Im glad someone see it like me. I will be so pissed of, if they delete taunts, stances, healing and roars and give us 3 active abilities for player and 2dmg+1healing for companions
@@MrHardcoreMode One dev said that you can have more abilities, but only 3 in the wheel :( Also they said that most quests will be linear and story driven, some later might have some puzzle and decisions, but they want to focus on linear story telling...
@@S3nn4h I thought Inquisition was too restrictive with 8 ability slots (on PC) after previous games. Cannot imagine playing as a mighty tevinter mage with 3 abilities, what a joke.
36:21 As soon as I saw that I was like if a Solas romanced Inqusitor, the woman he's supposedly in love with, couldn't convince the Dread Wolf to abandon his plans then there's no way Varric's gonna do it, lol.
@SilverBullet3626 exactly. This scene would've been much better if it had been the Inquisitor instead of Varric going to speak to Solas. I also didn't like how our character is gonna be left out of such a big conversation. Instead, he or she will be fighting a few demons while this plays out. Why not have Rook with Varric? This is where being allowed to play as the companions would've been interesting. Let the player switch between Neve and Harding to fight the demons and knock over the wooden post then switch back to Rook's point of view during the conversation that way we still get to experience the gameplay and our character gets to be part of the scene as well. I guess what has me worried is I play SWTOR and Bioware has gradually sidelined the main characters in that game to the point that the MCs are now often just side characters in what is supposed to be their story. I'm really hoping they don't do that here. If this is supposed to be Rook's story, then I don't want to be hacking and slashing things while all of the important stuff is happening with others in the background. All I kept thinking during that scene was that I wanted to hear everything that was being said between Solas and Varric.
@@RagnarTheRed-x5s I missed the fact of being sidelined, until you pointed it out (I guess my head was too busy with questions of why the Inquisitor was not present). You are bringing up a good point and helpful knowledge on what has happened in SWTOR. I agree with being in the midst of important events, decisions, and scenes. Playing as an essential character that affects the world is preferred over a witness that reacts to the world. I understand Varric would be better than Rook for talking with Solas, but it did feel like something was off. Maybe they will find a better way to interact; you have a good idea of Rook following Varric to hear the whole conversation. There is normally some differences between early gameplay and released gameplay. I will stay neutral, until I see gameplay this Fall. I hope it will be an enjoyable game for both of us, but if not, there are plenty of games in the sea ^-^
Probably why they changed the name from Dreadwolf to Veilguard, Solas is going to die early in the game. The game director probably wants to make their own story than follow through what Inquisition left.
Yeah, hopefully that will change by the release. I remember the UI and HUD elements in the inquisition gameplay trailer were much different and way jankier looking than it ended up being in the final game. But hey, that's literally just one out of many concerns here, so, still plenty to worry about! Haha
Wait, why does neve disapprove of rook telling Varric that talking to solas is a mistake (which it is) but then complains about rook bringing down the statue is a bad idea? The writing for the characters seem contradictory.
I feel like they just removed 70% of the RPG aspect of the series and replaced it with pure action story driven style. That's not cool. Sure, fights are good looking and all, but there is depth to them compared to RPG's.. so when the '' wow it looks good '' from the first hours of gameplay disappears, it can get boring quickly because there is no depth, no real customization, no real thinking behind the fights.. it's just smashing buttons with good looking animations until the enemy die. It's okay in some games, like God of War because it's historically and ARPG and everything have been developped around this.. but that's not the case for Dragon Age. What make people fan of the serie was the story ofc but not also the depth of RPG's, so customization possibilities, the tactical aspect of the fights, the replayability of the game, the fact that you need to actually use your brain to make choices to customize your character etc... Maybe they just didn't show everything in the gameplay showcase, but from what i've seen, the only thing the game have from a dragon age game is the story. And the story is like 80% of the game actually, pure story driven action game with a little bit of RPG elements.. cool for one quick playthrough with brain mode off but that's about it really. Anyway, nice to see you keep it real, you have good and smart takes imo. And btw, go light on sugar brother.. cancer is one hell of a plague nowadays.
They might as well call it Dragon Effect. There were so many ways to make a build that could satisfy your custom preferences in Dragon Age Origins, But ever since Dragon Age 2, they've been limiting and streamlining The class choices and and abilities... I think this is the nail in the coffin for the game play.
I was wondering why the skills and no controlling companions was so familiar to me. But your mentioning of Mass effect, reminded me of Mass Effect 2 and it makes total sense. Because apparently the person that was involved in Mass Effect was involved in this game as well.
Now that you mention it, I was watching other youtube vid and most of them stated that we are playing with 3 man squad. I was confused at first but since you mentioned people from mass effect was involved I understand now, looks like Veilguard is going to have a lot of mechanics from Mass Effect 🤣
@@MrHardcoreMode Well, I played Origins mainly for the story. I love the game, don't get me wrong. I just dislike the combat. That didn't keep me from enjoying the rest of the game, tho. The game was so amazing, even the bad combat (imo) couldn't ruin it for me.
