Dragon Age: Veilguard [Gameplay] - Angry Reaction! 

“ you needed to come much harder “ - angry joe 2024

The demons came through the fade but their legs didnt make it.

“Why do we need to help her?” I respect OJ so much for recognizing player choice in what’s supposed to be an RPG

Everything about this game screams "we wanted to do another game but adapted it into Dragon Age".

So have they confirmed that this is Rated M? Cuz this feels T as fuck

nobody else annoyed by the redesign of the Demons?

The demons used to look so cool and unique. Go look at the desire or sloth demons from origins and its night and day difference

While Larian was cooking, Bioware was microwaving.

I agree with other Joe the demon designs are not good. The overall art design is not apealing

pride demon looks like a common wow mob.

10 years preparing the ritual vs one piece of wood.Poor Solas...

This feels like a rehash of Inquisitions prologue, racing to close the breach

My grey warden died for this :(

Remember when demons were terrifying nightmarish monstrous looking creatures? Good times.

Did joe play trespasser? I can see some confusion about solas and what he plans to do if you missed Trespasser lol

I know its dragon age's thing to have a new protagonist every game but it feels odd to continue Solas' storyline playing as some new dude.

I like how the characters themselves talk about the demons like they're just a minor inconvenience, and that fighting them is basically just white noise, but eventually they're tire out. It's a pretty big red flag when your own characters within the "story" you're telling sees the main meat of what we're doing as pointless.

Where's the blood? Dark fantasy my ass

The opening of Inquisition you Play Cassandra, Varric, Solas and the Inquisitor and all of them have 2 abilities. Here you Play 1 Character with 1 ability

So chat was just plain wrong lmao they stated that you will not be able to control your companions directly anymore. Which is sad.

Honestly, when they changed the name from Dreadwolf to Veilguard, they should've dropped Dragon Age as well.

Looks a bit too cartoony for me :/

Dragon Age OG : Almost as dark as Warhammer. This shit : Neon light and Saint Row characters.

19:35 ALEX is baffled beyond recognition that he can't express words at the fact that the HUGE statue is being hold by a single wood pilar... 😂

after andromeda and anthem, this is probably biowares last chance but it looks like they dont really care

Alex is spot on with his take. "trailer is average." I'm not excited about something we've seen a hundred times before. The vibe of this game is very Avengers and not Dragon Age Origins.

Looks like 90% action and 10% Rpg

Is no one going to talk about the fact that this game looks like it's made for kids? No blood, No swearing, no harsh realities shown It wouldn't surprise me if this is a rated PG.

Am I tripping or does combat seem floaty, much like Marvel's Avengers and DnD Dark Alliance???

I am concerned about the roleplaying aspect. Our character saying we have to save the random woman, like shouldn't the player be allowed to choose their reaction to that? What if i want to play as an asshole or a coward? Even if it had no serious consequences, i would like to be able to have some control of my character's personality in a rpg..

This looks much better than the trailer but shows how disconnected EA/Bioware that they even released that trailer

Marvel has got everything in a death grip. How many neon purple skeletons shooting green laser beams is it going to take to move on? Or just neon purple in general

Joe is the definition of a "modern audience."

Clean, safe, shiny, corny, sci-fi. . . Perfect for children. No Dragon Age in sight

I'm supposed to believe Varric thought he could talk sense into Solas when the Inquisitor couldn't? Also anyone else sick of neon colors?

24:30 - There is not a single attack from the enemy. They are all just standing there not doing anything. What the hell is even that

I like how the choice to let him talk to Solas meant absolutely nothing.

Larion studio is laughing their ass off, thats all Bioware got?

what is with EA and bright green blue and red lights and colors

"Dark Fantasy" at an EDM festival

Bioware is doing whats ea doing to battlefield. Re-inventing the wheel that comes out a square...

this... dosnt look or feel like dragon age

Just noticed the one character is a "P.I."? Why? In this setting would they just not be a spy? Feels like they've lost track of the setting and period of the game.

Remember, they don't make games for ''us'' anymore. Gen Z is the target audience, hence the style of the game look ''Fortnite-ish'' and very basic, simple but fast gameplay to keep up with the short attention span Gen Z have.

