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um hello everyone oh fucking hell hello and welcome to what's the buttons

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turkey and stuffing crisps that's what these are i'm not gonna eat them fucking

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oh no here we go gold what gold wonder gold golden wonders golden wonders where the fuck

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all right um really upset mark with them connor's here hello as you can hear it's me um

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um and yeah he's gonna basically carry this podcast it's monday it's not friday it's monday

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it's post work we're all here um so yeah it's terrible really not supposed you're supposed to

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have a mute button for when you want to eat i can't hear you move him not eat him obviously

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not on this podcast let me just lick my fingers raw unedited footage tasty uh

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um you want to talk about valguard can do how much playtime have you managed to get into it um

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somewhere around 15 hours in two days in two days which is a decent amount of time

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they only came out friday and i didn't play it friday i've never played any of the dragon ages

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i have played all of them all of them so every single one is this one vastly different to the

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others 100 okay absolutely go ahead so the first game was origin second was just called two then

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it was inquisition and now we're on the veil guard um this one plays a lot more like god of war

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oh really or even that even kind of like um new world that we're all kind of playing at the minute

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quite similar but i would say it feels more like god of war because it's um you have quite linear

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yes so they've so they've changed it drastically on um so i'd say the first game was very

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was quite linear it had obviously sections that and missions you would go through you you traveled

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you only had a set area that you could go around in but this is talking about a game that came out

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in 2009 so game gameplay was different but it was very much more um you picked your team so you could

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have three companions which now you can only have two with you at all times which is much more like

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mass effect because that used to be your you could only carry two squad mates with you as your little

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fire team which is now it i suppose it does feel thinking about it that way it feels more like mass

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effect because mass effect used to be you would have your class and then you would have abilities

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within that class and like when i played them on console it would be you know like right bumper

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and left bumper and then obviously shooting zooming whatever else but you would have your

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abilities on that and then say like why or triangle would have another ability it feels a lot more

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like that now because you pick your class and you've got um certain abilities inside of that i know

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for the whole game or the whole series you've had different ones you've had different abilities in

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the main classes there's only three classes warrior mage and rogue so each one has something

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different the the warrior can be sword and board or big big sword there's different specializations

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in it which they did in the old games i love sorting board i love that as a terminology then

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rogue's got uh daggers or bow and then mage has got like fire ice uh and i think they do like

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necrotic and then blood i'm just having a look at it now um but yeah but it plays a lot more

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from what it used to be where you just used to like spam your abilities and have like all you'd

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have to do is go to an enemy and you click like a or whatever the your attack button would be

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and you'd just be doing an attack like like on wow almost but you'd only have you'd have a short

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rotation of abilities you could do so for like fighter you'd have like a cleave a stomp and

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whatever else but it used to like new world where you've only got three abilities per very weapon

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pretty much basically um yeah very similar actually because you only get three three main abilities

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and then you get like an ultimate move that builds up over time yeah um which before you used to be

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able to have almost sort of like wow where you'd have a short key between you had like your main

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three or four because i think it used to i haven't played these games in a long time even though they

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used to be like some of my favorite games but again it's been inquisition came out in like 2013

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2014 so it's been long yeah well i i looked at it this morning when we all while i was waiting

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for you earlier the dragon age origins the first game came out in 2009 i remember playing the like

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ultimate game of the year version of that fucking loving that as a young teen then dragon age 2

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came out in 2011 and then 2013 2014 inquisition came out and then the the whole series went dead

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that was it for ages and then obviously inquisition wasn't wasn't uh a bad game was it no it was so

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some people didn't like it i don't really know why because i enjoyed it but then i know people are

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bragging on veil guard for it the only thing i'd say about inquisition it was one of those

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kaiper games that gets a bit too big for its boobs yeah not in a sense of like it was you know you

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had so many different areas that you could visit but then they had i don't know like two dozen

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missions in one area and big areas to explore like sort of valhalla but you know it was all um

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a little bit too much for certain areas so it'd be like in the mission to take you there for doing

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a main mission and then you could still go back and visit and do whatever else in this sandbox area

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but it was up but there was nothing to do it was up to you what you wanted to do

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because there'd be a lot of like puzzles and enemies to fight and little like chambers and

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dungeons and bits and pieces that i found like looking back at it i probably didn't do a lot

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of areas just because it was such a big game yeah because i remember playing origin and i'd play

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that again and again and again and again and it was all that it wasn't as big and there wasn't

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big sandbox areas it was just you're doing like i always remember there was you had to go to

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certain areas to get certain allies and build your power back up in origin and you'd go to

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places like the circle which was this mage tower and you'd have to go through all of that but it

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was very straightforward it was only like forward and back in level design that you could move

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around it but it wasn't like okay you know you're going to be running across a field for four minutes

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to get to the other side of the map sort of thing yeah yeah yeah two was very linear because it would

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just apart from being in certain places you didn't really visit anywhere it'd be like there's a

