Dragon Age: Veilguard launch trailer

[Madner Kami]

One thing I am already annoyed by without having played it: they kept the dialogue wheel with the tone symbols instead of just letting you know what the actual dialog options are. It was a failed experiment that had outstayed its welcome when Andromeda did it and it's even more of an anachronism now.

Answer choices not explicitly stating and making clear what they do and mean, is older than the wheel of choice.

[hammerofglass]

So apparently you can be canonically (as opposed to implicitly like a lot of games in the last few years have had) transgender, it actually comes up later, and it isn't attached to anything in the character creator.

Fuck. Yes.

Not too surprising what with the enby main writer and trans director, but still. It's nice.

[Madner Kami]

Not too surprising what with the enby main writer and trans director, but still. It's nice.

Oh, so that's why wannabe-Isabella is making push-ups as a literal penance for misnoming someone? Couldn't help but groan, when I saw that happening, especially with the self-contradicting explanation she's giving.

[hammerofglass]

I did get to play a couple hours yesterday and honestly this game, it's writing, and it's art style does feel like Dragon Age to me. Specifically Dragon Age 2, if it had had development time and a budget. For good and for bad. There's even the framing device that Varrik is telling the story, although I have no idea who he's supposed to be telling it to.

Except for the cartoony zombie Darkspawn that look like Fortnite refugees. That I have absolutely no idea, it's even weirder in context than it looked in the trailers.

[Nobody700]

I did get to play a couple hours yesterday and honestly this game, it's writing, and it's art style does feel like Dragon Age to me. Specifically Dragon Age 2, if it had had development time and a budget. For good and for bad. There's even the framing device that Varrik is telling the story, although I have no idea who he's supposed to be telling it to.

Except for the cartoony zombie Darkspawn that look like Fortnite refugees. That I have absolutely no idea, it's even weirder in context than it looked in the trailers.

Dragon age 2



Oh boy... and hee I was thinking to get this game for my B-day...

[Winter]

I did get to play a couple hours yesterday and honestly this game, it's writing, and it's art style does feel like Dragon Age to me. Specifically Dragon Age 2, if it had had development time and a budget. For good and for bad. There's even the framing device that Varrik is telling the story, although I have no idea who he's supposed to be telling it to.

Except for the cartoony zombie Darkspawn that look like Fortnite refugees. That I have absolutely no idea, it's even weirder in context than it looked in the trailers.

I'll be playing it once I'm done with Horizon Zero Dawn Remaster. DAV and HZDR were games my dad were looking forward to so I'm playing them in memory of him. I always want DAV to be out a bit longer before I play it so I can find a Rook design I like and to learn what choices not to do.

I've gotten to know these characters through the Podcast series Vows & Vengeance and have come to like them and hope they're just as well written in the game as they are in the Podcast.

On a side note, I do wish BioWare had just been upfront about Taash being non-binary instead of avoiding answering the question. I feel rude every time I get their pronouns wrong which happens more then it should be cause Taash used she/her for so long. When I know a character is non-binary earlier (like Double Trouble or Rain in the Owl House) I have no issue remembering the characters pronouns and sticking to it but if I don't know I have trouble switching over.

This is a me thing, I'm the idiot here people who are non-binary are non-binary and I'm assuming this is tied to Taash's character arc but I don't see why that had to be hidden here. Maybe when I play it I'll understand why but I wish more people working on this game besides the lead director were upfront about Taash because I hate being rude and using the wrong pronouns is rude.

[hammerofglass]

Taash user she/her when you meet them. I assume coming out is part of the storyline but I haven't got there yet.

Edit: In a later mission Taash's mom casually misgendered my character so oh yeah that's definitely where this is going.