I do not recommend: 'Dragon Age: The Veilguard' (Review)

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Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a collosal disappointment. It apes the most superficial elements of a Bioware game, making no effort to modernize what is a now fairly dated formula, while delivering absolutely none of writing, characterization, rpg depth and imagination that made previous Bioware games so great.

Video written and voiced by Ralph P
Edited by Austin B.

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[snufftbunz]

"Every interaction sounds like HR is in the room" is maybe the most damning critique of this game any reviewer could have said lmao

[moonie]

DA1: sacrificing entire tribes of elves to demons just to get a little extra power.
DA4: can't call people an idiot.

[jinxtheunluckypony]

BG3: You wanna be evil? Let’s get EVIL!

Veilguard: Oh no! You hit the mean dialogue option by accident. We’ll fix that for you.

[Arcademan]

"who doesn't like dragons?!"
I thought seeing a dragon in Dragon Age was a sign of the apocalypse

[SystemBD]

During the dialogue scenes, I was half-expecting the characters to look at the camera and say "So, kids, what have we learned today?".

[roanwa]

Turning down the difficulty to just be done with the game sooner is a huge red flag.

[kevinoneil]

Dragon Age Origins: Your decisions can result in your teammates abandoning or even attacking you.
"Dragon Age" Veilgaurd: You are not allowed to hurt anyone's feewings.

[_vindicator_]

the shit i hated most was that the inquisitor keeps dming you the whole game with stuff like 'bro ur so lucky ur not here, redcliffe just got nuked' or 'man, we just lost whole orlais, down to my last mag' and i was like motherfker i wanna play that game!

[JoeTAC]

You remember when you had to pick between a pack of werewolves who are people who wronged an elf who decided to torment them forever and made them kill their own families and become a plague upon the forest, thereby corrupting the forest itself to obtain some form of immortality, and between elves who were mostly unaware of the whole thing, but were complicit in that they knew something was corrupting the forest but did nothing to help, rather slaughtering the werewolves, even when they were their own people?

Remember when you had to choose between killing a child possessed by a demon, or risk the life of a party member to try and save them? Where you had to choose whether to save the allegedly corrupt mages, or to side with the templars to avoid releasing abominations on the world?

You remember how doing the right thing was not always clear to you and that you had a much bigger threat to take into consideration in all of your decisions, because werewolves were immune to the blight, but elves weren't? Because having an army of immortal golems inhabited by dwarf spirits was much more useful than a legion of suicidal dwarves?

This game is disastrous. Worst part is, there's a part where the weirdo "qunari" says "The Qun says to take care of people" it absolutely does not. It says to remove the useless and the weak, to brainwash the dissident and that all must fulfill the role. How fanatically do Qunari believe this? A Qunari mage, treated worse than an animal, preferred to kill himself than betray the Qun.

I despise these people and what they've done to this franchise.

[jacobk]

OMG the dialogue literally sounds like it was written for 8yr olds. “What? Who doesn’t like dragons?” JAIL.

[BunkPhD]

Remember in Dragon Age 2, when you were hunting down a serial killer, who then violently killed your mother and brought her back as a disfigured zombie and made her attack you?

[elyonblah]

Two weeks in and we're starting to see major gaming outlets backtrack on their praise for The Veilguard. I am now a believer in the church of SkillUp.

[Dikku]

"Bioware games live and die by their writing, and Veilguard absolutely dies by it" is a cold bar, NGL

[asmodeusml]

The obsession of the script to not upset any fictional character is absurd.

[Kotka]

I'm sorry but seeing the IGN review ( 9/10 ) mentioning "sweeping character arcs, top notch cinematics & nuanced character writing" after watching the footage here feels like being gaslit.

[hamsterminator]

A servant Skeleton who squeaks like a baby and an actual baby Griffon? Ok i didn't realise this was a Disney movie but I'm extremely glad i watched this review and avoided this.

[racer]

“The Gods are standing right behind me aren’t they?” gotta be a line in this game from what I’m seeing..

[shortshins]

Bioware 2024 is NOT the same Bioware that created the original mass effect trilogy and kotor

[isthianlyon]

The art direction still looks like a mobile game commercial to me.

[Severin]

I'd really like Bioware to answer a single question:
"When did you start assuming that your audience is too dumb for a good game."