Insulting in Dragon Age: The Veilguard VS Dragon Age: Origins PART 2

[@NikTek]

Character: Hey! hope I'm not interrupting, am I? Option 1: No Option 2: Not Really Option 3: No, go ahead

[@edemehtawardhana5962]

Option 4 : No No No.... I am yours, eh.

[@Frontline_view_kaiser]

HR Sensitivity Meeting: The game

[@SuperAerie]

The fallout 4-syndrome^^

[@EllanaWolf]

@@SuperAerie Rubbish. FO4 at least gives the option to be rude or sarcastic.

[@DubberRucks]

Option 5: No. But yes. But no.

[@Arionid]

maybe the real insult was the money we spent along the way 💀

[@thetower8553]

it actually is

[@On_Cocaine]

you sir have won the comment competition.

[@edemehtawardhana5962]

And the time we wasted to patiently play this game... Expecting that at some point the story will be better. 😢

[@gothicfan52]

Sandro spitting facts

[@CultOfMonika]

We?

[@mariokarter13]

"Where are the insults?" "The game is the insult."

[@DubberRucks]

The insult is that this costs money. 😂

[@kurogane6896]

​@@DubberRuckswouldn't play it unless they paid me to

[@ArcaneTuber]

😂😆😌👍

[@policeman5768]

You mean the gayme

[@Agent789_0]

The insult is that they think this is what anyone wanted after waiting for 10 years.

[@MatejAnetta]

Veilguard answers: 1. Be Simp 2. Be Simp sarcastic or funny 3. Be Edgy Simp Origins answers (you found badly wounded soldier in wilds): 1. Help him 2. Let your companion help him 3. Ignore him 4. Kill him

[@SilverRoy212]

This! 👆

[@M0RAL_SUPP0R7]

The illusion of choice versus actual choices with real consequences.

[@MrBALAKUMARA]

ah yes that invisible knife in origins that occurs only in dialogue, can't forget, also i can't forget how i accidentally killed of Wynne in mage tower by choosing wrong choices lmao!

[@Chrysamer77]

Origins had crazy choices. That's why it was so good

[@BourbonJRA]

It’s less an “edgy” simp. More “impatient” simp. I’d kill to have even the slightest amount of “edge” in this game

[@ericcarterofthehillpeople]

I appreciate BioWare making it easy for me to focus on the older games I haven't played yet.

[@Frank_Pods]

Very true. I just finished playing the original Mass Effect, loved it

[@TheRedGauntlet]

@@Frank_Pods Finished ME 2 of the Legendary Edition. And it didnt cost 60 dollars to get. Win Win

[@DubberRucks]

I also appreciate the financial advice they inadvertently offered so I can send my money elsewhere. 🤣

[@genesisleon]

​@@TheRedGauntlet Amazing trilogy, I'm playing it for the first time too. I was actually looking forward for Mass Effect 5... Until I saw what they did here

[@meurer13daniel]

@@TheRedGauntlet ME2 is goated. Gotta find time to play the whole trilogy again

[@OutcastSoldier]

this reminds me of fallout 4 dialogue 1. yes 2.maybe(yes) 3. sarcastic(yes) 4. No(yes)

[@akman909]

at least there you could kill the person once the dialogue ended

[@traistarudavid9273]

This is much worse ...

[@65firered]

​@@akman909Sometimes.

[@Panduck4]

​@akman909 if they weren't apart of any quest line lol so almost everyone that talks to you

[@ReikerForge]

At least fallout 4 had the "HELLA YES" yellow option when you passed certain speech checks

[@misternich4935]

My personal funniest insult in Origins is when you are doing the Leliana romance. She comes up to you in camp and tells you the stars look beautiful tonight, and you can tell her, "Whatever, go help Alistair prepare dinner."

[@Chasodey]

Yeah, if you wanted or was experimenting you could be an absolute jerk to people in Origins, you could do nastiest things and turn allies against you. Maybe not the best way to olay the game but definitely the way that exists. Not in Veilguard it seems

[@hagarddunord8410]

Back to the kitchen woman !

[@Athrun82]

Or when Morrigan wants to sleep with you "It's so very cold all alone in my tent" and the Warden goes bluntly "Get a thicker blanket!" Though in Morrigans case she doesn't even mind and follows with "I was more thinking of your warm body close to mine"

[@rubygraves978]

@@ChasodeyI managed to not have a full party on the end of the game on one playthrough. I got all the people I knew are escaping me on some decisions into those moments. 😂 It was fun tho.

