For the record Bioware were: Casey Hudson James Ohlen David Falkner Derek Watts Drew Karpyshyn Jeremy Soule And NOT: John Epler Corinne Busche Matt Rhodes Trick Weekes After Anthem EA killed Bioware like many good studios before them. It's long over.
@@JJAB91 You realize most of the people you mentioned in the first list were involved in the creation of Anthem, right? Baldur's Gate 3 wasn't made by any 'classic' Bioware devs, but it's a better RPG than anything Bioware made in decades.
@@JJAB91and if you look at Respawn now Todd Alderman,Drew McCoy,Paul Messerley, Jason McCord, Mohammad Alavi, Chad Grenier, Mackey McCandlish, Jon Shiring, josh Cartielli, Tina Sanchez, Rayme Vinson, Tal Tallon, Rodney Reece all are gone only Vince Zampella, Steve Fukuda, Todd Sue and Peter Hirchesman are remaining from the original founders of Respawn.
@@matheuszanlorenzi6076 Correct. However, Corrine Busche shared with Matty (in this video) that the Mass Effect team have totally been involved in a way they didn't used to be. I'm not saying Mary was responsible, but I expect she will have had the opportunity to share her insight.
Yup they don’t care if this game is good or not they’re simply mad that this game is different. These so called fans are now cheering that their favorite company will die if this game fails.
Yes, and they deserve it. Bioware has dropped the ball so many times and are turning their legacy of gems into trash. I hope they go down in flames before they ruin mass effect any further.
I am cheering for it. Left-coded games have been rejected by the consumer market at an unprecedented level recently, and hopefully this is one more nail in the coffin.
Austin is a shill because he likes a game? He would be more of a spineless shill if he just said whatever opinion would make you and the rest of your annoying hivemind to cry the least
@@jakeling2 I read OP's comment more like a joke saying it's great Austin is replacing Ralph, which has been a running gag on this channel for a while hasn't it?
I remember when Fallout 4 came out while I was in college, and Mr.MattyPlays was first trying to get into RU-vid by covering every little hidden detail about the game. So cool to see how far he’s come over the years!
Is it even a dragon age game if it doesnt throw away the very interesting morally nuanced plot setup from the last game and books in favour of a much more generic plot?
@@kevinjohnanand and yet instead a tale of espionage as we fight to quash a somewhat sympathetic slave elf rebellion on tevinter that solas is causing to help him end the world, that happened off screen and we are fighting some evil gods again. Much like how the last game ditched the morally nuanced mage templar civil war in order for us to fight an evil God.
I don't think we should define a large group of people in 2 distinctions. Are people who play candy crush on their phone casual gamers? If they devote money in the cell phone game and play it for the majority of their day, are they hardcore? Also about the topic of watching but not gaming. Same with people who watch movies. Gaming is getting massive, and now it reaches more people and people get interested in the topic or news or drama. The people who live game to game is just the consumer culture we live in, and you guys do promote it in a way. (not saying this in a bad way, I love watching you guys and learning about the industry news myself)
@@EnsignRedshirtRickyyou anti woke people are the new SJWs.... ITS WOKE REEEEEE... EVERYTHING IS WOKE REEEEEE... WOKE WOKE WOKE REEEEEEEEEEEEEE... how dare they have top surgery scars that are completely optional in character creation...
A studios identity can live within the studio, not just the people that started said identity. It's up to the old guard to teach their ways, and pass on the torch to the new to take that and not only carry it on, but grow it. Yes the doctors are no longer there, but the old bioware was not the doctors, or any specific individuals, it was the bringing together of talent and passion for making the style of games that they made, embracing the things that worked, learning from those that didn't. There's no reason the new bioware can't do the same. You'd never make the same statement about Nintendo, and yet many of the greats have moved on, either leaving the company or putting their attention elsewhere. Nintendo games are the way they are because of the Nintendo identity, not a few specific people.