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mission you're going to a cave here's a mission you're going around the streets you could then

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wander around certain places in town but it didn't really let you do much more than that which kind

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of kept you on the rails three obviously then got bigger and now in four in valguard they've

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brought it kind of back to that and it feels more like that's why i say it feels more like god of war

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because it's got areas you can visit but you can't really deviate yeah you've got you've got like

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exploration but of a well it's got the the way i say it's like valga god of war at least number

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one because i haven't played ragnarok yet even though i want to play it because it's only recently

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come to pc is that you've got very similar sort of themes where obviously you think of um the

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idrisil and like the the sections where you teleport off you get to the hub in the middle

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and you can go to areas this has got that in a sense of that as you get through the start of the

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story you uncover this place called the crossroads yeah which the your main hub is called the

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lighthouse which is an area of the crossroads you go into the crossroads and it's like a

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an area you can explore and fight enemies kind of similar to um like as you're exploring midgard

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yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah sure you may and you go off to different sections of that and you find

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these alluvian which are portals that you use to take to the areas of the game you're playing at

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and essentially once you unlock an area you can go there repeatedly back and forth as many times

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as you want you can explore it but it's more like um more like god of war because you can go back

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there you can explore it there might be a door or a passage that's locked or barricaded that you

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can't get through without it's that that standard like level design where where it gives you the

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the idea that you're in an open world area but you're not in an open world area it's sandbox

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like um it's more sandbox than but that return that that typical recipe of like here's here's

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a starting area oh there's there's a cave that you like covered in bramble or some shit and you

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can't get through the bramble yet and then in like in 40 hours worth of gameplay yeah you go oh look

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now i can fucking burn this bramble away so let me go back that's essentially what's happening

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because as as you get more companions they've each got their own like special yeah so you know one

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can once the story progressed far enough one can move certain stones that you couldn't move before

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so you couldn't like jump on top of them to get to the next bit yeah and like one can one one

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breathes yeah one breathes fire and breaks walls and um like it detonates like explosives that break

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walls and another one can bring like these the big aspect in dragon age is this thing called the fade

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yeah which is like the the place between the real and the not real is that what they call it the real

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and the not real not this they've got so you've got reality the veil and the fade and the fade is

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the dream world basically and the veil is the the barrier between it because in in the fade there's

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demons monsters all sorts of things that try and get over to it's mostly demons and spirits that

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try to get over to the material and um that like this one person can bring like aspects over in

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terms of like terrain so you can jump up to get to places and uncover items and bits and pieces it's

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all like a multi-layered type yeah um but that you could you don't need to have that companion to be

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able to use those abilities once you've unlocked them because you do it through you've got like a

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magic item oh clever so you're not locked to that fucking companion but obviously you then get to

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pick between i think there's six total companions now i believe but yeah but you can only the weird

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the difference of it before as it was before is that now you used to be able to pick three

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companions now you can only pick two i've got a um i've got an article here and it says uh from

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forms it says the main thing dragon age the veil guard gets wrong which would be somewhat interesting

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because obviously where you where you've already played parts of it says uh i liked dragon age the

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veil guard quite a bit i gave it an 8.5 out of 10 and was engaged enough to now run second playthrough

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with a new glass because i'm because i mainly want to see how combat would evolve what i'm not

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expecting is seeing the story evolve in new ways simply because it can't not to any great extent

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it seems i have one major problem with so he's angry because he's got when he plays a another

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character he's not got so many choices right um that's just bio where i have one major problem

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with dragon age of our garden no it has nothing to do with the endless culture wars surrounding

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the game rather i think they played it way too safe with the tone this is a game with close to

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zero edge to it a lack of conflict a lack of truly tough choices and a lack of letting your

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letting your rook be anything close to ruthless if not actually sort of evil which is of course

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possible in many rpgs and past dragon age games allowed for more gray areas than what we see here

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i've seen that come up before um because we were talking a little bit about about in the discord

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and i've seen quite a few people talk about how obviously well i i don't play it so i'm i'm on a

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bit of a skewed i can only go by what i've seen you can't be bad in the interactions in the in the

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in the in the conversations and stuff like that that's that seems quite bio wary in the in the

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sense that you are technically playing a hero so and repeatedly you're playing heroes in dragon

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age games that ultimately they're probably not aiming for you to do outright evil shit most of

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the time but yeah yeah i can see why i can see why they're even so far i can see that they've

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then it's toned down a little bit from what it could necessarily be but then it's a difficult

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one to balance though if you're if if you want to play an evil character like play a game that's not

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an offshoot rpg do you know is there i'd imagine there's different endings to it yeah i believe

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there's five right i think but i don't know if that's like good ending bad bad versus good ending

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like evil ending like say you took all this guy you can just be objectively evil like what ash

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is doing at the moment yeah yeah which but then i suppose that's the difference of the fact that

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this isn't uh i feel like if you're trying to compare something like like veil guard to

