Within the first minute of your video, you completely discredit yourself. Dragon age as a franchise is not a dark fantasy. Dragon age origins was a dark fantasy, none of the other installments or side content since have been dark fantasy. It is an anthology series with a new protagonist, new tone, and varying art styles each installment. You cannot look me in the eye and say with a straight face that dragon age inquisition is a dark fantasy. It’s always a certain type of fan-the middle aged edgelords, who call the series as a whole “dark fantasy.” It’s usually these same people who got mad that a trans character existed in inquisition. No point watching the rest of the video now as I know exactly what incorrect takes you’re going to spew. You should at least attempt to be original moving forward.

And this is a universe were the Old Tevinter Imperium worshipped Old Dragon Gods and practiced ownership of individuals, with dark sacrifices... Yea the tone checks out...

Just another franchise that refuses to give its fans what they want.

If I remember right this game is suppose to be in Teventer, where mages rule and blood magic and slaves are an everyday thing. This does not fit that tone.

Will there be romance in this? I can't imagine a love scene featuring these cartoon characters it would be creepy AF

That modern music is hilarious, does not match dragon age 🤮

The gameplay reveal on Tuesday is make or break for this game and BioWare.

Listen, I'm not gonna sit here and say that I loved ALL the enemies in Inquisition, for example the big Pride demon thingy looked really generic to me, but dear god, the darkspawn skeleton thing? Clash of Clans called.

The ratio is worse now. It's around 24K to 125K and dislikes are still climbing. It's heartbreaking. I don't think I can play it if it actually looks like this. If I wanted this vibe and aesthetic I'd be playing Fortnite. And YES!! I cannot... CANNOT imagine even having a deep and meaningful conversation about the world state with any of these characters. I seriously couldn't take any romance arc seriously in this game.

The first one, the Hero of Ferelden, The second, the Champion of Kirkwall The third, the Inquisitor Itself The fourth... I'll team up with Solas...

for me in daOrigins the hair raising part was Hespith reciting the poem in the darkroads on how the darkspawn were created and the brood mother. that set the bar on the darkness this is like palworld does dragon age

To me DA:I was already way less dark fantasy than the other two even though it had some hard hitting moments. DA2 was really gritty and had some pretty dark themes whereas DA:I had way more happy and silly moments. But this? This looks straight up like a Valorant fantasy trailer... Of course, the darkest of all is still DA:O. About what they did to the darkspawn, they started shifting in that direction since DA2 and every game since then they look more and more goofy. In DA:O they looked terrifying, now they're just weird skeletons. And yeah, not a single companion seems appealing.

Game looks like fortnite and overwatch in terms of art style that looks like crap.

This... "visual style" is less Disney/Pixar than it is Japanese MMORPG/Fortnite/Overwatch - Right down to cartoon Physics (just look how high that Qunari jumps to beat on the dragon! FFS!!!). I really dislike that. Rather a lot. On top of that they appear to be recycling the premise from Inquisition, right down to a lot of the plot beats. (or Beat-Offs). If the actual gameplay is ANYTHING like this trailer... I will not buy it. Clearly, they took ALL the wrong lessons from Larian and Baldur's Gate 3 and then compounded that by drawing on popular MMPORGS. This appears to be aimed squarely at older children and early teenagers. And it explains why EA and Bioware fired their DA Creator/Writer.

I'd honestly rather romance the triangle bookbag than any of these characters smh.

It really seems like letting go of the original story team is now showing its consequences. This reminds me and echoes Rings of Power. All the dragon age window dressing, but has no semblance to the source material. If this doesn’t pan out in other trailers to be more in line with the other games, I’ll consider the series over at inquisition.

The nostalgia doesn't even triggered when I saw the trailer. This feels like Liveservice game like Fortnite. This is not the Dark Fantasy bloody Dragon Age I used to know. This is a ripoff.

This makes me think of if Fable and Boarderlands merged

This game looks like it was developed by the same poison that drove Saints Row into the ground, with DEI plastered all over it. FFS. I'm so sick of this. We can't have anything anymore.