Less companions than Dragon Age Inquisition , less party members , no tactical gameplay , you cant control other characters , probably no mounts , what new things does the director of the game brings to the game ? its a downgrated version of dragon age inquisition . If you are excited for this then you have low standards in gaming . Nothing new to see here and to be excited . Everything is downgrated

That first trailer is what the tevinter magisters saw when they entered the golden city

This is barely Dragon Age, I'm sorry. It's like watching a generic action RPG with a Dragon Age aesthetic. I remember spending hours fine tuning, programming, spec'ing and most importantly CONTROLLING and POSITIONING my characters to be as optimal as possible, in MANY cases NEEDING to use the tactical view in order to defeat some of the tougher mobs on Nightmare difficulty. Thing is, that ingenious tactical view; the strategy/RPG aspect, was THE thing that separated Dragon Age from similar RPG's and they got rid of it, which is just unfortunate because now it plays like every other generic hack 'n slash RPG with some cool looking abilities mixed in. I guess this is what happens when you prioritize "the masses" over your core fanbase. We see this happening everywhere from gaming to movies and it's just not the way. Thank GOD for Baldur's Gate 3, because they could have just as easily tried to appease the room temp IQ ADHD kids with non-stop action, handholding, and limited strategy, but they chose to stick to their guns and cater to their core audience instead. If Bioware simply did that, they would have no problem maintaining their reputation. I sense a major flop on the horizon.

Character and enemy designs look awful but I think that's due to the Frostbite engine and Biowares troubled history with it or it's probably just the fault of whoever they hired idk. Gameplay didn't look terrible though but we need a deep dive because that wasn't nearly enough.

DA Origins was dark as hell, a truly amazing game. This crap is NOT Dragon Age. This generation ruins everything, truly amazing.

The Pride demon look bad compared to what look like in DA: I.

They should have made a story where your Grey Warden returns. It would have printred money.

Couldn't they just remaster Origins...

This was similar to watching someone play Devil May Cry at style rank D, not an enjoyable watch as it’s not where the combat shines. I wish the best for DA : Veilguard, but they really should have shown gameplay later in the game where you have more abilities.

I hope the blue lightning demons are only for earlier section of the game and that later enemy varieties are more reminiscent of the old style of demons from the earlier games.

Dragon Age 2 may have looked actiony, but it had zero action mechanics--fewer than DA:O with its animation cancelling even. Awful encounter design made the system look way more mindless than it should've been, though. This game is definitely taking Inquisition's action-fication of the series to the next level.

Joe does make a good point about what the rest of the game would be like if this is the best they could show off. Someone at Bioware said let's put a scripted on rails segment as our demo for Dragon Age and do it bad. That will get people excited. Alex is right about the action too, this would have been passable maybe in 2011 but we have so many good action RPGs.

I hate it. I hate the ”directed” experience and the handholding. ”Oh I guess we’re sliding down”, fucking hell, this isn’t an rpg. Its a corridor runner where you are spoon fed story and little battles

Last time I Played “Dragon Age” the Darkspawn where still hanging around. Oh well…

I'm with Alex when he says it looks mid at best. I don't like the demon redesign, the flashy lighting effects, and the overall art design. The first thing that came to mind was Fornite. The comparison to retail WoW is also on-point. The gameplay they showed off was boring and gave nothing to look forward to. I'm not feeling very hopeful about the game or BioWare right now.

This has Marvel Guardians of the Galaxy vibes not Dark Fantasy 🤦‍♂️

DEI-age: Wokeguard AJ: "This looks good". Life goes on...

Looks like a Disney game

Solis is the good guy, he knew they were gonna tank the franchise so this is him destroying the world to save it

Larian: "Here is indisputable proof that there is still a market for tactical-minded CRPGs!" EA: "Yeah, but that looks like a lot of work. We're just gonna keep pushing with the hack-and-slash formula!" Larian: "God, it's lonely at the top."

I really hope they re-add the strategic planning ala Origins. The series started off the planning *really* well, being able to choose when companions used certain abilities like when enemies are grouped up in a certain number or when another companion uses one of their abilities to create cool marvel-esque combos. Ever since Dragon Age 2 it's just gotten dumbed down to the point there isn't much of any strategic planning.

Why does it look so kiddy? Or am I tripn

Gives Arkham vibes. No blood on clothes which is characteristic of the game and the battles. Oily/plastic characters. Less emphasis on tactical movement (same as DA2 which was a BIG mistake.). Why does Varric have black hair? Did he dye it????? o_0

What happened to the character and world models? They look like they've lost a shitload of polygons and were run through an oil filter in photoshop. I know that style is prevalent here, but it's so extreme everything kinda looks like clay, and 9:06 got my boy Varric looking like Liam Neeson. I definitely agree that showing the tutorial of the game isn't the move to make. Combat looks cool. Chute tube world traversal like Square pulled with FFXIII is very off-putting to me, but the tutorial for Inquisition was linear too before it opened up into the Hinterlands. I don't mind the action-oriented combat though I do enjoy tactical shit too, but if I'm honest, this doesn't really feel like a Dragon Age game to me yet. I'm interested to play it, but my level of hype is not where it was when I saw the Dreadwolf logo when it was released. All in all, it's been a fucking weird few days for Dragon Age...

This feels like what Ubisoft would make if they were to make a dragon age game

Looks like baulders gate 3. Yeah if you say so Joe.