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i feel like that is that thing like that is you've objectively uh but boulder's gate is pure pure

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fantasy yeah that is you're that that game is such a masterpiece in itself but also gives you the

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absolute freedom to do and be whoever you want because that is what dnd is pretty much you

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you make your character how you want to they're happy to give you like four different like 14

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different dialogue options for yeah because that's that's the fantasy that's the game that that's

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that's what it if you if you had boulder's gate and then limited it yeah you would then you'd be

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kicking off because you go well that's not fucking dnd universe is it yeah no yeah dnd is the option

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of free choice whereas full like fucking role play yeah you know i mean it's like you're going to

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strangulate me on my role play like what the fuck's that all of a sudden i've got to be i've got to be

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a hero and not be like oh yeah you've got the option to do a dirge run and which is like you

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know that's there's an extra little bit of spice and you think is is veil guard falling into that

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sort of not through veil guard's fault of his own but there will be comparisons yeah comparing

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that if you if val guard came out before boulder's gate had a full release and let you play through

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everything and i feel like you wouldn't have that level of criticism yeah because ultimately

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the dragon age games are about you fighting adversity not not necessarily you you know

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every time you play a character in dragon age you're essentially fighting a bigger threat it's not

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um where um do you know the different um definitions of fantasy by any chance so when

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no by that look i imagine no so when so when you talk about fantasy there's varying different

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levels of it so there's high fantasy which is like dnd which is obviously has your typical spread of

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spread of um what we do yeah is essentially you know there's there's the world is heavily influenced

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by magic and that kind of sets the tone for the ability to do more bigger and grander things so

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you would say lord of the rings i've literally about saying the rings and dnd is high fantasy

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yeah then if you flipped it and said would star wars count as high fantasy uh star wars is a space

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opera fucking hell right okay which is his own thing right okay um

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no so and then there's dark fantasy yeah which is um i'm struggling warhammer no warhammer is

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the next one oh okay so dark fantasy is i will have to look it up because i can't remember the

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exact definition of it but essentially it means that your um the setting is obviously darker and

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grittier but it also is that your um the stakes are a little bit higher in terms of um it adds

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um disturbing and frightening themes but then also for as horror and i think it says that it's the

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um the fact that you're typically always up against a great bigger and greater evil that has

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the potential to um it's such a weird one because i can't i remember the i remember looking it up

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before because i wanted a classification so it's great it's grittier more horror and you're

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constantly against a higher enemy that could annihilate you is that is that um distinct in

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the presence of dark elements such as horror fear apocalyptic or magical threats to a realm that

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lead the plot so would you say and what was on what was that that's dark fantasy so would you

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say that the last of us yes is dark fantasy yes right okay and then like days gone so that that

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higher threat apocalyptic the yeah days gone last of us control probably because there's a greater

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power there the the hiss oh okay essentially so you know that's quite gory gritty so it's something

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that will be more so it'd be say if so the the way i would look at it is if you joined my home

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brew campaign for dnd that i argue is dark fantasy to me right because of the way that i still have

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all the dnd elements but i try and tone down the like make the tone a lot heavier yeah or if you

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played there's a good um adventure module cursor strad that is a level between dark fantasy still

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keeping the dnd elements but it's dark fantasy leaning into the third category grimdark that's

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and that's warhammer warhammer 40k and stan and um old world warhammer is grimdark which is essentially

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it's a fucking meat like meat slog there is no there is no end to it no happiness there is no

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no solitude there is no overcoming it it is this is our life and we are you know we are slave to

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it we have no control over it because that is warhammer isn't it's just constant war yeah a

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state of constant war regardless where you go there is there are small motes of light in this

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of light in this situation but there is ultimately the setting is just your you exist you suffer you

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die great essentially it's great that is fantastic so so of that logic i would say that technically

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boulders gate is high fantasy but then i know i understand you would turn around go yeah but

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it's dark fantasy because there's a magical threat but you go yeah but that's only for a certain area

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so if you think of the grand scheme of things of boulders gate is set in and around boulders gate

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whereas the dnd universe faerun is a whole planet and you turn around and go oh there's a situation

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going on in boulders gate or it's not going to affect someone in fucking the other side of the

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world like you know but do you not have do you not have the the freedom to turn your playthrough of

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boulders gate into yeah dark fantasy yeah essentially you can but if you pick the evil

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route in boulders gate you essentially you're i don't really want to spoil anything but you

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essentially just give rise to the problem no so let it all in yeah so you let the bad thing happen

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which i obviously don't know what what the end of valguard is i imagine that probably is an option

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because i could imagine bioware from from having played most of their games is you know as you go

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through that it'll be right well we've got to stop the big bad and then otherwise probably going to

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be okay we stopped the big bad but now we're gonna like we're going to go through with their plan now

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we are the big bad yeah essentially like oh it wasn't their plan wasn't that bad after all let's

