Dragon Age The Joyguard (formerly Hype Train) [Spoilers]

Oh how you tempt me if I finish Inquisition to early hmm. Wonder what I can do in any of my Vahalla saves though. Mind you I am also really hoping that if they release the CC early I can just spend the time doing that instead. 

Also though with some of the Archery abilities and passives and their descriptions in the game it sounds like they are definitley taking a few cues from AC Vs archery system...which is perfect. Because that is probably my favorite archery combat system I have ever played. 

I am very much hyped, maybe too hyped, I have very hard time to think anything else in gaming but I must..

Yeah, I picked AC Valhalla because some stuff looked similar: archery, active blocking, stagger meter, active abilities. I mostly wanted to see my active blocking reflexes. Made me rethink going Rogue for Veilguard too.  I just love going around, shooting some arrows and swapping to melee.
But I had like nothing to do in AC Valhalla on my old save so I just did some random stuff on the map and did some combat...and I mostly made me piss at Horizon Forbidden West for lacking active blocking.  

I actually moved to Hogwarts Legacy instead, I saw one youtuber say that Veilguard mage combat is somewhat similar. I really liked HL combat and it's way less of a slog to play then ACV. I just created my character in it thought.

And OMG if they release the CC early I'm going to "play" just that. I spent 10 hours in Dragon's Dogma 2 CC early release, I know i'm going to beat that for Veilguard.

I am overwhelmed by the sheer number of hair options in the CC. Hairstyles I never even imagined and others I didn't expect to see in a game at all.

You can make your character look as good as they do in fanarts.

Lol yeah not surprised. I'd been over there a couple different times last month and in July, and it was clearly a dumping ground for people with (likely old) bitter grievances, bad-faith nitpicking every single thing that may or may not exist, and excessively pessimistic shitposting. Hardly some cool place to chill and post/read informed constructive criticism by well-meaning fans. Given that things have only gotten more polarized post-CC "controversy" and after the actually shitty news about the import situation, I find it hard to believe going there now with any opinion that dares take into account the realities of development, so that we can understand these issues better, will be looked at as anything less than shilling. I already get "some people defend Bioware at all costs!" by not posting hysterically about things I don't like, in other threads already. Anyway I learned my lesson and won't be visiting there again but I'm all for its existence as their group therapy and as forum containment for trolling (if only).

I actually avoided THIS thread more until relatively recently because I thought it'd be a boring circlejerk* but then this place turned out to be a nice occasional respite from the "Skeptic" thread regulars treating other threads the same way, because I guess when you're addicted to negativity, and spending an inordinate amount of energy on something you're convinced will be terrible instead of something you think will be good, you need to spread it around like Harkin's herpes (band name?).


*While I don't want my DA (or any) fandom to be a source of anxiety and misery, I also don't have a particular need to read nothing but good shiny happy things about DA all the time... I'm more into the fan community for reading analytical nerdery of the setting and stories, and I look forward to what DATV brings to the table there.

We are mostly making jokes about trains having no breaks...so

yeah I saw a vid saying mage felt like HL and rogue felt like AC. Which is super encouraging because one of my big asks was 'if do classes, make sure to differentiate them'.

I really like how HL handled blocking to. First game where I heavily got into it. Most ARPGS I just dodge and dance around the map even if I don't technically have to. But there was just something simple enough that I could do it plus the counter mechanic with 'stupefy' made it fun.

On paper the VG system sounds pretty cool to and looking forward to giving it a try though as with a lot in this game I worry about button layout.

OOOONE MOOOOONTH

A month.

And Digital Foundry appears to be impressed with Veilguard.

Video game enthusiasts/techies.

Ah go on then. I need some fun in my life this year so I'm letting my self get a little bit hyped. I'll admit to being on team skepticism for all this. Well, actually I was originally set with expectations so low I was really confused and lost when they announced it was coming out this year. Properly felt like confused Gandalf.

But now, even if it's just me spending 90 hours going 'ooooh look at my lovely hair' - I will take it and run with it. It can't disappoint me more than FFVII Rebirth did at least. Unless everyone has kept silent about there being a million minigames in it. 


I have my preorder in, and leave booked off work. I am ready.