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

What they should have done is to ditch the idea of rook and make the inquisitor the main character here as well. That would have actually made sense. But I guess it's too much work

They were hard committed to the "we need someone Solas won't see coming" from the end of Trespasser. But I feel like the Inquisitor should have been more involved.

The structure of the story is also a real and total copy and paste from M2 as well, without there being the same intelligence, zero creativity moreover on the part of the dragon age team there. 

They copied M2 without understanding why with this game, spending all your time recruiting, strengthening your allies first made sense, was consistent, relevant and it was not necessarily the case in Veilguard. First of all, M2 was a continuation of a first episode, there was internal consistency.

In M2, the collectors act in the shadows at the borders, attacking small colonies,unknown. And the space of the citadel is mostly at peace, no one believes in the return of the reapers or denies it, so it is normal that the feeling of urgency only arises at the end. It's normal that Shepard is all alone investigating and fighting the collectors with his team. Shepard can take the time to resolve his team's personal issues as well.

But in Veilguard, everyone immediately believes you from the start, the world is under attack, with supposedly the worst horrors. The old elven gods attack ! Why are there so few reactions, so little help lol ? Only the warden commander has strong doubts, the rest isn't adressed at all.  Spending your time strengthening 7 individuals by the way while we are at war and in a situation of existential threat, instead of trying to unite and convince the northern nations of Thedas. The Anders have an army you know, and Grey wardens are popular among them. I am to believe that they don't care about the city of Lavendel and won't help ? What a joke honestly.

Rook has absolutely zero reasons to not contact the authorities of Tevinter by the way. He just listened to a bad advice from Neve, and he too easily abandoned the case while he didn't do such thing with the wardens. Surely the threat of an archdemon and a dragon, and the Venatori helping the elven gods  against Tevinter, could make the authorities of Tevinter at least listen to what he could state ? 

During all act 1 and 2 I wondered why my Rook felt so alone except once at Wesshaupt. 

Honestly It didn't bother me that they could copy a little on M2, but I didn't suspect, the same exact pattern would take almost all the game. At least act 1 and 2.

ME2 also had the ambiguity of TIM specifically setting you up with the team with some behind the scenes manipulation, Veilguard doesn't seem to have that extra layer outside of Solas scenes.

...honestly yeah that wouldn't shock me, or I guess they had that and went "oh I know..."

And yet there's a dwarf with a bow on his back bigger than he is that no one would notice.

Lavellan really is like "have you considered that he's my one true love".

Do you also remember all the pearl-clutching that went on afterwards? Oh well, I guess they're still happy with the product or they keep quiet and pretend it didn't happen.

Meanwhile, the back-pedaling from the formerly raving access media is endlessly entertaining.

IGN and PC Gamer so far as I'm aware. I do not know whether or not they have changed their initial score but the tone has definitely shifted.

Syv

It's very easy to ignore Veilguard and keep everything from the first three games. I'll keep the part where Solas was miserable at the end, the romance of Lucanis, and the lore I was curious about being confirmed. All I'm keeping.