Dragon Age The Veilguard Criticism Thread (formerly Skepticism Thread) [Spoilers]

Isabela was hot as hell but I mean, DA:O was 22 years before Veilguard, and in Origins/DA2 she sounds and looks like in her early 30s or something.
She is now in the 50s, it makes sense she is no longer that bombastic

She should've looked more dignified. Still show off cleavage, but be more mature. Same whisps of gray, lines on her face, older but not old.
Quick googling and found this image, this is how I feel like she should've been. But with more cleavage and definitely those boots. 

I keep saying it because I'm extremely surprised at how big the difference is, but I can't believe how much more character the Mass Effect cast have. Since when did Bioware write boring? :S

So it's finally over for me. This bizarre game is finished and it was funny to see Dragon Age go down in flames.

It's just so freaking disappointing. This was a studio which emphasized writing and characters and somewhere along the way they forgot how to write 

Two words for you: Mary DeMarle. If they get the fuck out of her way, slap any fool screeching about muh pronouns, there’s a chance. I do not want to see modern day Shepard. And they’re our best hope atm.

Damn, how fast are you all??
I haven't even finished the first act, need to recruit Davrin next. Despite my disgust with the writing I'm doing all side quests to give this game a fair shot at surprising me in a good way.

I will say that if you approach DAV as a generic mindless hack and slay action game with butter smooth performance and great AAA visuals but forgettable awful dialogue it's OK.
It's an absolute disgrace as a Dragon Ages game and a sad RPG experience on top of it. But I guess by today's standards one could give this a 6 or 7 just for running very well and being super polished.

If I was a kid again who hasn't played any actually excellently written RPGs yet, I guess I'd say it's a good game. And a lot of people really do NOT play games for the dialogue. Many people actually skip it. But that's not why anybody has been playing BioWare games so WTF is this abomination?

I honestly don't know how to rate it "objectively". It works, on a technical level there is nothing wrong with it. Haven't had such a smooth experience in a long while, especially out of the box without patches. There seems to be enough content to get your money's worth of stupid fun if your expectations are low. It's not the worst game ever made if you ignore the franchise legacy.
But as a direct sequel to DAI 1/5 is even too generous for me.

I rated MEA as a 2/10 Mass Effect game and a 6/10 as its own thing. DAV is worse in every respect so far but I do enjoy the setting more than MEA, so I could end up actually having more fun with it.

I honestly without hyperbole think it's the worst written game I have ever played with the most boring mundane childish companion dialogue that makes the Starfield companions look good.

So I probably won't rate it on the BSN poll because too bizarre to rate, lol.

It’s a good thing they waited ten years to ditch their loyal fans for the modern audience. This is hard to accept. I guess it’s just the power of one. The power of many.

Nah, they already lost me with MEA. Didn't feel like the target audience with that game already. DAV just dialed the dissonance up to 11.

I'm really not enjoying the companions quests..like 3/4 of those you got someone going "mouhahhahah" and it looks and feels goofy.
Some main story moments are cool.
But nothing is grounded and it's like being in a Scooby Doo episode of DA.
I really don't care about companions, I don't think there's one I got really attached to at that point and that's really bizarre.