Schmooples' Den! The DA News Discussion Thread

When both of the largest fan communities and the largest retailer all trend the same way without any indication of any sort of review bombing, the trends extrapolated are pretty clear. And I've been saying the same thing for weeks now and people keep finding reasons to discount it

We'll see how Veilguard will be remembered *shrugs*

Ahhhh, the days of arguing on old BSN when DAI was under fire I swear to god, it sometimes ends with deja-vu.

And yet, the cycle continues basically since DA began, so obviously I have to bring this again, because it keeps amusing me:

I'm tired of the Crossroads always respawning enemies in the same few locations. 

No, but people keep buying EA sports titles and NBA 2k. I personally like the NBA 2k games (sacrilege I know), but I'm also a NBA fan and with my schedule it's hard to watch games live. So, 2K is the substitute for that. So, you think a game is bad because it wasn't nominated for goty? What kind of logic is that. 

No ... average

Yeah, as someone who was excited about Origins from the previews and in love by the time I got to Ostagar for the very first time, I'll never forget how shocked I was to go to the official forums on release day and see so many people trashing the game. Especially the one guy who made a thread saying 'this game is terrible because I can't zoom in far enough on my character!' People forget now, but a lot of the Baldur's Gate crowd who'd been promised a spiritual successor hated it. Which was fine, in the long run, because some of us Old Skool fans loved it and so did a whole lot of new people who'd never played a BioWare fantasy RPG before.

At least this was good experience for every other Dragon Age game release ever. I expect the fandom's opinion on Veilguard to normalize when DA5 comes out.


... assuming it ever does, of course. That will depend on how well sales matched EA's expectations, which is not information we have. And we won't have it any time soon, because EA isn't going to tell us what their sales expectations were. Whether the hardcore fandom likes it or not is basically irrelevant, the question is whether it's picking up enough new players to justify another entry in the series. Factor in the long and troubled development cycle and whatever is happening with ME5 and I don't expect we'll even know if we're likely to get another DA game for four or five years at this point.

(It's really just as well I've got twelve entire world states to keep me busy, although it's been less than a month and I'm nearly through the second one. Better start thinking up more Heroes of Ferelden ...)

Botched marketing decisions. Many controversy (recently about secret endings, earlier about mishandling review codes). 



Sucks for EA, I'm a football fan and I buy Football Manager game from Sports Interactive.

Different consumers. A lot of these people are sport fans that just want to play their favorite sport on console. May not even be gamers. May not even watch Youtube.

TOTAL GREY WARDEN VICTORY.

In War, Victory. In Peace, Vigilance. In Death, Sacrifice.

In Polls, Winning.

Also Shadow Dragon is such a Gaudy faction name, why Shadow? It's kinda overused. I feel like there are at least 33% chance that the next game will be subtitled as Shadow of something, Dragon Age: The Shadow of Shadow Flying Shadow Night of Shadow.

I'd prefer if there is a Tevinter word for "Revolutionist" that would be better.


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I know for a fact that my tactical decision impacted the player performance in a pitch.

I may not actively controlling their feet, but I'm actively ensuring -all- other the condition to enable winning performance for the team.

(anyway, not sure what's the post was about anyway, football fans must've buy FIFA/(American) football fans must've buy Madden?)