Blue_Mike
Full Member
Meet Hanako At Embers
Posts: 5,375
Member is Online
|
Post by Blue_Mike on Oct 15, 2024 3:38:23 GMT
Finished my playthrough of DA:I ahead of Veilguard.
If the Inquisitor doesn't turn up with a crossbow grappling hook for a left arm, I will be quite disappointed.
|
|
Wizzard_Ook
Junior Member
Posts: 1,212
Member is Online
|
Post by Wizzard_Ook on Oct 15, 2024 6:51:43 GMT
I thought I start Inqusition last night, Veilguard has piqued my interest but I’m unsure if I’ll continue. I heard the game was standalone ish but it’s clear you are in the middle of a universe that’s been pretty well established and I think it’s going to take a lot of lore reading to get up to scratch. To be fair I was pretty tired and I didn’t really want to read codex’s at that point. Don’t think my brain could compute starting a new game. Might give it a bit more time and see how I get on.
I do have a ps3 boxed up somewhere so could feasily get origins and awakening. There probably a few games on series s I’d like to try that could even justify a purchase. But that’s probably insane. Buying a console to play a 15+ year old game haha.
|
|
Frog
Full Member
Posts: 7,273
|
Post by Frog on Oct 15, 2024 7:08:18 GMT
I abandoned DA2 quite early on as I thought it was awful and it didn't hamper my enjoyment of 3 at all fwiw.
|
|
Ulythium
Full Member
Lily-livered
Posts: 7,101
Member is Online
|
Post by Ulythium on Oct 15, 2024 22:38:20 GMT
|
|
Blue_Mike
Full Member
Meet Hanako At Embers
Posts: 5,375
Member is Online
|
Post by Blue_Mike on Oct 16, 2024 0:42:52 GMT
Finished DA:I again last night.
Cole is by a considerable distance my favourite character, partly because he's so unique and well written, and also partly because of his fourth wall breaking comments about everything from the events of the Mass Effect Trilogy to The Sixth Sense. |
|
Ulythium
Full Member
Lily-livered
Posts: 7,101
Member is Online
|
Post by Ulythium on Oct 21, 2024 8:24:00 GMT
A bit of Googling failed to yield any information re the review embargo for Veilguard.
This week would be nice, but I'm guessing reviews will drop next Monday or Tuesday.
|
|
JonFE
Junior Member
Uncomfortably numb...
Posts: 1,941
|
Post by JonFE on Oct 21, 2024 8:26:46 GMT
If EA/Bioware are confident for their game, there won't be a late-date review embargo.
/crosses fingers
|
|
|
|
Post by dfunked on Oct 21, 2024 8:39:18 GMT
It's EA, so I'd say a few days before launch at the most. Although they do seem to be making some of the right noises lately, so you never know.
|
|
Ulythium
Full Member
Lily-livered
Posts: 7,101
Member is Online
|
Post by Ulythium on Oct 21, 2024 8:49:50 GMT
Release-week embargoes seem to be the norm these days, even for good guys like Capcom.
Veilguard's due out a week on Thursday, so unless EA is feeling particularly bullish about its prospects, I very much doubt we'll hear anything before next Monday. Would be good, though!
|
|
Blue_Mike
Full Member
Meet Hanako At Embers
Posts: 5,375
Member is Online
|
Post by Blue_Mike on Oct 21, 2024 9:14:27 GMT
The only thing I've learned in the last few days is that console players get a preload while PC doesn't.
|
|
Wizzard_Ook
Junior Member
Posts: 1,212
Member is Online
|
Post by Wizzard_Ook on Oct 21, 2024 12:16:22 GMT
Tom Henderson has tweeted reviews will drop on the 28th.
|
|
Ulythium
Full Member
Lily-livered
Posts: 7,101
Member is Online
|
Post by Ulythium on Oct 21, 2024 14:46:48 GMT
Thanks, Wizzard!
The more I think about it, the more I feel that this game's going to be worth buying, for one reason or another.
If all goes well, it'll mark the start of BioWare's long-awaited comeback; if all goes badly, it'll probably be the last game we get from BioWare, as their days will likely be numbered; and if the truth lies somewhere in the middle, chances are it'll be a decent fantasy RPG with action melee combat, which is kind of my gaming kryptonite anyway.
Roll on next Monday.
|
|
Vortex
Full Member
Harvey Weinstein's Tattered Penis
is apparently a mangina.
Posts: 5,395
|
Post by Vortex on Oct 21, 2024 15:14:21 GMT
Still waiting to see how this reviews. Inquisition was ok, but also a little bit shit, so we'll see.
I've been spending all my time on fallout 76 latterly, so something else would be nice, or fill the void to STALKER2.
|
|
Wizzard_Ook
Junior Member
Posts: 1,212
Member is Online
|
Post by Wizzard_Ook on Oct 21, 2024 16:02:43 GMT
Urgh. Watched a few videos of normal previews from established gaming sites and now my YouTube feed is full of gamer gate twats having a meltdown.
|
|
Ulythium
Full Member
Lily-livered
Posts: 7,101
Member is Online
|
Post by Ulythium on Oct 21, 2024 16:26:20 GMT
I've no idea how this game has become a target for the smooth-brained edgelord crowd.
