Dragon Age: The Veilguard Reviews Are In — Is BioWare’s Back in a Big Way? - eviltoast
After what feels like ages, Now BioWare’s finally back with a new single-player title! As you know Their last big launch was Anthem in 2018, and... well,
  • Hal-5700X@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    91·
    2 months ago

    Is BioWare’s Back in a Big Way?

    No, they’re not.

    EDIT Prediction of Veilguard’s & Bioware’s future

    • High Early sales due to the name.
    • Massive drop off in sales shortly after release due to word of mouth about game being shit.
    • The game will sell well enough for Bioware, Reddit, Twitter, and ResetERA to say that the negative buzz around the game was just from incel chuds, but not well enough to be a massive success.
    • There will be very little DLC for the game, probably just cosmetic microtransactions and a small quest chain due to lack of sales.
    • Bioware once again limps away just barely escaping death due to mediocracy and a slow release month.
  • caut_R@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    2 months ago

    Can someone give me a rundown on why there‘s so much negativity revolving around this? I saw the review thread and it seemed to have scored quite a few good reviews. I‘m not informed regarding the matter at all, the last Bioware game I‘ve played was Dragon Age 2, so I‘m genuinely clueless.

    • zecg@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      Can someone give me a rundown on why there‘s so much negativity revolving around this?

      First five minutes of SkillUp’s review is a good rundown. It seems like a mindless action clickathon with imitation of gameplay seen in better games, a safe sterile story and a large chunk of world design repurposed leftovers from someone’s abandoned Overwatch-but-DA ambitions.

      edit: also, I note how reviews that peg this as a “return to form” are written and SkillUp’s has video to back his opinions and it looks pretty damning.

        • zecg@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          Never seen mortismal and I’ve only seen SkillUp a few times. I don’t really follow or need any review at release time, I’m not touching any game that’s 50€ or more until two years have passed and it’s in the vicinity of 75% off.

    • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 months ago

      They changed a few key components about what some people were looking for in a Dragon Age game, which Dragon Age 2 did as well.

  • Shadywack@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    Fextralife was not given a review code due to their pattern of objectivity

    Fextralife also mentions they host the most widely used DA:I wiki, they went through the effort of preserving the original Dragon Age forum threads from the Bioware forums prior to EA’s closure of them. They have a long history of being one of the central hosts of the largest community of Dragon Age enthusiasts, and longtime proponents of the Dragon Age series overall. When they expressed cautious optimism after the reveal trailer, their press contacts at EA went silent and they were not selected for an advance review code due to the risk of them being critical or not giving a high enough score to the game and dragging down the initial metacritic score.

    Either way, if the company is worried about the perceived quality of the game, they wouldn’t have cherry picked favorable reviewers. It looks bad.

  • Nima@leminal.spaceEnglish
    32·
    2 months ago

    i can’t wait to play. the combat looks fun af from the reviews ive seen. I’m interested in that bigass talent tree.

    super excited!