This video actually did remind me of when I heard that Netflix wants its shows to be made with the expectation that the viewer is doing something else while watching it; apparently, some of their shows repeat themselves a lot, probably to ensure you don't need to pay full attention to know what's going on (at the very least, their ATLA adaptation does this a lot from what I've seen). It genuinely feels like that’s why this game does it as well.
It's more for the younger ones, they might not be paying attention to the game as they need those quick hits of dopamine, so luckily the game reminds them
i dont want to live in a world where media starts being catered to people who only half pay attention to it with family guy or subway surfers in their peripheral vision
I just want the kotor 1 remake already. Saber Interactive said it wasn't cancelled, and they finally have a budget for it. Maybe we'll see it in 3-4 years
@@ValbrandrLeonhardt you really, really should temper your expectations then even if they leave everything story related completely intact - which honestly id say would be the best case scenario, seeing how these days their writing quality is "well I didn't expect to fight an ogre today" - I guarantee it's nowhere near as good as you remember. in fact, if you try playing the original today, you'll find it borderline unplayable, and the story besides That Twist is incredibly generic space fantasy that's about 67% clichés and 33% filler KOTOR 2 is the good one (story wise), you only remember the first one fondly cause it was the second ever star wars game that wasn't TOTAL trash
@@ValbrandrLeonhardt I don't even care for that. I just want someone to port the original game to modern hardware with 4K support and a hud that scales properly.
@@binjoofficial bioware isn't in charge of the kotor remake. It was picked up by Sony, and after passing through development hell, is currently being worked on by Saber Interactive.
@@binjoofficial they were both good and i say this as someone whose favorite game is kotor 2. kotor 1 isn't particularly deep or anything but it's a solid star wars game that does what it intends to do very well.
BiowaEAre: What are your credentials? I write a lot on Twitter and ummm... I did a few erotic MLP fanfics. BiowaEAre: Himm.... Did I mention my hair is purple and I'm non-binary? BiowaEAre: YOU'RE HIRED!
EA is so horrid that i wonder how they were able to release good games before. Like Dead Space or Mass Effect (even then, the reputations of those games became controversial in the end)
This will be GOTY because you can have post transition scars, not because of the story, plot, or mechanics. The inclusivity angle is getting as annoying as europeans having fantasy racism in there themes because they like it. Im playing a game, i dont want statement about the real world being said, especially when theyre basic ideas aimed at manipulating kids into liking something with a viel of progressivity. (Im not an anything dont be weaponised)
Saw a professional writer reviewing the dialogue say he didn't think it was written by AI because the AI would have a logical flow between lines of dialogue.
@Grogeous_Maximus i don't think walking into Mordor is the difficult part of the experience but I haven't seen the movies or read the books so take my input with a grain of salt
this is the best type of storytelling, because you will quit, because the dialogue sucks ass, and when you return, they tell you exactly what happened in the story up to that point every time
This is why I'm personally a fan of fromsofts way of storytelling. It can be as little to the absolute max of storytelling and it's completely up to you on how you want to digest the story.
I mean, it's generic, but it's a thing that might pass in a real world situation... but never in fiction. And if the writers can't tell that, they shouldn't be writing.
@@seigeengine I've met people like that, and those who talk like that are usually plagued by deep insecurities that make them afraid to say anything other than the extremely obvious for fear of being judged in any way. Also, "lol I am so dumb and isn't this awkward?" is the safest kind of comedy.
@@maskedbadass6802 People say obvious cliche things because the function of language is communication. In real situations, there is a conveyance of substance such that a cliche line doesn't matter, but fiction is a deliberate construct of an unreal. There is no substance for the writing to lean on. As for insecurity, yes, people are insecure. Just about every single one of them. Different people just have different ways of coping with how pathetic and inadequate they feel.
jokes aside, i've seen people use that as a pro for the game and given it a positive review on steam. People have some seriously low standards these days
This is amusing to see with the writing in how it repeats. One of the biggest rules an editor told me is like a rule of 2 to 3 max of the same word being used in a row. And 3 is pushing it. Instead of saying relic, trinket, mythical object, curio, etc... It's kind of funny lol
That's something I learned in school lol literally part of my basic education (in regards to writing essays and stuff) was learning to avoid repeating the same word several times. It's a bit of a common sense thing, though, as it's pretty annoying reading/hearing the same word again and again.
The opposite trap is mentioning the same subject 5 times but using a synonym every time. You think you're doing the right thing not tiring the word out but it ends up sounding distracting and unorganic. I'd say a positive example would be for the girl to start talking about artefacts and then later say something like "I love curios of all kinds" instead of using 'artefacts' again. But using 'artefact' and 'curio' and 'magical item' and 'trinket' all in the same conversation while still talking about the same thing? I'd rather hear 'artefact' ten times in a row than be listed its synonyms.
I love all 3 of these people have an infinitely greater grasp on writing fundamentals than whoever wrote this game, and yet I guarantee they have some other profession. Who the hell hires people to write games this shit?
bigger brain moment would be not to even use it at all but the they’d have to fill the space with *checks notes* actually compelling character dialogue
"I thought I was playing an INDIE game for a second" sheesh so glad that the developers put the squeeze transition in I wouldn't be able to tell otherwise
It has the makings of a "so bad it's good" game but I'd need to see more I'm a big fan of those kinds of movies, but games are usually mainly gameplay, and bad gameplay just sucks. It's rare to see one that's playable but has something so bad that it's worth seeing, even if just to gawk and laugh at. I might have waited for it to be on sale if I hadn't pledged to never give EA another cent
There are good moments of writing in there. Don't know if they had multiple writers, higher ups being very involved in the writing. Wrong type of game for the writer. Don't know but it's not all bad.
I was expecting another install-type game considering how this video started and was only five minutes again. Developers just don't stop getting creative with these new genres!
Dwarves also can't swim, or use magic. Did I mention that dwarves can't dream? But let's get back to the important part the artifacts may be artifacting some artifaction. So we need to make sure you understand that dwarves can not dream.
@@DavidCornish-cn1yqOk here I go. "Once you go in, it's almost impossible to get out. Almost. I might know a way." boom, dialogue improved. You're welcome.
@@LizardSpork Or "they say once you go in, it's impossible to get out. But I might know a way." Literally just slight adjustments is all it takes. 'They say' takes it from fact to rumors, which fixes it. Or if they actually wanted to write something a little more engaging, they could have made it a little discussion. Character 1: "They say that once you go in, it's impossible to get out." Character 2: "They say many ignorant things." Character 1: "Are you saying you know a way out?" Character 2: "Perhaps. It is not certain, but I have reason to believe that I may have." Not gonna claim it's *good* writing, but I am going to claim it's better than the drivel that Bioware shat out onto paper.
As someone who took a creative writing class, this comment is painfully true. About 75% of the class’s writing was complete garbage. One of the stories I had to proofread was a MLP fan fiction of a self-insert hooking up with some guy named Sombra. That should have been burned.
what dragon age always needed was more sarcastic characters that constantly talk in an upward inflection with dialogue like they were brainwashed by joss whedon
@@Deliveredmean42Well they also can't have women that are attractive, remotely edgy, or non-misandrist. Because those make the undesirables feel bad to have on the team.
