This is Corrine, the games director.
Oh yeah baby. Chuds, we're gonna be eating with this one. Thought we'd have to wait until November for ubisoft's game to see a studio burn to the ground, but bioware has got us covered in the meantime.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard | Hands-on previews:
β KAMI (@Okami13_) September 19, 2024
β’ ''Feels like the series' Mass Effect 2 moment" -Eurog*mer
β’ "A definite GOTY contender" -G*merant
β’ "The Character Creator Iβve Always Wanted" -IGN
β’ "BioWare At Its Most Confident" -Gamespot#DragonAge #Veilguard pic.twitter.com/6jnpNrYHdj
Journ*lists fricking love it, baby! Bioware finally hits it out of the park!
We are absolutely NOT getting a thick mommy protagonist this go around. Corrine, did you have anything to do with this? Audience subverted, male gaze averted.
Whoops, that one slipped through the cracks. Corrine will get that tidied up before release though.
DLC:
They absolutely dogpile this man:
Why are they obsessed with vitiligo
β Amorphous (@amorphous714) September 19, 2024
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Re: vitiligo
Lmao
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Opposite of
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I got re-vitiligo!
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It's also likely the easiest thing for devs to address, they're just mapping a different texture on to the model, so they can get progressive points super easy
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Worst possible criticism for a Bioware game.
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If anyone doesn't know what he means you can read the late Shamus Young's book-length explanation of when and how Mass Effect went off the rails.
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ME2 is the best nu-Bioware game. It was the where the original narrative and traditional RPG elements were scrapped so the series could focus on the companion characters and fanservice, but it did those things really well. It had way bigger mass appeal and garnered a rabid (albeit trash) audience. Andromeda and Inquisition tried to come up with plots that weren't solely in service of advancing companion characters stories and they ended up making both worse.
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The fricking companions in inquisition besides like 2 were fricking dumpster
fire tier. I didn't even feel motivated for more character 
interaction because they were fricking so fricking 
unlikeable
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I actually think the gay mage from Tevinter was probably the best companion in that game as BioWare actually managed to make him grounded and not that annoying besides for his daddy issues.
Varric or whatever that Dwarf was named was named was too forced and a try hard. I think the Iron Bull kind of ends up being like this too.
Solas, Cassandra and Blackwell were all boring.
Vivienne was a massive b-word. Sera was also a massive b-word but was an r-slur on top of that lol.
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Iron Bull was fricking saved by DLC giving an actual consequence for your choice
with his mission. I agree 
about Dorian. The fricking rest were fricking boring. Hated Vivienne and Sera I actual despise
So yeah I agree
for the fricking most part
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i wouldn't know as I never played the game with companions.
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You don't have to play RPGs mirroring your personal life
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They think Mass Effect 2 was good.
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ME2 was my fav
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get
s out of video games immediately. they don't understand the product and only care about virtue signaling and forcing their mental illness and mutilated bodies on everyone. 
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It's just narcissism
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Bardfinn?
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That's why this shit is so gross. These freaks want to act out their mutilation even in the digital sphere.
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Listen I'm all for self improvement but:
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Maybe you should be a little bit less confident.
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I remeber a time when people were worried EA would shutdown bioware after Anthem flopped and EA had to come out and reassure everyone. If they closed down Bioware today it would be a mercy killing.
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Honestly impressed
with how badly the fricking fricked this up
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I might have expected this a few years ago when we were at peak
. Like when they made the Saint's Row reboot about gay kids who don't transgress any societal norms ever. But to do this in 2024 is insane. The whole ecosystem of leftoid AAA game developers and game journos who fellate them are on the deck of the Titanic trying to figure out the best mechanics for visualizing top surgery before they sink into the Atlantic.
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Be ready for more. The games coming out today have been in the pipeline for awhile.
The game industry got super insane and virtue signally during 2020 thanks to the Trust The Science! Covid Arc, Orange Man Bad Arc, and Fiery But Mostly Peaceful Protests Arc. Lots of these games were forming at this time and only now are getting released. Game studios bet that they were on the right side of history by adding CURRENT YEAR politics. Because they decided that g*mers were all MODERN AUDIENCES now.
I just hope this shit didn't affect GTA 6, but rockstar started making some insane choices in 2020, like shutting down the GTA Online servers for a bit to memorize Saint Floyd and also completely scrapping their planned update that included a Cops Vs Robbers game mode and the ability ti wear police outfits as well as buy police vehicles. (They've since drip fed some of this content out to players).
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Hilarious to include that but not the far more politically/social justice pandering removal of "transphobic content" from GTA V remasters following "pressure from LGBTQ+ developers" years after the game had come out. The transphobic content in question? There were drag queen NPCs spawning and saying heinous shit like this:
Trans woman: "I don't think the laser treatment is working!
Trans woman: "They won't let me on the ladies' basketball league at the rec center. This is crazy! I think I'm going to sue or something."
