Plague Doctor
Gold Member
Y'all mother fuckers remember classic Bioware writing?
Meet the new talent there.
Fucking clownshoes.
Not the same company and it shows.
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Y'all mother fuckers remember classic Bioware writing?
Meet the new talent there.
Fucking clownshoes.
Not the same company and it shows.
TheInfamousKira
Reseterror Resettler
Sleepwalker
Member
CompleteGlobalSaturation
Member
I have no hope for Mass Effect.
Darkness_Arises
Member
He should probably go back to begging for Acolyte Season 2.
cormack12
Gold Member
I think it's the Qunari and it's meant to say Hoof
moxing
Neo Member
I like to get a clean read on a game with metrics and reliable scoring as much as I can, but... did you ever spend much time reading gaming mags like PSM or EGM? We're kind of in a bell curve- we started out with magazine game reviews delivered with an obvious bias by personality reviewers meant to provoke the reader toward one reaction or another. The Raiden hate around MGS2 was so extreme that they had comics of him singing Elton John and talking about whether or not his ass looked big. Such was the backlash at having such a fruity pretty-boy MC.
As the medium grew up out of being entertainment for children and being entertainment for the adults that used to be those very same children, we had to place more emphasis on where we were spending our money and who was getting that money, and that kind of pushed us toward the Age of the Objective Review. You really could get reasonably decent at-a-glance comparisons and ratings on upcoming titles from people who had experience with their advance copies of the games. At this same time though, folks like Sterling and Yahtzee and Adam & Morgan on G4 were paying their rent by being hotheaded and deliberately putting how the experience made them feel at the fore, because that's an extremely lucrative thing to do. It's where you get your clicks at. You still had to read more than the headlines or watch a different show if you wanted a more objective review, because those weren't cutting big checks- and kind of still don't.
And now we're on the other end of that bell curve, remembering what little objectivity we enjoyed for a time, while nothing's really ever changed with provocative reviewing practices because they still drive traffic to the website.
I think the most effective review you can get is one where the reviewer has to speak on various objectively defined categories. They're going to demonstrate bias and- by virtue of a review being a review- give us their perspective from what they played. But if you can narrow that into a few buckets, having them take that experience and then tell us how the graphics/music/writing/handling/etc is within their particular band of experience, then we as readers have an opportunity to compare those buckets to other reviews using the same system. My ideal reviewer right now is probably Iron Pineapple, who is kind of limited by only reviewing things in his "steam dumpster diving" format for finding soulslike games that are neat.
Nydius
Member
Skill Up talking about how the last two hours of the game was great and made him wonder what the game could have been because the rest of the game was crap leading up to it reminds me of another game from earlier this year that also got plenty of positive “mainstream” reviews: Star Wars Outlaws.
The final two hours of that game was much better than the 15-20 or so hours before it, almost the point where it felt like a different game. If the same is true about DA Veilguard, that, alone, makes it a hard pass. I’m not going to slog through 40ish hours of mediocrity for 2 good hours of writing and gameplay.
The final two hours of that game was much better than the 15-20 or so hours before it, almost the point where it felt like a different game. If the same is true about DA Veilguard, that, alone, makes it a hard pass. I’m not going to slog through 40ish hours of mediocrity for 2 good hours of writing and gameplay.
moxing
Neo Member
Schmendrick
Member
I'm so glad this game exists. This will be a treasure chest of memes.
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
I’m honestly feeling really relieved after seeing all these screenshots and videos.
I was worried that it’d be just good enough where I’d decide to give it a shot, only to be irritated by the little bits of wokeness and crappy Marvel dialog that popped up here and there.
But no, they put that shit right out there in the open and wear it proudly. That makes it a really clear hard pass for me. Now I can enjoy laughing at the shitshow that ensues, and not waste any of my money/time playing this horrendous shit, nor waste any of my energy wondering whether BioWare could ever return to glory.
I was worried that it’d be just good enough where I’d decide to give it a shot, only to be irritated by the little bits of wokeness and crappy Marvel dialog that popped up here and there.
But no, they put that shit right out there in the open and wear it proudly. That makes it a really clear hard pass for me. Now I can enjoy laughing at the shitshow that ensues, and not waste any of my money/time playing this horrendous shit, nor waste any of my energy wondering whether BioWare could ever return to glory.
simpatico
Member
This Skill Up review is just confirmation bias. The big outlet scores for this game are simply brazen. Much more so after listening to his rather long review of it. I mean I actually thought maybe the combat grind would be enjoyable. Perhaps that team was insulated from the writing team and they just did their thing. But this appears to not be the case... I love the new cope: "Bioware was always bad at writing"
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amigastar
Member
Talking about diminishing returns? The memes are not worth the final product we get, imo.
I am sorely disappointed by what I've heard, from 3 reviewers, so far.
My main concerns:
Poor companion character interactions + quests.
And biggest of all...
The sidelining of Solas, as the main antagonist. Solas as my main source of anticipation and they push him aside!?
