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

Sure, my point is those shouldn't have been choices. They should have been canon to make the story better.

Also, you never know if there's going to be the next game. Right now that's my main issue with MEA, for example: some seemingly important decisions were never addressed because there was no continuation, which effectively discourages me from replaying the game.

I hate to say it, but this is more or less my take as well. But you would think the people inside may know that as well. God knows that DA has a checkered history when it comes to game production. If they were ambitious, they would make DA4 the finale for the story of Thedas. But the lack of importance in the Keep puts a serious dent in that hope.

Still, if the series ended by dealing with the Evanuris...that wouldn't be too bad honestly provided that they answered at least some questions about the Old Gods. That may be the best we can hope for at this point. It won't be the best banger of an ending, but it can fill in a good portion of knowledge about how and why the world is the way it is (especially since elves seem to be tied to everything relevant in ancient times). Better for it to be that instead of ending on an obvious cliffhanger that brings attention to plot threads from previous entries that will never be resolved on account of Bioware going under.

BG3 has good graphics tho.

I'm skeptical that it'll be that difficult save for maybe the truly insane people who turn on friendly fire. But part of what makes combat fun to me is having a wide range of enemies using different tactics (or the illusion of such)...just arbitrarily buffing the same enemy or increasing their damage output is very boring...and lame. On the flip side I have to give them credit since those that don't like action based combat or just play for the story can set it for uber easy or even have their PC not die.

I think there's a good chance you'll see that in this game...but I know what you mean. In the grand scheme of this series the choices really get distilled.

Even if Morrigan didn't drink from the well canonically, she is still canon Mythal's protegee and the person she wanted to pass her godhood to. And she DID pass a part of herself to Morrigan through the eluvian. So if this story thread goes nowhere I'll be royally pissed.

It's BAD storytelling to just abandon major plot points. Bad enough they had so many cool ideas go nowhere because player choice. But just abandoning stuff that was carried through 3 games is just insulting.

But I won't be surprised if DAV is a huge middle finger to everything that came before because new players won't care and we don't want them to be confused now.

I hope they at least wrap the elven storyline up SOMEHOW this game and I also hope they reveal the elven gods are the old gods so that we don't have that hot mess never resolved because BioWare got shut down at last. Just finish this story so I can ignore what BioWare does in the future if they are still around. Don't care a lick about the next Mass Effect. I just want Dragon Aged to conclude. Even if the game sucks it's better than no closure at all.

I'm not. I thought the big elven gods reveal in the last third of DAI was amazing. It came as a total surprise to me because I was never that deep into the lore. I was always way more of a Mass Effect fangirl. I also have a poor memory for details. So DAI kinda blew my mind.

I thought the Corypheus plot was really bad, cringe cartoon villain, but then the elven gods business really saved the narrative big time. Everything at the Temple of Mythal and the well was perhaps my favorite thing in all of Dragon Age. It felt like, wow, they actually DID plan this out and didn't just make stuff up as they went along. It all came together for me. I loved it.

As awesome as DAO was in many ways, it had a super generic plot. And the art style was not particularly noteworthy either. It was the individual character drama that was great. Now DA2 on the other hand had a much better plot, I loved the smaller focus on a city going crazy and the Hawke family. I also love Hawke while I never cared for the warden (I can't connect much with silent protagonists) or inky.

I am fine with DAV being all about Solas and the elven gods. I just worry the writing will not be good and that many things get ignored. And I'm especially worried this is ME2 where the plot doesn't get advanced all that much and the big resolution to the whole drama is postponed. That would really piss me off. Not because I'm tired of the elven plot but because I don't expect BioWare to last long enough to make DA5 and we'll be stuck with an unfinished story.

I want answers to all these mysteries the series has been cultivating for so long. I'm tired of being strung along after all this time. I just want Dragon Age to end. At least the central mysteries around the gods and the titans. I want the "reaper" plot to be over basically. The ME trilogy was concluded in FIVE years, half the time it took them to make one more DA game, it's beyond frustrating. If BioWare survives DAV and gets to make another Dragon Age, yeah, make it a spin off story sort of like DA2. Don't care what direction they go. I might consider buying it if the writing is goods which right now I don't have much faith in anymore.

The art direction of Origins looks much more unique today in the era of colour puke. A remake hypothetically ought to look much like the Sacred Ashes trailer.

I know that, I guess what I mean by my comment is that it was the writers decision to tie everything into ancient elves. I hope this storyline is wrapped up in the Veilguard and we can move on to something new without any cliffhangers.