t rant about tiny details in every review.
Veilguard is the worst Dragon Age game. It's like the entire company forgot how to write good stories, quests, maps are repetitive BS, combat system simplistic to the point of idiocy, level up system reduced to ridiculous amount hell games like these in the 90's and early 2000's weren't considered RPGs but hack and slash adventure games.
I think they are trying to entice pre teens and teens to enter the franchise and made a jolly little PG 13 title.
This reviewer gave it a 9 bc it has a non binary gender option in the character creation menu😂. That’s the only reason.
“I feel included, therefore perfect game.” 💀🤡
Maddening how they always want to shove themselves into games, instead of imagining being the characters in the game. It's backwards
"we want you to relate to the character, so here's a character that looks like me and identify what I identify as"
It has to be noted too that Luke Stephens and Fextra at least are pretty non political in their reviews they were critical of literally only the gameplay and game choices, not any “culture war” stuff so if that is the reason they were not given review copies, that would be very telling.
Typically the excuse when a game is more “woke” that they give is that they only want the game judged on merits not themes. And yet… I wonder if they’re choosing to interpret disliking the choice in character design as something
Every single opinion, objection or thought that deviates from the "party line" is treason. That is why they default to "-ists and -phobes" hate the "current thing" whenever someone points out any problem with the game.
I'd go one step further and say they avoid it like the Plauge they will ignore the Elephant you put in the room with them as they walk around it just so you'll give them a review copy and even they didn't get one.
I'd imagine EA's goal with this was to just minimise any and all negativity surrounding the game at launch. They could probably see from a mile away that the game was a dud and would flop, but since they've invested so much money into it they decided to rig the reviews to make as much money as possible from the game, before actual players get their hands on it and people see what the game is really like without journo influence tainting the experience.
It suddenly makes sense why they didn't want this game to EVER be tied to Dragon Age Keep..... they knew it should never be canonised.
This tactic is so predictable. eg Wicked
I have made nearly a dozen reviews on IMDB that were negative that all got deleted because they were 'homophobic' or whatever simply for stating that I personally dont want to see those things when I watch a movie.
DragAge Transguard: in the land of pronouns
😂
Hahaha hahahaha
😂😂😂😂
Drag On Age the Fail hard
@@sensoeirensen this should be top comment
The Left protects its ideology and advances it whenever they can.
They do it with book reviews and best seller lists.
They do it with movie reviews.
They do it with TV show reviews.
Why would video games be any different?
The right protects their supremacy and their yt privileges.
What games does the Right claim? Im not either side im just wondering...what to compare this to.
@@chc2650the only piece of media I’ve ever seen criticized as being for the right were films by Craig Zahler, specifically “dragged across concrete.”
@@chc2650The "right" is just being dragged along the center line. People don't understand when they say they don't want politics in their games. Dragon age is the exact example of letting HR types sanitize the dialogue for you. It's extremely on the nose
@@chc2650 The Right doesn't own popular culture so none. If a game inserted Right Wing/Conservative viewpoints every corpo game reviewer would give it a poor rating, it would probably be hard to even find funding to make the game in the first place.
As a dad, husband and a sole bread winner of the fam, I need demos to come back. This is a 50+ hour game. Give me the first 5 hours. Prove to me the game is not bad.
I think that’s the only true solution to the access journalism issue. Make the access for everyone. That way 50 UA-camrs can’t bury your game pre-launch (if it’s a good game) or sell a junk game to millions of potential customers (if it’s a bad game).
I agree, but they would never give us that much. They know the static saying people decide in the first 2 hours, so they'll only ever give us the best first 30 minutes, often on a timer. I honestly think the first 10% of the game, no matter how long it is, is what we need to make an informed decision and not a gamble
A lot more games need to have a demo, I only bought FF16 after I played the demo and realised I liked it.
Lots of demos on Steam and PlayStation, just not for this or certain games...
5 hours is too long. If a game doesn't manage to hook you in 30min or less it probably isn't worth it.
I want my games to all have cutscenes that lecture me on nuanced, first-world social issues in a fantasy setting to totally drag me out of any fun i may have been having
40+ hours in haven’t seen a damn thing like this so stop complaining.
I am sure all the 10 world wide players who loved Dustborn and Concord are gonna love this one too.
Dustbin game of the year for sure
Concord wasn't bad because politics it was just a really shit game that came out at the wrong time with incredibly outdated mechanics when compared to hero shooters from a decade ago. Political messaging was just a cherry on the cake.
