The good ending is not buying this.

G’day algorithm. Let us engage.

The best ending is the one where all the filthy freaks die🤣

The bad ending starts the moment you fire up this steaming pile of garbage

For me personally i dont agree with your opinion about the fake dagger but its a genuine point you make. The fact that solas thinks hes better and smarter than everyone is the exact reason hes easily tricked. He didnt think anyone would try to outsmart him and underestimating rook was his downfall even solas laughs at the fact rook beat him at his own game. He possibly did think something was up with the dagger as he stares at it for a bit before using but he obv thought noone could pull something like that off and used it anyway. The only ending i hate is the "best ending" most players ive seen on youtube sit bitching about solas and that they hate him for what he has done and they still pick to save him at the end 😂

It would fit with previous games too. Darkspawn/evil doesn't care about your identity or past, it kills you and that's it. You don't get to survive because you overcame an identity crisis, you get to survive because you overcame genuine danger. (Kinda like initiation in origins.)

Thanks for your thoughtful review. I live for the grind, and you've convinced me to play the game.

This is legit a great explanation. I have been racking my brain trying to understand Andreja… idk why I’m not upset about it.. it’s great subversive storytelling. They really are just insane mindless followers.

Damn… Andreja is my wife… am I gonna have to divorce her?

You're even given an option to ask a question about citizenship to Deputy MacIntyre during the UC quest. What if you hold duel citizenship? No biggie, she essentially says. Really? You're okay with me being a citizen of your main rival, the one you fought a devastating war with? That's just...okay? Yup. Welcome to the UC, citizen. 😐

For me, the problem is that mainly I don't really care about any of the new characters. So Harding it is by default.

Mate, if anything comes between me and Lace Harding, it will die. Don’t care. I’ve loved her since Inquisition. Sorry Warden, the game was rigged form the start.

you should embrase change, its a reboot for a reason. god of war reboot wouldve nevver happend if the team was made up of people like you

In BO6 context, Case is America’s ultimate weapon

This is the end result of safe spaces and everyone being offended by literally everything. I couldn't even stomach playing this for 2 hours, and I loved ALL the dragon ages before this.

It doesn’t need to fit in.. it was a very creative way of squeezing in a fresh and original sci fi zombie concept. To me this creativity is a breath of fresh air. This is exactly what they needed to do

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Another problem with dialog is that while Rook gets dialog options, whatever they say is largely ignored. At best, another character will say one or two lines, at most, that have anything to do with what Rook said, and then the scene moves on as if Rook said nothing at all. They might as well not even be there. Rook is supposed to be the leader, but they're just along for the ride.

on one hand, finding out house va'ruun is really just an insane cult of idiots and not some imposing, dangerous religious sect privy to the most obscure cosmological secrets is...really sad and disappointing...on the other hand what a BALLSY move to make. Like damn...build up this mysterious dangerous culture and religion / faction in the main game only go "PSYCH! dude was just a total wack job!" BRAVE. Very brave...and honestly...hilarious when you step back and look at the whole picture. I applaud the sheer audacity XD

6:04 There is at least an entire star system like that. No people at all, no buildings, and the planets just have geological features with native flora and fauna. Even in orbit you won't encounter other ships. If you build an outpost there you're really on your own.

It was awful and I hated it I wished for a skip button

"it softens the sharpness of its characters to prevent conflict from going to far" perfectly encapsulates how i felt about the dialogue and interactions with companions. in DA origins, you had morrigan and leliana/alistar cat-fighting, in DA2 you had Anders making jabs at Aveline's late husband, and in DAI no one really trusted each other. i liked that! it made the party feel more alive, it felt like companions had their own goals and history. the game is beautiful and the environments are definitely a step up from previous installments, plus character designs are great. but this game also does a lot of showing-- there is no subtlety at all in the writing, like why do i need harding and neve to tell me the same exact thing i just heard/read 5 seconds ago?

Great analysis, thanks.

