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It's not just the Qunari. EVERYTHING is airbrushed. It's exactly what I expected from the trailers we'd seen thus far and everyone said, "Oh its just a trailer, wait till the final product." Well here it is and I was right. It is really jarring and not at all Dragon Age
Yea imma wait till the general public has its hands on it for like a week because BioWare has been on a generational streak of taking Ls Edit: yea I was right. Journalists reviewed it well and the game absolutely sucked. It was barely an rpg and definitely nowhere near a dragon age game.
Honestly, it is the correct stance to have. No preorders, none of that and keep patient. I'm more hopeful with the more coverage this game has (wish we had a BG3 level style DAO game. But I'm not blind that's not what they are going for and will judge it off it's desired goal) but Bioware used to be the studio I would always buy from. I just accept that's a foolish thought anymore and stay informed as best as I can. Knowledge is power as they say!
God of War was the wrong comparison here. It's clearly Dragon Age going more the style of Mass Effect 2/3. The pausing for ability usage, the primers and detonators, having only 2, command-only party members at a time, it all feels like Mass Effect
If this game is anywhere near as good as god of war... I'd be very very surprised. Its just a third person action game, I think comparing it to something as good as god of war is really being too optimistic.
Hell it was even in Mass Effect 1, they just made it easier to do as the franchise went on. It's crazy that they have toted it as a new system each game when it has been around since at least 2007.
It’s the best combat mechanic that BioWare has come up with. It was great in mass effect 3 multiplayer, it was great in anthem and it will be great here
All of the characters heads and shoulders a bit to big for the rest of the body. How that managed to get overlooked after 8 years is unfathomable to me
A lot of people say it feels like God of War, but am I the only one who thought of that Guardians of the Galaxy game that came out a year or two ago when seeing the gameplay?
The writing & character interaction in Guardians was amazing but the combat was pretty meh. I think largely because the base damage done with the pistols was too low & you had to wait for abilities on cooldowns to do anything fun. I hope this is balanced a lot better.
The clever thing to do is to approach it as its own completely new game. Which it is actually. Every DA was different in some way. In that respect this one is completely in line. Don't look back, look ahead and just play it. If it isn't DA or GotG or GoW who cares - as long as it is fun to play...
people hate this because its different. they dont like change. it looks good. who cares if it has more pink colors that prevoius games. it can still be good
@@gamer4ever838 "it looks good" that's more of a personal opinion than objective fact, my dude. And stop acting like people dislike this solely because "it's different". It's not just different, it's different without good reason WHY
@@gamer4ever838 Why wouldn't they? If a series changes literally everything about itself, including the basic genre, then why should old fans feel compelled to keep liking it? If I'm playing the newest FIFA game every year, and then suddenly they change it so that it's a cricket game, should I and other old fans also feel duty bound to still pretend to like it then? Just because it has the same name?
Those were the days!! They used to look so cool now they look ugly. All they did was make a huge forehead and put horns on top. They should have left the horns off like in origins. They look so bad now. No way will I play as one.
Anthem is simultaneously one of the biggest letdowns I’ve experienced in gaming and one of the highest highs. I spent so many hours just flying around in that game. I can’t for the life of me understand why no one has picked that idea up and ran with it.
Not surprising, if you actually aim to finish those games sure they're gonna eat a ton of your time, but they're all older and don't really have much to offer for gamefeel. Anthem... Had a lot of problems, but it had some solid gamefeel in certain aspects. I found it very easy to play, easier than KOTOR or DA:O which I only ever got so far into because my investment was purely based on story and not gameplay and I tend to burn myself out on RPGs frequently.
its like that one bioware greentext: >have a formula for a game that your niche audience enjoys >slowly change it to appeal to a "wider audience" >it's shit and your core fanbase now hates you >some small studio picks up your game formula >they make the biggest game of the year while your studio is facing layoffs it's like some divine justice
Then that studio goes through the same evolution and the cycle repeats. You should fully expect the next Larian game to be total shit, assuming it ever comes out to begin with. It's just the nature of the industry.
huh? dragon age origins and baldurs gate 3 are fundamentally different games mechanically, one is just turn based and the other is a real time action with programable commands and a pause button, that is not the same formula, but I do want a dragon age origins remake so bad, that game just crashes all day everyday on modern hardware
I don't care what they tell you in school. Dragon age is a sitcom about a bunch of old Dragons in an aged care home recalling raids of old and bitching about the food being provided.
It was originally going to be an online game like ESO until EA gave in to Bioware pleading them to not do it. It's funny how everyone seemed to forget that article yet claim they're true fans 🤦♀️
@@Just-A-Gamer1524 this pretentious attitude is exactly whats wrong with inquisition babies. old guard wants to go back to DA roots of being dark, gritty, disgusting, grounded yet fantastically beautiful at the same time, get shouted at by the echo chamber of shippers called them not "true fans" because they dont follow every news article released about this game.
@@sinh7765 I'm an "old guard" more than you, and darkness is a secondary feature of Origins, not the main one. The main Dragon Age feature, the one where the series excels and beats every other rpg, it's the companions, story, banter, background, dialogues. If somebody loves only Origins, it means he doesn't understand this, he doesn't understand why even DA2 could be one of the best Dragon Age titles (compelling and very personal story, shocking moments, best companions introduced like Varric etc.). That's why the "Origins-only" fans are wrong, cause they fixate on a specific gameplay style and "darkness", you don't even understand what made great Dragon Age all these years, where the series excels, its strong points, what's actually important. Why do you convince yourself that "Just-A-Gamer1524" is a newer player, cause it's the only way you'd feel superior and right? I'd bet he played Origins like me and you. Arrogance? "Origins-only" fans constantly depict themselves as the "real fans", the "old guard" and are completely wrong, uninformed and can't understand half of it. Who cares about the purple in the menu, really. If you want to criticize a Dragon Age start with the console like side-camera (the true old guard is usually hurt by that shit, we grow with centered cameras of all kinds, cause it's actually better and more precise), or all the rolling on the ground for a knight that should be a tank that stands its ground (the "old guard" didn't start with soulslike games), or the emotions given by the dialogues (which is actually very difficult to notice and it's the most important thing for a Dragon Age game), the colour palette should come much later as a worry.
@@Just-A-Gamer1524 There is a difference between loving a game and stalking a game on the internet. May all your relationships be healthy despite possibly lacking that distinction.
@@siegfriedgottz698right. The elves also looked great in 2, had a slight alien vibe to them. Felt distinguished from other elf’s in other fantasy setting now I feel they are just seem like they could be from any fantasy setting.
All the character designs look like they were created for a quirky hero shooter. The Qunari is obvious a standout, but Varric looks like they went down the sexy dwarf route that The Hobbit films did, and Bellara doesn't feel like she belongs in the Dragon Age universe in the slightest.
Bruh, I know the industry isn't in the best place but fucking hell are so many gamers bad now. People seem to legitimately want games to fail to prove a point.
@@temilitary yea the industry does have a lot of mediocore games but maaannnnn are gamers so spoiled nowadays, like i get being rough on something because you want it to be the best it can be but like you said, hoping something fails to prove they were right is insane
It is kinda interesting hearing somebody who has only played anthem as a BioWare games because the combat combo detonate system he talks about was just taken and improved from mass effect
It's actually in all the games. Just gets better with each iteration into a new series or long awaited game. Mass effect 1,2,3 had roughly the same gameplay loop encounter to encounter with the same system. Inquisition had the sundering explosions, and Andromeda made the ME effects a little more satisfying. Anthem however made it core to dmg, it was extremely satisfying there
i heard this on another review too. I think that is quote from the team and reviewers just use it (So current bioware doesn't know what were in previous games) :D
@@Mikx100 Wow really? I would have hoped playing through previous games the studio you work for made was part of the job. For lore sake and learning what worked and what didn't to improve the upcoming games alone should be reason enough. But I guess not.
