Dragon Age: The Veilguard (October 31, 2024)

[Primetime]

I forgot to double back in the Discord once I finished it, but the game gets better further in. You can tell the early hours of the game are definitely what got reworked the most, since that's where some of the worst dialogue is. You could definitely play a dangerous ass drinking game based off of how lazily they throw around the phrase "Elgarnan and Ghilinain" though.

The story beats and set pieces in the mid to late game are definitely good, though. You can tell that, for better or worse, this was made by people who think Mass Effect 2 is Bioware's best game, and tried their best to make a Dragon Age version of that. Solid 7/10. Fun, not something I'd call great, but definitely not a piece of shyt.

To me they half assed the story and treated the companion quests with kid gloves. I’m all for picking a definitive canon route from past games for simplicity’s sake, but go in on it and surprise us with the decisions you went with.

Part of me feels we should’ve just resumed the role of Inquisitior and recruited/brought back the old gang on some Expendables ish, if the story was to be so intricately tied to DA:I.

As is, there was no weight to Rook as an MC, nor his Disney’fied companions.

 

[Rell84shots]

To me they half assed the story and treated the companion quests with kid gloves. I’m all for picking a definitive canon route from past games for simplicity’s sake, but go in on it and surprise us with the decisions you went with.

Part of me feels we should’ve just resumed the role of Inquisitior and recruited/brought back the old gang on some Expendables ish, if the story was to be so intricately tied to DA:I.

As is, there was no weight to Rook as an MC, nor his Disney’fied companions.

What me & Neve did was far from disney'fied

 

[Primetime]

What me & Neve did was far from disney'fied

My ish with whatsherface (Bianca?) was basically a kiss and fade to black

Then we wake up under the covers like “well wasn’t that worth all them shytty teenage dialogue tree options and companion quests? ”

 

[TheNatureBoy]

Went ahead and scooped it up last night

 

[Sonny Bonds]

Yall think this game is worse than DA2?

Yes. The writing of DA2 was great. To save the franchise, they should remake Origins and DA2.

 

[Fillerguy]

Yes. The writing of DA2 was great. To Dave the franchise, they should remake Origins and DA2.

I feel like I'm in hell. These are the same arguments people made my DAI when they dropped

 

[Sonny Bonds]

I feel like I'm in hell. These are the same arguments people made my DAI when they dropped

Did you not like DAI either?

I think the first 3 games in the series are great…with some issues, but they have fantastic writing. DA2 was well written, but rushed. They reused too many environments.

I enjoyed DAI’s combat, but most didn’t. And the open world side quests were dry as hell.