[@sunshoe-l5r]

In da2 you can sic your hound on an intruder and run him off

[@Br0kenMask]

Dialogue prompt: "Listen here, you little sh*t!" Actual dialogue: "But lisseeeenn 😢"

[@Hanoua2]

Dialogue prompt: "I'll kill you motherf**er !" Actual dialogue: "stop you big meany!"

[@alekhaalrem1408]

Dialogue prompt : twitter Actual dialogue : their real life talk Perfectly immersive 👍

[@TheTraveler980]

You either die a heroic Grey Warden, or live long enough to become a polite Disney villain.

[@ДмитрийМачулин-ч3т]

Or you could impregnate Morrigan, kill the Archdemon, and then go with her to raise your child.

[@J_scientist]

A gender less non binary Disney villain you mean

[@TheTraveler980]

@ДмитрийМачулин-ч3т That's my ending to Origins, and I'm keeping it.

[@Machiavelli_01]

@@ДмитрийМачулин-ч3т Нет ничего более достойным, чем отдать свою жизнь за спасение Тедаса. Твоя концовка трусливого смертного)))

[@ДмитрийМачулин-ч3т]

@@Machiavelli_01 к сожалению, бессмертного персонажа создать нельзя)

[@wylser]

1:28 "A short nap then" - Bellara approves LOLWAT

[@davidhanousek9874]

Funniest sh it in the game are these moments like this, when you epicly fail your attempts to be jerk. 😁

[@AshCosgrove]

What is with this girl and her GD naps?!

[@gotthecutenessoverload1086]

@@AshCosgrove Maybe she has anemia? 🤣🤣

[@RunesandReapers]

@@AshCosgrove It's a self insert...It's a very common thing to talk about amongst 25-30 year olds now. They talk about napping all the time.

[@AnomalyVoid]

How far Dragon Age has fallen. Hard to believe these games are from the same series.

[@mattmark94]

Veilguard is pretty much a woke reboot, nothing in this game makes sense, even the premise, considering the story of the first 3 games.

[@juanantonio5367]

It's from EA game, what did you expect?

[@StBrodes]

@@mattmark94 They may as well have just made it a new IP. Absolutely none of the choices you make from DAO or DA2 carry over, and only THREE choices from DAI carry over. They clearly wanted to make their own woke-ass, real-time combat IP, but realized that they had to ride on Dragon Age's name for it to actually have SOME success. Pussies.

[@DubberRucks]

I pity the person who starts their DA experience here. After what's been before it and THIS is their first? 😱 😂

[@StBrodes]

@@DubberRucks They'll certainly be blown away by how mean, even downright evil, you can be in the other games.

[@oldoutlet6946]

Old dialogue: "Quickly! To battle!" New dialogue: "I'm getting a bit stressed. Can we take a quick mental breather before the big fight? I need a quick nap to de-toxify. Ooh! And let's get drinks after the battle!"

[@hassamlatif1169]

To be fair, drinks with companions and squadmates are always a good time. They had a huge party segment on it in ME3.

[@omensoffate]

@@hassamlatif1169yes but it was shown so to be fair your comparison makes no sense

[@hassamlatif1169]

@omensoffate still, nothing wrong with asking your friends to get drinks. I havent played the game so i have no idea whether there are any casual hangout moments with your companions like that.

[@cabbageleon4914]

old dialogue: "We cannot stand idly while the blight runs rampant.' new dialogue: "oh, I would really like coffee right now."

[@hassamlatif1169]

@@cabbageleon4914 coffee is important

[@blightning1476]

Refunded it after 70 minutes. Got my money back, but sadly no one will give me back the 70 minutes.

[@DubberRucks]

Fs in chat for the time sacrificed. 🤣

[@kurogane6896]

You have sacrificed more than the characters in-game in order to save people from this mess, and I'm not talking about the blight

[@Gambit771]

If you had played the second in the series or any game made recently then you would never have bought this. You shouldn't have been refunded as you knew what this was.

[@lukaogadze5071]

next time check game if it's infested with dei.

[@ВашеВысочество-к3ж]

I paid EA exactly as much money for this game as there were beautiful women in it. I downloaded the game from Captain Jack Sparrow's store. Fortunately, in Russia this is not condemned in any way. . Я заплатил EA ровно столько денег за эту игру, сколько в ней было красивых женщин. Я скачал игру с магазина Капитана Джека Воробья. Благо, в России это никак не порицается.