@@Mikx100thats just missinformation. Austin for example literally have stated that the reason he said anthem is because he didnt actually play the mass effect games.
I genuinely don't think Austin is a good reviewer. I was disappointed to see it was him giving an impression of VG and not Skill Up. I hope Skill Up does a full review when the game releases.
@@Desmond-Dark eh austin's pt good. His other reviews and first impressions are generally better and well received. This is just a case of conflicting circumstance. We are dragon age fans. He is arguably, not a dragon age fan so his words are more hollow to us
I appreciate your review, it's pretty good and balanced, but as a fan of the series all the way back from Dragon Age: Origins, and an avid hater of the modern God of War, I think my heart shattered into a million pieces when you said Veilguard reminded you of it.
Fair enough. I'm personally interested in this tho. I'm a big fan of both the classic and modern GOW games, and subsequently action rpgs. Imagine my shock when Spiders announced their colossal departure from that combat model in Greedfall 2.
The thing is, the "trend" at the moment or at least for the last 8 years or so is this "cinematic" kind of combat and set piece setup for single player games. You're almost on a guided tour and then the combat's flashy so you get your dopamine hit and that staves you off till your next hit and so on. This is also prevalent with open world design in the last 10-15 years, where devs struggle between too much and too little to do and so we often see games with psuedo open worlds, where each segment is a content island with things to do instead of an interconnected world. I personally remember when Skyrim was released, it was hugely exciting because that open world was running on a PS3 and a 360, the Witcher 3 and then RDR2 came out and those worlds gave me the same excitement on the then next gen hardware. I was excited to see what the next generation of hardware was going to allow devs to produce and unfortunately we're not seeing that. For me alot of games miss the point because they focus on these elements while dressing them with their own, "flavour", hence why GoW and Assassin's Creed are nowadays RPG lites and we see it with Japanese titles as well, Final Fantasy and Yakuza have drastically changed in the last 10 years, Yakuza only in the last 5 though. Full respect to a studio brave enough to change the direction of a long running franchise but if you lose sight of what made the original so loved, then you haven't quite gotten the point. Geez...That accidentally turned into a rant, sorry 😅
At least Like A Dragon didn't throw everything away, the spin-offs like Judgement, Man with no nome and now Pirate are all action games, and they are still evolving with Pirate having air combos even, should give them a shot.
@@lucasLSD Oh for sure, I actually really appreciate how Yakuza managed to change it up without losing it's identity. It still retains everything that made them fun in the first place.
@@lucasLSD I realise it came off like I was knocking FF and Yakuza but it was actually intended to be the opposite. I really appreciate Yakuza 7's change in direction and FF's although it took them a bit longer to nail it. Even From Software nailing an open world concept with the Dark Souls' formula with Elden Ring is to be admired. Also I happened upon Majima's wild pirate adventure and I must say I was a tad giddy when I saw it because it looks absolutely nutty, just like Yakuza should be.
I get why you mention Anthem since it’s the most recent example, but that “Prime and Detonate” mechanic actually originates in Mass Effect with the Biotic Abilities!
So BioWare is abandoning their long term, past player base and is aiming at drawing in a new crowd of younger players. It’s an interesting strategy, let’s see if it pays off.
It never has and yet they keep doing it its almost like a big organization cough cough Blackrock is covering all expenses with esg money to keep these people in buissness to and I quote "force behaviors"
The fabled modern audience. The 5 people that are simultaneously interested Games, DA and aggressive progressive thinking. You had a good run, Bioware... 10 years ago. Now you're less than mid.
It looks more like a Kingdoms of Amalur game than a Dragon Age game. Dont get me wrong, I like Amalur. But I don't play DA for character action. I play it because it's a story driven, less complex CRPG. Also, why do they use Qunari as if it's interchangeable for Kossith in the character select? It's like they don't even understand their own lore.
Background choices will likely matter about as much as they did in Cyberpunk, couple comments early on and then forgotten. I'll wait to hear from the player instead of a highly curated session.
The reason why Qunari look like they do is probably because it is much easier to scale up a model and reusing all animations, as well giving the same easily modiified skin texture with minimal effort. Having a hulking brute who needs their own set of complex textures as well potentially a new skeleton and potentially a new set of animations... yeah. And after seeing the AI character portraits (and EA already confirming it is their future)... yeah this just smells cheap. You know how you can make stuff look polished just by making it out of plastic? Yeah that kind of cheap. It can technically look good.
The problem is: no one cares WHY they look bad. Potential customers are being driven away BECAUSE they look bad. I have no skin in the game. Have never played a Dragon Age game...but those Qunari models are a joke.
@@TheSwayzeTrainthe keep was perfect and yet they got rid of it for what they say is better I'm sorry but I'm skeptical of people claiming they have a better version of something perfect especially when they refuse to show it even though it would in no way spoil the game
Because it quite literally was. It was supposed to be a live service game (not "rumored" as stated in the video) but it that idea was scrapped and it became a single player game. Sort of the same thing that happened to Kingdoms of Amalur.
At some point in development, it was live service. And then they flipped on that after Anthem crashed and burned. In the words of an ex-dev, it was “Anthem with dragons”
People, remember that the Cyberpunk 2077 demos also shined because of one of the only missions in wich your decitions really mattered. Don't preorder, don't hype, be optimisric but wait for the final product.
You still whining about Cyberpunk 2077 in 2024? Jesus christ gamerzzzzzz are pathetic. We all know you never even played the game if you think that's the only mission where "muh decision mattered."
Years later and the anthem knife goes yet deeper lol I really wish they could be given time to do a proper sequel to anthem but instead of live service, tailor it similarly to DAV / GOW
I’m not at all surprised. EA has been forcing BioWare to incorporate the popular gaming trends into Dragon Age since 2. This is nothing new and not just involving BioWare. I still remember wondering how the 🤬 platforming made it into Ultima 8!? Well, EA had purchased Origin Systems.
But that’s even the funny thing. It’s not even popular. Nobody wants cartoony graphics, nobody wants action RPGs from what was the preeminent RPG company in the world. It’s just crazy what the execs are on sometimes. Barring a few examples, I think it’s often better to just get a random person from the street and place them in the exec role. They’ll at least just be like “well…guess we should just keep on doing what we are doing? People seem happy?”
13 years. It was in Mass Effect 2 (2010) and Dragon Age 2 (2011). The only difference is that in Dragon Age 2 it was called "cross class combo" not "primer and detonator". I found it really strange that in interviews this was introduced as a new thing. I wonder if they aimed new players with the info, or current Bioware don't even know their older games.
the fact that you spend your own money to review games automatically earns my respect, video game journalism at it's finest, this is a godsend in a world where Capitalism rules and dictates the future of mankind. Thanks Skill Up, you're doing gods work.
@@Adad-2051 Spot on, ME1, ME2, and ME3 are drastically different games despite being in the same setting in their gameplay, and even more so in the style and quality of the wrting
Take a guess 😐 There's been a mass exodus of bioware devs. The man who creates dragon age and wrote most of the first 2 didn't work on this. Most of main creative forces at bioware left long ago
All that ethereal weapon summoning for warriors, lightning strikes summoned by rogue' blades slashes, those Bollywood-style jumps kicking three times the size enemies 30 meters away with both legs in the air, nothing having the weight and impact it should have, all the over-the-top-wtf-is-even-going-on stuff all over the screen really makes me think I'm watching some 80's style parody action movie, like Kung Fury. When I see a liquid Terminator model with Solas' face, shooting lasers from his eyes and from his fade-touched laser minigun, while sitting on a triceratops made of lightning, who knows magical karate, I will feel like I'm finally back in Thedas... Home, sweet home.