Lucy mentions game devs haven't done teeth right. I misheard her at first, thinking she said they didn't do Tifa right. I'd say she turned out quite well :D
What does Dragon Age resemble? The ASOIAF rip-off that was Origins, the cartoony dating sim that was DA2, or the open world single player RPG that was Inquisition?
@@hihihi1q23 Dragon Age was inspired by their previous work on Baldur's Gate. It was supposed to be more of a modernized CRPG. Every Dragon Age from Origins through Inquisition allowed you to play more tactically with an overhead view option and the ability to control party members. This is the first game that doesn't allow you to control your party members. Y'all never played a Dragon Age, apparently.
@@stuckintheinbetween Dragon Age on consoles was never a CRPG. It was pretty much an action RPG. Origins was basically 'baby's first CRPG' and was pretty shallow, even compared to a streamlined game like BG3.
Its interesting to look at the evolution of Baldur's Gate and Dragon Age. Dragon Age Origins was very much a spiritual successor to the old Baldur's Gate. If you asked me back then what i thought Dragon Age would look like in 2024, my answer would have looked like BG3. Veilguard looks good, even if it isn't quite what I hoped it would be
Video released 44 minutes ago. You commented 22 minutes ago. They start talking about Dragon Age 30 minutes in... 🤔 Maybe you skipped ahead, but I doubt it.
The previews to this game have been positive, but it's weird to see so many comments desperately hoping the game ends up bad. Seems like the culture war tourists (who complain about games but don't play any) have made this game their new target lmao.
@@VIPandalicious"gamers won't buywoke games!" Meanwhile, Cyberpunk, Baldur's Gate 3, Hogwarts Legacy, Starfield all sold dozens of millions. These clowns exist in a bubble of masturbatory, pathetic outrage. No wonder women won't touch most of them with a 40ft pole.
My local GameStop was tasked in throwing away every copy of Concord however while I was there they gave away 20 of them to different people including me so I also have a sealed Concord
It seems like people who tried it, that I trust, have seemed to come around on the combat system for Veilguard so it's all in the writing and later gameplay from what I can tell. I'd love Bioware to put out a good game again
I think it would be hard to fk up veilguard. They already did Andromeda and should have learnt their lessons and focus on their strengths which is what Veilgard seems to be doing. People are only whining at stuff that doesn't matter.
Thank you Ralph for bringing up physical disc prices in Australia. It's a huge deal to buy physical games. They are significantly cheaper in retailers.
As a big dragon age fan it looks very well made but really the wrong style. First 2 dragon age games were all about moral introspection, what it means to lead and what are you willing to do to win... this game looks like its completely ditched that even more than inquisition had. The maturity is all off. When people say they want dragon age to go back to being dark, they dont just mean death and blood. They mean we want moral greyness and maturity again. Not some technicolour generic quip thing. Just looking at the qunari you know theyve sanatised all the actual adult reading level stuff. Not that nice either that theyve made it less of an rpg instead of more, with less story role playing. More generic all round. Combat does look good though, although not controlling your party members anymore seems a big loss, especially when all the different classes seem to play very differently.
So u didn't hear the director saying that the story and choice and consequences will be the main point and the consequences will have more severity than the others or do u not want anything proving ur agenda wrong
@john-michaelvanzyl I don't have an agenda? I would rather the game be good. I love dragon age. I've read all the books. But I've watched cutscenes from this game. I can see how the choices work. I'm sure there will be choices in missions but the role playing is dismissed. You barely pick what your character says. It's the same as dragon age 2 again annoyingly, but the dialogue is more annoying. Take your weird culture war to twitter.
@@john-michaelvanzyl there is no agenda, if you go back and look at the first game, there is clearly a very distinct departure from the graphical style that allowed an appearance of a more mature game. When people see this game it looks more light hearted and whimsical.
@@Beldaross Wrong. We want good games. But if a game seems bad, we will not cry about that. It is what it is, good games win, bad games loose. Always been like that.
