Spicy? KCD is spicier, ha ha. Tbh I want this to continue to fail harder and slide into obscurity. I can't unsee what they did to Thedas, the glorification of a genocidal madman, the contempt in which they treated our inquisitor and the few returning characters. contempt for the lore, dismissal of our choices. It hit me so hard that on my last Inquisition playthrough I could not do Trespasser and just stopped at the original ending. Solas got benched and I never conversed with him. Knowledge of the Veilguard has negatively impacted my Inquisition experience and I can't and won't forgive EA for that. I've only done Inq on 2 chars, it should have been good for a lot more replays, as Origins was. I now view Trespasser as the beginning of the end for this franchise.
I had a good laugh too when they've announced that romances will be 'spicy' somewhere during the summer when they were promoting the game. Such liars! But what else to expect from ZombieWare at this point. 😏 Your experience mirrors what I heard already from a few other people as well - that they're now taking a step back from the entire franchise and probably just replay the first 2 games later. At this time many people are careful with Inquisition as they see it a bit differently after Veilguard and this just says a lot about how badly the new game is impacting the entire franchise and the old fanbase. The whole controversy with KCD is now I think just all the more a positive marketing for Warhorse Studios. What can I say - I don't like 1st person games, but I've bought now KCD 1 and will probably buy & play also KCD 2! 😂👍 Thanks a lot for the comment & also for watching of course! 🙂
@@SeventhheavenDK I think a lot of people share the same sentiment. At least for a while. 🙂 Thank you very much for watching & for taking the time to comment!
@@ChattySisa. I have finished watching the video. I share the same opinion. I have been a fan of this franchise since the beginning. I was really disappointed by what happened with Veilguard. I cannot even call the game Dragon Age, it feels very disconnected. I finished the game, and uninstalled it as soon as the credits rolled. And I was left even with guilt for having contributed to the sales.
@@SeventhheavenDK Yes, the game is really not resembling Dragon Age - if you wouldn't have some recognizable characters in it, then it might as well be just another fantasy action game, but not even a good one. I was so looking forward to talk about the new game when I've created this channel and then we've got this. After 10 years of waiting. It's very disheartening what's happening to some (formerly) great franchises... 😔
Won't even play it for free. The level of disrespect to the fans/customers of this series waiting for 10 years for the conclusion of inquisition and this is the slop the tried to make us pay for.
Yep, it was frustrating to watch already some vids of the game before the release, but after it was out and we've got the whole picture I think I went through all the stages of grief in just a few days... Today I wouldn't touch this game even if someone would try to pay me for it. I rather don't destroy anymore the fond memories I have of the franchise. Thank you very much for watching & for taking the time to comment - much appreciated!
I agree with you, but knowing how twisted it is in the gaming industry - they might be even instead promoted... 🤨 Thanks a lot for watching & for taking the time to comment - much appreciated!
At this time I really don't have that much hope that the new Mass Effect game will be on par with the original trilogy. I'd be surprised if it even comes close to Andromeda. And I wouldn't wonder if after the next ME game release people will go back to Andromeda and say that it's a 'masterpiece' compared to the new ME game. I really don't see how the same people responsible for the recent ZombieWare flops could be able to make a good game... 😟
Agree. Having bought and played the game, I can tell you it is well made and polished and beautiful, with fun combat and a good main story. It released bug free too! I would say 95% of the devs on this project did an outstanding job. But they had it ruined by crazy decisions of the director and EA.
And so Bioware got the new audience they were building for, but didn't take into account how fast they'd all bounce when the next hot thing released in games. Meanwhile, one year later Larian is still pulling larger concurrent player numbers with BG3 and all they do is drop patches that give players QoL and some fleshed out content while they are in early dev with their next new game. (Oops, we're not supposed to mention That New Bar set by Larian to AAA Studios, lest they get all riled). Hell, even CDPR with Cyberpunk 2077 just dropped some new QoL features that will drive the player base back in for another replay. And gods bless them for dropping the Witcher 4 cinematic at the Game Awards tonight. Ciri!! Confirmed canon ending!! Ciri!! But this vid is about you, Bioware: you keep doing you, now we know for real what to expect going forward.
