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graywolf323
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Dragon Age: The Veilguard Review | RPGFan
Hard choices should remain difficult because someone else will try to make them for you once they're easier to make. BioWare's Dragon Age: The Veilguard
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RPG Fan just gave it a 95 which matches the score their first review gave DA:O and also a 97 (!) for story which is the highest rating they’ve given any Dragon Age game’s story
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ElFenomeno
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The reviewer enjoyed ME Andromeda. Yeah, I'm good.Dragon Age: The Veilguard Review | RPGFan
Hard choices should remain difficult because someone else will try to make them for you once they're easier to make. BioWare's Dragon Age: The Veilguard
RPG Fan just gave it a 95 which matches the score their first review gave DA:O and also a 97 (!) for story which is the highest rating they’ve given any Dragon Age game’s story
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Dragon Age: The Veilguard Review | RPGFan
Hard choices should remain difficult because someone else will try to make them for you once they're easier to make. BioWare's Dragon Age: The Veilguard
RPG Fan just gave it a 95 which matches the score their first review gave DA:O and also a 97 (!) for story which is the highest rating they’ve given any Dragon Age game’s story
Who are they and where did they come from... Honestly, having looked at their review of the first three pages, almost everything there is either 80 or 90. And it is impossible to take such a resource seriously, since such a number of high ratings simply reduces their value. For which Famitsu was highly valued at the time, since it was almost impossible to get 40 there (if I remember correctly, about 30 games during its entire existence), and even 39 was very difficult to get (About 50 during its entire existence). But if every second game on your site is 80-90, then it is possible to take such a resource seriously.
P.S - Ys X: Nordics 93, Romancing SaGa 2 -95...
And according to their own rating system, it turns out that Dragon Age: The Veilguard at the level of these games, which I won’t even comment on...
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HerjansEagleFeeder
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They way online marketing and shit works these days, I'd bet you publishers like EA and Ubisoft not only pay some people to write good reviews for their shit products. They also proxy build review outlets, along with the obligatory bot farms to produce engagement and post positive reactions. Games journalism is nothing but thinly veiled, poorly generated astroturf marketing dogshit.
graywolf323
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RPGFan is over 25+ years old and started out as a Lunar fansite (LunarNET), you can see it on the site if you checked, they started in 1998
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DeepEnigma
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The voice acting sounds like they're reading lines. Night and day difference between the two, especially with the robotic American accents all over the place.
I don't want to say anything bad, because I've never heard of them. But damn, the evaluation criteria and the way they evaluate games is extremely bad, especially the fact that they have no boundaries and practically every second game from the 80-90 is a game of the year. I can't take such a resource seriously.
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Aguero9320
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Really enjoying this. Not too far in, but played the first section. Looks fantastic, and I like the characters so far. Made a better first impression than Outlaws did, and I went on to really like that as well… Not quite finished it yet, so will park this to play next.
Alex11
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Don't know why they bothered putting choices at all, I keep selecting the funny ones, but even those are tame AF, remember that in DA2 some of them were funny.
Such a huge difference in voice acting as well, even Solas sounds weird, is it the same actor?
digoutyoursoul
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Probably used ElevenLabs
graywolf323
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I mean RPGs are their focus and you’ll find a lot of people that are going to be massive fans of Ys X and Romancing Saga, it’s not like they give everything that high, though Audra might given she also gave 80+ scores to Flintlock and Dustborn but her awards for 2023 were solid
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RPGFan Games of the Year 2023 ~ Editors’ Awards: Audra Bowling | RPGFan
Trails into Reverie reignited my passion for The Legend of Heroes: Trails series, making me extremely excited for what's next. I adore its characters and
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And that's after autobanning wrongthinkers from the sub.I see honeymoon phase didn't last long on the DA subreddit
Alex11
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No, it isn't shit, IMO it's mediocre, maybe even good-ish in some places, but I think something else is happening now.
As the game was being shitted on before release and there was this disappointment feeling for many, some who went into the game with no expectations kinda did an 180, a sort of reverse effect of sorts.
