Brew some tea and join me on this journey as we discover BioWare's latest game developments and a few other upcoming Fantasy RPGs too. Jackdaw is the number one channel on RU-vid for all of the freshest, hottest updates on every aspect of the next Dragon Age and the next Mass Effect game's development processes.
I'm Jack, a Content Creator with a Journalism degree and an extensive background in writing, production, and content creation. I love BioWare games and have done so for over half my life. Their worlds, characters, and experiences have truly shaped whom I've become as a person. So, consider my channel a love letter to fans & developers alike as we each embark on the road to BioWare's next adventures.
I am going to let a more constructive comment about everything Dragon Age has meant to me in this ten year gap I became a fan of the series when I have more time to calmly watch and pay attention to the video, but for the time being thank you Jack for your constant coverage and videos og the special games for years, you were the first channel that pooped out after I finished the first two games when I was hungry for Dragon Age lore content.
I don’t understand Bioware, just bring back HF as the main character (don’t care that for some he died), there’s always some unknown person saving the world, it shouldn’t be like that. His return would be an epoch-making event, besides, he doesn’t have to be voiced,BG3 for example.
Thanks for the video. I am saddened by the choices not carrying over. IMO we were misled about that, and that is disappointing. I wasn't expecting a parade of meaningless cameos, and would have really disliked it. I disagree that the stuff that happened in previous games isn't relevant just because it happened in another country. but if the story is good and gameplay is good, I'm going to enjoy it. I will absolutely buy it OCT 31. Ppl that want to hate on them for making this game inclusive, like they just suddenly started making inclusive content, is hard to understand.
A Bioware game getting shit on by overreacting fans before they've even played a single second of the game? Wow, I've NEVER seen this before. Certainly not anything like "It's not Baldur's Gate!!!" or "It's not like Origins!!!" for the past 15 years or "ME2 is a bro shooter now! Not a REAL RPG!!!" or "Multiplayer in Mass Effect?? HARD PASS!" or "Andromeda? I want Shepard!!!" and on and on. Time is indeed a flat circle. Bioware fans are the trendsetters for very fucking stupid games discourse.
I just wanted more than 3 choices to matter and from more than only 1 of the 3 games it’s sad to see them ignore the other games like the time we put in it didn’t matter my hawke will never have his story completed it seems my warden is still out looking for a cure I guess? They could’ve at the minimum just done major decisions I understand why smaller ones won’t matter but they outright invalidated our choices by not referencing them is worse in my opinion because it completely invalidates the previous games that I love
its making it feel like DAve is just a one shot spun off of DAI, Ive always been a lover of this series (much alike TESDG+) It hurts that this is making it feel like its right off from tresspasser.... wait what, its YEARS after tresspaser... okay.... maybe choices matter... nope. I am always good at cyphering what the ending of a game will be before it ends always been that way... it's WHY I LOVE/d this series but the not mattered choices Morrigan in the trailer popping up with possible mythal circlet making me think they canoned her drinking the well holding an aspect of mythal. why shes even back (probaby). the fact that the orlaisian empire/divine choices doesnt matter kinda throw me as that kinda matters. Like im going to ASSUME now that liliana is Divine. since why cannon she coming back in default states before games that she died/come back. Which again adds a whole other tangent of words. Shhh... I dont hate this series but the fact our choices before DO NOT matter. to these so called Devs is insulting as a player of a game where choices HAVE ALWAYS mattered. It just makes me feel like I'll know exactly how the game ends before it even starts. and why would I play it more then once if again past choices DO NOT matter. i'm still hyped for the game, still thinking positively that maybe the ingame choices WILL matter throughout DAve and that they MEAN something. I'm just DISAPOINTED that they aren't giving us more choices from DAI then just tresspasser choices and romanced. Why does it even matter who we romanced if they don't add any more choices then 3. it just seems poorly thought and done. Okay my auadhd ted talk tangent is over. im just sad and disappointed is all. but still hyped/excited to read some lore/story things.
As good as the game may or may not be, it has been these past few months before release the anticipation is the best part of the experience. The emotional rollercoaster is as good as it can ever be about this game.
How they have treated our previous decisions had is just disheartening. They have now created a disconnect. If it really is what it is, it’s a horrible insult to the long time players. They got lazy. They have possibly taken away a very vital part of what makes BioWare well BioWare.
