He EXPOSED The Devs That Ruined Dragon Age

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  • @RexSterlingTV
    @RexSterlingTV  2 місяці тому +9

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    • @MusIimMan
      @MusIimMan 2 місяці тому +2

      You forgot to mention something really important in your popular video
      We are on the defensive, they are on the offensive
      They are trying to make all of us like them, we are trying to play a video game
      They are trying to change our characters, we want our characters the same

    • @MusIimMan
      @MusIimMan 2 місяці тому +1

      Basically they are trying to indoctrinate us while we want to play video games

    • @harakhtidm7768
      @harakhtidm7768 2 місяці тому

      You talk too much over the video. That's annoying and you bored the fk out of me.

    • @RexSterlingTV
      @RexSterlingTV  2 місяці тому +1

      That's fair. I'll be honest, I'm still trying to improve with reactions.

    • @MusIimMan
      @MusIimMan 2 місяці тому

      @@RexSterlingTV God bless you , youre doing great

  • @EllanaWolf
    @EllanaWolf 2 місяці тому +259

    They did Isabela worse than Morrigan. Not only did she get a breast reduction, she also got the manly jaw treatment, plus personality transplant.

    • @bad3032
      @bad3032 2 місяці тому

      And she used to have a big booty and thick thighs

    • @MusIimMan
      @MusIimMan 2 місяці тому +21

      Yes he forgot to mention that in his popular video
      We are on the defensive, they are on the offensive
      We want our characters the same, they are trying to change our characters
      We want to play video games, they are using our games to try to make all of us like them

    • @MusIimMan
      @MusIimMan 2 місяці тому +1

      Basically they are trying to indoctrinate us using our beloved games
      Ofcourse will get angry thats our right, dont compare us to them we are not two side we are not the same

    • @kukipett
      @kukipett 2 місяці тому +11

      I guess that after Inquisition she had to go to therapy to learn politeness, gender science and barve drill.

    • @flampagan1994
      @flampagan1994 2 місяці тому

      Nobody talks about her hat on top of her bandana that is obviously too small, guess its glued on, and for some reason she have peackock feathers covering her ass.

  • @Doomin-c2m
    @Doomin-c2m 2 місяці тому +49

    I also loved Dragon Age 2 and Inquisition! I've never pretended that they were as good as Origins, but they both had their own strengths that made them enjoyable, even if the writing and quest design did already start suffering a bit in Inquisition

  • @starkillah2123
    @starkillah2123 2 місяці тому +71

    Currently playing Origins, and im in awe how they f*ed that IP up...

    • @johnwayne4911
      @johnwayne4911 2 місяці тому +3

      Glad it's not just nostalgia.

    • @redram6080
      @redram6080 Місяць тому +3

      The game's replay value is absolutely insanely high. Instead of making this travesty of a game they would have made so much more money and would have made the $70 price a 100% worth it if they just made a faithful remaster of Origins with much better graphics and slightly faster combat

    • @bwillsskates2638
      @bwillsskates2638 Місяць тому

      I ordered it for my ps3 the other day. Never completed it in high school but forgot how great the first game actually was and is.

    • @Rthesecond
      @Rthesecond Місяць тому

      Its just the name at this point. The people who made Origins arent here anymore.

  • @kamikaze00007
    @kamikaze00007 2 місяці тому +60

    To be honest, Yotei is a big red flag if you actually paid attention to Tsushima. Because think about it. Tsushima is a "prologue". It's kind of like "The Dark Knight Rises", or Tony Stark becoming Iron Man in the first movie. The Ghost in the story had just been fully born at the end of Tsushima. GoT was Jin's struggle as he grew into becoming The Ghost where he had to accept that all he was taught about honorable samurai was no longer enough to survive. And the sequel would be the entry into him establishing his Legend in full. But then for some reason Yotei is set 200+ years into the future where Jin is already dead. Like a clean slate. Use the name, use the fame kind of deal. It's pretty blatant.

    • @vccomicx6261
      @vccomicx6261 2 місяці тому +5

      That was so well put thanks 🎉

    • @mattmark94
      @mattmark94 Місяць тому +5

      Finally someone who understands!

    • @HugeConverse
      @HugeConverse Місяць тому

      Less than forty people agree. You are not wrong but you are to assume how a game will be. Same as dragon age you should never act like you know how bad something can be because ultimately it can be worse

    • @denkerbosu3551
      @denkerbosu3551 Місяць тому

      @@HugeConverse I we know it's bad enough to not be hyped about it and buy on release. Our wallets do the talking.
      The red flag is not just the fem protagonist, but taking a game that got to fame due to a stoic, strong male character, and then make it disappear to give the front row to a gurl buzz.

  • @sixgunsuperman
    @sixgunsuperman 2 місяці тому +41

    The issue with top surgery scars and prosthetics in DA is healing magic has existed since the first DA game all the way up through Inquisition.

    • @DarthJane
      @DarthJane Місяць тому +1

      Scars in the character creator have been a thing since DAI as they changed the Engine. People with disabilities have been a thing since DAO. Not everyone has ready access to magic just because it exists. Having top survery scars in Dragon Age is idiotic, but not because of the reason you suggest.

