A Warning to Game Journalists attacking gamers over Dragon Age The Veilguard

A warning, seriously? A warning usually needs the cpacity to follow up with consequences. Who are you again? How will you punish anyone, who did not heed your warning? What is this video about, click baiting angry customers?

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Honestly I did like Veilguard... at first. The gameplay was good, and the environment was truly beautiful, but that's where it ends. The story, while interesting, is so overdone. It abandoned what mad Dragon Age what it is, and the dialogue was cringe and abandoned the established lore. (There were already LGBT characters that were done well in DA. Why did they see the need for that certain scene with Taash?)

Ah, well. $60 I'll never get back.

Dustborn and Concord already failed horribly. Why are these idiotic game companies still doing woke BS?

Holy shit, some lines this guy says while keeping a collected face just hits so hard. I legit felt the pain despite mimicking the same talking points he had while talking about this subject with friends.

Thank you for the very real commentary. The actions of EA imo have been a blight on the entire gaming community for years. I have no trust for the company or their marketing.

I approve this Message!!

"Written by incompetent activists with severe mommy issues who uttelry lack any maturity" Sure, but calling others incompetent activists and claiming they have severe mommy issues, screams maturity 😂 Just because you wore a suit to say it, doesn't mean that what you are saying is mature. Insulting people calmly is not solving anything, it's just less annoying than screaming insults which most people do nowadays. This is not an invitation to discourse, it's blatant slander. You want to speak for the gaming community and advocate for a better gaming journalism? Then do it, this was not it

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I've seen it, lookfun to play, but it's story is lacking tough decisions, with shallow characters

Game-Journalism, in general, is and, since YT became a thing, always was, absolutly unnecessary.

I think you described Jason Schrier perfectly. The fact this guy is a prominent member of the community is mind blowing. It’s as if the keys of the kingdom have been handed to an imbecile.

People need to stop buying these trash games. Starve the devs of money and they'll stop putting out garbage that doesn't sell.

Videogames were created for children. Adults should not be playing videogames. Nor should children be playing videogames because of inappropriate content. Videogames are bad for everyone. Adults should be working and contributing to society. Go outside and do something productive or get a real hobby like fishing for fish 👍

35 hours in, thoroughly enjoying it, really don't get the hate...

It's just a game yall. If you like it I'm not mad at you. Whoever makes games like that is always gonna lose lots of money. So that's probably what it is. Your higher ups wanna get paid, but I could be wrong.

random commet: I love your tie dude. Good taste.

BURRRRRrRRRRN!

"Undesirable product of activism."

How to tell me you are bigot without saying you are a bigot.

The game had problems, but brown and gay people were not among them.

I haven't played the game, and I want to try it for myself as a HUGE fan of the Dragon Age series, but all the negativity I see is aimed at fully optional character choices that would have been added to make a marginalized group feel seen and like they can insert themselves into the game (the biggest one I keep hearing about is an OPTIONAL feature to have a transgender identity and top surgery scars, neither of which exclude anyone but allow trans people to make a more accurate self-insert character). Also, if you think political messages or undertones in games is new, you've either only played FPS multiplayer games or never paid attention to dialogue in most any game 😬

OK I ve seen this guy a couple of times but man every time I feel like damn that is how an adult man should be

Well said

Good luck guy gaming is a bit woke atm lets hope it reverses course

EA and Bethesda employees take note

The suit increases his dynamics by 200% I couldn’t take my eyes off him

Just another form of petty BULLSHIT,woke does not belong in our games,remeber that next time,before u try and lie to us again🖕

A slight bit of nuance to add to your warning there. In particular about the authenticity of reviews and the use of fake reviews becoming more prevalent as of late.

First of all, I do agree that they should not be using fake reviews or any other tools available to them to circumvent the authentic opinions of the people who have actually played the game and do or do not like it. Note I mention both sides of the coin there in terms of favour towards or against the game, becuase it can go both ways.

However, there is a missing point in your warning that needs to be confronted, becuase it is part of the true reason why we are at this stage in the whole debate right now as it were.

