Dragon Age: Dreadwolf becomes The Veilguard

They've already had to come down from their predictions that the game will fail. Watch it be even more so now that it's knocked Call of Duty off the #1 spot on Steam. The biggest grifter peddled a supposed NDA claiming its a huge expose that EA was telling reviewers and content creators not to mention the progressive things in a negative light. But the document is laughably written and so full of spelling mistakes that it can't possibly be real. And turns out it isn't. Making shit up to keep the outrage train going.

It's thoroughly poisoned the well on Twitter and YouTube now. If you type in Dragon Age reviews on YouTube the most popular results are grifters peddling this shit. This is happening to every major game now and feels like this year has been the worst. Stellar Blade censorship, Concord, Ghost of Yotei, Silent Hill 2. It's the grifters and the ones pointing and laughing while also simultaneously promoting out their tweets for their own benefit, all of it revolved around farming engagement bait. Nobody's talking about games for content anymore, unless it's here.

Am I weird in that (from a cursory glance at videos) it kinda reminds me of Jade Empire?

Yeah, also can’t seem to see any PC keys from the usual places.

That being said, I’m being swayed to just buying the standard edition for full whack off Steam. Reports that it’s actually incredibly well optimised at launch, with no predatory mtx shite or cosmestic shop, etc., bodes well. Feeling more like I want to vote positively with my wallet on this one.

The character creator does look excellent. And given that I tend to struggle these days with genuine open world games retaining my interest, I think the semi-open style they’ve went for here may be more to my liking.

Would almost certainly go dual-wielding Rogue, initially. But that Reaper specialisation in the warrrior class did look pretty cool too.

It feels very much like Mass Effect so far to me. Not much exploration thus far and you are mainly following a linear path. I don't say that as a negative, I prefer more focused games like this which don't waste your time traversing a vast map with nothing to see or do.

I also love the power wheel which is taken straight out of Mass Effect.

The only negative so far is that the game is TOO EASY. I wanted a challenge so I selected the hard mode (1 setting up from the starting difficulty) and it has still be plain sailing. The bosses telegraph their moves in advance and its quite easy to dodge and parry them.

I would recommend for anyone (unless they are really crap at games) to up the difficulty from the default.

I think custom difficulty might be the best solution.

I went from no interest, to getting caught up in the controversy, to buying it (it's payday). I'm not sure that's how it's supposed to work, but I wanted something for my Deck.

Character creation is really good, but having intended to go mage all along, my final character design clearly looked better as a warrior. Sword and board it is.

Looks really nice on Deck @ 30-40fps, albeit very soft. Good start, might try streaming it from my desktop.

The toxicity surrounding this game from incel dipshits has infested the Let's Play scene as well - the first two parts of FightinCowboy's playthrough each have a dislike ratio of around 33%, which is much higher than you'd usually expect to see.

I was looking on the steam page yesterday before their reviews went live, but you can look at 'curators' who have reviewed the game. There is a guy on there called 'Shitlisting Service' who has a 'review' for Borderlands 4, which is a good trick. It's literally 'might have this, probably does that, not recommended'. It's psychotic.

Just don't tell them the Deus Ex series central feature is gender affirming care. They might have a stroke.

Quick someone make an incel spotter thread.

It does make sense to keep the game specific threads about the game, and not whatever drama the neckbeards have dreamt up this week.

Hear hear, can we make it a rule? Really is tiresome and brings the discussion down here. We're fortunate that nobody seems to share the morons' views either, so stick it all in one thread and leave the actual threads to discussing games, not cunts.

Picked it up along with Sonic X Shadow Generations and The Inquisitor cause it was £12