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

That was just crazy!

To show a a classic fetch quest . . . heck even worse than the ones in Inquisition where at least we got to talk about the quest instead of just being assigned it. 

Its either the worst most clueless marketing ever . . . or they haven't got anything and are just trying to bullshit and hope no one notices. 

See, I agree with you - as bad as Bull and other Qunari looked in Inquisition, at least they still kept the spirit of how they should be. This just looks like someone is trying to capitalize on the popularity of Karlach and tieflings by making them look more human as opposed to an entirely different species.

Kirby is a writer, not a concept or character artist. She handled the lore of the Qunari rather than their looks.

Either way, she still contributed to Veilguard (being the main writer for one of the companions, among other things), and her work there does not magically go away just because she was laid off.

It infuriates me that they did that. BW is such a joke
Why on earth would you fire one of your main writers like that?

This isn't the short answer. She'd been with them since 2006 and several others have decades under their belt as well who were also fired. Lukas worked on the original Baldur's Gate games for ex.

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Im just confused at this point. Every new video either makes me think there's something interesting here or makes me scratch my head with what's being shown.

This last video has just cemented how cartoony the npcs look and i need to adjust my expectations again... The art style for characters just baffles me. They look like characters you would find in... i dont know, bioshock?

I've also lost hope to actually see any character in the game that makes me go WOW thats an actractive character. Which to be honest, thats one of the worst sins you can do in a 2024 release. Look at all the flops/major hits of this year in relation to how sexy/atractive their characters look. Wether you personally believe that matters or not, is quite irrelevant. The numbers speak for itself. Sexy/good looking stuff sells. And Veilguard has nothing sexy going for it right now. Even Morrigan (i wouldnt say she looks bad per se but..) has changed so much from her original looks that it feels like she bodyswapped at some point in the past 10 years. At least in Inquisition you would look at the character model and say - Thats Morrigan. In Veilguard if it wasnt for the voice actor and the raven aesthetics, I would have doubts.

Ill still play it of course, cause i love the lore of the franchise and I want to see where the story goes. But I'm not optimistic at all about the future of Dragon Age. And depending on whats show until release Ill decide if ill buy it day one or wait for a sale... Which is something I never thought id say about a Dragon Age game... sigh..

I'm so not feeling the art style here. I know every game has looked different and I was cool with that before but now, I don't know, just feels off. Maybe it's because Inquisition looks pretty good for 2014 game while Veilguard doesn't really look like 2024 game. Or more like it's doesn't look polished enough(aside from the qunari foreheads). The slightly janky animations aren't really helping here either.

Yeah, the art style. Environment art seems at about the same level of DAI, ten years later. Some animations look like they have been recycled from decades ago, especially that weird jogging animation that looks like the player character is trying to kick his own ass with his heels.

And I'm not fond of the "zombie clowns from outer space" redesign of the darkspawn.

They really just need to do another texture detail pass on the skin, and how lighting effects it. Cause right now if you took an environmental screenshot and one of just the characters, it would be easy to think they are from two different games.