"One of the things we wanted to do with this game is make the prolog feel like the final mission of a different game," Epler says. "We really needed to get the stakes, the spectacle, right off the bat. Obviously, players who had been waiting to confront Solas have been waiting for just this moment." It's an effective opener. It certainly set the hook for me, building the stakes and introducing lore without getting bogged down in the deep details. you're right solas is done in the first hour
Oh noooooo my dark elven boooooy ! 😭 I'm scared, really. This art style is really not my cup of tea, I don't like the look of the characters and honestly : there are the same as in the trailer. Which means Emmrich is going to look like a guy out of Skylanders, Lucanis is going to have this horrible haircut and beard, Bellara is going to look crazy (Asians are notorious for being all goofy, ha ha 😮💨), Taash is not going to look like anything. The only ones who are doing well are Harding, Neve and Dravin (but I hate his haircut). I find the screen very colorful, which is not necessarily a good thing. It will please players accustomed to more "pop" games, but it is a 4th part, a sequel eagerly awaited by long-time fans: should this game in particular really be aimed at younger players and therefore more likely to love action games that are a bit cartoony and flashy? I don't think so. For the combat style, I think we can forget about the tactical mode: they probably would have shown it if it existed. I admit that I didn't use it in the previous Dragon Age games, but it's still a shame. One thing I like is being able to switch between the bow and the swords, it's pretty cool. I like the dialogue choice wheel, the one from DA2 was my favorite, so OK. Obviously, Solas and Varric will die quickly, which explains the name change from Dreadwolf to Veilguard. And it's a real shame, because Inquisition had hinted at an epic finale (and one that was going to break my little heart, poor me who absolutely LOVES Solas) and I think we're not moving towards that. All we have to do is wait... It won't be an instant buy for me, I'll wait for some feedback before diving into it (or not). Oh, and I love your videos. English is not my native language and I understand absolutely everything you say, it's a delight to follow.
Asmongold made a really good point about the camera angles during the battle with the Pride Demon. It makes it hard to see the damaging ground effects, especially with all of the other flashy combat lighting effects going on. As he said, if they did it with this battle, they've likely done it with the others as well.
i saw that video. i want to make another video analyzing the issues including the empty abilities in a gameplay trailer and the heavy story telling on a gameplay video. no one wants to know about varrics weapon breaking until they play the game.
Why give up the classic bottom panel?! When you have a large number of skills, you can experiment with them. And here we will stupidly defeat mobs with four skilled skills. This is a RPG. Damn bring minimalism to your room :/
I feel like the main defense of the gameplay is either that it's level one so you can't expect too many abilities, or that it's too early to for us to know anything and that people are just bitching. The second one is the easiest to shut down since this is a gameplay reveal and criticism is allowed from consumers, so when your gameplay doesn't look very interesting expect people to analyze it. For the first point about being a low level, I think that's a garbage defense. Your gameplay being boring shouldn't be a problem in the early stages if your gameplay is good, and trying to say being low level should give the gameplay reveal a pass is tantamount to saying you acknowledge that what you're seeing isn't very interesting but that you're just willing to assume that it gets better later on. My whole point is that we're not meant to be guessing if the gameplay is eventually any good, and that the whole point of the gameplay reveal is supposed to entice us into playing it.
I'm glad you pointed out that this game was not BG because a lot of UA-camrs are down on this game because they are comparing it to BG. This is not BG. The writing that progressed you through the gameplay was only to stop seeing spoilers. I doubt that it will be in the game. When they walk through the Eluvian into the Arlathan forest, It was skipped to save showing spoilers. You would need to go through a lot more to get to Solas' Ritual Site before that I think. It said it had been edited for that reason. The wheel is using a controller. PC I hope will be different as I agree with you, it's an eyesore on the screen. Once you've seen the gameplay trailer, a few hours ago they interviewed the devs for this game. They will answer a lot of your queries and questions Mr. H. There is healing and who knows as your levels increase so may the amount of healing. I know for sure there is a form of crafting and healing spells that your companions can use on everyone, and that the combat is different for different classes, but check out the dev interview on UA-cam. Most of your questions will be answered. Yes, the "I'm a mage" was so lame.
something i noticed in the pride demon fight is something i hope is not how it works the whole game wich is the camera the camera has this really weird angle from the bottom up and you cant really see the hit markers of the lightning properly, something i learned from ff16 and the team that worked on that is thta when they make a fight with a body that is bigger than yours the gamera pans out so you can actually see everything and on top of that you got the grass interfering with that so theres this really weird mix of visual clutter and camera jank
@@MrHardcoreMode yeah like i said lets just hope its not like that in every fight but like if they fuck that up in the tutorial boss then yeah...also the IM A MAGE part killed me to when i first heard it was like "ah yes i forgot this is new Bioware the 10/10 writing needs to be here"
Yeah, because even Inquisition did away with the healer class! There was one spell that was a part of Vivienne's specialization, which was a focus ability, meaning it wasn't used like the regular spells/abilities. It was very limited. So I was worried that seeing as that was the case with Inquisition, they have just gone all the way and done away with it altogether here. So, I hope what you read was correct about that!
See I actually really fuck with this dude I disagree with some of his opinions but he keeps it real and I don't think anything he's saying is coming from a place of hate. I respect it. This game looks like what the 2nd game wanted to be and I can dig that
The Pride demons don’t look like the ones from DA:O thru DA:I. On top of the demons not looking like the demons from previous games. I don’t recall a healer in DA:I.
