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

I think with the CC, based on how extensive it should be, you're going to be able to create good looking and distinctive qunari that look less 'human'.

My worry is more about the qunari NPCs in the game. While they are all created with the CC, I'm not exactly sure they'd have gone with the effort of working on them to make them look ess human, given that they didn't give the race some distinctive facial feature (outside of the horns), and that it might take some effort to do so.

I highly doubt that you can create a Arishok looking mf that has a towering presence which is like half the appeal of the qunari to me personally.

As for NPCs weeelll I care about that less but if Taash is the best design they had I'm not holding my breath

I have heard a lore explanation that the qunari in DA2 looks different because they are bred from the warrior class. They are like pitbulls essentially.

The qunari in subsequent games aren't from the warrior class hence they differ in looks, and look softer, but I don't think the explanation holds up.

Okay, for the first time, I feel skeptical of what we'll be playing before the patches. I am not one to care about graphics, etc., but the character models and animations are deep in an uncanny valley. I lost concentration of the gameplay around 5 times just looking at the qunari face and some facial expressions from Davrin.

I'll admit, whoever did the qunari in CC just had poor taste for character-building. But their character expressions didn't match the lines they were speaking and sometimes, Davrin's mouth was weirdly crooked.

This shouldn't be the result after the backlash from Andromeda.

Wtf is the Qunari PC design? This isn't just a downgrade from DA2, it's a downgrade from Adaar in Inquisition

This game really feels infected with Mass Effect's design formula.
No controllable companions, 2 companions max down from 3, forced sections of the game where you're forced to bring certain companions along---I don't like this.

This is my first time reading this. I hate this so much. It was painfully hard to make the Inquisitor evil in DAI and I hate that theyre doubling down on it for DA4

Oh god, that IGN video. Where do I even begin.

- That Qunari protagonist. He looks like someone started the character creator, went for elven pretty boy and then changed his mind to Qunari last minute, plopped on some horns and different skin tone and called it a day.

- The weird blurriness of everything. I kept thinking it might be mediocre video quality but the icons and fonts looked crisp enough, so this might be some not-so-good FSR 2.2 tier upscaler at work or something. It looks almost airbrushed.

- Animations. 2010 called and wanted some stuff back, I guess.

- I never liked the prime and boom gameplay but that was to be expected. It's in all their games.

- Combat gameplay looks very similar across all classes. Zoom around and throw sparklies. Sure, there's different zoom animations and the sparklies have different colours and patterns, but the basics all seem the same.

- Kick me, I'm the protagonist... with very few exceptions, everyone gangs up on Rook and your unkillable companions potter around on the sidelines, helping you out a little.

- Nothing happens until I get there: After talking to Warden Greta, Rook walks into a passage and is attacked by darkspawn before even rounding the corner. Guys, did no one ever peek in here?

- In good old BioWare tradition, NPCs in camps/hubs are still stationary like Madame Tussaud's.

All in all this looks like DAI with ME3's combat system. Not wowed.

Haven't watched the vid yet,but when I saw that screenshot of the "qunari" I spit my coffee out laughing, who thought that was a good idea?

Just my opinion

Oof, I was hoping that was just the non-spoiler version I watched. I found it weird we picked up a mundane side quest with no dialogue options while one of the devs was talking about narrative-rich side quests. Already saw all that auto-dialogue in the prologue too. Definitely worried about roleplaying aspects of this game.