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You say that the dialogue doesn't take away from the story, but you have to actually have the stomach to be able to get through the cringy dialogue without exiting the game. I am a HUGE Dragon Age fan and wanted to love this game, and I just feel like I am being tortured whenever most of the companions start to speak. I was not able to get through more than the first 4 missions of the game. Genuinely, I dread opening the game ever again. It's THAT terrible for me. And I know that I am likely more sensitive to dialogue and story because I have a background in Creative Writing, but holy hell it's bad. And the thing is, even if you ignore the bad dialogue (which is like 85% of the dialogue in the entire game), the story is just extremely generic and ruins the lore that was painstakingly handcrafted over so many years. Lore retcons galore, ignoring players' choices from previous games because "no one cares about one-liners and codex entries" (quoting the devs here, I as a DA fan LOVE those little details which make the world feel more alive and make me feel like I had a hand in shaping its history), and a bland conflict of "good versus evil" in which you're not allowed to have any kind of true roleplaying - you're the "good guy" and so you can't be mean to anyone other than the "evil guys who deserve it", and you are forced to do your companions' questlines regardless of how you personally may feel about them if you want to get a good ending. This kind of ending works well in a game like Mass Effect 2 because you very likely come to care about most or even all of your companions during ME2. Veilguard is the first game that has made me want for my protagonist to fail, and for all of the companions to die because they are all so insufferable due to the writing. I want the evil gods to win and destroy the entire world so that there can be no more stories in this setting - this setting that I ADORE - because the writers messed this one up so badly. I'm sorry but for me an RPG is 90% about the writing; if the writing is bad, the game is bad. Simple as that.

I have played maybe 10 hours so far and the biggest complaints Ive had - everything feels rushed, they tell me to find the Veiljumper lady and I walk no joke 2 steps and wow there she is!! And second, why THE FUCK are we not the inquisitor? i didnt like inquisition but at least that was a polished main character with a backstory and a reason to be invested in Solas, Rook is completely unrelated party and we didnt even get to see WHY they joined?? like did bioware just forget the entire reason dragon age origins was called origins??

I play (or rather played) Bioware games for the story and roleplaying. Game mechanics were always secondary for me. The weak dialogue was enough to make this game a pass for me. I really don't want to roleplay as a toothless group therapist in a Dragon Age game.

Dialog aside, the combat is boring, puzzled are boring, the companion combat system is horrible, strip the dialog aside it's still just a bad generic game

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Some of our intense hate for Bioware stems from our intense love for Bioware.

This is one of the most objectivelly scathing criqitues of Veilguards I've seen, Imagine if he didn't like the game at all lol

Worst game I've played in years,

One issue is the story tries to put you on a pedestal, exaggerating the power you actually have. In other dialogues, the writing tries to portray you as the underdog. If you were playing as the inquisitor with the backing of an army, then your decisions would make great sense. But as it stands, you are just some guy, and yet the game is desperately trying to convince you that by joining one side, you hurt the other drastically. The writing constantly contradicts you own abilities.

What can we learn? Well, WE, DA long term fans certainly learned to keep our wallets shut from this SJW plague.

Honestly, I saw the criticism but purchased it anyway because I have every other DA game, but I could NOT handle the cringe. Look at my pfp, I have a pretty high threshold, but this one broke me. DA characters talking like millennials was just surreal, and the characters themselves were unlikeable, plus the gameplay feels like it's a mobile game. It's a shame because the plot was interesting, but I could... not. Refunded. The dialogue, I think, is also bad because writers make it happen just so the scene/plot beat can happen, with little regard to context or how it would actually flow. Characters end mid thought and the conversation moves on, or someone randomly brings up another topic because Plot, and the character lets it happen (when this happens irl people usually apologize or say 'this is off topic but' or SOMETHING). Even if you don't read often or have never dabbled in creative writing, it'll sound unnatural because digressions in everyday conversation have SOME sort of connecting thread between them, which fiction often emulates for a reason. In this game, it really feels like I'm reading a first draft where the writer forgot to delete the outline notes at the end of each scene. It's really hard to take anything or anyone seriously when I've read fanfics written by 12 year olds with a better understanding of characterization and fluency, and no, that is not hyperbole.

