New to series , can I start with veilguard?

[Prashanth]

Brought the game as df as said it's best pc port with ray tracing feature this year .

[Mr2Thumbs]

Of course. This game has nothing in common with any of the previous games. You don't even need a lore video.

[Oku]

Yes, while the older games would give you a better idea of the world, each Dragon Age game has been made with the intent of being able to be a "start from here" point.

If you played the previous games first, world states would carry over, though Veilguard has that pretty restricted compared to previous entries, so they don't matter as much, which is a shame for some.

[Keith]

You can play any of the series at any time. They are all mostly stand alone games

[dafter]

Sure can.

[Freely]

Yes, you can play this as a standalone game as choices made from previous entries do not carry over, whatsoever. Veilguard is very much it's very own thing. I won't tell you to play a vastly superior game, such as ORIGINS - But you can play Veilguard without having played through any previous games 100%

[ArulaqOscar]

I can't honestly tell if people on here are actually serious or just being disingenuous and riding on the hate train.

OP, you can probably start with any Dragon Age and still feel fine but I would say for Veilguard, you would probably want to either play Inquisition + Trespasser DLC or at least watch a video on it.

People are just hating on the fact that their world state no longer carries into DAV but that does not mean that DAV does not continue on from Inquisition + Trespasser and I would think you would be quite lost without the info from Inquisition at least.

[Mr2Thumbs]

Originally posted by ArulaqOscar:

I can't honestly tell if people on here are actually serious or just being disingenuous.

OP, you can probably start with any Dragon Age and still feel fine but I would say for Veilguard, you would probably want to either play Inquisition + Trespasser DLC or at least watch a video on it.

People are just hating on the fact that their world state no longer carries into DAV but that does not mean that DAV does not continue on from Inquisition + Trespasser and I would think you would be quite lost without the info from Inquisition at least.

Don't listen to this person. None of the characters remember your actions in this game, so there's no point in playing it before playing this one. The devs have lobotomized the entire cast in between games.

[Corona Scurrae]

you can and imo you should considering inquistion is an offline mmo with dailys.

[V.V.]

Games not out, so I don't think anyone has a solid answer. This game doesn't have what the previous game had from what I learned from early reviews, where you can import save data that would affect certain parts of the story depending on how you ended the previous games.

So you might not understand whats happening... idk. Guess we'll find out.

[Velber]

frankly i never really liked dragon age to begin with, the rpg elements seem okay, i played inqusitor and that was nice but the actual gameplay was mid

[ZaydinTTV]

It's a mixed question; the plot starts off following the ending of Inquisition and the Trespasser DLC for Inquisition is definitely vital to really understand what's going on.

That said, you can probably find lore videos to catch up to it.

[ArulaqOscar]

Originally posted by V.V.:

Games not out, so I don't think anyone has a solid answer. This game doesn't have what the previous game had from what I learned from early reviews, where you can import save data that would affect certain parts of the story depending on how you ended the previous games.

So you might not understand whats happening... idk. Guess we'll find out.

Objectively, the world state thing from Dragon Keep would not be in DAV. There will only a small number of choice you choose at the character creation screen that will reference stuff that happens in DAI, so yeah, your leftover world state is basically a handful of choices from DAI. So yes, it is a good point to start the game, just watch an Inquisition + Trespasser lore video or something.

[Elvi]

It's a bit difficult to say honestly - there is a good chance this one will not represent the previous 3 very much and vice versa.
The safe way would be to play the first three now and then by the time you are done, you can buy this one if it turns out being good.

[V.V.]

Originally posted by ArulaqOscar:

Objectively, the world state thing from Dragon Keep would not be in DAV. There will only a small number of choice you choose at the character creation screen that will reference stuff that happens in DAI, so yeah, your leftover world state is basically a handful of choices from DAI. So yes, it is a good point to start the game, just watch an Inquisition + Trespasser lore video or something.

Well DA2 also had save imports for unique dialog and character appearances depending who your character was, and what they did. It's just been a thing that DA did. Except now.

[Five]

You can start with it yea, it's kind of a soft reboot.

But also directly continues on from Dragon Age Inquisition and the Trespasser DLC specifically, so I would watch a video summary of that!

The main important character you'll want to know about is Solas.

Though they also give you a summary at the start of the game, so honestly you might not need to do that! <3