The characters all feel like rehashes of old ones, they're as dull as the art style. Like why did they make Davrin a Warden when the ancient elves are right there? Fans were hoping for Abelas as a companion after Trespasser, and we had the perfect set-up for an ancient elf companion, but no, another Warden. Neve looks like Vivienne, Bellara is just a dalish Sera, Emmrich is an old Dorian, and Taash is Iron Bull 2.0. So boring.

Was waiting for Varric to yell, “I see friggin dragons and I’m talking to a crossbow!”

isn't the inquisitor supposed to be the leader, even as a cameo? jesus

This is already up there with the last Saints Row. The fan base wanted one thing and the company served up something only they wanted. The game should like Dragon Dogma's 2 or BG3.

You show me that trailer without any text and l would have never been able to tell it's supposed to be Dragon age. It looks complete trash. The fact it was approved in the first place is mind-boggling.

Also, something else people aren’t mentioning at all is the primary color choice…. Bright Purple? Why Bright Purple? Every DA game has a primary color scheme. DA:O and 2 both used Blood Red, to convey the dark, gritty, fantasy style. DA:I changed it to Green to convey the Fade and the breach. But in this one? Why Bright Purple? The only thing I can think of while watching this is it’s meant to convey “representation” to be more specific “Non-Binary” is what I see when I see that color. But as a long time fan, of everything BioWare, sad to say, I am siding with Solas on this game. BioWare is dead.

The Trailer felt like a Disney princess movie

The gameplay better be stellar after this shit. I consider DAI female choices for romance to be bad, imagine what I think about what we got from this crap...

Seems like they're going the same path the developers of the Saints Row reboot did, which failed miserably.

This is the 3rd reaction I've watched regarding this trailer, and rather than sighing sadly, I laughed out loud multiple times. Fucking hilarious man. Still sad, but at least I'm smiling.

The fucking title cards lol

Disney and Pixars' so-called art styles suck ass.

Dragon age Origins used to be this dark fantasy, remember when a boy was possessed by a demon and you had to make a choice if the mother will be use as blood sacrifice? or in dragon age 2 where Hawk's mother head was sawed to a body and it became like a Frankintiens? now we have Dragon Age : Gen Z Queer Edition.

The veil jumper part is a great point. Going physically into the veil requires lots of power and resources in DA lore? I am not well versed in it anymore, but there was a reason why Corypheus as a powerful Tevinter mage with his colleagues were like the ONLY ones to do it? Like, what the fuck are we talking about here? Oh, right. Strong diverse female character can do it all. Sorry but this DA looks like a woke/DEI nightmare, judging by the art style, tone and other characters also. Like the black elf and the female Qunari (even though the race name is not Qunari, it's their religion). This was not made for the fans, from what I can tell. This looks like another game for "modern audiences". I'll wait for the gameplay and the inevitable shit storm that will follow and how some dev / community manager starts attacking the fans.

The DEI is strong with this one.

btw so true!! I don't want to romance anyone either (female here). Lucanis looks like hes balding and in his 40s, not my cup'o tee

The Veil Jumper was where I think I hard checked out - Like all she needs is the sound of one of those Yipees they give the bugs from Lethal Company. You're not wrong about no one being romanceable either - I was watching and was swiping them off the list. Nope, nope, pass.

Apparently Hans Zimmer is scoring this game. You’d think they’d wanna show that off in the trailer instead of the tired choral cover of well known pop song trope.

The more I look at this trailer the more it makes me think of Shrek, the feeling is the same it feels more like a comedy than a dragon age game.

I didn't realize that was Varric until he spoke. I thought it was his kid or something. Again, what do people expect when they chased all the actual talent out of BioWare and let the Sims 4 crew take over? No wonder it looks like Overwatch. Winter Burrow was the most interesting thing I think I saw out of Xbox's showcase yesterday, well maybe State of Decay 3. Jury is still out on that one.

BioWare or EA doesn't care about day one fans.. it's definitely not for those eho played Dragon Age Origins back in 2009. If it'll look like THIS I am done. I am not a kid, if I want to play Fortnite I would play it... It's not Dragon Age anymore.