[@nevergameover6075]

Me playing origins:"Oh wow, you can actually kill a lot of your companions." Me being tortured by veilguard:"I wish I could kill these companions."

[@harellan6234]

at least in inquisition even you can have the satisfaction of getting your party members downed in battle. in this one they dont even get attack for some reason (whoever thought that was a good idea needs to quite being a game director... oh wait.

[@JohnCena-le1jj]

I still remember how my ambitious Cousland killed Leliana to become a reaver, I always chose anything that advanced my character's power but this was the one decision Leliana couldn't accept

[@balazsszucs7055]

Or at leat a Mass Effect type interrupt to gag them.

[@AC-ut3nk]

We live in a world where Call of duty got a better dialog and story than Dragon age

[@rafarafa3604]

... ... ... ... Fuck.

[@mattmark94]

COD now has non binary agents running around in the 80's. It is just as bad as veilguard.

[@stefanradebach2889]

What's interesting is that this sort of feeling when it comes to dialogue being sanitized and "safe" without any edge to it is something that also happened with Ratchet and Clank 2016 where the dialogue and the writing felt like something out of Disney compared to the original PS2 game that had an edge to it and satirized capitalist commercialism.

[@fromaggio7654]

COMMMERCIALS COMMERCIALS COMMERCIALS

[@mattmark94]

This is why I stopped buying R&C after that fake remake. That series lost all its charm and edge.

[@MotorBorg]

Haha, I actually never played those games before Rift Apart came to PC. I liked it overall but it did feel too childish like a Disney cartoon. Then I decided to try the first game on PS 2 emulator and was pleasantly surprised by it's dialogue and humor.

[@mattmark94]

@MotorBorg the ps2 games are so much better, something both kids and adults can enjoy

[@californiavirus3566]

You should like Veilguard then since it goes almost as hard against capitalist commercialism as Concord. They def hired the right people for the job.

[@RicardiSurpris-c7r]

Veilguard Would Fit in Perfectly on Disney+

[@DubberRucks]

Indeed

[@FreakOut229]

thanks, for reminding me to cancel my d+ subscription :)

[@Efsaaneh]

They made everyone gay and then realised they can't insult anyone because that would be homophobic LMAOOOO😂😂😂😂

[@mattmark94]

I watched Endymion's early impressions (he is 12 hours into the story IIRC) and he confirmed that pretty much all "villains of the week" are white guys and the people who oppose them are ALWAYS diverse.

[@m0-m0597]

loool

[@Leo-mj1mt]

I could had sworn in entertainment industries There were actually funny or intelligent Gay/Lesbian characters out there, and they weren't going around being sassy feminists or girly man-twinkies voiced by VA's that sound like a Joe Biden speech.

[@mrturbo84]

@Efsaaneh Bro this is Perfect! I will steal that Comment. xD

[@mattmark94]

I would also like to remind that elves in this series never quite looked like humans. Now we have people of colour with pointy ears.

[@R_C4RD_]

Origins: Manga Inquisition: Anime Veilguard: Netflix Adaptation

[@135mikerules23]

What’s 2 then?

[@Gilga66]

​@@135mikerules23the unwanted spinoff

[@olchum7605]

@@135mikerules23 fan chapter thats obviously not as good as manga but has something there

[@cttommy73]

Actually, it's 2 that is the Anime. Inquisition is the spinoff no one wanted.

[@captainlongdik8724]

@@cttommy73 tthat unwanted spinoff sold 12 mil copies lol.. Gtfo

[@deltagolavista1]

DA:O one of my all time favorite games. The societal undertones written beneath the main story and quests were phenomenal. The Broodmother fight is still my favorite RPG boss of all time. DA2: Even with it's flaws, low key amazing game carried by its story and characters and dare I say fun combat. DA:I It taking your choices from the first two games and applying them to the world saved it. Story was average but it was a good time killer. DA:VG It looks like they took the flaws of the last two games and instead of learning from them, multiplied them.

[@Athrun82]

What's even worse: none of the decisions you made previously are taken into account. You get a preset situation and deal with it. For Inquisition they put in the effort to create your own preset if you didn't play the other games. You could either choose one of 3 preset stories or create your own with the tapestry homepage which was kind of neat because I simply could not make some of the most ruthless decisions in the previous games.

