Veilguard Gameplay June 11th

Well that is definitely true. One reason why for example World of Warcraft old zones, not the classic era ones but after that still look great. The art style is timeless.

Which is why DA:O looks so bad these days, well it wasn't pretty even at the time but man now. I feel like they probably always intented the games to look more like Inquisition and now Veilguard. So if DA:0 would ever get a remake, it would definitely be a lot more colorful game. You can still have dark elements in the story even if there is more high saturation of colors.

Varric's new hair is bugging me. Since when do blonds get dark hair when they grow old? It's a bad art decision.

I'll just never understand the insistence of some to return to the era of muddy colors - there are times where it's appropriate, but why would I want to feel all the times like I'm looking at Thedas through a dirty window? 

I understand even less people who insist that Bioware should return to the style of DAO: a game that never looked fantastic, and one that developers wanted to do more with (visually), but were impeded by technology available to them at the time.

And it's very likely that if DAO was made today, it'd look quite like DAVe.

Just saw angry joes reaction and it’s more optimistic than the initial companion reveal. It’s also important to see how content creators that aren’t exclusively BioWare games react and he seems open to it which is good. Shares some of the same concerns. Dragon age is inconsistent on its art style and never retains it, evident by demons being different every single game and so on. Shares the same thoughts on bland combat and being all action oriented instead of going strategic like how origins was.

I gotta agree picking the literal starting point of the game at level one is probably one of the least creative ways to show the game off since I mean, you’re level one and start with nothing lol. So hopefully you pick stuff up the bigger you get and it makes the gameplay more interesting. He also pointed out stuff I glossed over at first and I’ve seen others mention it as well: it just seems rpg wise this will be another rpg light kind of game just enough to where yes you role play but it restricts you in many ways as well in regards to decisions you can make. You’re just following this pre-set path BioWare wants you to play and can’t really deviate such as saving that woman and not getting to refuse doing that. We’ll see though. It’s looking optimistic for a lot of people with the actual reveal saving things after that companion trailer.

Asidefrom the dodg yhair yeah Inquisition still looks gerat. DAO an dDA2 definitely show their  age now. Those o fus who enjoyed thos e2 games will always continue t oenjoy them.

A question I want ansewring is what's happenin gt othe keep no wtha tVeilguard isn' tusing it. Especially as we still kind of need it for DAI for our world states. I've enjoyed playin gDAI over the last decade but I' dlik et ocontinu eputtin gm yworld states int oi twhen I play. The yneed t oeithe rgive us an offline vresion or com eup with something

Depends on the charactres choice a tthe end you ca ndisban dthe Inqusitoin or keep i tactive in a reduced manner I believe were hte 2 choices.

Genreall y DA has always had a bi tof a cartoony look t oit eve nDAI does especiall yin ho wmagic works in th egame  bu tfor me that' s always been part of it's charm.

I had a chuckle when I saw some guy on Twitter compare the look of DAO Leliana and DAVe Harding and he even had to admit in description that DAO was modded 

Good morning folks!

Just finished watching the gameplay video, first thoughts:

-new demon design is interesting, appears to be to create a uniformity in their design. I easily recognized pride and despair, but not those first ones who showed up, having seen the others now - maybe they were rage?

- That was a LOT of auto dialogue, some of it the usual 'convey important information in personaility neutral ways', but some of it in situations where it really feels like there should of been a dialogue option. Like whether or not you should try to help a woman whose already been caught by the magic police or be more pragmatic and get to the world ending elf faster? And auto dialogue for look at that pillar we could knock over, sure, but no option to choose how you convince the others of the plan? just a long sequence of autodialogue? I did not like that.

- the ability wheel only has three powers per character? There's like so much more space on those bars for more slots, do you get more slots later? Why only three companions if there's going to be a empty top line that the third companions abilities could be on? Is it going to be used for something else? Extending Rook's power bar? For temporary 3rd companions like that one leak suggested?

- also looks like the wheel is only used for activating abilities, no option to just tell your companions to attack an enemy or hold or follow... seems inferior to the trilogy tactics screen, at least the pc version.

- graphics look great

- Neve is awesome

- Interrupting Solas ritual but ending up releasing two of the Evanuris ourselves is hilarious! Oooh their outlines looks so creepy

So overall feeling good about how it looks and the main story, ambivalent and confused about combat, and not happy about Rooks autodialogue.

Now I'm sure I have alot of other news to catch up on. Hopefully including some answers to some of my questions.