I hope he still has some moments of lucidity, and I hope he is feeling the worst pain, misery, and despair imaginable within them.
So aliens with super-advanced technology that makes us look like insects in comparison come to planet Earth to answer the cry of wacist powice, because that's apparently so important that they can hear it through the cosmos...and their solution is protest with them?
Even lefties' wish-fulfillment fantasies suck. But then what is there to expect? They have no imagination.
They'll probably also open the game up with Yasuke ranting about the evils of racism, slavery, and white people while he practices his layups on the now deceased Nobunaga's basketball court.
- Over the shoulder perspective and walky-talky sequences. Yup, it's a modern AAA game alright.
- Most of the protagonist's dialogue is completely scripted. He says and decides things on his own without player input, like helping some woman who's about to get arrested or killed. They dumbed down the already dumbed-down dialogue system from Mass Effect.
- This city DOES NOT match the aesthetics of Dragon Age at all (even the shitty ones from DA2 onwards). This is a cyberpunk world wearing the skin of a high fantasy setting.
- It's raining, and yet the characters don't look wet at all. Hell, a lot of the ground looks dry as a bone as well. HELLO, Metal Gear Solid 2 pulled that shit off 20 fucking years ago. If you don't have the tech or know-how to pull rainy weather off, don't bother with it.
- So it's not even using real-time-with-pause combat. It's just wannabe DMC-style action combat. Which makes it indistinguishable from all the other AAA slop that's been released in the past couple years like Nu-God of War, Final Fantasy VII Remake/Rebirth, Final Fantasy XVI, Assassin's Creed, and Dragon's Dogma 2 (without the benefit of the giant monsters).
- "We have to stop this demon quickly." First of all, thank you so much for your tactical insight, Captain Obvious. Second, her bored delivery of the line combined with how early you face what is supposed to be the strongest species of demon in the Fade really undermines the terrifying power they're supposed to have in the lore. If this was my first romp in a Dragon Age game, I would have thought demons were the equivalent of pests. Though to be fair, Varrick is supposed to be a veteran who should be a level-20 badass mofo who's fought worse things. But on the other hand, with how little he actually contributes, the game just makes him look weak. A case of two wrongs failing to make a right.
- "Hey, Chuckles, hope I'm not interrupting." Because of course we have to open up with a fucking joke during what's supposed to be a dramatic moment. Though I guess I should give this segment some credit: the level of humor is actually pretty low.
Dragon Age isn't even 20 years old. I won't say you're wrong, though. Every issue this trailer had was present since Dragon Age 2, including the Marvel-esque presentation, the gaudy art style, the overt gayness in everything, and the general ugliness in the characters (especially the women). I'm actually surprised the new game is being met with near-universal vitriol; it's like everyone has suddenly woken up and is seeing Dragon Age the way I've been seeing it ever since the first previews for DA2 were released.
And yeah, Origins honestly wasn't too far removed from the rest stylistically. A lot of the characters and dialogue had a proto-MCU feel where there was a tad too much goofiness and quipping going around. The writers even admitted to taking inspiration from Whedon shows with a lot of them.
- Treat Japanese studios with respect. Don't impose all sorts of malicious rules and regulations over them and don't censor their games, especially in their own country.
- Don't shut down your own Japanese studios!
- Fire anyone who attempts to sabotage the commercial sales of Japanese games by giving them poor and politically-charged translations or who posts libel of them on social media.
"I didn't know that was bad."
Then your parents need to be slapped as well. Or should I say parent, as in your mother? The boyfriends don't count.
Dreadwolf was a better name.
It might be a petty thing to complain about, but you're right. Dreadwolf is a better name both artistically and in terms of marketability. People who played (and liked) Inquisition (I know it's hard to believe, but they do exist) know what and who it refers to, which should be more than enough to get them excited. And for people who've never played a DA game in their lives, "Dreadwolf" rolls off the tongue very nicely and has this ominous feel that should get them intrigued.
But Veilguard? What the hell is that? No one knows. The word alone is awkward to say, and it's kind of comical when you take it literally. It sounds like it could be a villain or villainous faction, but it's supposed to refer to the hero and/or heroes, and either way, it doesn't exist anywhere in DA lore. But I guess we shouldn't be surprised a troon changed the name to refer to the protagonist; troons have to make everything about them.
Honestly, I think this has been a problem for Bioware for quite a while; they've been making their RPGs more about the protagonist rather than the world, when RPG protagonists are just not very engaging characters and they're not supposed to be.
Funnily enough, you can't actually do that. There've never been any dwarven romance options in the games; the only way you could ever have ugly dwarf sex is if you played one yourself. If anything, it's the opposite that's been true; you can have sex with an ugly, tall horned man who calls himself the Iron Bull and is a complete degenerate
Indeed. Not my organ, not my problem.
Dragon Age: Inquisition would be the answer you'd get from the most sycophantic Biodrone at this point. If nothing else, it was the last game they made that saw any commercial success. And it's going to be ten years old in a few months! Which should tell you just how bad things have gotten.
I seriously have no idea why Bioware is still around. EA has killed studios for less.
But in many ways, Cassandra was the one this phenomenon was most evident in.
Don't worry, I'm sure they've got that on the pipeline, especially once this game bombs.