[@supereldinho]

Consider this for a moment: Obsidian made Alpha Protocol, a game from 2010 which may as well have been built on the premise of being able to piss off and kill every single NPC you meet, for no other reason than to be a dick. The game even rewards you with perks for killing certain characters or getting them to hate you enough. Hell, if you've been actively antagonizing everyone throughout the game, then just before the final mission your main character will even quip something along the lines of "I hope I live through this, I'm running out of people to piss off." I swear, if you dropped him into this game, he'd end up developing the ability to make people explode with his insults like in Skyrim.

[@mattmark94]

man, AP deserves a proper remake

[@SuperAerie]

@@mattmark94 Atleast a remaster. So it runs properly without crashing, and enhancing the animations a bit. And maybe fixing the AI too. And the difficulty levels so the AI doesnt draw & fire their guns at ftl-speed. So maybe a remake then....Im just afraid that they mess up the conversation-system that actually makes the conversation flow in a normal pace which NOBODY has copied.

[@ShadowWolf0020]

@@mattmark94 it's back on sale on steam and gog if you wanted to get it for pc

[@pvshka]

@@SuperAerie are there any mods available that accomplish that?

[@mattmark94]

@SuperAerie with remake I pretty much mean that. Fix the gameplay and the technical problemas, give the graphics a new coat of paint BUT keep the rest as it was.

[@Draxlar]

In BG3, you can sacrifice your companions for power, kill them for not seeing things your way, or just because you felt like it. You can play a good character for the whole game and then enslave, or kill everyone in the world once you gain power and so much more. In Veilguard, you can be a bit obnoxious to some people in a few instances.

[@cabbageleon4914]

To think Baldur's Gate 3 took 6 years to develop and Veilguard took 10...

[@mattmark94]

@cabbageleon4914 that's because they rebooted this game twice.

[@cabbageleon4914]

@@mattmark94 from dreadwolf, to veilguard, yes and yet it still suffered.

[@Callistemon]

And yet some people are still defending it

[@Machiavelli_01]

@@CallistemonTyrion Lannister: "Spikes, Heads, Walls"

[@rhyswong8976]

The dialogue choices and reply must be the same in the board meeting filled with toxic positivity.

[@H1GHLANDER360]

I refuse to believe these two games are part of the same franchise.

[@DubberRucks]

Good. Do that. Make it head canon for yourself that DA stopped with whichever was your last favourite DA was

[@popop93160]

@@DubberRucks Star Wars approved 🥲

[@nikobellic8002]

@@DubberRucks I'm gonna do that for every game.

[@BoondockRoberts]

Reconcile it by knowing that the people that made Orgins are gone and the new hires are wearing Bioware as a skinsuit. Like force awakens, it's in name only and non canon. (like Rings of Power)

[@strixsnightmares467]

i just cant..... omg this face..... its not serious.... omg why not a rainbow hairstyle?

[@v8superspecial]

I was flabbergasted as well bc not knowing the official designs, it was absolutely credible as a character for this kind of.. tone

[@ender_cz]

i tried to create nice woman character, for maybe 30 minutes but my creation was always ugly man with boobs like 10y old boy :)) so.. play it this way is very logical, there is no other choice :))

[@pvshka]

@@ender_cz of course there's other choice. Not playing it.

[@ender_cz]

@@pvshka sure, i personally deleted it after 5 minutes..

[@Au_Ra804]

well nothing in this game is serious so it fits right in

[@135mikerules23]

2: Emeric: These are human bones, (sigh) then there’s no chance of finding Ninette alive or any of the others. Hawke: If they’re not dead, just look for a bunch of boneless women flopping through the streets. Emeric: Show some respect! Inquisition: Sera: You’d rather be doing nothing than try to make this better? Inquisitor: How are YOU making things better? What have you done for anyone? Sera: I make sure these arseholes pay! Inquisitor: While filling your pockets? Sera: Well maybe, but… but… Back when you could be a real bastard/bitch or simply argue with people.

[@mattmark94]

when you could point out your companions' bs

[@cabbageleon4914]

I liked this in BG3 as well where you're able to have disagreements with your companions and influence their decision. ME Trilogy also does this; when enforcing Garrus to be cold-blooded in ME1 - he will do the Renegade option for you in ME2 without your input. You can choose to stop him, and if asked, he will remind you it was your influence.

[@ВашеВысочество-к3ж]

@@cabbageleon4914 I thought Garrus was canonically becoming a renegade, regardless of my decisions. Although I've been egging him on like this all game. . Я думал, что гаррус по канону становится ренегатом, вне зависимости от моих решений. Хотя я сам всю игру подначивал его к такому.