Morrigan in DAO was sarcastic most of the time and Alistar often throw some joke the difference is back then the writter didnt suffer blight corruption
It's one things when games are a little awkward about it but this game takes the repetitive, insulting ass nonsense to a new level. Even some people who think the game isn't shit are complaining about it. It's so obnoxious. Only watching as little as I have has irritated the shit outta me.
It's extra sad here because DA has had far better writing in the past. But with all that "I wasn't expecting to fight an *ogre* today xD" and "It's... kinda my thing- fixing magic stuff" it seems DA has gone full cheese... EA's right behind me isn't he
I think everyone hates the exposition in this game. Every time that asian elf talks it's like a scene out of a 2020 marvel side movie. Shit was made for people whose brain was rotted by HRT.
My theory is that all the writers are English majors from coastal cities, mostly from California. So, they only know that way of interacting with the world and it's all they can write.
I had no idea a new Dragon Age game was in the works and now I wish this game didn't exist. They threw it in the worst retirement home and are letting the staff beat it senseless every day ;_;
It's not the staff - generally game devs LOVE the thing they're working on. But you see, if you do a little googling, you find out that this game has been in production for a DECADE, with EA forcing them to restart THREE times. Already off to a bad start...then EA made them cut basically the soul out of the game - the devs were going to put in overworld changes that reflected the choices you said your character made in previous games, when you start this one...but EA said no. Made them scrap all that. So, more often than not, there is a LOT more to a story than the surface level stuff. It's on EA - not Bioware. EA buys up game companies with popular titles, then forces them to continue to make those games with minimal budget, and crunch work times, and refuses to let them do any 'extra' work of actually putting personality into the game. Even the Sims franchise has tanked. So has Mass Effect - and I was just told that they won't even be making DLC for this because EA ripoped all the DA devs out as soon as this game launched and slapped them on their next shoddy Mass Effect game. So look forward to THAT turd in 10 years, I guess. Mourn the EA of the 90s/00s, because the current EA is a big ol fish gobbling up the little fish, and then running their IPs into the ground. It is always morally correct to pirate from EA - if they're going to treat devs AND players like trash? Why give them money? Play the half-ass game for free. Fuck 'em!
Old Bioware: Skip through the clunky combat to get to the awesome dialogue and story. New Bioware: Skip through the clunky dialogue to get to the combat that's cool sometimes.
The Dragon Age franchise earned its chops almost exclusively by being well-written. Now that they are no longer capable of clearing that hurdle, it's honestly kind of refreshing that they've decided to fully embrace their shortcoming by screaming it at us with every word uttered by every character.
@@namixxluxi 2 still had good writing. It also got pushed out by EA over a year earlier than planned so the exploration component of the game was completely irredeemable. The point stands, though: What made the series good in the first place was the writing. If you took that away from DAO it would be this hollow RPG experience that possessed almost nothing to inspire people to play it, and the franchise would have died then and there.
DA:O is in my top 3 favourite games of all time. DA2 had its issues but still had a really engaging overall story and was good in its own way. I tried to play Inquisition twice and couldn't get through it. Characters, story, and writing quality went off a cliff. Not sure I'll even buy the new one, obviously the quality has been trending down for years.
Blame EA, my friend. They kill every game franchise they pick up - turning them into low effort cash cows because for as many of us that see the trash? There are people who will still buy this stuff just because it says Dragon Age, or Bioware. There *is* no Bioware...just EA. Bioware is a slave to whatever EA wants...and they wanted the devs to gut the cool overworld changes that reflected Rook's choices in Inquisition. They wanted the devs to restart making the game three times. They wanted to underpay and overwork people just eager to work on a game they love. EA is a dogshit company. It's always morally correct to pirate EA games.
Seeing the dumpster fire that is Veilguard really just reminds you of how far BioWare as a developer has fallen and how good their games used to be back in the day. KOTOR, Dragon Age Origins and Dragon Age 2, and the Mass Effect trilogy. These guys were the gold standard for RPGs in the mid to late 2000s and early 2010s. Their games were known for their compelling characters and complex narratives. As a fan of these franchises, it’s sad to see the current state of BioWare now because they are clearly not the company they once were.
As fellow OG fan I feel it's time to let all Bioware franchises go. Had to do same with Final Fantasy too myself. I look at as seeing every member in my favorite band replaced by 4 year olds. Wouldnt expect the band to make good albums anymore so we shouldn't expect Bioware to either. Don't think of it as sad. Enjoy the good ones for what they were because these franchises are already dead
I'm surprised he didn't mock the stiff and inexpressive facial animations for the protag. They remind me of how someone acts when they realize they have a massive oncoming bowel movement and they have to devote 90% of their mental capacity to avoid crapping their pants, leaving only 10% for things like emoting.
@M0M0M0M0M I'm literally 15h in and it gets SO much better, that Dragon Age feeling is back once it opened up, the progression is extremely satisfying and mastering combat is genuinely amazing. Just had a really cool fight against a blighted champion and it felt like Dark Souls. The thing that was worst at the beginning, the writing, also gets better and back to the level we're used to with the older Dragon Age games. The moment I wake up I can't think of anything else but wanting to continue playing, the last time this happened to this degree was with Elden Ring.
The developers knew how fried an average person's dopamine receptors are and they considered brainrot as well while making the game. So they made sure to remind us about the plot every few minutes. Too bad that they actually forgot to make the game to go with the plot.
Truly merciful of Dunkey to make a video that is only 5:33 long. Hearing these medieval fantasy characters speak like modern Americans make me want to commit a double Van Gogh.
I mean I know we conceptualize the medieval accent as a British one, but the American accent is actually closer to 18th century British pronunciation than modern British is! So I'm not sure but that might make the American closer to medieval?
@@mavymagdowney9798I don't know for sure, but I'd be willing to be Nomad was referring to the *manner* of their speech, not the accent. At least in forspoken the girl *was* modern. This doesn't even have that excuse.
I read a review that said "the dialogue seems like it was written with HR standing in the room" and I think that's the best way to describe Dragon Age Veilguard.
"And somehow we're here!" "Yeah it's... unreal." Notice how she's saying that because the game is made in unreal engine. Very intelligent writing in this game.
That's actually in the Terms & Conditions of the Unreal Engine. You use that engine, you have to have a line like that in your game or Epic will sue your balls off.
You joke, but they actually seem to do meta comments like that many times, for example when you can't sprint when you're first walking alongside Varric the PC says "shouldn't we hurry?" lmao
@@tyr573*most successful singleplayer release on steam. which STILL isnt really a boast, considering most of their games were origin exclusives at launch and only released on steam years later. Of the singleplayr games that did release on steam, they also released on gamepass so the likes of fallen order have way lower numbers on steam. People use such strange logic to cope about the game being terrible.
Remember Dark Fantasy? Remember the Broodmother? Remember voice acting that doesn't sound like you're in an asylum? Remember choices mattering? Remember thinking this franchise was headed somewhere good? Hopefully soon we can say remember Bioware when their doors close.
