Avowed. Dragon Age: Veilguard. Trash? No. Disappointing? Yes.

RPG design expert critiques Dragon Age: Veilguard & Avowed, offering insights beyond “woke” debates and proposing solutions for industry-wide creative stagnation.
What is going on with art design in big games these days? Especially character/armor model design?

I cannot remember there ever being a bigger disconnect between: 1) What a large subset of mass market video game developers/art designers are shoveling down gamers’ throats. and: 2) What gamers are CLEARLY signaling they actually want through: F2P skin and cosmetic purchases popular looks in other forms of media (movies, tv, comics, etc) extremely […]