Dragon Age: The Veilguard - My Thoughts On The Gameplay Reveal & Trailer

Talking about the details of the recent gameplay reveal and trailer for the upcoming Dragon Age: The Veilguard, and sharing my thoughts on those details!

Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:59 Name Change & Trailer
02:12 Misc Info
02:38 Character Creation Details
04:22 Combat & Abilities
06:52 Companions
09:00 Exploration
09:58 Dialogue & Choices
10:49 Thoughts
14:08 Wrap Up
 

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#gaming #gamereviews #dragonage #theveilguard

[palchristianandersen]

Dragon Age. The series that keeps chugging along despite it having a new identity crisis with every release.

[pernicious]

I miss the 20-button ability bar of origins...

[fulvio]

In origin and in 2 we had how many abilities we wanted.
In inquisition they limited us to 8
Now in Veilguard they limit us to 3????

[BlueShirtRedVest]

My assumption is that they're aiming to make this the Dragon Age version of Mass Effect 2. Companions on a possible suicide mission.

[CuteyBear-rrnz]

Maybe I was wrong about DA2. It wasn't that bad.

[thefrozenpanda]

Eh, I'm clearly not the target audience for the direction they're wanting to take the series. I'm sure the game itself will be fine. I just prefer the more tactics focused gameplay, along with a more gritty tone/style.

[Tyanus]

Companions one shooting enemies in cinematics and then doing no damage in actual fights, with enemies only concentrating on you and waiting their turns 4:40, I don't know man..

[Gryffisnmore]

The dialogue wheel is actually the worst for me, I don't want to guess what my character is going to be saying.

[mnmn]

I'm just so sick and tired of almost every "old" franchise turning into the oversaturated action/hack'n'slash' type of gameplay.

[wesley]

I'm sure there's a romance aspect but I don't actually think I spotted a single character that at first glance makes me want to go down their path

[chuggaluggs]

I just want another Dragon Age: Origins, man.

[andyfaces]

It is more action than actually Dragon Age mhm.

A comment on another video nailed it perfectly; "We wanted to do another game but adapted it into Dragon Age".

[Sticklemako]

The darkspawn look stupid not scary.. like wtaf.. the demons look like a comic book rather than mutated and terrifying considering they are spirits affected by human behavior and emotions.

[fateyes]

Gameplay seems ok but whoever made that reveal trailer should be fired.

[RenanBarsaglini]

Thank God we got BG3 last year. The only game that matches DAO vibes

[MrNjSash]

Like some other commenters have mentioned I don’t think I’m the target audience for this game unfortunately. HUGE fan of Origins and the DA books. While I can enjoy hack and slash combat, I expect something more tactical that can provide a challenge from DA games. This cinematic reveal alone has me fairly worried about how this series has changed. This has gone from a day 1 preorder to a wait and see how bad it is before determining how deep of a sale I wait for. Also totally agree that the new name is way worse that Dreadwolf.

[robertthebard]

I don't get why they think they have to "reinvent the wheel" with every game. I'm not even talking about the new protagonist every time either. I'm fine with that, as it keeps the "Dragon Age is X character's game" to a minimum, even though there are those that sincerely believe that. There is a kind of pattern that I'm noticing though; every even number release is more action oriented that it's predecessor. With all the time they've had though, they could have found a happy medium between the three previous titles, and it's like they're not even trying.

[rae]

Remember when Dragon age was a Crpg. I do 😭

[Syaniiti]

Looks like Owlcat keeps getting my money while Bioware doesn't.

[FaolanHart]

I'm just worried about the writing & how EA will try to monetise this game.
The trailer was very Marvel movie.
Dragon Age has always had a sense of humour. But that was just goofy.

I haven't enjoyed the combat in this series since Origins. So that isn't a big surprise for me.

But man they had such a good story hook with Solas. don't eff it up Bioware. Please.