Gaming Dragon Age: The Veilguard

I'm enjoying it so far. As someone that tends to be remarkably dull and 'nice' in these games, the dialogue choices have been fine, if as above vanilla.

It looks gorgeous and the gameplay is pretty fun, certainly a welcome change after Shadow of the Erdtree.

Reminds me a touch of Fable, vibes wise.

Its not amazing, but not bad by any means.
 
About 10 hours in this weekend and I’ve enjoyed it so far. I was pretty hesitant after watching the Skill up review but glad I’ve tried it myself after being a fan of inquisition. Anyway we shall, see as it does feel like a massive game and I’ve struggled to finish games like this in recent years.
 
The writing team on this must be those knocked back from being on the WOT and ROP adaptation groups.

To be fair I think a lot of the problems come the direction Bioware have set, they had a number of clearly, canonically established factions, all with nuance and contradicting belief systems that created some fairly interesting conflicts, for a game. They have basically taken much of that away, and turned that into a super generic fantasy setting with a very basic narrative.

Still having reasonable fun with the gameplay elements but this story is such a waste of previous set up. Safe to a point of pointlessness.
 
I'm still enjoying it. Looks absolutely fantastic and runs very well, never dips below 100 FPS for me even with everything maxed out. I also like the much-maligned artstyle but I'm a sucker for bright colourful high fantasy. Origins wasn't like that, yeah, but... so what?

Combat is just God of War. It's a copy. I enjoy it more than in GoW though because my character doesn't cover half the fecking screen.

The dialogue and the plot are pretty bland though. So far it failed to make me really care about any of the characters, except Solas.
 
Iron Stove said:
True and it's not necessarily bad at all, if done right. But when it feels forced it's not great. Either way, I've played the game for 12 hours and the whole thing feels like such a non-issue internet drama thing that people work themselves up over.

I'm definitely having more fun with it than I expected. I was never expecting CDPR /old Bioware writing, so was kind of positively surprised by this game. I'm enjoying this more than Andromeda for sure. I definitely agree that they must have been looking at God of War quite a bit regarding combat, exploration and puzzles. Even the chest animations are the same.

Graphics look stunning on PC and runs really well for me. No Denuvo, no fecking EA app, no traversal stutter. Really impressive release in that sense.

It''s probably not a masterpiece but has some of that Bioware flavor, just a tame version of it with no one being particularly mean and everyone's looking a bit like characters from Shrek.
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I heard that Hogwarts legacy is more of a comparison than a Dragon Age game
afrocentricity said:
When you guys say that DA isn't dark enough for you, what do you mean?
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Maybe they feel it doesn't feel them with depression and a sense of hopelessness
Beachryan said:
I'm enjoying it so far. As someone that tends to be remarkably dull and 'nice' in these games, the dialogue choices have been fine, if as above vanilla.

It looks gorgeous and the gameplay is pretty fun, certainly a welcome change after Shadow of the Erdtree.

Reminds me a touch of Fable, vibes wise.

Its not amazing, but not bad by any means.
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I was thinking Fable when I watched streams and I liked the original Fable. It is probably a pretty decent game just maybe not the best Dragon Age game. If it did not have the Dragon Age label it might be received better
 
I like it. The story started off very disjointed, a lot of early quests felt like they were written under two or three different story directors and didn't make much sense, but as the game progressed it has gotten pretty good. A handful of nice tie ins with previous games, expansion of world building and lore, and some interesting items popping up. It definitely picked up substantially in the later half of the game. Some of the best quests are side quests that on the surface look like fetch quests though - which is mad as they should be crucial to the story.

Some characters are interesting and have interesting quests, and some need a lot of work. The most controversial character is just badly written.

The combat system is simple compared to say Origins, but there's enough to sink your teeth into to not get bored with it. Equipment doesn't really make much sense, but that too got better once the caretaker's shop was improved.
 
I have not even started yet I have been so busy glad glancing through this casually people seem to be enjoying. Maybe I will at least get to creating my character tonight.
 
Been playing it and its fun so far, but a little easy.... I've upped the difficulty
 
afrocentricity said:
Been playing it and its fun so far, but a little easy.... I've upped the difficulty
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What difficulty have you gone to? I'm playing on normal, about 30 hours in and it's not been particularly hard outside of a couple of boss fights I've been underleveled for.
 
TrustInJanuzaj said:
What difficulty have you gone to? I'm playing on normal, about 30 hours in and it's not been particularly hard outside of a couple of boss fights I've been underleveled for.
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The next one up for now, but can't lie it still seems easy
 
This game is great fun wtf are people moaning about? So what if the dialog is not TLoU tier? Just have fun ffs...
 
I cant figure out what playstyle I like with my mage yet. But so far I am having fun.
 
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