I was actually dying laughing at some of this dialogue. Was that dudes explanation for surviving getting stabbed in the throat really "I've had worse"? thats actually peak comedy
“I paid rian Johnson to mow my lawn, he dumped a bunch of fertilizer and made all my plants grow larger, he told me he was subverting my expectations” Mr. Plinkett.
@@thedualitysystemJRPGS have given up on revealing costumes and Western RPGs are giving up on profanity. I don't know how much identity will be left soon
@@1stCallipostle to be fair the revealing costumes part is a good thing, as it's degenerate to sexualise and basically turns it into pr0n for coombrains it's just as bad as the woke, but in a different way we should just have healthy and somewhat attractive characters in a game that are not sexualised
The writing is on par with 99% of other video games released in this gen apart from baldurs gate, cyberpunk and maybe gow ragnarok. This is pretty much on par with everything else. Like to me this looks completely and utterly indistinguishable from hogwarts legacy, yet one of these is bashed more than it deserves and the other is praised more than it deserves. People would be eating this mid slop up like any other game of it's type if it didn't happened to become a target for the anti-woke culture war tourists.
you can forget about all that trans and pronoun stuff, its not really that bad. But the bad dialogue just keeps unfolding the more reviews come out, its so shallow and cringy
@@user-ly2ll5od1r When the dialogue is so bad that with every conversation you are actively hoping it's minimized so as not to excessively distract from whatever's keeping you playing the game, that's just not the defense you think it is. When the dialogue used to be what gave the franchise its credentials, and _still_ takes up more than half of the total gameplay even in a poor entry like this one, that's just not the defense you think it is. Half of your $70+ purchase is spent on the dialogue that 99.9% of folks are making fun of. Is that cool?
Dragons often have 1-2 super powerful fire type cover moves making it inefficient and dangerous since ice does most damage on its own type. It’s why they need to become fairies instead
Even a shitty line like that could have been saved with an "unless.." plus a thoughtful look of the character rummaging through some books, papers or calculations. Not ideal, but far better than the actual scene.
Yes. Because that was Alisters character. But he was the only one that acted like that, because that was his unique character, and he would often get made fun of by other party members for acting like that
The term you're looking for is Whedon-esque dialogue, and it's been a thing since Buffy The Vampire Slayer, but arguably Joss Whedon popularized it in The Avengers, and it has plagued movies ever since.
That's Avengers-style humor. And I'm afraid it'll be here as long as millions of people keep buying tickets to see the movies with generic cringy humor and copy paste CGI..
@@jaroslavprucha9198 I mean, lately people haven't been doing that, which is why we have....only 1 Marvel movie this year(I think) and it was a big hit only because it was Deadpool+ Hugh Jackman's Wolverine and it was sort of mocking the MCU anyway. So maybe things can change after all🤗(I know they'll keep doing the sh+tty dialogue, let me dream lol)
it's sad because the gameplay looks somewhat fun, but the dialogue and story are so... _UMMM, SO THAT JUST HAPPENED_ and it's pretty critical for a Dragon Age game to have tolerable dialogue.
I've never seen a video game that assumes you are browsing your phone while playing it.
This video actually did remind me of when I heard that Netflix wants its shows to be made with the expectation that the viewer is doing something else while watching it; apparently, some of their shows repeat themselves a lot, probably to ensure you don't need to pay full attention to know what's going on (at the very least, their ATLA adaptation does this a lot from what I've seen). It genuinely feels like that’s why this game does it as well.
@@TheMGMfan I heard ATLA was also shot in a weird way so that it can be converted easily to vertical viewing.
@@ArifRWinandar whats ATLA?
@@mylesfrost9302avatar the last airbender
That’s just how it looks when people steal others work.
They knew all the dragon age fans were getting old so they made sure to recap it for the dementia patients.
We're not getting THAT old, what about original Baldur's Gate fans then? 😭
So that's why! I'll play this when I reach 80 then.
@@marcofiume3921 We got one of the best games made in history, for the third time.
@@marcofiume3921 Those war heroes are no longer with us...
It's more for the younger ones, they might not be paying attention to the game as they need those quick hits of dopamine, so luckily the game reminds them
Don't let this distract you from the fact that the elven gods Elgar'nan and Ghilan'nain have escaped Fen'Harel's prison.
Or that dwarves can't dream
The guys from warhammer?
@@antonkirilenko3116Or the artifacts
@@Jgarcia05 I know where the artifacts are but Dunkey comment section is not it
And then they got amneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesia.
Then Morrigan showed up and recapped all the 3 previous games. After that, she did it again.
We are looking for an artifact. Remember
@@Varthanil can you tell me about this artifact again?
They are gonna keep bringing Morrigan back until she looks like her mother.
This is The first short term memory loss type game
More like the first short term memory game lol
Its actually the first short term memory loss game lol
@@onetruehavocno no you’ve got it wrong it’s actually the first short term memory loss game
It’s because they know it’s made for mindless npcs.
Maybe the writers of this game... all have amnesia
Finally, a game that reminds you of the plot every 2 minutes so you can pay more attention to the 3 other screens you're looking at.
I'm waiting for the Subway Surfers and Family Guy clips while an AI voice reads Reddit posts DLC
i dont want to live in a world where media starts being catered to people who only half pay attention to it with family guy or subway surfers in their peripheral vision
Truly a game made for the modern audience, lol.
🤣
@@swaggerdagger8976 It ruins the pace of the story and development by taking up dialoged time, and allows for bad writing habits.
We should applaud BioWare for being the first developer to make their games fully accessible to those with complete short term memory loss
Finally good inclusion
It's appeals to genz ADHD youtube shorts tiktok kind of audience 😂😂
Streamers finally have a game suites for them
This was hilarious😂
Yeah, my fish is really happy playing this game.
If this is what Bioware is up to these days, I'm finally okay with not having Kotor 3.
I just want the kotor 1 remake already. Saber Interactive said it wasn't cancelled, and they finally have a budget for it. Maybe we'll see it in 3-4 years
@@ValbrandrLeonhardt you really, really should temper your expectations then
even if they leave everything story related completely intact - which honestly id say would be the best case scenario, seeing how these days their writing quality is "well I didn't expect to fight an ogre today" - I guarantee it's nowhere near as good as you remember. in fact, if you try playing the original today, you'll find it borderline unplayable, and the story besides That Twist is incredibly generic space fantasy that's about 67% clichés and 33% filler
KOTOR 2 is the good one (story wise), you only remember the first one fondly cause it was the second ever star wars game that wasn't TOTAL trash
@@ValbrandrLeonhardt I don't even care for that. I just want someone to port the original game to modern hardware with 4K support and a hud that scales properly.
@@binjoofficial bioware isn't in charge of the kotor remake. It was picked up by Sony, and after passing through development hell, is currently being worked on by Saber Interactive.
@@binjoofficial they were both good and i say this as someone whose favorite game is kotor 2. kotor 1 isn't particularly deep or anything but it's a solid star wars game that does what it intends to do very well.