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just go with it what's what's the art style like because that's another thing that i've i've seen

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people uh talking about it's not different it's not as gimmicky as it was in the trailer because

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i know everyone went oh it's fucking forknight graphics but i'm struggling to it is maybe a

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little bit more cartoony but it's not um hold on i'd imagine they're using a different engine

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yeah well that for this if you're comparing the fact you're comparing a game that's 10 years old

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to its predecessor yeah yeah so i don't have a way to unless i was to look up the last one but i took

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a cap took a screen cap of my me when i made me yeah there's there's the lineup so the

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the art style why they all look the same oh so you're picking your class yes the class

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so there is a moment where you do look at some of the characters and you can tell it's a video game

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versus but i kind of prefer that i don't see a huge amount of difference between that some of

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the older games it's almost um the the only thing i will it's almost like guardians of the galaxy

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sort of esk type the only thing i would complain about is is the armors because some of them do

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just look goofy yeah but that's been that's been the style of the that's the way they they've made

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things look from the very start is that armors looked a certain way they always looked a little

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bit more fantasy than they looked functional see what you mean see what you mean it's hard to

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it's hard to compare you go oh it doesn't it doesn't look like a dragon age game the last

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dragon age game came out 10 years ago yeah you have to adjust to the times to then turn around

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and say oh it looks shit and you go yeah but you complain about fucking hyper realism in like

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starfield and even then you get i was looking when i played the very little bit of starfield

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that i played i got uncanny valley and just was like this is shit yeah i was like i hate the way

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these characters look it's too it's too weird yeah and then like when um one of other bio-wears other

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ones andromeda came out they were like oh yeah it's all look shit like it doesn't matter everyone's

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going to complain about something in regards to the graphics of the game whether it doesn't look

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one way or it doesn't look another way i would say that valguard looks very artistic in terms of

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everything else because it's quite uh not controversial because i don't i don't i don't

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believe it to be a controversial thing um but i know a lot a lot of people are i feel like a

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lot of people are complaining about certain aspects of the game and then that just in turn

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means that right well i'm just going to complain about every aspect of the game because i'm angry

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about the game wetties pretty much it's just fucking i will say i've been i'll say i'm definitely a

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dragon age veteran in terms of i've played them since the start or very near the start like when

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maybe not played dragon age when it first came out but considering i would have been what fucking

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13 like and didn't have adult money to buy my own shit yeah you know and trying to get a i think

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like dragon age was even a 16 or an 18 at the time no like managed to get hold of it at whatever age

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like 14 15 obviously before dragon age 2 released so yeah probably what 14 that's fucking illegal

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then isn't it your parents should be ashamed who cares disgusting who cares the government doesn't

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take no notice of the ratings asshole i do what i want so yeah go on but um forgot what i was

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saying now but um yeah that playing all the games through and even here now at the last game i'm

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enjoying it yeah i'm just glad to have dragon age content that i haven't had in years granted

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they've had like comics and whatever else but there's been no game since since the last one

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i wonder if i can just look at a comparison between inquisition and veil guard and i imagine

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it won't be much different i feel what else we got from this is that this is an m rated game

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um that very much plays an accent sounds like a t for teen rated game yes here and there you'll

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hear an f-bomb or see a boob mania in the character creator only but there's little bloody violence

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and the entire thing just feels like see that i don't like it i thought so that yes i can kind

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of so far i can kind of see where there that isn't really an m yeah but but then yes here and there

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you'll hear you'll hear an f-bomb and see a boob and then in brackets mania in the character creator

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only it's that that that sort of shit yeah where it's i don't know man i don't know i don't know why

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i don't know why that kind of shit is just i just find that a bit creepy you know what i mean so

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okay here we go here's a comparison of one of the the previous npcs to now one of like the mainline

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companions in terms of how they've adjusted the the art style so obviously which one's which

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this is the older one and the other the right hand side is the newer one so it looks way better on

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the new it just looks nicer cleaner and cleaner oh no oh god forbid so like yeah compare the two

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so that would have been i don't know if that's um gonna be game footage for the right hand side

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but it looks basically on my pc it looks very fucking similar so if you can turn around and

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say people it looks better on the on veil guard so people are complaining saying it doesn't it

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looks too cartoony or the graphics are fucking whatever it just looks like it's for a current

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gen i don't get that at all thing so the game just looks good but you'd but you you would if

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10 years 10 years which in the graphical world is fucking ginormous if you release dragon age

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veil guard and then it were to look the same as inquisition what would people be doing yeah they'd

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be complaining because you go oh you've been 10 years and the graphics look no different i'll say

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that probably like the like the lip sync is probably out a little bit but i know that's

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difficult in games anyway yeah yeah so and that might just be i know i'm running on like ultra

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or high to ultra so it might i don't know if it's something to do with the tearing but i'm getting

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like at least 80 frames most of the time so but like someone said is it's just all too happy go

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lucky um yes i do really like like my team and most of the quest lines and the overall story