As far as I'm concerned, their hands are just as covered in blood as this bitch's.
Don't need to be a fucking high school graduate to know that sticking your mouth in another's persona's ass is a bad idea. Don't even need to be kindergarten graduate. It takes a special brand of retard to do that because you are rejecting what your natural senses and instincts are screaming at you not to do.
The left hates cops with frothing rage, but are completely cool with the Feds. I'm sure it's just a strange coincidence.
Because their entire modus operandi is to infiltrate, subvert, and change all aspects of culture to fit into their vision of what the world should be. Or just outright destroy them, it serves the same purpose. They do this all under the guise of being "fans" who are just pointing out things that are "problematic" and should be addressed to better match "current year societal values." When the truth is their fanatics to a cult rooting out all things they and their masters deem as heretical.
Mass Effect 3, though not quite for the reason most people would say. Yes, yes, the ending sucked and ruined the rest of the trilogy, but it was inevitable that it was going to kill the franchise dead no matter how good or bad it was. Mass Effect was conceived from the beginning to be an epic told across three games where choices made in one would have rippling effects in the others, and the end would always result in a shattered status quo that would affect all civilization across the entire galaxy. Even in the most ideal situation where the project lived up to the hype and ambition (which it didn't even come close to doing), making a sequel to that would be impossible.
Honestly, I always thought the premise behind Mass Effect was flawed from the beginning. Bioware approached the project like they were making an epic film trilogy, when they should have looked at it as an RPG sandbox. Right from the onset, the ME universe had a massive amount of worldbuilding, history, unsolved mysteries, politics rife with intrigue, and plot hooks that could have been used to tell thousands of stories. Instead, they used all that to tell one big one that would change the world state tremendously in so many ways that a continuation wouldn't really be possible. Not without fracturing the fanbase anyway. Though the fact that all the endings were so godawful was the nugget on top of the shit sundae.
That being said, Andromeda definitely drove at least a few nails into the ME coffin. It was obviously meant to be a soft reboot of the franchise, providing a reason to take all the existing alien races and put them in a far-off galaxy away from the original trilogy's nonsense, but its poor reception put the kibosh on that plan. So I guess it would still count.
Funnily enough, it may have also had a hand in killing both Anthem and Dragon Age as well. Or perhaps Anthem killed Mass Effect and Dragon Age. It's hard to say. Anthem siphoned resources off development for DA4 and Andromeda, but Andromeda was such a colossal failure that it put even more pressure an Anthem to reach success numbers it could never achieve. Regardless, Dragon Age is screwed thanks to both fuck-ups.
I don't think Bethesda has the talent left to course-correct anymore. They were always behind the curve when it came to tech and talent as it is, getting by entirely by the wide scope and ambition of their games (kind of like a lot of Eurojank developers). But even they've shown significant brain drain. Starfield was the company's first real title to come out in eight years, Fallout 4 being their last one, and its state was absolutely abysmal. I don't see them digging their way out of this hole.
No imagination. No matter what the character it is they design, it always has to share their horrendous fashion tastes. Hair that's spiked up and dyed some poisonous color. Thick, oversized glasses that are also obnoxiously colored (and seldom in a way that matches the hair or other colors the bitch is wearing). Fat pancake faces.
And the stupid thing is that if they didn't want a female version of Victor Fries to be sexy, they wouldn't need to make her sexy. They could just follow the same principles behind his design, with pale blue skin, gaunt features, completely hairless, and wearing a hermetically sealed space suit that leaves everything underneath to the imagination. But no, the fucktards can't take off their Tumblr glasses for one freaking second.
People aren't buying Soyny's consoles because they oppose their censorship policies; normies by and large aren't even aware of them and any who are likely don't care regardless. They're not buying the PoS5 because it's an expensive hunk of metal that's not offering anything notable or with a marked improvement over what the last generation produced. And Japan in particular has been moving away from home consoles entirely for some time, cutting further into their sales.
Square's too compromised. They'll still work to appeal to "modern audiences" if for no other reason than to collect those free ESG funbux. They're also not outright abandoning Soyny, they're just not signing any more exclusivity deals with them. They still need to abide to Soyny's policies if they want to keep making anything for the PoS5, which means every version of their games will be censored. Companies prefer to make a one-size-fits-all product rather than make cuts and alterations to a specific version to suit its affiliated platform owner's standards, and we all know Microsoft is adopting similar ones as well. Seriously, I don't see anything change happening with Square.
I like how the guards aren't doing anything to help her and are acting like nothing's happening. They don't give a shit, and considering how tourists treat them, they honestly shouldn't.
Square doesn't care about the censorship, though, considering they're actively engaging in it themselves. They're just realizing they're doing themselves no favors putting all their big releases on one platform. It's just about money, nothing more.
Simple: they don't walk on eggshells. They expect everyone else to walk on eggshells for them. If any of their members suddenly do take offense at what they do, they excommunicate them, expelling them from the movement, calling them far-right reactionaries, white supremacists, nazis, and every other buzzword insult in their playbook, and attacking them every chance they get. Hence the massive hostilities to TERFs, Rowling, and most recently, Jews.
Jeff Goldblum after coming out of the telepod with Ellen "Elliot" Page.