  • @doctorogre1777
    @doctorogre1777 2 місяці тому +64

    "When it comes to the character creator, the more options the better"
    Here's my personal thoughts on this:
    1. They have a scar section. They purposely took top surgery scars OUTSIDE the scar section. Hmm...
    2. Clutter. I hate men's options mixed with women's options. Especially hair. It CLUTTERS the selection.
    3. Immersion. For some genres (especially setting-focused rpgs like DA), the options should reinforce the setting and tone. The more clown options in the character creator, the more you detract from a crucial design goal of immersing the player. Thank god Fromsoft doesn't subscribe to "the more options the better"

    • @xrosslegends1279
      @xrosslegends1279 2 місяці тому +19

      The hairstyles being mixed would have been fine if they at least separated them, but they're mixed completely, like, I usually see male hairstyles first and then female hairstyles, but not in this one, this one has them all together, probably because they dislike the notion that people gender the hairstyles at all...

    • @treasurehunter3369
      @treasurehunter3369 2 місяці тому +1

      Im just surprised they said male/female and not a or b

    • @unturned6066
      @unturned6066 2 місяці тому +4

      Totally agree. It's nice to not be barred from "male" hair cuts anymore, but it's annoying to have them cluttered. Especially since they don't seem to sort them by types anymore. It'll go long hair, mohawk, dollhair, headshaved...
      And the top surgery scar outside of the rest of the scar selection was just super obvious.

  • @SPOOKYTIMEZ2099
    @SPOOKYTIMEZ2099 2 місяці тому +38

    1:20 you should play the entire trilogy in Mass effect legendary edition. It’s still to this day one of the greatest gaming experiences I’ve ever had. And it made me extremely excited for EXODUS.

    • @LocksAndChains
      @LocksAndChains 2 місяці тому +4

      The ME trilogy is sacred to me… Forever.

    • @UniqueBreakfastTaco
      @UniqueBreakfastTaco 2 місяці тому +2

      Bad news coming for 5....same game director

    • @SPOOKYTIMEZ2099
      @SPOOKYTIMEZ2099 2 місяці тому

      @@UniqueBreakfastTaco As long as they have a way better writing team I think I can sleep at night with that info.

    • @UniqueBreakfastTaco
      @UniqueBreakfastTaco 2 місяці тому +2

      @@SPOOKYTIMEZ2099 its the same team bro...thats why there's no DLC coming for DAO, everyone shifted to ME

    • @SPOOKYTIMEZ2099
      @SPOOKYTIMEZ2099 2 місяці тому +1

      @@UniqueBreakfastTaco Let me cope bro. Too many bad news in gaming right now so I’m giving myself a little bit of hope even if it’s tiny.

  • @StradhV
    @StradhV 2 місяці тому +159

    The issue with the surgery scar is what it represents, optional or not. It represents the failure in psychology to help those people, instead they encourage them to ampute body parts. Video game is not a medium in which you should encourage people to do that, no medium is. Dragon age veilguard is also dumbed down to be 'kid friendly' playdoh like characters, characters that speak like they were talking to kindergartners about real crazy topics like gender ambiguity and pronouns. Keep it in California and out of video games or fail.

    • @themagnus2919
      @themagnus2919 2 місяці тому +42

      Self mutilation being promoted in today's society is crazy.

    • @RexSterlingTV
      @RexSterlingTV  2 місяці тому +54

      Oh damn. I never really connected the childlike dialogue (appealing to children) with the very in-your-face propaganda around sexual identity, etc. I really appreciate this comment because it genuinely gave me a new perspective on that and what it could imply. Which is also very unsettling to be honest.

    • @RaifSeverence
      @RaifSeverence 2 місяці тому +13

      That it's an M rated game with childlike dialogue also doesn't help.
      Not to mention, it doesn't make sense in a world that has magic that can turn people into frogs, wolves, etc.

    • @DuoMaxwellDS
      @DuoMaxwellDS 2 місяці тому +18

      @@RexSterlingTV The thing is instead of scar, they need to have a specific "surgery scar" around the chest. You won't see that one anywhere else aside from a specific subset of current identity politic, and that's the problem.

    • @zerotodona1495
      @zerotodona1495 2 місяці тому +5

      Most people in CA do not agree with the madness. You’re thinking of if cities.

  • @munchmunchpanda3331
    @munchmunchpanda3331 2 місяці тому +50

    I don't think the scars are really the problem. It will get eye rolls when seen yes. But the fact they put it in its own category and not with the other scars is what's bad. They purposely put it front and center. Not to mention it's the most detailed scar they have in the game...the rest look like tattoos that last a week...

    • @munchmunchpanda3331
      @munchmunchpanda3331 2 місяці тому +9

      Furthermore they could have added more body scars as well and have that as it's own category and put it in there but no instead all they have is that...

    • @johnwayne4911
      @johnwayne4911 2 місяці тому +9

      Bruh, we all know what this shit is. No need to make it politically correct.

    • @ricardokojin7
      @ricardokojin7 2 місяці тому

      The scars themselves are not the problem... the problem is that they existing were pretty much the devs saying 'look, we are going to shove ideology in all of the game and make it a big deal"... it shouldn't be there at all, let alone highlighted.
      You want to have scars? make an option to add scars and move them around...put them in your forehead for all I care.
      I'll say something a lot of people don't want to hear / say... most normal sane people think this whole pronoun thing is for delulu people.
      I know we like to be kind to our 'neighbors" , but let's be real about it... a lot of them should take a lot more drugs to get right on the head... others a lot less.