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and lore but it feels bizarre that your rook cannot be anything but mildly blunt and there are a few

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if any real conflicts that last more than two than a minute or two whether it's between you and your

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team your team members with each up with each other or more of a handful of snooty authority

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figures you encounter along the way the worst thing i ever did was punch an annoying guy

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this is not bad writing in terms of the literal lines of dialogue i'd argue it's a problem with

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the story structure and character arcs the game will sometimes give you a hard decision

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in a way that is that is cheating like an early no win call um oh isn't it says spoilers follow so

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i'll see i have made one um i've seen i have made one major choice so far and it's

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essentially an a or b type of situation i feel that that's what that's what they mean of that

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no win situation where it doesn't matter which one you pick you're gonna something it's good

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for one situation and bad for the other yeah yeah yeah this is an m rated game and i really

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don't understand why they didn't insert more conflict more actual violence more sex apart

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a big part of bio-ware games more sex yeah the tone is all wrong all the edges have been totally

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sanded down it's very difficult for me to to speak um a whole lot about because i've never played any

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of the dragon age games they don't they don't draw me in in in any way shape or form um and it's

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it's just difficult to hear and read people complaining about a game which which they obviously

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they obviously have a lot of affinity with um as an outsider that doesn't really understand it

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because a lot of the whining to me sounds like you're whining for the sake of whining yeah

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i'd argue even in the last games the fact they're turning around and going now they want more sex

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in them and stuff like that they weren't even that present in the other games

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like they were there's romances yeah but in true bio-ware fashion the romance is like you know you

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you interact with the power of the character you pick the romance option like the little love heart

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dialogue option and you follow that for x amount through the arcs and then you have the big romance

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scene which you know probably they got away with it i don't as far as i'm aware they haven't really

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gotten away with it that much right in the last few games that probably the most like raunchy one

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that i can think of is probably fucking mass effect one which is like you know a bit of side boob

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and like definitely the witcher does it more heavy like i say it's a difficult one because

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i think as for the rest yeah maybe they could like i feel so far that it's been maybe a little

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bit light in terms of the mature themes but even then like it's been so long since an old an older

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game that i can't really remember what they're trying to compare to isn't there a setting as

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well that means that you cannot die uh yes i've never heard of that before other than like it like

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an invincibility cheat but there is a setting i think it is in the setting for yeah you can't

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get knocked down so like your health can't go below like one percent yeah yeah yeah which i

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don't necessarily think that's a bad thing no because i don't i don't i don't really give a

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fuck sure i don't know how you're you you're that kind of person in terms of a gamer that you're

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being that exclusion that exclusive that you turn around to someone who wants to play the game

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but isn't necessarily as good because it because the combat plays more like

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more like god of war where it's instead of you just pick a target there's you know you've got a

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dodge you've got a parry yeah you've got to manage your little abilities and whatever and you've got

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heavy and light attacks which you never used to have in the old game but if some people don't

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like that kind of game which you turn around and go i want to play drake i know that's probably

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an element of this is the new style of dragon age that we're moving to that sort of combat system

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because that just seems the way of it now that you turn around and go okay that you will find

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people who can't can't play that way yeah and you turn around and say well if they're struggling

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they enjoy the story it's also relatively similar to just playing a game on easy mode yeah majority

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of games that haven't have a difficulty setting and you switch over to easy most of it's pretty

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pretty brain dead yeah for for a lot of that me like me personally have always felt like you

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could die on easy mode yeah yeah yeah there's enough there's like there's so obviously in dragon

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age there is dragons yeah you do come across them and they are tough shock horror yeah shock

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horror that they're tough that you could turn around and go i don't really want to have to go

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through all this again to get to the same point even if you are playing on fucking easy mode you

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turn around and go okay i just don't want to die i feel like that will be um it's that one again of

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yeah what kind of soy boy is out there going oh there's a setting in the game that says i can't

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die and i'm never going to use it but i'm i'm i'm furious that it's there there'll be loads of people

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because that is the exact same people that get pissed off that there's different pronouns in it

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you don't have to fucking use them you don't have to use that setting you don't have to you

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you don't have to use that type that that bit in the character you don't have to do this you

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don't have to do that that is that's there there it's the same type of whenever you said it they

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have either i don't know if it was last week or if it was at whatever point you said that there was

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people upset about the pronouns and the the wokeness of it and i just looked at it i was like

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i've played like 15 16 hours or whatever it is now apart from the character creator i've not come

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across anything like that i don't know there was an article saying there was a two-minute cut scene

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about talking about pronouns like what two minutes is going to kill you to just be like

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okay whatever the um the fucking field guard woke up the bit that's always bugged me about it is

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over it is the art of the argument for it is um is it's oh you're you're you're spoiling the fantasy

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i can't i can't relate to this because it's not part of the fantasy and it's what fantasy

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in their world that there's only exactly two genders and man woman it's such a fucking wind

