Dragon Age™: The Veilguard

Это позор товарищи... Так меня не разочаровывала даже двойка. Единственный плюс, который я могу выделить - это исследование локаций. После бесконечных пустых просторов Инквизиции и бесконечно повторяющихся локаций второй части, здесь было хорошо - срезки открываются, сундучки лежат, враги выпрыгивают на арены как положено. А уж исследовать Перекрёсток - это вообще дело приятное. На этом плюсы закончились. Остались только минусы. С чего у меня сгорело особенно - так это "расширение" лора мира. Из какой-то дырки выпрыгивают два супер-злодея, которые виновны вообще во всех грехах, которые были: и скверну они создали (не без помощи Соласа, конечно), и Драконам-Богам Тевинтера мозги прополоскали, и Магистров Тивинтера обманули, и Андресте в уши нашептали, и эльфов в рабстве держали, и в штаны автором сценария наложили. Какие были надежды после дополнений Инквизиции: исследование тейгов и Титанов, как было в Нисхождении, - забейте, одна сюжетка Хардинг, из которой мы узнаем ровно ничего по этой теме; исследование природы Тени и духов, с которыми живут в мире, как в Челюстях Гаккона, - забейте, об этом даже не вспомнит никто; противостояние эванурису-Соласу, который и на кулаках сильнее всех и в хитрости превосходит, как было в Чужаке, - забейте, Солас будет сидеть всю игру в Тени, а в конце жидко попукает и будет побеждён/убеждён. Красный лириум, который появился ещё во второй и во всю был проблемой в третьей части? Да всё, нет уже вашего лириума, плевать вообще. Кунари, которые из игры в игру увеличивали свою значимость? Ну было и было, просто какие-то шизы побегают по пляжу и достаточно нам. А уж если собрать какие-то финтифлюхи и получить сцену после титров, так вообще окажется, что всё события всех частей были хитро спланированы очень хитрыми злодеями из-за океана, то есть обесценены все поступки и выборы персонажей, которые были прописаны лучше, чем что угодно в этой игре. Сюжет высосан не просто из пальца, а из того органа, который в тексте не упоминается. Если мотивация Соласа, как антагониста, была понятна ещё в Инквизиции, то мотивация этих противников - это просто "мы злое зло, которое хочет делать злые злодейства, потому что мы злые". Даже Корифей имел мотивацию и действия, соразмерные своим возможностям, не говоря уж про Меридит или Логейна, а эти позорные куски - не более, чем шутка. Панч с тем, что два буквальных бога потратили кучу сил, чтобы создать свою копию лириумного кинжала, а команда главного героя, которая всю игру жидко проигрывала, сделала его тупо за кадром (не такой мощности, но разрезать ловушку, сдерживающую двух богов, хватило) - это гениальных сценарный ход. В Инквизиции против злодея, который и чиха богов не выдержал бы, мы собирали армию, объединяли страны. Здесь против двух богов мы собираем 6 фракций, которые со своими проблемами справиться не могут без нашей помощи, но вот против богов, конечно же, выступят единым фронтом и победят. Масштаб угрозы стал беспрецедентным, масштаб наших действий даже сопоставим со второй частью, где у нас был один город. Что же вся сила, которую мы собирали в прошлой части? Даже если Инквизиция не распущена, она где-то там далеко занимается чем-то там своим делом, ведь "юг тоже нужно защищать". Про перенос сохранений можно даже не заикаться. Как приятно было в Инквизиции обнаружить последствия своих действий из первой части игры, так же и абсолютно плевать на перенесённые выборы здесь. Их, кстати, 3 штуки. Из которых важный один - был ли у Инквизитора роман с Соласом. На помойку всё остальное, потому что кому какое дело. Персонажи стали настолько скучными, что ими можно Мёртвое море опреснить. Единственный, кто хоть что-то делает, так это Варрик, который сначала стал никаким, потом оказался галлюцинацией, навеянной Соласом (которую не раскусили просто потому, что герои тупее героев "Бойцовского клуба"), потом призраком (потому что гномы знамениты тем, что их души не уходят в Камень, а скитаются по Тени для помощи своим бро). Остальные просто бесхребетные и бесхарактерные куски картона, на которых даже текст тратить жалко. Геймплей настолько взрывной, что после применения способностей за спецэффектами не видно врагов, потому что "ярко" - равно "круто". Этот кусок кода не выдерживает сравнение ни со второй часть (как бы я её не любил), ни с Инквизицией, ни уж тем более с первой. Не тратьте свои деньги и время.

