I Remember, Do You?

[BigT]

Remember when Dragon age was dark fantasy?

How the Darkspawn would drag women off to be broodmothers?

How a King and a Greywarden died due to man’s hubris?

How a Qunari slaughtered a whole innocent farming family, including the children. Due to panic and unfamiliarity, despite this he accepted his fate to the humans.

Remember when killing would drench you in blood and gore?

Remember banging a desire demon?

Remember when you hunted down a serial killer blood mage, who not only murders and disfigures your mother, but brings her back from the dead to attack you?!?!?!

Hawke and Duncan sacrificed themselves for this ♥♥♥♥.

[Menagerie]

Originally posted by Foxrun:

People acting like anything after DAO was a good game will never stop being funny to me. DAO was also loaded with cringey dialogue. Bioware makes soap operas, always have and always will.

It's like reading classic science fiction. The stuff was incredibly low grade as a whole while the market was building but people who were there remember it incredibly fondly because it was a new thing in a lot of ways and being a unique (at the time) experience outweighed a lot of the scuff.

I think the same thing applies to DA:O. It was cringe in a LOT of places but what was there to really compare it to when it came out?

[Nagi]

Originally posted by Menagerie:

I think the same thing applies to DA:O. It was cringe in a LOT of places but what was there to really compare it to when it came out?

When did you started your gaming career, if you are talking about Dragon Age Origins release date as a time when RPG market was building?

[Nagi]

I remember when DA:O was released, RPG genre was super-niche. After BG and NWN, I was thinking, how did they simplified the game so much. Now, it's very stupid to see how people says that DA:O was any better, than Veliguard, lol. What is more funny, is when DA 2 was released, everyone was saying that it was a big downgrade and weak. But now, the same people says it was soooo goood O_O
Yeah, better than Veliguard, aha...

[BigT]

Originally posted by Nagi:

I remember when DA:O was released, RPG genre was super-niche. After BG and NWN, I was thinking, how did they simplified the game so much. Now, it's very stupid to see how people says that DA:O was any better, than Veliguard, lol. What is more funny, is when DA 2 was released, everyone was saying that it was a big downgrade and weak. But now, the same people says it was soooo goood O_O
Yeah, better than Veliguard, aha...

Super niche?

Knights of the Old Republic, Eldar Scrolls, Mass Effect, Final Fantasy, Chrono, Trigger, Fallout, Deus Ex, etc. Not to mention MMO RPGs were all the rage.

[WOKEGOD]

from dark fantasy to deep dark fantasy aren't that much of a change smh

[Jura Lith]

Originally posted by BigT:

Remember when Dragon age was dark fantasy?

How the Darkspawn would drag women off to be broodmothers?

How a King and a Greywarden died due to man’s hubris?

How a Qunari slaughtered a whole innocent farming family, including the children. Due to panic and unfamiliarity, despite this he accepted his fate to the humans.

Remember when killing would drench you in blood and gore?

Remember banging a desire demon?

Remember when you hunted down a serial killer blood mage, who not only murders and disfigures your mother, but brings her back from the dead to attack you?!?!?!

Hawke and Duncan sacrificed themselves for this ♥♥♥♥.

I remember... all the OG Dragon age fans remember...

[shelledfade]

Course I remember, its why many people won't ever buy this game, myself included.

[Peppe_LePeu]

Originally posted by BigT:

Remember when Dragon age was dark fantasy?

How the Darkspawn would drag women off to be broodmothers?

How a King and a Greywarden died due to man’s hubris?

How a Qunari slaughtered a whole innocent farming family, including the children. Due to panic and unfamiliarity, despite this he accepted his fate to the humans.

Remember when killing would drench you in blood and gore?

Remember banging a desire demon?

Remember when you hunted down a serial killer blood mage, who not only murders and disfigures your mother, but brings her back from the dead to attack you?!?!?!

Hawke and Duncan sacrificed themselves for this ♥♥♥♥.

One of the opening acts is the gods whispering in a mayors head to round up his neighbors and people, lock them in the towns walls and let the blight consume them all.

