Dragon Age™: The Veilguard

Aaaa i dont really know how to say this other then as plainly as i can. I bought the game on discount, went in with an open mind as one can. Sure they scrambled the lore to make it work The whole LGBTQ thing is annoying mainly cause - sure add a non-binary character if you wish but at least make it good. Taash i wanted to punch in the face first 5 minutes after i had been forced to recruite her. She is simply a whiny selfinsert of someone who thinks the patriarchy is the biggest threat to the universe. The character is written poorly, Extremely poorly. Her entire personality is that she is a ♥♥♥♥♥ and they/them and then get pissy about everything else around her. Then u got the vegan necromancer. Like.. what? But if that wasnt realistic enough then u got the italian assassin who doesnt ever ♥♥♥♥♥♥ flirt himself but apparently my main character pulling 0 charisma oneliners back to back and getting a "aha ok" level of response is a "relationship" according to the game. Bioware used to be known for the RPG stuff, companions, story, all of it. It feels like Dragon Age from Temu. Replay value : zero Combat : fun for the first 15 hours then it gets repetative. Only thing keeping bosses alive for longer than 10 seconds is their stupid immunity mechanics. Lore: forgiveable at least they tried Writing: absolute ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Play the game through once if you are a fan of the series just to tie it off, but dont buy it unless its on 75%. Mainly it just pisses me off that they butchered a good thing and then bought reviews to try to pretend its not ♥♥♥♥. U cant piss in a bowl and pretend its soup. 5/10

A very sad and unsatisfying death for such a great franchise. All the depth of worldbuilding and interesting ideas from the previous games has been completely stripped away and replaced with oversaturated cartoonish graphics and modern agenda. The characters are mostly flat, their personal conflicts (with one or two exceptions) are unengaging, and the interactions between characters feel superficial. Romance line feels castrated, squeezed into the tight confines of short quests, and not worth the time or expectations at all. Personally, I think the ending of this story is better told in the artbook than in the game itself. The game isn't worth the attention of either fans or new players who will have no idea what, why, or wherefore is happening.

I waited for this conclusion for ten years. It broke my soul. This game was not what it could and should have been. For me anyhow.