I mean, they're not exactly known for having rational opinions at the best of times, but why take umbrage with Veilguard in particular? (Obviously it's "woke" in their tiny little minds, but that's just a catch-all term for 'things I don't like' these days - what exactly has triggered the poor little snowflakes?)
|
|
|
|
Post by dfunked on Oct 21, 2024 16:45:17 GMT
Makes me laugh that somehow Metaphor seems to get a pass, despite being the most "woke" game I've ever played if you actually go by the definition of the word.
|
|
Wizzard_Ook
Junior Member
Posts: 1,212
Member is Online
|
Post by Wizzard_Ook on Oct 22, 2024 10:23:33 GMT
Going to have to bail on this thread in the next few days. As mentioned Veilguard has really piqued my interest. I've decided I should at least play Inquisition. Was thinking about picking up a Xbox to play the other two games but I can't really justify that at the moment.
Tried to start Inquisition a few times over the last month but I've been too tired or caught up in other games and struggled with it but I sat down properly last night and got into it and feel like I made a proper start with it.
So! Enjoy Veilguard folks
|
|
Ulythium
Full Member
Lily-livered
Posts: 7,101
Member is Online
|
Post by Ulythium on Oct 22, 2024 13:29:25 GMT
Enjoy Inquisition, Wizzard_Ook! I really enjoyed it, despite its flaws. |
|
ozthegweat
New Member
Releasing indirect freedom
Posts: 873
|
Post by ozthegweat on Oct 22, 2024 16:36:23 GMT
Are the DLCs for DA:O and DA2 ever on sale on Live? Wanted to replay those, but had them on PS3.
|
|
Frog
Full Member
Posts: 7,273
|
Post by Frog on Oct 22, 2024 18:02:34 GMT
You could recreate the experience on dragon age 2 by running round your house talking do different people. It's probably a similar size to the playable area in DA2.
|
|
ozthegweat
New Member
Releasing indirect freedom
Posts: 873
|
Post by ozthegweat on Oct 23, 2024 18:36:01 GMT
You could recreate the experience on dragon age 2 by running round your house talking do different people. It's probably a similar size to the playable area in DA2. While you're at it, you should get someone to randomly block various entrances with boxes. |
|
Ulythium
Full Member
Lily-livered
Posts: 7,101
Member is Online
|
Post by Ulythium on Oct 28, 2024 10:05:39 GMT
Reviews are due to go live at 15:00 today, unless I'm much mistaken.
|
|
|
|
Post by dfunked on Oct 28, 2024 11:17:57 GMT
A small part of me is hoping that it'll be shit, just so I don't have to add another game to the list...
My crystal ball reckons it'll end up in the high 80s on meta/opencritic.
|
|
|
|
Post by heavysalad on Oct 28, 2024 11:24:36 GMT
Does EA Play get a trial of this like it does for FIFA? Would kind of like to give it a go but not sure it'll be for me.
|
|
|
|
Post by starchildhypocrethes on Oct 28, 2024 11:31:08 GMT
I am ready for this.
My loins are girded and running hot.
Roll on Thursday.
|
|
|
|
Post by tonyferrino on Oct 28, 2024 12:17:01 GMT
Fextralife has just released an interesting comment video about (the lack of) review codes. Hopefully it's not a bad omen.
|
|
Wizzard_Ook
Junior Member
Posts: 1,212
Member is Online
|
Post by Wizzard_Ook on Oct 28, 2024 12:33:26 GMT
Put in 10 Hours or so into Inquisition so far and finding it quite compulsive so far. At times it feels like the game is held together by paper mache but the loop of expanding your influence/camp, getting power and opening bigger quests is addictive even if at times it feels like the game started out as a MMO. Just met the mages under Trevinter’s control so the story is starting to pick up.
|
|
|
|
Post by Mark1412 on Oct 28, 2024 13:06:28 GMT
I worry Starfield mk.2 is incoming. Bioware are still dining out on their history but it's ancient history at this point; they haven't made anything good in a decade and their recent output has been stuck in the past (in all the wrong ways), directionless at best. Hope I'm wrong as I've got fuck all to play right now.
|
|
Ulythium
Full Member
Lily-livered
Posts: 7,101
Member is Online
|
Post by Ulythium on Oct 28, 2024 13:19:02 GMT
I'm hoping for the best while expecting the worst. (Hey, that's pretty catchy! I should write it down.)
Given the tumultuous history of this game's development - being retooled from a single-player game to a multiplayer one, then back again; personnel coming and going on a regular basis; Andromeda and Anthem both flopping, thereby putting extra pressure on Dragon Age as a franchise; the name change from Dreadwolf to The Veilguard, that barely anyone seems to like (get rid of the 'The' and it wouldn't be so bad!); the crappy hero shooter-esque character reveal trailer from this summer, that got ratio-ed to hell at YouTube; and probably some other stuff I'm forgetting - a solid 8/10 product would be a minor miracle at this point.
I really hope it'll be good, though.
|
|
Dgzter
Junior Member
Posts: 2,147
|
Post by Dgzter on Oct 28, 2024 14:25:31 GMT
I see there's some early doomsaying doing the rounds on social media due to a few prominent YouTubers (FextraLife, SkillUp, ACG, etc.) not receiving review codes lol
|
|
