Dragon Age™: The Veilguard

I think someone below summed it up best: it's a fine game, if it wasn't a Dragon Age game. Disclaimer: I am not the target audience. I am over 20 years old, I've played the previous games and DLCs multiple times, and I could care less about creating my perfect self-insert / original character in the character creator. So take that as you will. Just like Mass Effect: Andromeda, the most memorable part of this game is the combat. The activator / detonator system is fun, and the larger boss battles are satisfying. The issue, however, is that combat isn't what I play a Dragon Age game for. I play it for the story, and the story in Veilguard feels... tone-deaf, most of the time. HR approved. Painfully chipper and upbeat. (The forced family dynamic that springs up somewhere between part 7-10 is /painful/.) If Veilguard was ice cream, it would be no name brand vanilla. It's fine. Overly sweet and artificial, but if you really, really want ice cream, it will get the job done. I wouldn't recommend it, though.

It pains me to rate this because I am a long time fan of Dragon Age game having over thousands of hours in all the games between here and the consoles not only is it a bad game with unfun combat and writing that genuinely feels like hr was in the room when they wrote it and the game taking the tell don't show mentality and the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ handholding is ♥♥♥♥♥♥ the redesigns is wild the darkspawn look borderline unrecognizable and not even to say what they did to my girl Morrigan and the demons my favorite always being the pride demon and they made it into a shell. Now to look at it as a Dragon Age game this is deplorable man the world build is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and I couldn't care less about the world that I fell in love with it feels like a friend that you haven't talked to in years just to find out that they either do a lot of drugs or just sold out and is a husk of what they were. I won't even talk about the woke ♥♥♥♥ that is in it because it doesn't matter. I really don't know who this is for because if it was for the people that has been playing Dragon Age since DAO hate it because it is nothing like any of the other games if this is for new people it is just boring like I am out of words. I have tried to play it twice and both times I stopped at the same point. I can forgive a bad game because you can find pleaser in bad games but a boring game is a death sentence.

Игра нормальная. я бы поставил 6,5/10.Граффика на уровне, звук тоже. А вот ,что меня действительно бесило так это управление скиллами -3 скилла на всю игру..Карл да вы реально??Древо навыков тоже хромает- половину просто бред.И отдельный вопрос к сценаристам- вы где половину истории дели??(где герой Киркволка, где герой первой части? а герои 2й части просто пассивны.) И кроме того после инквизиции я думал будет открытый мир, а не снова коридоры с тупыми загадками на сундуки. На вопрос стоит ли играть- мой ответ -Да.

tentei dar uma chance pra esse jogo pq tava em promoçao mas mesmo assim pior 87 reais gastos da minha vida a gameplay é legal no começo mas depois de umas 4-5 horas já fica entediante cheguei a implorar a steam por um reembolso mas ja tinha passado das 2 horas entao estarei deixando essa review de odio

После прохождение этой параши , начал чувствовать себя бы феминисткой Если серьезно игра оверпрайс = не стоит покупать .Повестка на повестке , скучные побочные задания Типо проведи время со своей командой … 15 часу я уже болт положил и начал проходить строго сюжет. И то сюжет не прям супер.. Босы однообразные и скучные Если же покупайте игру по огромной скидки то = локации, они хорошо сделаны, интересно исследовать, локации разнообразные, графа на уровне даже на минималках. Ну и главный + почему я взял эту игру про феминисток она хорошо идет на стим деке. На пк я в такую херню играть не стал бы..

Giant disappointment.

The core gameplay loop is admittedly a lot of fun, which is why I have almost 200 hours and counting sunk into this thing. The character creator is also one of the best I've ever seen (real hair physics! tons of options!) But good God is this a terrible Dragon Age game. Everything has been sanitized and polished up to try and make this a cozy, feel-good game, at the expense of ignoring previously established lore. And the new lore additions are frankly garbage. And what used to be a complex, morally grey setting now has clearly delineated Good Guys and Bad Guys. Good Guys are Good no matter who they are or what horrors they've been stated to have done in previous games (like the Antivan Crows going from a group that uses child slavery to get new assassins to being noble freedom fighters) and Bad Guys are Bad with no further reasoning behind why they do the things they do. They're just Evil(TM). (also, anyone who dares question the protagonist is automatically Bad)

Origins is dated and janky, but still good by modern standards. DA2 was obviously low-budget, but felt fine. DAI was and is incredible. DA:O was intended for 17-year olds. DA: Veilguard was released in 2024, which means the average player who was interested in Dragon Age is hovering over ~30 years old. Despite this it feels like I'm playing a game targeted at 8-year olds. The Veilguard feels like someone made a mod for Fortnite and then hired a bunch of second-screen writers. Every relevant piece of information is repeated 15 times, and characters feel more like caricatures that feel faker than a cardboard cutout. Mechanically speaking the combat feels smooth, but companions are no longer meaningful contributors and customization has dropped down to practically nil. This results in a game that manages to look both better and worse than DAI with worse writing than any of the games that came before targeted at an entirely new player base. If you're like me and you want to know how it ends then go for it, but I cannot otherwise recommend buying this game. This doesn't feel like Dragon Age at all. You'd be better off watching a youtube summary.