Dragon Age: The Veilguard Xbox Showcase Trailer

Very true.

I can just imagine some fresh marketing yo-yo with a Powerpoint presentation tell everyone what their trailer should be like. I still have hope for the gameplay trailer but this one didn't do them many favours.

Veilguard cinematic trailer is 8th most watch Dragon Age channel video, tying with Inquisition Hinterlands E3 gameplay trailer. It is certain to be 6th most watched video before end of the day, 4th by Tuesday.
Might become 2nd most viewed by end of the week, as Inquisition The Breach trailer accumulated too many views in 9 years to be beaten in short term.

Well i enjoyed the trailer, and getting to find out who all 7 of the companions are was more than I'd hoped for.

I don't care about the trailer song or the title cards, that's just trailer stuff that's never in the game or movie it's for, so i couldn't care less about them either way.

Won't know how the faces/animations really are until seeing in game footage since cinematic/made in engine trailers always seem to mess with that too.

But the action/personality scenes with each companion? Those were the meat of the trailer, and they were fantastic!

Aight been a while since I've been on this board but to the main business.

I admit, I'm not very hyped by this trailer. Sure 10 years is a long time to wait for a sequal but man, I really wish I was more excited. Hopefully the showcase tomorrow is more exciting.

You know what the most galling thing about the whole 'its Cartoony' as a perjerative is? Like I get the connotation here and get why it exists but as with most surface level generalizations it really falls apart very quickly. Much like fist impressions. Like there are plenty of dark cartoons/ animes out there. Plenty of adult stuff out there. Or plenty of 'kids' cartoons/ animes that also deal with adult themes, subject matter, and presentation.



Heck when you get down to it VIdeo Games have always been a sort of animation in the first place as well.

But the list can go on:

Digimon.
Dragonball.
Death Note.
The Adult Anime we've seen.
Absolution.

As far as ridicilious kind of off beat humor I present for your consideration:

Veilguard! Urghhh i think i want to be sick. I wasn't really a fan of continuing the whole inquisition branding but i'd even prefer that to this rubbish of trying to create a cool edgy named group.
Don't mind the name rook though.

Varric didn't meet Lucanis in the missing, the crows he met were Teia and Viago.

Really, Lucanis was in The Missing? I didn't read it, only saw summaries so maybe they left out him being there. I know Varric and Harding meet Viago and Teia as Crows contacts, maybe someone confused Viago for Lucanis? Also, at that point Lucanis was supposedly dead but maybe Viago and Teia know that he's not. The short story with Illario mourning him made it seem that maybe they knew and were conflicted about withholding that information from Illario.

Neve makes sense as a starter companion. If we start in Minrathous, Harding will be the first companion on account of possibly asking for our help, Varric is also there, and we might need to speak to Neve to get some information since she's operating in Minrathous. Maybe Varric doesn't make it out of Minrathous or has to split with us to go and... uhm, do something elsewhere, I don't know.

I don’t see the big issue with this group having a name, or being part of an organization, which will likely be created in a different way then what the trailer suggested.

It’s also a different situation from Origins, since the one that we’re tasked with actually stopping the Blight were only the protagonist and Alistar, who are part of an organization with a name. The party in this game will be all tasked with the game goal in mind.

I do get *why* naming the group could bother some people, although I’d say that the inspiration could be closer to the genre Dragon Age was originally inspired to.