@@Scarecr0wn Tbf actively cheering for a game's downfall without it even being out along with it being a single player game is kinda...well simply put insane.
@@Beldaross What planet do you live on where people want games to be bad? But if the game is bad, why would I want it to succeed? I'm under no obligation to shill for a bad game.
@@Philpot1992veilgaurd looks really good .. Wtf you talking about? Everyone who has played it says its good.. Let me guess..... ITs wOkE REEEEEEE right??
@@Philpot1992Well thats the thing the game called Mass effect it means people should judge it like its Mass effect game if its a great sci fi game and not a good Mass Effect then change the title
@@Philpot1992 Yeah... no. I love sci-fi games and I've tried to get into Andromeda 3 or 4 times and it's just a bad game. Even if you detach it from Mass Effect and the hype that comes with that, it's still not good.
@@johnnyflannigan136 The top scar stuff is laughable, however it's the least of this game's problems. Qunari look childish, your party seems completely unlikable, you can't even control your party like in every other Dragon Age (my biggest issue), the dialogue is terrible, etc. I could go on but it's not worth my time. You'll make any excuse to defend this obvious schlock.
I don't like the choices they made overall (graphics/gameplay, new characters) with Dragon Age The Veilguard, and I will not be buying or playing it. I really enjoyed the last one, Inquisition, and have replayed it several times with different builds/choices.
Your a stronger person than I. Inquisition was a horrific boring game to play even the characters which are supposedly biowares strong point, kinda suck. How did you get through the mind numbing quests and mmo gameplay that many times?
Saw Jake on a channel called pretty much it that was recommended out of nowhere, talking about the Spider-Man movies of course. Pretty funny channel to boot.
I own and loved all Mass Effect games and all the Dragon Age games... BUT, I am extremely worried about this DA game. It looks plastic, watered-down and arcady to me. Granted, the REAL BioWare died with EA. LoL.
The little bit I've seen of veilguard I'm cautiously optimistic I've been playing through the trilogy and I'm finding inquisition a bit of a slog to get through so them making it a little more like Mass Effect missions is good for me wish it was still 3 party members though
There is a massive reason why all these games are failing commercially just lately but you will never hear any of these game “journalists” talk about it! This one will also bomb even if it gets good reviews.
I can't at all get excited for Veilguard, it looks and feels like nothing of the previous titles I enjoyed. This isn't the Bioware I remember ,it just feels off and wrong in many ways compared to the grittiness of Origins.
@@johnnyflannigan136this may be a strange concept to you but taste actually differs. We don't all like the same things. If someone loved Origins it shouldn't be difficult to grasp why they aren't too thrilled with Veilguard.
In reply to some of these comments: more than a couple of founders make up the complexities, talents, relationships, and shared skillsets within a video game developer.
I’m excited about DAV. I’ve gotten used to the art style even if there are things that I still don’t love about it. What I’m excited about, though, is the focus on the story and choice and consequence. They eliminated pointless fetch quests and made the side content relevant to the story. Which means they trimmed the fat and focused on the narrative. I don’t expect the game to revolutionize anything, but I expect to enjoy the story.
So far, Veilguard makes a really bad first impression. We can only hope that what we've seen so far is not indicative of the rest of the game, but it is likely. The design alone looks...questionable.
@@kippeneneieren2039 yes, previews. that are sponsored and have been flown out to play the game. Access journalism says the game is good, so the game must be good, right?
Every single preview says the game is great lol just blatantly lying because the first trailer was trash...something the devs all admitted they didn't want released. You are just hating to hate at this point 🤣
@@kippeneneieren2039 most people have made up their mind. I was inclined to dislike this game really, but the new previews I saw looked a LOT more promising. I’m not pre-ordering but I’m actually excited for it now
@FelisImpurrator I want you to take a minute, and just imagine the utter horror of "top surgery" I'm a medieval setting. And then I'm thinking... if you could do it with magic, there would be no scars. It just... doesn't make sense. And that is why it is immersion breaking.