Dialogue sounds like they expect me to put the game down for 6 months every 5 minutes
cus its traaaaash
Its a bedtime story for toddlers, teaching how to be nice to each other.
The scary fight parts are a bit iffy though.
I mean.... won't you?
Everyone talks like they’re in a Marvel movie. I miss when fantasy characters were eloquent not anachronistic.
Yeah it feels like the game is talking down to you, like it doesn't believe you can pick up on the most basic social cues.
This game couldn't be made in Dreams because Dwarves Don't Dream.
Nobody could have wished for this game because even Make a Wish kids wouldn’t be caught dead playing it
Maybe you have a point. Because dwarves don’t dream. Well that just happened.
But then, they somehow could
@@Mark-vr7ptThis game broke all the lore even in the trailer. I gave up before it even came out.
If dwarves don't dream how can their memes be dreams to melt steel beams
"I am a writer"
Someone at Bioware probably
BiowaEAre: What are your credentials?
I write a lot on Twitter and ummm... I did a few erotic MLP fanfics.
BiowaEAre: Himm....
Did I mention my hair is purple and I'm non-binary?
BiowaEAre: YOU'RE HIRED!
did you know he was a writer?
They are known as Wright-Tor, the incoherent.
My favorite character from Kings Quest.
"Creative writing is my passion!"
not anymore, they fired like 5 people per second these last few years
Dunkey actually flipped on the Dementia feature in Accessibility Settings. Of course, he doesn't remember this, because he has dementia.
dunkey doesn't have dementia!
he got amneeeeeeeesiaaaaaaaa
I see why IGN rated this Game 9/10... because it reminds you of the plot 9 times every 10 mintues
p
Like if 90% of the population had ADHD.
They probably wanted 11/10 but they didn't want to make players suspicious.
gotta keep those game journos from losing track.
It has a little something for everyone - IGN 9.5/10
The "Uh Oh" at EA was perfect
That's always a red flag. The sad is EA is still running because people keep playing EA sports AND buying micro transactions.
As someone who worked at EA, haha. This made me chuckle way too hard. We even made fun of it on the inside
It was just spot on, here be trouble, haha.
that's how you know its gonna be a great dunkey video. right off the bat we get commentary
EA is so horrid that i wonder how they were able to release good games before. Like Dead Space or Mass Effect (even then, the reputations of those games became controversial in the end)
Thank god they got the “squeeze through some rocks” animation. 10/10
It's not like that dwarf would've fit normally at all! Aint it amazing what triple A games do for us now?
That's AAA.
that's how you know it's AAA.
This will be GOTY because you can have post transition scars, not because of the story, plot, or mechanics. The inclusivity angle is getting as annoying as europeans having fantasy racism in there themes because they like it.
Im playing a game, i dont want statement about the real world being said, especially when theyre basic ideas aimed at manipulating kids into liking something with a viel of progressivity.
(Im not an anything dont be weaponised)
@@SLVYER1What?
This game's writing is what happens when an employee copy pastes ChatGPT without Memory enabled
Chatgpt writes better than this
Saw a professional writer reviewing the dialogue say he didn't think it was written by AI because the AI would have a logical flow between lines of dialogue.
This is not artificial intelligence. This is natural organic human stupidity. AI could never stoop down to Californian logic.
No it was written by a ideological fool that takes his identity and others far too seriously
@@Hhhh22222-w With careful prompting yes...but even then it can get kinda repetitive.
Funny comment tho! lol :P
"Well, I didn't expect to fight an Ogre today. Guess that's something I do now. I'll probably find an artifact next" -Forspoken girl, probably
They Ogre now?
The ogre's standing right behind me, isn't he?
Well, that just happened.
Well THAT just happened. Next you'll tell me the ogre had an artifact or something. Could this day get any weirder? Umm, I guess I spoke too soon.
@@Knights_of_the_Nine THEY OGRE NOW
"Once you go in, you NEVER get out. But I may know a way out."
Profound.
They don't have to worry about consistency in dialogue cos they know their audience will never remember.
I love dunkey
Expectation subverted successfully
"One does simply walk into Mordor, actually."
@Grogeous_Maximus i don't think walking into Mordor is the difficult part of the experience but I haven't seen the movies or read the books so take my input with a grain of salt
this is the best type of storytelling, because you will quit, because the dialogue sucks ass, and when you return, they tell you exactly what happened in the story up to that point every time
This is why I'm personally a fan of fromsofts way of storytelling. It can be as little to the absolute max of storytelling and it's completely up to you on how you want to digest the story.
That's the problem though. Your second mistake was returning!
If you buy any modern bioware game you deserve to lose your money 😂
@@TerminalM193 yeah Metal Wolf Chaos was the best storytelling of all time
@@TerminalM193 Metal Wolf Chaos' story is impossible to top.
This whole game is just “they fly now” writing in every line
Modern AAA experience:
-forspoken dialogue
-squeeze transitions
-yes you can pet the dog
You forgot the squeezing through rockfaces part
#3 turns any game into a masterpiece and I won't accept any disagreement about that.
BUT DEY MADE GOOD CHARACTER CREATOR 9/10 IGN
Every AAA(A) CEO in Peter Quill father's voice: "yeah I know it sounds bad..."
Still can't swim tho
Well, that just happened. Didn't expect that to just happen, or this, or that, or that thing. But it did. Just one of those days.
I mean, it's generic, but it's a thing that might pass in a real world situation... but never in fiction.
And if the writers can't tell that, they shouldn't be writing.
Thanks ChatGPT
@@seigeengine I've met people like that, and those who talk like that are usually plagued by deep insecurities that make them afraid to say anything other than the extremely obvious for fear of being judged in any way. Also, "lol I am so dumb and isn't this awkward?" is the safest kind of comedy.
@@maskedbadass6802 People say obvious cliche things because the function of language is communication. In real situations, there is a conveyance of substance such that a cliche line doesn't matter, but fiction is a deliberate construct of an unreal. There is no substance for the writing to lean on.
As for insecurity, yes, people are insecure. Just about every single one of them. Different people just have different ways of coping with how pathetic and inadequate they feel.
Literally all of the dumb marvel tropes.
Erm, the artifact is right behind me, isn't he?
"Well, the game launches. You gotta give em that" I love Dunkey
Sad that this is an accomplishment these days.
@@Mgauge Agreeed,
@@Mgauge It's also sad people cheer for this
runs better then mhwilds which is also sad
jokes aside, i've seen people use that as a pro for the game and given it a positive review on steam. People have some seriously low standards these days
This is amusing to see with the writing in how it repeats. One of the biggest rules an editor told me is like a rule of 2 to 3 max of the same word being used in a row. And 3 is pushing it. Instead of saying relic, trinket, mythical object, curio, etc... It's kind of funny lol
That's something I learned in school lol literally part of my basic education (in regards to writing essays and stuff) was learning to avoid repeating the same word several times. It's a bit of a common sense thing, though, as it's pretty annoying reading/hearing the same word again and again.