ZombieWare got the 'new audience', but if we look at those numbers, that 'new audience' will definitely not be able to sustain them if they continue to produce this kind of garbage instead of the quality they were able to put into their games a few years back. 😏 Regarding the new Witcher game - I'm not thrilled about Ciri as the main protagonist honestly. I understand that many people are, but for me this is not in line with the book lore/canon. And regarding The Witcher I'm probably here having that one particular franchise, where I'm that 'old fashioned canon purist', who only recognizes the books as the only true canon & lore source. 😎 I know, terribly uptight. But as much as I don't care in other franchises about smaller lore deviations, I definitely do especially with The Witcher - it was the first big fantasy saga I fell in love with in the 90s and for me only Sapkowski's original books are true canon. And those are pretty clear on Ciri's role in his world, also very very clear on who and how can be a Witcher, etc. Add on top of that how unlikeable she was in this new trailer - as if they were trying to make a second Yennefer out of her, which is again awful to me. 🤷♀️ I get that there are people who will be hyped for the game, but I think this is a huge missed opportunity in creating something completely new. And making her 'a Witcher' goes also against many gamer's decisions, who chose a different ending in their TW3 playthrough. At this point I'm honestly very disappointed, but I'll probably make a vid with a bit more in-depth explanation on why I'm not thrilled at this time. In any case thanks a ton for watching & for the comment - much appreciated! 🙂
I heard that the creative director, that Busche crossdresser guy, was supposedly motivated to ruin this game to spite his ex wife, which is kinda hilarious. Probably a false rumor, but it would be hilarious if true.
Haven't actually heard that yet, so it's hard to judge, but honestly - it looks like the game was done by people who wanted to use it as a vessel to deal with their own personal problems instead of creating a good game for the majority of gamers. So I wouldn't be surprised if something like this would have been another motivator for including the nonsense into the game that we've seen... Thanks a lot for the comment & for watching!
It's false and dumb. But the dude is nuts, so I'm not surprised that the 'direction' of the game was off a cliff of madness. I feel for the devs who did outstanding work on this game (it's beautifully made), only to be punished for the decisions of ea and director
Me and my father were both big Dragon Age fans. Sadly since he's gotten much older he doesn't play as much as he used to. He bought me dragon age veil guard for Christmas that just passed. He doesn't follow gaming news anymore so he assumed I would have been excited. I feel terrible but I will play it for him, I can say for certain it does not feel like a dragon age game.
Thank you very much for watching & for the comment - much appreciated! He couldn't have known obviously, but I think in this case it's the thought that matters and he meant well considering it was a Christmas gift. In the end it's not so bad as you can judge for yourself now and see if the game has any redeeming qualities. Although at the moment you're confirming what most people already said after playing - that it's not like a Dragon Age game at all. But maybe in return you could surprise your dad with some coop game - I'm sure he'd love to spend a little bit of time with you this way even if he's no longer playing so much on his own. 🙂
I said long before release - 2 milion sales, 200k all time and 2k concurrent after 2 months predicting a massive drop off. But most people choose to hate watch it so I was wrong on that top players number. I'm happy with the rest of prediction. 😀
Yep, you might be right there with the all time number. Your prediction on the sales looks also spot on. There have been in the past few days many "leaks" floating around - from 1 mio to 3 mio $ - however nothing official and I find the 3 mio $ number inflated by all those giveaways they did (like the bundle with Nvidia's GeForce e.g.), so I don't think it sounds feasible - at least not at this time. Those 2 mio $ might be an all time number, but who knows how ZombieWare will tweak the numbers internally for them to look good... 😏 Thanks a lot for watching & for the comment!
I will probably not play it. The reason i loved BG2 as a kid was the tactical combat, where you could pause and direct your party. I mainly like origins for its similar tactics and the story, the quests where great, esp. the major ones like the dwarf kings and the magic anvil. As i understand it, Veilguard has no tactical gameplay, and the story is from what i heard, lukewarm, without any roleplay elements. I think i will skip this.
