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[Draugoth]

BioWare reveals why Dragon Age: The Veilguard has been in the works for a long, long time - and it sounds like the upcoming RPG is downright massive, from dialogue to voice acting.

"We had other projects going on at BioWare as well," Epler says. "We wanted to make sure we got this one right." The developer continues, calling The Veilguard "the best version" that the new Dragon Age "could possibly be." Barlow then chimes in, describing how she's been working on the game for five years now alongside its cast of actors: "We started casting five years ago. The team, the talent has been on for five years."

Mass Effect 2 - 20,000
Mass Effect 3 - 40,000
Andromeda - 65,000
Inquisition - 80,000
Veilguard has 140,000 which breaks down to 95,000 (if each Rook has 15k)
This is BioWare's MOST dialogue, ever!

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[winjer]

But how much of it will be cringe inducing?

 

[IFireflyl]

But 90,000 lines of dialogue are just people confirming what everyone's pronouns are.

 

[Hudo]

BioWare: "Look at how big our pile of shit is this time!"

 

[TommyCronin6969]

Because that's what video games need more these days. Talking.

 

[ZehDon]

And 343i declared that Halo Infinite was the biggest game they'd ever made. It launched with less content than the original Halo.

Devs must really think very little of their players to keep running the same PR time after time.

 

[simpatico]

I for one, can't wait to hear these guys talk about dungeons and monsters through the lens of a zesty valley girl.

 

[Big Baller]

700 diverse characters

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

Funny how they talk about this being the reason it took so long, but no mention of how it was originally a single player game that got canceled 2 years into development (and a bunch of important people quit), then got rebooted as a live service game sharing code with Anthem, then got reworked back into a single player game.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard - Wikipedia

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Check out the section about development + staff turnover if you want to see the real reason it’s coming out a decade after the previous game, holy shit.

 

[Makki]

I LOVE when characters wont stop talking as I traverse the land. Just think how much people loved it in Forspoken!

 

[Fake]

Quality > Quantity.

 

[Damigos]

The most woke too

 

[CherryFalls]

Get ready...

 

[Luipadre]

Get ready...

 

[feynoob]

But 90,000 lines of dialogue are just people confirming what everyone's pronouns are.

You can ignore it like me. I dont pay attention to people's name most of the time. Too much stuff to remember.

 

[RJMacready73]

Get ready...

That's the lead writer?? Oh ffs

 

[intbal]

I bet these two have been DM'ing each other story ideas.

 

[Von Hugh]

This includes lines such as:

- "No!"
- "Maybe."
- "Haha, got 'im."
- "Bad guys suck, am I right?"
- "I'm too good with this bow."
- "Let's bang!"
- *sex sounds*

 

[winjer]

Get ready...

 

[nicoGec]

Get ready...

Hey, he’s Mordin’s writer, so respect.

 

[MayauMiao]

"140,000"​

90% will be about giving us lectures on identity politics.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

8 hours of cringe Marvel quips. Your party will just be fucking yapping the entire time.

 

[Dazraell]

If the dialogue will have similar quality to what they had on that 20 minute gameplay preview, that amount of dialogue won't exactly be game's advantage

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

Suicide Squad
Concord
Dragon Age Veilguard

It’s going to be a fierce competition for “most expensive flop of 2024”

 

[Antwix]

Hey, he’s Mordin’s writer, so respect.

Did he write Mordin before or after that haircut?

 

[Kurotri]

I actually can't wait for this game. It'll be comedy gold for weeks, I can already see the memes clear as day.

 

[T4keD0wN]

I have already written off the gameplay for looking consolefied, but thats not really what ive played Bioware game for.

Could do without SWTOR erasure, but having 95,000 lines could be a good sign that itll be story focused and rougly as long as inquisition, the main voice actors also seems decent, now it just need to be a serious story with zero jokes and i am willing to give it a chance, if its marvelized slop i am out, but at least ill have something new to make fun of. Its a win either way.

 

[Raven117]

That’s not a good thing. It means they likely weren’t focused and just thought to pile crap in there.

 

[Solarstrike]

ZzzZzzzz 100%

 

[Spukc]

I played wow for 4 years
With ad ons installed
I didn’t read a fucking thing.
I just followed a dot on my map.

 

[simpatico]

Get ready...

With a writer like this, I think my goal would be zero lines of dialog.

 

[ReyBrujo]

I wonder how many of those lines are important story-wise and how many are side quests or idle dialogue. If AI was used for dialogues and some decision making for path opening and sidequests (like asking the right questions to an NPC to unlock a house or get a weapon) it would probably shorten the development process at the price of getting some nonsense dialogues due AI delusion.

 

[EMR]

Get ready...

Oh, this game going to blow up so hard.

 

[GymWolf]

Get ready...

This game is gonna be weekes as hell.

 

[Lokaum D+]

all that work for nothing, they ll fail miserable and Bioware ll be finally closed

 

[laynelane]

If the trailer was a view into the quality of the writing, then more is definitely not better. Every time they talk about this game, my expectations lower. Now the pitch is the game is bigger than ever before with characters and dialogue- and that's not really a good sign these days. Plus, using it as an excuse for a ten year development time (when all the other stuff that happened to cause delays is public knowledge) is very disingenuous.

 

[nkarafo]

I wish i had the slightest interest in what these shitty rainbow characters have to say but i don't.

 

[semiconscious]

bioware: 'quantity! quantity! quantity!...'

 

[LazyParrot]

Mass Effect 2 - 20,000
Mass Effect 3 - 40,000
Andromeda - 65,000
Inquisition - 80,000
Veilguard has 140,000 which breaks down to 95,000 (if each Rook has 15k)
This is BioWare's MOST dialogue, ever!

Their older games (BG1 and 2 in particular) are probably missing from that list for a reason.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

“Every character is canonically pansexual”

“Full nudity”

“Sex noise specialist”

“Most dialog in a BioWare game”



OK OK BioWare, you’ve finally convinced me not to play it.

 

[Gaiff]

How the fuck does that even work? How are you a grown man with two sons and a wife but insist on being called "they" and identify as non-binary? A few years ago, this man would have been laughed out of the room, but now they're leading writing teams of AAA games.

If his writing is anything like DA: I or Andromeda, this will be a hard pass for me.

Also, am I wrong or people of his ilk are very frequently on writing teams? They’re never somewhere where their politics can be safely ignored.

 

[BouncyFrag]

Sus

 

[don-mika]

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

Also, am I wrong or people of his ilk are very frequently on writing teams? They’re never somewhere where their politics can be safely ignored.

Nepotism. It's so obvious that they have colonized and spread like a virus in Western studios. Fake consultancy companies like SBI are just the spearhead.

 

[Gaiff]

Inversely proportional to the quality of the games.

 

[Arsic]

35% to tell me about their pronouns and another 30% to convince me to get pegged by a man jaw.

 

[Filben]

Quantity<>Quality.

 

[OppaiNinja]

This is going to be a very expensive flop.

 

[WoJ]

“Every character is canonically pansexual”

“Full nudity”

“Sex noise specialist”

“Most dialog in a BioWare game”



OK OK BioWare, you’ve finally convinced me not to play it.

Seriously. This is how you're marketing your game? Good luck. This game is DOA and Bioware will officially be dead.

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

If Bioware is shut down, no biggie, the staff may find a job as organizers of the Olympic Games.