Dragon Age: Why We Can't Have Nice Things

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Bald Brah

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I'm pretty sure the Ranni ending is the good one. It's certainly the most involved.
 
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Daidraco

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black female (male?) gay lead 30 seconds into game, close tab

That combat looks like grade A horse shit. Making it that much worse, its played by someone that cant fucking play worth a fuck. Characters are wearing rags and looking basic as fuck, so I know this is the beginning of the game. But all that does is solidify that the combat "IS" ass. Why? Because at level fucking 1, the PC is already doing spin moves, repels and disengages like he's fucking Legolas. Where do they go from there? Just +1 all the way to end game. /yawn

I do wonder if black people even notice that theyre being pandered to, though. "Ok, create the most generic looking black person you can. Not a light skin dude. Midnight black, and play that as the lead character so we can get our diversity check marks from our lenders."
 
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Zindan

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You two convinced me. That was kinda what made me nope out of Valheim. I was getting my ass beat by blue giants because block did basically nothing. Then I watch a friend roll around on the ground like a dog and beat them easily.

If blocking is an option I'm in! :emoji_shield:
Should play Stellar Blade, it has far better eye candy, and everything else quite good.
 

Penance

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Man that game looks like it would be solid if it was turn based tactical. That combat is hot garbage. I hate real time combat games that make you pause to give orders too. Dragons dogma did it right with pawns.
 

Vorph

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That combat looks like grade A horse shit.
That was the biggest thing I noticed. Even if the rest of the game somehow didn't turn out to be a woke-filled DEI fest for a modern audience, the actual gameplay looked fucking terrible. People were joking about it being a mobile game, but that's exactly what it looks like.
 

Mist

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The more I look back on EQ and WoW, the more I realize that my favorite parts of those games were the exploration, being truly excited/terrified of what was coming around the corner, and the satisfaction of completing a hard dungeon/raid. Every single one of those things was satisfied twice over in the Souls games with the added bonus of not having to find a teleport or lose a gear roll to a hunter. Fuck MMOs, they deserve the grave they dug for themselves.
So, the arc of internet gaming was wanting to play with a bunch of other people, realizing 99.87% of them suck, and then not wanting to play with other people ever again?

IDK, the Souls games are all kinda boring to me. Demon's Souls remake was the only one I liked, and most people consider that one of the worst? Maybe it's because I'm an FPS snob and none of these games run at >60FPS.
 

Kirun

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Kirun Kirun Did you enjoy the story?
I couldn't tell you the first fucking thing about any of the lore in Souls games. I'm too busy beating ass to be some fucking lorefag.

Good games don't need story and 99.5% of all RPG stories are retarded anyways.
 
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Mist

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Anyway, that combat looks like it could be good with a little more iteration to smooth animation transitions.

The fact that the person playing is clearly using a controller AND sucks at it is funny.
 

Grabbit Allworth

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The gameplay doesn't move the needle for me, at all. Everything looks generic and wooden. There are also little things that scream rushed or changed mid-creation.

It's also clear that the dialogue and narrative are going to be lame and forgettable.

At least now I can stop holding on to my sliver of hope and allow this to completely drop off my radar.
 
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nu_11

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A lot of the Soulsborne/EldenRing games are basically a story where everything is fucked, and you're brought in at the 11th hour to make things better. However, as the game goes on, you realize everything is way more fucked than you realized, and it was all built atop a pile of fuckery. "Making things better" was always just an alternate way of saying "making things less fucked". So when you go to "fix" it, you also find out others have "fixed it" before and things turned out like this anyway. In fact, it will happen again after you and some other asshole is going to go through the same thing as part of some despair-ridden fuckery cycle.

But you grit your teeth, kick some ass and do it anyway.

Everything is stagnant or decaying. You're doing Gods work by putting them out of their misery.
 

Talos

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Looks very mediocre. Like one of those games you might throw in your cart during a summer sale when its 75% off but never install so it just sits in the backlog forever.
 
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jayrebb

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Looks very mediocre. Like one of those games you might throw in your cart during a summer sale when its 75% off but never install so it just sits in the backlog forever.

This is the reaction a friend of mine had who doesn't post or follow forums. He said it looks very medicore, even if better than expected.

Just because the bar was set low for Veilguard doesn't make it a buy.
 
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Caliane

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got around to watching the gameplay trailer.

my first thoughts were the silliness of the npcs 1 shotting all those demons. which you know, won't happen as soon as actual combat starts.
the same dissonance goes right into this new character. why in the world would the champions of the realm turn to this random dude to save the world?

As for combat. looks pretty identical to Inquisition.
we need to see the active commands u.i. and the a.i. programming options.

the npc voice actress barks are pretty bad.

I hate Neve already. also, bad acting.
 

Burns

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Pyros

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To be fair if you're gonna have romance I think making most chars romanceable by anyone is fine. It sucks when I have to romance shitty chars because of the gender I selected. The fact they're focusing on the sex scenes in the interview looks like they kinda skip the whole "romance" part and are just looking to make kink based soft porn shit instead though. Not very good soft porn either judging from the quality of the combat gameplay.
 
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jayrebb

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It's like they wrote out reasons people like BG3 and got it all wrong. "Those romance cutscenes!"

They added some spice, but it wasn't anything to market. The bearfucking or whatever was what grabbed viral attention.

A keynote interview saying "yo we got sex scenes, run and tell that homeboy" seems misguided-- and added to list of reasons not to buy it for marketing something largely nobody gave a fuck about.
 

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20 years ago we had gta hot coffee drama and now this is where we are

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