Come to think of it, have we ever had any "black" Elves in Dragon Age? Always felt they were far more homogenous and only humans really came in all the variety. So that DALISH warden fella gought me off guard for sure. Also, why isn't Varrick blond? Even with old age it should be like grey hair, not black. And what's with the music? And wtf is with this story, like a team of plucky go getters and DEI miscreants going up against gods and empires? What I loved about DA:I is that you still had an army doing most of the grunt work in the background. Made it feel more real, and even in DA:O you were gathering an army since you couldn't fight Loghane and Darkspawn on your own.

Now go back and compare to Dragon Age Sacred Ashes DLC trailer. You’ll understand why fans are angry.

11:45 lore has priority . if the game is not acurate to the lore . you might as well make a salad , because thats what you get when you dont stick to the lore , you get ugly disgusting mix that no one likes

dragon for modern age.

Dragon Age: Brought to you by raid shadow legends.

I get what they were trying to go for, showcasing the crew you pick up, but the tone is completely off from what it should be. As a comparison look at the mass effect 2 trailers for the characters, now that is a dark and gritty feel. standalone trailer was great, no issues, but not for this franchise.

The first time I travelled to Skyhold in inquisition, it was one of the most immersive scenes I have ever experienced in a game. This new DA looks like the artists from Civ did the artwork...hopefully the gameplay will be like the DA's of old.

I refuse to consider this horrible trailer to be Dragon Age. Unfortunately, I can’t be that surprised. Dragon Age is a dark series that deals with heavy topics. It’s emotional and dark, and the characters are flawed and morally questionable. Even a good decision can lead to horrid consequences. The scenes in DAO with the Deep Roads terrified me like a horror game would, and it was fantastic. That’s what made the romances so special. In all that darkness, it was like a pinpoint of joy and it made me feel things. The characters felt real and complex. Unfortunately, that’s exactly why it was changed. Big companies won’t bankroll dark or depressing things anymore out of fear of offending someone. Gaming is in a sad place right now. It used to be art, but now everything is so sanitized. This trailer has no heart, and no emotion. It’s being entirely marketed on getting to romance quirky characters. That’s not what Dragon Age is meant to be. I want to be scared in the Deep Roads again, then cry my eyes out when my romance of choice goes south. There’s plenty of humor in the series, but the tone is meant to be grim. Seeing this broke my heart.

The trailer has 144k dislikes. THE NECROMANCER LOOKS LIKE THE KING FROM WISH!!!!

I said they Saint's Row'd it.

I'm so glad I wasn't the only one who instantly thought of Wish. I think the reason why all the characters seem short is that they have those cartoonishly large heads/faces, so all the proportions look out of whack against the more realistic settings and animals like the dragons. Totally agree with you on all points, except slight disagreement on the romances being player sexual - it's just so much better for players to have more options. I get what you're saying - it feels nice when your love interest is legitimately into the gender of your character, because it feels like the character is a real person and might actually choose your avatar, not just because they "have to." But that feeling also comes from approval/like systems, and the good feeling isn't worth the horrible feeling of having to play as something you don't identify as just to be able to experience the romance of the character you like. On the subject of the love interests, yeah, a lot of the companions aren't really doing it for me. Davrin is the hottest and I'm just glad that I'm into dudes and have him as an option bc I agree with you on the girl options. Harding is a dwarf, the qunari is ugly, the veil jumper looks like she's going to be an annoyingly upbeat, "zomg so quirky" Sera-type character, and the detective looks like she's gonna be a shady-ass ice queen type with a chip on her shoulder. It's great that there's a lot of options here for people that like various things but I don't get why games don't just make it a rule to include ONE basic sexy fan service lady for the folks of more traditional tastes. I bet you if the qunari lady had softer features, eyeliner, and her tits out, we'd be seeing the internet blow up right now like when Resident Evil revealed Lady D. All I ask for in return is an equally sexy slutty dude as one of the male love interests.

Tomorrow I’ll look at the gameplay, whether I want to buy the game or not, but with a high degree of probability, most likely not, I won’t even accept it for free. Regarding the characters - I have no words here. How did they come to this 10 years later?!!!

I remember Morrigan in DaO. I'd trade 5 of the companions in this new game for an updated version of her instead.