While it's not like the previous entries of the series, I personally don't understand the hate. I've enjoyed this and it's definitely worth picking up on sale.

Basura woke, me asegure de pasarmelo para hablar con conocimiento de causa. Me encantaba esta saga, pero lo de este juego es infumable, lo unico bueno que tiene es el sistema de combate. y no tiene nada que ver con los antiguos, asique aun asi no se que cojones pinta este sistema de combate en un rpg por turnos de toda la vida. El resto una puta mierda menos los graficos, eso si. Yo pagaria el juego otra vez para que lo borren y desintegren la compañia. A ver si alguien coge esta maravillosa saga y crea un juego sin politizarlo y siendo fiel al la saga. Hasta entonces prefiero seguir pasandome el origins 50 veces antes que esta bazofia.

Honestly i had a huge essay written for this detailing everything i ended up not liking about the game, but ill just condense it down to the fact that the entire game feels like it was made by a team of HR reps and i couldn't even bring myself to finish it. It's sterile, bland and boring.

В игре есть только 2 плюса: анимация волос и пейзажи. Всё. Остальное плохо всё, но хуже всего - сюжет и диалоги. Если вы фанат прошлых игр Dragon Age - даже не смотрите на нее. Даже на ютубе. Лор прошлых частей тут - идет на..хер!! Переворачивается на 360 и превращается в радужную сказку в стиле Пиксар. Боевка - ниже среднего. Лучше, чем в Dungeons&Dragons: Dark Alliance, но гараздо хуже чем в God of War. Остальное даже описывать не хочется. Последнее, что хочу сказать: я был с Инквизицией слишком суров....

Если коротко. Хорошая ли это игра? Вполне. Хороший ли это Dragon Age? Точно нет. Купил по скидке и потраченного времени не пожалел. А вот всю серию пожалел.

This game doesn't suck because it's "woke". It sucks because the voice acting , story and design left me so disappointed that I just played DA2 instead.

