Dragon Age: The Veilguard

[montymint]

small update from the OH after finally finishing her character.

Although not a deal breaker, she's not keen on the lack of female face customisation - you have very squared jaws. She says it's at odds with the rest of the sliders on the body giving more noticeable changes.

 

[Andr3w]

............. Is the damn game any actual good?

This is the only thing i'm trying to find out as well haha

 

[DanF]

even if you're thinking of buying this I'd say hold on for a bit. The game is going to get review bombed and will most likely end up on a large discount fairly quickly. £50 for a high chance of a dud game

 

[montymint]

small update from the OH after finally finishing her character.

Although not a deal breaker, she's not keen on the lack of female face customisation - you have very squared jaws. She says it's at odds with the rest of the sliders on the body giving more noticeable changes.

small update: looks like it might be the character creators angles. She says the face looks better once in game.

*shrug*

 

[Andr3w]

 

[Deleted User 234324]

Can't say I even noticed that in the first 3 games, but then they were good games and social media/media in general hadn't made it a focus.

If DA:V is a bad game, guess what will be blamed for it. DEI done right can make a good game better, but DEI in a bad game, makes it worse.

 

[Grim5]

The game used to be dark and edgy and now it's just Fortnite with dress up costumes

 

[Elevon]

Anybody else having issues with keyboard remaping?...I always use arrow keys for movement ie forward, backwards etc instead of the default WADS combo and it won't let me remap the arrow keys. Really annoying since all the games I have ever owned let me remap them.

 

[Noxia]

Anybody else having issues with keyboard remaping?...I always use arrow keys for movement ie forward, backwards etc instead of the default WADS combo and it won't let me remap the arrow keys. Really annoying since all the games I have ever owned let me remap them.

Saw a few negative reviews about that. Not very inclusive design

 

[Varys]

The amount of negative reviews after 0.1 hours etc is pathetic.

Steam should change it so you can only review after 2 hours.

Sheep pile on. Youth today

 

[Elevon]

I don't like how they putting all the WOKE crap in the character creation, how times have changed for the worst. You want to play a tranny hero fine lol. This should be avoided for gaming IMHO.


I only played five minutes but exited the game due to my keyboard remapping issues, I'll wait and see if a patch comes out and try again tomorrow to remap the keys, back to " No Mans Sky" in the meantime.

 

[Matmulder]

Currently on 68k concurrent on Steam, barely surpassing the 14-month old BG3 (on 60k). It's increasing, but not by much, up from 62k about an hour ago.

Question is, will it break 100k over the weekend?

 

[Dem2k]

From what I recall from DA Origins had Leliana being the buttered both ways female character and most guys wouldn't care about girl on girl action and lets face it guys were probably the primary audience back then. Second the male happened to be very killable within a few conversations, I didn't even know he was a companion on my first couple of playthroughs cause I always killed him , but even when you recruited him you quickly find out that yeah he is Bi also and honestly I didn't much care that much because I never liked his (Zeveran?) character anyway, I just found him annoying, plus he is one of the characters that if you don't build up reputation with him he will automatically turn coat on you.

DA2 I can't even remember, I did complete it but I can barely remember it because it was so bad, so not much memories of that one.

Quite honestly I don't think I ever completed DA I, as I found it so absolutely boring, I thought it was even worse then DA2 I even think the developers hated that game it at least showed that while Frostbyte makes pretty games it just wasn't a great engine for an RPG.

 

[VIPER258]

I think there is a lot of unfair critism to those that are review bombing the game, not something I have done or like but it is what it is. EA have spent millions to set up marketing campaigns, pay people off, manipulate, to give one of the biggest games of the year high ratings it clearly does not deserve, all so they can get your money and push an agenda/ideology. People pre-order/buy games based on past experiences and expect reviews to be fair, stupid as that may sound.

We all know EA are the bloodsuckers of this industry who don't play fair. If genuine fans would have bought the game and seen all this crap before hand, decide to review bomb it, then that's fair game if it gets other people to think twice before buying.

Not everyone will buy from Steam and be able to refund it if/when they find it out the quality is not what most of the reviewers claimed. And if you bought it on PC, you sure as hell can't sell it on to get some money back.

 

[VincentHanna]

I think there is a lot of unfair critism to those that are review bombing the game, not something I have done or like but it is what it is. EA have spent millions to set up marketing campaigns, pay people off, manipulate, to give one of the biggest games of the year high ratings it clearly does not deserve, all so they can get your money and push an agenda/ideology.

This is a fantasy conjured up in people's heads.

The only "evidence" is that a few reviews used a very common phrase that you would expect after the studio hasn't put out a decent game for a while.

 

[arknor]

The ballad of gay tony was the best LGBT game ever released.

A very inclusive title where you even played as a black man.

You work as a straight bodyguard named Luis for a gay club owner named Tony Prince. And people call him Gay Tony because he is homosexual

No one cares if it's done right, they even had a game before it where you played as an immigrant and gamers loved that guy also

 

[humbug]

Mixed reviews and 70K people playing it right now, so its doing ok.

 

[Caracus2k]

I knew it was going to be bad but even knowing that I was quite unprepared for how cringe the whole press up scene doing the rounds on social media is!

Is there no one left in Bioware with half a brain left? At this point you have to start leaning towards the possibility that its deliberate self-sabotage from inside the company.

Que the "but you weren't going to buy it anyway" posts.... and no, I absolutely wasn't going to do so! Because it's been fairly obvious, from the stuff already release before the launch, that large sections/ aspects of the game were a steaming pile of dog **** that seems almost intended to **** away any good will and enthusiasm the previous instalments have generated with gamers. But I have played and paid for previous games from the studio and would so again if they packed this sort of (expensive) nonsense in and went back to making decent titles.

 

[xaldub]

This is a fantasy conjured up in people's heads.

The only "evidence" is that a few reviews used a very common phrase that you would expect after the studio hasn't put out a decent game for a while.

No, that's modern day marketing for you. It's very much a reality. All the big gaming corps are at it ... not just EA. The fantasists are those who choose to believe these practices don't exist.

 

[Gray2233]

Mixed reviews and 70K people playing it right now, so its doing ok.

For a big budget game from a AAA studio it's quite poor, we often see relatively niche JRPG series such as Metaphor: ReFantazio (the latest Atlus IP, but funnily enough a turn based medieval fantasy epic) do similar or better numbers on a shoestring budget by comparison.

I'd say the pickup over the weekend will give a better indication, but current (steam) numbers are extremely poor compared to other big budget releases such as Space Marine 2 or Black Myth at launch. Frankly, they're on par with current BG3 in terms of player numbers and how old is that again, a year old at this point?