It is pretty sad that the series that started with Origins ended with this :/

Tras terminar el juego quiero publicar esta reseña. Jugué a todos los dragon age previos, jugando en varias ocasiones a los 2 primeros y solo una vez al tercero. En orden de preferencia siendo el primero el preferido seguido del segundo, aún cuando a ámbito jugable era horrible, pero la escritura seguía siendo buena y tenía unos compañeros con muchos matices. Este último juego si no se tratase de un dragon age lo recomendaría, pero solo para quien busque un pasa-tiempo simplón, sin complicaciones, con mecánicas jugables muy poco inspiradas y un montón de defectos acumulados de ese origen como servicio que se ve en más de una ocasión, especialmente en como está estructura la historia que afecta muy negativamente a la narrativa. Ahora lo bueno: 1. Entra por los ojos. 2. Los actores de doblaje hacen un muy buen trabajo con el pobre guión que tienen. 3. El final.(frustrante ya que deja ver lo que pudo haber sido este juego si no hubiesen antepuesto ideologías y tonos completamente contrarios a la esencia de la saga). 4. Es el juego de bioware con el mejores mecanicas de acción implementadas (más fluidas que nunca). Aunque por desgracia los combates y mecánicas de mecanismos que ves la primera hora de juego es lo que verás el resto de toda tu partida, mismo conjunto de enemigos y mismas 3 mecánicas de ¨puzzle¨ muy poco inspiradas. Lo malo : 1. El tono se siente erróneo desde el inicio, inconsistente por momentos y completamente fuera de lugar en otros... mezclando momentos de drama con banalización pura de los personajes... aparentemente olvidándose del contexto apocalíptico en el que se encuentran. 2. El ritmo del juego es nefasto, claramente por la imposición original de juego por servicio en lugar de narrar de seguido unas historias que podrían haber tenido una estructura interesante y adecuada, decidieron que todas fuesen a la par sin cerrarse... para así forzarte a tener que estar saltando constantemente entre los mapas de forma abusiva. 3. Las misiones de los compañeros se sienten artificiales y muchas de ellas completamente fuera de lugar, notándose la mano de alguien que venía de crear juegos de los sims, con actividades completamente vacuas y sin relevancia. Se nota también que están creadas más en base a ejecutivos que a una mente creativa, pareciendo por momento que estas viendo un conjunto de SHORTS en lugar de jugar a un videojuego. 4. La personalidad de los personajes que te acompañan están con diferencia en lo más endeble que ha escrito bioware en toda su vida (he jugado a todos y cada uno de sus juegos) 5. El LORE lo han tratado sin ningún respeto, alterando todo lo que se había cuidado en el origen de esta saga y sepultándolo u omitiendo todo lo que lo hacía original y transformándolo un mundo rico en un universo de fantasía completamente genérico sin alma. 6. La traducción a español, tuve que cambiarla a inglés ya que directamente era imposible de entender en según que diálogos debido a un empleo erróneo y directamente no cubierto por la RAE. Ejemplos: - Sabemos tan poco acerca de ti como de les dioses alzades a les que liberaste - ¿Cómo es el dicho? ¿Le enemigue de mi enemigue es mi amigue? 7. Todas las ciudades están representadas por el mismo nivel de diversidad racial (Algo tan de moda en la última década). Me explico, en cada paseo, mercado y calle te vas a encontrar elfos, enanos, humanos, cada uno de ellos con diferentes pigmentaciones de piel y rasgos faciales para que haga todavía menos creíble ese mundo que están creando, lo que rompe con las sociedades tan bien definidas de los juegos anteriores y quita cualquier opción de inmersión o credibilidad sobre el mundo creado. 8. Se reutilizan muchos recursos narrativos ya vistos en juegos anteriores con la sutileza de un elefante. Conclusión: Solo lo recomendaría por disfrutar de los últimos capítulos del juego. que si bien son un reúso insultante de otra saga de bioware, termina siendo épico y bien montado.

I went into this game pretty skeptical because of all the negative comments I had seen. But when I started reading what people were actually criticizing, I realized that a lot of it was about how focused the game is on companions and relationships. And honestly, that was something I wanted after DAI, where I felt the relationships were a bit too blunt for me. Once I started playing, I was immediately hooked. Playing DAI first also made DAV much more emotional for me because I already had a connection to the characters and the world. I played it for hours every day because I genuinely needed to know what happened next. I loved the romance, the combat, exploring the world, the companions, and honestly just the game as a whole. By the end, I realized just how attached I had gotten to this game and its characters. For me, DAV was simply an amazing experience and the best RPG I’ve played. I’m really glad I gave it a chance.

Look, it's not a bad game, okay? It suffered due to all the nonsense, the combat is more God of War than the classic we are used to, I'm sad about the lack of tie-ins from the previous games and some parts seem more like first drafts than a finished game, but overall it's fun, it made me laugh and cry and want to play it again (and I did). My first impressions after finishing it were "Gods, it wasn't as horrible as people said it would be, I am so relieved", then I had an era of complaints about everything that's wrong and now I have accepted it as a worse Dragon Age game, but a great game on its own.