I usually really like Austin's reviews. He just seems to be making so many excuses in this review. "This and this is probably something you might not like, b.. b .. but i didn't mind it" Cool man
@@DextRAR dude you should see other people reviewing this game. They all sound exactly the same with a few minor changes. I would not be surprised if they are getting paid.
Capitalism is the point, why sell your game to 10 people when you can sell it to 100. People complained when ME2 came out hell they complained for ME3 but they kept buying Bioware games and now those same games people complained about being for newer players are seen as old school and the good old times... Inquisition is the best selling Bioware game fyi.
@@pinnacleevolution1634 "Inquisition is the best selling Bioware game fyi." It actually became the "best selling" as it was given away free multiple times. It actually took years for it to catch up with the Mass Effect games.
I strongly disagree, my dragon age doesnt have this fortnite color palette. It has multiple controllable companions, it has slower more tactical combat, i liked inquisition combat. It also does not have these fortnite character models i think we need to go back 10years in graphics instead where we r. Heading right now... ffs this was my most anticipated game for years now it feels like playing disney + animation show..... i think even blood is replaced with some green smoothie...... fuck this bioware! Im sorry but thats how i feel...
I don't think there is much demand for a easy corridor action RPG that plays like a mobile game. Especially a full price game from Bioware that haven't released a good game in over a decade. But we'll see.
There's definitely a massive discrepancy from what I'm hearing (that this game isn't bad) and what I'm seeing on screen (it looks horrible in every way) so I'm curious to see what happens when non-reviewers get their hands on the game.
Felt really disconnected from what was expressed with this review. I've seen also longer previews and man, the story is just ok but compelling is another thing and universe. The writing is marvel level, and we are sick of this charisma being put everywhere, with this army of Tony Stark. I don't know what can cause this completely different perception of what is a good story and writing, characterization, and similar... Guess I somehow just consumed way more better quality medias in my life, and I hope you will too, to raise your bar in this matter.
So voice performances fall flat, facial animation and lip-sync are off, character writing is soulless/overly polite, character designs all look like their from a hero shooter, and it plays more like an action game than an RPG... “The issues listed may bother older fans of the Dragon Age series or classic Bioware games in general, but as someone who hasn't played much of those and doesn’t care, I LEFT EXCITED!” Love Austin, but I don't think he's the best person for this preview.
RPG doesn't mean more than Role Playing Game, you know ? This is an A-RPG with a A for Action. Voice performance sounds ok to me but there is definitely a lip-sync problem.
The priming and detonating has been in bioware games since Dragon Age 2/ME2 and was massivly expanded upon in ME3. Anthem was not the first Bioware game to do it
I love that Austin is talking about the lack of scars on characters right when Varric is showing off his forehead scars in the video. I get what you mean man that was just funny.
He also seems to have missed the “top surgery scar” that apparently is part of the character builder to show the character had transgender surgery. In a medieval setting.
@@cloggedaorta a medieval setting featuring magic, dwarves, people with literal horns, reanimated skeletons and many other high fantasy features. Is having a bit of flesh cut out of your chest really the most far fetched thing?
You know, I enjoy pleasant surprises like this. I -along with many others- wrote off this game as soon as the trailer landed, but it seems like it could actually be pretty cool. Thank you guys for putting out videos like this
"As someone who's more partial to that stylised aesthetic and isn't really attached to the previous Dragon Age games" Why are you reviewing it then? Whatever you say and recommend about it is going to be the opposite of what fans of the DA series want, especially those who wanted a turn back towards DA:O. I've got hundreds of hours in each of the 3 games in the franchise and have platinum trophied all 3 and I'm not wasting my time or money on this one.
"Guys, I was concerned just like YOU are- but I was so pleasantly surprised!" That seems to be the general consensus in these definitely-not-sponsored reviews. I'll wait for the Steam reviews from human beings that haven't been enveloped by corporations.
@@ffffdsd Depends. The metacritic player reviews will be most likely be mass brigaded by the overly zealous "anti-woke" lynch mob, 90% of which never played the game. Steam reviews will likely be a bit more honest though.
Considering mainstream game reviewers have been missing the mark massively as of recent (I.E IGN with Wukong and Concord), can you really blame their mistrust ?
Considering that the mainstream media and largest influencers will praise any game that is painfully woke, no one trusts them anymore. People are also primarily upset that the art style changed from dark and gritty and the advertisements made it seem like Marvel banter slop. So they will believe this crap when they can see it available to ALL of the people they look at for reviews and takes.
@@DanKaschel How is that a unsubstantiated theory? The guy was invited to an early review event by the product manufacture. It's the definition of access reporting. Bioware controls the narrative, the questions, has an embargo on what they can talk about. Google "Access journalism". The least you can do is take what Skillup says in this video with a grain of salt.
@@anon8373they contacted him directly to play the game and offered to pay for everything you don't get brownie points for saying that would make me look paid for and than go any way and get in if they didn't know he was gonna give a good review they wouldn't have invited him all this I payed my own way crap is smoke and mirrors to look more credible in a world were great reviews were given to concord
Nice too see they kept the "single inventory slot so we can sell you cosmetics" thing. At this point I am surprised they let us change our inventory at all.
How you can just accept that this isnt a dragon age game so casually is actually astonishing "Yeah its not dragon age whatsoever but it plays like this other completely different game that i like so its a good game!" Can you seriously not see how that detracts from the game at all? 17:20 Nvm that explains everything, well at least bioware knows who their new audience is i guess if they can invite specifically you......
fun fact: I bet all the money on earth only MEN have that little amount of clothes and no women will, clearly in the video, no one has so yeah, another woke list tick
As far as I am concerned, I'm cautiously optimistic. GoW combat from 2018 was superb for me, and I *loved* Guardians of The Galaxy 2021. Do I think the tone fits a Dragon Age game? No. Is Origins my favorite game ever and 2 and Inquisition are just meh by comparison? Yes. However, at this stage, I am at least open to seeing what Veilguard is and whether I'd enjoy it for what it is. I am very sad there is no importing of major past decisions, as seeing my Warden again after 14+ years would be like finding a long lost friend again, but at the same time I am also glad to be getting more Dragon Age. How that turns out, I am open to seeing, rather than just opposing it straight on. Do I realize that I am blinded by nostalgia and ignoring what is definitely not a Dragon Age game but just wearing its skin, and Larian are the inheritors of what BioWare used to be? Also, yes. But, for now at least, here we are.
I don't know if anyone can say Dragon Age has an art style when you look at DAO, DA2, and DAI. They're nothing alike. And it's always been more story driven than top of the line graphics/style. So I'm so psyched for it to come out. Also, they did that 'combo' thing in Andromeda too, and I loved it so much.
It definitely looks different from the other Dragon Age series but hey, if I want to play the same the older games are what they're meant for. The art doesn't really bother me, it just looks like I'm jumping into another entirely new universe than the world of Dragon Age I knew. Looks like the comments are already invaded by the outrage anti-woke tourists, though. They're so afraid it may turn out into a good game, I guess. Not like it matters.
This game was made by the person that patched the sims into the ground. believe me, no one is afraid it may turn out into a good game 🤣 this is DOA. Concord 2.0 A game made for a target audience of 20.000 - worldwide 💀 you calling gamers who can sense DOAs months before they arrive is wild.