I agree 100% with every character being romanced regardless of gender is lame, It makes them feel not truly alive as characters. People in real life have different sexuality's, different people are straight,gay,bi etc. Baldur's gate 3 had this problem aswell, so did Dragon age 2, characters like isabela being romancable for both genders makes sense because she's slept with men and women, but Some of the other characters don't make sense. like anders, you would think by his personality in awakening that he'd be a charming ladies man, then in 2 he has the hots for you even if you're a dude. I actually would have liked an aveline romance in da 2. It could have had a interesting story of aveline learning to love again with you replacing Donnic if you engaged in the flirting. Kind of like Isabela's but more "pure" I normally go fenris with female hawke, and Merrill with male hawke.

BioWare: “let’s turn the veil jumper into phoebe. Everyone loves phoebe, right?”

They've already confirmed all companions are romanceable regardless of gender lol

I'm so glad I'm not alone with the whole not wanting to romance any of the available options from what we see in this trailer. Absolutely none of them catch my interest, I didn't feel particularly intrigued to learn more about them. I think the devs already heavily implied we'll be able to romance any of the options regardless of player gender. If I buy this game, I'm totally gonna play as a mage and attempt to romance the mage killer for laughs. The way you said "I'm not dating the griffin" has me rolling. I didn't even realize it would be a romance option and I'm dying inside.

Very sad day for Dragon Age fans. I didn't go into it with much hope, but what we saw was worse than I could have imagined.

My bet is that we have a serious WOKE contamination here judging from the sheer ugliness and shallow character imaging. And not surprisingly, everything WOKE touches, just dies. How long should we gamers suffer from this kind of WOKE charade?

What are you meant to feel with this trailer? It's by the book corporate AAA slop. Pop music, flashy name cards, zany and quirky characters that act aloof during stressful situations, a narrator that talks about nothing and an art style filled with saturated colours. This isn't Dragon Age, it's a mix of Borderlands, Fortnite and Guardians of the Galaxy.

8:09 - I definitely think she's the worst example. She literally looks like a character from "Encanto" or something.

When I watched the trailer Its reminded me fragment of the movie Godfather when Don Corleone said "Look How They Massacred My Boy" . It just sad what they did to this game...

I think it's confirmed that all companions are romancable. They also said that the story is about groups, not individuals... I guess they thought that if you add up seven ugly people together, you might get one attractive group person out of it 🤣

I hope one of our advisors has a romance if we have advisors. And hope there are more options then our companions

Gryphon was also supposed to be extinct, what lore world breaking supposed happened here?

Make someone watch this trailer and ask them what the game is. 100% will not think its dragon age.

I gave your video a thumbs up when you said you didn't want to romance anyone in this game. 😅 That's exactly my feeling. None of these characters seem interesting, none seem to have depth, none seem like they could be taken seriously. It's just the trailer and maybe the game will be different. I really hope so ! The characters will perhaps (surely) be more substantial than that. But I've looked at all them and my first thought was that there aren't any that I would want to recruit. And no, even as a 40-years-old woman, I don't want to romance Lucanis. Too much Blackwall vibes in this dude. 🤢 (Neeve seems pretty cool though. Maybe the least failed of the bunch.)

Glad you were so honest about the romances.

They just could have used the Menu Music from DA Origins and this would have looked better already kind of but wow yeah Hipster Squad Fortniteguard

Dragon Age: Valornite.

Dragon Age: Andromeda 2.0 Electric Boogaloo

I completely share the disappointment with cartoonish characters and lack of darkness in game style. Also I was REALLY disappointed how they changed Varric. As far as I remember, he’s BLOND, and he didn’t have a beard for ideological reason: he despised dwarven rules and politics, so he wanted to separate from them as mush as possible. Correct me if I’m wrong, but he’s literally the only dwarf who shaved his beard off.

and this, my dear friends, is what it looks like when a developer studio shuts itself down... I don't think Bioware will survive this dilemma

A child’s game lmao 🤣 That art style is hilarious 😆

Waaaaaait we arent the Inquisitor in this?! So im not going to get my closure facing off with egg head Zaddy? 😢😢😢

Dude, you had me rolling with 'looks like my uncle' lol. Glad I'm not the only one who doesn't find any of them appealing as romance options.

The Inquisitor had the anchor to which could close tears in the veil. I feel nothing for this game been waiting since I was twelve played all three games and the expansion for them and this game makes me feel nothing for it

"she looks like my uncle with horns"😂

only good thing in this trailer was that I wasn't the only one who disliked it.

