Schmooples' Den! The DA News Discussion Thread

I seem to remember a lot of really good impressions of Anthem just before launch and a bunch of us were saying there's a lot of red flags just wait a bit, there's a lot of red flags, there's a lot of red flags and we were shunted to the Skepticism thread :S

IGN gave Andromeda a 7 on release. They are not the same. Also the reviewer for IGN has solid background in Dragon Age games, so I’m inclined to give them benefit of the doubt.

Anthem launched with a score in the high 60ies. I don't think it got above 70 at any point. It dropped slowly in the next two weeks.

Veilguard just doesn't have red flags FYI. There are glaring issues like the artstyle, choices from past games, gameplay departures but everything points up to a very good successor to Inquisition. 

Combat UI definitely needs tuning. The UI is at times so filled with particle effects that 1- you can't see what's going on and 2- hides an enemy indicator ripe for a combo attack. This is absolutely silly implementation as is.

An MMO like FFXIV would kill you then   There's the mechanic markers that would tell you what mechanics to expect, the visual effects from the mechanics, player's ability FXs, party members' ability FXs on top of 20 or so buttons of player abilities, chatboxes, separate status bars for beneficial and detrimental effects, ultimate ability gauges, class related gauge bars and so on. Veilguard looks like a child's play compared to that game.

You can turn off party visual effects in the option menu

I played FFXIV. I have friends who savage and Ultimate raid. Yes FFXIV is bright, the visual clutter is constantly complained about, but you set other party effects to limited. And a lot of savage raiders have illegal mods telling them exactly where to be anyway

EDIT: Also being able to have a more top view helps mechanics be visible. Which is why that world first raider group had that satellite view which allowed them to zoom waaaaaay out

I thin kth egeneral feelin gcomin gout of the reviews is if yo uliked Inquisition's comba tand the ME trilogy's mission based gameplay you'll like Veilguard.

You can set them to none for everyone including your own character. When I play an alliance raid I see absolutely no effects from the alliances outside my party. I have it set that I see only the persistent HoT or DoT placed on the floor from my party and I can turn off every effect that I make (I don't because I like my own but I could if it ever got annoying). I even play Frontlines on the regular and, with 72 players on the map, I still have no issue seeing what's going on because I see no particle effects aside from minimal ones from my party and my own. I'm not even going to go into detail on how you can customize the nameplates you see (if you even want to to see them at all). You can also turn off every element in the HUD (hotbars, map, chatbox, currency indicator, inventory indicator) or move them around the screen where you feel comfortable having them and can change their size pretty drastically. There's still improvements that can be made but FFXIV's HUD and visual effects are extremely customizable and I hope DAV's are at least half as customizable. DAV's CC has already taken a page of FFXIV's book with the different types of lighting that you can view your character in to make sure they don't end up looking like a clown so one can only hope.

Bioware was never successful with action fantasy combat??

...What? If there is one thing most people agree on when it comes to their later titles that got pretty meh scores is that, it that combat in those games was really fun. And I'm sorry, but sci-fi combat doesn't really differ THAT much from fantasy combat.

The "continuation away from what Bioware used to be" argument is also bizarre to me, since the supposed departure has been complained at for almost as long as the developer exists. I know that people complained that DAO and ME are departures from 'old Bioware', so - if there's one thing that is apparently a constant over decades, is people complaining that Bioware is changing, LOL