It’s like BioWare sees the gaming landscape, where there is a proliferation of hack and slash games, then looks at their most successful games as well as BG3 and is like “you know what, let’s move away from what the people want and what we are good at. Let the entire future of our company ride on trying to make some RPG lite version of God of War!”
Dragon age has lived entirely on the world that it built. Each game is barely recognisable as a successor to the last. Better hope that gameplay loop is fun, cus the rest of the game is looking really weak.
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We joke about "Shill-Up" but I guess that's your job now, Austin. How much they pay you to act like this game is good?
@@dogg92don't be mean, maybe he's not a DAO child. There is a saying in my country: those who don't know god praise to any saint.
do you really have to put this comment as well?
@@dogg92 He's such a parasite isnt he?
How much do they pay you? I hope it's not another DEI mess.
Dude the Quinari looks like if someone slapped a forehead on top of an already existing forehead my god.
So... an eighthead?
Lol
"Sexy Squidward with horns" is a great description lol
It's not just the Qunari. EVERYTHING is airbrushed. It's exactly what I expected from the trailers we'd seen thus far and everyone said, "Oh its just a trailer, wait till the final product." Well here it is and I was right. It is really jarring and not at all Dragon Age
@@jmsytbe it really is 😅
Yea imma wait till the general public has its hands on it for like a week because BioWare has been on a generational streak of taking Ls
Edit: yea I was right. Journalists reviewed it well and the game absolutely sucked. It was barely an rpg and definitely nowhere near a dragon age game.
definitely can’t trust ShillUp
'Sorry my face is tired'
Honestly, it is the correct stance to have. No preorders, none of that and keep patient. I'm more hopeful with the more coverage this game has (wish we had a BG3 level style DAO game. But I'm not blind that's not what they are going for and will judge it off it's desired goal) but Bioware used to be the studio I would always buy from. I just accept that's a foolish thought anymore and stay informed as best as I can. Knowledge is power as they say!
Perfectly summed up my feeling. Even as someone that rather enjoyed ME3 for the multiplayer it was indicative of the weird change going on at Bioware.
As you should. Idk why people say this kinda stuff like it’s a hot take.
lol, "Handsome Squidward with horns" is pretty spot on. What happend to the awesome Quinari design of Dragon Age 2?
Feminists took over and turned it into BioWoke.
The wrong people got their hands on the game.
Did you know there was only 2 unique Qunari models in DA2?
The Arishok and every other Qunari.
They reused one model for every other qunari character.
@@DGenHero
and yet those 2 models look better than anything in Dragon Age Inquisition and Dragon Age Veil Guard
Nah in da origins qunari was just some guy with greyish skin color, so i guess anything goes.
God of War was the wrong comparison here. It's clearly Dragon Age going more the style of Mass Effect 2/3. The pausing for ability usage, the primers and detonators, having only 2, command-only party members at a time, it all feels like Mass Effect
Yeah, i think he’s said before that he hasnt played ME before so thats probably why he didnt do that comparison
Didn't dragon age origins have pausing for ability?
Doesn’t negate the fact that the combat is nearly identical to God of War lmfao. It looks like slop.
>Mass Effect 2/3
Played fantastic with k+m. This one - we'll see
If this game is anywhere near as good as god of war... I'd be very very surprised. Its just a third person action game, I think comparing it to something as good as god of war is really being too optimistic.
The priming and detonation mechanic was in Mass Effect 3 and Andromeda as well.
Hell it was even in Mass Effect 1, they just made it easier to do as the franchise went on. It's crazy that they have toted it as a new system each game when it has been around since at least 2007.
It’s the best combat mechanic that BioWare has come up with.
It was great in mass effect 3 multiplayer, it was great in anthem and it will be great here
@@KaranGoswamikenz The only issue I have with it is that it can over shadow regular weapons or ability usage. That is def the case in Andromeda.
Also in all DA games, but definitely not as prominent as in Veilguard
Jade Empire in 2005 for sure.
That "Prime Detonate" loop started in Mass Effect and was a huge part of what made Mass Effect 3 combat so fun.
100%. I love that mechanic so much that every game should have it. It adds so much strength to teamwork.
the sound of the biotic detonation is engrained in my mind. so satisfying (apart from being a well-designed mechanic)
Origins.
Thank you:) most say Anthem started it…found a real one here
@@QGfk1 Same with the sound of an abomination exploding somewhere on the map. Lool great stuff.
Oh no... he doesn't realize the Prime and Detonate system is from Mass Effect and not Anthem. lol
Right. To his credit he did admit, indirectly, to not have played the Mass Effect games. Still shameful lol
He mentions it, he said it was also in inquisition.(it was) and yeah as you said it was also in mass effect, but only explicitly obvious in andromeda
I mean, it’s in Anthem as well, so yeah…
Both games has it actually. So, in fairness both should have been mentioned but he's technically not wrong.
He doesn't know that. But he should be put in a corner forced to play ME 1,2 and 3.
Why does the art direction make everyone look like a dwarf
Because being slender is too sexy for modern audiences
@@Yodalemosme when I make things up
I legit thought the same thing!
@@Yodalemos I heard somewhere they want to make sure characters look "unfappable" lmao
All of the characters heads and shoulders a bit to big for the rest of the body. How that managed to get overlooked after 8 years is unfathomable to me
A lot of people say it feels like God of War, but am I the only one who thought of that Guardians of the Galaxy game that came out a year or two ago when seeing the gameplay?
True! Giving the same vibes and that game felt awesome, good comparison
The writing & character interaction in Guardians was amazing but the combat was pretty meh. I think largely because the base damage done with the pistols was too low & you had to wait for abilities on cooldowns to do anything fun. I hope this is balanced a lot better.
Same lead writer as well!
The clever thing to do is to approach it as its own completely new game. Which it is actually. Every DA was different in some way. In that respect this one is completely in line. Don't look back, look ahead and just play it. If it isn't DA or GotG or GoW who cares - as long as it is fun to play...
@@Aljeron100ooo really? Dang that game was really well written!
Never believed i'd ever hear Dragon Age in the same sentence as God Of War. Truly odd times!
Austin is a truly odd dude. He's spent more time in Anthem than any other Bioware game? Fire this man! 😂
people hate this because its different. they dont like change. it looks good. who cares if it has more pink colors that prevoius games. it can still be good
Remember that Bioware made mass effect. Basically a 3rd person shooter RPG.
Today we have Larian and Owlcat for more classic RPGs.
@@gamer4ever838 "it looks good" that's more of a personal opinion than objective fact, my dude. And stop acting like people dislike this solely because "it's different". It's not just different, it's different without good reason WHY
@@gamer4ever838 Why wouldn't they? If a series changes literally everything about itself, including the basic genre, then why should old fans feel compelled to keep liking it? If I'm playing the newest FIFA game every year, and then suddenly they change it so that it's a cricket game, should I and other old fans also feel duty bound to still pretend to like it then? Just because it has the same name?
Remember when Qunari were cool looking?
Those were the days!! They used to look so cool now they look ugly. All they did was make a huge forehead and put horns on top. They should have left the horns off like in origins. They look so bad now. No way will I play as one.
Yes I member DA2
The only game they were cool looking was da2 ironically the worst game in the series that this game feels like a direct sequel of
No? Qunari have always looked quite silly. Except for that one dude in DA2 LOL.
Remember when they looked like large grey humans?
This aged like milk after Ralph's review
well at least they got a review copy because of this. Critical reviewers didn't
Fr?!