Let's face the facts. Fact is, there are a lot of people out there who also leave purposely negative or even positive reviews specifically only to sabotage those devs and publishers for a myriad of reasons of which can be both legitimate and illegitimate. Obviously the legitimate reviews are not the problem outright. If the review is legitimate, then the positive or negative manner behind it is not of issue. The problem is the illegitimate reviews that are left by people who did not play the game, or did not even give it a fair chance to begin with, or did play the game and did give it a fair chance but ultimately didn't like some 'thing' that doesn't actually matter at all. To be fair, this can be hard to tell which is the case in some reviews, because the myriad experiences we all are subjected to via these games can be quite subjective to each player. But the objective truth is that just because you or I do not like something about some game, doesn't mean it is necessarily bad. Perhaps it is bad, but it is ultimately only bad to those who agree on the situation. Example?

Well, I admit this is a bit of a difficult thing to parse out into more black and white examples for the lesser intellects out there to understand properly, but I will give it my best shot.

So let's look at the game Smash Brothers. It is a game that I think can be used here rather accurately due to it having to deal with a lot of the same situation, just under a slightly different guise. Sure, Nintendo may not be getting super political about their games characters, etc. That is probably for the best. But they do still do some of the same things that other game devs, publishers, and the media have been doing as of late through that game as well. Not only that, but it also suffers from some of the same effects that ultimately seem to be on repeat mode for many games.

Starting off, we'll cover the popularity front. Like it or not smash players, not everyone likes smash. They prefer other games. And I think we can all agree for the most part at least, that this is perfectly fine. Everyone has the right to like or dislike games of their choosing, right? Hopefully for good reason, but they still retain that right. But having said that, there was a time that some of you might remember quite well, where smash brothers was considering more of a niche game due to the limited amount of popularity it had at the time, right? Despite that, there were the people who preferred games like mortal kombat, or street fighter, or some other game like tekken, and they despised games like smash bros. (Not all of them of course, but there is only so much a person can write without becoming a hot air bag.)

Fast forward to today, and most of those people who would have negged on Smash, now are mostly silent about it, because the amount of people who do like smash, are a high enough number that most of the negative attitude towards it is ignored, or outright dismissed. But it wasn't like that at the start, and it didn't change overnight. It took multiple releases of the game in new updated versions of it for newer consoles over the decades now for it to get to this point. Even when Melee was the newest version and gaining popularity, it was still a small community by comparison to today, and compared against the haters back then as well.

To make matters worse, there is a little known effect in the gaming community that causes a lot of problems for game developers. There is no name for this that is known via the community, so I am just going to make up a term for it. I call this effect the 'new game always bad, thus older game awesome' effect. For short, it will be reduced to the N-gabtoga effect.

What is this effect? Well, quite simply, there are generally usually always just enough people who liked an older version of the game enough about some things, that when the new game comes out and changes those things in any way at all; it produces backlash against the new release. It sometimes doesn't even have to have anything to do with those old things that were liked. It could be new things added that are not liked anyways. You can find this happening with, I would wager, almost every single game with consequetive releases, even when they are not tied together via any lore. What ends up happening is the new game is slammed with a bunch of negative reviews from those people, even when others like that version of the game more than the prior versions. Regardless of opinion of whether those games are justified in being liked or hated. That is what happens. (Don't hate me for saying this, I'm just the observer passing along the truth experienced, like it or not.)

So, which games from the smash series got this treatment? Well, technically all of them, but Brawl and Smash 4 Wii U (S4WU for short) got the worst of it by far. Why?

Because of the N-gabtoga effect. Brawl was not a bad game by any means of the term in an accurate way. There were things that were not preferable to certain players, for sure, but it was not a bad game. But it was still treated as if it were. Why?

Because brawl took away some things that people liked a lot about Melee, and even changed some mechanics about how the game play operated to also thwart the kinds of players that look for bugs and exploits in the game to be 'better' than their opponents. One such situation is the slip/trip mechanic that was put into the game to keep people from wavedashing. The melee lovers hated this with a passion. You think you despise certain game journalists more than they hated that mechanic? I suggest you reconsider that opinion. They hated it so much, some of the most dedicated smash players basically refused to play anything other than Melee until Brawl was replaced... by S4WU. Which they also did not like all that much. It was considered better than Brawl in some aspects, but ultimately was still hated by those melee players by and large. Heck, S4WU was going to be the final entry to the games series at one point, before the Switch got one 'last*' version. (We'll see how true that is when the Switch 2 comes out...)