Wow how you noticed the dagger appearing in the pr image is crazy, respect! I didn't even give it much attention. The combat looks like the circus hopping in the Batman games (in there it made sense), boring and innapropriate for a dark fantasy DA. Whatever, all the original devs left the company a long time ago so I'm not expecting anything authentic from Bioware anymore.
You cannot convince me this is a decade's worth of development. This is what was made from the time when EA took the cash cow of SWTOR from them and shifted it to Broadsword. If this looked and played like BG3, then I could believe the decade of development, but this is not it. This was not a decade's worth of work. This is what they came up with when SWTOR and its $1.9 billion was taken away and they had to make something quick to keep the doors open at Bioware.
You went in depth the most. (Doubly for calling out the obvious black guy for brownie points. Black guy myself) I’ve seen this multiple times and I’m not impressed, just as a guy who at this point only played Inquisition and this made me want to go back to play and appreciate the apparently even better Origins and 2.
Party goes down from 4 to 3, you can't directly control companions and they don't even seem to have hp or anything, only 3 active abilities per character, completly made for console and dumbed down to the extreme 💀 (That wheel UI is the same on ME whether you use M&K or controller afaik, but it's obviously made like that for consoles/controller) They already said the game is not open world and is more railroad so I guess Minrathous is not going to be massive and it's mostly background. Classes are Mage,Warrior,Rgoue and they work like inquisition, you have 3 advanced specs for each base class. Harding takes her arrows from her back and she doesn't even have a quiver and now I can't unsee it 🤣 If Solas dies soon on the story they just changed the name because they rewrote the story last minute, you're not going to tell me they named the game Dreadwolf to kill solas 1h into the game since the beggining...And yeah the moment Solas sees those 2 Old Gods (?) he know's he's fuºked xD This game is just medriocre generic we're using the DA name as marketing.
I only played inquisition but I hated the small map realm, the action targeted combat but I guess how bad this seems, that I'll now gladly replay inquisition over this. No way I'm playing 3 skills rpg a la genshin impact
you know there is a compromising middle ground and not just go all out action rpg, being a cut and paste clone of god of war, ff 7 remake, devil may cry, etc, i've seen them in kenshi, battle realms, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth 1 and many more, letting the player characters move around on their own, doing their fluent movement or whatever but also you can micro manage their plan of attacks, its an RPG afterall, not an action games, this look like its evolution from games like diablo (no rest for the wicked is about to kill that franchise) other than dragon age origin that is supposedly a successor of the OG baldurs gate games, when you start as one format stick and add to it, you dont change format to please the casuals, its a cop out like the dev's political stance
For a gameplay trailer, there wasn't really a ton of gameplay, was there? A lot of walking and talking, a lot of cutscenes....not a ton of gameplay. And what was there, was on rails and highly cherry picked and curated. Art style and goofy enemies aside, not a lot of gameplay in the gameplay trailer. A massive red flag for me....
Hey isn't this kinda hypocritical of them to pick a black character and use the shadow dragons origins? A black character which is part of a crime gang...
@@MrHardcoreMode That's a full white studio failing on the tokenism pandering of today's world. Probably not racist, just sºupid. I wish we could have devs that just want to make cool games but I guess that's a lot to ask.
i'm honestly really concerned it seems like they made this game for kids and new people and just making it shiny and they forgetting about the old fans that made dragon age is what it is the art style really bothers me demon's only have half bodies now the u i and the combat looks really dumbed down that's for new players tho i was really looking forward to this game but it wasn't made for us sadly hell i don't even think ill romance anyone if the art style is so overwatch looking what bioware games romance is a huge part of it or was it's just sad
I liked DA2 but really not a fan of how they're basically making this DA2: 2. The dialogue wheel, naming the character after a bird, and making every character pansexual. And I'm not keen on Neve's voice tbh. So monotone and...trying to put this as delicately as possible, but doesn't sound like a woman's voice. Only thing I'm really excited about is seeing Solas again and the world design.
@@MrHardcoreMode I didn't consider the possibility of them doing that until you pointed it out, but I can see it. I'd def be in the upset camp. The real big bads being the other elven gods has been signposted for a while now but killing Solas off when they've built him up would be such a bad move. And exactly the kind of thing Bioware would do - even the Templar/Mage war didn't amount to much in the end.
Glad I’m not the only one that hates Neve’s voice. Definitely something off about it for sure. A sorta reverb to it? Kinda jarring and takes me out of the immersion. Many of her lines are recited in a very stiff and unenthusiastic fashion as well, which makes it sound even worse .😬😅
@@emismpunk Agreed, it really bothers me. I fear I'm being harsh but I can't think of any other companion with such bad voice acting. Harding, on the other hand, is knocking it out of the park. Even Rook sounds good, he looks to be a commoner rather than a noble (with his tatty cloak and all) and the gruffer tone works really well.
I am 100% with you. I want Dreadwolf back because I kinda have a feeling Solas might die early and I REALLY wanted him to be the final boss of the game like Corypheus in Inquisition.