Thank you so much for watching & for the comment! That missing tactical element is one of the things I've seen as a downgrade. This is something that's been criticized already when Mass Effect Andromeda released - the use of only 3 skills, the lack of control over your companions, the long cooldowns... While in Andromeda the combat was still fun because you're using modern firearms, so you can keep you enemies at bay in the meantime, with a fantasy game where you're using mainly weapons suited to close range combat, these changes are rather negative. Then there's the atrocious writing and the story wasn't so great for me either. I've watched 2 different full playthroughs with different endings and I'll be honest - I don't see why some people were praising the game's finale or the last 2-3 hours. For me personally the whole game was a big disappointment with too many aspects that just didn't work or were outright bad.
All that has to happen to turn things around is to fire all toxic idpol activists from their development teams, ESPECIALLY leadership. I blame “Corinne” Busch for it’s failure and his insistence that the character creator be limited to the male body plus estrogen injections.
I definitely agree with you, but realistically from what we've seen in the past few years - it's especially people like that who tend to be promoted instead of fired. And it's usually the good hard working veterans who have made the previous games in a franchise great who are laid off or otherwise pushed out of the studios. As the saying goes - a fish stinks from the head and I would wish the gaming industry finally understood that. Thanks a ton for watching & for taking the time to comment - much appreciated!
The game was such a success that it reached 9.9999.9999.9999 concurrent players, steam's algorithm couldn't handle it and that's why it started counting from 0 again! 👀 Also like I said on X Bioware also made so much profit that they feel bad taking more money from ppl so that's why they are giving everything away for free. Out of desperati- I- I mean out of appreciation.🤭👀
Yes, yes, I can't believe they're only asking so very little for such a grandiose masterpiece! The dialogues are peak mature entertainment and without them I wouldn't even know how to properly pull a Bharv! 😂😂😂 But on a serious note - thanks a ton for watching & for the comment - always a pleasure! 🙂
@@ChattySisa sisa come what may for my channel, I'm always going to be a fan of yours 😊 so don't even mention it 🥰 As for bharv, yes! I too feel grateful to bioware for educating me on such important matters! 🤣
@@snackishraccoon Yep! Because you make great vids and I would love to see more of those. Holidays are coming - I hope you're going to have less work. (And what I mean is I hope you're going to have more time to make that new channel!) 😎😁
I played it just for Solas. He makes it somewhat bearable. It’s a shame the version Joplin was scrapped. EA is to blame, wholeheartedly. The art for that original version was amazing.
Yes, I've seen it and agree - that looked like a very very different game - one way more in line with the 'old' Dragon Age look & feel that we were used to previously. While I'm not a big Solas fan, I have to say I felt sorry for those who were when I've seen some of the endings in Veilguard. They really depicted him so out of character it was awful to watch... Thank you very much for watching & taking the time to comment - much appreciated!
Having bought and played the game, I can tell you it is well made and polished and beautiful, with fun combat and a good main story. It released bug free too! I would say 95% of the devs on this project did an outstanding job. But they had it ruined by crazy decisions of the director and EA.
I have been into 2 different walmarts, and neither of them even had a shelf tag for the game. I was trying to see if it had a sale price listed in the store. There was no evidence that the game even existed at Walmarts that have massive game sections.
Oof, that's quite something if they don't even offer the game. I think it just underlines how poor the sales and the game's perception must be if such an established store chain like Walmart decides not to offer the game, because they know it wouldn't sell and it's not worth the shelf space... I'll keep an eye on the stats after the Holidays in January to see if anything changed, but I believe we won't hear any good news in the end. Thank you very much for watching & for the comment!
Its actually quite odd how the steam reviews are suddenly getting more positive especially considering that there are barely people left playing it. I have to wonder if they are paying for them... once again
That would be consistent with how they proceeded so far. I agree with you here that it looks awfully suspicious - especially comparing to the overall player counts and the stats we have not just on Steam. It's just another way how they're trying to influence the gamers to increase the sales before the year is over. They must be really desperate. Combine that with some additional people suddenly leaving the studio now (like e.g. the writer Sylvia Feketekuty, who has recently left the studio after 15 years) and you're really getting the feeling that the employees are already in a panic starting to quickly look for new jobs before they get all laid off... I highly doubt a few new sold copies of that game will save that studio. 😏 Thank you very much for watching & for taking the time to comment - much appreciated!
