Cat on a hot tin roof?

I’ve had mixed emotions about her. On one playthrough she’s a ton of fun, and brings some lighthearted fun to the group, and pairing her with Bull can be a ton of fun. On another I found I was taking the Inquisition much more seriously, and came down very hard with her and we were at odds the whole game. I like that I can have very different relationships with the characters based on how I play

Dialog gets better when you get to know the characters, but yeah everyone is… very happy. Or at least optimistic and such. I read something a while back, apparently they did take some learnings from ME:Andromeda. Andromeda felt way too young and spunky, and felt like it was inappropriate for such a serious game. They said they had applied that from Inquisition after they applied young and spunky to it and thought it would work everyone (see: Sera). So going forward Dragon Age is optimistic and happy, Mass Effect is darker and more serious (apparently)

The vast majority of angry reviews about Veilguard I’ve seen are from people who have never played the game, and god is it what I hate about gaming right now. It’s so much rage and anger, and frankly it’s all just jumping on the bandwagon for it because who doesn’t love raging against EA.

Except… Bioware pulled it off in my opinion. I withheld judgement because I was real nervous about how it’d go. It could either be great, or it’d be a dumpster fire, and unfortunately I figured that EA would determine Bioware’s fate based on it. But… Bioware did it. I’m a good 15 hours in and I’m having honestly a lot of fun. The story continues well after Inquisition, the companions are growing on me, the areas are fun to be in. EA said they would stay out of Bioware’s way and… I think they did. It took the Jedi games to finally let them just let Bioware do their thing… but it appears so. If you know the Dragon Age franchise, it’s officially safe to buy in my book, and I recommend it.

My only caveat is that as with all franchise games - judge it on it’s own. Especially with Dragon Age it’s very easy to compare to it’s predecessors, and to some extent of course you should, but at the same time, gaming is in a very different place than it was in 2009. People expect different things. What was popular then would not work now, and vis-versa. So, as a game that is coming out now in the 2020s, I’m fully into the story, I enjoy the environment, the gameplay is fun, and there appears to just be a fuckload of content.

Are you talking about here? Or Reddit? I’ve definitely noticed some downvote trolling has been picking up here.

God it’s not quality. They still don’t get that. It’s not that they’re not stable, I think they’re actually pretty stable. It’s that they’re boring and empty and lifeless. The stories are bland, they’re hundreds of fetch quests, and they don’t take any risks

Say that to CDPR and phantom liberty. If you make an actual expansion it can keep players interested. If it’s a new weapon or something then who cares

Conservatives have their panties in a twist because they have the gall to have lgbtq characters, apparently forgetting that we had Krem in inquisition and that we’ve had several gay and lesbian characters already. I’m having fun personally, I will say everyone’s just a bit too cheerful for my taste, but that’s my only gripe so far

We should come up with a detox program

I think both can be true tbh. I welcome everyone from reddit and encourage us to grow. I also will say leave toxicity at the door, or sub to other instances/communities that enjoy it.

I am just love watching these companies seeing the downfall of it. Google did short term profits instead of quality for search and now people are looking for competitors and profits are dropping. People don’t watch new Netflix shows because they know they’ll be cancelled. So many more. It’s delicious.

BAAAAAM

Personally, if you’re considering it already, kubernetes might be something to look into. It’s a lot. Like a lot to learn. But I can honestly say I could do it for a job now with how much I’ve learned. Then it’s less about how to set up machines and more about just reapplying your infrastructure.

Microsoft really doesn’t understand how well teams can work together. They notoriously hire contractors to avoid needing to pay benefits, rotating them out every 18 months. For them to create team dynamic ideas like “forming storming norming performing”, they really don’t follow any of them.

They’re two different protocols built for two very different forms of communication.

Yep, need a fork of revolt that uses Matrix 2.0 as a backend and I can get my friends to switch

I actually did too - but I had to detach it from the original trilogy - which is why I think it got such negative reviews and why I’m eyerolling at all the negative ones here. Andromeda was a fun game. I’d say a solid 6-7/10. It was not original trilogy good where that was a 10/10 masterpiece, but Andromeda was fun. I’m more mad they left so many cliffhangers.

For me personally I liked the story in 1-3 because it was so depressing, it made the relationships stronger, and the ending was all the better. It left me with that bittersweet “it’s over, now what?” feeling at the end of the playthrough. Andromeda for me was fine, it wasn’t great, but everyone was so damn happy! There was no conflict to get behind, that was my only real issue, just that the characters weren’t as relatable.

Which is why DA4 I want to keep separate. I’m not comparing it to previous games, it’s its own game. I’m going to judge it on it’s own merits. Did I have fun playing it? Did it continue the story well? It’ll probably be different from the past games, but that’s okay. If I don’t like it I’ll judge it on why I didn’t like it, not just because it’s different.

I’m holding back my excitement. I cant be excited. I remember Andromeda. However I did just finish replaying Inquisition on Sunday and I romanced solas and he has much explaining to do

Got a source on that?

I was hyped so I was watching some old inquisition videos like the gameplay reveal. Original fans were bitching back then too, just the same constant “but it’s not my dragon age”. I’m right there with you. The most fun I had in origins was at camp. The combat was clunky, it was frustrating, there were many things that you were supposed to “just know” about early RPGs.

So I immediately take their reviews and throw them away. They have nothing actual about the game to say, just dragon age used to be good. K. Received. Moving on.