DA: Origins:

DA: Origins:

rape

racism

sacrificing your family and friends for power

dooming entire tribes into extinction

eldtrich abominations

dwarven society backstabbing their own family members

dwarven women turned into 40k daemonculaba made to breed Darkspawn

religious zealotry

the "good guys" will kill you in cold blood if you refuse to join them so that you won't spill their secrets

can be pretty much evil in ton of choices

mages are ticking demon bombs that can doom everyone around them and have to be kept in check by order of fanatical crusaders

DA: Veilguard

MC puts his hands on his hips and talks to the two non-binary team members like they are literal fucking toddlers and refuse to share their toys

This is what happens when you put 40+ single HR wine aunts in charge of fucking anything.

SHUT UP CHUD AND BUY THE RETURN TO FORM!!!!!11111!!11

muh rape

I only ever play Origins. Even though I really liked it, the story felt complete to me and I never had much interest in playing any of the sequels. Don't know if they were good or bad.

I am having a blast with this triumphant return to form.

They doubled down on the YA writing style from Andromeda. Companion interactions are almost exactly the same from what I've seen, just even more watered down.

They were abysmal dogshit
Bioware unironically peaked with Origins and that's just pathetic

DAO is great. I recommend to play this game instead of Veilguard. DAO is better in every possible way, even visually.

I wish we got dragon age origins 2

DA1 was 2009 ""mature"" and ""adult"".
Veilguard is 2024 ""mature"" and ""adult"".
Same shit who cares.

I've played origins and da2 at least 4 times each. I wish I could erase my memory and just enjoy it again. I couldn't find anything quite like it so far, maybe pillars of eternity 1 or divinity original sin

I'm not gonna play Baldurs gate 3 until I upgrade my pc to enjoy it with highest graphics.

I have some hopes for New Arc Line. Game looks like it lacks some budget, though.

I ddnt realise 2024 mature and adult involved treating grown companions like toddlers and why its ok if emel brings 9 books to your camping trip.

millennial writing.

DA: Origins

can't romance a dwarf

DA: Veilguard

can romance a dwarf

origins is shit as well, just play BG3

bump for seethe

ROMANCE???

WHERE ROMANC

I NEED MY BADLY MOCAPPED SEX SCENE

CHARACTER GOOD BUT..UMM.... ROMANCE WHERE???

You fucking people

good gam is shit, just play gay porn datingsim starrign ugly people and millennial writing

Lol you are not very bright

muh romance

fuck off

Dragon Age II is literally an expansion pack to Origins. It was originally supposed to be one, as well, called "Exalted March."

Dragon Age: Inquisition started out as an MMO, and was retooled into a single player game late into development.

Dragon Age: Veilguard (originally Dread Wolf) was an even bigger disaster, development-wise. It was restarted TWICE from scratch.

Attempt #1 was, by all accounts, very similar in atmosphere to Origins, and included things like importing the save state of the world from Keep. But then EA took a look at gacha money, scrapped the project, and...

Attempt #2 was supposed to be a live service game with gacha mechanics. This is when the troubles began, with a mountain of money being lost in development, and little to show for it, and with a large number of veteran employees leaving. EA ultimately realised this won't pan out, scrapped it, and...

Attempt #3 is what you got. Take whatever assets were ready, assign the cheapest, most useless diversity hires and rainbow blobs, and tell them to put together a title as cheaply and quickly as possible. EA was so much certain this will flop they didn't even buy a Denuvo license.

And the Qunari...
they DESTROYED the Qunari...

I'm not gonna play Baldurs gate 3 until I upgrade my pc to enjoy it with highest graphics.

for the best really. it's a nice looking game, but it did stress my 3060ti quite a bit, and not even maxed. just chugged in a number of instances

Ow the edge

Good romance games are the #1 untapped market. Baldur's Gate showed the world that high budget dating sims can be GOTY and sell gangbusters.

You haven't played BG3, haven't you. It has fewer romance scenes than either Origins, DA2, or any Mass Effect.

I'm not playing video games to cum, bro

I'm not gonna play Baldurs gate 3 until I upgrade my pc to enjoy it with highest graphics.