    • @marcwilliams9824
      @marcwilliams9824 2 місяці тому +14

      Most of these issues aren't a problem in themselves but they are symptomatic of much deeper problems. Much like a persistent cough isn't going to kill you but what's causing the cough just might.

    • @UniqueBreakfastTaco
      @UniqueBreakfastTaco 2 місяці тому +4

      The game director did the same to the Sims, and he's gonna do it to mass effect 5 as well.

  • @happenstance7530
    @happenstance7530 2 місяці тому +36

    The scars are immersion breaking. The world has magic so why the need for surgery? The same reason as the peg leg you mentioned. I get it's not a big deal but it doesn't sync with the time period or the theme of the game. The same as the divisive modern language used throughout.

  • @SeventhheavenDK
    @SeventhheavenDK Місяць тому +8

    They went out of their way to add top scar surgeries and extra dialogue for Rooks with Transgender identity, but they couldn't bother importing our decisions from past games (not to mention that they went out of their way to destroy Southern Thedas off screen).
    These pseudo developers considered that continuing the Hero of Ferelden's quest to cure the calling or saving Hawke/Warden from the Fade weren't important, but they thought that making an entire quest about the abomination Taash and her gender identity problems (in the middle of an Apocalypse) was actually important.
    It's just... moronic.

  • @ianchristmas
    @ianchristmas 2 місяці тому +22

    The top surgery scar was not with the rest if the scars, so it was only done as a virtue signal. Putting it with the scars would make it not a problem.

  • @lcicada
    @lcicada Місяць тому +7

    As a biological woman, I’m honestly getting tired of this. Why does everything revolve around non-binary individuals and trans people, while biological women are metaphorically getting kicked in the balls yet again? Personally, I have no issue with the top surgery scars-it doesn’t bother me because it’s not something I have to use. However, what I don’t understand is:
    1. Why aren’t they included with the other scar options?
    2. Why do trans people once again get special treatment, while I don’t even have the option to set my in-game character’s chest size to match my real life one?
    Why does the non-binary character in the game get to say something like, “Nobody likes being a woman,” while my character just stands there without the ability to respond and say, “Actually, I enjoy being a woman. I don’t know what your problem is.”
    Seriously, what’s the devs’ issue with biological women? Are people like Corinne Busche, the game director and a trans woman, perhaps jealous? I honestly can’t explain it any other way, and to me, this is starting to feel borderline misogynistic.

  • @Hawk199031
    @Hawk199031 Місяць тому +12

    The problem with the top surgery scars is the fact that they gave them their own dedicated setting, which is clearly needless spotlighting. Had they just kept them in the selection of the other scars no one would have batted an eye.
    The exclusion of things like big tits and the like is literally just because there isn't a single attractive person who worked on this game.

    • @RexSterlingTV
      @RexSterlingTV  Місяць тому

      I'm glad many of you mentioned the placement of the option, which wasn't something that I noticed during my stream of the game. I agree that it's yet another highlight of how their development priorities for the game were totally off.

  • @foofoo3344
    @foofoo3344 Місяць тому +7

    I'm 5' 7", 200+ lbs and overweight with a "dad bod" and even I have bigger boobs than Veilguard's Morrigan. They want the characters model to be ugly because if everything is uglier than them, then their sad life seems bearable.

  • @Courier_Eris
    @Courier_Eris 2 місяці тому +6

    3:36 rumor is that at one time, EA was planning to turn this franchise into an MMORPG but that was scrapped at some point before it became Dread Wolf. I wonder if that's where the art style came from.

    • @RexSterlingTV
      @RexSterlingTV  2 місяці тому +2

      I had not heard that! I heard multiple reboots but yeah I could definitely see this artstyle for live-service or MMO. Thanks for the comment!

  • @firestorm7977
    @firestorm7977 2 місяці тому +20

    Veilguard is being praised like its game of the year from some people.

    • @VerminaeSupremacy
      @VerminaeSupremacy 2 місяці тому +20

      These people would eat manure and say it’s Nutella

    • @kukipett
      @kukipett 2 місяці тому

      @@VerminaeSupremacy Oh !! isn't Nutella manure !?? That strange brown paste made with some... ingredients that will induce obesity and destroy your teeths.

    • @kopicha
      @kopicha 2 місяці тому +1

      They will vote it as GOTY. Just watch... while Stella Blade and Black Myth Wukong probably won't even get a single award

    • @eurothejii7328
      @eurothejii7328 2 місяці тому

      Dragonaid vailgard most succesfull EA single player game so far.not everybody interest this internet drama.

    • @jthen8454
      @jthen8454 2 місяці тому +2

      Screw awards and triple a games. Those fake ass people hate themselves

  • @dragonhitman1071
    @dragonhitman1071 2 місяці тому +8

    So once you know how little time bioware had for 2 you can definitely appreciate it better. Personally i had fun with it when it came out. Inquisition i overall liked. Though i had my issues with some of the story plot points like how alot of the choices became more black n white rather then grey like with the templars v mages choice. Veilgaurd is a slap in the face on a whole nother level.