Geesh, that’ll be hard to do…I REALLY want to support this game, patiently waiting TEN years. I know there’s creative programmers that put in so so many long hours. 💞
I know that DA:O is considered the best of the series but you need to stop comparing this game to it. The most fair comparison would be to compare it to Inquisition since that is its direct predecessor. Even then, this kinda still looks like a downgrade, like Inquisition allowed for 8 active abilities if i remember correctly, by the looks of it, this game is only 3, or maybe 6 if later you can unlock specialisation to unlock 3 more abilities at the top of the combat wheel. This style of ability restriction has been in place since DA2 which was 13 years ago. expecting it to go back to DA:O style was setting yourself up for disappointment. Now that I think about it, they probably reserved one of the ability buttons for the doge, which mean you technically lose 2 abilities instead of 1.
No no i dont think I will. every fan of DA loves the setting, lore and companions of DAO. dark Fantasy at its best compared to the rest. if they UPGRADED the combat of DAO (much like DAI but better) Dragon Age Veilguard wouldnt be ratioed as it is now. Example: BG3! alot of fans of BG were skeptical of the turn based combat BUT they gave showed turn based combet can be complex, fun, and a learning experience for all. How many gamers that dont like TBC tried BG3 and loved it?
''you need to stop comparing this game to it'' we don't need to stop doing anything, we got invested into the franchise with the 1st game and this game or the others wouldn't exist without DA:O. They want to stray further from the original on every entry? Sure, but don't expect the people that got invested in your franchise to suddenly like something completly different from it. And this is not about fair or unfair, this is a product, I can like it or dislike it and if I say this is not made for me, I'm dissappointed and I'm not buying it, nobody can tell I'm ''wrong'' They gambled their success on double dipping, trying to appeal people outside of their audience hoping the fans would buy it regardless, it's what most companies do this days. They can only blame themselves for this failure.
for real you really disliked that the rook in this demo was black ? I thought it was really cool, but I’m not black though I’m Hispanic but I really liked it like that never happens.
AC Shadows, south of midnight, state of decay 3,flintlock the siege of dawn and that's only the Xbox showcase 🤣 you can't tell me with a straight face ''that never happens'' I don't know why suddenly so many people think you can't enjoy a game without representation,it's like you're brainwashed. I've been playing 27 years having fun and conecting with male and female characters of any color, alien creatures and everything in between.
@@Kross415 Oh wow cool I’ve never heard of any of those games you mentioned so I guess you must have disliked all of those as well? I liked that they didn’t go the typical aragorn / elf lead for a fantasy game for the demo. But I didn’t say anything about not enjoying the game you seem really angry about stuff but it’s really not that serious.
dude they are playing as black character and turning over to me giving me a thumbs up saying "this ones for you" i know it you know it everybody knows it.
@@MrHardcoreMode I know I saw the Asmon joke 🤣 I'm not gonna speak good things about Ubisoft don't get me wrong I just think it comes more from a place of stºpidity more than racism, they are joke for sure tho.
and thats fine. the game doesnt have to appeal to you but it does have to appeal to the origins fans because if you try to appeal to everyone well you end getting this. alienating both new and old fans.
@@MrHardcoreMode I am an origins fan but I also think origins should stay origins while making the new games more action based it gives more of a heroic feel then waiting for the character to get to the enemy to do slash or an ability
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I love your opinions so much and I really liked your input on the reveal trailer because it was so 🍑 and the art style was so childish.
If the gameplay only lets you use 3 abilities im not touching it.
Glad you liked the video.
Im glad someone see it like me. I will be so pissed of, if they delete taunts, stances, healing and roars and give us 3 active abilities for player and 2dmg+1healing for companions
@@MrHardcoreMode One dev said that you can have more abilities, but only 3 in the wheel :(
Also they said that most quests will be linear and story driven, some later might have some puzzle and decisions, but they want to focus on linear story telling...
@@S3nn4h i dont like the sound of that
@@S3nn4h I thought Inquisition was too restrictive with 8 ability slots (on PC) after previous games. Cannot imagine playing as a mighty tevinter mage with 3 abilities, what a joke.
36:21 As soon as I saw that I was like if a Solas romanced Inqusitor, the woman he's supposedly in love with, couldn't convince the Dread Wolf to abandon his plans then there's no way Varric's gonna do it, lol.
Exactly! My first thought on seeing Solas was "Where is the Inquisitor? Shouldn't the Inquisitor be here?"
@SilverBullet3626 exactly. This scene would've been much better if it had been the Inquisitor instead of Varric going to speak to Solas.
I also didn't like how our character is gonna be left out of such a big conversation. Instead, he or she will be fighting a few demons while this plays out. Why not have Rook with Varric? This is where being allowed to play as the companions would've been interesting. Let the player switch between Neve and Harding to fight the demons and knock over the wooden post then switch back to Rook's point of view during the conversation that way we still get to experience the gameplay and our character gets to be part of the scene as well.
I guess what has me worried is I play SWTOR and Bioware has gradually sidelined the main characters in that game to the point that the MCs are now often just side characters in what is supposed to be their story. I'm really hoping they don't do that here. If this is supposed to be Rook's story, then I don't want to be hacking and slashing things while all of the important stuff is happening with others in the background. All I kept thinking during that scene was that I wanted to hear everything that was being said between Solas and Varric.
