Schmooples' Den! The DA News Discussion Thread

Yeah, based mainly on first game/trailer impressions and about her being interesting in what we've seen of her in Tevinter Nights and The Missing, Neve!

But ol' Harding may steal my heart yet haha.

They look like red lyrium darkspawn and the characters are holding them back. There's also that one dude who's running away from them, probably to be safe with our characters.
There's Evanuris statues behind the dragon and a big ball of something behind the statues.
Are the characters in the Black City, holding back the darkspawn from that big ball? Are they holding back the darkspawn from getting to the dragon? Are they on the verge of escaping from this ruined and blighted place? Were they there to get something or someone?

honestly if people are making sweeping generalizations about a two minute trailer packed full of jam, then doom on them.

These 'it's actually good guys' type tweets are giving me flashbacks to the lead up to Andromeda.

In any case I hope we see more than just combat tomorrow. Hopefully we'll see dialogue trees etc.

Neck snapping and skeletons rising to gank someone from behind is considered kiddy now I guess. 

Fair point I guess but it still leaves the outstanding issues. 

Like the people who say it seems different from DA really must've only looked at the splash screens or something. Which is somewhat fair I suppose but the rest of the trailer? The bits that were gameplay? The actual bits in the tavern. Pretty tonally consistent with Dragon Age so I don't really think the gameplay reveal will be that much different then the trailer because it really does not need to be.

Yet people see what they want to see. Its pretty well suspected that EA wanted it to be a MP live service game so bright colors, purple, that means it must be done in that tone and style.

Thought this was interesting. Seems like the art style may have changed somewhat but we won't see the updated style until the gameplay reveal.

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Style is obviously very different from DAI. All DA's dont match, lets be real. We had a lot of notes on the art direction that we have been told- and shown- were changed that made it into the gameplay trailer that isn't in what showed today.

To be clear, I think the bits in the tavern are consistent with Dragon Age: it's just that they perhaps focused only on that side of the games for the trailer, alongside the overall tone, music and direction. Which might've overshadowed the serious elements you highlighted before, or even what happens to Bellara. It's no like it was taken in by a cuddly creature.

In regards of the tone and style and the bright colors, I'd point out the screenshots offer a different perspective, with a mixture of the two.

Honestly, I feel like some of them were unsure of what they felt and started parroting the same thing. The Marvel quip comparison wasn't new, some people were concerned Inquisition was a little Disney-esque.

I hope I don't regret sharing my opinions.

I dislike the name "Veilguard". It sounds like the kind of cheesy name a group of D&D players give their party, rather than the name of a kickass game. I thought "Dreadwolf" was good.

I don't believe the new trailer will be representative of DA:V in any meaningful way. If you create a venn diagram of Pixar Movies, Fable, and Mobile games in general, this trailer would fit neatly in the overlap. This is a setting of Darkspawn, Grey Wardens, Archdemons, brutal civil wars, a Magocracy losing a war to a totalitarian culture that reeducates its citizens, etc... They always inject the right amount of levity and humor to create a balance, but the setting is pretty grim. I don't understand the thinking behind this trailer.

Gamers in general are deeply skeptical of BioWare. They certainly don't hang out on the BSN. This trailer was a poor start in winning their interest and positive sentiment. I hope future marketing, starting with the gameplay trailer, is very compelling. Making a good game won't be enough. They need it to sell (and to not be memed into irrelevance pre-release).