The opposite trap is mentioning the same subject 5 times but using a synonym every time. You think you're doing the right thing not tiring the word out but it ends up sounding distracting and unorganic.
I'd say a positive example would be for the girl to start talking about artefacts and then later say something like "I love curios of all kinds" instead of using 'artefacts' again.
But using 'artefact' and 'curio' and 'magical item' and 'trinket' all in the same conversation while still talking about the same thing? I'd rather hear 'artefact' ten times in a row than be listed its synonyms.
I love all 3 of these people have an infinitely greater grasp on writing fundamentals than whoever wrote this game, and yet I guarantee they have some other profession. Who the hell hires people to write games this shit?
And again it's moderation. Don't overdo either.
bigger brain moment would be not to even use it at all but the they’d have to fill the space with *checks notes* actually compelling character dialogue
"I thought I was playing an INDIE game for a second" sheesh so glad that the developers put the squeeze transition in I wouldn't be able to tell otherwise
we need to start a thing where indie devs put a "squeeze through rocks" animation in every game, like the dog petting thing
Lowkey I love squeeze transitions
@@d0onut Don't worry, I hate them enough for the both of us.
This should be the new Time to Crate. Time to Squeeze. Actually, no, don't call it that...
Luckily he didn't find the mirror
🪞👀
This game would be perfect with a laugh track
It would be useful to know when we're supposed to laugh.
If someone adds a mod like this in the game i might even pirate it
It has the makings of a "so bad it's good" game but I'd need to see more
I'm a big fan of those kinds of movies, but games are usually mainly gameplay, and bad gameplay just sucks. It's rare to see one that's playable but has something so bad that it's worth seeing, even if just to gawk and laugh at. I might have waited for it to be on sale if I hadn't pledged to never give EA another cent
There are already videos of people adding laugh tracks to the dialogs of the game and it's hilarious
They need to put that on the next patch 😅
" What writing experience do you have?"
" I make Twitter posts"
" You're hired!"
"I wrote fanfic on Tumblr."
"You're promoted to narrative designer!"
@@personaignota nah fanfic authors write way better than this
these "writers" have never directly engaged with anything roleplay related in their life
There are good moments of writing in there. Don't know if they had multiple writers, higher ups being very involved in the writing. Wrong type of game for the writer. Don't know but it's not all bad.
They hired people to write this game? I thought it was AI
I watch marvel movies for the jokes
"I am a night elf mohawk"
I've been watching you for quite a few years. I'm glad you quoted this.
It's hilariously relevant at present too with the WoW anniversary bringing the night elf mohawk stuff back in game, lmao
The guy got stabbed in the throat, but forgot he died…because he had amneeeeeeeeeesiaaaaaaaa
Dayum....
everyone in this goddamn game have amnesia considering how often they need to recap the story over and over again
He must have drank the amneeeesiaa water and used the jet pack to escape
A man of culture right there, ladies and gentlemen.
10 outta 10 callback
The world’s first recap type game! Video game genres are getting crazy.
They need to recap in case... you got amnesia.
The recap is standing right behind me, isn't it
Also the world's first quadruple recap-type game!
This is a recap-type game. Standby for me to repeat this.
I was expecting another install-type game considering how this video started and was only five minutes again. Developers just don't stop getting creative with these new genres!
“Erm an ogre? Didnt see that coming”
This game is innovative because it caused my hair to grey in real time and accelerated my aging
Erm what the ogre
Well, _that_ ogre happened.
erm... that just ogre'd
wasnt expecting THAT
Lol this comment made me chuckle too hard, thanks
Sounds like something Alistair would say in Origins.
Maybe becoming a video game writer isn't such an impossible dream, even for a dwarf.
But dwarves don’t dream, remember?
It won "Game of the year" because its the only game this year that was able to boot up
Animal Well was robbed. Top tier, even if you don't know about Dunkey
It "won" because the devs paid Geoff enough to buy the win ;)
It really is wild that you can just release games that don't work and not be sent to jail.
This isnt gonna win goty over wukong, even objectivley speaking
not yet. Wouldn't surprise me though 🤣
The writing for this game is like how I write when I’m trying to hit a word count
Yooooo yes! Holy shit that’s accurate
thats exactly what they did
If I wrote a paper like this in college, I’d be shot by my teacher.
Fun fact: dwarves don't dream.
Another fun fact: dwarves don't dream.
but why? I have a theory
Dwarves also can't swim, or use magic. Did I mention that dwarves can't dream?
But let's get back to the important part the artifacts may be artifacting some artifaction. So we need to make sure you understand that dwarves can not dream.
But what about magic? Can dwarves use that?
Sounds like dwarves in Dragon Age kinda suck ass
They also can't be possessed! And they can't dream too!
Finally a game that’s entire narrative was made in a high school creative writing class.
Maybe you should try
@@DavidCornish-cn1yq No thanks. Unlike the writers of the game I understand that I’m not a skilled writer.
@@DavidCornish-cn1yqOk here I go. "Once you go in, it's almost impossible to get out. Almost. I might know a way."
boom, dialogue improved. You're welcome.
@@LizardSpork Or "they say once you go in, it's impossible to get out. But I might know a way." Literally just slight adjustments is all it takes. 'They say' takes it from fact to rumors, which fixes it. Or if they actually wanted to write something a little more engaging, they could have made it a little discussion.
Character 1: "They say that once you go in, it's impossible to get out."
Character 2: "They say many ignorant things."
Character 1: "Are you saying you know a way out?"
Character 2: "Perhaps. It is not certain, but I have reason to believe that I may have."
Not gonna claim it's *good* writing, but I am going to claim it's better than the drivel that Bioware shat out onto paper.
As someone who took a creative writing class, this comment is painfully true. About 75% of the class’s writing was complete garbage. One of the stories I had to proofread was a MLP fan fiction of a self-insert hooking up with some guy named Sombra. That should have been burned.
what dragon age always needed was more sarcastic characters that constantly talk in an upward inflection with dialogue like they were brainwashed by joss whedon
Dragon Age of Ultron
the key to getting a female audience is hiring female writers!
@@daniel_dumile I guess they are still searching for a good female writer?
@@Deliveredmean42Well they also can't have women that are attractive, remotely edgy, or non-misandrist. Because those make the undesirables feel bad to have on the team.
Morrigan in DAO was sarcastic most of the time and Alistar often throw some joke
the difference is back then the writter didnt suffer blight corruption
"This game will make you FEEL like you have short-term memory loss"
- IGN -
"This game will make you FEEL like this game will make you FEEL like.."
Which is good because everyone has amneeeeesia
9/10
Dunkey's complete disdain for clunky exposition and dialogue is my favorite running joke on this channel
It's one things when games are a little awkward about it but this game takes the repetitive, insulting ass nonsense to a new level. Even some people who think the game isn't shit are complaining about it. It's so obnoxious. Only watching as little as I have has irritated the shit outta me.