Yeah, ugly gay porn hits differently with the highest graphics

SIR REDEEM THE RETURN TO FORM

There's a reason that 99% of what anybody talks about (other than DnD combat autists) is the dating. They also say "the story is good" but only in the context of fleshing out their fapbait
Many are

You just fap to ugly alphabets

single wine aunts

you mean straight white men because the game director is a tranny

maturity nowadays is being a hecking ally and fighting bigotry chud

Yes, not having your beliefs be dictated by xitter and instagram memes is maturity

says the guy who lives on X

I spend most of my time watching the dragonball WWE guy on tik tok

Bioware unironically peaked with Origins and that's just pathetic

you don't play game though you are just here to culture war the mass effect games were great, dragon age origins, awakening were great too and all these games were loved on this board that you are polluting with your pointless cancer posting and I don't give a fuck about biowares new game just stop fucking lying and pretending old games you never played were bad

Badly mo-capped sex scene

Veilguard doesn't even have that.
You get a kiss from whichever companion you pursued, and then the romance is never brought up again in any meaningful capacity.

They went from an inhuman, almost monstrous race with an equally alien culture to a bunch of purple humans with horns.

Absolutely horrid.

We'll never get a trilogy like Mass Effect again. Even if it fumbled the ending, that's just really sad to me.

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This is what happens when you put 40+ single HR wine aunts in charge of fucking anything.

You neet retards have no clue of corporate world and it shows. There isn’t a single 40+ aunt anywhere close to videogames. It 35yo basedjack fat bearded guys and 35yo millenial artsy girls who are doing the designing, supervised by bald greedy suits guys in their 50s who love biking.
Old women are literally the only group not at blame here.

What constitutes a "romance scene"?
BG3 has like, what, two dozen sex scenes? I presume it has at least two or three times as many scenes that would be considered "intimate" scenes. But then there's probably hundreds of small interactions that are gated behind affection levels.

Have the Qunari ever stayed consistent from game to game?

Take your meds, chud.

DA2 was bad.

ME3 was bad.

DA: I was very bad.

Anthem was extremely bad.

ME:A was extremely bad.

DA:V is extremely bad.

The talent which made Bioware a household name fled the studio a LONG time ago.
All that's left is a husk filled with parasites and bottomfeeders.

I blame Felicia Day. That's when it started going downhill.

The Qun was never clearly defined as a people Chud! There's nothing wrong with making them heckin valid transfolx with horns!

DA2 wasn't bad it just reused assets too much. The story was solid, the characters were mostly likeable, the gameplay was fine if not a little MMO-esque.

It was a tighter story about a family and a city, it's forgivable that the game stayed in and reused that location.

do you guys actually critically analyze games yourself or just repeat, word for word, what some grifter chud youtuber says?

Excuse you, I listen to video game journalists.

return to male form

Grifter

Chud

Do you actually exercise thought when you construct insults or do you just slap whatever trendy phrase was added to your programming in the newest hotfix onto a tepid remark and call it a day?

Qunari: "You are born with a role, and you cannot choose your role in society. Deal with it or die!"

Qunari also: "You, a woman, choose to be a man? That is valid, Kadan! Your choice matters!"

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People trying to pretend DA:O wasn't woke are almost as pathetic as people trying to pretend Bioware has made anything worth sparing a single thought since they were eaten by EA

40+ single HR wine aunts in charge

They put a tranny in charge. A literal man with a penis that thinks he's a woman and indentifies as a "gendermancer"
I WISH wine aunts made this game at this point.

>rape

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so no?

Not as pathetic as you trying to convince us of something that's evidently false.
Also you will never be a woman.
Also KYS.

DAO is woke

Doesn't matter if they allow us to kill NPC's and Companions we don't like, and play as an evil MF, which you can't do in any other DA game.

be city elf

get kidnapped by rape party

kill them all

can sell out your own cousin to keep her at the rape party for some coin

can then on return as Warden work with the Tevinter slavers and sell half the alienage into slavery or alternative beat the tevinter magister and then take his deal and let him fucking kill all your friends and family there to give you a power boost

Revisionists (read: false flagging niggers) can keep calling the game woke because it had women in it, true fans know it was fucking hardcore and that's how we fucking liked it.

City Elf origin you can take a bribe from a corrupt noble to walk away and let him rape your cousin for a day.

booo
should've kept those worthless knife ears as sex slaves

Pointing out Baldurs Gate 3 is a dating sim for people who were too Stacy and Chad in High School to read Tsukihime is going to be my go to insult from now on. Only way you could make BG3 better is if you turned Lae'zael from a frog girl to a cat girl.

Correct take. Origins was a perfectly self-contained story with strong start, engaging middle and satisfying end.

Origins

Can romance Morrigan.