[@Ezio999Auditore]

NikTek will be so busy 2024/2025. Man can’t catch a break.

[@Koyu_Ruh]

The game certainly is non-buynary.

[@MakeYourVision]

They invented new genre: California fantasy

[@jaei6680]

You should include the one in the City Elf origin were you can tell a girl who is afraid she'll be sexually abused by lonely soldiers, that at least they'll enjoy it.

[@andresbogado7133]

This game is for the Twitter troons who don't even play games lol

[@DoltonI]

It literally feels like the game exists purely as a form of validation. Like, nobody actually plays it, they're just happy it exists and checks off boxes on the DEI guideline. Sad times.

[@theALTF4]

Can't define woman ... Can't write games... Why we keep hiring rainbows? Just...stop .. hetero normative is, well, the NORM because it FUKIN WORKS!!!!

[@nikobellic8002]

@@DoltonI It's also for some agenda they're trying to push and make everyone accept it.

[@StefanoBorini]

you will now play only while HR is in the room with you

[@cannibalraptor]

Funny how there were more interesting and diverse characters before the “diversity” became forced into things

[@cabbageleon4914]

diversity in their understanding are just character archetypes that are one dimensional.

[@xXSilentAgent47Xx]

Origins: Bully Maguire Veilguard: Forced to just be Peter

[@Vulver]

I remember the atmosphere of the first Dragon Age. I get goosebumps watching the dialog options from this game. Despite that I won't even buy Vailguard because it has nothing to do with Dragon Age. You don't need insults in this game because the whole game is an insult to every gamer in the world.

[@ВашеВысочество-к3ж]

There's nothing wrong with purchasing a game if you don't pay EA money at the same time. Moreover, the game was released without Denuvo, and is already available on websites.where everything is free , Нет ничего плохого в том, чтобы приобрести игру, если при этом вы не заплатите денег EA. Тем более, что игра вышла без Denuvo, и уже доступна на сайтах .где всё бесплатно

[@Sadovari]

DAO : Kill a bisexual elf without remorse while he is unconcious. Abandon a insane voice hearing lesbian to die to darkspawn. DAV: Cant even disagree with anyone about anything. Remember when games let you choose and decide things?

[@hajiabu5176]

IT'S MA'AM!

[@lukaogadze5071]

i was think the same 😂 IT IS A MA'AM! 😂😂😂

[@RomanZeNine]

🤣

[@weirdguy8422]

If only Thanos was real

[@e_Moses]

He would snap his fingers and have half the universe take a short nap.

[@gotthecutenessoverload1086]

@@e_Moses *Bellara approves.*

[@SecondBestArtMuseum]

Why would they list the option to call him an idiot if they don't even say it? This isn't even a case of "Glassing" like in the telltale games, this is just a straight up lie.

[@cabbageleon4914]

illusion of choice taken up to a hundred. I love how when you exchange disney insults with Solas, the game even has a pop up saying "You exchanged jabs with Solas!" Okay, dark fantasy game.

[@krowbard]

I love that the Veilguard player character resembles what I imagine the devs of this game look like.

[@babyjiren9676]

you should've made the hair blue on your character and it would've looked exactly like the game's director lmao

[@darrylferguson3622]

The Veilguard writers dug themselves into a pit by making everyone of the new companions gay, bi, trans, or non-binary. They wanted to lecture people into respecting people's identities, but then realized that allowing the MC to be mean would allow people to insult the companions' identity

[@cabbageleon4914]

Pretty sure they made an entire game just to project their insecurities into it and then validate themselves at the same time lol.

[@2Based23]

Dragon age Origins was fantastic besides Witcher 3 the best RPG I've ever played I just hear that killer soundtrack and I wanna play it again story and dialogue were fantastic and I'm a big fan of that combat

[@Chasodey]

I would advise you to try out the Witcher 1, in terms of roleplay aspect I think this game is stronger than the third installment in the series

[@SuperAerie]

Wouldnt call it fantastic. It was decent. It had like 5 enemy-types all introduced right at the start, extremely similar looking dungeons over & over and everything with the fade was terrible (which also constantly looked the same). Putting it beside witcher is almost an insult to it

[@RandomlnternetGuy]

​@@ChasodeyI played Witcher 1 last month (since I've never gotten into the series and wanted to do it right). It is absolutely abysmal. I got through it for the story and the save file. But never again will I willingly pick that game up and expect a good time.

