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[DAHGAMING]

Square jaw on every fucking female......gross

I like it, more surface area to aim for when giving them your best left hook and great chance to cause maximum damage from it .

 

[Dazraell]

It's okay. Looks better than reveal trailer, that's for sure. But I was hoping all of these rumors about DA going full action-RPG route won't be true. Will probably play it, but my feelings over this are very mixed. Visually it looks fine, but I'm not digging the overall aesthetics and the color palette they picked. Protagonist's voice also feels very mismatched with the character model

 

[Lux R7]

Combat looks way better than Dragon's Dogma 2

no, absolutely not.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

Those characters...

That writing...

That linear treadmill design...

That brainless combat...

 

[Kacho]

Doesn’t look as bad as I was expecting. The battle system could be fun.

Your optimism is intriguing. I’ll watch the video in a bit. Excited to see it in action.

 

[Jibran#one]

I think this will be the last chance for bioware , and from whatever Ive seen this will be a mid game.
Games like baldurs gate 3 exists which it will be compared with and will probably fall short of it

 

[captainnapalm]

Why is everything smeared with vaseline and purple? I was thinking that the new Dragon Age color scheme reminds me of something and then I realised it's the Resetera color scheme lol.

I'm going to withhold judgment for now, but it can't be worse than Inquisition. That game really sucked. Would have like DA:O type combat but obviously that's not gonna happen. Combat looked pretty lame.

 

[Bartski]

got that modern Fortnite look

 

[SEGAvangelist]

Square jaw on every fucking female......gross

I just want a sexy, dangerous romance option like Morrigan again.

 

[Complistic]

Looks so unappealing to me. They really aimed it at kids that weren't alive when Origins released, I think.

Hope that works out for them.

 

[DragoonKain]

I realize it's a video game and there's always going to be suspension of disbelief, but I laughed at the part where it was like "Look like the Venatori put up a barrier to block the way" and you just do one weak slash to it and the barrier disappears. Really effective putting up a barrier that has a crystal in the middle you can easily slash to remove the barrier. Effective magic.

 

[The Cockatrice]

Graphics look competent, but the artstyle makes it look like a luxury mobile game. Why is it so colorful. Why do weapons look like happy meal toys. Gameplay doesn't look amazing either, but this is early game, maybe later cooler skills improves things. Hope you can turn off those distracting health bars, might help with the presentation.

Ah well, I will probably still buy it and moan.. unless reviews are awful. But feels a bit like another Andromeda.

Its using frosbyte. This is how Inquisition also looked. I actually like that its vibrant.

I never expected them to go back to origins style and anyone who did was delusional. It has nothing to do with "Fornite" or whatever.

 

[Zheph]

I realize it's a video game and there's always going to be suspension of disbelief, but I laughed at the part where it was like "Look like the Venatori put up a barrier to block the way" and you just do one weak slash to it and the barrier disappears. Really effective putting up a barrier that has a crystal in the middle you can easily slash to remove the barrier. Effective magic.

 

[danklord]

Looks like it's time to play the whole series on the Legion Go.

 

[Slimboy Fat]

You can tell women wrote this, and designed the characters

 

[Terenty]

Did a 5 year old write the dialogue?

 

[ShaiKhulud1989]

You can tell women wrote this, and designed the characters

I unironically think that character design was offloaded to Maxis. It’s basically Sims Medieval 2.

 

[TrebleShot]

Basically looked like a hero shooter but a single player version, if you told me any of these were in Overwatch Id believe you.

 

[Ristifer]

Gameplay looks fine, but the characters/dialogue are complete ass. Maybe if they'd stop writing such prolific novels on social media and actually focused on writing good characters, they'd break through a bit.

 

[rhodesianshepard]

no, absolutely not.

dude, that is not a high bar. DD2 combat is very mediocre. Plus, this looks like the very opening of the game. Pretty unfair to judge combat harshly based on a character with only basic attacks

 

[LectureMaster]

I'm really not feeling that cast tbh, the only one interesting seems the dwarf female. Purely based on looks and previous trailer.

Maybe because she is a returning character from inquisition. I quite liked her in inquisition, her reaction to inquisitor's flirt was super cute.

 

[DragoonKain]

Btw what's with all these female RPG characters looking like offshoots of Aloy lately? It's really bizarre:

 

[Dazraell]

I realize it's a video game and there's always going to be suspension of disbelief, but I laughed at the part where it was like "Look like the Venatori put up a barrier to block the way" and you just do one weak slash to it and the barrier disappears. Really effective putting up a barrier that has a crystal in the middle you can easily slash to remove the barrier. Effective magic.

I also had a good laugh when they had a debacle why he can't destroy the pillar because it'll be suicide and they just breezed through towards that pillar like it was a threadmill run lol

 

[Sanepar]

thx god we have Kingdom Come part 2

 

[Aenima]

Gameplay and art direction looks mediocre at best. As a fan of Dragon Age i might still play it when the game drops to 10-20€.