Trans woman (on the phone): "I Just wish he'd let me untuck more⦠I dunno if I wanna lose it forever, and he needs to understand that!"
The second I saw the article (https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/04/transphobic-content-and-jokes-removed-from-latest-gta-v-remasters/) two years ago that Rockstar bent over, I knew GTA 6 was completely and utterly cooked. Any jokes in that game that punch down on anyone remotely queer/
-adjacent/not a privileged man will simply not exist. !g*mers lament that you will find more inappropriate content at a HR department's water cooler than in GTA 6
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Ive seen some of the leaks, its satire wont be the edgy punching down shit and instead be punching up⦠at redneck and other florida poors who believe in wrongthink
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I guess
it never 
occurred to them that doing this is a game about being a criminal 
might send the wrong 
message.
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I don't think anything will top fortnight having some african american studies expert lecturing literally the entire world on an in game big screen. That's when you could tell """they""" were fricking with everyone
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I am huffing a ton of
but I feel somewhat good about GTA VI
Don't get me wrong I am sure there will be some shitlibbery scattered throughout the world, some BLM murals, some DeChudtis seethe (tbh criticizing politicians isn't something GTA shied away from so whatever), but the vibes around culture and these creative industries seem to be shifting in the last 12-18 months.
The prog devs have been failing. The cringy, detached, irony drenched millennial shit is also waning, think Saints Row or Forspoken, or just about any Marvelshit really. People seem to have, to a degree, stopped giving a frick after the pandemic, and as we all obviously know all the progressive shit is mostly something regular people put up with, and I think they're at least a little tired of that.
So while I'm not expecting a
paradise: The Game, I hope it at least avoids most of the annoying pitfalls of the last decade - no cringy writing, no blatant agenda pushing, characters that feel like real people not irony drenched TV show weirdos, and fun gameplay, not something r-slurred that's trying to "make you feel" like Sony or the fricking latest Hellblade.
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https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/04/transphobic-content-and-jokes-removed-from-latest-gta-v-remasters/
Read it and weep. If they are post-humously removing shit in a game 8 years after it came out, then GTA 6 is dead on arrival. Just remember that the GTA 5 dev were hired before 2013 and the majority of GTA 6 devs won't be veterans but young kids hired in >2017. The cultural gap between the two cohorts is massive.
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This is one of the worst posts I have EVER seen. Delete it.
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I think enough of the chief architects stuck around long enough in development that we will get a solid game, but I think you'll see the cracks start to form on this one.
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Wasn't Saint's Row just last year?
I think we're going to keep getting these incredibly cringe woke efforts as all the things that went into production from the last few years keep coming out. They went big on idpol because they thought their old audience would buy anything so they might as well appeal to the 'huge, untapped' audience that keeps complaining online that they'd totally play this game, but ...
They're going to keep finding out that their audience will only tolerate DEI if the game is good despite it, and caring more about what a bunch of genderspecials and games journ*lists think is to appeal to a non-paying, non-influential, miniscule number of people. And as consumer faith drops and both wokeness and nickel-and-diming intensifies, it's easier for the customers to just not engage with their bullshit.
Maybe they'll learn to stop hiring people who hate their customers. But we've got a bunch more flops on the way until they course-correct.
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I knew these f-slurs and I can tell you it was never about the customers. It would never occur to them to give a shit about what the customer wants.
These are extremely white humanities graduates who think their job is preaching.
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Exactly! They don't like the stuff their customers like, so they think they can just throw out any old slop and stuff it full of 'right side of history' presentism and their audience will still buy it, love it, and become better people. And if they don't, then it's because they're fascist bigots, not because they made unappealing product after unappealing product.
The Star Wars people are the same, and managed to squander decades of goodwill and an obsessive, lucrative fanbase over less than ten years and a saturated market. That they not only hire for politics over talent, but actively remove people who have the talent because they don't just want to use their platform for propaganda, leads to this current situation.
Any corporation should worry if they're appealing to the ResetEra market.
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It's a really weird mentality they have. They believe everyone is on their side and wants to buy their product but simultaneously everyone is persecuting them.
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Cognitive dissonance, a specialty of the house.
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This is exactly why we need DEI. Companies are stuffed with preachy, incompetent whites
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This but unironically. You got a workforce of 100, you hire 2 of my neighbors and the "watercooler talk" that corporate
execs always talk about will actually 
teach your honkies to make a better 
product. The game devs/journos who fricked everything up are extremely insulated 
from black/latinx/even asians. And even more extremely insulated 
from people who've ever done manual labor.
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Wont work cause they will just hire 'reddit blacks' (basically whites)
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I want more games that
s will play
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There's already many an neurodivergent pleasuredome for
s. Give them a Factorio or a spreadsheet simulator and you've got a bunch of them pacified for hours.
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I don't think there's a shortage of speedrunning games
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I still sing Hades praises to this day. That seems to be as
a game as you can get.
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Its bioware, they pioneered this shit. They've made it the company's entire identity.
