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

I think a lot of what anders says in DA2 in relation to the mage rebellion are Justices ideas - not his own. 

NV was boring AF I forced myself to finish it. Crucify me

Let me get the nails...

But, the option to be the worst person that ever was, wasn't that exceptional? Wasn't it great? I could have been good, but I chose dickbaggery, and I succeeded!  

NV is the game I'd take with me to a desert island, so, yes, I hate you and all you stand for.

That's FO4 for me as a creative sandbox. Sorry!
I always meant to replay NV and go full evil. Apparently I was missing out. BG3 is when I finally went fully deranged and loved every second of it.
Never got round to it in NV. Maybe I should. Regardless, I will forever remember and cherish NV as the most realistic contemplation on power I've ever seen in a videogame. There I was thinking I was doing the wasteland a favor getting rid of the Yesman army so that everyone could be free from tyranny. What happened? This created a power vacuum, and now all the little monsters that the Legion kept in check started running amok terrorizing everyone, lol. That was realistic, I loved it!

And their approval is also meaningless to the ending, you don't even need to chase it, you just have to do their quests. There are very few things they can even disapprove of. Possibly the system was meant to do something and then they scrapped it as anything other than a communication tool to the player that the character liked or disliked something they did.

I only saw "greatly disapproves" once and it was a certain choice in Weisshaupt.

They mentioned they're focused on quality this time, but so far; most of them are kind of like Mass Effect Andromeda. There is zero ambiance. Follow quest marker, kill enemies, follow quest marker, etc. Andromeda at least had a bit of sense of mystery and scope, there was a better flow with main story and quests. 
The whole world is incredibly small, constant teleporting from Light House to few locations that really don't feel lived in. All the factions, from villains to allies, seem caricaturish.
Only sensible, normal person is that First Grey Warden asshole lol.

It feels like every companion quest is based on the same checklist with only minor variation. Generic boss fights, almost kisses if romanced, arbitrary use of another companion in a scene to pretend there's connection...

I like the First Warden because to a point he's rightfully doubtful of Rook and not just immediately like "ok I believe you", unfortunately he's not believing Rook about something there is very obvious evidence for and therefore just comes off incompetent and unnecessarily obstructive to be "proven wrong" by Rook and company. And I guess blight magic.