It's extra sad here because DA has had far better writing in the past. But with all that "I wasn't expecting to fight an *ogre* today xD" and "It's... kinda my thing- fixing magic stuff" it seems DA has gone full cheese... EA's right behind me isn't he
(Soft , menacing voice) i t ' s i n t h e g a m e @@My_dad_owns_Club_Penguin
Disdain*
I think everyone hates the exposition in this game. Every time that asian elf talks it's like a scene out of a 2020 marvel side movie. Shit was made for people whose brain was rotted by HRT.
So that just happened. 10 seconds later. So that just happened.
Did all the fired Marvel writers get jobs at Bioware?
My theory is that all the writers are English majors from coastal cities, mostly from California. So, they only know that way of interacting with the world and it's all they can write.
@@hoeraufist im not even from the us yet, i can vizualise that theory very well.
@@hoeraufist All fiction is slowly turning into modern day Los Angeles, Seattle and Portland.
@@planescaped I’m from Oregon. This is accurate.
The actually fire their writers??
Yay another “snarky teenage girl” character dropping 2002-style one-liners. We don’t get enough of those!
It’s just like my annual marvel movie! Without any of the acting chops or established characters to make it work! Woohoo!
2002-style one-liners that weren't funny in 2002 either.
@@JonnyCrackers Seriously, they were meant to be endearingly lame back then.
Now they're just lame lame.
2002-style one-liners would legitimately be better than this
2002-style lines in a game with a medieval fantasy setting
It's so lovely of them to cater to the older Dragon Age game series fans who may have Alzheimer's disease.
That would be nice to not know how far Dragon Age has fallen
Hey! I resemble that… what were we talking about? Who are you again?
Devs even forgot Inquisition was a thing. No wonder they treat others the same way.
Joe Biden is big fan of this series and he would love it.
I had no idea a new Dragon Age game was in the works and now I wish this game didn't exist. They threw it in the worst retirement home and are letting the staff beat it senseless every day ;_;
It's not the staff - generally game devs LOVE the thing they're working on. But you see, if you do a little googling, you find out that this game has been in production for a DECADE, with EA forcing them to restart THREE times. Already off to a bad start...then EA made them cut basically the soul out of the game - the devs were going to put in overworld changes that reflected the choices you said your character made in previous games, when you start this one...but EA said no. Made them scrap all that. So, more often than not, there is a LOT more to a story than the surface level stuff. It's on EA - not Bioware. EA buys up game companies with popular titles, then forces them to continue to make those games with minimal budget, and crunch work times, and refuses to let them do any 'extra' work of actually putting personality into the game. Even the Sims franchise has tanked. So has Mass Effect - and I was just told that they won't even be making DLC for this because EA ripoped all the DA devs out as soon as this game launched and slapped them on their next shoddy Mass Effect game. So look forward to THAT turd in 10 years, I guess.
Mourn the EA of the 90s/00s, because the current EA is a big ol fish gobbling up the little fish, and then running their IPs into the ground. It is always morally correct to pirate from EA - if they're going to treat devs AND players like trash? Why give them money? Play the half-ass game for free. Fuck 'em!
Old Bioware: Skip through the clunky combat to get to the awesome dialogue and story.
New Bioware: Skip through the clunky dialogue to get to the combat that's cool sometimes.
New Bioware: * skip theough the clunky dialogue to skip through the *still* clunky combat.
don't know if you've played the game but the combat is awful too. it's flashy but it's very repetitive and spammy. the skill lines are awful as well.
you can actually skip most of it as they will just tell you every other minute what happened so far lmao
And yet, Origins has the best combat of the serie.
Sounds like you need to skip the dialogue and combat.
Huh, that saves me 70 bucks because I know EA ain't selling it for a penny cheaper
They were going to talk more about artifacts but, once again, Sephiroth intervened.
Maybe he is a good guy after all.
@@MariaYuri-qo8jyI mean, we still don’t know Sephiroth
But the Whisperers, uuuuuuhhhh, so mysterious, the Nomuraverse
eu a ia i
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eu a ia i
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Sephiroth!
Somehow, Sephiroth returned.
The Dragon Age franchise earned its chops almost exclusively by being well-written. Now that they are no longer capable of clearing that hurdle, it's honestly kind of refreshing that they've decided to fully embrace their shortcoming by screaming it at us with every word uttered by every character.
Bro I'm sorry to tell you but the best one was origins 2 was mid 3 was lol
Hell even awakening was kinda bad
Sucks to say but they only got 1 right
@@namixxluxi 2 still had good writing. It also got pushed out by EA over a year earlier than planned so the exploration component of the game was completely irredeemable. The point stands, though: What made the series good in the first place was the writing. If you took that away from DAO it would be this hollow RPG experience that possessed almost nothing to inspire people to play it, and the franchise would have died then and there.
Well back to playing Skyrim with 300+ mods for the 15th time.
DA:O is in my top 3 favourite games of all time. DA2 had its issues but still had a really engaging overall story and was good in its own way. I tried to play Inquisition twice and couldn't get through it. Characters, story, and writing quality went off a cliff. Not sure I'll even buy the new one, obviously the quality has been trending down for years.
Blame EA, my friend. They kill every game franchise they pick up - turning them into low effort cash cows because for as many of us that see the trash? There are people who will still buy this stuff just because it says Dragon Age, or Bioware. There *is* no Bioware...just EA. Bioware is a slave to whatever EA wants...and they wanted the devs to gut the cool overworld changes that reflected Rook's choices in Inquisition. They wanted the devs to restart making the game three times. They wanted to underpay and overwork people just eager to work on a game they love. EA is a dogshit company. It's always morally correct to pirate EA games.
Seeing the dumpster fire that is Veilguard really just reminds you of how far BioWare as a developer has fallen and how good their games used to be back in the day. KOTOR, Dragon Age Origins and Dragon Age 2, and the Mass Effect trilogy. These guys were the gold standard for RPGs in the mid to late 2000s and early 2010s. Their games were known for their compelling characters and complex narratives. As a fan of these franchises, it’s sad to see the current state of BioWare now because they are clearly not the company they once were.
As fellow OG fan I feel it's time to let all Bioware franchises go. Had to do same with Final Fantasy too myself. I look at as seeing every member in my favorite band replaced by 4 year olds. Wouldnt expect the band to make good albums anymore so we shouldn't expect Bioware to either.
Don't think of it as sad. Enjoy the good ones for what they were because these franchises are already dead
That's the unshakeable stench of EA
I'm surprised he didn't mock the stiff and inexpressive facial animations for the protag. They remind me of how someone acts when they realize they have a massive oncoming bowel movement and they have to devote 90% of their mental capacity to avoid crapping their pants, leaving only 10% for things like emoting.
Yes! Nobody’s mouth moves enough for the words they’re saying!
You didn't have to call me out like that
@@cv5953 Sorry mate, I didn't think you frequented this establishment
It's bioware. Mentioning the stiff facial animations would be like beating a dead horse.
That is strangely specific.
Jar Jar Abrams levels of dialogue and writing.
"Meesa love lens flares!"
Joe Biden levels of writing
Touch grass please
@@jonathancharron7360you’re telling that to the devs, right?
@@misanthropicservitorofmars2116 no, these dumb commentors
the story is written like a teenager padding an essay
sooo it's written like an average video game rpg?