The Mass Effect Team? When was there a team working on a Mass Effect Game? I have a hard time taking people seriously when they have their flight paid to San Francisco, given premium hotel stays moat likely with per diem for food all gratis from EA and Bioware. Mr. Matty disclosed it on his channel, and I know the Skill Up! Team paid their own way. I would venture to say Lucy took the payout from EA. Shadow Dragon sounds cool? Maybe if I was 11... How fast do you think Matty would take a job from EA Marketing, and now think of how he may play nice for his future prospects' sake...That's goes for everyone except Skill Up! who again paid their own way. No one had 1 negative thing to say, not a one, that's weird because none of them cared for the art style prior going to San Francisco...
I don't want to see myself in a game. i want to see a Kratos, or a Master Chief, or a Lara Croft. I have no idea why all these narcissistic and vain losers are so desperate to see themselves in everything.
there are tons of games, not every game needs to have a fixed character or complete character creation, most games are made for fun, if you dont find it fun it might not be for you, go find the games that you enjoy, not focus on games that have things you dont like, hell go see indies, tons after tons of games with fixed characters, fixed experiences, some more gameplay focused, other more story focused.
Confirmed that Concord cost 400m to make. 200m at the time they went into Alpha and Sony put another 200m. This is not including the money spent to acquire the studio. Goddamn man.
Probably including marketing though, which is more expensive than people think.
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<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1504">25:04</a> was this a Destiny jab from Lucy? 😮 I was not expecting to hear Skolas being mentioned AND it not coming from Skillup AND a sick burn, too. 😂 Hats off to you, ma’am!
The truth is that Bioware is dead - its as much of a walking corpse that talks as is Blizzard. If you are looking for Bioware class games, look at Larian Studios
Larian, Remedy and Fromsoft, whether you like their games or not, feel like the last bastion of major studios who actually care about making good games.
literally a script read "a great entry point into franchise" "oh its like ME2" "primer-detonator from Anthem", writers for these points need to come up with something new, they repeat same things in every arcticle/video
They all played the same 6 hour segment. How many more unique things can they all say? Not to mention they've all spoken with each other so it's fresh in the mind. Can you come up with a better criticism?
I am looking forward to the new Dragon age as a newcomer, who has almost finished BG3, I am looking forward to it. I wasn't that into fantasy or the D and D vibe until BG3. I want more.
Dragon age vs the veilguard made an awful first impression with the reveal trailer that turned a lot of gamers against the game permanently, just look at the other comments here lol. Every actual in game thing we saw since then looks good. I still have my obvious reservations with the game director but I feel ok about the game itself.
I had bad impressions first too but starting to warm up but remaining cautious. Doesn't apply to everyone but it is funny seeing the stupid culture warrior tourists here trying to complain about stupid shit like 'DEI' in a bioware game of all things lol What's the reservations with the game director btw? I hadn't really heard/looked into anything? :O
For me it's break, there's only one good Dragon Age and it is origins, they can't even make a proper party based action rpg like Tales of or Ys, you can't control the other characters, they don't even have hp bars, they are just moral support
I tried DA:Inquisition. It was _okay_ at best, something I could play till the end, but none of it really stuck with me. I look back at it mostly as something I played and never thought about again. Today though I’m spoiled for choices of excellent games, new/old/indie/fromsoft/yoko taro. I don’t need mid and I’m perfectly happy to just make a new challenge build in Elden Ring or play any number of fun indie games that just ooze style. None of this has style, not of this looks like a fun enjoyment. It looks like another action adventure fantasy game I’ve already played. I’m not going to play it and instead I’ll play Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom.
So nice to see all the positive Dragon Age press. Haven't played those games but love Mass Effect, but sounds like it's doing everything I hoped it would.
@@Nico78Not Trust neither the access journalists or the smooth brains saying every single person who played it is "wrong". Play it for yourself and decide or wait or full reviews.
@@superbrobor6458 You're right. Instead, you should trust clickbait youtubers who don't play games and instead churn out 50 videos a day about how Barney the dinosaur is woke.
