Great stories! But we knew that the original creators of BioWare were masters at telling stories and it is great to see them continuing to advance the gaming industry! <3

This looks great 😁

I really like the lore for this game.

I wanna know what exactly makes the Celestials gain a disdain for their ancestral human ancestors... you'd think that they'd have a reverence for their ancient brothers and sisters seeing as it was them that yes, destroyed Earth but they also provided salvation for their whole race. So I wonder why they just hate them so much. They surely couldn't have lost ALL knowledge of their human forefathers 🤔🤔

I can’t wait for this game. On my third time through the book. The concept art looks awesome

I’m trying not to get excited about this game yet.. but it’s got a lot of good talent working on it and Drew Karpyshyn writing it. I really want a new Sci-fi rpg so bad.

Great video Kala! Love recaps like this. Here’s to an early 2025 release date!

Great presentation! Did you adduce this on your own or get this by connecting all the lore in the game? For myself I am still baffled by the Red Lyrium. If the Blue Lyrium is the blood or “spirit” of the Titans, what and from where comes the Red Lyrium? Just Blighted Blue Lyrium? But I thought the Blight originated in the separation of the Titans from their spirits? How can the blood of the Titans, “Blue Lyrium” become Red Lyrium unless it is infected by something else? Is the rage of the Titans a physical, material thing that infected the Blue Lyrium, or is it a spiritual thing? Is Red Lyrium separate from Blue Lyrium or is it infected Blue Lyrium? Is Darkspawn blood 🩸 the agent that turns Blue Lyrium Red? Who created the Darkspawn? The Magisters by their invasion of the Black City or the Archdemons ? Still a whole lot that is puzzling.

god I hope this is at the game awards

Is Mass Effect canon in Exodus?

Released date will bem December 17. Can't wait!

Wow. This is probably the heaviest cyberpunk analysis ive listened to. You did an amazing job and had me in tears through most of it here at the gym lol. Amazing video... wow. Ive been writing my own cyberpunk fanfic for like 6 months now due to the affect this game had on me. And its just truly amazing to hear how its affected you in such a deeply personal way thats completely different to me. The significance of this games narratives and themes continue to blow me away day after day. Thank you so much for this video. It was seriously well made.. my god. Thank you.

Completely Agree with you Kala. This WILL Be the Next Mass Effect.

Good on you Kala for creating content for this FANTASTIC Upcoming Game

I'm surprised at the amount of positive comments about DA2. For me it was a spit in the face in almost every regard. I could go on how I hate it for an hour straight.

The ending of Mass Effect ruined the entire series for me. Let us be honest, bad writing, is bad writing. I never bought into the indoctrination theory, but it made far better sense than what we got.

The aliens are called Celestials, like the RTS game Stormgate.

Game looks interesting...that said...given how the gaming business is to day...I will keep my anticipate in check. Not too keen on all the "spiritual successor to Mass Effect" referencews for several reasons...one:...I want this game to be its own thing....and two: Mass Effect is my favorite game IP of all time ...which sadly is done...and can never be redone....whatever politically correct crap current Bioware comes out with next might have Mass Effect in it name but it will not be Mass Effect.

God I hope they get this right. This franchise is too good to be at the mercy of a bunch of bad writers and producers.

I mean, might be a dumb opinion here, but... technically we have only seen dead reapers, and alive geth. We havent seen alive Reapers... so they could still be kicking around if Bioware chooses the a non-control or non-destroy ending. Edit: Also Im sure Bioware has kinda screw themselves either way they play it.

Hope in 2025

I hate to be the 🤓☝️ "Uhm Ackshually" person, but in Inquisition, when you're doing the constellation puzzles, They reference that the pre-Tevinter humans (forgot their name) came to Thedas from further north. Humans aren't a native race.

I remember way back in 2010 after Origins was launched, there was a theory written by a fan about this on reddit, that the Elven Pantheon might also be the Archdemons/Old Gods and that the fade is way under the deep roads and that the Golden City/Black City is in the deep roads.

These videos are great

Awesome video!!

I agree with your points heavily. But one of my main issues with Andromeda is not only are the companions lacking but the cast of side characters, aside from like two maybe three, were grossly and annoying infuriating. The "leaders" of the initiative were so unqualified that it was unbelievable and its hard to be more pointless than the council. And on the armors I liked them but from ME2 and ME3 they nailed the armor designs far more. And personally wish we could have casual wear like Ariya lol

100% agree with you. I liked, but didn’t love, Veilguard and when I got my hands on the art book I also felt a strange sense of both disappointment and mourning. DA has been one of my favorite RPG series and the question of what might have been if Joplin had been fully developed will likely be one of the big gaming “what ifs” for me. I was impressed with the technical soundness of Veilguard at launch, a huge upgrade from ME:A, but I feel like along the way the soul of DA (it’s strong writing, characters, and world building) was either lost or amputated to get the game out the door. I hope the next Mass Effect is good, truly, but I can’t shake this feeling of wariness when it comes to their future. Hopefully with time this is something that improves.