You don't play that much rpg do you?
it's really just the onboarding that's so infantilizing, it gets so much better later on
@@DizietSma69 no, it doesn't get better
@M0M0M0M0M I'm literally 15h in and it gets SO much better, that Dragon Age feeling is back once it opened up, the progression is extremely satisfying and mastering combat is genuinely amazing. Just had a really cool fight against a blighted champion and it felt like Dark Souls. The thing that was worst at the beginning, the writing, also gets better and back to the level we're used to with the older Dragon Age games. The moment I wake up I can't think of anything else but wanting to continue playing, the last time this happened to this degree was with Elden Ring.
The developers knew how fried an average person's dopamine receptors are and they considered brainrot as well while making the game. So they made sure to remind us about the plot every few minutes. Too bad that they actually forgot to make the game to go with the plot.
Truly merciful of Dunkey to make a video that is only 5:33 long. Hearing these medieval fantasy characters speak like modern Americans make me want to commit a double Van Gogh.
I almost committed a double mustache man.
I mean I know we conceptualize the medieval accent as a British one, but the American accent is actually closer to 18th century British pronunciation than modern British is! So I'm not sure but that might make the American closer to medieval?
@@mavymagdowney9798I don't know for sure, but I'd be willing to be Nomad was referring to the *manner* of their speech, not the accent. At least in forspoken the girl *was* modern. This doesn't even have that excuse.
@@ghandiwonso everyone should talk like withers
Guys the game is in a made-up fantasy world, not medieval Earth. Calm down.
This game really makes you FEEL like you’ve got amnesia
Makes you FEEL like you were ripped off for $60
Amnesia Age
hahah that's a good one! Btw, do you know that the elven gods Elgar'nan and Ghilan'nain have escaped?
The artefact is sure to cure your amnesia! Have you heard of the artefact?
It's just a burning memory.
All I've learned from this playthrough of Veilguard is that dwarves can't have sh**!
it's EA's way of saying: "if you're short, you aint gonna make it"
Dwarfs can't take a sh** either.
Can we all appreciste that this is the first artifact type game?
0:10 well it IS the year of the dragon
Sadly this one broke the streak since until now every "Dragon" title game this year has been awesome
No that game came out in 2000
Loong*
Oh you think you ate huh
I actually just forgot about that.
I read a review that said "the dialogue seems like it was written with HR standing in the room" and I think that's the best way to describe Dragon Age Veilguard.
I thought Starfield was the most sanitized experience but this is even worse somehow.
Skillup is the man.
@@yatheo2969the writing was part of why I bounced off Starfield quickly. Probably makes this a hard pass then.
I read this comment on every video about dragon age failguard
It's like an HR sensitivity training video was made into a game
"And somehow we're here!"
"Yeah it's... unreal."
Notice how she's saying that because the game is made in unreal engine. Very intelligent writing in this game.
Absolute cinema!
That's actually in the Terms & Conditions of the Unreal Engine. You use that engine, you have to have a line like that in your game or Epic will sue your balls off.
But the horror surprise plot twist- its actually frostbite
But i havent had any frostbite in my playthrough yet
You joke, but they actually seem to do meta comments like that many times, for example when you can't sprint when you're first walking alongside Varric the PC says "shouldn't we hurry?" lmao
@@bartz0rt928 You are...kidding...right??
This game is written like a Dora the explorer episode and im not even kidding lmao
this is the first "refund" type game, truly innovative!
EA had such low faith in the end product they accounted beforehand they were shipping it without DRM, so they practically want you to pirate it.
@@Malefactor is that why its their most successful game on steam 😂
As the Internet has said, the true option is to be nonbuynary.
@@tyr573 No you see this game is bad and a failure because people who haven't played it heard some guy say he didn't like it.
@@tyr573*most successful singleplayer release on steam.
which STILL isnt really a boast, considering most of their games were origin exclusives at launch and only released on steam years later. Of the singleplayr games that did release on steam, they also released on gamepass so the likes of fallen order have way lower numbers on steam.
People use such strange logic to cope about the game being terrible.
When people say Veilguard has bad writing. This is what they meant.
Remember Dark Fantasy?
Remember the Broodmother?
Remember voice acting that doesn't sound like you're in an asylum?
Remember choices mattering?
Remember thinking this franchise was headed somewhere good?
Hopefully soon we can say remember Bioware when their doors close.
Nah they will fuck up Mass Effect AGAIN before that.
At this point better to just play bg3 or wait for Larian's next game. Bioware and bethesda are shit at making good games now.
cant remember can you please recap it for me 3 times?
It's been downhill ever since DA2.
@@ZeroB4NG They will fuck it up worse than mass effect 3's ending(s)
I was actually dying laughing at some of this dialogue. Was that dudes explanation for surviving getting stabbed in the throat really "I've had worse"? thats actually peak comedy
I thought the same.
Tis but a scratch!
this game really makes you FEEL like you're having a stroke
In the immortal words of Rich Evans "What's it like watching all your favorite childhood franchises crash and burn?"
In the immortal words of Rich Evans:
“AAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDDDDDDDDSSSSSSSS!”
AT STs AT STs!!!!!!!!!
good that new franchises rises all over the place with fun and good gameplay/stories
“I paid rian Johnson to mow my lawn, he dumped a bunch of fertilizer and made all my plants grow larger, he told me he was subverting my expectations” Mr. Plinkett.
It sure is great, I just can't wait for more.
0:22 Dragons Dogma 2 also released this year lol
Couldn’t believe he left it out.
Seriously, it is the most Dragon-type game this year!
Someone check and see if Dunkey's gamer card is expired.
@@SonGoku-vf4qk goodness, it's been a long year!
@@planescaped I almost unsubbed. Almost.
Game sucks ass he couldn't probably launch it that he forgot
These aren't fantasy characters. These are American college grads larping and spitting embarrassing dialogue.
GOTY
100% the elf girl literally sounds like a collage theatre kid
Based on this video I think that if I played through this full game my face would get stuck in a permanent wince expression.
"No, we gotta go this way. There's probably ten gold over here somewhere."
Damn, homie, ain't gotta call me out like that.
Level design that makes Hollow Knight look insignificant
It was a bold move from BioWare to go for the ESRB rating E for everyone with the story writing.
Seriously. Like where is the sexy badass chick who swears like a xbox live lobby? I thought that was a staple of all RPGs.
@@thedualitysystem She's now a plank that quips every 5 seconds.
@@thedualitysystemJRPGS have given up on revealing costumes and Western RPGs are giving up on profanity.
I don't know how much identity will be left soon
@@1stCallipostle thanks for the laugh
@@1stCallipostle to be fair the revealing costumes part is a good thing, as it's degenerate to sexualise and basically turns it into pr0n for coombrains
it's just as bad as the woke, but in a different way
we should just have healthy and somewhat attractive characters in a game that are not sexualised
Dunkey's review is probably the most fun content related to this game. And the comments. I love you guys.
this game is called dragon age because by the time they finish recapping the story u will be about as old as a dragon
fact: dragons are born old
@@egaliseur8430 Did you know dwarves don't have dreams, tho?
