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

This is Dorian in human form. Do you see? This is Dorian changing. Do you see? This is Dorian reborn. Do you see?

Solas just revealed to me in a background argument he was having with Elgar'nan that at least Sylaise, June, Dirthamen are dead. And that probably includes Andruil and Falon'Din too. lol

I just ask you, how did this happen? Killing the Archdemons does not kill the Evanuris, this game itself told me during the Siege of Weisshaupt.

Did Solas kill them during his ritual? But the ritual was just to move them to another prison. I am really lost here.

It is also pretty lazy to just kill the others like this and shrug it off as if it was nothing. Not that I would want 5 Corypheus remaining for Bioware to play with, but it is still LAZY.

You won't believe this but he told Rook that the reason they chased him off was because he convinced them he was the Dread Wolf! Now either he is lying through his arse again or I have to wonder whether we are seriously meant to believe this? I actually wrote a fan fiction episode with this clan and my take on it was that he tried to rubbish the gods, they asked why they should believe him and he came out with his usual line of "I saw it through communing with spirits in the Fade". Now WoT said that the Dalish are somewhat wary of messing with spirits, so I had the Keeper chasing him out of camp as a potential health hazard. Now it seems I will have to revise my story to him claiming to be Fen'Harel and the Keeper chasing him out of camp as a crazy apostate who is obviously possessed.

I am glad that Rook gets some other perspectives on the past than Solas' memories because you can't believe a word he says and his memories are likely equally corrupted. When Weakes is writing in Dragon Age I now think Weakes is channeling his inner Solas. Weakes depicts the world as Weakes would like it to be, not as it actually was depicted right up until Weakes entered the writing team.

Also, small extra note, I've been watching the Taash romance. Has Weakes got a thing about necking? First Iron Bull and now Taash.

I think it is safe to say that the Blight and the Taint have been retconned to something that is only dangerous until you destroy the "source". And in this game the sources are those glowing red growth blob things. I just exploded a really big one for a quest and two GREY WARDENS told me that thanks to that, the flowers and plants of the village will be able to grow again. Which goes completely against the lore of even DAI. Remember what happened to the Western Approach? Why exactly is it that a place that was once a forest turned into a desert? lol why even bother talking about this anyway.

- Lowered graphics settings some more to avoid burning out my graphic card (got to upgrade my gear as well as my bandwidth);
- Figured out how to speed through fights ... Really not feeling it, but at least now I can progress from exposition dump A to 'feel good' session B;
- Made it to the Lighthouse. The set designs and environments are quite good so far. Frankly, the only element that vaguely reminds me of DA;
- The score is serviceable - nothing memorable like the opening notes of Origins, Hawke's theme in DA2 or the uplifting or haunting tracks of Inquisition;
- Neve acts like an adult - as opposed to Harding...
- Business-like is how I'd describe her voice acting - which can come across as flat and monotone - but vastly preferable to cloyingly "sweet" & "nice"