@@RagnarTheRed-x5s I missed the fact of being sidelined, until you pointed it out (I guess my head was too busy with questions of why the Inquisitor was not present). You are bringing up a good point and helpful knowledge on what has happened in SWTOR. I agree with being in the midst of important events, decisions, and scenes. Playing as an essential character that affects the world is preferred over a witness that reacts to the world. I understand Varric would be better than Rook for talking with Solas, but it did feel like something was off. Maybe they will find a better way to interact; you have a good idea of Rook following Varric to hear the whole conversation. There is normally some differences between early gameplay and released gameplay. I will stay neutral, until I see gameplay this Fall. I hope it will be an enjoyable game for both of us, but if not, there are plenty of games in the sea ^-^
Probably why they changed the name from Dreadwolf to Veilguard, Solas is going to die early in the game. The game director probably wants to make their own story than follow through what Inquisition left.
I think they will eventually kill more of older characters. Just for sure fans cant use them as companion
Either that, or Solas is gonna change his mind and help us fight the last old gods.
The Skill Hotbar looks way too big like it was meant to be a mobile game
it insults my eyes. there is such a thing as TOO MUCH
Yeah, hopefully that will change by the release. I remember the UI and HUD elements in the inquisition gameplay trailer were much different and way jankier looking than it ended up being in the final game. But hey, that's literally just one out of many concerns here, so, still plenty to worry about! Haha
7:17 again we will need a mod to show what the character is going to ACTUALLY say.
where is the loot?
And the blood
you have a point
and the hood
There is blood but it was turned off for the show case.
Wait, why does neve disapprove of rook telling Varric that talking to solas is a mistake (which it is) but then complains about rook bringing down the statue is a bad idea? The writing for the characters seem contradictory.
LOL
Harding is the same voice actor who voiced Liara from mass effect, so I'd probably romance Harding
seems the only option for me. shes dope.
3:38 gave me a jump scare, I didn't think white people existed in the game.
im sorry thats a white female and thats completely different. NOW white males? DANGER DANGER SOUND THE ALARM!
I feel like they just removed 70% of the RPG aspect of the series and replaced it with pure action story driven style. That's not cool. Sure, fights are good looking and all, but there is depth to them compared to RPG's.. so when the '' wow it looks good '' from the first hours of gameplay disappears, it can get boring quickly because there is no depth, no real customization, no real thinking behind the fights.. it's just smashing buttons with good looking animations until the enemy die. It's okay in some games, like God of War because it's historically and ARPG and everything have been developped around this.. but that's not the case for Dragon Age.
What make people fan of the serie was the story ofc but not also the depth of RPG's, so customization possibilities, the tactical aspect of the fights, the replayability of the game, the fact that you need to actually use your brain to make choices to customize your character etc...
Maybe they just didn't show everything in the gameplay showcase, but from what i've seen, the only thing the game have from a dragon age game is the story. And the story is like 80% of the game actually, pure story driven action game with a little bit of RPG elements.. cool for one quick playthrough with brain mode off but that's about it really.
Anyway, nice to see you keep it real, you have good and smart takes imo. And btw, go light on sugar brother.. cancer is one hell of a plague nowadays.
They might as well call it Dragon Effect. There were so many ways to make a build that could satisfy your custom preferences in Dragon Age Origins, But ever since Dragon Age 2, they've been limiting and streamlining
The class choices and and abilities... I think this is the nail in the coffin for the game play.
I was wondering why the skills and no controlling companions was so familiar to me. But your mentioning of Mass effect, reminded me of Mass Effect 2 and it makes total sense. Because apparently the person that was involved in Mass Effect was involved in this game as well.
Now that you mention it, I was watching other youtube vid and most of them stated that we are playing with 3 man squad. I was confused at first but since you mentioned people from mass effect was involved I understand now, looks like Veilguard is going to have a lot of mechanics from Mass Effect 🤣
Lol, Im 38 and I hated the combat style in Origins. In BG3 even more. Its a question of taste, not age.
i think inquisition was a nice step forward but there is alot of gameplay DAI got rid of that was in Origins.
@@MrHardcoreMode Well, I played Origins mainly for the story. I love the game, don't get me wrong. I just dislike the combat. That didn't keep me from enjoying the rest of the game, tho. The game was so amazing, even the bad combat (imo) couldn't ruin it for me.
"One of the things we wanted to do with this game is make the prolog feel like the final mission of a different game," Epler says. "We really needed to get the stakes, the spectacle, right off the bat. Obviously, players who had been waiting to confront Solas have been waiting for just this moment." It's an effective opener. It certainly set the hook for me, building the stakes and introducing lore without getting bogged down in the deep details.
you're right solas is done in the first hour
"kobe!"
"oooh yeeeah, my little dark elven boooi" LOL. listened to this at work lmfao. you are bloody funny
Oh noooooo my dark elven boooooy ! 😭
I'm scared, really. This art style is really not my cup of tea, I don't like the look of the characters and honestly : there are the same as in the trailer. Which means Emmrich is going to look like a guy out of Skylanders, Lucanis is going to have this horrible haircut and beard, Bellara is going to look crazy (Asians are notorious for being all goofy, ha ha 😮💨), Taash is not going to look like anything. The only ones who are doing well are Harding, Neve and Dravin (but I hate his haircut).