This is what bothers me so in recent years not just in games, but also in movies, etc. The need of the industry to destroy or get rid of anything from the past while they're not realizing that it's the past movies/games/books etc. why the people fell in love with the IP in the first place. Including elements from the past helps the viewers/gamers/readers to connect to the newer content. If it doesn't include the past, then people won't care as it might just as well be any other random new movie/game/book out there, which they're not interested in. Thank you very much for watching & for the comment!
I'm one of the old Bioware fans they slapped in the face with this game. I was wary so I (fortunately) didn't buy before watching reviews. I was aghast after watching those reviews and clips from the game. I ended up going back to Elder Scrolls Online and bought Farming Simulator 25 instead. Yeah, I happen to like farming games now and then. IMO this game signals the end of Bioware. I hope I am wrong, and they can get back the old magic but seeing the developer's reaction to feedback, I don't have much hope.
Thank you very much for watching & for taking the time to comment - much appreciated! I'm especially after this year already at a point where I refuse to pre-order any games. While there are some I'm really looking forward to, especially this year has taught me to wait for the release and see some feedback/first reviews before deciding whether I'm going to buy the game or not. There's this proverb saying 'I'm not rich enough to buy cheap things.' and for me that goes for the games - especially in these current years. What I've also noticed is the increase of people who seem to be blind and bury their heads in sand before a game is released, but when we already have plenty of information riddled with red flags. I get it, that people are looking forward to something they've been waiting for for a long time - I was waiting for the game 10 years too - and that they don't want to believe that a famous studio could botch it and produce a mediocre/bad game. But pretending that everything's going to be fine and completely ignoring the signs that it isn't, is only going to contribute to an even bigger disappointment once the game is out and we all realize that the red flags have been in fact the right hint of what's going to happen... For me at this point the next Mass Effect game is something I've stopped looking forward to after seeing what ZombieWare did to Dragon Age with Veilguard. I have zero trust in the current people at the studio and if they ever finish the game, I'm already bracing myself mentally to see just another one of my beloved franchises being completely destroyed by these people. Unfortunately.
@@chomskysfavefive Thank you very much for watching & the comment! Yes, I'm having BG3 on my (already quite long) list of 'to do'. 😉 Larian is still one of the few studios I trust to create good games. But aside from that I've already started looking at smaller and indie studios and some games that are in the pipeline look really great. So I think we'll get to see something good rather from such studios than the big corporate AAA ones in the next 2-3 years. I'll definitely have a look at those and try to cover them on the channel going forward.
lol I just saw the price-drop on steam, from 59 EUR down to 38 EUR 🤣the story and the childish woke narrative seem to have disappointed the players very much
Yes, I recorded this on Tuesday and only now seen the price drop just like you, so I didn't manage to put it into the vid. But it just highlights even more the desperation on their side as they're trying to increase the sales numbers. Honestly even if they increase the sales - if they do it this way, it'll still not have the desired effect on their revenue. At this point they're just continuing to lose money and I do not wonder at all considering the 'quality' of the game. 😉 Thank you so much for watching & for taking the time to comment - much appreciated!
I keep trying to pick it up. I play it for a few hours and get to an annoying time waisting puzzle and end up putting it down again. I find the world they made claustrophobic because of all the damn dumb puzzles. I HATE ingame puzzles. Also the companions feel lifeless and the story overall bland due to poor writing. All of my past choices in the previous games I agonized over are now pointless feels like a huge insult.
Thank you so much for watching & for taking the time to comment! The game has in general many weak points and only very little positives to offset the bad taste it leaves behind. I think it's been overall also having a negative effect on the previous games - at least Inquisition, as many people are saying they're now viewing the game differently knowing what happens in Veilguard. This was in general not a game that should have had the name Dragon Age tied to it. The general poor quality has been most probably the last nail in the franchise's coffin and as you're saying a huge insult to the original fanbase.
