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🐉Dragon Age: The Veilguard Gameplay Reveal - Let us know your thoughts! 🐉

Hey Everyone,  Now that the team has shown off the first the first 20 minutes of the next Dragon Age title I was curious about what everyone's thoughts are. Is anyone else excited for the fall?...
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10 months ago

@joseluisduran01 

joseluisduran01 wrote:

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.

I know a lot of people who like the new art style. Would you like to prove that "almost no one liked" that art-style.

I mean, you must know of a representative survey, right? You wouldn't make such a claim without proof, would you? 👿

A art-style is always subjective, some people will like it and others not. That's just how it is.

joseluisduran01 wrote:

.....that very competent people have been fired for not agreeing with these decisions... artistic and others.

 

Again, do you have any evidence to support this rather large claim?
These people were laid off a few moths ago, after working on the game for 9 years.


I doubt very much that these people suddenly turned against what they had spent so long helping to create.


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joseluisduran01
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10 months ago
@holger1405
It is evident that the artistic direction, the colors, etc... It's a matter of taste. My idea of writing is a forum is not to affirm the obvious, but to talk (if possible and without extreme positions) about what is debatable and apply a little common sense, which seems to be lacking more and more in the video game industry. It cannot be that every time someone criticizes this game, everything is a "you are not right", "it is all a matter of taste" or already, what is missing, "is that you are extreme right" or "you are a transphobe". Not everyone who thinks differently or criticizes this game is a racist, a transphobe, is not right, or just calling it "it's just your opinion". The fact that these criticisms coincide with others made by fascist, ultra-right, gay-hating people, and who talk about agendas, does not mean that the criticism is not legitimate and well-founded.

There is a barrage of criticism of this game since the presentation trailer was released, which by the way was pathetic and I understand that supervised and reviewed by those people who have been working on the game for 9 years. Painting everything purple... There is also another part that has really liked what it has seen. But there is a great division. And those who do not want to see it, there is each one with their freedom to see and think.

You can't develop a game and make decisions behind the backs of the players, especially if we're talking about a saga. Baldus Gate 3 is a perfect example of just WHAT NOT DONE the current Bioware. It is different from the previous ones, but at the same time respectful of all the previous work and coherently following an evolution in everything (design, art, colors, etc...). And by the way, with thousands of options for all sensitivities and orientations of sex and gender. It's great.

There are many well-founded criticisms of the destruction that has been done to this saga. And Electronics Arts will pay for it, and the worst will be the layoffs.
You don't know how I expect to be wrong, but I'm afraid it will be so.
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    holger1405
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    10 months ago

    @joseluisduran01 

    joseluisduran01 wrote:
    or just calling it "it's just your opinion".

    But that is exactly what it is, your opinion, and your opinion is not the law of the land, and there are many people with a different opinion.


    You're criticising a massive RPG just because of how it looks and certain decisions that were made that you don't like, before you've even played it, so forgive me if I don't care much for your opinion.

    It seems this game is not for you, that's fine, there are plenty of good games out there that you might like, I'm going to enjoy DAtV in the meantime.

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    joseluisduran01
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    10 months ago
    @holger1405
    Well, in order not to interest "my opinion", I don't know why you insist on saying NO to everything I think. If you like the game so much (without having played it) then perfect, pre-buy it and you will support what you are seeing.

    For my part, I will not buy the game. And it's a shame.

    The reason for intervening in this forum is precisely to make public why I don't like it, not for you or anyone else to tell them that they like or don't like my opinion. I don't need your approval. I don't care if you care or not. Live your life.

    If this is read by someone from EA or Bioware, then take note (if you are interested in knowing what they think about what they buy their games) and draw their conclusions.

    Sales will speak. And I hope that all those "modern audiences" or those who like the new style, will pay for it.

    And I'll be glad I'm wrong about everything, and that we're a minority of those of us who think that someone at Bioware has screwed up again (read Anthem or Mass Effect Andromeda)

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