more like Faggon AIDS: The Failtard!!!!!!!!!!!

@anemone i was surprised how stupid it actually was

@lain@lain.com everyone who worked on the original has left or had their brain melted by Twitter during COVID. Also think a lot of their replacements were brought in from greater EA

@anemone i posted about it earlier today, i think these games still tend to look good, and they play alright, but the writing is just atrocious

@lain@lain.com Debatable IMO. It looks high budget and looks like it plays high budget but I'm not sure that's "good" The combat looks simple and boring and while the environments do genuinely look awesome the character designs are atrocious

@lain@lain.com Granted, Bioware's character designs have never been great imo but this looks real bad. They remind me of that one wrestling games where everyone looked like a bobblehead

@anemone i think i mean something more like 'competent'. there's nothing that's obviously super ugly, or buggy. If you saw just a screenshot, you might think it's not interesting, but you wouldn't think it's a dumpster fire.

@lain@lain.com yeah I agree there. It looks polished if nothing else, but then the story and dialogue is is (literally) written by twitter addicts with pronouns and 5 flags in bio and edited by an HR department

@anemone @lain does anybody buy this shit because these people write it, like are we just not the target audience anymore?

@sun @anemone @lain Yes people will buy it. It will mostly be fanboys that don't care about the quality of the game and just want some RPG slop. Just like Bethesda fans. Some of the original fans went away before DA2 and most of them are gone since DA2.

It's not even about that the game contains a lot of LGBT signalling, the first game did so too. It had lesbian/gay/bisexual relationships and characters talked about that almost all the time. It's about the very bad gameplay and story that became the norm in the last decade or so.

You are not the target audience, neither is the original DAO/DA2 fan.