[@Chasodey]

@@RandomlnternetGuy for me Witcher 1 is on par with Witcher 3 and W3 is somewhat casual all audience friendly game with simple combat and weak itemization and skill tree system

[@2Based23]

@@RandomlnternetGuy yeah I tried it too witcher 2 though is really good but witcher 3 is a complete mastepriece

[@MattHunX]

It's interesting how a certain character actually APPROVES of the more negative response, waving it off with a well-adjusted joke about less sleep, making light of the situation and of its urgency, while the same character is taken aback, literally flinching back in surprise by the wrong pronoun. It's like whoever wrote these characters, their personalities and their dialogue was predictably going for the typical, quirky, well-adjusted, hip and cool, emotionally mature, socially aware trope of an L, G, B or T character, completely with modern real-world lingo, who's not really shaken by anything, naturally takes everything in strides, to whom alleviating tension and taking things with a bit of humor comes as naturally as breathing...until someone uses the wrong pronoun. Then they're cut to their very core. Just like the people who wrote them. And just like the people they wrote it for. The irony of it being two-fold: 1) They're doing the very opposite of normalizing, by going out of the way, even in a fictional fantasy world, that they then proceed to treat as though it is the real-world, where people need a lecture, not only about how to treat someone who's non-binary, but also explain the concept to them, like they're in a lecture, when such concepts and the social etiquette surrounding said individuals already ought to be a well-established thing in the world of Thedas. But, of course, the writers either forget that or they deliberately ignore it, because what matters is that they get to give a lecture on it, virtually pat themselves on the back, while talking down to many viewers, and doing it all without any subtlety or cleverness, as though we were sitting in on a group therapy meeting, when there is no need for it, as they have already previously included such themes and characters without feeling the need to give any of it nearly as much attention, nor did they go about it in such a blatant way, beating the viewer over the head with it and even butchering an already existing character and changing their personality to match their demand for self-flagellating apologies. 2) The blatant self-insertions they make by writing such scenes, they way they make certain characters virtuous, strong, independent, ready for anything, brave, oh so special and able to handle anything, almost as if they're projecting their fantasies about their own selves onto the characters, to live their utopic world vicariously through them, is in stark contrast with how they react to things in the real-world, where mere "microaggressions" could trigger them.

[@californiavirus3566]

Just remember, what u tolerated last time became what you have to put up with today.

[@bigbubble4282]

Makes Fallout 4 dialogue look like Shakespeare

[@ytcbk]

LMAO!!

[@oz_jones]

You wouldnt understand

[@edemehtawardhana5962]

When we have game titled "Dragon Age", I expect the game to be mature as wise dragon. Not to be s**try like a... Like a.... Wow, I can't even find an example of crappy dragon. That's how majestic the creature is and peak standard of what the titled used to be.

[@Leonhearth0]

The Veilguard insult : "You cisgender white man !"

[@Hanoua2]

Origins dialogue: "shut up you stupid idiot !" Failguard dialogue: "would you kindly please allow me a moment of silence for my anxiety level to lower, my dear mentaly challenge they/them friend"

[@Unknown-sz8kg]

DragonGey doesnt need insulting dialogue, the whole game is an insult.

[@randomguy6679]

Couldn’t you be gay in Origins?

[@v8superspecial]

I love Scatman John post chemo in tournament armor 💕

[@samenders1074]

This Rook looks like they would be the most toxic roommate ever.

[@YourCRTube]

Am I the only one that likes the fact, player response is NOT spoken in older games?

[@lightworker2956]

Yeah same.

[@bingbongwahoo-ov1ip]

they made the perfect game for making fun of this genre of message slop

[@Trevan2412]

The dialogues are written like the writers' therapy session

[@ReturnoftheLightning]

Le 41% hairline

[@Zwefla]

1:17 sums up the game

[@rollingrock5143]

The voice actors are too breathy and are seriously overdoing it on the new game. They all sound the same. Almost seems like they all went to the same acting school.

[@dracses4529]

I've noticed this about a lot of modern VA's too. They lack the acting skill to distinguish themselves. All-Time-Greats like Fred Tatasciore, Frank Welker, and Mark Hamill are heights they can never hope to reach.