@@Nico78Not Star Wars Outlaws had pretty mixed previews. Not sure what you're screeching about. The game ended up being a 7/10 with an interesting well-made world and solid story, but some gameplay issues...which is what pretty much what every preview said. You guys will whine about 'access journalists', then believe some random conservative culture war slop lmao
Check out gameplay footage from the blighted village. It seems like it only looks like that in Minrathos, which makes sense cause of the city. It’s supposed to look different from the other cities in the setting because it’s basically a technological city in a setting where everyone else isn’t even in the steam age
@@ravenblood1954It's very ugly game to me. The environment looks alright, but it's too fantastical. Old DA had a very gritty grounded look, things were messy and utilitarian with a few exceptions. Characters are overly cartoony and creatures and clothing are straight up ugly. Like what happened since Inq. UI is gaudy and combat has way too many flashy effect, think overwatch
@@raynortownly7098 That’s been true since DA 2 though. That game was extremely BLAND and lacked any variety at all. Although when I saw the blighted village gameplay I saw that the art style can pull of gritty quite well. Of course this is a matter of taste though
@@raynortownly7098 And remember that Minrathos is not described as gritty and Utilitarian. Well, not the wealthier parts of the city anyway. It’s supposed to be very advanced, almost alien in that respect, because it’s the capital of the only nation on Thedas that embraces magic. The demon designs I saw weren’t great though I have to say
Im gonna need Austin to play more Bioware games. Comparing the camp parts when everyone gets together to Guardians of the Galaxy when Dragon age Origins did that first or was one of the first 😅
Bless everyone and what they’re into. There are plenty of reasons why people would watch gaming content, not having time to game is one. It is funny though imagining someone being super into MCU trailers and watching a ton of RU-vid videos, being hyped about leaks and whatnot without having watched a single Marvel movie.
Hey shillup. Care to talk about how you literally praised "talented" Concord devs for uh, whatever polish the deceased game had. You would be pleased to know that the game needed another 200M from Sony and lots of outsourced work because whatever Firewalk was developing all those years was rough. Lol More like talented "outsourced" devs lol
@@chaserseven2886I really don’t get how people can say the gameplay was even “good” it was stiff with sluggish movement, no FoV slider, just an absolutely abysmal ttk, the maps and game modes didn’t compliment the hero shooter genre at all. It really felt like your abilities were only for you but if a team mate ended up benefiting from it that was just a bonus
@@chaserseven2886 That is cope. We all know the real reason it flopped (i.e., it was ugly as sin). You don't have to "stand out" to be a successful hero shooter, but those hell-ugly characters and visuals made people avoid it from the start.
"My uncle Bob" sounds really legit. This ARA game sounds like pure tripe. Literally everything they said can be said about every 4X game I have ever played. And irregular regions just mean tiles of a different shape. It's all the same. What 4X game is about who clicks first? Hard Pass!!! They talked about The Eiffel Tower like Wonders haven't been a part of CIV since the first one!!! LMAO
As someone else nicely put: As a longtime Dragon Age fan, the biggest draw to the franchise has always been the world, characters, scale and story. Combat always felt secondary and of little importance. So far the characters and their designs look stylistically ugly and unappealing, with armor and weapons that feel completely disconnected from the situation before like a marvel character. In every dragon age beforehand characters wore clothing that also fit their appeal, this isn't the case here. They somehow made an elf have the face of young woman with the body of a granny. The characters themselves, specifically the writing, appears incredibly dumbed down, full of writing tropes like the 'Maid and butler' routine where everything is explained twice over to your face and you never figure anything out yourself. On presentation alone, from everything so far, I hate to say it but it does not at all look appealing. Also for the record Bioware were: Casey Hudson James Ohlen David Falkner Derek Watts Drew Karpyshyn Jeremy Soule And NOT: John Epler Corinne Busche Matt Rhodes Trick Weekes After Anthem EA killed Bioware like many good studios before them. Give up, its over.