I find the screen very colorful, which is not necessarily a good thing. It will please players accustomed to more "pop" games, but it is a 4th part, a sequel eagerly awaited by long-time fans: should this game in particular really be aimed at younger players and therefore more likely to love action games that are a bit cartoony and flashy? I don't think so.
For the combat style, I think we can forget about the tactical mode: they probably would have shown it if it existed. I admit that I didn't use it in the previous Dragon Age games, but it's still a shame. One thing I like is being able to switch between the bow and the swords, it's pretty cool.
I like the dialogue choice wheel, the one from DA2 was my favorite, so OK.
Obviously, Solas and Varric will die quickly, which explains the name change from Dreadwolf to Veilguard. And it's a real shame, because Inquisition had hinted at an epic finale (and one that was going to break my little heart, poor me who absolutely LOVES Solas) and I think we're not moving towards that.
All we have to do is wait... It won't be an instant buy for me, I'll wait for some feedback before diving into it (or not).
Oh, and I love your videos. English is not my native language and I understand absolutely everything you say, it's a delight to follow.
Asmongold made a really good point about the camera angles during the battle with the Pride Demon. It makes it hard to see the damaging ground effects, especially with all of the other flashy combat lighting effects going on. As he said, if they did it with this battle, they've likely done it with the others as well.
i saw that video. i want to make another video analyzing the issues including the empty abilities in a gameplay trailer and the heavy story telling on a gameplay video. no one wants to know about varrics weapon breaking until they play the game.
Why give up the classic bottom panel?! When you have a large number of skills, you can experiment with them. And here we will stupidly defeat mobs with four skilled skills. This is a RPG. Damn bring minimalism to your room :/
Development for consoles and simplicity for new players, it's just sad.
I feel like the main defense of the gameplay is either that it's level one so you can't expect too many abilities, or that it's too early to for us to know anything and that people are just bitching. The second one is the easiest to shut down since this is a gameplay reveal and criticism is allowed from consumers, so when your gameplay doesn't look very interesting expect people to analyze it. For the first point about being a low level, I think that's a garbage defense. Your gameplay being boring shouldn't be a problem in the early stages if your gameplay is good, and trying to say being low level should give the gameplay reveal a pass is tantamount to saying you acknowledge that what you're seeing isn't very interesting but that you're just willing to assume that it gets better later on. My whole point is that we're not meant to be guessing if the gameplay is eventually any good, and that the whole point of the gameplay reveal is supposed to entice us into playing it.
Holy crap I didn't even catch the blade thing. You're the first one I've seen point it out.
The fact that enemies are almost not attacking and just dummies is dissapointing. Starting at 18:00
Because it's probably the easiest difficulty
I'm glad you pointed out that this game was not BG because a lot of UA-camrs are down on this game because they are comparing it to BG. This is not BG. The writing that progressed you through the gameplay was only to stop seeing spoilers. I doubt that it will be in the game. When they walk through the Eluvian into the Arlathan forest, It was skipped to save showing spoilers. You would need to go through a lot more to get to Solas' Ritual Site before that I think. It said it had been edited for that reason. The wheel is using a controller. PC I hope will be different as I agree with you, it's an eyesore on the screen. Once you've seen the gameplay trailer, a few hours ago they interviewed the devs for this game. They will answer a lot of your queries and questions Mr. H. There is healing and who knows as your levels increase so may the amount of healing. I know for sure there is a form of crafting and healing spells that your companions can use on everyone, and that the combat is different for different classes, but check out the dev interview on UA-cam. Most of your questions will be answered. Yes, the "I'm a mage" was so lame.
thanks for the tip! there is healing?! interesting.
THE HOPE DIES LAST !!
Holy shit I’m so pissed it too me this long to find the realest on UA-cam! Thank you for keeping it real and calling out the bullshit, new sub here 🫡
-bro fist-
Im in no hurry to play this. Im gonna replay Origins and Inquisition instead.
something i noticed in the pride demon fight is something i hope is not how it works the whole game wich is the camera the camera has this really weird angle from the bottom up and you cant really see the hit markers of the lightning properly, something i learned from ff16 and the team that worked on that is thta when they make a fight with a body that is bigger than yours the gamera pans out so you can actually see everything and on top of that you got the grass interfering with that so theres this really weird mix of visual clutter and camera jank
TRUE! and what happens when you fight the pride demon AND adds. focus on aoes you cant see, the boss, and the adds?! no...
@@MrHardcoreMode yeah like i said lets just hope its not like that in every fight but like if they fuck that up in the tutorial boss then yeah...also the IM A MAGE part killed me to when i first heard it was like "ah yes i forgot this is new Bioware the 10/10 writing needs to be here"
There is an article or tweet out there that states they brought back healing magic as one of the mage options.
thank god!
Yeah, because even Inquisition did away with the healer class! There was one spell that was a part of Vivienne's specialization, which was a focus ability, meaning it wasn't used like the regular spells/abilities. It was very limited. So I was worried that seeing as that was the case with Inquisition, they have just gone all the way and done away with it altogether here. So, I hope what you read was correct about that!
30:35 Would they really? Pathfinder games, Rogue Trader and Baldurs Gate 3 enter the chat.
