Dragon Age The Veilguard Criticism Thread (formerly Skepticism Thread) [Spoilers]

Knowing this new game, I bet the only available axes will be like the flail from that Barbaric one-shot comic. Fuck EVERY weapon will be

I'm unfamiliar with that comic, but if there was a flail even if I had to shield it up, I'd love that.

How does an elf being dark-skinned with tightly coiled hair in a series that has dark-skinned, Black-coded characters -including Tabris' mother - equal "African American"? He is an elven Warden that's a famous monster hunter, nothing more. If we went by metrics this shallow, then none of the humanoid characters who could easily be argued to be analogous to different RL groups in phenotype and culture - especially Orlesians, who literally have a bard that sings in French - would make sense in the game. 

The flail in question was an enchanted, talking weapon that was horrified at the slaughter its master made it commit, hence the comparison.

But in a game that doesn't even have something as basic as a greatsword, there will probably be no flails of any kind.

Its definitely not a rational thing. I mean from the perspective of the rage-bait content creators I guess its rational- drumming up artificial outrage generates income for them. But for the average Joe? Just silly.  

Yeah that's kind of what I said, black isn't African therefor a group that's focused on African American representation in games isn't going to automatically support Veilguard even if they share similar ideologies.

I checked, and it is the "SBI detected" curator, as you pointed out. I had to scroll a few lines to the right since "detected" was not visible on the screen initially and I was not paying attention. IDK why I got all these curators in my Steam, probably because I never edited or changed anything that the Steam AI assigns to me.

Probably the same reason why I get recommended "Asmongold" by YT, despite me keep saying "Do not recommend channel". I really despise algorithms sometimes

Pretty excited for tomorrow. No matter what happens I’ll get my entertainment. I want to take this time to thank CD Projekt Red, Todd Howard(multiple titles), Peter Molyneux, No Mans Sky, Andromeda, and the Star Wars franchise for preparing me for this moment. Couldn’t have made it without you.

I know you are probably joking but I actually think that is the reason they have removed them. Can't have that big phallic symbol of masculinity in the game.

Don't know what that says about me but I just love swinging my greatsword. I like riding horses too. They used to say that was just a substitute penis. Well I had a whole stable of them in DAI.

Yes, I know I found them annoying and since Iron Bull and Varric were the chief culprits in DAI, I invariably left them back at Skyhold but I'd rather have stupid companions that stand around being fire balled instead of remembering to take cover rather than companions who are invulnerable. The "last man standing" scenario was something that created actual tension for me in game. Sometimes I was the one knocked out along with two of my companions and it was down to Alistair or even Morrigan to save the day by hanging in there and ending the fight. It was the same in subsequent games, although my Knight Enchanter was so overpowered that they were never in danger of hitting the deck, whilst I tended to leave my companions on the floor whilst I dealt with the enemy. I said that playing one was fun but I didn't mean I wanted every game to be like that from the very beginning. Also, because they were overpowered the fights ended relatively quickly. Instead they now have fights that take forever to complete, often against regular canon fodder rather than actual boss battles and your companions are just like another accessory that adds to the damage your inflict. That is no fun at all. Oh for the days of the old D&D Baldurs Gate where we had 5 companions and all were necessary to win a battle (particularly as if the PC hit the deck it was game over). Then it was down to 3 but still each still made a vital contribution. Now it is down to two who contribute very little and it is just a slog as a result.