    • @hunty.0
      @hunty.0 2 місяці тому

      DA:2 is actually my favorite, and then Origins. The group that worked on 2 were done dirty while Bioware bowed down to whatever time Failguard needed -.-
      If DA:2 had any expanded time to have been worked on, I'm sure the game would've been absolutely amazing.

  • @Threesixtyci
    @Threesixtyci Місяць тому +5

    Love making coffee of the tears of devs who think they're making a difference when no one buys their game.
    10:40 really dude... u don't know what's wrong with it. Think computer. It's a toggle for a reason and not just a scar selection on the scar picks.

  • @Arkaner3
    @Arkaner3 Місяць тому +10

    The top surgery scars are a big deal and should not be in a fantasy videogame

  • @justinp9170
    @justinp9170 2 місяці тому +5

    I bet these woke developers wished that most gamers had as much tolerance as Rex. It's people like him that they are trying to make ground from to push their agenda. Throughout this whole video all I heard was "I got a high tolerance" and "I don't think this was a big deal".
    Listen... if I'm spending my hard earned money and it's blatantly clear to me that real world agendas are being pushed in a fantasy setting, I'm steering clear of it. I'm not sitting around to play it and telling myself "it's not that bad". Shit like this pulls you straight out of the setting imo. Zero sense of escapism achieved lol.

  • @DamfinoMR2
    @DamfinoMR2 2 місяці тому +8

    You are doing yourself a MASSIVE disservice by not playing the Mass Effect series. The first game came out in 2007 and absolutely still holds up today. *Edit: on a gaming PC :)

    • @angelmessenger8240
      @angelmessenger8240 2 місяці тому

      I love the series and will replay it again. I won't buy anything now unless its second hand older games.

  • @QuarantinedCapricorn
    @QuarantinedCapricorn 2 місяці тому +7

    Rex, you HAVE TO STREAM Mass Effect Trilogy! I think it will bring in a swell of viewership the same way that FF7 did! One of the greatest trilogies of all time

  • @Shadownian
    @Shadownian Місяць тому +2

    Sell the IP to Larian Studios. They can go back and reset the series and make a true sequel to DAO. They could even hire Mike Laidlaw to come in to either consult or be on the team.

    • @Kserijaro
      @Kserijaro 17 днів тому

      Bioware already lost Baldurs Gate to Larian :D

  • @ricardokojin7
    @ricardokojin7 2 місяці тому +3

    08:55 I mean... I wonder why? Is it really an overreacting if it keep happening again and again? If anything... a lot of people are "under" reacting, letting them get away with it... which in turn is making it all a lot worse.
    The moral high ground is nice and all... but it is clearly not helping against the people trying to (and being successful so far) destroy all the fun and replace it with ideology. Being milk toast about didn't help against anita... and it also wont help against this generation of crazy.
    It is like the "no preorder" rule, it is their job to regain our trust... not our job to give them money and hope for the best.

  • @jahwehsbsideandrarities6162
    @jahwehsbsideandrarities6162 2 місяці тому +2

    Could you imagine seeing front office workers or athletes of pro sports franchises saying they brew coffee from the tears of their fans? Imagine the Cleveland Browns saying this after the hell they’ve been through. The only reason they still have fans is because they don’t do this.

  • @TRafael82
    @TRafael82 2 місяці тому +10

    Mass effect most amazing trilogy ever.

  • @bigfishoutofwater3135
    @bigfishoutofwater3135 2 місяці тому +6

    The surgery scars represent spending effort checking a bunch of diversity boxes rather than making a game.

  • @Fafnerluver922
    @Fafnerluver922 Місяць тому +1

    Yeah, the inclusivity in this game is so... in your face... and the writing is abhorrent!

  • @blairowens8912
    @blairowens8912 2 місяці тому +12

    The surgery scars arent a big deal but its a big deal for fans of dragon age. Its set in a yime where im sure youd die from a cold, yet you're telling us they have reassignment technology? They dont even have electricity.

  • @TheLadyKemet
    @TheLadyKemet Місяць тому +1

    Just like you, I never hated any Dragon Age game until Veilguard. DA2 had its flaws, mainly due to it being released in a short time and that it was originally planned as DLC, but I loved playing Hawke. She doesn't want to be a heroine, just someone seeking safety for herself and her family. It's very Greek tragedy. And in Inquisition they brought back things I liked about Origins modernized in its gameplay despite the AI being horrible because it was planned for multiplayer. They are still DA, but Veilguard? DA is just the name and nothing more.
    And to add, the female gaze does not automatically mean that a female character stops being pretty, indeed, I would say that the gaze from a woman is when a female character is the most beautiful, regardless of her type of femininity. And we can see it in Arcane, Mel is gorgeous, Vi and Caitlyn too, and they all have a different femininity.

  • @PandorasBox7777
    @PandorasBox7777 Місяць тому

    My problem with the top scars is that they won't make sense. It's a setting advanced enough to even have the surgery AND they have widespread healing magic. Scars are understandable to a degree because in battle there might not always be healers available in a timely matter, but if you're going for a surgical procedure there'd be no way they won't have healers on stand-by.

  • @maubraymzoma6616
    @maubraymzoma6616 2 місяці тому +3

    As Fleekazoid says it, "BUDGET CUTS!!"...

