The side missions are terrible in this setting and ruin the main plot

[lopschi93]

You can never tell a companion to stop their personal affairs and focus on the main plroblem.

Veilguard doesn't let you play a bad guy. You have to give money to beggars, you can't steel from them. You have to pet animals, you can't throw rocks at them. You have to agree with every character, you can't tell them to shut up about their insignificant problems while literal gods threaten existence.
Hell your "pro assasin" takes time for coffee every mission while there are people being sacrificed. And your "anti demon grey warden" whose focus and basically sole purpose should be to kill an archdemon has nothing better to do then to find the favorite treats for his new pet...? Saving the griphons I got. Putting on a costume so they could train to hunt proachers and everybody is laughing while a city is corrupted by blight and sickness....yeah took every bit of urgency for the main plot out of the game.

I get that the side missions (like neves with the blood mage) makes a difference in the final scenes. And I liked that, even tho I only know that her advisery would have been the leader of the blood mages because I saw it on youtube.
But you can't send me to "funny missions" while the world is ending.
AND THEN NOT LET ME PLAY THE GAME AFTER I FINISHED THE STORY

Save those quests for AFTER we saved the world??
I am happy so spend time with the little beasts I saved. But not while my city is being turned into a living hell.

[Montgomery Rex]

“You have to pet animals, you can’t throw rocks at them” as a complaint makes you sound unhinged. Video game or not. Go outside and stay away from neighborhood pets please.

[Zebedee]

ludonarrative dissonance is a thing, i guess. one of the problems with letting the player choose the pacing is that many of us have been trained to run to every marker and, in effect, do completionist runs through games.

[Quacksalber]

You really need to chill out. For starters, time is passing and people do other things, plus most games where the world is ending let or make you spend time doing irrelevant stuff. Also, you do not have to pet animals or give beggars money lmfao.

[Khergit Horse Archer]

ur assassin is drinking coffee to keep the inner demon at bay, its cringe but at least they tried

[Mason Black]

Who says an assassin cannot have good taste and class and enjoy the finer things in life? As for the "funny irrelevant" sure, I get that point, but often stories that lean on particularly heavy topics inject a bit of levity to prevent people from burning out. It gets to be too much sometimes. It -would- be nice if the option was there to complete those after the main quest for the players like OP, I don't disagree with that. But it doesn't kill the game, at least not for me. That's the point of subjectivism. People see, experience, and enjoy things differently.

[Francois]

Originally posted by Quacksalber:

You really need to chill out. For starters, time is passing and people do other things, plus most games where the world is ending let or make you spend time doing irrelevant stuff.

I agree with this comment. There are missions available to help out with problems in the cities, but you have to keep in mind that is not the focus of the team and it takes time do gather information behind the scenes (that you never see) to guide you toward your next mission.

At least the pacing is not as bad as DA Inquisition where you get bombarded with 50 missions at the same time that all feel super urgent because people might die, but instead of bad consequences when you delay too long, you can do those missions in any order without problems, which really breaks immersion, but can still be tolerated.

[HorzaEdeo]

i've been sucked back into cyberpunk 2077, cos you can colour some of your cars now. played over 40 hours and i've not even been to pacifica or the badlands yet due to there being so much other stuff to distract me.

exactly the same thing happens in baldur's gate 3 and pretty much any rpg. and those two examples are ones you're told you're gonna die if you don't do something about it FAST