Honest opinions

[AdellB]

Please tell me how feel about the game Please keep it civil i genuinely want to hear what you all have to say

[Clockwork]

The writing is bad, it is most noticeable in the dialog.

[Peeweazie]

And I genuinely want you to understand this game is garbage juice scraped off the bottom of P Diddy's dumpster.

[AdellB]

Really? It's that easy to beat

[tmaddox]

I'm enjoying almost all aspects of it so far after about 15 hours (on PS5). I have not even gotten to the controversial character yet but honestly, as painfully clumsy as that much posted scene is, I won't let it ruin the rest of the fun.

[Coldhands]

The writing is poor, but the gameplay is alright. UI and game world are very pretty. Game feels pretty polished and optimized. The hate is greatly overblown and poorly informed, but Veilguard isn't a great game regardless. It's largely the writing which holds it back.

[AdellB]

Originally posted by tmaddox:

I'm enjoying almost all aspects of it so far after about 15 hours (on PS5). I have not even gotten to the controversial character yet but honestly, as painfully clumsy as that much posted scene is, I won't let it ruin the rest of the fun.

Ok at least you're having fun 👍

[AdellB]

Originally posted by Red Phantom:

For me personally, it's overall very disappointing. It's a very shallow game compared to any of the previous games, and really doesn't cut it as a Western RPG at all. As an action game, I can see why certain people would enjoy the combat, but it's not really my thing.

Technically it's pretty good in terms of graphics and performance.

The writing and dialog are extremely poor, in my opinion. I actually loathe it.

There's very little player choice or consequence in terms of dialog, and there are only a couple of major events where there's any real reactivity.

It's the worst game in the series for me, but I was always a story, dialog and quest design person first and combat person second, so the priorities of this game are inverted compared to my own.

I was told the writing was........bad but dame

[AdellB]

Originally posted by Coldhands:

The writing is poor, but the gameplay is alright. UI and game world are very pretty. Game feels pretty polished and optimized. The hate is greatly overblown and poorly informed, but Veilguard isn't a great game regardless. It's largely the writing which holds it back.

I don't think anything can save this including mod's

[Pontianak Tamer]

TL;DR, It is a solid 6/10, 6.5 if you want to be nice about it.

Art department is definitely carrying the game hard, environment and level design is top notch with current gen graphics. Although some of the concept art for the darkspawn is questionable.

Combat is solid robust, twitch-based mechanics of parry/dodge as well as button combos for different attack chain sets and hotkeys for skill based abilities. It is like the game wants to marry souls-like and god of war games to get the ultimate action game. It looks flashy and visually wow-ing but can get very cluttered and certain visual cues get blinded out in the process.

Some of the writing, narrative and UI design choices are just.... as what is complained about in many threads. Glaring illogical immersion choices, redundant UI consequences and conversation consequences. It makes the game feel like it wants to literally hold your hand through the game rather than let you explore the consequences of your actions and let you explore on your own.

E.g.#1 When you brought a companion along for a dangerous task, fast forward to the aftermath, before you even see any visual cues on her face to see that she is injured from that tasking, the game sees fit to throw a "consequence" UI to tell you because you brought her along, she is now injured. Cuts away the immersion for me and turns it into some text based reaction choice.

E.g.#2 The companions being absolute know it alls and shesplaining everything before you even get to explore the mysteries is another... Characters that have no idea what has happen somehow gets an inkling of what has happen as if they have wallhack. Only the 3 people in your party and varric knows the 2 gods have been released, yet this elf try to explain the wild magic scenario and said "only a god... or gods... are able to do this", as if she already knew it was 2 gods, because anyone assuming would just assume that if 1 god is enough logically you won't mention that you need 2 or more gods to do it.

E.g.#3, Companion asks you if you are ready to leave, conversation options are 'not yet' and 'Let's go'. Game still shows you UI consequences choosing not yet means you won't leave.... It isn't wrong by any measure but it really emphasizes how much the game is being woefully redundant and hand holding.

The part where people say you no longer get to be renegade about it is true. A lot of the unsettling choices to make in past dark fantasy-esque dragono age are missing. Thing's like choosing which is the lesser evil to aid you or having to sacrifice some innocents along the way. The most renegade options you ever get are just snobby ♥♥♥♥♥♥ lines that make you seem "cool" but thats about it.

[AdellB]

If I skip every cutscene, do you think I can enjoy the game?

[Snarbles]

6.5/10 not a game worth hating, not a game worth praising. The writing is not that bad, the game play is not that bad, but the tone and the world don't feel like dragon age, the art style is working against itself, the world looks great and the characters look awful. This is a great rpg for new gamers and it has more of a cozy game feel than a dark fantasy,

[AdellB]

Originally posted by robert.s_a:

Pretty much what everyone else said, writing's awful, gameplay's average, story is...eeeeeeeeeeh. Its a decent action game, a bad RPG, an awful Dragon age.

If you have time, take a look at Skill up and Mortismal's reviews. They have opposite views on this game but both bring up solid points.

I wish it was better I truly do

[DudeBro69]

-Writing is some of the worst in recent memory of any RPG
-The romance is beyond cringe
-The combat is shallow and repititive
-Loot is meh
-World and graphics is only technically sound but style is terribly unoriginal and lacking a --mood thread connecting it all together
-Story is weak to decent ish at best
-zero tension in any story moment
-Enemy designs are comical and straight out of ghostbusters or goosebumps
-Puzzles are absolute trash and lacks reason of placement within the lore, world and situation. It's as if they were artificially placed to kill time.
-armor does not ever reach the awesome cool factor, like generic cool maybe
-Many many many more crap
-tired of writing

[Shotoku]

Technically excellent.

Character design oddly out of place in a dark Fantasy game.

Narratively thin, peppered with bizzare intractions with other characters.
..and the scaffolding supporting it all, is extremely overt progressive, modern propaganda...which tries at every step to lecture you and so simply dissolves the last tatters of immersion that remains.

Frankly, it is absurd that this game masquerades as a Dragon Age game.
If you consider yourself mainstream and have any nostalgia for the series, please don't desecrate the memory of the original titles by picking this one up.

[Cheez]

RPGs need good writing, this game fails at that. The combat is very similar to god of war ragnarok. its not worth the price, just wait for a sale or smtg.