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

Agreed, they should have held off on releasing the character trailer and instead released a gameplay trailer like how we got Crestwood for Inquisition. Instead they gave the wrong impression right off the bat and become a laughing stock across the internet. Have you seen the ratings and comments on YouTube?

We shall see.

It seems the gameplay will be more action oriented, but you are still able to pause and use the PC and companions' abilities through a combat wheel, or so they said in a IGN interview. 

Shinobi is a long time BioWare fan and leaker who has been pretty reliable for years. But he could be doing damage control too, so we’ll have to wait.
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BioWare can you stop messing with the design of the Darkspawn?! They were at their best in Origins and Awakening!

To be fair, they shown the basically same concept a few years ago.

Some people in the Community Council mentioned some of the changes in art direction that happened across time weren't shown yesterday, so something might be different, possibly the darkspawn.

I wouldn't bet on it, though.

I do get the reasoning behind the change, trying to give them a more distinctive look compared to the LOTR comparison, but they didn't personally found a good solution.

The Darkspawn were perfectly fine as Orc stand-ins, being compared to Orcs from LOTR is a compliment. But they turned Darkspawn from being a force of nature into Scooby Doo villains.

They haven't been able to do the darkspawn right since DA2. They should have kept the look they gave them in DAO. Since DA2 fighting darkspawn has felt like fighting Saturday morning cartoon characters.

Short sneak peak ahead of tomorrow's gameplay trailer.

x.com/dragonage/status/1800196133517660204

Too short to make any judgments, really.

I think waiting is completely fine. I don't see anyone debating that it's wrong to wait for the game to be released to see how it'll be. 

I do think it's also fair to point out that the trailer made a lot of people think this was going to be a hero shooter game, with the way the companions were introduced. Even in the case this game is going to be worst game even released by Bioware (which would be a tall order given Anthem, personally), it's not going to play out like that. Even in regards of tone, I don't see them going completely out of their way to not have any kind of dark, serious and/or horror-like elements that the franchise has always had, no matter how good or bad it'll end up being. Granted, they put themselves (or at least, the marketing team and the decison-makers did) in this situation by releasing a trailer that might present discrepancies with the actual game.

In regards of the focus on culprit/antagonist vs team/protagonist, while the tone is heavily different from the trailer I'm mentioning, but The Fires Above reveal trailer for Inquisition also focused on the protagonist and some of the main characters of the game.

I don't think the shift in focus on the party is necessarily a bad thing; given how concerned I was about the original version of the game, the fact that they seem to be confident enough on the work they put on the companions to change the name is something I'm happy about (providing they didn't fail in the portrayal of Solas and other main antagonists). It's the presentation and direction of the trailer that was very weird.

"Off topic but what did they say about Starfield?"

Not that is was stellar, but that the critique spoken about prior release was overblown and over the top. Story and gameplay where fun. Played that debacle for 20 hours and stopped out of utter boredom.
My expectations weren't high, I just wanted Skyrim in space.