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

Push ups = flagellation, huh? Good thing my curiosity got the better of me and I did read that spoiler. For a moment I though it was actually something serious.
Can't wait for the first month after launch to be over so I can read actual balanced thoughts instead of melodrama from both extremes.

We're both idiots. I need to see with my own eyes how they wrap up this storyline. Hopefully it will be so shockingly bad that it cures me of my pathological need to finish every story I start. The Walking Dead S8 finally did that. Was so throw my arms up shit I could finally walk away from a series that wasn't worth wasting my time on to begin with. I REALLY need to work on just walking away...

I'll probably still be here to bitch and moan about the next Mass Effect because of my annoying morbid curiosity. A game I'd pay to NOT be made. I never wanted Andromeda, never wanted any more Mass Effect. It was an incredible journey. But it was DONE. At least nobody can take the trilogy from me. Even a sort of sequel can't ruin my memory. I'll just keep pretending the other Mass Effect games don't exist like S9 of Scrubs doesn't exist.

But Dragon Age is an unfinished mystery box and I HATE that. I need to look. Ugh.

Weekes is literally an activist writer. It's no wonder why Taash have these interactions.

I am really getting confused about your phone. Shouldn't it also autocorrect "her" to "them" and "she" to "they"? Seems like the phone AI is really outdated.

It’ll probably do well, at least at first. Then people will delve into it. Discover the corpse of Dragon Age hidden in a back room, shriek, and bolt for the door. Engagement will fall off a cliff, BioWare will be excoriated and EA will be left to pick up the pieces.

The writing being bad is not just with Taash, if only it was. They're butchering the lore, even Trespasser lore. You know, the only part of the previous game with choices they actually chose to carry over (but not really).

Weekes writing Taash while also being non-binary is baffling. Is this how you raise awareness? It only made me, someone who didn't really care about the subject to honestly just get fed up with it altogether. And even if one could claim Taash is not a real person, it's still an obnoxious and unlikable self-insert.

I'll wait as long as needed for Joe to put either full or rapid fire review. My safe bet that it is going to be around 6-7 just because DAV does not have microtransactions which adds at least one to Joe's scores.

I liked Weekes more before they died their hair blue.

Edit: Yes I accidentally used the wrong pronouns. Do I need to do some pushups now?

The Taash and Emmerich bickering with "I like necromancy!" "but I like dragons!" is the hardest I've laughed in weeks, proper bellyacher levels. I can see why people are wanting to hate play this, it is hilarious to be honest. I'll stick to youtube clips over a full price game though methinks.

In reference to Taash in that conversation saying, "What, who doesn't like dragons?" someone on this board said, "I dunno, maybe peasants who had their homes burned to the ground and their lives destroyed?" Something to that effect. Gave me a good laugh. Like seriously I can't believe this is real. 

And the way the voice actor delivers his lines in that scene had me crying. He’s talking to supposed adults as if they’re toddlers. It’s amazing. Rook really is nothing more than a babysitter.