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I think it's way too soon to call it a flop. The recent bombs were just in general low quality games across a lot of facets. This could still be a real AAA game with just a little too much woke shit. Dragon Age already has a Tumblr demographic who will play it, normies will just play it and just not make woke choices but love all the features and visuals, and seething semi-chuds will still play it because it has a bunch of features and still has polish even if the art style is off.
Maybe these devs will take it all the way into normie offensive shit, but we'll see.
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I can promise you this game is gonna flop. It's been 7 years since mass effect Andromeda, and these idiots have been putting people like Corrine in charge of video games since then.
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I'll bet you 800dc it doesn't flop
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You're on. !remindme 45 days
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If it's ambiguous, let's say less than 20x the peak steam player count of concord is a flop
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I don't know what their production and marketing budget is, but you could probably figure out the amount of units they need to move to break even. I wouldn't bust your balls. If it's not clear as day to everyone that they didn't move those units, I would concede the bet.
With that said, I feel like I'm being generous if I said 20,000 concurrent players equals 200,000 units sold on steam. And then I'll multiple that by 3 to factor in PS and XBox. That would be like $42,000,000 which I image would be universally considered a flop.
We'll figure it out as more info comes out. Like I said, I won't be a peepeehead about it. If it's not obvious to everyone involved that this is a flop, I won't consider it as one.
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Love the sportsmanship here but if Inquisition sold then anything will
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Plus it's a BioWare gayme, it's going to sell on the brand name alone.
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That sure worked for Anthem!
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Inquisition still had some goodwill from Origins. That has all dried up now and add to it Biowares anthem flop
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Concord wasn't even 5% of the way to breaking even?
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Concord sold 25,000 copies. At $40 each, that's $1,000,000 in revenue. Then they refunded that $1,000,000 to everyone. It cost $200M to make (and now they're saying as much as $400M).
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Steam and the consoles takes a 30% cut so it's even worse
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I will be messaging you on 04.11.2024, 17:41 UTC to remind you of this comment
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How the frick is Bioware still a solvent video game company?
They have to be some sort of weird tax shelter or something right?
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If this game doesn't make some good money it might just well be the end of them.
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I wonder if they have the game dev record for time spent losing money. Their last profitable game was what, the Inquisition Trespasser DLC?
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The thing I hate the most about DEI games is that they are destroying gaming for their core female audience as well. Women with big boobs. They are the main group of women you will find in anime and Dragon ball z because women go to whichever place caters to those who look like them. So all this does is create games that women with big breasts also will never play.
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Nikke which is a coomer game with jiggling tits and butt.
Foids want to be hot and competent in their games. They don't want to be neurotic uggos in their escapism as well.
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I do. It breaks up the tedium of being beautiful and succeeding easily at everything all time.
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Imagine ever getting tired of winning
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Have to wonder what percent of that 40% are males tho
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they think cuz their audience is female and feminist that they somehow aren't also huge coomers. Larian seemed to get this, dunno what bioware is thinking.
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Here comes another bomb. Wonder who they'll blame this failure on?
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Incels
and white 
men
The fricking usual
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They've literally selected he/him pronouns in that screenshot you cute twink
Everything else is legitimately r-slurred though
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Alright, you got me.
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I was already 90% done with the post when I saw. And I added some other stuff, so don't be mean π‘.
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At least it will be more talked about than Star Wars Outlaws.
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I still don't get the anger about that one. It looks like ubislop but lots of people like that. Mortismal Gaming gave it an ok review, I might grab it when it's $15 with all the DLC
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I've had enough ubislop and cod shooters. Eventually it gets boring.
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I usually only play one once every couple of years. I couldn't imagine actively keeping up on all of them, the formula gets pretty stale for sure.
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I won't play it, just cause I don't like open world games.
That said I think it's really strange. I feel it basically has no hype surrounding its launch considering the IP and the studio.
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I think a lot of people just took a look at the protagonist when it was first announced and decided to skip it entirely.
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I think Star Wars pretty much soured most ppl on a female protagonist in the series. It's not that there's anything wrong with it inherently, obviously, but it just creates an expectation of massive eye rolling girlbossery
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The answer to this problem has always been character creation on a blank slate protagonist. Let girlbosses choose to be a girlboss.
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I was kinda looking forward to it, a GTA star wars seemed pretty cool. But literally every statement I have seen from the developers is about of much of gaggle of cute twinks they are and how they won't let you do actual outlaw shit.
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That's the problem, it's painfully average for a game with such a big budget and marketed as a AAAA game. Also, Mortismal Gaming is the GOAT of gaming reviews.
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Lol
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I tried asking someone why not a blue lives matter tattoo. They told me I was making it political.
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I actually like the lore and world building in Dragon Age and they were touching on some interesting shit in Inquisition that I hoped they'd continue
at least we got a vitiligo slider and bg3 style pansexual npcs hoorayyy
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It's been in production for like a decade too lol
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