 

[Arsic]

thank Jesus Christ we have Kingdom Come part 2

FTFY

 

[Lux R7]

dude, that is not a high bar. DD2 combat is very mediocre.

this shows we are so far in terms of taste that is futile to talk about this. Let's just disagree and move on.

 

[SEGAvangelist]

Btw what's with all these female RPG characters looking like offshoots of Aloy lately? It's really bizarre:

They're made by people that aren't into good lookin' women. It's that simple.

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

Stylisically it looks bankrupt and just awful. Like a hero shooter RPG.

I just don't see the merit in sinking hours into this when there are better experiences to be had in gaming.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

Btw what's with all these female RPG characters looking like offshoots of Aloy lately? It's really bizarre:

She was in Inquisition as well:

 

[Doom85]

Btw what's with all these female RPG characters looking like offshoots of Aloy lately? It's really bizarre:

You do realize Harding was a character in Inquisition, right? And honestly, she looks better here than in that game.

Edit: huh, she doesn’t look too bad in the post above me, but the other images I saw were not as great looking.

 

[digoutyoursoul]

I love Bioware, I’m not feeling this at all though. That may change when I try it of course .

 

[DragoonKain]

You do realize Harding was a character in Inquisition, right? And honestly, she looks better here than in that game.

Edit: huh, she doesn’t look too bad in the post above me, but the other images I saw were not as great looking.

No I didn't, I played Inquisition like a decade ago and remember zero about it.

 

[Stafford]

Combat looks way better than Dragon's Dogma 2 and this is the very beginning of the game. I wish we got to see more open area hubs, which the game certainly has, but very solid first impression. Still hate the oversaturation of neon purple. Just a terrible color, but I'm sure that is just representative of this one area

That was one big ass skill tree too. I'm sure hands on previews will drop soon.

I haven't played DD2 myself, but the combat is often praised to the high heavens. This for you is seriously better?

 

[rhodesianshepard]

IGN article with quotes from the female game director
https://www.ign.com/articles/dragon-age-the-veilguard-the-first-preview

So with that in mind, let’s talk a bit about Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s battle system, which reduces the party size from four to three and in so doing becomes more action forward than ever. It features what Busche calls “sophisticated animation canceling and branching,” with the design centered around dodging, countering, and using risk-reward charge attacks designed to break enemy armor layers. Much of its strategy lives in its ability wheel, which stops the action either by tapping or holding the shoulder button and allows you to issue orders as you see fit. In particular, companions can be kitted out as support units and healers, which Busche cites as a big player request after Inquisition.

“The combat system is an interesting challenge going into the fourth iteration of this game because as you know, every Dragon Age has reinvented combat to some degree,” Busche explains. “Of course, pause and play strategy is always the backbone of it. But what that means is that, in addition to fans of all three prior games and welcoming in an entirely new generation of fans, we've got a pretty diverse player base to accommodate to.”

 

[squarealex]

Hogwarts Legacy 2

 

[CherryFalls]

I haven't played DD2 myself, but the combat is often praised to the high heavens. This for you is seriously better?

He stated he's going to hype dragon age veil no matter what to ''own the transphobes'', so don't expect honest criticism

 

[El Muerto]

Oh no fortnite in my dragon age. The horror.

They look like they were standing behind a screen door when someone threw shit at it.

 

[Madflavor]

The Ogre in Veilguard looks fucking adorable.

Spoiler: Dragon Age: Origins Ogre

 

[Vlodril]

This looks even less of an rpg than DAI somehow..

Also at least inquisition had some good looking characters. I am not feeling any of the new ones so far.

 

[Skifi28]

I just don't see the merit in sinking hours into this when there are better experiences to be had in gaming.

Agreed. Those animu dating sims aren't going to play themselves.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Its using frosbyte. This is how Inquisition also looked. I actually like that its vibrant.

So they reused the same engine that was widely criticised when DAI and MEA launched for not being suited to non-FPS games?

 

[balls of snow]

Not open world per ign. Thank god. Bioware are not the people for a witcher 3 like rpg.

 

[Varnish La PS]

Tiktok Age.

 

[Dazraell]

The Ogre in Veilguard looks fucking adorable.

 

[Life Diff]

Welp wrap it up. If that is the best foot forward then it's fucking over. That gameplay looked ass

 

[LazyParrot]

Walking from one scripted encounter to the next along a set path while NPCs spew exposition at you. Yup, it's a modern AAA game.

 

[Stafford]

He stated he's going to hype dragon age veil no matter what to ''own the transphobes'', so don't expect honest criticism

Oh I see, lmao.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

Walking from one scripted encounter to the next along a set path while NPCs spew exposition at you. Yup, it's a modern AAA game.

Can’t be any worse than Final Fantasy XVI…. Can it?

 

[Hrk69]

Not impressed at all. The tone is so strange

They completely changed what Dragon Age is.