Schmooples' Den! The DA News Discussion Thread

We learned about it being Bioware's biggest success years ago..just not the exact numbers

 Game journalists should looked at with a measure of distrust period because of their history of misrepresenting games and corruption. I'm not going to come up with some proclamation that the game sucks because Doritos Pope didn't bestow a nomination over my favorite game.  

Its not a conspiracy theory to say this game is getting tons of backlash everywhere and has few vocal fans, at least on the internet. I showed you proof from the main DA sub, I can do the same for youtube or other sites

The paid off critics thing is just a theory and I can stop with that.

It's not really getting a ton of hate outside certain videos. It's more accurate to say people have moved on. Bioware is no longer a name people are attached to, their last hits were over a decade ago, new gamers coming up don't know Bioware and old gamers are kinda getting sick of waiting. Also Larian and CD Projekt have pretty neatly filled their niche. What else is there to say that hasn't already been said. 

It's why there isn't a ton of commentary about Dragon Age not getting nominated - people don't care anymore.

I will say I never thought a card game would be nominated for goty, but here we are.

I have been around long enough to have lived through two previous waves of 'Dragon Age fans don't like this Dragon Age game' and if DA5 ever exists I expect to see a another one. Hell, there was plenty of 'BioWare fans don't like Dragon Age: Origins' back in the day. The backlash to DAV is nothing like as bad as the backlash to DA2, since this one was at least a moderate critical success due to not having the flaws caused by being developed in eighteen months.

We have no way of knowing right now if Veilguard is commercially successful enough to justify another entry in the series - even if we had sales numbers they'd be meaningless without knowing what EA's expectations were, and they're not going to tell us that. Given the gap between games and the long and troubled development there's certainly a chance that they'll decide to cut their losses and not make any more games. But then, appearances can be deceiving - DA2 was financially successful because of that short development cycle even though a lot of people regarded it as a disappointing failure at the time of release.

Should Veilguard be the end of the line, I am content that we got an end to the arc that started in Origins and answers to most of the big lore questions, even if I would like to play Dragon Age: Devouring Storm. Getting through the rest of my twelve world states should keep me occupied for a few years, and then I've got a couple more I want to make ...

My warm welcome to the Bioware fandom was a torrent of abuse all because my first game was DA: 2. As much as people want to say that Veilguard is universally hated the "backlash" was nothing compared to DA 2 and that's BEFORE the ME: 3 endings. 

I mean go on BSN before veilguard and people were criticizing Inquisition for being too big and having a lot of busy work for little reward. At least Veilguard's busy work led me to some rare weapons. 

No real money betting As for what it's about:

Balatro is only briefly a game of poker. Then Balatro becomes a game of cheating at poker by stacking your deck with extra cards, adding multipliers, upgrading hand scores, and giving yourself special powers. You can get quite far in Balatro by playing it as a game of cheating at poker, maybe even win a run, but really this too is a phase. Balatro's endgame is building and upgrading a machine to generate big numbers. At this point, cards are mere fuel. Their abstract power as poker cards doesn't matter, only whether this number is the right octane for this particular run's engine—and you'll have spent several Ante levels stacking the deck with the numbers you need, removing numbers you don't, gaining ways to dig for the good numbers, bedazzling those numbers with foil and seals, and so on.

www.rockpapershotgun.com/balatros-endless-mode-is-perfect-a-fun-victory-lap-before-you-extremely-die

I’d argue the reasonable thing to hope negative feedback leads to a return to form. So while I’m not wishing  BioWare away, neither am I rooting for a game of theirs I find unpalatable  to become their continued trend or worse still an industry trend.

As far as I remember it was over many things. The combat, the lack of verity of environments and enemies, the lack of choice, the endings. There's plenty to dislike about DA2, especially if you don't dive deep enough.