Community Manager
Hi all,
I have a few concerns about the upcoming Dragon Age: The Veilguard.
the gameplay trailer leaves a lot to be desired if the YouTube comments are to be listened to.
my biggest gripes are the combat, lore and art style. The combat appears over the shoulder style not dragon age like at all. The lore is not in continuity with the previous games, the pride demon, the darkspawn, they are all neon Christmas tree’s not dark and gritty at all.
the art style is also not In line with previous games, as there is no blood or gore and the darkness is overwhelmed by sparkly effects and vibrant colours.
my BIGGEST gripe is the mispronounciation of Neve. It’s not pronounced ‘Nev’ like Neville it’s pronounced Neeve with emphasis on the ‘ee’ sound as it’s an anglicised version of the Gaelic ‘Niamh’ pronounced this way. My daughter is Neve and I know that Nev is not the way to pronounce it.
I know it’s early development, but I would like to see these things fixed in the game.
Please listen to the community before you ruin the dragon age lore and games.
any other discussion?
@freault wrote:
I agree with you, the game has lost it's way. They've taken away the blood and the gore ....
I’m not buying this even if they paid me to take the game. It’s really upsetting because I love Dragon Age. 100% every achievement on the Xbox and played the heck out of it on the PC,
they need to scrap it and start again. Breast surgery scars and flat head qunari? Go woke and go broke. Don’t change character design on decades old series either.
You mean the character design that was changed in every game of the series?
(Something you would know if you "I love Dragon Age. 100%".)
And could you please enlighten me on how the things you listed effect you in any way?
No one is forcing you to use the breast surgery scar option or to play as a Qunari, nor are they taking anything away from you.
@Vandymon wrote:
Go woke and go broke.
Baldur's Gate 3 is one of the wokest games ever made, and that was a massive critical and commercial success.
@Vandymon wrote:
Don’t change character design on decades old series either.
Every Dragon Age game has a different art style. You mentioned qunari, but they have a different design in every Dragon Age game.
Claiming that this game is woke or not is stupid. We should not enter into that discussion.
Dragon Age has always been a game open to everyone, and that's never been criticized. Since DA Origins, where there were bisexual main characters, and it was great, at least for me. In Mass Effect, I almost always choose a male Sheppard, and I love that he falls in love with Kaidan, and how well written all that development is.
The problem with VEILGUARD is that someone entrusted the direction of this game to a person with zero experience in this type of games and narratives (the sims is another world). And possibly people with much more capacity and skills to lead a project of this size fell by the wayside. The direction of the game opted for a brutal change in the design of characters, their faces and nuances, which no one asked for and almost no one liked. The critics are almost unanimous in this sense, and those who do not want to see it, should look at what is happening with Ubisoft.
There are countless hairstyles and a purple color permeates everything. They try to disguise this with arguments that may seem reasonable (more customization and that the color purple is of the "high nobility"), but how sad and pathetic are purely personal decisions of the director of the project, because they are simply things that she loves, especially the color purple which is her favorite color. He told IGN in a recent interview. I don't care about the color, the thousands of hairstyles or the surgery marks. The problem for me is that it has taken time away from the developers to create a better game by doing these things, or, worse, that very competent people have been fired for not agreeing with these decisions... artistic and others.