@chillociraptor5007 Nice try friend, but when the clowns in charge are neck deep in the "we must teach the players a lesson" mode that stuff ends up infecting the gameplay too.
@@chillociraptor5007No.
@@SammEater outside of the character roster there is nothing in the gameplay itself that is indicative of political virtue signaling. Reviewers who don't give a damn about wokeness said it was shit because it was just straight up shit. Poltical messaging was a rotten egg on top of an already dog shit cake. Though, you are right that this woke nonsense in our games needs to boot. I don't mind it if it isn't affecting the experience, but if its shoehorned in a way that hurts the core game then it should go. Dragon age is shit because its combat sucks, its story sucks, its dialogue and characters suck, AND its got that woke dogma on top.
I would not care as much if it was a new IP doing its own new thing...this is NOT dragon age...this looks like a Disney/Pixar product stuffed with hamfisted, in your face, LGBTQIA+ propaganda. This is a franchise that has been followed for over a decade...the switch up in the style and feel of the world and the characters is jarring for DA fans
Its the fate of all game developers once they go public, it's not a matter of if but when it happens. Never go public with a game development company. The best companies are all private. You know why Arizona iced tea cans are 99 cents for past 20-30 years? Cause there a private company. Indies make a lot of slop but they also make gems because they are privately owned so can take risks.
The gameplay literally went from rpg seemingly into hack-n-slash with rpg elements, except it isn't even a good hack-n-slash
Any game where the gameplay is you spamming flashy moves while enemies just stand around and maybe hit you once every 10 seconds is dog shit
Yep, especially in 2024
Devil May Cry 🌝
@@shmekelfreckles8157 only on lower difficulty levels do the enemies "just stand around" in most if not all DMC games I have ever played. Not defending Dragon Age or anything just stating my experience with the 4 or 5 DMC games I have played and beat on the highest difficulties.
obviously after having played Dragon's Dogma every other combat system will look like ass
I had seen a few reviews that looks good, so I bought it, watched a stream while installing, requested a refund before I created a character.
We are living through the greatest mental health crisis in world history and BioWare thought it would be a good idea to celebrate it in their game.
I don’t want them to make mass effect 5 give the ip to the community that really cares about the universe
World history?hmm nope just your westerner civ
@@Palestine4Ever169Nope, it’s also in the UK.
All they are doing is making their brain deteriorate faster
@@Palestine4Ever169I bet the mental health in Palestine is doing great
This is hilarious. The game got a 9 from the same exact IGN guy who gave Baldurs Gate 3 a 9. They clearly have his balls in a vice or abducted his family.
Or he’s a crap reviewer.
Probably just too scared to rate BG3 a 7.
I wouldn't assume he has balls.
I will never believe a corporate review
"Access journalism does not exist"
One minute later: "we didnt recieve a review copy"
The xbox rating system doesn't allow you to rate a game unless you have bought and installed it.
But since the day that veilgard got announced it has had multiple 5 star ratings. There's obvious shenanigans happening there. Those dodgy ratings will affect the ratings when the game does release.
That's not true. As long as you have pre-ordered a copy, you're allowed to review it. The game isn't even released yet, but there is already reviews posted.
@@Dee-b5pthat makes it more plausible, but not better
That happened with concord on ps5 too. About 12k players had given it 5 stars yet the trophy for 'get your first kill' was only achieved by 900 players. Make it make sense.
@@KenseiRaptor yikes 😔
"Maybe Twitch will ban me then... for SELF-HARM."
I legit laughed out loud.
yeah, that was really funny
Playing Drag Queen Age is definitely a form of self harm.
40 year old gamer here. The last game I bought brand new was Cyberpunk 2077. Learned my lesson. I will never buy a brand new game, i will wait a minimum of 6 months to do so.
That game was pretty good a month after launch. That's when I got it....
It never should have been on PS4.
If you play it today, you might enjoy it. Some games though you can pick up on release, just not most. LMAO
Same
@@jay-sin-tv Yep, zero regrets on any money I've spent on Elden Ring or Space Marine 2 the last 2 years.
My last brand new was RDR2. 10/10 will buy the next rockstar game on day one
My pronouns? - Non-preordernary and Never-buynary!
Any phobias or disabilities? - No, just a bit of woke-o-disgustia.
1.Don't watch reviews.
2. Never pre-order.
3. Watch post-release playthrough pure gameplay WITHOUT commentary.
4. Buy if you like what you see.
same brother, same. but i lost hope. i mostly pirate and if its good, i buy and do 100% achivements 😅
@@Michael.Virtusmkiceandfire channel is my go to for non yapping actual gamer playtrough
BS on 1 and 2, agree on 3 and 4 though!
this is the way. There are channels that do 4k playthroughs and some with HDR (Pineapple Express).