Inquisition was already a high fantasy with dark fantasy elements, but still was a good game Now it feels like new DA is made by to much of softies who panic when they get a little bloody scratch

personally i'm really worried when i first saw the trailer i thought of overwatch and overwatch and dragon age should never be in the same thought in inquisition people looked real now there cartoons i'm really scared for this game and the new mass effect

World ending event but every body is having fun and smiling. Specially the Veil Jumper for sure that character will be annoying in-game.

Yeah, the name change opens them up to Dragon Age: The Failguard. Which based on the trailer seems to be appropriate. I do like that Harding will be a companion but when you see her at the start of the video she looks like 20 years older than at the end of the video though she looks really cute at the end. Weird trailer all in all. And I bet the Qu'nari lady might not be a lady or man but something in between.

THIS is utter garbage are you for real Bioware? Completely throwing us day one fans who are with you since 2009 in the trash can.. CRYING I am and always will stay with my opinion NOT to change something that WORKED into something else ENTIERLY. It would be alright IF this wouldn't be a "Dragon Age" game... I am despertly hoping the game won't look like the fever dreeam of trailer.

Words can not describe how much I HATED this trailer. I’ve never went from smiling to frowning so quickly as this trailer went on.

Yeah I’m late but you said everything I was thinking. Huge departures. Cant sell the story.. we already did veil stuff in DAI. Can’t sell the romance(I agree with your takes there as a guy) .. even in DAI it was bad. Also the tone is all wrong. Yeah sure it’s a trailer. Okay, you can’t do a trailer?! What about the game.. I’ve accepted the death of the franchise a few years after origins but at this point I don’t wanna them touching ME either.

That's a Sweet Baby stinker. And you can sense it from miles away.

proof it's Disney guys 6:16 that look is THE Nala look from Lion King

Hahaha! "..so we're almost done with the game, are you gonna romance any of us..?" "Naw, I'm good.." 😂 I agree with you 💯

Bruh same just same. I don't wanna romance any of these characters I am even considering romance with Lucanis and I am straight lmao

going off this, I’m not gonna see the dark Tevinter I dreamed of seeing when I was a kid playing origins, also they butchered the dark spawn. I thought dragon age 2’s dark spawn where bad compared to the original but damn..

Even if (if!) this trailer is just to introduce the companions (as I've read in so many comments already), it makes me wonder why they had to introduce the companions in this Marvel/Overwatch/Disney/whatever way. The tone is fundamentally wrong and the characters could have been presented in a darker setting, simply because the DA setting is dark. That alone is the reason why I don't expect any improvement in the gameplay trailer and... yeah... my expectations for the new Dragon Age were low after Inquisition but... holy crap.

God I hope the gameplay saves it on Tuesday, this trailer was not it! Its interesting to see how people think about the gender of your character and the available partners, I loved that in Baldurs Gate 3 you could romance anyone regardless of gender, but they did such a good job with those characters and how they handled the romance and stories.

From: First day, they come and catch everyone. Second day, they beat us and eat some for meat. Third day, the men are all gnawed on again. Fourth day, we wait and fear for our fate. Fifth day, they return and it's another girl's turn. Sixth day, her screams we hear in our dreams. Seventh day, she grew as in her mouth they spew. Eighth day, we hated as she is violated. Ninth day, she grins and devours her kin. Now she does feast, as she's become the beast. Now you lay and wait, for their screams will haunt you in your dreams. To: this shit 5:31

Feels more like Fortnite x Borderlands than it does a serious dark high fantasy game. My god have this and AC Shadows nuked a lot of peoples excitement in open world RPGs in the past month or so.

Why do I feel like the qunari is gonna be non binary

TBH, I've already missed romancing anyone in Inquisition. Didn't like anybody back then, so nothing new for me :D

5:45 what about darkspawn ? *shows black elf guy* lol

The compagnions in Inquisition were atrocious tbf. I had to give the game to my gf bc I couldn't deal with all the whiny, horny and quirky feel they had.

some games tried to be souls like and dark but did not reach their expected Sales. So they would turn the flavors into all-time selling Disney and a consistent players count like Fortnite. Theyve been through a lot of taking risks.