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After the death of Dragon Age, it's a megaton bummer to go back and hear BioWare's founders talk about the series' bright future
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Agent_Karyo piefed.world Agent_Karyo@piefed.world
Joined: 2025-07-10
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Class Nine Bummerino, dude.

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CerebralHawks lemmy.dbzer0.com cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-08-18
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Death? They just released Veilguard. I’m still on the second one, anyway. It feels flat compared to the first one, but I’m not far into it. Still, I partially “blame” it for being the reason I started playing (a modded version of) Animal Crossing New Leaf on my (modded) 3DS. Dragon Age 2 is still my current Xbox game, but I really haven’t been into it like I was the first one… or the Mass Effect games.

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WhosMansIsThis lemmy.world WhosMansIsThis@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-03
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RIP. I'll never forget my first playthrough of origins or DA2. DA3 is where things started to fall off for me. I didnt touch failguard. That shit looked like a meme.

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brucethemoose lemmy.world brucethemoose@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-03-22
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Sadly, I think Mass Effect Andromeda and (presumably) DA Veilguard are leagues above (say) Starfield and mechanically.

And narratively, in some ways.

If some AA had released Andromeda/Veilguard without launch bugs, as original IPs, the reception would be very different.

It’s just that expectations are so different. Dragon Age: Origins/ME2 are very high bars, and the IPs are so precious.

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Nima leminal.space Nima@leminal.space
Joined: 2023-12-08
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...death? what death? veilguard is excellent. all the dragon age games are. i replay them all the time.

i think that the "stop killing games" movement has a lot more work than simply rescuing games from extinction. there seems to be an epidemic of drama when it comes to gamers liking or disliking a game. (and Gaming related news/entertainment pieces)

what a silly headline.

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M137 lemmy.today M137@lemmy.today
Joined: 2026-04-17
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...death? what death? veilguard is excellent. all the dragon age games are. i replay them all the time. i think that the "stop killing games" movement has a lot more work than simply rescuing games from extinction. there seems to be an epidemic of drama when it comes to gamers liking or disliking a game. (and Gaming related news/entertainment pieces) what a silly headline.

I liked Veilguard too ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Also liked Inquisition.

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Nima leminal.space Nima@leminal.space
Joined: 2023-12-08
#7 · Quote Reply

I liked Veilguard too ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Also liked Inquisition.

Inquisition might actually still be my favorite in the series, oddly enough. its just such a wild ride.

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Jax sh.itjust.works Jax@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-08-22
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Death? They just released Veilguard. I’m still on the second one, anyway. It feels flat compared to the first one, but I’m not far into it. Still, I partially “blame” it for being the reason I started playing (a modded version of) Animal Crossing New Leaf on my (modded) 3DS. Dragon Age 2 is still my current Xbox game, but I really haven’t been into it like I was the first one… or the Mass Effect games.

Well, Dragon Age 2 is such a departure narratively and gameplay-wise that they should have just called it something else. None of the games reach the level of polish DA:O had.

Personally I also thought ME:1 was the only good Mass Effect, but Bioware fan-thems really don't like that.

Edit: Also, Taash is such an insufferable character I'm half convinced the writer was paid off to make the most unlikeable trans person in fiction (Now that I've had that thought I realize I don't know of many 'trans' villains — anyone have good examples? Even characters like Taash that are just strictly unlikeable.)

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Jax sh.itjust.works Jax@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-08-22
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Sadly, I think Mass Effect Andromeda and (presumably) DA Veilguard are leagues above (say) Starfield and mechanically. And narratively, in some ways. If some AA had released Andromeda/Veilguard without launch bugs, as original IPs, the reception would be very different. It’s just that expectations are so different. Dragon Age: Origins/ME2 are very high bars, and the IPs are so precious.

And narratively, in some ways.

I could eat nothing but mac n cheese, hamburger, corn, and hot cheetoes for a month and generate a more compelling story in my bowels than all three of these games.

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shani66 ani.social shani66@ani.social
Joined: 2024-01-10
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...death? what death? veilguard is excellent. all the dragon age games are. i replay them all the time. i think that the "stop killing games" movement has a lot more work than simply rescuing games from extinction. there seems to be an epidemic of drama when it comes to gamers liking or disliking a game. (and Gaming related news/entertainment pieces) what a silly headline.

What are you on? Veilguard is terrible, I'd sooner go play Bethesda slop. Wasn't it so bad they shuttered the IP?

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shani66 ani.social shani66@ani.social
Joined: 2024-01-10
#11 · Quote Reply

Really sad that origins was a false promise, or maybe a death rattle for bioware. They'll never make a good game again.

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