Spicy? KCD is spicier, ha ha. Tbh I want this to continue to fail harder and slide into obscurity. I can't unsee what they did to Thedas, the glorification of a genocidal madman, the contempt in which they treated our inquisitor and the few returning characters. contempt for the lore, dismissal of our choices. It hit me so hard that on my last Inquisition playthrough I could not do Trespasser and just stopped at the original ending. Solas got benched and I never conversed with him. Knowledge of the Veilguard has negatively impacted my Inquisition experience and I can't and won't forgive EA for that. I've only done Inq on 2 chars, it should have been good for a lot more replays, as Origins was. I now view Trespasser as the beginning of the end for this franchise.
I had a good laugh too when they've announced that romances will be 'spicy' somewhere during the summer when they were promoting the game. Such liars! But what else to expect from ZombieWare at this point. 😏
Your experience mirrors what I heard already from a few other people as well - that they're now taking a step back from the entire franchise and probably just replay the first 2 games later. At this time many people are careful with Inquisition as they see it a bit differently after Veilguard and this just says a lot about how badly the new game is impacting the entire franchise and the old fanbase.
The whole controversy with KCD is now I think just all the more a positive marketing for Warhorse Studios. What can I say - I don't like 1st person games, but I've bought now KCD 1 and will probably buy & play also KCD 2! 😂👍
Thanks a lot for the comment & also for watching of course! 🙂
That's what I am doing too.
I am replaying Origins, then DA2, and then Inquisition, but I will stop at the end of the base game.
@@SeventhheavenDK I think a lot of people share the same sentiment. At least for a while. 🙂
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@@ChattySisa. I have finished watching the video.
I share the same opinion. I have been a fan of this franchise since the beginning. I was really disappointed by what happened with Veilguard.
I cannot even call the game Dragon Age, it feels very disconnected.
I finished the game, and uninstalled it as soon as the credits rolled. And I was left even with guilt for having contributed to the sales.
@@SeventhheavenDK Yes, the game is really not resembling Dragon Age - if you wouldn't have some recognizable characters in it, then it might as well be just another fantasy action game, but not even a good one.
I was so looking forward to talk about the new game when I've created this channel and then we've got this. After 10 years of waiting. It's very disheartening what's happening to some (formerly) great franchises... 😔
Won't even play it for free. The level of disrespect to the fans/customers of this series waiting for 10 years for the conclusion of inquisition and this is the slop the tried to make us pay for.
Yep, it was frustrating to watch already some vids of the game before the release, but after it was out and we've got the whole picture I think I went through all the stages of grief in just a few days...
Today I wouldn't touch this game even if someone would try to pay me for it. I rather don't destroy anymore the fond memories I have of the franchise.
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The leads should be fired, or at the very least, demoted and forbidden from working on the next Mass Effect.
I agree with you, but knowing how twisted it is in the gaming industry - they might be even instead promoted... 🤨
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@@ChattySisa Oh geez, I hope that doesn't happen (though you are right) 😒
At this time I really don't have that much hope that the new Mass Effect game will be on par with the original trilogy. I'd be surprised if it even comes close to Andromeda. And I wouldn't wonder if after the next ME game release people will go back to Andromeda and say that it's a 'masterpiece' compared to the new ME game. I really don't see how the same people responsible for the recent ZombieWare flops could be able to make a good game... 😟
Agree. Having bought and played the game, I can tell you it is well made and polished and beautiful, with fun combat and a good main story. It released bug free too! I would say 95% of the devs on this project did an outstanding job. But they had it ruined by crazy decisions of the director and EA.
And so Bioware got the new audience they were building for, but didn't take into account how fast they'd all bounce when the next hot thing released in games. Meanwhile, one year later Larian is still pulling larger concurrent player numbers with BG3 and all they do is drop patches that give players QoL and some fleshed out content while they are in early dev with their next new game. (Oops, we're not supposed to mention That New Bar set by Larian to AAA Studios, lest they get all riled). Hell, even CDPR with Cyberpunk 2077 just dropped some new QoL features that will drive the player base back in for another replay. And gods bless them for dropping the Witcher 4 cinematic at the Game Awards tonight. Ciri!! Confirmed canon ending!! Ciri!! But this vid is about you, Bioware: you keep doing you, now we know for real what to expect going forward.