  • @Mike_jmg9
    @Mike_jmg9 2 місяці тому +4

    All this DEI crap has just pushed me to get that knee jerk reaction, every time I spot something that shouldn't be there. Like Ghost of Yotei, I felt it immediately while watching the trailer. I didn't even know about the voice actor, I found out later which just confirmed my reaction. I'm sorry but that game is going to be garbage as well.
    I don't remember where I got this, but apparently these people think that you're going to buy the game, and later on, find the surprise turd that they put in it. Like some sick and twisted gotcha moment. Why?, I have no idea, they're the ones with the mental disorder. I guess they'll never understand that it only takes 20 seconds of trailer footage to see that their game is going to be full of this garbage

  • @Ulfric42
    @Ulfric42 2 місяці тому +1

    "With Magic maybe they could heal it.."
    Wouldnt that happen with the transitions as well..like it grows back everytime..
    Healer cast heal..
    NOOOOOOooooooo
    God dang it! Every damn time!

  • @alucard952
    @alucard952 2 місяці тому +4

    You really should play at least Mass Effect 1-3. It should be a " must have played" for every Gamer, that´s how good Bioware once was. And now i realized again how bad they are now. 😭

  • @ANGRYWOLVERINE2060-ft2nc
    @ANGRYWOLVERINE2060-ft2nc Місяць тому +1

    Mary Kirby was one of those Bioware/EA laid off several months ago.FYI.

  • @ShreddedSteel
    @ShreddedSteel 2 місяці тому +2

    No one is going to buy the next title, On principal
    They will pull out all the stops, Such as putting a new team together, Changing the company making the game… They may even make an objectively good game…
    But on principal, You need to NOT purchase the game
    Never forget what happened to this series. Even if you don’t care about this series? Yours could be next

  • @holgeradler707
    @holgeradler707 2 місяці тому +3

    So the implemented top surgery scars to give their audience a tool for representation. How about a missing ear, limb? What about cleft lip scars? What about all the other conditions a human beeing can suffer from? I guess they are all just demanding to much compared to modern audience😅

  • @weelewism8442
    @weelewism8442 2 місяці тому +2

    congrats on 1k almost 2k!

    • @RexSterlingTV
      @RexSterlingTV  2 місяці тому

      Thank you so much! My goal was 1k by December - I'm blown away

  • @flamingfox127
    @flamingfox127 Місяць тому

    My personal issue with the top surgery scars is that in a world where magic is real, the scars are the same way they'd be if they were removed via surgery with our specific tools. It just feels out of place where there could be more lore accurate or less immersion breaking ways to implement it

  • @子捷-o7z
    @子捷-o7z 2 місяці тому +3

    👏👏

    • @RexSterlingTV
      @RexSterlingTV  2 місяці тому +2

      WOW! Your support and generousity truly means the world to me. Thank you!

  • @saddestcat
    @saddestcat Місяць тому +1

    Neve has a prosthetic leg for dei and woke points on twitter, like that operator in R6 siege that’s in a wheelchair, then I play elden ring, fight Melania & want a prosthetic because damn wtf that shits sick, like the swords attached to the arm, giving the sword more functionality, speed and movement because of the prosthetic and it looks cool af.

  • @Yoroiful
    @Yoroiful Місяць тому

    10:45 What is wrong with it is that kids will play this game at some point, they will see it, they will conclude that this is the new normal and might be indoctrinated into this ideology. Just think through why they put it there, specifically in a game where being the other gender would be as easy as making some kind of pact or magic or whatever. And where scars could be easily healed. You are right, more options in a character creator is usually better, but keep in mind these are not "chest scars" or "face scars", these represent something.

  • @Skarb10
    @Skarb10 Місяць тому

    Making the general public aware of top surgery scars has made being stealth nearly impossible because now they'll know how clock us.

  • @josephbattise8729
    @josephbattise8729 2 місяці тому

    Ghost was allegedly going to have Jin but was then gutted to make what it is now. I can see Jin escaping to the mountains then learning duel wielding as he was hunted by warriors sent by the emperor. On the top scars they dont bother me but they dont make sense in a world where a transition could happen with a spell/ritual.

  • @Antonio-ONI
    @Antonio-ONI Місяць тому +1

    In my opinion, for the top surgery scars: If I'm a woman that feels like I should be a man and identify as a man I would play a man, vice versa. Needing to remove my breasts with the toggle of the top surgery scars legit would just remind me that I'm a "man" trap in a woman's body. So this toggle is kinda dumb in my opinion of course.

  • @brutalchaos92
    @brutalchaos92 2 місяці тому +1

    I'm interested to see what Nexusmods does with mods for DA:V. They'll nuke anything that changes any of the characters

    • @theesper7404
      @theesper7404 Місяць тому

      I looked for fun. Mainly character creation sliders and color correction.

  • @happenstance7530
    @happenstance7530 2 місяці тому +2

    Sorry man but I think the problem is that they did put a lot of thought into it and that was the result they came up with.