Perfect for skeptics and Brokies such as myself.
It's amazing how so many people still don't do this, if you see a studio constantly astroturfing a game and all they show are cinematic trailers and 'amazing' shots of procedural terrain it's probably going to be an unfinished mess, one thing I will give streamers and the like they are doing a service compared to reviewers just by showing the gameplay properly
dei age failguard never ending story
Arch demons ... Tyvinter* imperium... Ancient GODS threating to destroy all existence..... But in the end... Diversity Equity and Inclusion ended their world...
queerguard
@rykehuss3435 trans guard
Watch the Skill Up review for a brutally honest review of this game.
...and he didn't even talk about the heavy handed political activism in the game.
@@fredrikhultman557I guess that's another issue on top of the ones he outlined
True, he's the goat, i remember i thought ff16 is fucking garbage and only tasteless morons would enjoy it but felt like a psycho because everyone was glazing it (because of gay character, maybe?), yet he is like the only one with somewhat big channel who had a good opinion on it
@@fredrikhultman557 He kinda did indirectly. The story being 'safe' and the dialogue sounding like HR talk is because of politically correct writers being favoured over skilled ones.
@@Sunshinusff16 was good, what are you on about? And who was gay?
Almost to the end, one thing I didn't see mentioned is the frightening number of reviews that use "return to form" verbatim. It's more than just giving free stuff, these people are clearly given prompts of what they want the reviews to say. Or at least keywords they want them to use.
Why are anyone suprised after what happened with concord? They probably spent tens of millions extra at drumming up positive vibes before release. The 7/10 package isn't good enough, gotta pay for the 9/10 package now.
Dude this looks way the fuck worse. It's honestly making me question if this or starfield might be the worse games in recent memory, at the very least out of triple a. If you call that cringeworthy kindergarten level writing a 7 out of 10 I really don't know what you tell you.
"10/10 said the reviewer, happy with the big numbers in their bank account."
"Thank you Big Daddy Corpo!"
As an seasoned(not senior..yet) gamer. You learn a few things:
1. Never pre-order 99.99% of games
2. Learn to "read the room" with reviews. Know the reviewers biases. Generally listening to "both sides" you can get an idea of what things are like.
3. Notice patterns of the developer. Comments of them. Past work.
4. Video clips and screen shots can say 1000 words.
5. Don't trust million dollar + companies.
This game is going to suck. You can't insert "current day" politics into a story narrative. Or rather it is beyond the skill of any writers and developers who wish to insert such politics to do so without ruining story narrative. Why? They all got their jobs because of their "s*x, skin color, political leaning, who they like to bang or "gender". Not because they have talent.
The proof is in the shit pudding called DA4.
Also seasoned, just look at 10 minutes of gameplay, and make a choice. I know what I like, I don't need reviews.
@imthedevilkys536 Fair point. However a bad trailer can make a good game look awful.
@@ironhelix306 absolutely, but that's why I'm saying I just watch some random youtubers gameplay. Someone just grinding the game.
But dustborn did sooooo well!
@imthedevilkys536 Yeah. Watching actual gameplay can be sanitizing heh.
Bioware and EA really looked at the huge success Larian had with BG3 and thought "let's not do that". Insane.
To be honest bg3 was probably in parallel development with this game, but yeah, they haven't not done basic ass research for games that gave massive success in the genre.
Bg3 is woke asf tho. It’s not as in-your-face, but it was the wokest RPG, before Failguard came out.
I can't remember who said it, but they said that they took mass effect 3s pick a color ending and made it the core of choices in veilguard. 😮
@@304enjoyer3 No, it's not. The only "woke" elements in BG3 are that there are gay characters, and that's it. The game's narrative doesn’t mention anything about sexuality even once.
@@KSChatoYeah I never recalled a character in BG3 having dialogue about being Non-binary or any other bullshit
At 18:40 or so, there's a name for that phenomenon. It's Goodhart's Law. Any metric used as an indicator of success is unreliable. Games companies start realizing that their success relies on people seeing good reviews of their games leading to launch, so they start restricting who is allowed to review the game prior to launch. Same thing happens with schools whose funding relies on grade averages. They start teaching students how to pass the tests, not how to learn new information in a meaningful way. Get out of high school and try using the skills or information they "taught" you, and most people find they can't.
