Do I need to play the previous Dragon Age games first?

[NJ]

Hi Guys,

I have seen a bit of the gameplay on Youtube of Dragon Age™: The Veilguard and it looks good. Do I need to play the previous Dragon Age games first as I have not played them before? Also is this game like Witcher 3, Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen and Dragon Dogma 2?

Thank you

[NJ]

Also, do you recommend to play Dragon Age: Inquisition first as it has so many positive reviews. Thank you

[alekth]

Play Inquisition but make sure you get the GOTY edition because Veilguard is a continuation of the Trespasser DLC more so than of the main game.

Inquisition is a fairly padded game, move on with the story when you have the resources to do so, do the region-specific side quest for each region if you feel like it. Most other side quests don't amount to much and are the opposite of The Witcher 3 side quests.

[magicboyzero]

Well I would say play the previous dragon age games when you can regardless as they are indeed more Dragon Age then this one seems to be but it is not out yet so it might surprise but I don't have much hope. The other games are more dark fantasy so they might scratch your itch for games like the ones you mentioned esp Origins. But if you do want to dive into this game without knowing. The developers have said they made it for new players because they are only letting us have three choices of carrying over from past games and they are all from the third one. I think new players might still be confused though because there is Eleven gods and the fade and the history of all these place the the old games went into. But if need be watch a lore vid on youtube to catch up as the setting is in the north of the world and we haven't ever played that yet.

[BadToast]

Veilguard is a direct continuation of a cliffhanger at the end of Inquisition. Each Dragon Age game is a different player character, but ultimately dealing with related events of the prior games.

You should play them just because they're really good.

Each game is pretty different. Origins is an old-school Real-Time-With-Pause tactical RPG. Similar to Baldur's Gate 1+2 but camera is 3rd person instead of isometric.

Dragon Age 2 is similar to Origins, but combat is more actiony, much less reliance on tactics. The game is also pretty easy which makes them not required.

Inquisition cut down the amount of abilities players got and streamlined the game to be even more action-based. There is still some requirement for pausing and issuing commands in harder fights, usually the dragons, especially on harder difficulties.

Veilguard looks to continue the trend of making the game more action based. So far I've seen it compared to God of War. or like Mass Effect.

[NJ]

Thank you for the info. So Dragon age is very similar to God of War and God of War Ragnarök. I am still playing God of War Ragnarök and Yes one needs to play the first game in order to fully understand Ragnarök. But in Ragnarök there is a short summary recap of the first game.

[Big Sleep]

Avoid this mess like the plague.

[magicboyzero]

Well you will have Varric (storyteller and past companion) at the start to summarize it I think but how much I don't know. But it's really up to you. No harm playing this first if you want and then going back to the others at some point and then veil guard again. But yeah out of all the games of the past Inquisition is linked the most.

[Jusenkyo7]

I'd concur that you should play Dragon Age Inquisition, and the Trespasser DLC, if you can. But it might be a rush to get it done by launch.

If you are taking your time, I'd toss in DA2, since it has some important themes and characters that carry into Inquisition.

Origins is actually the least important to the overall story, as its story is quite self-contained (beyond explaining why the main character's family had to run away at the start of DA2). It also has the most issues running on modern computers.

[BadToast]

Originally posted by magicboyzero:

Well you will have Varric (storyteller and past companion) at the start to summarize it I think but how much I don't know. But it's really up to you. No harm playing this first if you want and then going back to the others at some point and then veil guard again. But yeah out of all the games of the past Inquisition is linked the most.

Veilguard will spoil a pretty big twist for Inquisition's ending. But I guess that's already done for anyone who watches trailers.

[magicboyzero]

Originally posted by BadToast:

Originally posted by magicboyzero:

Well you will have Varric (storyteller and past companion) at the start to summarize it I think but how much I don't know. But it's really up to you. No harm playing this first if you want and then going back to the others at some point and then veil guard again. But yeah out of all the games of the past Inquisition is linked the most.

Veilguard will spoil a pretty big twist for Inquisition's ending. But I guess that's already done for anyone who watches trailers.

Yeah i think Bioware have spoiled that already.

[Juice]

Dragon Age: Origins is a classic for good reason. Play that first, as I fear veilguard will put you off this franchise forever.

[Kaolan Enjoyer 27]

Game is fine to play on its own, it definitely looks to be the most fun to play of the franchise. There's a recap at the start of the game.

[Kaolan Enjoyer 27]

Originally posted by NJ:

Also, do you recommend to play Dragon Age: Inquisition first as it has so many positive reviews. Thank you

You could, it's a solid game. I think the issue is, the curve of the game is off and it's got a dreadfully slow opening.

[SarahWills38]

play Origins, and then don't play any of the others.. the rest will only disappoint.

[Xafron Chi]

Originally posted by NJ:

Hi Guys,

I have seen a bit of the gameplay on Youtube of Dragon Age™: The Veilguard and it looks good. Do I need to play the previous Dragon Age games first as I have not played them before? Also is this game like Witcher 3, Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen and Dragon Dogma 2?

Thank you

Dragon Age as a series I think is one where you can likely hop in to any of the games and have a more or less complete story with that one game without feeling totally lost. But playing all of them in order might enhance your experience.

But no I don't think you have to.

If you do decide to play them all, just know they each play extremely differently from each other.