ZombieWare got the 'new audience', but if we look at those numbers, that 'new audience' will definitely not be able to sustain them if they continue to produce this kind of garbage instead of the quality they were able to put into their games a few years back. 😏
Regarding the new Witcher game - I'm not thrilled about Ciri as the main protagonist honestly. I understand that many people are, but for me this is not in line with the book lore/canon. And regarding The Witcher I'm probably here having that one particular franchise, where I'm that 'old fashioned canon purist', who only recognizes the books as the only true canon & lore source. 😎
I know, terribly uptight. But as much as I don't care in other franchises about smaller lore deviations, I definitely do especially with The Witcher - it was the first big fantasy saga I fell in love with in the 90s and for me only Sapkowski's original books are true canon. And those are pretty clear on Ciri's role in his world, also very very clear on who and how can be a Witcher, etc. Add on top of that how unlikeable she was in this new trailer - as if they were trying to make a second Yennefer out of her, which is again awful to me. 🤷♀️
I get that there are people who will be hyped for the game, but I think this is a huge missed opportunity in creating something completely new. And making her 'a Witcher' goes also against many gamer's decisions, who chose a different ending in their TW3 playthrough. At this point I'm honestly very disappointed, but I'll probably make a vid with a bit more in-depth explanation on why I'm not thrilled at this time.
In any case thanks a ton for watching & for the comment - much appreciated! 🙂
I heard that the creative director, that Busche crossdresser guy, was supposedly motivated to ruin this game to spite his ex wife, which is kinda hilarious. Probably a false rumor, but it would be hilarious if true.
Haven't actually heard that yet, so it's hard to judge, but honestly - it looks like the game was done by people who wanted to use it as a vessel to deal with their own personal problems instead of creating a good game for the majority of gamers. So I wouldn't be surprised if something like this would have been another motivator for including the nonsense into the game that we've seen...
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It's false and dumb. But the dude is nuts, so I'm not surprised that the 'direction' of the game was off a cliff of madness. I feel for the devs who did outstanding work on this game (it's beautifully made), only to be punished for the decisions of ea and director
Me and my father were both big Dragon Age fans. Sadly since he's gotten much older he doesn't play as much as he used to. He bought me dragon age veil guard for Christmas that just passed. He doesn't follow gaming news anymore so he assumed I would have been excited. I feel terrible but I will play it for him, I can say for certain it does not feel like a dragon age game.
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He couldn't have known obviously, but I think in this case it's the thought that matters and he meant well considering it was a Christmas gift. In the end it's not so bad as you can judge for yourself now and see if the game has any redeeming qualities.
Although at the moment you're confirming what most people already said after playing - that it's not like a Dragon Age game at all.
But maybe in return you could surprise your dad with some coop game - I'm sure he'd love to spend a little bit of time with you this way even if he's no longer playing so much on his own. 🙂
@ I would love that but every sexy guy remarried he just doesn’t play video games anymore. lol, she won’t let him.
@@JJsiN84 Oh damn, so it's not necessarily the age then, but the partner... 😏😎 I'd probably still give it a try. 😁
I said long before release - 2 milion sales, 200k all time and 2k concurrent after 2 months predicting a massive drop off. But most people choose to hate watch it so I was wrong on that top players number. I'm happy with the rest of prediction. 😀
Yep, you might be right there with the all time number. Your prediction on the sales looks also spot on.
There have been in the past few days many "leaks" floating around - from 1 mio to 3 mio $ - however nothing official and I find the 3 mio $ number inflated by all those giveaways they did (like the bundle with Nvidia's GeForce e.g.), so I don't think it sounds feasible - at least not at this time. Those 2 mio $ might be an all time number, but who knows how ZombieWare will tweak the numbers internally for them to look good... 😏
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I will probably not play it. The reason i loved BG2 as a kid was the tactical combat, where you could pause and direct your party. I mainly like origins for its similar tactics and the story, the quests where great, esp. the major ones like the dwarf kings and the magic anvil. As i understand it, Veilguard has no tactical gameplay, and the story is from what i heard, lukewarm, without any roleplay elements. I think i will skip this.