The pharmaceutical industry does the same shit with doctors. Sure, they can't pay the doctor to prescribe their pill, but there's no law against their reps taking the doctor out to a $300 dinner or a ski trip to talk about their new products for giggles.
Let's not forget the added incentive of if they sell lots of the product they are more likely to be invited to the next all expense paid vacation. Sorry "demonstration" **cough**
You think doctors care about a dinner? There’s a reason why pharmaceutical reps are all beautiful.
It goes so much deeper than that too. Private doctor offices are often incentived/forced to prescribed certain drugs or they will lose their discount from said pharmaceutical company on all their medications (which their practice desperately needs to treat their patients).
Except there’s a public database that reports these transactions. Both parties are legally required to acknowledge their participation. Patients are encouraged to look their providers up. Some systems don’t allow pharm reps in at all.
@@Lybrel That's how they got people addicted to Oxy.
What pisses me off the most isn’t just that they’re making “woke” games- I don’t care, I’m not buying that anyway, but that they’re taking over and twisting great franchises. It feels like they’re trying to “re-educate” people who don’t think like them. I’ve said it a million times-this all started back during GamerGate. They seem to see us gamers as the enemy, and it feels like a planned attack on us. They don’t care if the games are good or if the franchises succeed; all they care about is pushing their agenda. This needs to stop.
of course it is it straight up brainwashing
That's exactly how I felt when I learned they turned Victor Freeze into a fat lesbian and destroyed Velma. None of it was necessary and what ended up happening was summed up in one of my favorite youtube comments to date pertaining to Concord.
"Yall made a game for yourselves and YALL didn't even play it"
This is exactly what is happening. It is called "grooming".
Beholding such words as 'non-binary' within the game’s tale was all that I needed to see; this folly shall surely be yet another pyre of refuse.
Hither twice!
I don't think you'll like bg3 then
@mohammedyusuf1590 outside of not limiting the player in the options on who they wish to romance, how in any way does BG3 focus it's identity around non-binary politics and gender inclusion hand holding?
@@mohammedyusuf1590 Verily, good sir, I hath partaken in the playing of 'Baldur's Gate 3', finding delight in the gameplay and tale that, in sooth, did seem most natural to the realm of fantasy and true to its forerunner. Veilguard (read it thus: Failguard) doth strike me as naught but a slothful pretext to introduce/maintain an *agenda* to/on a renowned franchise, a practice that hath been oft accepted of late.
@@Daki25 Yay verily! I like the cut of your jib stranger 😂
Some of my favorite memories playing the Dwarven Campaign in Origins, killing Wyverns as Hawk in DA2 and killing Dragons in DA3. Rest In Peace I will always remember the good times.
Fextralife talks about fake reviews. What a time to be alive.
Never thought i'd agree with Fextralife but hey a broken clock is right twice a day so they can be right once a decade
In my opinion it makes a lot of sense. For him, access was just the air he breathed. It's sort of like how fish probably don't have a concept for water anywhere in their little brains
until suddenly you take them out of it
and then they're flopping around on the ground like "holy shit what the fuck is happening i need to talk about this"
Obviously it's kind of shocking that he can't even notice the fact that him getting invited to this early play test event, while grummz didn't, is already a huge problem
but like i said, it was just the water he swam in, he didn't have any way to notice it until it fucked him over
Could you explain the drama about Fextralife?
Fextralife. They are awful, they talk a community while always skirting on the outside of the rules, having some of the worst maintained so-called wikis.
If this is the beginning of a turn around for Fextra, great. I’ll believe them if they are still doing right in a year.
Large channel? Let’s talk about how you have that channel. Not bragging because it was built in an underhanded and unethical fashion.
No access? Hurts doesn’t it? Means your channel is less relevant in the lead up to launch? Welcome to the real world Fex
For now, I still don’t like them. Also his commentary sounds like a failed NPR audition
@@kylemichel3006 They're just a bad wiki website that embeds their streams on them to boost up their number with your 'view', they don't update wiki's after a game is popular but they're also the top google search so it leaves dead wiki's with loads of misinformation and wrong data. Build videos can be good at times but again they don't edit them as game progresses/updates and they usually just take them from reddit anyway
They're literally mocking us. They're only after that guaranteed Blackrock money. They don't care about their fans like at all. The reason why they need Blackrock money, is because they ruined their studio first and now they depend on them.
Me: I won't buy an EA game. Content Creators: Don't be so shallow... there's SOO many more reasons you shouldn't play this game.
8:15 "that's not how birds work" might be one of my favorite Asmon quotes of all time.