Dragon Age: Why We Can't Have Nice Things

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

spronk said:

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

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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."

Kharzette said:

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!

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Should play Stellar Blade, it has far better eye candy, and everything else quite good.

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.

Daidraco said:

That combat looks like grade A horse shit.

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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.

Qhue said:

It's a custom character appearance you racist fuck.

The game looks solid as hell

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What a meaningless accusation in 2024.

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.

Kaige said:

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.

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

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.

Talos said:

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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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.

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.

...and in a surprise to no one:

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.