I mean RPGs are their focus and you’ll find a lot of people that are going to be massive fans of Ys X and Romancing Saga, it’s not like they give everything that high, though Audra might given she also gave 80+ scores to Flintlock and Dustborn but her awards for 2023 were solid
Reviews | RPGFan
For over 25 years, RPGFan has been a trusted name for RPG reviews for all platforms and genres.RPGFan Games of the Year 2023 ~ Editors’ Awards: Audra Bowling | RPGFan
Trails into Reverie reignited my passion for The Legend of Heroes: Trails series, making me extremely excited for what's next. I adore its characters and
I simply noted that they have no evaluation criteria, their evaluations are extremely chaotic and do not follow any norms or logic.
Let's say they gave 95 DA, they gave the same to BG3. Which is strange in itself, but we are not discussing people's tastes here, they are all different, and we will not even discuss why BG3 has lower scores in almost all points (Although those who think that the story, quests and level of dialogue writing in DA are at the level of BG3 100% need to read the books...)
Let's see
DA: 93 + 94 + 95 + 94 + 97 \ 5 = 94.6 ok they made it 95
BG3: 93 + 97 + 85 + 75 + 97\ 5 = 89.4 I have no idea how they got 95, apparently God sent it, but let's assume.
Romancing SaGa 2: 90 + 100 + 100 + 90 +90 \5 = 94 Well, they wanted to round it up and they made it 95, although there's nothing to round up there. (I won't even pay attention to the fact that this game has better ratings than DA and BG3)
Ys X: Nordics: 86 + 82 +97 + 95 +97\ 5 = 91.4 But they have 93
Persona 3 Reload: 85 + 90 + 80 + 100 + 85\5 = 88 But they have 83
Visions of Mana: 95 (Yes, in their opinion, the graphics in this game are better then in DA) + 85 + 90 + 90 +75\5 = 87 precise hit, soooooo when necessary they can count
Black Myth: Wukong: 95 + 90 + 90 + 100 + 90\5 = 93 their rating is 92
I just don't see any system or logic in their ratings, it feels like they give ratings without taking into account that games of a similar genre are already on the market and don't compare with them, but purely give ratings in isolation from other games.
P.S - Well, the cherry on the cake... 82... I'll just leave it here, without even commenting. Although considering that they gave 85 for the story, in their opinion, the story in this game is on the level of Persona 3...
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Madflavor
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I see honeymoon phase didn't last long on the DA subreddit
Oh god that's hilarious. I'm loving this!
xVodevil
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Bad and boring writing is what I've seen. Is it confirmed now that there is absolutely no good or bad path in dialogues? Just like 'yeah okay' or 'whatever' and 'oof'
That woke whatever stuff aside if that is true for this title, it just should have been a straightforward linear action game with no dialogue choices (preferably under new IP)
Where's the fun in having the same 4 dialogue choice in an RPG like this?
That woke whatever stuff aside if that is true for this title, it just should have been a straightforward linear action game with no dialogue choices (preferably under new IP)
Where's the fun in having the same 4 dialogue choice in an RPG like this?
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
RPGFan is/was a great site for JRPG news since the PS1 days, up there with RPGamer. But I always remembered them having maybe THE most inflated review scores I’ve ever seen.I mean RPGs are their focus and you’ll find a lot of people that are going to be massive fans of Ys X and Romancing Saga, it’s not like they give everything that high, though Audra might given she also gave 80+ scores to Flintlock and Dustborn but her awards for 2023 were solid
Reviews | RPGFan
For over 25 years, RPGFan has been a trusted name for RPG reviews for all platforms and genres.RPGFan Games of the Year 2023 ~ Editors’ Awards: Audra Bowling | RPGFan
Trails into Reverie reignited my passion for The Legend of Heroes: Trails series, making me extremely excited for what's next. I adore its characters and
Sometimes they’d have reviews where every paragraph was criticizing some aspect of the game, then they’d give it like a 88%. Anything under 85% was ass.
It does seem like they’ve toned it down in recent years though.