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up because it doesn't matter if you if you're if you're like us and you genuinely don't care

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yeah like i don't like it doesn't bother me whatsoever i do not care then perfect it's not

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it's not an issue makes oh yeah it was when we text it yeah makes me laugh because dragon age

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origins had male and female relationship options like same gender but that but this is the then

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this is the thing that people are getting so wound up by number two but dragon age two all of the

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um romanceable companions were bi so it didn't matter if you were male didn't matter if you

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you were female you could romance them yeah yeah then number inquisition locked you out of certain

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options based on gender but most of the time there was more than a few characters that just

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didn't care it went either way there was like maybe one of each gender that didn't go for

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gay relationships and it's like and there was a trans character in inquisition so you can't turn

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around and go oh i don't like it because it's been shoved in my face and i go look at it and go

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i don't think any of the main cast is like the companions or are they them but people have that

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that mindset that that oh this is this is what gaming is gonna gonna gonna turn into and you

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look at from the other side you go what in just just inclusivity it's annoying because that's

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that's the main thing that people are wound up about is is things like the the pronouns and the

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being in in today's day and age and then inserting it into game and then going oh gaming's not

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political it shouldn't be like that and you go it's not a political thing to get involved in i think

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i read that that they were like oh i don't like the fact that they're using like modern vernacular

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in a in a fantasy game it's like why not who cares it's a fantasy game it's like it's a fantasy

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game they're not talking about fucking guns and fucking cars like the thing that the thing that

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always always gripe me about it's the same with with god damn it lord i'll take you up the river

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yeah it's the same with whinging about only being able to play uh a woman or a bloke in a game and

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having a fucking tetch about that in in that you've predominantly as gaming as a whole is male

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dominated heavily as the main thing i know it's getting it's getting better now but definitely

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at the beginning of game and it was a fucking male male dominated industry so fucking 95 of the games

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you play you play as a geezer yeah through most of it and it's like all the all the people that

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didn't want to play as a geezer it's like no no push you in the corner let's not worry about you

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but then the minute it's switched around the other way that's when it's all they're throwing it in my

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face what's happened to gaming don't understand it from from a dragon age fan do not have any

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understanding of why that's a big deal but when you go back to the first game second game third

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you can play male or female and you can play like first game you could play as different species

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um second game you could only play as human but you had male male female option what i don't

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understand about it is things like third and fourth you can play all of the species in the game

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things like world of warcraft with the ervendorf race that come out you can be a woman with a beard

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no one's whinging about that yeah no one's fucking whinging about that new world and the

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character customization you can have female hairstyle on the males the women can have

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fucking beards as well cyberpunk the fucking you can put a dick on a woman and vice versa so you

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can literally make yeah you have the freedom to to make whatever person you decide to make

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no one whinging about that you know all of a sudden the dragon age game that's had the

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the option of genders oh not in my dragon age which is crazy because i go well but no one's

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but no one's making you play if you don't need to play if i play a game you give me a game where i

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can make different characters right typically i'm gonna pick a guy right they're gonna be tall

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they're gonna be somewhat heavy built yeah right and they're gonna have a beard yeah because that's

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what i like to play and i'm not discrediting the fact that if you're if you're into the

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the role playing side of a game that having a character that that resembles either yourself

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or what you're trying to perceive like play as this game nothing wrong with that whatsoever it's

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the incessant whinging that people do for anything other than what you it's it's a game it's just so

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annoying play what you want stop crying about it i'm adamant and i'd say as well that the

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character customizer is actually pretty good yeah there's it's some of it's a little bit like hit

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miss in terms of like the obviously like hairstyles and beer styles are just whatever they've modeled

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yeah but in terms of the the actual face design you've got face presets but then you've got like

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a build slider so obviously like muscular heavy skinny and it's the triangle you can flick around

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too but then you can like slightly adjust the the height of the character based on the race and then

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you flip down through and you know there's a full section i know it's not necessarily like sims level

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of like you can pull sections out but you can essentially pick different faces you might like

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and then you can run it does the same sort of slider beyond the presets and you can like slide

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towards whether you'd want to have like a skinny face a heavy face or somewhere in between it's

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pretty good ultimately and then you've got the sub sliders so it's you know play whatever you want

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and then don't don't complain about it especially when it's not like who else is playing it's a

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single player game no one else is going to see apart from you i didn't even think about that

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side of things either single player game yeah who's crying about it it's not like you're going

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around like wow or any other game that's got like co-op features no one's complaining about space

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marine where you can replace men it was just a it's just a fucking heavier point because we

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was talking about in the discord having a discussion about it and there's there's some

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people that sit on one side of the fence and then there's other people that sit on the other side

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of the fence and it's just trying to trying to understand the the mindset of it which i suppose

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is the same the other way around the people that that whose whose thoughts don't align with ours

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are in the same camp that we are just on the other side where i don't understand why you've got an