  • @baldr8790
    @baldr8790 2 місяці тому +4

    I think the Ghost of Yotei situation is different because yes there will be people who complained to want Jin back
    The problem isn't the female character, it's the person playing that role that has created the most chaos around this game
    They obviously chose a person who was quite questionable for the thoughts and comments she made
    And as always everything revolves around that sick world
    People are now out of control
    They stand with their eyes and ears alert
    Both publishers and developers should be good at minimizing these things and trying to stay as far away as possible from certain topics
    It doesn't happen and this is where the chaos will arise
    Developers who attack determined gamers insult them
    I don't understand whoever is in charge can allow certain things to be done
    At one time these things led to dismissals for making the company look bad

  • @doctorogre1777
    @doctorogre1777 2 місяці тому +23

    "I liked Dragon Age 2 and Inquisition"
    It's okay, bro. Nobody's perfect. God still loves you.

    • @Snowscaris
      @Snowscaris 2 місяці тому +8

      they werent bad games just could be a little better

    • @ScouterVee
      @ScouterVee 2 місяці тому +2

      Ogre bringing heat haha.

    • @ScouterVee
      @ScouterVee 2 місяці тому +3

      @LateNightCaveman same! I let it slide for inquisition. I could only play about 10-15 hours before I lost all interest. I did not understand what was going on with the "modernification" of games at the time.

    • @doctorogre1777
      @doctorogre1777 2 місяці тому +1

      @@ScouterVee I knew something was off when the remaining writing team worked on DA: Origins' DLC. Immediately noticeable downgrade in writing for those. Especially the "quirky" female trapped in a male golem body with male voice companion. Bioware died INSTANTLY when EA bought them. Post Origins, pre-Origins DLC.

    • @themagnus2919
      @themagnus2919 2 місяці тому

      Parts of them were good.

  • @dondracul3056
    @dondracul3056 2 місяці тому

    "The shirt says look at me the chest says look away" 😆😆😆

  • @Seanidor
    @Seanidor 2 місяці тому

    At 4:17 Hmm, I vaguely remember watching captain planet as a kid and I don't remember the dialogue being as bad as what I've seen in veilguard...

  • @jakkrit6910
    @jakkrit6910 2 місяці тому

    6:50 i just want to know why? did the company think yeah this is the person who should make our game. the one that aim to piss the fan base.....

  • @neosildrake
    @neosildrake Місяць тому +3

    I always hear from some people that DA was always woke. No it wasn't. It was always diverse, but not woke. In previous DA games, diversity enhanced character backgrounds and story. Zevran, Anders, Dorian even Leliana. All characters who are well liked and well written. This is how diversity and gender are supposed to work in games. Now take Veilguard, where diversity and gender is at the forefront of characters and story. It defines the characters and turns them into check boxes and virtue signals at the cost of immersion, character growth and atory telling, not to memtion abyssmal dialogues with modern lingua written by UCA Berkley liberal arts students for a middle school theater club. Not to mention it feels like a therapy session for someone with mommy and/or daddy issues.
    The only think I like about the game are the enviroment graphics.

    • @lcicada
      @lcicada Місяць тому

      I think you and I have very different definitions of what "woke" means. You seem to view it as an insult, while I see it as something positive. In my opinion, the previous Dragon Age games were "woke," and that wasn’t a bad thing. However, DA: TV is just… messed up, and it’s clear they had an agenda. I wish they’d focus on writing good characters first, and let their identities come naturally afterward.

    • @neosildrake
      @neosildrake Місяць тому

      @lcicada
      Yeah, that's what woke once was supposed to be. Unfortunatelly it isn't any longer in they perception of the majority and it's the extremists on the far left fault.

  • @SuperBrainSandwich
    @SuperBrainSandwich 2 місяці тому +1

    I think the reason the comparison to Fortnite is ALWAYS an insult is because of two reasons; Fortnite is complete pandery shit and is almost exclusively played only by little kids and people who want to profit off of little kids.

  • @kx5462
    @kx5462 Місяць тому

    I don't care about the scar slider, but they intentionally restricted the character creator to make it really hard to make believable and attractive characters. There are no feminine and male faces anymore to chose from, just a mixture of bad templates that encompass hyper-exagerated features of both genders and a slider to emphasize one of both features to monstrous proportions. You can create women with manjaws, chubby cheeks and big, sticking out foreheads or men with feminine rounded chins, painted womenly lips and big animegirl-like feminine eyes on a face belonging to an adamless neck, leading to a gender-neutral missing collarbone and a genderless torso that looks anorexic and diseased.

  • @Jacked_Dude_Loves_Wheyfus
    @Jacked_Dude_Loves_Wheyfus Місяць тому

    There's one point I disagree with, and that's at 12:17 it's okay to see yourself and people like you depicted in media. That's not a problem, and it's mostly harmless. Plus, Dragon Age is an RPG series with a character creator and choices.
    So, it is okay for people to make a self-insert and play a version of themselves. Like the original video said it's "escapism". You can create whoever and make choices in that world. That being said, Dragon Age: Veilguard sucked as an RPG and as a form of escapism.