The trailer they gave us for the new one theres an audio that says "ARK 6 is away..." Then Godspeed...

The last time a face scrambler and voice changer was used to hide someone's identity, it turned out to be Shepard's clone. 🤔

7:30 the impressive cock line had me laughing

Though I actually really enjoyed Veilguard, I agree with all of this. DA2 was my first game and it was my favorite until Veilguard. I truly wish they had more depth for everything with the companions and choices, but again..this was rebooted 3 damn times. I’m willing to give this soft reboot grace and have better hope for DA5.

It’s a little sad that this is how it all turned out. From high fantasy to heightened fantasy. Solas becomes the most inconsistent character in the universe with all of that

Did you make the art for this, or is it official art from somewhere? Not the paintings from the game, but the others?

I think the biggest problem here is that Mass effect was never suppose to continue beyond 3 games. This was always suppose to be a Trilogy, Shepard Story, your story. your choices, your ending. The endings are there to end the war for good. Since this was always about Organics vs Synthetics, the endings do make sense. If you think about it, from the beginning, we (the players) have been pushed towards killing the reapers. In mass effect 2, the illusive man talked about controlling them. But since he was the bad guy, this was more or less seen as ramblings of a madman. StarChild pushing for Synthesis also makes sense seen as the other options for StarChild are dying or being replaced so dying. But what ever you choose, the war is over. Either because you choose destroy and all reapers are killed. No more harvests because reapers are dead. But eventually there will be a new was so I guess in the end will rule the galaxy. Or you choose control and your Shepard controls the reapers so no more harvest. Or you choose synthesis and that changes all organics and synthetics. The reapers won't be harvesting anymore because we are all one new race, unified through synthesis.

The saddest thing about Jackie to me is that he wanted so desperately to be somebody important, to make an impact. But the thing is he did matter, to his mom, to his girlfriend, to his teachers, to his fellow gangsters in the Valentinos, to his best friend... Jackie was somebody important. His life mattered to them and he never saw that

This makes me want to go back and play DAI again to catch all the eggs!

Idk if that's true. Wouldn't SAM rebel against the AI? They state in the game that SAM needs Ryder to maintain its own existence. If that's to be believed, Alec Ryder solved the AI issue.

Very ominous

It never dawned on me one of the people we missed saying "goodbye" to in me3 was parisini I thought she would come back an be more important once seen her that second time she could even be a team memeber and romance option as well

OMG! Kala, thank you so much for sharing this! I haven't finished valguard yet, but what I have played so far I really love! 😄🙌🏾🎉 As soon as I'm done with my let's play, I definitely want to dive back into all of your content. 🥰 I just want you to know that you have been our Lighthouse. By keeping the positivity and love for Dragon Age alive, thank you, my dear. ❤

It's too bad that it wasn't revealed yet that Solas is Shartan and he helped Andraste (most likely a one time vessel for Mythal) free the elven slaves and defeat the Tevinter imperium.

I wonder if it looks different up close in Solas's Crossroads memories? You would think it would be golden in his memories pre-Veil, but it doesn't look like it from what we can see in game, although it's hard to see without fly cam because it's foggy. Also, it's interesting to note that the only gods' symbols we see here belong to Dirthamen, Sylaise and Elgar'nan (according to the data mined files that showed the names).

For me that is a problem. A franchise must be more homogeneous. Starting with its combat system. Without a doubt, turning it into a GOW of temu has been a huge mistake. Things cannot be done following the trends of the moment. That's simply not going to work. Veilguard has turned DA into something else. In Origins, DA2 and Inquisition you had control over your character, your companions and a tactical way of approaching combat, as well as a shared inventory. We also have the serious, realistic and dark tone of its environment and narrative. Something that in Vielguard is absent or only appears at certain times. Decisions and their consequences are also something important that is present in the first three installments, as well as how this affects the state of the world and that you could import from one game to another. So yes, Dragon Age has an identity or at least some common elements on which to forge one. And Veilguard has wasted them or has preferred to be something different.

im ok with them in choosing a single choice to make the cannon timeline

Something that would be cool at the beginning they put a menu that lets you select the choices you made in the trilogy so they apply the way you picked bc many people haven't played since PS3 maybe Andromeda

i hope we get an alien-y companion that we can romance 🤭

In a world and time were everything is made out of thoughts, emotions and magic, why is there bricks?

disregard veilguard the blight was actually caused by corypheus when he tried entering the fade...

Hey Kala quick question, you mentioned a book in your video, is that the Art of Dragon Age the Veilguard one?

I love ME:A, I want it to have its own trilogy. But I also think it'd be really cool to have some kind of dual protagonist stories, one you play as Ryder from ME:A, the other you play as 600-years-older Liara. And their stories converge, and the path finder can finally meet the person whose voicelogs they keeps hearing.