See I actually really fuck with this dude I disagree with some of his opinions but he keeps it real and I don't think anything he's saying is coming from a place of hate. I respect it. This game looks like what the 2nd game wanted to be and I can dig that
The game really starts with the character trailer? Holy shit.
The Pride demons don’t look like the ones from DA:O thru DA:I. On top of the demons not looking like the demons from previous games. I don’t recall a healer in DA:I.
I have to say it, Neve has a solar panel on her head, maybe to recharge her mana XD
Wow how you noticed the dagger appearing in the pr image is crazy, respect! I didn't even give it much attention.
The combat looks like the circus hopping in the Batman games (in there it made sense), boring and innapropriate for a dark fantasy DA. Whatever, all the original devs left the company a long time ago so I'm not expecting anything authentic from Bioware anymore.
You cannot convince me this is a decade's worth of development. This is what was made from the time when EA took the cash cow of SWTOR from them and shifted it to Broadsword. If this looked and played like BG3, then I could believe the decade of development, but this is not it. This was not a decade's worth of work. This is what they came up with when SWTOR and its $1.9 billion was taken away and they had to make something quick to keep the doors open at Bioware.
This is Dragon Age: Hogwarts Legends
lmao!
I think solas protects Varric and dies, thus the redemption arc. That’s all I am gonna say.
Yep, the healing spells are returning (for companions as far as I know)
Level cap is 50
Wdym you don't like it? Don't you feel represented my brother? 🙃
give me some hip hop music and ill play it :D lmao!
You went in depth the most.
(Doubly for calling out the obvious black guy for brownie points. Black guy myself)
I’ve seen this multiple times and I’m not impressed, just as a guy who at this point only played Inquisition and this made me want to go back to play and appreciate the apparently even better Origins and 2.
Party goes down from 4 to 3, you can't directly control companions and they don't even seem to have hp or anything, only 3 active abilities per character, completly made for console and dumbed down to the extreme 💀 (That wheel UI is the same on ME whether you use M&K or controller afaik, but it's obviously made like that for consoles/controller)
They already said the game is not open world and is more railroad so I guess Minrathous is not going to be massive and it's mostly background.
Classes are Mage,Warrior,Rgoue and they work like inquisition, you have 3 advanced specs for each base class.
Harding takes her arrows from her back and she doesn't even have a quiver and now I can't unsee it 🤣
If Solas dies soon on the story they just changed the name because they rewrote the story last minute, you're not going to tell me they named the game Dreadwolf to kill solas 1h into the game since the beggining...And yeah the moment Solas sees those 2 Old Gods (?) he know's he's fuºked xD
This game is just medriocre generic we're using the DA name as marketing.
she doesnt have a quiver omfg lmao!!!
I only played inquisition but I hated the small map realm, the action targeted combat but I guess how bad this seems, that I'll now gladly replay inquisition over this.
No way I'm playing 3 skills rpg a la genshin impact
We need more Leliana and less shit
Nice review ! You were critical and honest for both positives and negatives.
you know there is a compromising middle ground and not just go all out action rpg, being a cut and paste clone of god of war, ff 7 remake, devil may cry, etc, i've seen them in kenshi, battle realms, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth 1 and many more, letting the player characters move around on their own, doing their fluent movement or whatever but also you can micro manage their plan of attacks, its an RPG afterall, not an action games, this look like its evolution from games like diablo (no rest for the wicked is about to kill that franchise) other than dragon age origin that is supposedly a successor of the OG baldurs gate games, when you start as one format stick and add to it, you dont change format to please the casuals, its a cop out like the dev's political stance
For a gameplay trailer, there wasn't really a ton of gameplay, was there? A lot of walking and talking, a lot of cutscenes....not a ton of gameplay. And what was there, was on rails and highly cherry picked and curated.
Art style and goofy enemies aside, not a lot of gameplay in the gameplay trailer.
A massive red flag for me....
There were no healers in inquisition, you must have forgot
i know i feel weve been downgraded ever since DA2. Origins had everything.
You had the same reaction as Cohh Carnage at the "I am a mage" line and same conclusion: Dragon Age is dead with Origins.
The more i see these trailers..... the less enthusiastic i become for this game. Definitely waiting at least 2 months before buying it
Hey isn't this kinda hypocritical of them to pick a black character and use the shadow dragons origins? A black character which is part of a crime gang...
its fine. Now AC shadows playing rap music when Yasuke fights now thats racist.
@@MrHardcoreMode That's a full white studio failing on the tokenism pandering of today's world. Probably not racist, just sºupid.
I wish we could have devs that just want to make cool games but I guess that's a lot to ask.
Dragon Age: Wushu Arts 🤣
Rogues have been flipping around since origins. It's what they do lol
i'm honestly really concerned it seems like they made this game for kids and new people and just making it shiny and they forgetting about the old fans that made dragon age is what it is the art style really bothers me demon's only have half bodies now the u i and the combat looks really dumbed down that's for new players tho i was really looking forward to this game but it wasn't made for us sadly hell i don't even think ill romance anyone if the art style is so overwatch looking what bioware games romance is a huge part of it or was it's just sad
I liked DA2 but really not a fan of how they're basically making this DA2: 2. The dialogue wheel, naming the character after a bird, and making every character pansexual. And I'm not keen on Neve's voice tbh. So monotone and...trying to put this as delicately as possible, but doesn't sound like a woman's voice. Only thing I'm really excited about is seeing Solas again and the world design.
i think Solas might die early in the game and thats going to upset everyone.