So you're telling me that you have spent more time playing Anthem than any other Bioware game? Than Mass effect 2, KOTOR or Dragon Age origins? 💀💀
Anthem was amazing. Best game I’ve ever played.
@@AA-BBbro…
I guess it's just a matter of taste. Some people have it, and some don't.
Anthem is simultaneously one of the biggest letdowns I’ve experienced in gaming and one of the highest highs. I spent so many hours just flying around in that game. I can’t for the life of me understand why no one has picked that idea up and ran with it.
Not surprising, if you actually aim to finish those games sure they're gonna eat a ton of your time, but they're all older and don't really have much to offer for gamefeel. Anthem... Had a lot of problems, but it had some solid gamefeel in certain aspects. I found it very easy to play, easier than KOTOR or DA:O which I only ever got so far into because my investment was purely based on story and not gameplay and I tend to burn myself out on RPGs frequently.
The Qunari forehead tho 💀
Agreed, it was hard to miss. And in more ways then one.
I'm color blind.... But because of this game , I now know what purple and green look like.
Those were blue and yellow
its like that one bioware greentext:
>have a formula for a game that your niche audience enjoys
>slowly change it to appeal to a "wider audience"
>it's shit and your core fanbase now hates you
>some small studio picks up your game formula
>they make the biggest game of the year while your studio is facing layoffs
it's like some divine justice
preach, have some identity, they used to, I played KOTOR last year and had a blast.
I saw that again just yesterday lol
Then that studio goes through the same evolution and the cycle repeats. You should fully expect the next Larian game to be total shit, assuming it ever comes out to begin with. It's just the nature of the industry.
I'm pretty sure inquisition was an enormous success
huh? dragon age origins and baldurs gate 3 are fundamentally different games mechanically, one is just turn based and the other is a real time action with programable commands and a pause button, that is not the same formula, but I do want a dragon age origins remake so bad, that game just crashes all day everyday on modern hardware
Am I the only one who think their heads are too big? Also Priming and Detonating was in Mass Effect 3.
priming and detonating is in DAO, DA2, and DAI too
yes, the proportions of the characters remind me of action figures
Jade Empire 2005.
He did say that he only played Anthem so there's that.
They look like animated mannequins on strings.
My favorite part was where he aged the dragons
He edged the dragon ????
Its aging time 😎😎😎
I don't care what they tell you in school. Dragon age is a sitcom about a bunch of old Dragons in an aged care home recalling raids of old and bitching about the food being provided.
I just wish that they made it more purple.
I don't get why they went with purple. Makes it look so ugly, childish and fake. DEI got tho them?
@@krisk2710 ah yes, everyone knows minorities love purple
@@krisk2710 The word you are looking for there is "safe"
@krisk2710 yes, the purple color is all about pandering to purple people. What a brain rot ass take
@@John-core it's literally not. The trans flag is blue, pink, and white
god I hate the art style. why does everyone look so.. smooth??
It was originally going to be an online game like ESO until EA gave in to Bioware pleading them to not do it. It's funny how everyone seemed to forget that article yet claim they're true fans 🤦♀️
@@Just-A-Gamer1524 this pretentious attitude is exactly whats wrong with inquisition babies. old guard wants to go back to DA roots of being dark, gritty, disgusting, grounded yet fantastically beautiful at the same time, get shouted at by the echo chamber of shippers called them not "true fans" because they dont follow every news article released about this game.
@@sinh7765 I'm an "old guard" more than you, and darkness is a secondary feature of Origins, not the main one. The main Dragon Age feature, the one where the series excels and beats every other rpg, it's the companions, story, banter, background, dialogues.
If somebody loves only Origins, it means he doesn't understand this, he doesn't understand why even DA2 could be one of the best Dragon Age titles (compelling and very personal story, shocking moments, best companions introduced like Varric etc.). That's why the "Origins-only" fans are wrong, cause they fixate on a specific gameplay style and "darkness", you don't even understand what made great Dragon Age all these years, where the series excels, its strong points, what's actually important.
Why do you convince yourself that "Just-A-Gamer1524" is a newer player, cause it's the only way you'd feel superior and right? I'd bet he played Origins like me and you.
Arrogance? "Origins-only" fans constantly depict themselves as the "real fans", the "old guard" and are completely wrong, uninformed and can't understand half of it. Who cares about the purple in the menu, really.
If you want to criticize a Dragon Age start with the console like side-camera (the true old guard is usually hurt by that shit, we grow with centered cameras of all kinds, cause it's actually better and more precise), or all the rolling on the ground for a knight that should be a tank that stands its ground (the "old guard" didn't start with soulslike games), or the emotions given by the dialogues (which is actually very difficult to notice and it's the most important thing for a Dragon Age game), the colour palette should come much later as a worry.
@@_TND_ happy for you/sorry that happened
@@Just-A-Gamer1524 There is a difference between loving a game and stalking a game on the internet. May all your relationships be healthy despite possibly lacking that distinction.
Qunari look like humans again... Why?!?
Will you wear wigs
@@Gris-da-grison artsyle
@@Randomeris1When will you wear wigs.
@@merlylvsm 🤣
Because of racism.
Looks nice but I will NEVER get on another hype train run by EA. Im waiting til it’s thoroughly tested if not deeply discounted
Fair. I expect anything EA touches to turn to shit (instead of gold) and I'm always surprised anytime something coming from EA is actually good.
"Looks nice".. apart from the character design that is atrocious at best.
@@Flashman024 I was very pleasantly surprised by the Dead Space remake.
@@USS_Sentinel Same! Shame that is the only one we are going to get for the series but that's EA for you...
@@Flashman024 EA is run by MBAs. Not exactly the best and brightest.
These Qunari just ain't it ngl.
@@ALittleGreeky they said it as well if u read the article
They look terrible and just like humans with horns. The only good art change in da 2 was making qunari non human
@@siegfriedgottz698right. The elves also looked great in 2, had a slight alien vibe to them. Felt distinguished from other elf’s in other fantasy setting now I feel they are just seem like they could be from any fantasy setting.
All the character designs look like they were created for a quirky hero shooter. The Qunari is obvious a standout, but Varric looks like they went down the sexy dwarf route that The Hobbit films did, and Bellara doesn't feel like she belongs in the Dragon Age universe in the slightest.
Arishok is spinning in his grave. THIS is supposed to be a race of harsh brutes? Who approved this?
People want to hate this game. It has to be very good for the sentiment to change
100% This 😂
Bruh, I know the industry isn't in the best place but fucking hell are so many gamers bad now. People seem to legitimately want games to fail to prove a point.
@@temilitary yea the industry does have a lot of mediocore games but maaannnnn are gamers so spoiled nowadays, like i get being rough on something because you want it to be the best it can be but like you said, hoping something fails to prove they were right is insane
It is kinda interesting hearing somebody who has only played anthem as a BioWare games because the combat combo detonate system he talks about was just taken and improved from mass effect
It's actually in all the games. Just gets better with each iteration into a new series or long awaited game. Mass effect 1,2,3 had roughly the same gameplay loop encounter to encounter with the same system. Inquisition had the sundering explosions, and Andromeda made the ME effects a little more satisfying. Anthem however made it core to dmg, it was extremely satisfying there
I'm getting the feeling Austin has not played Mass Effect 3 if he thinks the priming and detonator mechanic comes from Anthem.
i heard this on another review too. I think that is quote from the team and reviewers just use it (So current bioware doesn't know what were in previous games) :D
@@Mikx100 Wow really? I would have hoped playing through previous games the studio you work for made was part of the job. For lore sake and learning what worked and what didn't to improve the upcoming games alone should be reason enough. But I guess not.
