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[Gripsx]

I never got to play dragon age even though I played neverwinter, kotor, jade empire and mass effect at their launch year. I wasnt really into medieval shit and thought the artstyle was ass.

Maybe I should try the game now after all these years

 

[Joe Cool]

 

[BouncyFrag]

DA:O will always be one of my most beloved of games.

 

[Fbh]

B...b...but it topped the charts!!!!!!

 

[Sephimoth]

Still makes me laugh, even with the support of games media/reviews they failed to pull one over on gamers.

Noticers rose up

 

[Mister Wolf]

I don't think I've seen a greater self destruction of a famous game IP.

 

[semiconscious]

What are your favorite memories of the series?

never been able to get through origins. furthest i've gotten was the fade, which pretty much finished me off. personally, the game's combat mechanics felt inferior to final fantasy xii, which surprised me. passed on 2. completed & really enjoyed inquisition, which also surprised me. so, yeah, not much of a dragon age day type person...

 

[DaciaJC]

The Veilguard's messy production saw the game rebooted from a live service no one wanted into a single-player RPG that, miraculously, came out feeling like the character-driven epics BioWare is associated with despite being a decade in the works.

 

[Mattdaddy]

What are your favorite memories of the series?

Banging the elven servant girl within like the first 10 minutes of the original game, only to have her get shot in the face with an arrow after you bang her, but then decapitating m'ladies murders. Great intro.

Also getting a quest to get that elf dudes girl to like him again, only to end up banging her also.

Honestly the first game was pretty sick. Not sure how they fumbled this franchise so bad.

 

[Plague Doctor]

What about GTA Definitive Edition?

Nah, lots of reviewers showed their asses when they gave this piece of shit a perfect score and walked it back. This was the gift that kept on giving.

This was peak entertainment.

 

[KenaiPhoenix]

After many years pass, historians will look back at these years and probably say "What the fuck was in the water?"

They kill everything, even their money making machines.

 

[lh032]

this franchise is over. every fanboy should move on

 

[Pimpbaa]

It's like mass effect, after the first game it all went downhill fast (although at least mass effect 2 is decent). Doesn't really deserve a day.

 

[SomeNorseGuy]

yea that's revisionist. EA actually put a lot of resources in marketing DAV and gave them the time to finish the game. They also put modest expectations on the game in terms of sales and it didn't even reach that. But these losers will never take accountability for their own failures.

Yeah, they even went as far as set up a "roundtable" of youtubers/influencers (consisting of modern audience yes-people, of course, who lapped up everything they were served). And claimed that they had their finger on the pulse of the community, fucking lol - rofl even.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard Roundtable Q&A - 'The Conclusion to this Game Needs to Matter'

Here's the full roundtable Q&A with BioWare's Corinne Busche and John Epler, answering all things Dragon Age: The Veilguard at the preview.

wccftech.com

 

[Cyberpunkd]

The game was trash but all those memes and laughs were free to play so, all in all, good game? No, of course not.

This. The main issue was not really trans stuff, that was one scene in the game. However:

1. Writing was on the level of an adolescent
2. You couldn't play as the evil character - the game forces you to be good

Also:

came out feeling like the character-driven epics BioWare is associated with despite being a decade in the works.

 

[Madflavor]

I can't believe Bioware is still around.

I mean what? Like fucking how!?

 

[BigBeauford]

Dude, this game had fucking top scars.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

1.Writing was on the level of an adolescent
2. You couldn't play as the evil character - the game forces you to be good

Byproduct of the trans behind the game

 

[Kacho]

Yeah, they even went as far as set up a "roundtable" of youtubers/influencers (consisting of modern audience yes-people, of course, who lapped up everything they were served). And claimed that they had their finger on the pulse of the community, fucking lol - rofl even.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard Roundtable Q&A - 'The Conclusion to this Game Needs to Matter'

Here's the full roundtable Q&A with BioWare's Corinne Busche and John Epler, answering all things Dragon Age: The Veilguard at the preview.

wccftech.com

Those buried posts lmao

These people can't exist without their echo chamber. Any dissent must be silenced or removed.

 

[Gonzito]

"Return to form"

10/10

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

"Return to form"

10/10

Lol. Must have been about 20 different outlets using the return to form bs.

 

[Hudo]

After Veilguard, I would be fucking silent as well.

 

[lifa-cobex]

I can't believe Bioware is still around.

I mean what? Like fucking how!?

To say that Mass Effect 3 wasn't received well and I would absolutely argue was the tipping point for them.

They haven't made a truly successful game since 2012.

Origins has always been a top 5 game.
Full of absolute potential for sequels and they managed to balls it up three fucking times.
It takes genuine skill to side step a basic follow up to the original and come out with what they have done.

 

[calico]

Origins is great, and the origin concept is great. Played through it and the expansion again recently and they're still great.

DA2 is frustrating. I like a lot about it, despite all the well known problems and despite them starting to turn DA into ME, which was a mistake. I still finished it three times.

Inquisition sucks. Criminal levels of padding, and it's not like they made a game and then padded it; the padding seems like the design priority. Disgusting.