I thought people were exaggerating the dialogue being bad
The writing is on par with 99% of other video games released in this gen apart from baldurs gate, cyberpunk and maybe gow ragnarok.
This is pretty much on par with everything else. Like to me this looks completely and utterly indistinguishable from hogwarts legacy, yet one of these is bashed more than it deserves and the other is praised more than it deserves.
People would be eating this mid slop up like any other game of it's type if it didn't happened to become a target for the anti-woke culture war tourists.
I like a bit of camp and cringe in my dialogue. It what makes man *A MISERIBLE LITTLE PILE OF SECRETS*
you can forget about all that trans and pronoun stuff, its not really that bad. But the bad dialogue just keeps unfolding the more reviews come out, its so shallow and cringy
@@user-ly2ll5od1r When the dialogue is so bad that with every conversation you are actively hoping it's minimized so as not to excessively distract from whatever's keeping you playing the game, that's just not the defense you think it is. When the dialogue used to be what gave the franchise its credentials, and _still_ takes up more than half of the total gameplay even in a poor entry like this one, that's just not the defense you think it is. Half of your $70+ purchase is spent on the dialogue that 99.9% of folks are making fun of. Is that cool?
@@TheWretchedEgg12 The current year identity politics IS that bad in this game, it's shoved right in your face
The director of this game's previous experience with EA was making Sims. The awful dialogue makes sense when you take that into account.
The Starfield Guy is farming this game to the fullest.
The writing and dialogue is so good it makes my body physically ill.
Bioware to "barf"ware.
I'm confused as to why people who hate all these Dragon games don't just use Ice-type moves.
Dragons often have 1-2 super powerful fire type cover moves making it inefficient and dangerous since ice does most damage on its own type. It’s why they need to become fairies instead
Just use a fairy type game to counteract it
Sylveon of War is just around the corner.
Or just play other games
"Every scene feels like HR is in the room" is one of the coldest ones I've seen in a while.
Dunkey Age: Rise of Spyro.
Unironically would play ghat
“I thought I was playing an indie game here” definitely the most underrated line in this video
Can’t believe after 38 years they finally released a sequel to Dragon Quest
oh shit... I thought this was a sequel to How to Train Your Dragon..
This is a great time to mention that the 1981 hit film “time bandits” is available to watch on streaming. And it has tons of dwarves
Dwarves are tight.
Did you know dwarves can't use magic?
@@galeng2569 I did not know that, but I know dwarves don't dream. They also can't use magic.
@@jeremyphillips3087 But are they hardly an inconvenience?
3:18 "once you're in, you can't get out."
[ sponge bob narrator says 2 seconds later ]
"But I think I can find a way out."
Even a shitty line like that could have been saved with an "unless.." plus a thoughtful look of the character rummaging through some books, papers or calculations.
Not ideal, but far better than the actual scene.
@@komred64 Yea, true. There is no way out, supposedly.
@@komred64 Or even just "Normally once you're in..."
It's almost like the video cuts all the dialogue in between for comedic effect
Dear Developers, if you can fit over 3000 animal wells in the file sizes of your games, it's way too big.
"Dwarves don't dream" is the devs subtly telling that short kings shouldn't pursue their goals, very offensive and not cool.
Men under 175 cm shouldn't have dreams, amirite?
Short king?
You mean a prince?
Elfcel lanklets seething at the chad short kings' indefatigable ambitions and drive.
@@aprinnyonbreak1290 Lord Farquaadmaxing
This game really makes you feel like you have a traumatic brain injury and can't remember anything
This game really makes you FEEL like forespoken
I moved sht with my freaking mind HA HA!!
Second Forspoken type game
The writing is designed to eat up your refund time. 😂
"this game's made for nobody" -Psychic Pebbles
Hes wrong, its made for redditors
@@Austrveg Redditors arent people though
I disagree, it’s made for those who have amneeeeesiaaaa
"These writers should go on strike to get paid more."
Wow Never thought The Room would get a game adaptation. Tommy Wiseau would be proud.
“Hahaha! What a story, mage.”
At least the room was entertaining
Roleplaying game where your dialogue options amount to nothing. Bravo Bioware
This has been the industry standard post fallout new vegas, don't know why people notice now
illusion of choice pleases everyone cause the player gets to feel like they are in control without actually being in control.
Fallout 4 all over again.
Its a god of war type of game with a fake dialogue wheel
@@luderzuckerfan6990 Because they removed the only dialog options people care about.
Truly an exposition-type game. Makes you truly feel the story!
he's right behind me isn't he ahh dialogue
Literally sounds like something Alistair would say in Origins, tbh.
@@theobell2002 You're right... but it was a bit more tolerable before *everything* started to sound like that thanks to Marvel/Disney.
@@planescaped Also it was only Alistair that said stuff like that. It was a part of his unique personality, and he was serious when he needed to be.
Perfect example
Yes. Because that was Alisters character. But he was the only one that acted like that, because that was his unique character, and he would often get made fun of by other party members for acting like that
When will 2015-style dialogue be done away with? That is the true quest we must embark upon.
2015? Twitter, Reddit and Borderlands 2 have been out there for little longer than that.
The term you're looking for is Whedon-esque dialogue, and it's been a thing since Buffy The Vampire Slayer, but arguably Joss Whedon popularized it in The Avengers, and it has plagued movies ever since.
That's Avengers-style humor. And I'm afraid it'll be here as long as millions of people keep buying tickets to see the movies with generic cringy humor and copy paste CGI..
@@jaroslavprucha9198 I mean, lately people haven't been doing that, which is why we have....only 1 Marvel movie this year(I think) and it was a big hit only because it was Deadpool+ Hugh Jackman's Wolverine and it was sort of mocking the MCU anyway.
So maybe things can change after all🤗(I know they'll keep doing the sh+tty dialogue, let me dream lol)
@@DeadKraken So things can change or not? I'm about to dream or not according to you.
I had subway surfers on and family guy clip, while watching and I didn't miss a single story moment. Good job devs.
Why does EVERY GAME make you do the sideways shimmy through a crack in the wall??? It drives me crazy every time
it's essentially a loading zone without having a menu, same as elevators in open world games.
1:40 I can’t believe they did this with no loading screens
Bethesda in shambles
Because there is just one planet (lame). Todd won again.
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@@4Core100if only you could explore a entire planet I starfield without a loading screen.
Dwarves don't dream.
it's sad because the gameplay looks somewhat fun, but the dialogue and story are so... _UMMM, SO THAT JUST HAPPENED_ and it's pretty critical for a Dragon Age game to have tolerable dialogue.
No it looks bad especially for a triple AAA
they go woke then going broke😂
Bioware flies now?
Bioware flies now!
Welp, I guess Bioware does _that_ now.
@@JaCKal_646f67 does woke just mean shit writing now? or is there actually ideology central to the plot?
I agree. the combat looks rad, but the rest looks mad boring. This game makes inquisition look like peak storytelling.
2:25 actually it's... Frostbite.
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3:47 I HAVE BEEN SUMMONED