@@Mikx100thats just missinformation. Austin for example literally have stated that the reason he said anthem is because he didnt actually play the mass effect games.
I genuinely don't think Austin is a good reviewer. I was disappointed to see it was him giving an impression of VG and not Skill Up. I hope Skill Up does a full review when the game releases.
@@Desmond-Dark eh austin's pt good. His other reviews and first impressions are generally better and well received.
This is just a case of conflicting circumstance. We are dragon age fans. He is arguably, not a dragon age fan so his words are more hollow to us
I appreciate your review, it's pretty good and balanced, but as a fan of the series all the way back from Dragon Age: Origins, and an avid hater of the modern God of War, I think my heart shattered into a million pieces when you said Veilguard reminded you of it.
Fair enough. I'm personally interested in this tho. I'm a big fan of both the classic and modern GOW games, and subsequently action rpgs.
Imagine my shock when Spiders announced their colossal departure from that combat model in Greedfall 2.
@@game_boyd1644true. Greedfall 2 actally looks better to me than 1
This isn't a review ....its a pr stunt
@@alizaidi2893 neither. it's a preview genius.
@@rogerarayasaborio549 lol oh you poor naive little consumer...... you really can't see it, can you....
The thing is, the "trend" at the moment or at least for the last 8 years or so is this "cinematic" kind of combat and set piece setup for single player games. You're almost on a guided tour and then the combat's flashy so you get your dopamine hit and that staves you off till your next hit and so on. This is also prevalent with open world design in the last 10-15 years, where devs struggle between too much and too little to do and so we often see games with psuedo open worlds, where each segment is a content island with things to do instead of an interconnected world. I personally remember when Skyrim was released, it was hugely exciting because that open world was running on a PS3 and a 360, the Witcher 3 and then RDR2 came out and those worlds gave me the same excitement on the then next gen hardware. I was excited to see what the next generation of hardware was going to allow devs to produce and unfortunately we're not seeing that.
For me alot of games miss the point because they focus on these elements while dressing them with their own, "flavour", hence why GoW and Assassin's Creed are nowadays RPG lites and we see it with Japanese titles as well, Final Fantasy and Yakuza have drastically changed in the last 10 years, Yakuza only in the last 5 though.
Full respect to a studio brave enough to change the direction of a long running franchise but if you lose sight of what made the original so loved, then you haven't quite gotten the point.
Geez...That accidentally turned into a rant, sorry 😅
At least Like A Dragon didn't throw everything away, the spin-offs like Judgement, Man with no nome and now Pirate are all action games, and they are still evolving with Pirate having air combos even, should give them a shot.
@@lucasLSD Oh for sure, I actually really appreciate how Yakuza managed to change it up without losing it's identity. It still retains everything that made them fun in the first place.
Very well put 👏
@@imanuelthiele6935 Thank you!
@@lucasLSD I realise it came off like I was knocking FF and Yakuza but it was actually intended to be the opposite. I really appreciate Yakuza 7's change in direction and FF's although it took them a bit longer to nail it. Even From Software nailing an open world concept with the Dark Souls' formula with Elden Ring is to be admired. Also I happened upon Majima's wild pirate adventure and I must say I was a tad giddy when I saw it because it looks absolutely nutty, just like Yakuza should be.
I get why you mention Anthem since it’s the most recent example, but that “Prime and Detonate” mechanic actually originates in Mass Effect with the Biotic Abilities!
As a fan of the original... This one isn't made for me. Glad you enjoyed it I'll be giving it a hard pass.
It's made for teenage trans girls
@@RedWolfensteinliterally
So BioWare is abandoning their long term, past player base and is aiming at drawing in a new crowd of younger players. It’s an interesting strategy, let’s see if it pays off.
I'm from the future..it doesn't pay off.
It never has and yet they keep doing it its almost like a big organization cough cough Blackrock is covering all expenses with esg money to keep these people in buissness to and I quote "force behaviors"
The fabled modern audience. The 5 people that are simultaneously interested Games, DA and aggressive progressive thinking.
You had a good run, Bioware... 10 years ago. Now you're less than mid.
It has worked out so well for other EA product like Battlefield with BF2042 and its amazing reception, no wonder they decided to try again.
It won’t. They’ve learned nothing and I’ll continue to buy nothing.
I love the whole primer→detonator combat concept. Anything that leads to big damage bursts is always satisfying.
It looks more like a Kingdoms of Amalur game than a Dragon Age game. Dont get me wrong, I like Amalur. But I don't play DA for character action. I play it because it's a story driven, less complex CRPG.
Also, why do they use Qunari as if it's interchangeable for Kossith in the character select? It's like they don't even understand their own lore.
They don't, it's fairly normal at this point
The hope is that is a story driven crpg style game with just more involved action
I hope they give me a story background for the double mastectomy scars!
Because the word Qunari is used interchangeably in the lore for the “race”. Kossith isn’t used by anyone in Thedas to describe the Qunari.
@@brewster9235 That would be fine, were it a random character not knowing that. But it's in the menu itself.
Background choices will likely matter about as much as they did in Cyberpunk, couple comments early on and then forgotten. I'll wait to hear from the player instead of a highly curated session.
The reason why Qunari look like they do is probably because it is much easier to scale up a model and reusing all animations, as well giving the same easily modiified skin texture with minimal effort.
Having a hulking brute who needs their own set of complex textures as well potentially a new skeleton and potentially a new set of animations... yeah.
And after seeing the AI character portraits (and EA already confirming it is their future)... yeah this just smells cheap.
You know how you can make stuff look polished just by making it out of plastic? Yeah that kind of cheap. It can technically look good.
The problem is: no one cares WHY they look bad. Potential customers are being driven away BECAUSE they look bad.
I have no skin in the game. Have never played a Dragon Age game...but those Qunari models are a joke.
I don't give a shit why they are bad, they look terrible and this redesign was a mistake.
10 years btw
“Feature he isn’t allowed to talk about”
Decision maker/importer confirmed :^)
The Keep is making a return
They already confirmed this feature through picking tarot cards of certain decisions in the CC.
That would have been a marketing point to get people playing inquisition not something they would hide
Shill up
@@TheSwayzeTrainthe keep was perfect and yet they got rid of it for what they say is better I'm sorry but I'm skeptical of people claiming they have a better version of something perfect especially when they refuse to show it even though it would in no way spoil the game
I want a X-Men game like this
I don't, I want an X-Men where you can play as everyone, not just wolwerine.
Why does this game look like it started as a live service MMO but scrapped to make it a single player.
Because it quite literally was. It was supposed to be a live service game (not "rumored" as stated in the video) but it that idea was scrapped and it became a single player game. Sort of the same thing that happened to Kingdoms of Amalur.
God missed the sarcasm Jesus 😅
At some point in development, it was live service. And then they flipped on that after Anthem crashed and burned.
In the words of an ex-dev, it was “Anthem with dragons”
The game was scrapped and rebooted mid development a couple of times.
People, remember that the Cyberpunk 2077 demos also shined because of one of the only missions in wich your decitions really mattered. Don't preorder, don't hype, be optimisric but wait for the final product.
Wdym, your decisions matter in all missions in cyberpunk
Hype and skepticism aren't two things that are mutually exclusive.
Scepticism is usually foregone due to hype in many instances.
You still whining about Cyberpunk 2077 in 2024? Jesus christ gamerzzzzzz are pathetic. We all know you never even played the game if you think that's the only mission where "muh decision mattered."
That mission had like 8 outcomes, it just becomes impossible to make a game like that in it's entirety.