  • @heatherbelletete7980
    @heatherbelletete7980 Місяць тому

    The thing that makes no sense whatsoever is the fact that Patrick Weekes is in fact a writer and although I don't care for his writing style, he is a capable writer. He was the writer for Taash. There is absolutely no valid reason why this character was so badly written considering his talent. No one was reading this terrible dialogue? No one was supervising this garbage? I gotta be honest, it feels like the game was written by two different teams of people. The foundation of the game including Solas' arc and ambient dialogue in the various areas by one team, then the companion/faction dialogue and quests by another team. The game feels like it has two distinct vibes and it just feels like two different teams wrote it. I'm thinking that parts of the game were already scripted when the infamous layoffs occurred. After the fallout the focus just wasn't on writing anymore but on making a political statement. I remember when David Gaiter who was the lead writer for the Dragon Age left it was largely due to the fact that he felt undervalued as a writer. I feel like Patrick Weekes must have been on permanent vacation during the writing of this game or maybe he is too concerned with his personal life and being non-binary. Seems he largely self inserted with Taash. SMH.

  • @Ch1l1C0nCarnag3
    @Ch1l1C0nCarnag3 Місяць тому

    Inclusion in Fantasy should be done through Fantastical means.
    Top surgery scars make no sense in a world with magic that can morph your body, or heal the most grievous wounds imaginable and leave no trace of it.
    A missing foot should be replaced by something more interesting than a peg leg.
    A missing hand should be more interesting than a prosthesis that looks like you could get one today.
    Being paralyzed from the waist down has so many creative ways for the person to potentially use magic or magical items to replicate that functionality, like a set of enchanted armoured grieves that can basically give them the ability to walk while wearing them; or even riding a magic carpet or magical beast instead of a wheel chair.
    The biggest issue is the creatively bankrupt people making this stuff. They don't have the imagination to make this stuff interesting and weave it into the world itself.

  • @ReclusePhayder
    @ReclusePhayder Місяць тому

    It does make sense, Rex. "They" want to look at flat chests because "they" prefer them young.

  • @paledrake
    @paledrake Місяць тому

    The problem with Top Surgery Scars isn't because it got included, it's because ONLY it was included. Let me elaborate:
    - Can't have wide muscles as a man
    - Can't have distinct muscles as a man
    - Can't have non-pointy jawline as a woman
    - Can't have big breasts as a woman
    - Can't have a big ass period
    - Lack of hairstyle variety, most follow the same DEIsign philosophy (god forbid you have cute bangs)
    The character creator is absolute shit.

  • @NotEnoughTP
    @NotEnoughTP 2 місяці тому +1

    These "writers" should get fact-checked then rejected from the industry. They're only in it for themselves

  • @joelrene1559
    @joelrene1559 2 місяці тому +1

    the scars weren't the problem, but they limited body proportions.
    Women also love playing as baddies.

  • @BroWithTheFro
    @BroWithTheFro Місяць тому

    You don't see what's wrong with top surgery scars being an option in a game universe with magic?

  • @dean4696
    @dean4696 2 місяці тому

    Imagine being a professional in any other industry and showing open detest for your clients/customers in your bio or email signature.

  • @jeremymerkt3982
    @jeremymerkt3982 2 місяці тому

    Trained: is when a company hires a DEI operative to come in to work to push it on the employees. Learning: is when you recognize where DEI has been infused without having a third party point it out.

  • @BlackBackLioness
    @BlackBackLioness Місяць тому

    Am... am I supposed to be ashamed of my boobs? Is that what they're saying? Is having boobs wrong now? Can we not have boobs? Shit. Cancel women, cancel them all!

  • @baeshin
    @baeshin Місяць тому

    I never had an issue with top surgery scars... but I never saw the point. I just assumed you could magically give yourself breast or magically remove them. Or hell, magically change your gender.
    The fact that they added top surgery scars, but wouldn't allow busty or big booty characters is wild to me. Why not give players the option to make sexy men and women AND give us options that the trans gamers would also enjoy? It really didn't have to be an "either this or that" scenario...

  • @LatashaMoore-y7r
    @LatashaMoore-y7r 2 місяці тому +1

    Dragon Age The Veilguard is one of the worst I ever seen in my entire life

  • @ronremedios1635
    @ronremedios1635 2 місяці тому

    came across ur content via Asmond and had to drop a sub. U seem like a lvl headed dude with actual common sense. Kudos to u

  • @lChrissy79l
    @lChrissy79l Місяць тому

    The big failure here is that Veilguard was in Production under a guy who want to be a woman and was not born as a woman. He can be what he want, but if he were actually a woman, he would know that with Pregnancy in the most cases the Breasts gets even bigger, maybe after Breastfeeding they gave in to the gravity, but they dont get smaller 😅

  • @CommenjouerFr-gplus
    @CommenjouerFr-gplus Місяць тому

    I've seen a French video by activists who defended Veilguard saying that is cool despite all the bad qualities behind it (to sums it up, they only discussed about the character Taash and the character creation...not the gameplay or writing).
    Of course if you disagree with it, you're a Gamergater, a chud, a virgin...well all the insults you can imagine.

  • @faceholicks
    @faceholicks 2 місяці тому +1

    new here but you should play the mass effect trilogy id totally want to watch someone's first playthrough of it

  • @ChannelRaznoff
    @ChannelRaznoff Місяць тому

    You take that back! When I was a kid I watched Saturday morning cartoons like X-men and Spiderman and the writing in those shows were way better than the DAV garbage! Hell, even Disney Afternoon shows like Darkwing Duck and Tailspin had better writing for their characters and plot!

  • @brieezy.
    @brieezy. 2 місяці тому +1

    I better not say anything.

