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[Schmendrick]

So it turned out to be an ultra safe linear RPG with not much regarding decision making and some woke bullshit like pronouns and sidequests about gender identity sprinkled in...sooo basically shallow popcorn entertainment with some agenda sprinkles.
That´s an easy pass for me.

 

[clarky]

Yes, this! I quite often find myself agreeing with him on a lot of stuff in reviews. I appreciate a source like XboxEra too, but I definitely don't always agree with some very high praise they give to some games. But that's fine.

No code, he mentioned it earlier in the thread.

 

[EviLore]

Skill Up:

"[The game] is a colossal disappointment. I really can't put it any other way. I spent 50 hours playing this, and it was time that I desperately wish I could get back. I started having my doubts at around the 10 hour mark, I was thoroughly checked out at the 20 hour mark, and the remaining 30 hours were just excruciatingly painful as I was forced to suffer through the endless morass of banality that is Dragon Age: The Veilguard. In many ways, Veilguard is a bigger disappointment than Anthem was."

 

[vaibhavpisal]

Wait for the dust to settle and wait for some impression on here. Its the only safe way theses days. I expect this game will be better after a few patches regardless.

I am getting a feeling this game will be tolerable at best instead of being awesome.

Could be wrong though.

 

[Lucifers Beard]

EA being very dirty here...

Yeah, I'm sure it's not a terrible game judging by the majority of reviews. However, he is bang on that those reviewers have likely been screened.

 

[balls of snow]

Polarising reviews huh. To be expected since everyone wants something different from Bioware. Excited to play.

 

[Draugoth]

Reviews have settled on 84/100

 

[Reave]

84% on OpenCritic is pretty good. I'll probably give it a shot.

 

[adamsapple]

Reviews have settled on 84/100

Higher than I expected, TBH.

Looking forward to play this myself in a week or two.

 

[Little Chicken]

Really nice looking game.

 

[clarky]

Skill Up:

"[The game] is a colossal disappointment. I really can't put it any other way. I spent 50 hours playing this, and it was time that I desperately wish I could get back. I started having my doubts at around the 10 hour mark, I was thoroughly checked out at the 20 hour mark, and the remaining 30 hours were just excruciatingly painful as I was forced to suffer through the endless morass of banality that is Dragon Age: The Veilguard. In many ways, Veilguard is a bigger disappointment than Anthem was."

I expect this game is in the 70's at best once the dust settles. The writing looks god awful from what i've seen.

 

[GHG]

This is the most manipulated review process I've seen since Starfield.

Similar scores from the outlets that were allowed to have it as well. Absolute joke, they deserve to fall on their faces.

 

[pudel]

"Every interaction between your companions feels like HR is in the room."

JESUS CHRIST

this is brilliant!

 

[geary]

One of my favorite reviewers. He is extremely thorough.

One of the most focused on gameplay reviewers and not on the bullshit outside of it

 

[The Cockatrice]

One of my favorite reviewers. He is extremely thorough.

This dude is a massive CRPG fan, like he had a million videos praising all crpgs so the fact that he liked the game is interesting to say the least.

 

[Dynasty8]

Wait a second, IGN actually asked someone called Leana Hafer, a non binary staffer to review...

"as a non-binary person myself, Veilguard includes some of the most authentic representation of coming to terms with gender stuff"

Something tells me the 9/10 is more than a little suspect.

Once I saw their picture, I knew they would be biased.

 

[lmimmfn]

Skill Up:

"[The game] is a colossal disappointment. I really can't put it any other way. I spent 50 hours playing this, and it was time that I desperately wish I could get back. I started having my doubts at around the 10 hour mark, I was thoroughly checked out at the 20 hour mark, and the remaining 30 hours were just excruciatingly painful as I was forced to suffer through the endless morass of banality that is Dragon Age: The Veilguard. In many ways, Veilguard is a bigger disappointment than Anthem was."

Sounds pretty much like Inquisition, the last 50 hours were torture and i just wanted it done.

 

[VolticArchangel]

Reviews have settled on 84/100

Just add Meta and OC links to your review threads' OP, which are otherwise on point. You don't even have to update the scores, just hyperlink them.

 

[Markio128]

I wonder if we’ll get extra wokeness with the PS5 Pro version, or is that CPU bound?

 

[rkofan87]

So it turned out to be an ultra safe linear RPG with not much regarding decision making and some woke bullshit like pronouns and sidequests about gender identity sprinkled in...sooo basically popcorn entertainment with some agenda sprinkles.
That´s an easy pass for me.

pass

 

[ebevan91]

I am getting a feeling this game will be tolerable at best instead of being awesome.

Could be wrong though.

I think after some updates and DLCs it may end up being a decent title eventually. For right now though I think I'm going to pass.

 

[clarky]

Reviews have settled on 84/100

They've only been coming in for 20 mins. Anything but settled.

 

[captainnapalm]

That Skillup video is rough. The dialogue scenes remind me of Hogwarts Legacy - everyone just happily chats to each other with no feeling or emotion. And it doesn't help that the facial animations are non-existent. The main character constantly resolves conflicts by giving the companions a little friendly talking-to and a life lesson. Jeez.

