Dragon Age™: The Veilguard

I deliberately waited buying and playing this until all the publicized ***tflinging ended, so I could have an objective opinion (and also to buy it on discount in case it does turn out to be too bad to play). On the upside, not near as bad as it was made out to be. But is it good? Eeeh... kinda... yes and no... I'm giving it a positive rating, because it's not outright unplayable bad, but ultimately, as a Dragon Age game, even as a fantasy RPG, it underperforms in a major MAJOR area. The writing... oh god the writing is just... weak. I'm not even necessarily saying this game needed a better written story (though I can see room for improvement), but it definitely needed someone who can write dialogue. Most of the dialogue is bland at best, outright awful at it's worst. The previous games were big on witty/funny banter between characters, that's completely gone here. I cannot recall a single time where I was actually amused by my companions' chatting during gameplay. (Also, I have to give props to the voice actor of the Rowan character. I've never heard any voice actor in AAA games convey their feelings of boredom so well through their tone and get away with it.) The gameplay is okay, but combat at some points just feels like you're playing guitar hero and can't get the timing right. Most big fights are basically "run in circles, pause to shoot off special abilities, continue running in circles, get a few hits in, continue running in circles". Level design is mediocre. Visuals are okay, though, character designs are meh... feels like they couldn't decide if they want cartoon characters or realistic, and we're stuck in limbo between the two, with odd body proportions, and generally ugly character models. The inventory/barter/stat system is overcomplicated and overly limited at the same time if you can believe that. There's a lot of different stats, but only a limited number of weapons for each character, so when you find a weapon that really works, there's no point in looking for another even better one, you're basically stuck doing upgrades. That all being said, it is an OK game. 6/10, or 4/10 when comparing to previous DA games.

This has been one of the most fun single player experences I have played through in a bit. This game was recommended to me over their representation of trans/ nonbinary storylines. But this game is more than the "woke" representation. The story is great and each charcater is well written with lovely personalities.

'Veilguard' is easy to pick up, even for someone previously unfamiliar with the series, is full of endearing characters, has an intriguing plot, and has very satisfying combat mechanics.

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Dragon Age: The Veilguard hat definitiv nicht den größten Anklang gefunden und eine Menge Kritik geerntet. Viel davon zurecht, da das Spiel wirklich hier und da einige Schwachstellen aufweist, insbesondere was manche Dialoge und Dialogoptionen betrifft. Nichtsdestotrotz muss ich zugeben, dass mich das Spiel nach all dem negativen Feedback in großem Maße positiv überrascht hat. Für Menschen, die sich vorher noch nicht mit dem Dragon Age Universum befasst haben, ist es ein guter Einsteiger, um die Welt kennenzulernen. Nach anfänglicher Verwirrtheit ist man wirklich schnell in der Story und auch das Kampfsysthem (wenn ab einem Punkt auch etwas einfältig) ist gut nachvollziehbar. Es mag im Vergleich zu den Vorgängern tatsächlich etwas abstinken, isoliert betrachtet bietet es dennoch eine spaßige Zeit. Ebenfalls empfand ich die Integration von Neopronomen und Nichtbinärität als angenehm, wobei ich verstehen kann, dass die Grammatik (für Menschen, die auf deutsch spielen) zunächst unverständlich sein könnte, wenn man sich vorher damit noch nie befasst hat. Die angebliche "Wokeness" des Spiels (was auch immer das überhaupt bedeuten soll) wurde so über alle Maße dramatisiert, dass ich mich wirklich frage, ob ich das gleiche Spiel gespielt habe, wie diejenigen, von denen solche Kritiken kamen. Ja, Taashs Outing-Dialoge waren teils etwas cringe geschrieben und ja, so ein großes Entwicklerstudio und big corpo EA haben diese Elemente bestimmt nicht aus reiner Gutherzigkeit integriert, ABER es ist eine Fantasy Welt mit Drachen, Untoten und Zauberei (da sind nichtbinäre Charaktere jetzt nicht das, was einen am meisten verwundern sollte). Wenn ihr das Spiel spielen wollt, dann werdet ihr mit Sicherheit eine nette Zeit haben.

Great game, I absolutely love it to pieces, especially the Emmrich romance path, but I do wish it was more like traditional DA games when it comes to choice-making.

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Мне понравилось проходить, как часть серии и как отдельная игра очень даже хороша.

A great game ruined by "your know what" ♥♥♥♥. The graphic is good. The combat system could be the future of real-time teams combat (might already existed in FF7 or something. IDK. never played them) for DND or CRPG.

It's pretty enjoyable IF you don't play it as a direct Dragon Age game. More like.. something set in the same world. Definitely not on the same level as the previous games. Kinda sad that you can FEEL the potential this game had and the little bits of it that remain as mere ghosts of what could have been. It's certainly pretty tho