Troonguard

Can't romance Morrigan.

Pointing out Baldurs Gate 3 is a dating sim for people who were too Stacy and Chad in High School to read Tsukihime

lol what

They stayed consistent between Origins and 2. Just got a visual update.

origins was also shit. KOTOR and ME1 are the only good bioware games.

KOTOR and ME1 were also shit. Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 are the only good BioWare games.

Why would you want to cuck yourself?

Greetings, fellow noticer!

Playing a Mage in DAO and fucking over the Circle and the Templars at every given opportunity felt so good. Those motherfuckers were so insanely unlikeable, even fucking Wynne will start a battle TO THE DEATH if you just walk into the Tower with Morrigan in your party and banter with her instead of letting Wynne, who is currently having her ass and the ass of every mage trapped there with her saved by me and my party, insult your group to your face. Telling her to fuck off and then killing her when she dared try to raise her hand against me was one of the best RPG choices ever.

you could already romance her in Inquisition

Awakening is decent. DA2 was fucking awful and I stopped playing the games after that disappointment.

Because troons like the mentally ill director can't have sex. If they are dudes, their dicks are completely dead due to the estrogen injections, and if they are women then they just lack the equipment to do so.
A pathetic existence brought upon by outright evil ideologues that have conviced them to mutlate their bodies instead of self-acceptance.
DO NOT SUPPORT THIS EVIL.

Wasn't a big thing of the dragon age franchise BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD

I haven't seen a single drop in any of the footage. Return to fucking form when?

Nothing funnier than annulling the circle as mage.
Except maybe stringing Bhelen along as Dwarf noble and acting all forgiving and shit and then siding with Harrowmont at the very last second and caving your brothers skull in when he chimps out.

Okay, but when will the tranny writers return to form?

MC puts his hands on his hips and talks to the two non-binary team members like they are literal fucking toddlers and refuse to share their toys

Seriously, this fucking dialogue is hilarious, the companions act like kids

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Never intended to pal.
You're preaching to the choir.

The problem with the latter one is that Harrowmont fucks you over

Remember that we now have people here born before DAO was released.

But does DA:Origins returned to form?huh?
Not feeling so smart now chuddie.

You're a pariah in Orzammar either way, might as well enjoy one of the benefits.
Though come to think of it, siding with Bhelen and then completely surpassing him by being declared Paragon is also inherently funny.

Then Mark of the Assassin happened....

Somewhat, they had to differentiate that there were hornless and horned Qunari due to not being able to mod helmets on horned Qunari for origins.
And female qunari warriors were considered rare and looked down upon in 1 and 2 as they were more likely to be crafters but would fight if needed.
But with dlc, with Felica Day's character having been adopted by the qunari as a assassin and then inquisition they went fuck it

Siding with Bhelen is kind of funny all around

lol gg bro. Hey man, mind hooking my girl and bastard kid up with a mansion. I mean its like the least you could do what with the whole trying to kill me thing

Bhelen is flabbergasted but actually delivers

Not only becomes a good king but honors you and technically gives you a title potentially grander than his own.

Also has a good quality statue made of you.

Yes yes, I forgot that DLC. Probably for good reason. Though I do remember now that you could actively antagonize Tallis and she just gets so fucking mad about you not sucking off the Qun, and that made be feel good. Or maybe I'm hallucinating.

DAO was just a wild shot for old Bioware to try and revive crpgs.
They were so talented that it still managed to surpass everything the studio made decades later. Bioware went downhill after EA acquisition. It's just a name nowadays, it's useless to expect anything from them worth of praise.

The most tiresome thing in modern writing is how the writers just make all the character interactions into hecking wholesome affirmative group therapy where everyone just talks about their emotions and how they feel.

I liked how much nuance Origins had, honestly.
2024 Origins would've just had Bhelen as the obvious wrong choice that fucks you over because he's a prick and Harrowmont as the obvious right one because he's curteous and nice, without showing that the former is actually a well intentioned reformer trying to lead Orzammar into a future where they don't get overrun by Darkspawn and die out or that the latter is just a skeevy politician who would rather his people die out than accept they need to change their retarded caste system.

Even the positive reviews say that everyone talks like they're in therapy.

I knew it'd be like this when the devs described the companions as being a found family, stupid fucking booktok buzzword

doing the bioware formula again was a wild shot

Not just you but all of Orzammar. The entire time you're there it's shoved into your face that the old ways are not working. Bhelen might be terrible on a personal level, but his policies save Orzammar, as shown in the ending slides if you choose him over Harrowmont. On the flipside, if you put Harrowmont on the throne, all dwarves that didn't migrate to the surface end up dead.