[@californiavirus3566]

I thought this about the Silent Hill 2 remake. I assume it has something to do with enforced homogeny across the industry and I'm guessing everyone has to be a part of a union which probably also enforces behaviors and alienates mavericks.

[@slendersera]

I noticed that, too. There's something grating about the voices.

[@Demonos3]

Same school of arts. Same world view. Same backgrounds all around. How very... diverse of them.

[@hanselsihotang]

They all sound like the narrator and voice actors for a TOEFL Listening test session. Bland and Very "sanitized", to put it mildly

[@everett8811]

If i heard a cutscene from veilgaurd playing in the other room I would assume my kid was watching a nickelodeon show

[@mattmark94]

Everything about Veilguard is a disgrace. The fact that the game opens with SPOILERS ALERT Varric's death, with the game itself even lying about it and only reveal it later, is a clear sign that this story was written to spit in the face of the long time fans.

[@stefanradebach2889]

What?! Seriously?! Like come on he was one of the best characters in the franchise and they gut him just like that? Glad I'm not buying the game.

[@mattmark94]

@stefanradebach2889 MORE SPOILERS He is stabbed by Solas and bleeds out offscreen HOWEVER for half the game Solas makes you believe he is still alive using some kind of illusion, just to put salt on the wounds.

[@RaRmAn]

@@mattmark94 That makes no sense, the others didn't notice?

[@mattmark94]

@RaRmAn I only read about it on TV Tropes (yes, I was looking for spoilers on purpose) and I watched the first hour of gameplay. I have no idea how exactly but the Varric you talk to is not real and eventually you find out the real Varric was dead all along. F this game.

[@RaRmAn]

@@mattmark94 That makes no sense it's like they did not read their own script. Nobody mentioned his death, nobody finds it weird that Rook goes to an empty room to talk to an empty bed. etc. CoD Black Ops and AC Mirage did this twist so much better.

[@Gabriel-i-am-t9b]

The thing about Origins is that the writers were truly thinking on how to give the player freedom. You could be the neighboorhood hero or the evil incarnated. I remember to this day that you can sell children (Connor), trade slaves, smuggle drugs (to templars), lie, steal, trick, betray and a bunch of other stuff through the main quests and side quests of this game.

[@ВашеВысочество-к3ж]

There is still a moral to this game. It's just not served directly. One day, I will force a Tevinter magician to perform a ritual that will strengthen the hero at the expense of the blood of the elves. But this ritual gave only 5 health points. And I thought: Is this a joke? . Мораль в этой игре всё же есть. Просто она подаётся не напрямую. Однажды я заставит тевинтерского мага провести ритуал, который за счёт крови эльфов усилит героя. Но этот ритуал дал лишь 5 очков здоровья. И я подумал: это шутка?

[@muratahashira]

Dont even need to go back to origins. The inquisitor could be brutal sometimes😂

[@luxsignifer6996]

you should consider including DA2 here too, since the dialogue system is kinda similar, with the wheel and all, I think it could make for a more straight forward comparison

[@kallesaarinen7559]

this reminds me of south park episode on panderverse

[@abcdefghij337]

Yar har! Fiddle-dee-dee. The life of a pirate is the one for me! Do what you want ‘cause a pirate is free. You are a pirate!

[@enginelol]

You made the perfect player character for this 'game'

[@surgiosurge]

Dragon age origins: actual people talking DRAGon age wokeguard: HR is here, guys, watch your words

[@absol_lute_zero9083]

I REALLY hope you do a Dragon age VG Banter vs Other Dragon age banter. So many good gems from Inquisition alone

[@Pork_Chop007]

Jim Sterling/10

[@Agent789_0]

I remember when people complained about Fallout 4 doing this. Fallout 4 launched in 2015. How have we learned nothing since then?

[@marcuskane1040]

At least FO4 had some absolutely stupid and goofy sacrastic answers. This game has nothing

[@Agent789_0]

@@marcuskane1040 True. Fallout 4 could be funny by accident. This is constantly trying to be funny so it's just nonstop cringe.

[@DubberRucks]

"If only they'd warned me... it just doesn't seem fair." What the player realises who's never played a Dragon Age game before and starts here.

[@ninjafrog6966]

i like how you made your character. very immersive for the game you’re playing

[@GGPiani]

Your character looks like he is asking Eustace to return the slab

[@WreckItRolfe]

"Put a Chinese-American Elf in it and make it lame and gay"

[@trontosaurusrex9532]

Your character in Veilguard looks like Buffalo Bill.