Years later and the anthem knife goes yet deeper lol
I really wish they could be given time to do a proper sequel to anthem but instead of live service, tailor it similarly to DAV / GOW
I’m not at all surprised. EA has been forcing BioWare to incorporate the popular gaming trends into Dragon Age since 2.
This is nothing new and not just involving BioWare. I still remember wondering how the 🤬 platforming made it into Ultima 8!? Well, EA had purchased Origin Systems.
But that’s even the funny thing. It’s not even popular. Nobody wants cartoony graphics, nobody wants action RPGs from what was the preeminent RPG company in the world. It’s just crazy what the execs are on sometimes. Barring a few examples, I think it’s often better to just get a random person from the street and place them in the exec role. They’ll at least just be like “well…guess we should just keep on doing what we are doing? People seem happy?”
maybe old fans won`t like this, but... i kinda like money so... i like this stile
Sounds like that. I mean, if they gave me money to promote that kitsch i would perhaps reconsider.
So far all the positive coverage I've seen of this game is from people who admit to have little or no connection to past BioWare games.
I'm back after the review. Oh how the turntables lmao
The big heads make everyone look like gnomes lol.
Damn you! Now i cant un-see it!
Thank you for the review. No thank you to bioware. Nobody wanted this.
Oh wow, more prime/detonate combat.. like every single Bioware game in the last 7 years...
This legit isn't an actual RPG anymore..
13 years. It was in Mass Effect 2 (2010) and Dragon Age 2 (2011). The only difference is that in Dragon Age 2 it was called "cross class combo" not "primer and detonator".
I found it really strange that in interviews this was introduced as a new thing. I wonder if they aimed new players with the info, or current Bioware don't even know their older games.
the fact that you spend your own money to review games automatically earns my respect, video game journalism at it's finest, this is a godsend in a world where Capitalism rules and dictates the future of mankind. Thanks Skill Up, you're doing gods work.
But is it the Bioware of Mass Effect 1-3 or the Bioware of Mass Effect Andromeda doing the meeting here?
Neither. It's the new modern audiance focused Bloatware, eh, I mean Bioware.
Probably anthem bioware lmao
No one from 1-3 works at bioware now. Just like Rocksteady with Suicide squad.
@@Adad-2051 Spot on, ME1, ME2, and ME3 are drastically different games despite being in the same setting in their gameplay, and even more so in the style and quality of the wrting
Take a guess 😐
There's been a mass exodus of bioware devs. The man who creates dragon age and wrote most of the first 2 didn't work on this. Most of main creative forces at bioware left long ago
All that ethereal weapon summoning for warriors, lightning strikes summoned by rogue' blades slashes, those Bollywood-style jumps kicking three times the size enemies 30 meters away with both legs in the air, nothing having the weight and impact it should have, all the over-the-top-wtf-is-even-going-on stuff all over the screen really makes me think I'm watching some 80's style parody action movie, like Kung Fury.
When I see a liquid Terminator model with Solas' face, shooting lasers from his eyes and from his fade-touched laser minigun, while sitting on a triceratops made of lightning, who knows magical karate, I will feel like I'm finally back in Thedas... Home, sweet home.
The fact that you credit anthem for the prime and detonate mechanic completely invalidates your opinion 😂
This is so articulate and thoughtful, throughout.
Remember they are not allowed to say anything bad about the game, wait till it comes out.
Some of those battle animations look rough, the character is sliding all over the place.
Knew once Skillup got popular he'd go mainstream access media.
His buddy's review if Star Wars outlaws proves that.
From a meta perspective, it would be odd for someone who got early access to a game just so they can be negative about it.
I usually really like Austin's reviews. He just seems to be making so many excuses in this review.
"This and this is probably something you might not like, b.. b .. but i didn't mind it"
Cool man
or that's just how he felt about the game and was trying to give his honest opinion?
@@CamGarcia honest paid, early access opinion
@@kevo300 if you assume everyone is paid just because you don't like their opinions, then why even watch preview impression videos?
@@CamGarcia anything is possible. I said "seems". He could just genuinely like the poor design choices.
@@DextRAR dude you should see other people reviewing this game. They all sound exactly the same with a few minor changes. I would not be surprised if they are getting paid.
Quite telling when your closing statement is that this is a game for those who don't like previous games. What's the point, then?
Capitalism is the point, why sell your game to 10 people when you can sell it to 100.
People complained when ME2 came out hell they complained for ME3 but they kept buying Bioware games and now those same games people complained about being for newer players are seen as old school and the good old times...
Inquisition is the best selling Bioware game fyi.
@@pinnacleevolution1634 "Inquisition is the best selling Bioware game fyi."
It actually became the "best selling" as it was given away free multiple times. It actually took years for it to catch up with the Mass Effect games.
Tentatively excited. Thanks Austin!
I strongly disagree, my dragon age doesnt have this fortnite color palette. It has multiple controllable companions, it has slower more tactical combat, i liked inquisition combat. It also does not have these fortnite character models i think we need to go back 10years in graphics instead where we r. Heading right now... ffs this was my most anticipated game for years now it feels like playing disney + animation show..... i think even blood is replaced with some green smoothie...... fuck this bioware! Im sorry but thats how i feel...
I don't think there is much demand for a easy corridor action RPG that plays like a mobile game. Especially a full price game from Bioware that haven't released a good game in over a decade. But we'll see.
I can live with the seatle barista cast but that combat system and artstyle. No thanks. I'm sick and tired of these action games.
Realtime combat with cinematic camera angles is my jam so I'll probably enjoy that part.
Its the story/narrative that I hope is good.
There's definitely a massive discrepancy from what I'm hearing (that this game isn't bad) and what I'm seeing on screen (it looks horrible in every way) so I'm curious to see what happens when non-reviewers get their hands on the game.
Felt really disconnected from what was expressed with this review. I've seen also longer previews and man, the story is just ok but compelling is another thing and universe. The writing is marvel level, and we are sick of this charisma being put everywhere, with this army of Tony Stark. I don't know what can cause this completely different perception of what is a good story and writing, characterization, and similar... Guess I somehow just consumed way more better quality medias in my life, and I hope you will too, to raise your bar in this matter.
how monetized is this vid? GeForce AND EA/bioware? talk about selling out.
He was always an "access journalism" type of channel.
He's known as Shill Up for a reason.
Austin thank you very much for this review. You did a wonderful job breaking it all down for us.
So voice performances fall flat, facial animation and lip-sync are off, character writing is soulless/overly polite, character designs all look like their from a hero shooter, and it plays more like an action game than an RPG...
“The issues listed may bother older fans of the Dragon Age series or classic Bioware games in general, but as someone who hasn't played much of those and doesn’t care, I LEFT EXCITED!”
Love Austin, but I don't think he's the best person for this preview.
RPG doesn't mean more than Role Playing Game, you know ? This is an A-RPG with a A for Action. Voice performance sounds ok to me but there is definitely a lip-sync problem.
The priming and detonating has been in bioware games since Dragon Age 2/ME2 and was massivly expanded upon in ME3. Anthem was not the first Bioware game to do it
I love that Austin is talking about the lack of scars on characters right when Varric is showing off his forehead scars in the video. I get what you mean man that was just funny.
He also seems to have missed the “top surgery scar” that apparently is part of the character builder to show the character had transgender surgery. In a medieval setting.
@@cloggedaorta based bioware.
@@cloggedaorta a medieval setting featuring magic, dwarves, people with literal horns, reanimated skeletons and many other high fantasy features. Is having a bit of flesh cut out of your chest really the most far fetched thing?
@@TheHaggis0451 Its disgusting, leep that stuff in your own household not everyone is a queerosexual gendermancer proud of their post op scars.