  • @feddup4781
    @feddup4781 Місяць тому

    its a sad state of everything when people get upset over video game boobs and butts

  • @the_gratefulgamer
    @the_gratefulgamer 2 місяці тому

    5:30 Same thing happened in Tekken8 to most of the girls. Especially Xiaoyu 😡

  • @sapkowska
    @sapkowska 2 місяці тому +1

    I don't get Mary Kirby tweet about Lucanis... He's sweet and intereactions with him are nice 🤔🤔🤔

    • @theesper7404
      @theesper7404 Місяць тому +1

      Either they didn't use her writing or... she just sucked. 😅

    • @sapkowska
      @sapkowska Місяць тому

      @theesper7404 I suspect that they changed her work... But we will never know for sure...

  • @johnnii
    @johnnii Місяць тому

    Actually you can barely be obese (or overly muscular) because they are too incompetent to design armor for it.

  • @chargers0001
    @chargers0001 Місяць тому

    Thanks for exposing these bad devs so we can avoid any work of theirs in the future.
    Just finished Veilguard, its an graphically updated DA 2 without the excellent story sad to say. Angry about how they treated Varric.

  • @pRaX85815
    @pRaX85815 2 місяці тому

    "I've only ever played Dragon Age" Yeah, we can tell.

  • @flampagan1994
    @flampagan1994 2 місяці тому

    For me the surgery scars are not so much they are included, but more about the fact its own option, why not have the surgery scars under regluar scars?

  • @GameCookerUSRocks
    @GameCookerUSRocks 2 місяці тому +13

    Fortnite is free. Veilguard is not. No kids are going to pay for the garbage.

  • @g33k1nblack
    @g33k1nblack 2 місяці тому

    Darvin has more cleavage than Neve it's actually funny. They were both in a scene in my playthrough, which made me laugh.

  • @NYATLChris
    @NYATLChris 2 місяці тому +2

    Rex. You spelled ACTIVISTS wrong.

  • @Honorablediscord2
    @Honorablediscord2 2 місяці тому

    Does anyone else remember when dragon age was pitchef as a dark fantasy version of Kotor...

  • @Subninja2012
    @Subninja2012 2 місяці тому

    The past couple years have been every form of dysfunction and paraphilia possible.
    They cram it into our games and we have to deal with it .
    I think based on the resounding no from the game players, the industry needs to know that this time is shifted and don’t be making this crap anymore

  • @spakermanplays2much
    @spakermanplays2much Місяць тому

    Neve (indian woman) even has one of those headresses that look like a frikkin mosquito coil...

  • @Snowscaris
    @Snowscaris 2 місяці тому

    ill correct you with the C cup business in the character creator, it was an A cup at best. at maxxed out butt and breast sizes 90+ percent of the female population was excluded. so diverse right? we cared about what it meant for the game, it infected the rest of it. how can you say the game is so inclusive and diverse when you can't make a good looking character for shit. plus why would you have top surgery scars in a game that magic is a reality and shapeshifting is common practice among mages. the identity politics, and removing the "male gaze issue" took center stage, and it shows with the writing, that also treats you like you have the memory of a goldfish.

  • @WileyBoxx
    @WileyBoxx Місяць тому

    Criticizing the size of ass and tits detracts heavily from real, important issues with the writing.

  • @shadowlink20
    @shadowlink20 Місяць тому

    8:40 careful, you may step in the same cycle as Dragon Age Veilguard 😂😂

  • @JustAGroundhog
    @JustAGroundhog Місяць тому

    5:02 Also, why is she Indian she's supposed to be Teventer?

  • @BlorbusUnimax
    @BlorbusUnimax 2 місяці тому

    this dude is part of the problem

  • @melkerbotin7098
    @melkerbotin7098 2 місяці тому

    Such a great video and takes!

  • @nunchuksteev9811
    @nunchuksteev9811 Місяць тому

    No one is mad that there are female heros, we have had them since go. Its the why that is bothering folks.

  • @D3X1K_AXYZ
    @D3X1K_AXYZ 2 місяці тому

    The issue with the scars isn't the scars. Its a multilayered cake that starts with separation of said scars from the other scar presets. Why does it need to be its own separate option? The vast majority could easily look past this (myself included) if the bust and glute sliders didn't feel like an after thought.
    On top of those 2 layers, you have a giant layer of the most blunt, preachy, cringy, and bland dialogue ever. Next, you have a series of other layers which will differ from person to person, but at the very top of all of this, you have the anti-marketing and messaging that clearly pushed a certain narrative with no room for genuine discussion.
    (That last bit is key, as the inability to discuss and debate freely and civilly is what turns progressivism into wokism.)
    All these layers make it impossible to overlook the scars option, acting like a beacon or neon sign.
    This is just my two cents as an outsider looking in. Haven't played any dragon-age games, so take from this what you will. XD

  • @7131lexie
    @7131lexie Місяць тому

    The fortnight insult is like a gamer telling another gamer to go play minecraft 😂.
    Another non thought is Taash being They/Them but stating several times dragons are Queens not Kings 😂.

  • @TobiasJensen2402
    @TobiasJensen2402 2 місяці тому

    I'm thinking about making some video games myself, and I think it would be fun to take the piss on this, by making a two robots, where one is binary and the other is non-binary aka a standard robot and a quantum robot. I'd love to see the internet's reaction to that!