Schmooples' Den! The DA News Discussion Thread

3- The tone. I'm getting MEA flashbacks, and the Companions reveal trailer flashbacks. Again, with the silly Backyardigans sh*t, just friends going on an adventure, hugging griffons, playing rock-paper-scissors with a skeleton, where's my Adderal, must snort HURRAY! (kill me now). Best news I've gotten today: Mike Gamble tweeted that the next Mass Effect will have the same mature tone of the original trilogy. I love me some Mike Gamble. He seems like a really cool dude.

I can't stand RTwP in general, but I'll play a little devil's advocate here. I think fans' issues stems from the game originating as action and then deciding to shift away from it. Dragon Age in its conception was inspired by Baldur's Gate/PnP gameplay, and then they decided to shift from it. It's not so much that it's now RTwP, but that they decided to change it at all, when it wasn't necessary.

Watched like 3 reviews and they were pretty fair and all, but now I'm like, I'm good. I'll play and come to my own conclusions soon enough. We're so close to launch, and the things about Veilguard that make me kinda nervous are still largely the same:

1- The choice of art style. Probably the most polarizing aspect of the game, still. I hope it's one of those things you get used to / grows on you as you play... but, yeah. No bueno. It goes beyond just the character stylization, but even things like the UI (which, turns out isn't as customizable as I thought) and even the armors, they're kinda all over the fugging place, no rhyme or reason... I saw at least two or three armors (new to me from the reviews) that got me like, what were they thinking? Can a person honestly look at those and think "Dragon Age"? They don't scream DA, they don't even whisper DA, but some of these modern Fortnite and shooter games, with 12 year-olds high on Adderal running about in silly costumes / skins. I mean, come the F on... 😩

2- The overkill visual effects. I've talked about it plenty. It was mentioned in two of the reviews I watched, particularly the big-ass obnoxious diamond-shaped AoE from detonating combos. To the point you can't see what's going on. Again, why? You're cheapening your visuals with those, that's all it's doing. Not customizable, either.

3- The tone. I'm getting MEA flashbacks, and the Companions reveal trailer flashbacks. Again, with the silly Backyardigans sh*t, just friends going on an adventure, hugging griffons, playing rock-paper-scissors with a skeleton, where's my Adderal, must snort HURRAY! (kill me now). Best news I've gotten today: Mike Gamble tweeted that the next Mass Effect will have the same mature tone of the original trilogy. I love me some Mike Gamble. He seems like a really cool dude.

Aaand... that's it!
I don't think I've made a 'Meteor' gif for our Daily Mage skill ovulation posts, I'll see if I can post one later today. We're so close now!!! 🙌

I've been looking at the discussions surrounding Greedfall 2, and people are pretty mixed about that game going RtwP instead of Action-focused like the first game. It's quite a peculiar situation given how much everyone wants BioWare to go back to dedicated RtwP CRPG.

Just a heads up to PS5 players that the game can be pre-loaded now. About 82 gigs download, took me 32 mins.

Christ, I'm so worried that I'll sit down on Thursday, eager to see how well and fast Steam download goes and it's just 1mb per minute for some reason 

Differences in combat between Origins and 2 are a little overblown,