Screw that. I won't be buy this game.
My main concerns:
Poor companion character interactions + quests.
And biggest of all...
The sidelining of Solas, as the main antagonist. Solas as my main source of anticipation and they push him aside!?
Screw that. I won't be buy this game.
Trippy
Member
The only hope is that it’s never made.
We can at least look forward to new Sci-Fi RPG, “Exodus” from the OGs of Mass Effect and KOTOR, Drew Karpyshy and James Ohlen.
Coloress_Kafka
Member
I would start leaking my own nudes on alt accounts and pretend like my entire PC got hacked.
cormack12
Gold Member
Yeah the end of Inquisition pretty much made it clear the next arc was Solas. Even changing the name from Dreadwolf sucked. It was also a more interesting arc.
I mean I get why they changed it to The Veilguard but it feels way too Saturday morning cartoon for me compared to where we were heading.
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Kacho
Gold Member
Yep. I was on the fence with you but I’m out after today. Gonna play Vampire Survivors DLC and possibly Red Dead PC until Dragon Quest 3 drops.
Rip BioWare.
Lokaum D+
Member
Change " i want to be a Dragon" with " i want to be gay" and we have Veilguard.
Lest we forget.
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Luipadre
Member
This was supposed to be my first game on the Pro... Now i need to figure out what to play until the end of nov lol
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
Non binary. Gay isn't gay enough anymore.
moxing
Neo Member
I have enough gay friends who also want to be dragons that we may as well just add both options to the wheel.
Kacho
Gold Member
What drops at the end of Nov? Stalker 2?
Luipadre
Member
Yes and i probably gonna play Outlaws too if the Pro patch drops with the big patch at the end of the month
Lokaum D+
Member
Lets agree to "i want to be a trans non-binary Dragon"
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Astray
Member
The theory that comes closest to mind is it being an editor and not him, but even then, it's spectacularly dumb to break NDA on one of the most high-profile (and likely most controversial) games of 2024.
(Yes I acknowledge that my affection for the content is kinda clouding my judgement for now).
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Sleepwalker
Member
The most damning thing I've heard is Skill Up saying he wishes he got his 50 hours back.
Its probably the worst feedback you could get on an RPG like this.
Its probably the worst feedback you could get on an RPG like this.
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
I’m trying to finish up Metaphor: Refantazio so I can move on to Ys X and Romancing Saga 2 remake. Too many games, not enough time. And especially not enough time for Veilguard.
PeteBull
Member
I say it as ur longtime subscriber(dont even know how many years it was but back then u didnt get any review copies for games and u only did review vids on ur yt channel- no podcasts no nothing else)- im antifeminist and antiwoke as only possible, im not even a westerner, the "antiwoke ppl" are perfectly fine with every1 enjoying w/e games they enjoying.
We just dont like when ingenuine ppl try to force us to like stuff we getting disgusted by, we got our traditional values that worked for society for centuries if not milienia, we see how nasty it got when progressive worldview got into mainstream and got pushed hard, what is worse- it gets more and more insane every year and ofc we arent ok with that.
And to prove it quickly, i remember back in the days u mentioned in one or maybe even few vids u are martial artists/got ur own dojo/school and teaching classes- and u do it as an escape/thing that brings u peace etc
Just throwing it out there so u know im a random guy on the net with all possible "mysogonist/right wing" views and still perfectly fine watching/enjoying ur review vids and do it for long years
CloudShiner
Member
Dragon's Dogma 2? Half the title the same lol, and everything else about it way better anyway than this crap. Should be great on the Pro too.
Luipadre
Member
I tried the trial and i wasnt a fan of it
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
Side note.......reviews of video games actually ARE opinions. That's the truth!
Fake
Member
Toxic positivity even inside the game.
seems better than i expected, ok i'll bite
lol by that clown logic metaphor will sell 30million copies in a month i guess.
Solarstrike
Member
It's not on Steam? Could have sworn I seen it on there a few months ago. I see it's on the Epic Store though, smh
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drotahorror
Member
I take this back. There’s something rigged with this one from critics.
Draugoth
Gold Member
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
Man that is just absolutely pathetic. Game has an obvious, in-your-face progressive agenda, but you aren’t allowed to give that even the slightest mention in your review.
Gotta love that journalistic integrity.
Sharius
Member
what, you don't like this sale predict? you are bigot, chud, incel or whatever
Chuck Berry
Gold Member
Whoever made the claim that there’s probably a companion quest involving getting them magical bottom surgery or some shit should get a medal.
xenosys
Neo Member
I remember him saying the same thing before he took FFXVI apart last year, despite that game being largely well-received, so it's not really something he's only recently added into his videos.
In any case, him prefacing his opinion about the game with "it's only my subjective opinion guys, there are others out there" is probably just a way of disarming certain groups of people in his community that can't take views that doesn't align with their own worldview very well.
Draugoth
Gold Member
Veilguard doesnt even try to hide what's their focus, EA did try to hide the reviews whomever.
Fake
Member
Holy shit.