[@nibelungvalesti]

OH MY GOD this is spot-on. This game has turned into a Seattle simulator.

[@carbodude5414]

You'll need to show some of the murder knife options in Origins too to better highlight how truly _mean_ you can get No surprise where Larian got the inspiration to create The Dark Urge origin in BG3

[@babyjiren9676]

It's honestly hilarious that the character creator allows you to make a carbon-copy of the stereotypical woke loser but not a woman

[@ender_cz]

true, its impossible to create nice woman in this dei crap :) tried it hard.. no chance.

[@RandomlnternetGuy]

Morigan went down about 2 cup sizes as well.

[@redram6080]

​@@RandomlnternetGuy Isabella too

[@sideburngthepeacebringer27]

I hope you have refunded by now ​@@ender_cz

[@berkayerdem3859]

Gay

[@mattmark94]

....and lame.

[@kurogane6896]

Warden

[@Sarydormi]

It was gay since Origins. This one isn't gay, it's Tumblr fanfiction of gay, with a flavor of HR's cock in the mouth.

[@randomguy6679]

Origins was too.

[@datemasamune2904]

Imagine if there were actually a super harsh response to Bellara and she’d actually greatly approve. Like she actually has a kink being called knife ear. XD

[@lightworker2956]

A humiliation kink companion? If they actually had those kinds of balls, I'd be mildly impressed. But no, as someone said, "every conversation feels like HR is in the room." You're not allowed to be more than passive-aggressive, and the game never gets truly dark.

[@masuraii]

Watching this while waiting in Space Marine 2 lobby. Damn it feels good to be hetero

[@Frank_Pods]

How can your character be so masculine yet so feminine at the same time?

[@Pillboxing]

I love how the characters go from looking like pixar characters to ps1 characters

[@robertagren9360]

You have no clue what you looking at

[@dashippo5896]

Guys it's simple. Every single line written in this game had to be reviewed by a diverse HR panel for potential triggers.

[@dayoltay]

Timeless fantasy dialogue vs californian teenager dialogue

[@LivingGuy484]

The scratching review that mentioned "HR dialogue"was absolutely not kidding lol

[@matea2606]

Rook looks like a Eurovision participant

[@leonfire99]

I didn't play Dragon Age Origins very much, but when I did, I just played a wood elf and picked all of the elf supr3mecy options. Very fun game to play that role and see what could chsne that chatacters mind over time.

[@kylebatteson9572]

"Anyways" - Peak writing.

[@mage2105]

I love that the actual dialogue is always way softer than what the option says.

[@risitasjesus4114]

How did it gather 70K players on steam? Fans in denial? People who don't know what a shitty piece of writing Veilguard is and who have been influenced by IGN and other corrupt sites?

[@Pitabrot]

Hopefully bots

[@jasperzanovich2504]

If the yearly releases of Call of Duty and Fifa have shown anything it's that there are a lot of consume zombies you will buy any content with a name they recognize.

[@DubberRucks]

People who don't argue, just buy and consume product and then wait for next product to consume.

[@Knight_Kin]

Geforce experience free copies redeemed in steam? Hmm, well then again i could see a lot of people buying it on the name alone. I avoided all talk about space marine 2 until it was out, saw it was good then got it.

[@ShadowOfHistory-wn1xh]

70k is nothing for game with this marketing and IP.

[@Hoezi02]

I really appreciate your videos and like the idea behind it, but the comparison would be vastly more drastic if you could get clips from Origins after Ostagar. There are some wild things you can say and do throughout the game.

[@amannan-123]

The character looks dope NGL. Perfectly fits in this game.

[@Gornemant]

The role playing game where you have absolutely no choice on the role you play.

[@wes5619]

Lol this game has some majorly unintentionally hilarious moments in it.

[@klaas6681]

The dialogue for the voice acting was clearly rewritten right before recording (or was even re-recorded), and the dialogue options in the game were not adjusted. Probably under strong influence of DEI teams.

[@TheRealJaCrispy]

After watching this video, I'm going to go play Origins again, thanks!

[@Gonzalo_105]

im gona play kotor 2 for the second time after many, many years, gona have a great time.

[@cannyvalley8522]

Good luck running it on modern hardware

[@cabbageleon4914]

Inquisition is not better than origins but even that one let me judge a box of human remains to be used as an end table for orphans. Veilguard feels like such a huge waste of resources.

[@johnleonard9102]

It's like HR is constantly watching every conversation you have