You have the First Warden going to make the Wardens Sacrifice before the god intervenes and forces him to become a part of the archdemon.

i am consistently watching blood in this game - tracking down demons through the blood trails throughout the city, finding a despair demon thats literally feeding on the despair of an entire city.

one of the companion quests have you face someone thats so entrenched in using blood magic shes literally bathing in a room size pool of blood.

you have an entire sect of qunari slaughtering and conquesting through rivian and capturing dragons to force blight down their throats for the gods.

keep pretending as if the darkness isnt there though..

[Naamtar]

The more I get through the game the funnier these posts from people who haven't played the game saying it's too tame get.

There's plenty of unpleasant stuff in Veilguard. What I do miss is the traditional gore of older games where combat was a blood bath, but there is definitely gore, blood and horrible death in Veilguard.

[Sharkitect]

Originally posted by Kozzy:

This is the best Dragon Age game since Dragon Age Origins. DA2 was meh, Inquisition was trash. This game is actually pretty good. Not on the level of the epic Origins, but its better than the garbage that was DA2 and Inquisition. Stay mad though, its funny to see all the tears.

I liked 2 and Inquisition quite a bit and I'd personally put them on about the same level as Veilguard.
Honestly just don't get the extreme disappointment coming from a lot of people (Not including the weirdo bigots cause they're not people). The game is pretty damn good.

[Sharkitect]

Originally posted by Naamtar:

The more I get through the game the funnier these posts from people who haven't played the game saying it's too tame get.

There's plenty of unpleasant stuff in Veilguard. What I do miss is the traditional gore of older games where combat was a blood bath, but there is definitely gore, blood and horrible death in Veilguard.

I mean hell, the big choice early in the game has you having to decide which nation to doom, and you have to live with and see the devastation of your choice for the rest of the game whenever you go there

[Peppe_LePeu]

Originally posted by Oxlorne:

Originally posted by Peppe_LePeu:

One of the opening acts is the gods whispering in a mayors head to round up his neighbors and people, lock them in the towns walls and let the blight consume them all.

You have the First Warden going to make the Wardens Sacrifice before the god intervenes and forces him to become a part of the archdemon.

i am consistently watching blood in this game - tracking down demons through the blood trails throughout the city, finding a despair demon thats literally feeding on the despair of an entire city.

one of the companion quests have you face someone thats so entrenched in using blood magic shes literally bathing in a room size pool of blood.

you have an entire sect of qunari slaughtering and conquesting through rivian and capturing dragons to force blight down their throats for the gods.

keep pretending as if the darkness isnt there though..

Why would we need to pretend with all the 100's of hours of game play out there for everyone to judge for themselves. It definitely doesn't need any more proof than that.

obviously you have either watched none of it, are watching people purposefully omitting the darkness for questionable motives (riding the hate train to viewers) or are clueless.

There are countless moments in this game where there is objectively just as horrible and monstrous things happening as were in all previous games.

but keep on hating for absolutely no reason, thats your choice, just dont be offended when you get called out.

[Peppe_LePeu]

Originally posted by Naamtar:

The more I get through the game the funnier these posts from people who haven't played the game saying it's too tame get.

There's plenty of unpleasant stuff in Veilguard. What I do miss is the traditional gore of older games where combat was a blood bath, but there is definitely gore, blood and horrible death in Veilguard.

Seriously - i mean unless you are absolutely going out of your way to bury your head in the sand... you cant get away from it.

[Naamtar]

Originally posted by Sharkitect:

Originally posted by Naamtar:

The more I get through the game the funnier these posts from people who haven't played the game saying it's too tame get.

There's plenty of unpleasant stuff in Veilguard. What I do miss is the traditional gore of older games where combat was a blood bath, but there is definitely gore, blood and horrible death in Veilguard.

I mean hell, the big choice early in the game has you having to decide which nation to doom, and you have to live with and see the devastation of your choice for the rest of the game whenever you go there

The death cult and human sacrifices are pretty on par with grimdark type writing. The game is just missing the over the top gore that old school games had, but the unsettling stuff is all there. I remember an early quest that had tables of butchered bodies in pieces on them, too.

[PandaMew]

no.