 

[Zathalus]

Mortismal gaming liked it, that’s enough for me. Probably the number one guy I’d go to for CRPG reviews.

 

[mitch1971]

I'll believe the Shill up review.

 

[proandrad]

Reviews have settled on 84/100

So it sounds like a mid to good game that could be polarizing depending if you care about culture war issues. Sounds like the type of game that will be half off for Black Friday, I’ll wait to buy till then.

 

[Windom Earle]

Evilore was right lol

stunning and brave

 

[zeroluck]

I pity console players who have to rely on reviews in order to decide whether their $70 will be wasted or not.

 

[Stafford]

No code, he mentioned it earlier in the thread.

That's not good, I don't like that. But we'll see. Surprised not even IGN has a review yet, unless I missed it. But meh, I barely take IGN serious anymore anyway.

 

[Lokaum D+]

Really nice looking game.

yeah, if u have purple hair and like PS3 graphics in 2024 i bet it is.

 

[Luipadre]

How long is the game on average palythrough?

 

[Sentenza]

Public reception in the next few weeks:

 

[Dr. Samuel Hayden]

Woke = good reviews from propagandists, sorry, reviewers.

 

[Kacho]

Holy shit, Skill Up is annihilating Veilguard. He sounds like a very disappointed parent.

 

[GHG]

Mortismal gaming liked it, that’s enough for me. Probably the number one guy I’d go to for CRPG reviews.

He also stanned hard for Starfield and shattered space.

I know people like him because of his "after 100%" gimmick but he's anything but impartial. The western publishers have him on a leash.

 

[Stafford]

I pity console players who have to rely on reviews in order to decide whether their $70 will be wasted or not.

Well, good thing they offer a refund option. I believe on Xbox you can play a game almost two hours and then you can ask for a refund. So if I were to do that I'd spent zero time in character creator and jump right in.

 

[Reave]

I don't think a game's reviews have ever been this inconsequential.

Most people already had their minds made up about buying/skipping it long before the reviews dropped. Mostly just confirmation bias reactions from both sides at this point.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

so this game it's a Starfield situation. in which the review scores are way higher than the overall sentiment among actual gamers.

 

[Dynasty8]

I watched half of that video before it started to sound entitlement and resentment over not getting a code. "We didn't get a code so don't trust anybody else's review" is crazy mentality.

All publishers send codes at their own discretion. It has always been that way. There are already "negative" reviews popping up in this thread.

Not defending EA or the game here, I'm not even sure if I'm going to get it yet, but it would have been better for Fextra to just say they didn't receive a code when people asked for a review.

It's definitely not entitlement.

He's spot on about reviewers being "screened" beforehand and being blacklisted for even the slightest criticism.

This guy has over 1 million subs, Dragon Age Origins is one of his favorite games of all time and the RPG genre is the primary content he covers. EA would have 100% sent him a review code had his impressions video from a few weeks ago been all positive. It's good that Fextra did say something. Shitty practices like this need to be called out.

 

[Tal Shiar Agent]

This is the most manipulated review process I've seen since Starfield.

Similar scores from the outlets that were allowed to have it as well. Absolute joke, they deserve to fall on their faces.

Keep on coping.

 

[Little Chicken]

yeah, if u have purple hair and like PS3 graphics in 2024 i bet it is.

I'm your personal HR representative.

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

What's the verdict incels. Did we win?

 

[Mister Wolf]

What's the verdict incels. Did we win?

Gotta wait until the sales thread. That's when the fun begins.

 

[Infested Goblin]

Imagine releasing this safe, hr dialog shit 9 years after witcher 3 and a year after baldurs gate 3

 

[Sentenza]

He also stanned hard for Starfield and shattered space.

I know people like him because of his "after 100%" gimmick but he's anything but impartial. The western publishers have him on a leash.

I mean, a review is not "impartial" by definition and critique even less.

That said, I more or less agree with your point, in the sense that there have been several of his past judgments I disagreed with.

 

[analog_future]

yeah, if u have purple hair and like PS3 graphics in 2024 i bet it is.

omg purple hair, the horror!

 

[lmimmfn]

Uber woke PC Gamer only gave this a 79 - https://www.pcgamer.com/games/dragon-age/dragon-age-the-veilguard-review/
They gave Inquisition(which was awful) 87 - https://www.pcgamer.com/dragon-age-inquisition-review/

 

[TheUsual]

Skill Up:

"[The game] is a colossal disappointment. I really can't put it any other way. I spent 50 hours playing this, and it was time that I desperately wish I could get back. I started having my doubts at around the 10 hour mark, I was thoroughly checked out at the 20 hour mark, and the remaining 30 hours were just excruciatingly painful as I was forced to suffer through the endless morass of banality that is Dragon Age: The Veilguard. In many ways, Veilguard is a bigger disappointment than Anthem was."

Now that's an amazing back of the box quote!!!

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

What's the verdict incels. Did we win?

Enemy shields at 65%

We gotta press on.

 

[Icymanipulator]

Didn’t they go the FF16 route with this and remove party members? You only get to control the MC right?

Haven’t kept up with it at all, but that alone makes it a pass for me.