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issue with having to play as a woman or whatever but at the same time i guess those people don't

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understand why we don't have an issue with it i for them types of people i need i would need to

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sit down and say what is your underlying issue with it yeah who hurt you like what's happened

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in your fucking head where there's an issue is the reason that you don't like the fact that they've

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added a they them aspect to the character creator that was the worst bit like someone pointed out i

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don't use i don't use pronouns you you do yeah because you're a he there you go you're a he and

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they dickhead he him i always feel like that that that's what it's going to be with a lot of games

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now with that sort of stuff is that you're going to see more and more of of yeah of the inclusivity

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but at the same time whilst that's great you're also going to get more and more of the people

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fucking whinging about it because for some reason people feel that whinging about it is going to be

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the thing that stops that yeah but that's just not going to happen because it's such a for for

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people like ourselves that aren't affected by that it's such a minute thing whereas for for the

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person that the the is non-binary is trans is a woman is black is whatever yeah is monumental

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to them that's what it should be it mean it don't really make a difference to me

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like even in my friends group the other nerds that i that i play dnd with there's a there is a they

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non-binary is staying non-binary and i've had one that's gone from female to

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was had top surgery and is now more identifying as he they

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so it's like i feel like that would be ideal for them in terms of the the inclusion i know they

421
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don't really care and they're quite easy going with it but the fact that that's there is what

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it's refreshing from some perspective and it again i don't see if they're pretty wide for the fact

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that i've got those types of friends that i'm not bothered by it yeah versus you have mark manister

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if there's if there's a character customization i just feel like

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like you should have the especially in a in a fantasy it's game especially where

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is one that's giving you more free choice for making who you want to play as

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do you play you play a human you play a dwarf you play an elf you play the the

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kunari which are basically like horned they're meant to be related to dragons but they're

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technically become more human appearing um you play a fucking horn dude if you want and you can

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be a day or them or whatever you know it's not a big deal you play a game because you want to enjoy

431
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it like granted i made the the first character i made is basically me and i'm playing sword and

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board but then yeah i'm part of me's like i'm not really loving the ability of the the warrior

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because it's a shield toss yeah and i fly that's gimmicky that's very marvel fucking yeah not

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fucking i'm not loving it like captain america yeah comparing to other other bits and pieces and

435
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i know for a fact i'm sitting there going i know who i'd make as a second character if i were like

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if or when i'd do a second thing playthrough and it is well i'd make my like main dnd character

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which is an elf ranger but i make him an elf rogue and that would be my playthrough and it'd

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be slightly different we've we've all got our own um preferences to i'm the same i play a new world

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big fucking axe and a hatchet that i can slice into people's faces please you give me start

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giving me the range stuff i've tried it out i don't like it same with world of warcraft get me up and

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close into someone's face with some fucking knives or something i want to i want to be in there but

442
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you you you turn me into a warlock or a mage or fucking whatever i don't like it i don't like

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being at a distance it's not it's not what my play style is no matter how fucking no matter how good

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a ranged class is compared to a melee class i just can't do it because i don't find the same

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excitement just to i don't know everyone's got such different opinions on things and then to be

446
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bashing a game just about like i don't even really want to look at reviews because

447
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or i didn't what knew i wasn't it was annoying because when i first i wasn't gonna i was going

448
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to hold off for a bit necessarily and then seeing obviously it was like IGN gives it like nine out

449
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of ten i'm like doubt and then and then whoever else giving it like eights nines i'm like hmm

450
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even more doubt you know this this game that i've not really followed but been interested in because

451
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i don't really watch trailers or follow game news particularly it's quite loosely despite you know

452
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coming on here and needing to talk about games it's like i follow it quite loosely because i

453
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always find that you know the games you follow like even you said it today that you're not

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interested in um old assassin's creed shadows anymore because of whatever because of whatever

455
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has been going on with it which is like that's what puts you in their moods as you go oh yeah

456
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you see gameplay or you see whatever and i just don't i think it i think it looks very good

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um and i'm still excited for it i just don't think i'm 250 quid's worth of excited for it

458
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yeah it's sort of i yeah i bought the the mirage um collector's edition but that was like 130 quid

459
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yeah still a lot of money but for a collector's edition it's not bad um whereas yeah 250 for for

460
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this it whilst i would love to have the statue it's sort of like i'm in the middle of moving house

461
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i'm fucking yeah it's a little bit much it's been delayed the yeah that's the next one if i was a

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fucking stock market i'd gone down a little bit when that delay got announced because i was like

463
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oh fucking hell like fair enough if you delayed it that's a smart thing i'm not one of those people

464
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that says i want it now now now but it is it is ubisoft at the end of the day and ultimately

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they're not very good no that was my concern for valguard because guess who's in charge of it yeah

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yeah which we know what they do yeah yeah and ubisoft are just fucking i remember the highlight

467
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of the the grand days of ea yep but they're not anymore ea ubisoft microsoft and you think oh