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That missing tactical element is one of the things I've seen as a downgrade. This is something that's been criticized already when Mass Effect Andromeda released - the use of only 3 skills, the lack of control over your companions, the long cooldowns... While in Andromeda the combat was still fun because you're using modern firearms, so you can keep you enemies at bay in the meantime, with a fantasy game where you're using mainly weapons suited to close range combat, these changes are rather negative.
Then there's the atrocious writing and the story wasn't so great for me either. I've watched 2 different full playthroughs with different endings and I'll be honest - I don't see why some people were praising the game's finale or the last 2-3 hours. For me personally the whole game was a big disappointment with too many aspects that just didn't work or were outright bad.
All that has to happen to turn things around is to fire all toxic idpol activists from their development teams, ESPECIALLY leadership. I blame “Corinne” Busch for it’s failure and his insistence that the character creator be limited to the male body plus estrogen injections.
I definitely agree with you, but realistically from what we've seen in the past few years - it's especially people like that who tend to be promoted instead of fired. And it's usually the good hard working veterans who have made the previous games in a franchise great who are laid off or otherwise pushed out of the studios. As the saying goes - a fish stinks from the head and I would wish the gaming industry finally understood that.
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The game was such a success that it reached 9.9999.9999.9999 concurrent players, steam's algorithm couldn't handle it and that's why it started counting from 0 again! 👀
Also like I said on X Bioware also made so much profit that they feel bad taking more money from ppl so that's why they are giving everything away for free. Out of desperati- I- I mean out of appreciation.🤭👀
Yes, yes, I can't believe they're only asking so very little for such a grandiose masterpiece! The dialogues are peak mature entertainment and without them I wouldn't even know how to properly pull a Bharv!
😂😂😂
But on a serious note - thanks a ton for watching & for the comment - always a pleasure! 🙂
@@ChattySisa sisa come what may for my channel, I'm always going to be a fan of yours 😊 so don't even mention it 🥰
As for bharv, yes! I too feel grateful to bioware for educating me on such important matters! 🤣
@@snackishraccoon What do you mean with 'come what may'... You need to make a new channel asap! No discussions! 😜
@@ChattySisa hahaha, you are not only my manager but my motivation coach too now, huh? 😂
@@snackishraccoon Yep! Because you make great vids and I would love to see more of those. Holidays are coming - I hope you're going to have less work. (And what I mean is I hope you're going to have more time to make that new channel!) 😎😁
I played it just for Solas. He makes it somewhat bearable. It’s a shame the version Joplin was scrapped. EA is to blame, wholeheartedly. The art for that original version was amazing.
Yes, I've seen it and agree - that looked like a very very different game - one way more in line with the 'old' Dragon Age look & feel that we were used to previously.
While I'm not a big Solas fan, I have to say I felt sorry for those who were when I've seen some of the endings in Veilguard. They really depicted him so out of character it was awful to watch...
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Having bought and played the game, I can tell you it is well made and polished and beautiful, with fun combat and a good main story. It released bug free too! I would say 95% of the devs on this project did an outstanding job. But they had it ruined by crazy decisions of the director and EA.
I have been into 2 different walmarts, and neither of them even had a shelf tag for the game. I was trying to see if it had a sale price listed in the store. There was no evidence that the game even existed at Walmarts that have massive game sections.
Oof, that's quite something if they don't even offer the game. I think it just underlines how poor the sales and the game's perception must be if such an established store chain like Walmart decides not to offer the game, because they know it wouldn't sell and it's not worth the shelf space...
I'll keep an eye on the stats after the Holidays in January to see if anything changed, but I believe we won't hear any good news in the end.
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Its actually quite odd how the steam reviews are suddenly getting more positive especially considering that there are barely people left playing it. I have to wonder if they are paying for them... once again
That would be consistent with how they proceeded so far. I agree with you here that it looks awfully suspicious - especially comparing to the overall player counts and the stats we have not just on Steam. It's just another way how they're trying to influence the gamers to increase the sales before the year is over. They must be really desperate.
