PC Gamer's Misleading Dragon Age: The Veilguard Article - Luke Reacts

The fact that the AC:Shadows drama led to the discovery of Thomas Lockley's big con should be a bigger deal than it is.

Luke, I usually agree with you but I think you don't really understand who Mark Darrah is or how important he has been to the Dragon age franchise. He has worked on every Dragon Age game ever made and was the game director of Dragon Age 2 and Inquisition. He isn't just some contractor; they brought him back because they needed him to finish this game after they switched it back from being a multiplayer focused game.

DragonAge Origins also wasn’t an open world. A game with different sections/levels. I think they went back to that sort of world building. I think they made the right choice because a good open world is harder to make. A game with levels usually can have a more interesting world, because they actually can fill it with life and plan things out how they should be experienced

PC Gamer has been making a few rage baity articles about DAVe, totally agree with this video.

My thing is, people act like origins is the best gameplay, and yet, a lot of long term fans say they liked it in SPITE OF the combat. Now, folks who worked on the game are saying they made an active effort to ensure the combat was on the level that they would like, and people twist their words like this….

Respect for calling out PC Gamer for that article, it's a misleading quote taken out of context.

I think what Luke is trying to say is that misinformation is bad. And if PC Gamer is attempting to spin a narrative or misrepresent intention by pulling quotes out of context then that is purposefully trying to mislead the reader. Honestly the gaming community has been disgusting. Yes some games are bad but it seems like journalists and even gamers are purposefully trying to create a culture of hate for no apparent reason. It is honestly shameful.

What do you think on Ubisoft stealing art from Japanese artists and when caught said people will still receive the art if ordered the special edition. Only apologised and not offered to compensate them in anyway shape or form and now politicians in Japan are getting involved in it

Thanks Luke. Very reasonable. Ive seen no reason to think this game bad. Infact, every word BW say translates to "we have listened"

The older i get the more the opinion of 99% of the internet matter less and less to me, it's all BS in service to get views and clicks. And the amount of fake outrage and dogpiling just shows how much the online side of the community has regressed to the point it's embarrassing again to be a gamer.

While I'll admit I'm cautiously optimistic for the game, I've noticed some pile-on that isn't reasonable imo. One article I saw was criticizing the "removal" of the blood mage class as proof of Bioware pushing a more light-hearted story even though it was Inqusition that replaced the blood mage subclass with the necromancer, not Veilguard.

Im glad you called this out, pcgamers coverage of Dragon Age has been some of the most dishonest and bad faith ive seen.

And these outlets try to pretend that they care about devs, while at the same time pushing them in front of the hate train for more clicks. I hate journos. They constantly want to get the good cookie points while also play into the other side.

Using the AC3 dlc as evidence AC "has never been historicly accurate" is a super bad faith argument. Look at all the work they did with the earlier AC games to make sure they were accurate and, more importantly, felt accurate and fulfilled a fantasy That's the actual issue with AC shadows it doesn't appeal to the wanted fantasy of being a samurai.

I think this game looks better then most people, but it’s dragon age that’s why lol. Still gotta give it a chance, it’s fine to trash it if it’s garbage tho

I think they did the tweet and article because they are salty that Gameinformer has exclusive rights to cover actual DA:VE content, while every other outlet stays empty handed (at least for now in the marketing camapign Bioware kicked off recently). So how you generate clicks and reader engagement despite having nothing new to put on the table? That is right: writing misleading tweets and articles, with nothing to say or show off. This was only made to generate clicks (if you can call that, because the content coverage atm for Veilguard is covered almost exclusively by smaller fan channels on Youtube and Gameinformer. And some banter of Bioware devs on X and their discord. Is is more on the calmer side I would say. At least for now.)

Yeah article is there to make poeple mad so they click on it.

The editor needs to be reassigned to picking up trash outside.

This game has some VERY obvious rage bait surrounded by it

Thank you for continually pointing this kind of thing out. Not only has this kind of biased article system gotten too common, but DA:Ve has especially been a victim of these kind of misleading think pieces and reporting. It's nice to see at least some people in the youtube format are being honest and looking for context rather than talking about article titles only or making clickbait content.