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Dragon Age 4's New Name Is 'Dragon Age: The Veilguard,' First Gameplay Look Next Week (www.gameinformer.com)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I hope Bioware go back to their roots and take more inspiration from DA:O and BG3 instead of DA:I and go back to more tactical and less action-y gameplay. The overwhelming success of Baldur's Gate 3 proves there is a market for traditional CRPG, especially coming from the the studio that made the first two Baldur's Gate.

Also, less Ubisoft/Skyrim-esquelarge empty open world and more carefully crafted maps with emphasis on choices. DA:I wasn't a bad game, but if Bioware releases another DA:I in 2024 it will definitely be compared unfavorably to Bg3.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I remember the leaked(?) gameplay a while ago showing how it was very action heavy clearly inspired by the God of War reboot. But then BG3 happened and I would feel really bad for the devs if they were told by management to pivot and just copy another game instead and now theyre remaking the game yet again... I honestly have no faith in the gameplay being anything near as good as Origins, but hopefully the story and world and characters can be good? Do good writers still work at Bioware anymore?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I enjoyed the others in the series for some reason, but cautious about this one.

It's only Bioware in name. It's actually a normal corporate just wearing their skin.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

The Bioware we knew and loved has been gone a long time. DA2 was hardly Bioware, let alone Inquisition.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Look I get what you're saying, but they've realistically made two stinkers, Andromeda and anthem, and I actually like Andromeda not to mention it was made by a completely different and brand new studio that probably shouldn't have called themselves Bioware.

I also enjoyed inquisition, it was fun and had a ton of commercial success as well as a really good final expansion that was universally praised. I get Anthem really burned a ton of bridges, but it's not on the scale that places like Reddit like to make you believe. The gameplay was legitimately fun, the story was awful and all over the place.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

When those two stinkers are the only content they've put out in 10 years, there's not a lot to really build a more optimistic outlook from.

Even then, Inquisition was iffy and Mass Effect 3 generates bad reactions to this day (though I still enjoyed Mass Effect 3 for what it was).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Oooof, after Anthem I just....man, please don't suck

[–] ramius345 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This might actually make me play something other than bg3.

[–] Madbrad200 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm cautious about this game. It's been redeveloped like 3 times into completely different genres, pretty much nothing has been shown about it, and Bioware is nothing like it was years back.

[–] ramius345 5 points 5 months ago

Ugh I forgot they had that EA stank all over them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

If this means we're getting more faction building like we did in Inquisition, then the title change marketing worked on me. That was why I loved that game.

A lot comes down to the cast for me in these types of games, though. I need to want to bug them in camp and do their sidequests or I'm going to feel like I didn't get a lot of value.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Do people still care about Dragon Age?

I played 1, was underwhelmed. People made lame excuses for it like "Oh, but it wasn't developed by Bioware's a-list team..."

Then 2 stunk up the joint.

I don't even REMEMBER 3.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I haven't played 2 or 3, but calling DA:O bad is a bit of a hot take. What did you not like about it?

While the overall plot is fairly standard issue fantasy save-the-world fare, I think the execution and the RPG aspects were excellent. How the game really made your choice of origin matter was incredible to me, and I enjoyed several of the characters too.

It does look like shit though, I'll give you that. I wish it was less depressingly brown-grey washed out looking.

[–] Madbrad200 6 points 5 months ago

I still remember the ordeal of getting through the Fade portion of Origins... it was awful.

The rest of the game was top notch though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

First, it was on the Xbox 360 but looked like an Xbox game.

Second, the plot was so hackneyed. Literally every event was telegraphed by miles.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don’t even REMEMBER 3.

Dragon age inquisition is pretty well received from what I've seen. It wasn't amazing but I don't think the series is as dead as you might think.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Inquisition came out at a time where we had no good games for an entire year, it's pretty bad.