At the beginning of your origin as a City Elf, you can sell off your own cousin to be raped for your own freedom in an Evil playthrough.

I hated it, even at the time (because it made you feel like a massive fucking piece of shit and I only chose it once to see it) but it was necessary to showcase why Elves have such deep seeded hatred for Humans and what one bad seed would do for the community as a whole.

Trooners and libtroons will never be this based or write things to the level of depth like the DA:O Grey Warden initiation. They are faggot manchildren who are in constant need of infantilism and approval. Gen-Xers and Boomers handing off the industry to these cretins was a mistake.

All you worthless knife ears belong chained to a bed or in a mine

I wanna use that fem dwarf like a cocksleeve but her face is probably MEA levels of horror and her personality worse than She Hulks.

Form status: re

DAO is the formula but the "mature" theme and the year they made it, the game was a risk and yes, a shot. Bioware had two bullets: Mass Effect and DAO. Both going into different directions intentionally so.They were trying to modernize their games.

Bioware had two bullets: Mass Effect and DAO. Both going into different directions

Really? cause it looks like both went to the brain

ME and DAO were good games. The studio went to shit after EA. Both games were made before the acquisition.

Between origins and 2 its was consistant. An alien culture that you could see why some born into it would like it and why some people could be drawn to it but it was something the vast majority of real.world people would never want to join. One of the queers behind inquisition clearly descided to retcon it into xer suporior lbtaxxl friendly utopian ideal to own the terrrible western civ everyone else lives in.

DA: Origins:

rape

racism

sacrificing your family and friends for power

dooming entire tribes into extinction

eldtrich abominations

dwarven society backstabbing their own family members

dwarven women turned into 40k daemonculaba made to breed Darkspawn

religious zealotry

the "good guys" will kill you in cold blood if you refuse to join them so that you won't spill their secrets

can be pretty much evil in ton of choices

mages are ticking demon bombs that can doom everyone around them and have to be kept in check by order of fanatical crusaders

DA: Veilguard

a triumphant return to form

ftfy

Because it is, everything after origins is completely unrelated to the archdemons and the blights

okay
i got it from the first glance on their promo
you can stop doing outrage marketing now

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humans are real
get fucked, race traitor

Blame David Gayder for that. He thinks fucking a dwarf is pedophilia.

...what?

He also thinks that men wanting a video game romance with strong amazonian types is creepy fetishization.

fucking leftists, i swear to god

You haven't played BG3, haven't you

Goodnight saar.

Faggots who fuck each other's shitholes should have no say in straight romances.

a fag going on about creepy fetishization

kekw

You haven't played BG3, haven't you. It has fewer romance scenes than either Origins, DA2, or any Mass Effect.

Nigger, did you play the fucking game? I only romanced minthara and know you're full of shit

fixation on romance is borderline distasteful

100% true. romance in video games is for women and I wouldn't mind if it went away forever.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard really makes you FEEL like Spiderman

dude what

Back to work Sawyer.
Romance is a reward for the player.

sexy stuff is a reward. romance is the work you do for it. idiot.

noble origin

your brother telling his little boy "don't worry, you're going to see the real sword soon"

next day the son gets skewered during the raid on the estate

Ngl I was pretty shocked at how grimdark this game is when I originally used to think it was a dating sim for femcels.

What the fuck was that ending?

But it didn't return to form...

nothing after origins is worth playing, 6.5/10 at best

Origins is the last real Bioware RPG of the old style before the studio went to shit

stong "gamers are dead" vibes right there

Dragon Age II is literally an expansion pack to Origins. It was originally supposed to be one, as well, called "Exalted March."

Completely wrong, Origins got an expansion pack called Awakening and Exalted March was going to be an expansion pack for DA2. They completely skipped the whole thing and made Inquisition regardless.

For as bad as DA2 was I thought it was better than inquisition. It just needed more time. Still looking at someone playing Veilguard, I wish we at least had inquisition. It's amazing how Bioware just keeps getting worse.

>dwarven women turned into 40k daemonculaba made to breed Darkspawn

Brood Mother was a nice horror touch

that rook

Human-Shrek lookin motherfucker.
This whole game looks like a Shrek film honestly.

got so fucking hard when i learned they're all made through constant rape and cannibalism