Thank you for all your years of coverage, Jack. I've been here for most of them! Your deep dives and lore examination has fed the lore junky in me over the years! My thoughts on things: I was slightly and initially willing to suspend my negative judgement around the off-putting graphic design and art style of The Veilguard - including the unappealing and unrecognizable redesign of the character models for Varric and Harding, the thoroughly tone-deaf initial reveal, the more action-focused combat (even though DAII is a great favorite of mine,) the paring down of companions from three to two, the culling of ability slots, and the eye-assaulting festival of combat “particle effects.” I was taking a hold-out-hope and wait-and-see stance. It was difficult, but I was making an effort. In the initial couple of reveals and interviews with the devs we were told that the Keep would no longer be used. The reasoning, they said, was to make sure that the game wouldn’t have to be “always connected” online and could be played completely offline, and that in its place we would be now able to set up our world state from within the game itself. And then we learned that it’s not an actual world state we’re setting up at the beginning of the game, but just a few choices. It was a lie, then. Just corporate-speak. It doesn’t, in fact, replace our choices from the Keep - from this vast ocean of lore that has been built over the decades of the franchise and how we shaped and experienced that world. It doesn't even offer us the choice to set up just a few of the major decisions we made from the most recent game. It is three choices. Three basic choices. It’s not “just” the lie around these three choices that have broken things for me; it made all of the other things that I had held back from judging harshly seem more substantial and consequential. It breaks my heart, to have invested so much time and energy and love into the lore and world and books and games and history of this franchise since 2009, only to have it considered unimportant by the current devs. To paraphrase: “Your world state is so important, that we’ve decided to not reference it at all, and pretend it doesn’t exist, or that it only exists in your own mind and memory.” It breaks my heart to feel like I’m done with a Dragon Age world that I have followed for so many years. I’d like to think that I can just “get over it” at some point and enjoy The Veilguard for what it is - whatever it ends up being. Maybe that’ll happen. Or maybe I am, really, just done.
I loved everything I saw, except this 3 choice debacle. It's honestly kind of rocked me a bit...like, I get a clean slate can make for better storytelling, but come one... this actually straight up wipes a bunch of decisions across the games: if they are referred to it's going to be divisive picking a canon choice, so what, are they just not going to mention the plethora of choices that have been made across the 3 games? Oh man, this is a bit of a shit show: guts me for sure.
I have a theory, I think we will be able to pick out what happened in the last game, using in game choices. Example = Rook, inquisitor , and Morrigan are in an elven temple, Rook sees accent elven writing but can't read it, Morrigan says that the well of Sorrows could help, Rook get expiation on what the well is, Rook then asked who drank, then we get a choice between Morrigan and Inquisitor, we select one and then they read the writing. This is what I hope will happen in the game.
Haven't played the games because i'm a filthy casual, but i was always intrested in the story! Now that the veilguard is more my thing, this has been really helpful!
Such a humble video, goddamn! Your a great person Jack. Looking forward to jumping into another Bioware adventure with you and the community, here we go!
You forgot about choose the king of the dwarves in Origins. That really needed to be in there, too. And this is why I'm out. Bioware has nothing to offer me now. There' s not even hope they can fix this since they're not updating the keep or maintaining a persistent world state. So F them. They killed my worlds. I don't need them any more. But I do hope they crash and burn. And I say this as someone who was devoted to them and would actively get other people to play their games. No more fan girling for them. no more buying their games. They're dead to me.
We don’t know what’s gonna happen in the game we were able to recreate our hawke in inquisition mid game just cause there are only 3 starting choices means nothing
I think we're only getting 3 choices because Bioware is nearly broke with goodwill from EA after their last 2 flops and is not getting the budget it needs to be fully fleshed out. This is Bioware's last chance and it shows. I just hope theirs enough DA and Mass Effect fans left who don't want to see these series die. Otherwise I feel that this is it. It's over.
Bro, EA gave them a ton of time for this, the CEO is reportedly excited by the game, people have said a completionist run is 80 hours or more, and they have 4 different voice actors for the player character. Baldur's Gate 3 doesn't even have a player voice and that game had an enormous budget. Yeah, that screams small budget. They hired Hans Zimmer ffs. Hollywood composers like him don't come cheap.
@@mandu6665 Let's hope your right but maybe they shouldn't have spent all that money on Hans Zimmer and put more effort into making more choices matter from the previous games? I dunno something seems off but I do like what I have seen so far from the game. I'm really hoping it doesn't disappoint after this 10yr wait.
