Fextralife also mentions they host the most widely used DA:I wiki, they went through the effort of preserving the original Dragon Age forum threads from the Bioware forums prior to EA's closure of them. They have a long history of being one of the central hosts of the largest community of Dragon Age enthusiasts, and longtime proponents of the Dragon Age series overall. When they expressed cautious optimism after the reveal trailer, their press contacts at EA went silent and they were not selected for an advance review code due to the risk of them being critical or not giving a high enough score to the game and dragging down the initial metacritic score.

Either way, if the company is worried about the perceived quality of the game, they wouldn't have cherry picked favorable reviewers. It looks bad.

[–] caut_R@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Can someone give me a rundown on why there‘s so much negativity revolving around this? I saw the review thread and it seemed to have scored quite a few good reviews. I‘m not informed regarding the matter at all, the last Bioware game I‘ve played was Dragon Age 2, so I‘m genuinely clueless.

[–] zecg@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Can someone give me a rundown on why there‘s so much negativity revolving around this?

First five minutes of SkillUp's review is a good rundown. It seems like a mindless action clickathon with imitation of gameplay seen in better games, a safe sterile story and a large chunk of world design repurposed leftovers from someone's abandoned Overwatch-but-DA ambitions.

edit: also, I note how reviews that peg this as a "return to form" are written and SkillUp's has video to back his opinions and it looks pretty damning.

[–] Defaced@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Yet mortismal gaming says it's his persona goty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCz1ITSy2O8

I don't really know what to say about it at this point, but as I loved inquisition I'll probably love this one. The best thing to do is wait for release and make your own opinion.

[–] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

Yeah I love his reviews and opinion typically. Got me into wotr

[–] zecg@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Never seen mortismal and I've only seen SkillUp a few times. I don't really follow or need any review at release time, I'm not touching any game that's 50€ or more until two years have passed and it's in the vicinity of 75% off.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 0 points 16 hours ago

They changed a few key components about what some people were looking for in a Dragon Age game, which Dragon Age 2 did as well.

[–] hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 7 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Is BioWare’s Back in a Big Way?

No, they're not.

EDIT Prediction of Veilguard's & Bioware's future

High Early sales due to the name.
Massive drop off in sales shortly after release due to word of mouth about game being shit.
The game will sell well enough for Bioware, Reddit, Twitter, and ResetERA to say that the negative buzz around the game was just from incel chuds, but not well enough to be a massive success.
There will be very little DLC for the game, probably just cosmetic microtransactions and a small quest chain due to lack of sales.
Bioware once again limps away just barely escaping death due to mediocracy and a slow release month.

[–] Nima@leminal.space 1 points 20 hours ago

i can't wait to play. the combat looks fun af from the reviews ive seen. I'm interested in that bigass talent tree.

super excited!