@@TheHaggis0451 please show where you got the idea of“the most far fetched” in what I wrote.
1:54 - "The game looked visually impressive from all the marketing so far" right as texture pops in on the fence near the edge :)
Going to say that was on purpose. A little tongue in cheek feeling shining though for a moment there.
Yea the art style looks horrible to me... No clue
@@pdpMASTERPfor me, it looks fine but its too different than other dragon age games
who gives a shit lmao
@@CazaresComedorDeCasadas I mean, clearly a few of us found it amusing, sorry your funny bone is missing today.
Props to skill up for footing their own bill for this preview
This isn't the Dragon Age I wanted
Oh man, gotta love de 21st century californian accent on a medieval fantasy game.
"It's like not great"... 🤦
Sounds very modern.
Game looks awesome who cares about old school fans who want the same shit 😂
Looks good, the clothing physics and hair physics look good I like the fast paced combat
Appreciate the work you guys do.
You know, I enjoy pleasant surprises like this. I -along with many others- wrote off this game as soon as the trailer landed, but it seems like it could actually be pretty cool. Thank you guys for putting out videos like this
@@Maltalionis no
"As someone who's more partial to that stylised aesthetic and isn't really attached to the previous Dragon Age games" Why are you reviewing it then? Whatever you say and recommend about it is going to be the opposite of what fans of the DA series want, especially those who wanted a turn back towards DA:O. I've got hundreds of hours in each of the 3 games in the franchise and have platinum trophied all 3 and I'm not wasting my time or money on this one.
I love that Austin's playable character looks like a young Patrick Stewart in Robin Hood drag.
Game looks good. Hopefully someone will make a mod to make the main party members look less plastic and clean
"Guys, I was concerned just like YOU are- but I was so pleasantly surprised!"
That seems to be the general consensus in these definitely-not-sponsored reviews.
I'll wait for the Steam reviews from human beings that haven't been enveloped by corporations.
What if it's true tho?
Then the player reviews will reflect that.@@Tyacis
It's the general consensus because it's true. Have you considered you're just coping?
@@ffffdsd Depends. The metacritic player reviews will be most likely be mass brigaded by the overly zealous "anti-woke" lynch mob, 90% of which never played the game. Steam reviews will likely be a bit more honest though.
I think its funny almost every preview is positive and people are desperate to not believe them in YT comments.
Considering mainstream game reviewers have been missing the mark massively as of recent (I.E IGN with Wukong and Concord), can you really blame their mistrust ?
Well some people got a brain and remember the shit games they released in the past.
Considering that the mainstream media and largest influencers will praise any game that is painfully woke, no one trusts them anymore. People are also primarily upset that the art style changed from dark and gritty and the advertisements made it seem like Marvel banter slop. So they will believe this crap when they can see it available to ALL of the people they look at for reviews and takes.
smart decision based on how videogame media has behaved lately
LOL
Honestly, just getting what we expect from a Bioware game is mooooore then enough for me these days.
Skillup is an access media, never forget that
"never forget [my unsubstantiated crackpot theory]"
@@DanKaschel How is that a unsubstantiated theory? The guy was invited to an early review event by the product manufacture. It's the definition of access reporting. Bioware controls the narrative, the questions, has an embargo on what they can talk about. Google "Access journalism".
The least you can do is take what Skillup says in this video with a grain of salt.
@@DanKaschel Never Forget that a man dressed as a woman got top surgery scars put in this game. And pronouns.
yup dude getting paid from EA for sure.
@@anon8373they contacted him directly to play the game and offered to pay for everything you don't get brownie points for saying that would make me look paid for and than go any way and get in if they didn't know he was gonna give a good review they wouldn't have invited him all this I payed my own way crap is smoke and mirrors to look more credible in a world were great reviews were given to concord
oh great, God of War is exactly the comparison i was waiting for when talking about Dragon Age....
Holy crap this game is as visually unappealing as Concord.
Watching this after your full game review is interesting..
Gotta love access journalism
I can't believe the amount of people consuming the slop.
Im only here for the comments. Ralphs pronouns are Soy/Sold out, now.
definitely he is lol, some of his praise for the game just straight out joke.
Nice too see they kept the "single inventory slot so we can sell you cosmetics" thing.
At this point I am surprised they let us change our inventory at all.
How you can just accept that this isnt a dragon age game so casually is actually astonishing
"Yeah its not dragon age whatsoever but it plays like this other completely different game that i like so its a good game!"
Can you seriously not see how that detracts from the game at all?
17:20
Nvm that explains everything, well at least bioware knows who their new audience is i guess if they can invite specifically you......
This game is for the streets (modern audiences)
1:30 FINALLY, MEN WEARING BARELY ANY ARMOR, true equality finally
Qunaris are a bit zesty
fun fact: I bet all the money on earth only MEN have that little amount of clothes and no women will, clearly in the video, no one has so yeah, another woke list tick
@@HellPedre Saying "fun fact" before a wildly unsubstantiated claim about a game that isn't even out yet doesn't make it a fact lol
@@HellPedre More like insane bigot fact, its so funny how bothered you become the moment men are treated the same way as women are
As far as I am concerned, I'm cautiously optimistic. GoW combat from 2018 was superb for me, and I *loved* Guardians of The Galaxy 2021. Do I think the tone fits a Dragon Age game? No. Is Origins my favorite game ever and 2 and Inquisition are just meh by comparison? Yes. However, at this stage, I am at least open to seeing what Veilguard is and whether I'd enjoy it for what it is. I am very sad there is no importing of major past decisions, as seeing my Warden again after 14+ years would be like finding a long lost friend again, but at the same time I am also glad to be getting more Dragon Age. How that turns out, I am open to seeing, rather than just opposing it straight on.
Do I realize that I am blinded by nostalgia and ignoring what is definitely not a Dragon Age game but just wearing its skin, and Larian are the inheritors of what BioWare used to be? Also, yes. But, for now at least, here we are.
im starting to think ballara is just a sane version of sara lol
PeeBee/Andromeda vibes.
I don't know if anyone can say Dragon Age has an art style when you look at DAO, DA2, and DAI. They're nothing alike. And it's always been more story driven than top of the line graphics/style. So I'm so psyched for it to come out.
Also, they did that 'combo' thing in Andromeda too, and I loved it so much.
It definitely looks different from the other Dragon Age series but hey, if I want to play the same the older games are what they're meant for. The art doesn't really bother me, it just looks like I'm jumping into another entirely new universe than the world of Dragon Age I knew.
Looks like the comments are already invaded by the outrage anti-woke tourists, though. They're so afraid it may turn out into a good game, I guess. Not like it matters.
This game was made by the person that patched the sims into the ground. believe me, no one is afraid it may turn out into a good game 🤣 this is DOA. Concord 2.0
A game made for a target audience of 20.000 - worldwide 💀
you calling gamers who can sense DOAs months before they arrive is wild.
"anti woke" or ya know .. normal people?
It's not normal to include top surgery scars in a fantasy RPG. You will never convince me to accept it.
It’s like BioWare sees the gaming landscape, where there is a proliferation of hack and slash games, then looks at their most successful games as well as BG3 and is like “you know what, let’s move away from what the people want and what we are good at. Let the entire future of our company ride on trying to make some RPG lite version of God of War!”
Dragon age has lived entirely on the world that it built. Each game is barely recognisable as a successor to the last. Better hope that gameplay loop is fun, cus the rest of the game is looking really weak.
I'm sorry I just really think Ralph is more critical and objective whereas Austin is more optimistic and forgiving which I value much less
Maybe your values are out of order.