Dragon Age Veilguard is a third person action RPG where player character Rook must assemble a team of heroes to stop a pair of Elven gods from destroying the world. Dragon Age Origins is my second favourite game of all time (after Witcher 3), however I thought DA2 and Inquisition were disappointing in various ways. I also replayed Inquisition recently to prepare for Veilguard. [h1]Gameplay (medium quality)[/h1] • Character creator is incredibly detailed, and I think I spent about an hour adjusting all the sliders to get my Rook looking just right. • Combat is entertaining and I enjoyed it for most of my playthrough. However, its not really what I wanted from a party based RPG. It doesn’t feel tactical at all for various reasons, and is much more action focused. • Playing as a mage, the combat felt like a third person shooter, and actually very similar to Mass Effect. Enemies have the same colour coded health bars – red for health, yellow for armour, blue for barrier, while spells/abilities for Rook and companions are selected from an ability wheel which pauses the action. Your companions don’t have their own health bars so they can’t get knocked out, which feels more like an action RPG. • Spells cost mana instead of having individual cooldowns. Most spells cost 100 mana and you start with 100 maximum mana, which meant that even though Rook can have 3 spells equipped, I could only use 1 spell at a time. Rook also has a laser beam attack and a defensive shield, which both cost mana, so using them prevents spellcasting until mana regenerates. Eventually, through the skill tree and equipped gear bonuses, I did manage to get up to 250 mana, allowing me to use spells more frequently, but it took a long time to get there. • Similarly, companions also have 3 abilities equipped, but using 1 puts them all on cooldown, which extremely simplifies the tactics. • There’s no sense of tactical positioning at all. DAO was very tactical, as I would try to use melee specialists to keep enemies away from mages/archers. Unfortunately, Bioware abandoned that style of combat starting from DA2. I felt like most of the time, every enemy in a fight would exclusively focus on attacking me, even when I ordered companions to target a specific enemy. Again, I was the party’s mage, and I couldn’t stand still for more than a couple of seconds because I’d have multiple melee enemies in my face, and multiple ranged enemies spamming projectiles at me, causing me to have to constantly dodge all over the place while wondering if my companions were doing anything at all. • I wouldn’t say the combat was too hard (playing on adventurer/medium difficulty), just quite stressful. I only died a few times, mostly while attempting to fight side quest bosses who were clearly labelled as a few levels higher than me, and were more easily defeated when I returned at the appropriate level. • Veilguard’s combat is more enjoyable than Inquisition’s though, as the enemies are much less spongy and usually die quicker. • Outside of combat there’s a good amount of exploring to do. At first, some levels feel like linear corridors, however a few maps that you’ll return to regularly will gradually open up into much larger areas with puzzles to solve and loot chests to find. Puzzles are often simple but fun, involving using crystals or wisps to create bridges, open doors or disable forcefields. • I like that collecting duplicate weapons, armour and other items upgrades them with better stats and passive bonuses. This is better than other RPG loot systems where you find loads of useless trash. However, its a shame that most loot can only be equipped on Rook, with each companion having their own unique gear. So many legendary/unique items were left gathering dust in my inventory. [h1]Story (medium quality)[/h1] • Story is mostly well written and features several interesting companion characters and a couple of familiar faces from previous games. I liked my version of Rook based on my dialogue choices. • Main quests are often exciting and the final chapters felt like we were leading an epic scale final battle, including a Mass Effect 2 style suicide mission where your companions could die if you make the wrong choices. • However, the major negative in the story is that the villains just weren’t very interesting to me. I was expecting Solas to be the main villain (I think for most of its development this game was going to be called Dread Wolf), which would have been very interesting as one of our companions from Inquisition. And while I was ultimately satisfied with his ending, I think it was a mistake to sideline him for most of the game in favour of two new villains who got very little screen time to make me care about them. (Just like Corypheus was barely involved in DAI). Its not enough to just tell me that these two gods are evil (which other characters will do, repeatedly, in so many conversations), I have to actually see it to feel it. I’ll never forget how much I hated Loghain in Origins. • In addition to the main quest, each companion has their own multiple stage personal quest, and there are lots of side quests to help other factions and civilians. • There were always multiple new companion dialogues every time I returned to the team’s lighthouse base. • Voice acting is excellent. • Unfortunately the dialogue often feels just a bit too nice and jokey. You’re never allowed to actually disagree with a companion about anything. • During character creation you’ll select a background story for Rook. I wish they were unique playable prologues like in Origins. There were several times that other characters referred to the events of Rook’s background, but I didn’t know what to say because it all happened off screen. • I want my own pet griffon. [h1]Technical (medium quality)[/h1] • It took me 68 hours to complete the story and all side quests. • Performance was mostly smooth with minimal noticeable stuttering, most settings on high and DLSS quality in 1440p. • Environment graphics look fantastic, as your journey will take you through city streets, forests, stone ruins, underground caves and crypts, all of which can be covered in disgusting blight growths. • The game only crashed one time, so its extremely stable. • Controls are fully rebindable and work great with mouse and keyboard. • There’s a graphical bug where several small dots can be seen on a character’s hair, which I noticed in many scenes throughout the game. I believe this relates to how lighting sources interact with strand hair. I didn’t want to disable strand hair because when its not bugged (for example, darker scenes), it looks really good, especially the way long hair flows naturally over the top of armour without clipping. • I wish I could stop companions from constantly telling me during combat that enemies are “attacking from range” every few seconds. I can see the on screen indicator of incoming projectiles. Also, stop telling me to move out of the way when an enemy uses an AOE attack, because I can see the massive red danger indicator on the floor. This kind of design feels aimed at a 5 year old who is playing their first videogame. • Side quests repeatedly take you back to the same locations multiple times which can feel a bit repetitive, although its not as bad as that one cave from DA2. [h1]Recommendation[/h1] Dragon Age Veilguard is a good game, but its not really a great RPG. Its definitely worth playing as long as you can accept what it is. Origins is still by far the best Dragon Age game, but at least Veilguard is better than Inquisition and DA2. If Bioware ever make another Dragon Age, every member of the team should be forced to play Origins from start to finish to understand what made it great.

