Honest Question: Is this still a Dark, gritty Fantasy game?

[Shotoku]

The first games were blood soaked and pretty grim in places. There was a hard edge to the story and depth and nuance to the tactical gameplay.
I know the environments look nice and it runs very well, but everything seems lost.
Tell me it isn't so....

[Elvi]

That's a no.

[Mr2Thumbs]

No.

[Shotoku]

Originally posted by bayomaycry:

Originally posted by Shotoku:

The first games were blood soaked and pretty grim in places. There was a hard edge to the story and depth and nuance to the tactical gameplay.
I know the environments look nice and it runs very well, but everything seems lost.
Tell me it isn't so....

Honest question; do you think a game needs to look like 2010 to be '' dark ''?

Eh? This makes no sense...dark as In the tone and tenor of the game. As in the initiations sequence In the OG game. It defined the over riding emotion of the game. Is this something that contiues or is lost ?
That's the question I was hoping for an answer to.

[Elvi]

Originally posted by Shotoku:

Originally posted by bayomaycry:

Honest question; do you think a game needs to look like 2010 to be '' dark ''?

Eh? This makes no sense...dark as In the tone and tenor of the game. As in the initiations sequence In the OG game. It defined the over riding emotion of the game. Is this something that contiues or is lost ?
That's the question I was hoping for an answer to.

Don't mind that person, it's just a local phantom that pops up in every topic that is even suspected of not praising DAV religiously to go after the poster. I'm not even joking.

[Mysti_Fogg]

Nope.

Sources Cited:

Any gameplay video

The Skill Up review.

[HiddenGoya™]

Agreed. It has no heart compared to the older titles. Ive been playing since I was 6. Im 22 now and they put no effort into the enjoyment of this game besides the story. Nothing else in this is gonna be worth it. I've already pre-ordered so im gonna give it a shot, but I really don't feel like playing "God of War" or "Guardians of the Galaxy".

[Shotoku]

Well...that's a hard pass from me then. Not made for me I guess, the hard core fan of the original games.
Odd choice Bioware...still it's your game I guess.
Good luck replacing the fans you lost, with newcomers...
Hope it works out...though I have my doubts.

[WastingSanity]

It is Dragon Age: Sims 4 Medieval

[DirkPrime]

I do not think they have even a quarter of the staff that worked on previous ones, so a staff of people that want their interpretation of the game. Will probably blame the fans for not liking the new direction.

[Sherudon]

Of what game and dialogue I've seen it's people reading lines that don't connect coherently either, it's almost like a twitter conversation, no human interaction or emotion on display.

And I have a personal dislike for the games art style and the quinari look, botoxed humans with horns makes the almost minotaur look they had going seem unique now.

[IHaveLigma]

Originally posted by Shotoku:

Originally posted by bayomaycry:

Honest question; do you think a game needs to look like 2010 to be '' dark ''?

Eh? This makes no sense...dark as In the tone and tenor of the game. As in the initiations sequence In the OG game. It defined the over riding emotion of the game. Is this something that contiues or is lost ?
That's the question I was hoping for an answer to.

Its lost

They dont wanna do dark fantasy anymore.
Now its more Modern Youth Political Stuff in a medieval setting with magic.

Nothing resembling the DA:O you fell in love with back then.

[WastingSanity]

Originally posted by Sherudon:

Of what game and dialogue I've seen it's people reading lines that don't connect coherently either, it's almost like a twitter conversation, no human interaction or emotion on display.

And I have a personal dislike for the games art style and the quinari look, botoxed humans with horns makes the almost minotaur look they had going seem unique now.

Agreed, it comes across as poorly written, poorly executed and the animations for the most part has no life to it, Just enough animation to be considered barely passable. It is exactly what I would expect from a DEI developer.

[Weeping "Italian"]

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/dragon-age/with-the-veilguard-dragon-age-has-forgotten-its-dark-fantasy-roots-and-become-biowares-avengers/

Article sums it up pretty well. If you enjoy seal clapping at the movies at marvel/DC slop, then you'll love this. Loved the grimness of the old games? ♥♥♥♥ out of luck. How PC gamer still gave it 79 thou is beyond me.

[Cr8ToR]

Dark ?
You mean as light dark ?
We cant have Dark here...only slight dark, diversity is a key

[Muro]

fortnite game cant be dark