Combine that with some additional people suddenly leaving the studio now (like e.g. the writer Sylvia Feketekuty, who has recently left the studio after 15 years) and you're really getting the feeling that the employees are already in a panic starting to quickly look for new jobs before they get all laid off... I highly doubt a few new sold copies of that game will save that studio. 😏
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The general consensus of steam reviews is "the game is good, but not really dragon age."
Having played it myself I concur.
They wanted to kill any connection to the past and in doing that destroyed their future.
This is what bothers me so in recent years not just in games, but also in movies, etc. The need of the industry to destroy or get rid of anything from the past while they're not realizing that it's the past movies/games/books etc. why the people fell in love with the IP in the first place.
Including elements from the past helps the viewers/gamers/readers to connect to the newer content. If it doesn't include the past, then people won't care as it might just as well be any other random new movie/game/book out there, which they're not interested in.
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I'm one of the old Bioware fans they slapped in the face with this game. I was wary so I (fortunately) didn't buy before watching reviews. I was aghast after watching those reviews and clips from the game. I ended up going back to Elder Scrolls Online and bought Farming Simulator 25 instead. Yeah, I happen to like farming games now and then. IMO this game signals the end of Bioware. I hope I am wrong, and they can get back the old magic but seeing the developer's reaction to feedback, I don't have much hope.
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I'm especially after this year already at a point where I refuse to pre-order any games. While there are some I'm really looking forward to, especially this year has taught me to wait for the release and see some feedback/first reviews before deciding whether I'm going to buy the game or not. There's this proverb saying 'I'm not rich enough to buy cheap things.' and for me that goes for the games - especially in these current years.
What I've also noticed is the increase of people who seem to be blind and bury their heads in sand before a game is released, but when we already have plenty of information riddled with red flags. I get it, that people are looking forward to something they've been waiting for for a long time - I was waiting for the game 10 years too - and that they don't want to believe that a famous studio could botch it and produce a mediocre/bad game. But pretending that everything's going to be fine and completely ignoring the signs that it isn't, is only going to contribute to an even bigger disappointment once the game is out and we all realize that the red flags have been in fact the right hint of what's going to happen...
For me at this point the next Mass Effect game is something I've stopped looking forward to after seeing what ZombieWare did to Dragon Age with Veilguard. I have zero trust in the current people at the studio and if they ever finish the game, I'm already bracing myself mentally to see just another one of my beloved franchises being completely destroyed by these people. Unfortunately.
I'm sure you've heard of Baldur's Gate 3 by now but if you're looking for a BioWare fix, that's where you get it these days.
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Yes, I'm having BG3 on my (already quite long) list of 'to do'. 😉 Larian is still one of the few studios I trust to create good games.
But aside from that I've already started looking at smaller and indie studios and some games that are in the pipeline look really great. So I think we'll get to see something good rather from such studios than the big corporate AAA ones in the next 2-3 years.
I'll definitely have a look at those and try to cover them on the channel going forward.
lol I just saw the price-drop on steam, from 59 EUR down to 38 EUR 🤣the story and the childish woke narrative seem to have disappointed the players very much
Yes, I recorded this on Tuesday and only now seen the price drop just like you, so I didn't manage to put it into the vid. But it just highlights even more the desperation on their side as they're trying to increase the sales numbers.
Honestly even if they increase the sales - if they do it this way, it'll still not have the desired effect on their revenue. At this point they're just continuing to lose money and I do not wonder at all considering the 'quality' of the game. 😉
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I keep trying to pick it up. I play it for a few hours and get to an annoying time waisting puzzle and end up putting it down again. I find the world they made claustrophobic because of all the damn dumb puzzles. I HATE ingame puzzles. Also the companions feel lifeless and the story overall bland due to poor writing. All of my past choices in the previous games I agonized over are now pointless feels like a huge insult.
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The game has in general many weak points and only very little positives to offset the bad taste it leaves behind. I think it's been overall also having a negative effect on the previous games - at least Inquisition, as many people are saying they're now viewing the game differently knowing what happens in Veilguard.
This was in general not a game that should have had the name Dragon Age tied to it. The general poor quality has been most probably the last nail in the franchise's coffin and as you're saying a huge insult to the original fanbase.