468
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we're starting to get a bit fucking creepy we're starting to fuck things up here um a little bit

469
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of money grabby here yeah and you know seeing the reviews and being everyone being like oh

470
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it's gonna be fucking woke guard and fail guard oh it's shit the game looks shit it looks terrible

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the characters look goofy and i'm looking at it going they look decent they look better than

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fucking starfield oh yeah and like some of the other games that come out and you think like and

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then obviously ultimately it came down to me as like dragon age veteran is like i want to see what

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this game's got if i i said it to you if i don't like it in the first 10 hours i'll fucking give

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it back yeah or i'll just because it's dragon age i'll slog through it but everyone used to everyone

476
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said that dragon age 2 was shit i don't know what the opinion of it is now but at the time everyone

477
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was like oh yeah it's the worst dragon age is terrible it's terrible you can't make choices

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and fucking whatever i enjoyed it it's the same as i think the assassins creed origins was fucking

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awful for a lot of people that's there that's one of their favorite ones like i i genuinely hated it

480
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i hate it yeah the turn of the i turn of the get the style of assassins creed was the one

481
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yeah it's it's it's not for me and i've said it multiple times but for a lot of people they

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really really enjoy it um the only difference is is that rather than fucking write a review i sat

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on a podcast instead and whinged about it and slagged it up instead yeah on episode 79 84

484
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but that's it at the end like that was my commitment i said it's a dragon age game

485
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and i've not played the dragon age game in so long i want to see what it's got going for it and you

486
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know basically across the weekend i couldn't stop playing it yeah obviously which says on it's good

487
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which says something for it for the fact that yeah granted my time's limited so the weekends is

488
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pretty much the only time i get to play but the fact i was happy to go no it's like as soon as

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i'd sorted stuff out on saturday you know food shop and whatever else it was like no i'm gonna

490
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play this game now and then played it through till dinner and even played it after and then eventually

491
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got to a point where i was like i'm in a new area i'm like i'm so tired single player

492
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semi-linear game who gives a fuck yeah the thing is it's my it's my perfect type of game

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that is exactly what i want out of a game for the most part i still want i still like co-op stuff

494
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and would like to have more co-op stuff but annoyingly a lot of co-op stuff's fucking survival

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which is the why so sick of it which the only problem is i wouldn't want to play it solo you

496
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don't like it and then all my other mates are like they they only play at like nine o'clock till later

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and i'm like that i need to go i hate survival aspects i hate survival mechanics and i hate

498
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building yeah i hate it i just don't like survival games not my cup of tea which then leads us into

499
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what else am i gonna play i'm not gonna play like massive like granted playing new world but

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considering the last two weeks i've not played a lot of it getting fucked over at work being busy

501
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and then instead instead playing a single player game that i can essentially you know i probably

502
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won't play tonight more than likely by the time i know it's not that late but by the time i get

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back home and have dinner i'm not gonna really want to get pulled for an hour that i can leave

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that for a little while till i get a better day i don't know i won't really necessarily be doing

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much this week because i've still got a pack to go away next week but like you know it's much better

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for me especially without having to do all the if you turn around and go oh it's a sandbox map

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i'm like oh fuck yeah so that's gonna be me running around looking try and find shit and find all the

508
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bits and all the hidden areas and all the loot and if you turn around and to the top of the map tells

509
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me oh there's 12 out of 24 chests here oh fuck i gotta find the others in there oh you bastard

510
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you bastard like granted this valguard does that but the maps are smaller yes if it's linear

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like in the in the time that i've played it i've pretty much there's at least one area that i'm

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like 95 percent cleared and that's one of the hubs then another one's like 80 or percent

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and it's nearly clear there's like two more chests to find yeah and you know it's just a lot easier

514
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for me to to play that style of game because it just goes okay there's a few little hidden areas

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and you might have to come back here but we're putting fast travel points everywhere so it's so

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much easier to just drop into that map that that's far more up my street than fucking like valhalla

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or a lot of the well any of that trio of assassins craze that i just went yeah they're too big too

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big i can't i can't deal with them and that's your fucking review pretty much it's worth it

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you know i don't know i don't know if it will apply to everyone but so far i've put a lot of

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hours in in two days so i've been loving it and we'll see how it goes in the fucking

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next well when i eventually finish it because they say it's at least

522
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40 to 50 hours to complete just straight station i mean then it's like 70 if you were to do

523
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everything which you know if you're factoring that game's 50 quid as standard the deluxe is

524
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like 70 quid that if you get 70 hours out of it and i'm likely to do a second playthrough

525
00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:28,320
when you fucking when i when i get time money for values here then yeah it's a bit like value for

526
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money when you turn around and go oh how many hours you got in boarders game like 300 yeah

527
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you go well i've played that game over x amount of years would love to go back to it but it's just

528
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there's so much other stuff to get through yeah all right well that's that we're going to do the

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patreon now yeah buddy see you later everyone