@@MrHardcoreMode I didn't consider the possibility of them doing that until you pointed it out, but I can see it. I'd def be in the upset camp. The real big bads being the other elven gods has been signposted for a while now but killing Solas off when they've built him up would be such a bad move. And exactly the kind of thing Bioware would do - even the Templar/Mage war didn't amount to much in the end.
Glad I’m not the only one that hates Neve’s voice. Definitely something off about it for sure. A sorta reverb to it? Kinda jarring and takes me out of the immersion.
Many of her lines are recited in a very stiff and unenthusiastic fashion as well, which makes it sound even worse .😬😅
@@emismpunk Agreed, it really bothers me. I fear I'm being harsh but I can't think of any other companion with such bad voice acting. Harding, on the other hand, is knocking it out of the park. Even Rook sounds good, he looks to be a commoner rather than a noble (with his tatty cloak and all) and the gruffer tone works really well.
I'm a mage. I will go!
I'M A MAGE!!!
@@LowTaperSypherPK I'm the Fortnite Guardian. I will go
I am mage!
I don’t like it and won’t be playing it. But yeah. For the people who like it, have fun 👍
Let’s boycott dragon age so they can make it right
I am 100% with you. I want Dreadwolf back because I kinda have a feeling Solas might die early and I REALLY wanted him to be the final boss of the game like Corypheus in Inquisition.
Geesh, that’ll be hard to do…I REALLY want to support this game, patiently waiting TEN years. I know there’s creative programmers that put in so so many long hours. 💞
it will not happen. bioware is on thin ice already with EA
@@MrHardcoreMode they lost a customer then I am not supporting this woke crap clowns all of them
I know that DA:O is considered the best of the series but you need to stop comparing this game to it. The most fair comparison would be to compare it to Inquisition since that is its direct predecessor. Even then, this kinda still looks like a downgrade, like Inquisition allowed for 8 active abilities if i remember correctly, by the looks of it, this game is only 3, or maybe 6 if later you can unlock specialisation to unlock 3 more abilities at the top of the combat wheel. This style of ability restriction has been in place since DA2 which was 13 years ago. expecting it to go back to DA:O style was setting yourself up for disappointment.
Now that I think about it, they probably reserved one of the ability buttons for the doge, which mean you technically lose 2 abilities instead of 1.
No no i dont think I will. every fan of DA loves the setting, lore and companions of DAO. dark Fantasy at its best compared to the rest. if they UPGRADED the combat of DAO (much like DAI but better) Dragon Age Veilguard wouldnt be ratioed as it is now. Example: BG3! alot of fans of BG were skeptical of the turn based combat BUT they gave showed turn based combet can be complex, fun, and a learning experience for all. How many gamers that dont like TBC tried BG3 and loved it?
''you need to stop comparing this game to it'' we don't need to stop doing anything, we got invested into the franchise with the 1st game and this game or the others wouldn't exist without DA:O. They want to stray further from the original on every entry? Sure, but don't expect the people that got invested in your franchise to suddenly like something completly different from it.
And this is not about fair or unfair, this is a product, I can like it or dislike it and if I say this is not made for me, I'm dissappointed and I'm not buying it, nobody can tell I'm ''wrong''
They gambled their success on double dipping, trying to appeal people outside of their audience hoping the fans would buy it regardless, it's what most companies do this days. They can only blame themselves for this failure.
for real you really disliked that the rook in this demo was black ? I thought it was really cool, but I’m not black though I’m Hispanic but I really liked it like that never happens.
AC Shadows, south of midnight, state of decay 3,flintlock the siege of dawn and that's only the Xbox showcase 🤣 you can't tell me with a straight face ''that never happens'' I don't know why suddenly so many people think you can't enjoy a game without representation,it's like you're brainwashed.
I've been playing 27 years having fun and conecting with male and female characters of any color, alien creatures and everything in between.
@@Kross415 Oh wow cool I’ve never heard of any of those games you mentioned so I guess you must have disliked all of those as well? I liked that they didn’t go the typical aragorn / elf lead for a fantasy game for the demo. But I didn’t say anything about not enjoying the game you seem really angry about stuff but it’s really not that serious.
@@eb1900 I'm tired of people spreading lies.
dude they are playing as black character and turning over to me giving me a thumbs up saying "this ones for you" i know it you know it everybody knows it.
@@MrHardcoreMode I know I saw the Asmon joke 🤣 I'm not gonna speak good things about Ubisoft don't get me wrong I just think it comes more from a place of stºpidity more than racism, they are joke for sure tho.
It's pure action combat a la ff16, a game which has 0 depth
I see no blocking, no perfect parry, no dodge counter strike. Ez skip 🤷
I love bg3 but i still hate turn base combat sorry not sorry
and thats fine. the game doesnt have to appeal to you but it does have to appeal to the origins fans because if you try to appeal to everyone well you end getting this. alienating both new and old fans.
@@MrHardcoreMode I am an origins fan but I also think origins should stay origins while making the new games more action based it gives more of a heroic feel then waiting for the character to get to the enemy to do slash or an ability