An Actual Player, Half-Way Through

[Eternally Ephemeral]

The criticisms of this game are ridiculous, given only by people that have not played the game, or barely played it enough to repeat the same, tired old lines. The current stance on Veilguard is that it's a disney-eqsue production, and I can say that is further from the truth.

The most critical element has been Taash, from what I have seen, and I don't give too many spoilers but - let me put it this way - I understand now why they have mastectomy scars. It's an endearing, precious seen between Rook and Taash, and you have many options to back out from it - Taash being uncertain, Rook being uncertain.

Taash is a bit bullheaded and over-the-top to start, but delving into their story, you get to properly explore what he's going through, and why it personally matters to her.

Likewise with Varric. He stays out of the story for a while, but he enters back in with a bombastic reveal and you really, truly find yourself stuck in deciding how to help him.

Solas's story is picking up too, now. The haters say that Solas has had no place, been sidelined, but Solas' is getting more involved and the decisions you made in Inquisition start to matter here. For all of Solas' power, there's misunderstanding, and I haven't gotten far enough yet to see but, it seems like you can help frame Solas' understanding and liberate them from the blighted gods, stand upon their own two feet.

I see people saying that this game is childish and talks down to you, but the decisions I've seen you get to make? My heart broke when getting the option to pat Harding on the head.

[Larmoth]

Yeah, just have fun if you like it yourself and ignore the rest.

[Dexaldem]

Originally posted by Primordial Prankster:

The criticisms of this game are ridiculous, given only by people that have not played the game, or barely played it enough to repeat the same, tired old lines. The current stance on Veilguard is that it's a disney-eqsue production, and I can say that is further from the truth.

The most critical element has been Taash, from what I have seen, and I don't give too many spoilers but - let me put it this way - I understand now why they have mastectomy scars. It's an endearing, precious seen between Rook and Taash, and you have many options to back out from it - Taash being uncertain, Rook being uncertain.

Taash is a bit bullheaded and over-the-top to start, but delving into their story, you get to properly explore what he's going through, and why it personally matters to her.

Likewise with Varric. He stays out of the story for a while, but he enters back in with a bombastic reveal and you really, truly find yourself stuck in deciding how to help him.

Solas's story is picking up too, now. The haters say that Solas has had no place, been sidelined, but Solas' is getting more involved and the decisions you made in Inquisition start to matter here. For all of Solas' power, there's misunderstanding, and I haven't gotten far enough yet to see but, it seems like you can help frame Solas' understanding and liberate them from the blighted gods, stand upon their own two feet.

I see people saying that this game is childish and talks down to you, but the decisions I've seen you get to make? My heart broke when getting the option to pat Harding on the head.

As long as you're having fun with the game, that's all that truly matters. :)

[Dusty!]

I mean it's an auto attacking simulator with the most bland fantasy story ever written. You could take the woke out of the game and it would still be terrible. This paired with the fact BioWare was banning reviews tells me that the only people defending the game are partisan of some sort.

[Futanari Future Soldier]

There is no accounting for taste buddy. If this makes you feel like you didn't stack up 6 ten dollar bills and then light them on fire go for it. I work extra overtime so I can hit a few more gacha rolls to convince myself im not a moron.

[Dusty!]

Originally posted by Tijger:

Originally posted by t.tv/duster_casting:

I mean it's an auto attacking simulator with the most bland fantasy story ever written. You could take the woke out of the game and it would still be terrible. This paired with the fact BioWare was banning reviews tells me that the only people defending the game are partisan of some sort.

You are fantasizing, Bioware didnt ban a single review. The only people attacking this game are, however, definitely a specific sort it seems.

They both banned EA reviewers who rated the game below 9/10 and also banned hundreds of users from their reddit and steam forums in real life.

When 1+1=2 is rocket science, that comes from partisans, and none of these people actually play video games, which is why the game has flopped.

Literally every BioWare game written before 2010, from KOTOR to NWN1 has better writing and characters than DA:VG.

[Quacksalber]

I'm yet to see a single actual player on the forums who's genuinely playing the game properly complain about it. It's all people with second hand opinions and an extreme amount of time on their hands they can't find anything sensible to do with.

[Thane_Ragnar]

In Dragon Age Origins they transported most of the Emotions through the Art itself, the dark Setting, the melancholic Music and so on. In this Game the NPC's literally tell me all the time what I have to feel and what is going on .. it is a bit taxing to be honest.

I remember playing a good chunk of Origins totally drunk because of the depressing tone of the Game, that Game really got to me .. the Connor Questline, hopelessness everywhere and everything else. No Matter where you went you were confronted with Darkness and Despair.

Meanwhile in Veilguard, "The World is in Danger, let's have a Party." The Storytelling is Abyssmal.

[Mijj]

Stop mentionning Taash, the worst companion in the game. I mean, the woke propaganda wanrs this kind of people to represent them? This character is so annoying and live with "mama" really, it seems like we manage a teenager here...

[Meebo]

The whole game is a complete joke. Modern identity politics in a high fantasy game settings.

For all those that don't see how it is a problem, answer me this.
In a high fantasy setting where MAGIC is a thing and you believe yourself to be born in the wrong body, why butcher yourself and leave scares and not just use MAGIC to make yourself the opposite sex?

[FluffyPotato]

Originally posted by t.tv/duster_casting:

I mean it's an auto attacking simulator with the most bland fantasy story ever written. You could take the woke out of the game and it would still be terrible. This paired with the fact BioWare was banning reviews tells me that the only people defending the game are partisan of some sort.

Veilguard doesn't even have auto attack, the previous Dragon Age games did...

[Sakura]

I just found the one of Solas' memories and well. Let's just say that was a rather nice choice of the devs to make us the players literally live through the memory. The developments of the characters are improving as the game goes on, I agree.

[DaisyRay]

I haven't gotten to that part yet. Haven't even met Taash. Too many side quests. I can't wait to play it though because even from just what I heard, I felt like people were being ridiculous.

[cHeLios]

Originally posted by TwistedXenos:

I watched the whole playthrough, and the fact that you’re fascinated by the storytelling tells me you haven’t played the previous installments. But hey, I wouldn’t mind being a kid again, when my mind was easier to please.

...but you watched the whole playthrough. (:

[DaisyRay]

Originally posted by Sakura:

I just found the one of Solas' memories and well. Let's just say that was a rather nice choice of the devs to make us the players literally live through the memory. The developments of the characters are improving as the game goes on, I agree.

Ikr! I've been so geeked out about seeing how we got here.

[FluffyPotato]

Originally posted by AdahnGorion:

I fully respect that you like Action Adventures and that time sequened combat is for you.
Some of us wanted an RPG and that is why we did not buy it.

Taash is the smallest of issues for me.. it seems odd and inorganic, but the main issues are gameplay, character interactions and RP agency

There are more choices than in Inquisition so unless you expected it to be Baldur's Gate 3 and not more Dragon Age then I'm not sure what to tell you.