Mass Effekt Andromeda im Fantasy Setting. Bock erneut enttäuscht zu werden? Ich wollte das Spiel wirklich gut finden, auch weil der Hate dieser lächerlichen Gamercommunity für mich oft ein Garant für einen Diamanten ist.. Aber leider ist das Spiel total öde. Die ersten zehn Stunden machen Spaß. Dann wirds generisch und endet in unendlicher Langeweile. Ist so ein typisches "Soll alle abholen" Spiel. Ich springe sicherlich nicht auf den rechte Woke bubble Zug auf, aber die Charaktere sind teils einfach total öde. Dazu kommt das ich mir teils vorkam wie in einer Netflixproduktion wo alles was passiert noch dreimal von den NPC´s kommentiert wird: "Das ist soo schlimm" "Oh nein.. das ist schrecklich!" Blabla. Show, dont Tell geht anders. Das Kampfsystem ist langweilig. Viele Möglichkeiten, aber am Ende ist es scheiss egal für welchen Weg man sich entscheidet. Man muss die ganze Zeit eh nur ausweichen und dann Knöpfe drücken. Da steht Rollenspiel drauf, ist aber keins drinne. Keine Strategie, kein "Wie knacke ich diesen Boss?" Da ist nur Bling Bling an jeder Ecke, dumme Rätsel, belangloser Loot und der traurige Versuch sich als divers mit Neopronomen zu vermarkten. Wobei ich bezweifle das die Community hier abgeholt wurde. So sind am Ende alle nur genervt. Aber der Charaktereditor ist gut. Die Grafik ist gewagt, bisschen Comichaft, mag ich. Fantasy sollte sich nicht zu ernst nehmen. Aber abgesehen davon ist dieses Spiel Seelenlos. Wer seichte Gewässer mag, sich ein Paket Sumpfkraut in den Bregen zieht und nix erwartet könnte hier Spaß haben. Wer Rollenspiele liebt eher nicht so. Wenn die Debatten um Computerspiele sich nicht immer um "Wokeculture" drehen würden, hätte eine Games-Zeitschrift vielleicht ne ehrliche Kritik raushauen können, dass dieses Spiel an jeder Ecke kränkelt was Rollenspiele gut macht. Aber so ist es halt auch am Ende nur eine sich selbsterfüllende Prophezeiung. Zum Glück kommt bald das Gothic Remake.

Having played the other Dragon Age games, this was a real disappointment. Good: - The gameplay is pretty good if you're looking for an action game. - The skill trees mean that you actually feel the progression and get to lean different combos and styles over time. - Being able to respec abilities without having to go to a trainer or buy a talent reset is great, but it would have been better if you could have it memorize certain presets. Bad: - It's nothing like the party-based games that all the previous games in the series were shaped around. - Your companions are mostly present so that they can either A) heal you or B) set you up with "primers" and "detonations" every 30 - 45 seconds. - The story writing is awful. You don't have any really significant choices. Solas justification for tearing down the veil seems well founded based on the plot and evidence from Inquisition, but Veilguard pretty much ignores all of that. [spoiler] It would have made much more sense for you to have an option at the end to A) tear down the veil, B) have spent effort to find an alternative, or C) bind Solas to the veil (as is currently your only option. [/spoiler] - The dialog is atrocious. You've got a choice between the "getting along", "joking", and "brash" dialog choices. All of the joking options make you sound like bad marvel dialog. - The game is tagged LGBTQ+, but if that was actual goal then they utterly failed. They picked your companion Taash as a token non-binary character but made them rude, socially awkward, and generally unlikable. That doesn't really change even after you finish the whole line of Taash's companion quests. If this was genuinely an attempt at representation then it completely failed. - The companion characters all feel hollow and like they don't actually bring much benefit as a companion. There isn't anything you can do to significantly degrade your relationship with them, cause them to leave, or even avoid recruiting them in the first place. The romance is likewise pretty empty. - A lot of the cutscenes make little to no physical sense. Characters will end up in places or wholly new locations without any sense of how they got there or explaining how they got out of a situation. - The art style is very cartooney. All of the darkspawn look like caricatures of themselves. - Harder modes aren't more challenging by nature of enemies being smarter or using new abilities. They're mostly just tougher and you've got smaller reaction windows. It's harder, but not in a satisfying way. - A more minor nitpick, but ranged parries are extremely unreliable. When you try to parry your character does a sort of duck kind of animation and sometimes that causes the attack to just miss your character even if you previously were warned it would hit you. This especially happens if you're not at the same vertical height as your attacker or their attack makes any kind of significant arc or travel.