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

I mean, this proves my point. Some people were never going to buy the game in the first place for reasons of personal taste. I doubt that anyone in here, including myself, has suddenly cancelled their preorder because CDPR broke their promise to not crunch.

As I understand it, the crunch story is false. I'm waiting for Cyberpunk but that's because my machine is old.

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I've yet to place my own skepticisms in here, but I do have a lingering one based off the idea that BioWare somehow manages to up their narrative game. For me, even if the narrative side of DA4 is improved over their, to the point that it could stand with other prominent story-driven games like RDR2 or TLOU, there's still the technical side of things that has me skeptical. BioWare isn't really known for their attention to detail, and yet many of their competitors are pushing the limits of their engines to a degree that much of the game world is becoming more "alive".

For example, Rockstar managed to simulate an actual mirror in RDR2. That's tough programming work but they managed to pull it off. Even the rocks in the ground could be dislodged and move as if they were real-world objects. Then you have the various locales you could visit and their various denizens. You look at a game like Assassins Creed: Origins, and that game had NPC's participating in daily jobs and activities. Ubisoft even went out of their way to assigns different jobs based on the locality these NPC's were inhabiting. One notable area in the game had its citizens harvesting various plants for their pigments, and you would see field hands cutting up plants while others would be mixing the pigments. When night came, they would go home, eat, and sleep.

There's also the aspect of making the cities themselves feel like they're bustling and large. If Tevinter is planned as a location that we'll be visiting, then Minrathus will most likely be one of its premiere areas. Is BioWare gonna take the time to flesh out this city with people who have jobs, or are they just going to be statically placed NPC's who do nothing but gesticulate? TW3 had plenty of citizens in Novigrad, and they had their own patterns and behaviors. Homes and establishments could be entered, and so on.

Point I'm trying to make is that, BioWare could make a good (maybe even great) game if the story and character sides of them game are standouts. But if they want it to be a masterpiece, they need to dig much deeper on the technical elements of the game. As it stands now, the only notable places that they excel or do well in is the lighting and visuals; by way of Frostbite.

Look, I don't come here much anymore, because well... BioWare games as of late have been a huge dumpster fire. And you can try and slice it it any which way you want to slice it, the fact of the matter is that the GM of a company without a replacement if he's leaving on good terms. Casey Hudson said "Fuck this shit, I'm out." I dunno what it was over, but given the theme of this, and other, threads, I think I can guess.

All I can say is to you is to be prepared for disappointment. Or maybe not. I dunno. Some of you will prolly still be playing this game when it decides to fuck you out of all of your money, and still have you smiling about it.

God help whoever that's gonna be.

I'm still amazed at how fuckin quick you turned around on the series with just one detail. Lenny is probably looking at this shit like, "Yes, come join the Dark Side" lol

I'm using a shortened form of his name (lennybusker). He's not as common here during downtimes, but he tends to be a pretty big pessimist when it comes to BioWare and their games. When Anthem launched, I remember there was a newcomer to the blog who had optimistic hopes about the game, and when his world came crashing down and he became significantly more jaded, Lenny was there to give him the ol' "Dutch, you son of a bitch" manly handshake meme from the Predator lol. Your sudden turn is reminding me a lot of that dynamic.

- also worry about the end of DLC Trespasser "new people" "Solas organization" So no DA2 or DAI recurring characters, please. We need something unexpected, So that we can say oh yes solas overlooks us. But i am afraid that will not come.