As an Italian i am baffled by the stereotype we talk like peter griffin when this guy talk like a caarilon

you literally talked about more than one writing problem are you high you sound high

I've been having fun with it. I'm treating it like a fun/campy B-movie. It's not really an RPG, as you don't really play a role so much as get pushed into one, but it's pretty, flashy, and reasonably engaging action game. Not every game needs to be written to the level of Baldur's Gate 3 to be a good time.

I think I found the thesis of this channel, and it is one that I like and would enjoy seeing spread around: You should seek enjoyment of the game first, without fixating on problems that would steal that joy. And then, seek the underlying cause of the problems, to further the conversation. Thank you Bloo. I enjoyed that!

I'm personally loving this game, the dialogue is so much better than people make it seem, there are lines that are cringe, especially out of context (which is how they're being shared around) but you could say the same for every bioware game, and while the dialogue in this game is worse than the 3 previous game, it's only by a small amount, and there's alot of dialogue that's very good, but this has alot going for it so that it's understandable why some would even say it's the best in the series, anyone who cares more for gameplay would probably prefer this to at least one of the other DA games, and in terms of lore revelations this game has some huge reveals and showcases that make the entire franchise better imo, and it was already one of my favourite franchises I personally still have Origins as my favourite but this has already surpassed 2 (aka Exodus) imo, and it's close to surpassing Inquisition It's also the least buggy bioware game yet and it's only just released, it's relatively bug free compared to every other dragon age, mass effect, Jade Empire or Kotor game, and for modern AAA games that's a rare thing

Dialogue wasn't as bad as iI thought, sure it has flaws but seen way worse. Graphics are my biggest gripe, the lighting & textures are from PS1. It's 2024! The DEI bugged me when spent way too long in character creator trying to make a female character look feminine. Female voices have a normal or low option to make deeper but no lower option to make higher. There's no neck slider but 3 for a adams apple? Otherwise combat has me hooked. 7/10 so far

They spent the entire quest foreshadowing a Mech as the final boss and then gave us another underground base shootout.

Good take. The whole idea that any kind of fertilizer would increase mineral content of soil doesn't make any sense--unless you're adding those minerals in the fertilizer itself, which makes the whole premise ridiculous. There are many way thus could have been better. If they wanted to keep the aspect of Ron Hope strong-arming farmers, why not simply have him discover valuable minerals on the land--something that doesn't show up on normal scans but is very valuable.

yea this quest makes total sense , as soon as you find out who is responsible for all this you run straight to him alone, not giving any of your Ranger friends this information or call for reinforcements. This is really stupid behavior .. or just bad writing..

If I wanted to play zombies I would play The zombies mode I'm trying to play campaign!!😡

Blackops is meant to be crazy conspiracy theories. I think it fits.

This fuckin dumbass doesnt get it. Just like all the other idiots still buying ubisoft games. Ill play anything if its free or sold at fair price. But releasing shit games at 70 bucks a pop time and time again, and the way they conduct business are reasons why we have told ubishit to go fuck themselves. Anyone defending ubishit, either has no fuckin clue what they're talking about or they're being paid by ubislop to promote bullshit

I thought it would be cool if the campaign actually tied into zombies like if Richthofen created the bio weapon originally funded by the us government in Kentucky then it got upgraded in the work the rage inducer and case was the only one that was immune to becoming a zombie but kept the traits of a “super soldier”

The whole game is lukewarm.

I don't know if it _should_ have been the best, but it sure fell far short of how good it _could_ have been. My first full 'WTF' moment with the game was when I worked really hard to disable a whole crowd of people trying to kill me just so I could bring the man I was after in alive, in the spirit of all the old, classic westerns I'd watched as a kid, only to find out the ONLY way to progress was to kill him really, really let me down. How did they miss that? It really wouldn't have been that much more work to allow for the option particularly how thematically valid it was. I wasn't a 'dead or alive' bounty hunter... I was a Lawman. Pissed me off to no end.