They really have no idea what they’re doing with this franchise 😢

I think the figures at the end are the Evanuris. The old gods Solas locked up back in the day

im still baffled that they kept the limited dialogue wheel where your character doesnt even say what you picked. did ANYBODY like that? just let me pick what i want to say ffs

I'm still getting a T for Teen vibe instead of M for Mature, there's no blood, no finishers, all the particle effects seemed very fun instead of visceral. The tactical mode was severely lacking, looks like they went back to DA2 with only being able to tell companions what moves to use instead of in-depth tactics like Origins or even Inquisition. Glad to see character backgrounds are back and the action side of combat looks good, so I'm still hopeful but this left a lot to be desired for me.

The best part of this game is the good looking grass.

The art style don’t do much for me for Dragon Age. It reminds me of the Guardians of the Galaxy game a lot, with the style, linearity, and teamplay combat.

Thank god for Alex's criticism because it seemed, through the entire video, that Joe and OJ are trying, REALLY HARD, to like this gameplay trailer - even though it looked like s*** from begining to end. At the moment Alex said that it looks average at best, then Joe and OJ started to realise he's right and started criticising it a lot harder.

None stop sassy NPC's, over used particle effects. Modern gaming in a nutshell

Alex nailed it: It's a 5/10, as it looks Average. To me, it looks like Dragon age; Inquisition 2. Improved graphics, roughly the same combat and art, next part of the story.

The game is very watered down.

"Imma go thicc redhead" Broalations 5.22

THIS is NOT a Dragon Age Game.............

I remember when angry joe wasnt just a click bait youtuber. How the mighty have fallen

I only have one question: will we finally get to see the Warden Commander again? Was really disappointed in Inquisition when all i got was a letter... At least i got to see Morrigan and our son. Although that storyline kind of fell flat too lol

This only reaffirms to me that the Bioware I knew and loved is a sorry skin puppet now. Everything that made it good has been cut out. None of the core visonaries that made Boiware great are still there and it really, really, shows.

its gameplay looks very very on the rails, could be the map design for this mission but every fight seems like they designed it to be a brawler with arena after arena after arena, the arts fine but if the entire games like this it will get pretty boring

The last gameplay element they decided to show off was you walking up to a wooden beam and smacking it to trigger a cutscene. That was an actual decision that was made in this presentation by people whose job it is to try to sell you the game. Let that sink in.

The skybox and the cartoony animation style give me serious "Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League" vibes.

Action combat feels good when there is a reason for the action, I didn't see any reason to be that flippy, dodgy, etc. The AI was just standing there or attacking slowly in turns. Maybe it'll get batter later in the game. Definitely looks better than that trailer, but that trailer was a low bar. I'll watch the rest of the reveals and play the game, but it's looking pretty mid.

I long for the days when people thought video games caused voilence...shit these days is so flaccid noone thinks that anymore

This is so depressing, given the fact that I watched angry Joe review dragon age 2 and Inquisition. Remembering the excitement of the inquisition review and comparing it to to the complete empty jaded feeling coming through here just says so much about the state that bioware has left its fan base in. Even though Joe didn't like dragon age 2, he was at least happy and extremely comical while reviewing it, because there was still so much good coming out in this gaming industry and that was just seen as a flop, but not essentially the END of Bioware, which is oretty much the feeling out there now. I want them to make us all excited again, for God saks. All that being said, I personally do look forward to playing it. I have managed my expectation for what this game will be like a long time ago, when we all saw the developmental hell this game was going through. And I'm mostly a fan of the lore the world, setting, characters and everything that is dragon age, so I am excited for, if nothing else, to see the next part of this great fantasy world's story

The very first angry Joe video I saw was the review for Dragon Age 2. That video alone got me hooked to your videos man

Dragon Age, now that I'm seeing gameplay of the new one, has the same problem Watch Dogs did and will die for the same reason. I love Dragon Age, I loved Watch Dogs, but like WD, DA just cannot figure out what it's supposed to be. It has no Identity, anymore.

gameplay sure it fine, but the dialog, story, characters... my god the writing. if it s just trash, i dunt think i want to spend $70 + on this. Alot of people agree if this is trash just play/ re-play Balder Gates 3

I am also worried this game writing isn't going to be tight like the previous dragon age games.

I get really strong ME3 opening scene vibes with this opening scene. All linear and cut scenes, with added verticality to show off the graphics engine rather than add to the gameplay.

Dragon age origin was a homemage to oldschool rpg. Of which when Bioware turned the second game into a hack and slash game, the game was met with negative feedbacks. Hence why they tried to go back to the roots with the 3 game. And now we are back to Dragon age 2 style of gameplay.

Omg! I just listened to Neves voice 18:00 without watching and that is hands down the most emotionless acting i have ever heard!

This reminds me a lot of Mass Effect 3's scripted destruction intro. Though better than the trailer suggests, this feels like it's going to be a mixed bag at best.