Its great. You meet treasure hunters who share artifacts with the cultures they're from so that those cultural leaders can decide what to do with them. You help a character come to terms with their gender identity. You encourage people to build community in more than just a "we can win with the power of friendship" kinda way. I'm only on the first half of the game too.
It reviewed kinda mid but honestly these touches have totally sold me. It's actually feels like the writers of this game were a multicultural group of people who put thought into making it inclusive.
Is anyone else playing? Is this the experience others are having? Is all this based-ness why people are review bombing it?
Glad it's inclusive, but it also doesn't look great
Just because all the reactonaries are review bombing it doesn't make it good. Bioware these days has an amazing talent for turning everything they touch into shit
Some of the writing I've seen online has just been straight up bad.
I dunno I'm enjoying it for what it is. It's not earth shattering but it's been a fun ride so far.
I haven't played it (and may not, idk), but I'm glad you're having a good time comrade
for voice acting i really recommend setting the audio to a dub in a different language and using english subtitles. I haven't tried the french audio but I've been using the german one and I've found that the voice acting and tone is much more appropriate and natural sounding in most of the contexts.
I find the Bellara criticism funny. As someone with ADHD she's one of my favorites. A bit off putting at first but honestly I think she's great.
Overall the writing isn't great but I think it's pretty consistent in tone. It feels a bit lighthearted and I don't mind it.
Yeah the start is kinda rough but I think it finds its form. Glad it's growing on you!
They actually added specific conversation options in specific moments if you're trans or non binary. I couldn't believe it. Like they explicitly call out that's why you have those conversation options.
And then they didn't fuck up the execution of those options.
I'm just amazed a TRIPPPLE AAA GAME could manage something like that
Is all this based-ness why people are review bombing it?
I haven't tried it, but yes.
i'm really really loving veilguard. i'm not that far into it (i think i just got past the tutorial sections??), but i just never played an rpg that allowed me to choose how my character views his trans-ness and his relationship with that part of his identity. I just really like that they gave multiple avenues and you can genuinely tell that trans and genderqueer people were involved because of these choices.
I'm waiting for it to go on sale/get an ultimate edition*, but my understanding is a lot of turds don't like it for usual turd reasons.
It's probably for the better there's no reverse review bombing that happens. But it's the usual thing: hateful people are focused and dedicated, everyone else is not so much.
*Though I did read no dlc/expansions are planned
The trailer made it look like a marvel movie mixed with overwatch. Is the game good though? I have not played a dragon age.
I'm definitely enjoying it. The gameplay is pretty simplistic but honestly I think it works
There's a lot of bad reviews because of "woke". But honestly the story isn't that interesting or well told, and the companions are bad (In a BIOWARE game no less). So what you are left with is baby's first actions game. After all, why would you play an RPG if the story is bad?
I was a fan of the series I pretty much hate this game, but it's good to see people happy with their representation I hope they do the same thing with ME5 but make a good game in the process this time.