Im so glad to have stadted following you, Ghil, and DarthShadie ❤ i picked up the games in 2018 just to pass time. And then theough covid i started actuality playing, fell in love with the story and characters, found yall 3 channels and have been following ever since. This community on here has been the most healthiest and supporting people I've ever chatted to or followed. I am so excited for Veilguard.... but i am also a tad sad since this feels like the journey is coming to an end. I will always follow, and love to see where you go once the game is out and whats to come!
The lack of choices from the previous games really is a dealbreaker for me. It was one of the main things that made Dragon Age feel special as a series and seeing them drop that along with their terrible reasoning trying to justify it has made me lose all hope that this won’t be the Dragon Age equivalent of Mass Effect: Andromeda.
I've played every single DA game upon release casually, with zero expectations. I didn't even care that much about the games til Inquisition. But even now that I'm pulled in by the plot, I'm still coming at this game casually, without any expectation. I love this genre and this theme, and I'm adaptable with games. Always ready for an interactive story. 👏
Dragon Age cannot be reduced to choices and cameos. The world of Thedas is greater than the sum of our personal decisions. In other words, events beyond player's control are what truly shape the world of Thedas. Therefore, Dragon Age is much more than superficial continuity. This means that it's less about personal choices and more about big events that make us act in a certain way. So the lack of continuity doesn't bother me at all. In fact, I have already pre-ordered the Veilguard because everything I have seen tells me that it will be a great fantasy RPG game in its own right, that is, irrespective of the level of continuity with its predecessors. It also helps that it's basically the "spiritual" successor to Dragon Age 2 (my favorite entry in the series).
I like your videos, even if I feel you are part of the blind fandom that adds to the toxix positivity. Hope you keep growing your channel in several directions. Get to keep doing what you enjoy. Don’t think BioWare will be around for you to focus on for another 10. So keep branching out.
You're forgetting one thing. Every single Dragon Age game, every single one, has had divided players. We just look on Origins so fondly because we loved it. But it was very poorly received because of its tactical combat. Inquisition was also massively divided, and that is not even to mention the nightmare that was DA2. Veilguard has the most potential to be a story driven cinematic experience, which is what Dragon Age originally set out to be.
This. A WHOLE LOT of people here weren't around for those releases at launch. We've already heard lots about how much more impactful choices are in DATV and this looks to be the best companion system yet instead of spamming gifts just to bang your digital boyfriend or girlfriend.
I think you're overstating it a bit, DAO wasn't poorly received, it reviewed well. But yeah Mike Laidlaw said that feedback on combat was it felt dragging.
Man, I appreciate all you’ve done for the game and the community, by keeping up content for it and all of us, but… I’ll just come out and say that I’m worried about it. Heck, I’ve been worried about it ever since Andromeda. BioWare is not the same as it was a decade ago, too many people have left and been replaced with new people. One look at the game’s director is enough to make me halt the hype. One look at the new darkspawn and Qunari design is enough to make me not want to buy the gold edition. All I’m saying is, the hype is well and good, but we have to be wary of this new BioWare.
I admire your enthusiasm but as someone told me in the comment section “This is going to be ‘The Last Jedi’ of Dragon Age” and I felt that hit hard in my gut… I think they are going to be proved right and just like with Last Jedi it will get some critical praise and a fan following likely based on shipping (remember the Reylo’s?) rather than story, but in the long run it will be the same superficial subversion of the franchise that leads to its demise and the loss of the old guard fan base….just like with Last Jedi. Now please gods prove me wrong?🥹
Hey, Jack. I started watching your content years ago because I wanted to improve my English listening to something I loved. At first I could not understand you well but as time passed it got better and better. Thank you for teaching me so much about Dragon Age, thank you for your passion for this ❤
3:33 They’re not wild expectations tho, they’re basic story plot points. How do you “overlook” the main story plot choices? It’s very disheartening and inexcusable to purposely let down a vast majority of the fan base. The story is pretty much laid out for them, the fan theories and speculations even help as a guide. There’s honestly no excuse!
The fan theories are just that theories. Fans don't make these fucking games and it makes me puke seeing people act like they know better than the people who actually do make these games. Gamer entitlement and arrogance is running WILD these days. Origins story is DONE, DA2's story is DONE, Inquisition's story is DONE. "The majority of the fanbase" lol. That tells me you haven't been a Bioware fan for long. The fanbase has ALWAYS been divided since before Origins even came out!
Jack you’ve been one of the most loyal and optimistic fans/creators in the DA community. Thank you for all you’ve done and always maintaining a positive outlook even when things don’t go as we hoped for.
