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

I disagree, because I don't talk on the personal level, or when I do talk on the personal level, I am making the distinction of it. In the greater scheme, a well written character, when they don't accomplish anything with their presence, but rather actively put people off, with no redeeming qualities, especially in an interactive medium, where the entire content can be developed and skipped en masse, does the writer succeed? The answer is no. Therefore, it is not as well written as the situation requires.


And while your enjoyment of them is subjective, the quality of them is not.


I still can't believe how you view the lore as something to be regularly ignored and rewritten, just to fit an ephemeral writer's mood swing. Even Gaider left the company. Now, anyone can do whatever, with no regards to the lore, when the lore doesn't matter. Tell you what, pretend that I am the new lead writer of Dragon Age. Now, the corruption of magic does not exist and it turns everyone into cute, fluffy bunnies. It just changed. This is Dragon Age now.


The franchise is damaged and greatly devalued. Engagement is at an all time low, nobody remember where they left off and at the only other option being of replaying Inquisition, people don't want to play it. Whatever this "alive" state for the franchise is, its not a very good one.

(and similarly here- literally all of this is purely subjective, a question of taste and of normative judgment not of fact)

I'm sorry, but that's not how it works. Your inability, or your lack of want, to separate yourself from the product, is why I cannot, in good faith, take your viewpoint under consideration. How you feel toward a character on a personal level is not a judge of quality. If you cannot consider why the character fails and why the character doesn't work, for the purpose the character was written for, which makes the character badly written, this conversation has no merit.

You know, for some reason I never realized how much of a troll you were until recently... I thought you were actually serious about your fabricated "evidence". But now it's getting too ridiculous.

I'd like to see a recent poll where at least half of the few million people who bought DAI participated and stated that the companions were so bland that they can't remember anything about them and how they have zero interest in DA4.
Doesn't exist? Huh.

I'm the last person to voice confidence in current Bioware and DA4 but DAI was successful and popular. As long as there's romances for everyone, DA4 has an audience.

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I seriously doubt that the out of the ~50% of people who bought the game and didn't even finish it and haven't touched it since, remember what the games was about or who was in it. When your customer base is ~2.5 million people and the game was six years ago, I doubt you can find half a million people that fit the criteria to take the test.


I don't think the romances, especially the DA:I ones, are a hook for the audience. I have said it many times before, I have no interest in the next batch of Joss Whedon's rejects that Bioware seems to think make for good companions and Joss Whedon hasn't been good since Firefly ended.

I'm worried that we'll get screwed out of having a dog/mabari companion yet again. Dog's cut-scenes in camp in Origins were some of the best companion interactions in the whole game... 

It doesn't have to be a mabari, any canine companion will do! Don't 'Vints have dogs? Or maybe Cullen's mabari from Trespasser joins the shadow Inquisition or something? I don't care about the specifics, I just want a dog companion again... 

well I think based on lore the mabari were a Tevinter experiment in the first place.

Yeah sorry that's not what subjectivity is, its not a matter of consensus or taking a poll, and universality is not the same as objectivity. Every single person in the world could agree that, say, chocolate ice cream is better than strawberry... and it would still remain a subject-dependent value-judgment. In other words, subjective. Pretty basic stuff here, tbh. 

wellll its been a long time since I have actually read the relevant lore (and am too lazy now ) but from what I remember they are either A. a local Ferelden dog which the Imperium magicked and then they (the dogs) betrayed them. Or B. A local Ferelden Dog which they crossbred with one from the Imperium and then they betrayed them. Also keep in mind that this lore is a Ferelden ledgend so may not be one hundred percent accurate.

Appropro though I agree with your desire and then some. I've said on more then one occasion I want them to readd pets to the game...maybe not as full born companions...but I would love summonable pets ala DA 2. But also add more then just dogs/ mabari but other things like hawks, Eagles...cats.

Yeah I'd be perfectly fine with having a dog as a pet/summons rather than a full-blown companion. I'm not picky: just give us a dog, goddamit! 

On a slightly different note, it would also be really cool if they brought back shapeshifting as a mage ability/specialization.