Schmooples' Den! The DA News Discussion Thread

My biggest fear is I will spend my whole time comparing it to HZD (how old is it) and HZD FW and I do not expect it to be a good comparison.

Oh I am. I like Horizon well enough for what it does but at least in a 'personal resonant' sort of way kind of expecting BioWare and Veilguard to swim laps around what Horizon may offer. 

This right here has always been my ideal. I think empathy is one of the highest emotional callings and its one reason I spend so much time on Social Media and this forum to understand and debate with others to understand their viewpoints. Its something I feel like I often miss the mark on, not properly understanding or showing I understand people through my word choice, but empathy and understanding is at the end of the day how you move people.

I love DAO, DA2 and DAI and have played them numerous times.

I am just worried my expectations of DA:Ve are going to not be met from what I have seen.

I hope to be happily surprised but the video footage I have seen has me thinking that in terms of gameplay and story HZD and HZD FW may be superior.

I truly hope to be proven wrong.

Only 12 hours!

To the HZD remaster.

I’ll probably dip in to check it out before Veilguard.

IF Guerrilla can stick the landing with Part III I’ll happily consider it one of my favourite trilogies alongside Mass Effect.

But will a replay, however good deflect me from a new Dragon Age game ? Nope.

"But by and large this is the exact Dragon Age game i have been expecting all these years"

But you haven't played it how do you know about its content and what to expect including horror? None of the reviews I have seen have had very much positive to say about the quality of it's "story" content and never mentioned horror?

Sorry I have to go to bed but I truly hope your expectations or experiences of the game are truly what you want.
 

Obviously just in line with what I have seen via marketing and heard via the reviews. I could still end up being VERY wrong and even the execution of these points can be woefully mishandled (like ME 3) but based on what I know about DA, the series, and following other games structurally this looks like everything Bioware has been doing for awhile now.

Edit: what is with the quoting I meant to quote this part:
"and as my big saying is, one of my personally coined phrases 'expectation is the death of fandom.'"

So much this! I mean, it's good for people to wish for something, or hope XY happens, but if it doesn't, it's fine. It's not the end of the world. We're so many people in the world, and each writer wants to tell a specific tale. If it's not to my liking, that's ok! I just move on. If I like it, cool, our tastes/emotions/thought processes/whatever aligns and I can relate.

The one thing that always drives me crazy is how some people say Bioware panders to crowd XY, completely disregarding that what said people expect from Bioware for themselves means Bioware would "pander" to them as well. But Bioware fulfilling THEIR wishes is important, fulfilling Bioware's own wishes or wishes to another crowd? Preposterous.
I had to take a couple deep breaths in some parts of this forum

It's always the same. People call themselves fan, but as soon as they dislike the material, the hate train goes choo choo. That is not being a fan to me. Being a fan to me means that even though it sometimes sucks, artists can move in any direction they want. If I don't like it that's too bad, but I hope they are happy doing it (I've had it multiple times in the music scene, and people are exactly as erratic as some are in here. It's nauseating.).

Same! I was playing LIS but I was def thinking about Veilguard!

Thank you!!

And welcome back.

Yeah, there are a number of us old timers still strolling around here, waiting for our lyrium-spiked jello cups. I'm having to run off to work in a few minutes, but hope you stick around and let us know your plans are for DA:V!