 

[Majima Everywhere System]

Someone made that article that Greedfall 2 is that old school Dragon Age you crave, and I thought about Dragon Age. So while Dragon Age may have suffered its first death, the second death is a long way off.

 

[Life Diff]

Greatest moment in the series is in dragon age origins with the battle at ostagar. It felt like the opening of fellowship of the ring when the humans and elves team up to fight sauron. It set the tone for the rest of the game and it is one of my favorite experiences in gaming.

Spoiler

Then they reveal at the end of Veilguard this and other important scenes were all orchestrated by the main bad guys, totally fucking up Logaines character as a result

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Spoiler

Then they reveal at the end of Veilguard this and other important scenes were all orchestrated by the main bad guys, totally fucking up Logaines character as a result

That's low, even by non-existing BioWare standards. Actually all the characters of Dragon Age: Origins were incredibly well written.

 

[Esppiral]

Hey at least the last game had awesome hair.

 

[Sticks]

Thank you EA

 

[Pejo]

My favorite part of this saga was when the "games journalist" that originally called it a masterpiece wrote a correction piece that the game wasn't very good, just a month or two ago.

Even their faithfuls turned on this game, for whatever reason.

The real troubling part is that ex-Bioware staff from this game that got fired are now working all over the industry on different games. I think "The Professor" ended up with CDPR right?

 

[MMaRsu]

Dragon age day

Corporate nonsense

 

[xrnzaaas]

N7 Day is next. Even if by some miracle Bioware will be allowed to release ME5, they're just going to finish destroying another franchise.

 

[Hudo]

What are your favorite memories of the series?

I am usually not a fan of dwarves in fantasy settings (with exceptions. Gimli is goated, for example). But every dwarven origin story in Origins is just peak. Is Orzammar and the depictions of dwarves cliché? Sure. But it's well done. And also the whole premise of "shit, we dug too deep, and now we've got Darkspawn crawling into our mines!" is actually well set up and executed. Albeit heavily "inspired" by what happened to Moria.

 

[IDKFA]

DA:O will always be one of my most beloved of games.

This. It's one of the best games to come out of Bioware. I'd also say it's one of the best RPGs ever made.

I don't understand why EA hasn't remade or even simply remastered it yet.

 

[Kerotan]

Trying to name a day after your game is next level cringe.

 

[Lootlord]

Dude, this game had fucking top scars.

But why no bottom scars? That's discrimination.

 

[Panajev2001a]

Dragon Age Day Came And Went Without A Single Word From BioWare

This comes after a ton of internal strife before, during, and after Dragon Age: The Veilguard

kotaku.com

Happy belated Dragon Age Day to those who celebrate (not BioWare apparently). What are your favorite memories of the series?

Darn Kotaku is still refusing to admit nobody really liked the game, too many people did not buy it which would mean including their "inner circle". They are completely delusional.

 

[dgrdsv]

Nothing left to say after the absolute masterpiece of The Veilguard.
There will be no sequel either because how can you make a sequel to such a perfect ending to whole franchise?
/s

 

[ReBurn]

I didn't even know there was a Dragon Age day

 

[Gonzito]

 

[PeteBull]

All i can say is to play DA:I instead, maxed in 4k it still looks decent enough nowadays:


It has very low requirements, if u go with 1080p high u can get 60-80fps even on ancient (2016) pascal gtx 1060:

So even if u got old/weak hardware it will run smoothly while not looking crazy out of place

 

[Madflavor]

Dragon Age was never the same after Origins. It just sucks that it continued a consistent trend of getting worse and worse after.

Someone made that article that Greedfall 2 is that old school Dragon Age you crave, and I thought about Dragon Age. So while Dragon Age may have suffered its first death, the second death is a long way off.

Dragon Age was the spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate, and then Baldur's Gate 3 was obviously a sequel to BG but also the real successor to DA:O.

We've come full circle. Bioware can sink for all I care.

 

[RagnarokIV]

LMAO

 

[kindaGoth]

Does Origins hold up?

 

[Autistic_Pancake]

This article males me angry. Its just factually untrue. The writing was poor, the characters were poor and agenda driven, the art direction was not the greatest… they weren't treated unfairly ffs seriously…

Well, it's a technically right statement. Because the real "fair treatment" is to have this thing deleted from existence, leaving no trace on any PC or console around the world.

 

[Gonzito]

Does Origins hold up?

If you have the patience to mod it on pc, yes

 

[Edgelord79]

Well, it's a technically right statement. Because the real "fair treatment" is to have this thing deleted from existence, leaving no trace on any PC or console around the world.

It was not a character drive epic, it was awful. There was no miracle. It should not be deleted from existence.

It should stand as dire example for others.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

I still think the second game is great from a character perspective. It was obviously rushed but I enjoyed it. At least the female characters were hot

 

[calico]

Does Origins hold up?

Yes. On PC at least.

 

[damidu]

this whole franchise was all over the place after origins, each game chasing some different trends of the time, always coming up short and late.
kinda impressive it survived this long.