Others make claims about how it just feels wrong in the way the characters move. Others will cite input lag issues. These are not unjustified opinions, but they ultimately were not so heinous as to make the game unplayable, or even unenjoyable.

I mean, case in point, Brawl when modded became one of the Melee players more favourite versions of the game, aside from their precious Melee of course. I mean heck, they even call said mod "Project Melee"

So, going back to the point of your video. Why does this matter in regards to it. Well, in specific in regards to Veilguard, we can probably point to the N-gabtoga effect in some regard as well. Sure, it was worked on by people the community really doesn't like right now. That is not being argued. But what is being argued, is that this result would likely have still occured anyways. And with some proof.

Dragon Age 2. After Origins was released, we eventually got word of the 2nd Dragon age game coming out. And people were hyped, rightfully so, because Origins was such a great game even with its issues. (Which it had a lot of).

But then it was released, and boy oh boy was it ever hated. Some might even say it was the worst release possible, at the time. Now fast fowards to today with Veilguard, and we have the same thing happening again. DA2, is now being called one of the better versions, though Origins still takes the cake with some.

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I don't know why I love this video so much hahahaha

This is exactly what I said in my head.😅

Catastrophic failure? According to what metric? Dragon Age: The Veilguard recently hit a benchmark of 70,414 active players and is currently the best-selling game on Steam, surpassing even Call of Duty: Black Ops 6. If you want to argue that the story and gameplay didn't live up to your expectations, that's fine, but that's a matter of personal opinion, and in this case it certainly isn't translating into subpar sales numbers.

Is this guy one of Elons robots?

Ad hominem aside, that was very good.

best video ever!

boycott ea

I haven't paid much attention to the Veilguard situation, but have seen tidbits talking about it being a genuinely disappointing game. I don't have many horses in this race but this will effect the larger gaming sphere. This, the PalWorld/Pokemon lawsuit, there's more on the docket that will change the gaming landscape as we go.

Thanks for addressing the situation and including other sources that directly discuss the topic at hand.

So, exactly how do you feel about yellow journalism?

Look, i could see Dragon Age circling the drain with Inquisition and it's obviously evil moustache twirling bad guy. Say what you want about how crap DA2's level variety was, they got a lot of story in that game. Truth is BioWare never survived getting bought up by EA. It shows as early as Mass Effect 2 (which is the game responsible for the trilogies collapse, ultimately). It took a mortal wound and it's been a long slow death.

They're now a studio run by an absolute amateur hour of a staff, which might come out fine in the end if EA let them find their own legs, but no, they want their money out of their beautiful corpse they paid so much money for and they don't care who they've got to hire to get it.

Basically any game reviewer or journalist who gets early access to games should be eyed with a healthy dose of skepticism. So much of the industry uses the games journalism and media as basically a free marketing arm.

Doesn't negate the fact this is one of the worst Bioware games ever released, Anthem included.

I hope they don't fumble Mass Effect. Oh god they're gonna fumble mass effect....

There is a reason no one should follow "game journalists", only individual game reviewers, particularly if you find a few whose taste in games are similar to your own.

And any "journalist" who lies in their reviews, your opinion is worthless as it's untrustworthy and without trust a "journalist" is completely worthless and objectively a failure of journalism as a whole.

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This is such complete bullsh!t. Enough with the gamergater nonsense. You can spend oh say 0.05% of the game exploring your "woke agenda".
Ive had enough with this male chauvanist agenda. Its pointless and stupid. Delete your channel

Wow. Thanks for the honesty. Wish other companies would follow this method. Honest games for an honest price. Thus, gamers will be happy to buy following updates and more. It is unfortunate that so many big companies are ruining their reputation and utilizing ruthless and dishonest methods to cheat people from their hard earned cash.

This makes me want to play dragon age veilguard, like how the backlash against hogwarts legacy just gave it more sales. Mind you I didn't play hogwarts legacy

Thing about the good part, it could be worse 😂

My hero!

Catastrophic failure? You people are such try hard imbeciles. It’s actually a good game. Better than Inquisition. Not as good as Origins. On par with II.

Like when you expect me to like game when main romance tactics is rape they you needs to get jailed.

If only I could like this video more than once

Sadly this isn’t just dragon age veilguard but gaming as a whole has been infected with this woke activist crap. They all need to be removed.