Ola galerinha! Bom, antes mesmo de eu pensar em comprar esse jogo, ja tinha visto varias criticas sobre. Muitos youtubers falando do jogo, "algo horrivel", "mal feito", porém ja adianto que minha avaliação para esse jogo é um 7,5. Não sou um grande fã da franquia, mas fico viajando demais nas historias que esses jogos tem. Eu amo Dragon age inquisition, todo aqules sistema de viagens na mesa me fascina, e eu estava maluco pra jogar esse. (Mas so pra me assegurar e não me arrepender, comprei ele na promoção, e ja digo logo pra vc que quer comprar, faça o mesmo). Poderia dizer que esse Dragon age, pode facilmente se tornar, na minha opinião, um spin-off da serie principal, porém sua historia impacta muito o mundo de Thedas. E falando da HISTORIA, não achei ela ruim e muitos menos tao boa. A historia principal algumas vezes eu sentia q se arrastava demais, principalmente no final. Os melhores picos de satisfação vinha nas guerras, e eu me arrepiava sem dó. O que me deixou EMPUTECIDO de raiva, foi o jeito q eles trataram a propria historia do meio pro final, onde o jogo simplesmente te diz: danesse que o mundo pode acabar, vá ajudar na historia de CADA UM de seus companheiros, e tipo WTF? Sera q o jogo sabe o que é esta acontecendo no seu proprio conto? Os COMPANHEIROS desse jogo, são de certa forma marcantes, porém a historia de quase todos é um tremendo tanto faz. Os dois mais marcantes sem duvidas são a Harding e o Davrin, em quesito historia, são bem impactantes pro mundo em si. E com certeza a que menos gostei foi a POLEMICA Taash, com seus genero neutro, e cai entre nos, eu facilmente trocaria ela por outro personagem (Iron Bull que eu diga). O genero neutro em si nao é tao chato, mas quanto os criadores envolvem sua personagem em APENAS ISSO, é sacanagem (ela não tem um fala legal nesse jogo e nem sua historia é legal). A GAMEPLAY deste video game é um dos pontos que eu disse la em cima em considerar isso um spin-off. Dragon age é um jogo tatico, e esse aqui foi pra longe disso. Isso nao torna a gameplay ruim, muito pelo contrario, ela é realmente boa, porem isso nao é a essencia de Dragon age. O SISTEMA DE ESCOLHAS desse jogo é a coisa que me fez odiar esse game de certa forma. Basicamente essa obra tem um sistema falso de escolhas, onde vc pensa que pode mudar o rumo da conversa, sendo bruto, legal ou algo mais como tirar onda. Qualquer escolhas de conversa (menos em partes que realmente o jogo quer que vc escolha de verdade, que acredite em mim, na historia PRINCIPAL, se tiver 5 foi muito), nao faz diferença nenhuma, o "Rook" (protagonista) vai dar basicamente a mesma responda ou perguntar a mesma coisa, so alterando algumas palavras, no geral, ele é o Prota muito bonzinho. Pra finalizar, o GENERO NEUTRO. Não me incomodei muito com isso, de verdade. Assisti o games edu, onde ele falava que so tacava genero na nossa cara, e bem, não é assim nao. São poucos personagens que usam isso, se me lembro bem so 2 coadjuvantes, e do nosso time apenas a Taash, ou vc mesmo como "Rook". Resumidamente, isso nao estraga sua experiencia (serio, tem coisas piores que podem passar isso), Dragon age sempre teve o lance de inclusao, e nesse jogo nao foi diferente, so fiquei triste pela Taash mesmo, onde ela se tornou um personagem so pra isso. No geral, eu me divertir com isso, nao é melhor q o inquisition, e se for comparar com o origins (q estou jogando agora), nao chega nem aos pes. Pode comprar esse jogo, ele vai te divertir, mas nao compre em PREÇO CHEIO, esse jogo nao vale isso, espera um promoção. Ah, e platina dele é super de boa, vc consegue em uma jogada.

NEGATIVES - Writing: All the dialogue is either bland, stupid, or cringey. There are (too frequent) attempts at humor, but I don't remember finding a single thing funny. - Characters: Each character is one-dimensional. The writers chose *one* trait for each character and repeated it endlessly. - Tone: The tone is bizarre. I'm not sure whether I'm supposed to take things seriously or not. The companions feel like caricatures, and their frequent "humorous" remarks undercut any serious moments. - Art: The cartoony art style makes it even harder to take things seriously - Personality: For the most part, your dialogue choices don't matter. You can be supportive, flippant, or serious, but everyone reacts the same no matter what you say. POSITIVES - Combat: This was the only thing that kept me playing. I played as a mage, and I thought that the combat was just the right mix of frantic button mashing and strategic planning. - Boss fights: These were the highlights of the game. Some of the bosses are a little spongey, but when your character gets to the highest levels the boss fights become more manageable. - Character quests: Unlike other Bioware games, where you pretty much have to do just one character-specific mission to earn their "loyalty", each character in Veilguard makes you go through about 6 missions to complete their story lines. It adds some stakes and some variety, forcing me to go on missions with characters that I ordinarily wouldn't. In all, it's an acceptable game. It just pales in comparison to other Bioware games. I would only recommend it to someone who just absolutely needed closure to Solas' story after Dragon Age Inquisition.