To be fair (coming from a Veilguard hater) Dragon Age has always been ugly as sin. Origins is the GOAT and the only real Dragon Age, but it's also butt ugly. Uglier that Veilguard if we're being honest with ourselves.
@doctorogre1777 da2 and inquisition are also ugly and da2 is quite bad. But people don't hate on the games like this because toxic gaming culture wasn't trendy in 2010
@@zrpggamerYea, cause how dare he get to vent out his feelings and thoughts… He is so toxic telling people to F off cause they don’t agree with him instead of adding to the conversation…..
Every Dragon Age game except for 2 has been incredibly ugly. Origins was widely criticized at release for its visuals, especially compared to Mass Effect 1. This game looks WAY better than the OG trilogy in terms of its art style. The only exception would be the Qunari, where DA2 still does it best.
Skillup literally mentions booting up space marine 2 to show off the graphics to whoever comes over. He gushes about graphics for a bit in that game. Downplay graphics all you want in this video the graphics are a huge part of the attraction. Especially when you see a trailer for a game.
Top surgery scars as a character option in a fantasy game is pretty crazy to me. Personally when I play a fantasy game I want to escape life not be reminded how goofy the West has become now.
You said it yourself, it's an option. You don't need to be reminded if you don't want to. The same incels screeching about this are the same incels that bought hogwarts legacy in droves because they thought they were sticking it to the DEI crowd when really it was just a bunch of lunatics against hogwarts legacy. Hogwarts legacy has an actual trans character in the game, this has an option to include top surgery scars.
Yeah like I'm not somone who calls 'woke' or all that nonsense but how tf is a qunari getting top surgery 😅 they come from a perverse communist culture where gender roles are enforced by law and freedom of expression isn't allowed. No way they having trans surgery this is clealry dumb pandering
FYI. The female body in this game is just a male body that you can attach (or detach) breasts to, you can also leave the surgical scars behind. Yes of course you choose your pronouns. Lets see how this goes, the hands on on this channel was positively GLOWING.
BG3 and Cyberpunk had you choose pronouns and also had body type separate from gender identity. Elden Ring also had you choose body type instead of gender and the female bodies were literally just slimmer versions of the male bodies with a chest. It's a standard thing in RPGs. No one cares about your culture war dumbassery.
prefacing this by saying i think console wars are dumb, i own a xbone, ps5, etc - i think i saw a tweet saying that Sony CEO's didn't feel they had enough competition to force them to lower prices, so that's why they felt they could ask that ridiculous price point
I am more than happy for people oh so excited for Veilguard. Enjoy. Have a time of your life. I loved Origins, enjoyed Inquisition and Mass Effect trilogy is amog my favorite games ever. I personally did not like anything they showed about Veilguard, exctept couple of locations. So I came to a conclusion the game is not being made for me and I will pass on it. One would say, reasonable and mature decision but I am sure some "fans" will call me hater or whatever.
Is Bioware Back? ~ probably because of "Toxic Positivity" culture around bad games. Imagine this same sentiment over concord if even half people supported it'd probably be a main stay of dogshit games we'd be getting for years to come. Somehow people pushing back on it HATING it got it the Fq out. ( Thank god majority modern audiences are based ppl ) dude "YOU CAN'T FIX HER" ( Bioware )
"I just want it to be another CRPG" - SkillUP! Yep! I am with you there @skillup. Looking forward to SkillUPs review of DAV as someone with the same thoughts as me. Maybe a thought would be do two reviews, one by Austin and one by SkillUp for the comparison.
This dragon age was made for the dei crowd just like Dustborn, Concord and SW Outlaws and how did that work out for those games? Oh that's right huge financial disasters.
i mean they just avoided talking about that stuff and just mentioned stuff they liked about it, which is fair. but ye, the character customization options are horrible and very obviously pandering to a specific group of people who are notably mostly not even gamers long story short, i'm definitely not buying this one, that's for sure