Ulysses 31
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Sharius
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why every character create in this gamebeing post has their eye look so feminine, their is no other option? 'caise it make every character look so gay
PeteBull
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This game wasnt made in order for players to have fun, its main purpose is to lecture us about trans ppl and their rights
Mossybrew
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Well at least the game is drawing out the idiots like yourself for my ignore list. Bye!This game wasnt made in order for players to have fun, its main purpose is to lecture us about trans ppl and their rights
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Alex11
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I mean I don't fully agree with his take because I didn't encounter anything that aggravating so far, but why are you making it personal and attack him like that?
I see this constantly, Jesus, it's just a game, of course there's gonna be diverse opinions, and for good measure, the game has many issues, I don't get these absolute takes.
Raven117
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This is what they do. They find an established beloved thing that wasn’t hurting anybody. Kill it. Gut it. Then wear it’s corpse. And blame you for not liking it.I see honeymoon phase didn't last long on the DA subreddit
It simply should have been a new IP.
Ivory Samoan
Gold Member
10 hours in, haven't felt preached to once.
I do, however, avoid certain people a bit more than others, as they irritate me and are cringe (much like in life, there are fucktards, I avoid them in life too).
Apart from the 1.5 weak characters, the rest is A-game BioWare IMO.
I do, however, avoid certain people a bit more than others, as they irritate me and are cringe (much like in life, there are fucktards, I avoid them in life too).
Apart from the 1.5 weak characters, the rest is A-game BioWare IMO.
Humdinger
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Ulysses 31
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ElFenomeno
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Oh man, its pretty rare to see developers shitting on other developers in this manner.
He destroyed these hacks.
Luipadre
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Yes and thats the problem. These things needs to be said out loud. On places like REEE they just ban guys like him
DeathGuise
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The voice actors were probably so fucking horrified by the shitty script they couldn't focus. It's like being asked to play Gymnopedie on a dilator
Chuck Berry
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Transmongold
Cyberpunkd
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SkillUp also focused how the MC treats his party members as children, not to mention there is never any conflict between them. Bastilla being brought to the Dark Side? lol, never again.
Luipadre
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Mister Wolf
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UnrealEck
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He was far more fair to it than I ever expected. That says the game would be alright if not for all the preachy propaganda.
I disagree with him about the abilities. I find the dropkick stupid. A full plate armoured, battleaxe wielding guy drop kicking demons looks dumb. But I guess it fits with the rest of the game. The abilities your teammates have don't stand out in uniqueness with clearly defined identifiable traits. I always go back to a game like WoW where a frostbolt is so easily identifiable in that it has a specific icon that's so unique and intuitive to instantly see that (even as a new player) that's a magical bolt of frost. It has its own recognisable sound so even if you don't cast it you can tell when someone nearby has. As it flies through the air it is, again, identifiable. The abilities in DAV aren't like that they are just very generic and I find myself just picking one that the menu tells me will be detonated by another (which I'll then use afterwards because the menu tells me). It's really lazy design.
edit - Just realised the reviewer mentioned WoW himself. But not for the same reason.
Music might be okay in some parts but I've heard a lot of the music that sounds very out of place. It sounds similar to Deus Ex type music in that it uses a lot of electronic keyboard effects. It literally sounds like it's in the wrong game. Maybe they had spare music from Mass Effect they used. Who knows.
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diffusionx
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I didn’t play this game but I thought everyone knew by now that game reviewers score games based on “the message” and how well it adheres to social justice narratives. If you care about the quality of the game in other respects these mainstream reviewers can’t be trusted.
xenosys
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"I just watched a Dragon Age playthrough and it’s quite unfathomable how infantile and terrible the writing is. Everything feels sanitized and dehumanized."
That's exactly what some other reviewers have alluded to. Water it down to be so sanitized that it becomes uninteresting and bland.
For what it's worth, having played about 10 hours of it, there's a lot of like about it. The visuals are great, I don't mind the stylized art at all. The combat is decent I wish you could control other party members, and they don't even have health bars FFS.
Most of the issues in this game are less to do with gameplay and more to do with writing.
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Kacho
Gold Member
Seeing Ralph (SkillUp) biting his tongue while Paul Tassi talks about the game, is painful
Who the fuck is Taul Passi? I see him all over the place and I have no clue why he has a platform.