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

Randomly slaughtering some pub owner has little to do with killing darkspawn or archdemons, though

Autodialogue was probably one of my biggest issues with the third Mass Effect. It really felt like being on rails at times in contrast to the earlier entries all because they wanted a more "cinematic" approach. 

I'm personally worried about the writting since I've seen the 6 background origins. I can't understand how they could be so uninspired and generic. That type of story you heard it thousands of time.

Even if Rook had to be railroaded into an heroic background, how is it possible that with such a rich universe, such a rich lore, you couldn't do better than " Rook saved a few folks against orders and it had consequences " and six times for god sake, even for the crows.

Even Mass effect 1 has at least a real neutral/survivalal and ruthless background, while remaining heroic. It has more diversity between the backgrounds. 

You couldn't have something more creative for the wardens, a little more ambiguous and deeper than Rook saved a few villagers instead of holding the line ?

So far for me, the Mourn watch is the only one that seems to save this whole disaster. Shadow dragon background, I'd say it's normal to have something like that. But why they couldn't write different things like in DAO ?

They had 10 years for the writting. Ten years.

An issue in that direction is, of course, that the facial animations of those games in the protagonist department are going to be obviously better. Regardless of how good or bad Veilguard will be on this side at release, Rook is going to suffer because of the fact that you can widely customize the appearance, race and gender.

The origins in DAO weren’t predetermined, though. While you were stuck in regards of where you started off, you had a good number of options to change things about your place in the world you were in. 

Just as with Inquisition, I think Veilguard would’ve worked much better with an introduction like Origins, to give the player options in regards of the initial quest, and then simply have a flash forward to the Minrathous quest. Similar to Origin-Ostagar in DAO.

I don’t think the faction backstory are necessarily uninspiring, but my issue is how similar they are to each others. I get the reasoning for going to a chaotic good/rebelling backstory because of setting up similarities with Solas (which I hope you can deny and debate, as you can seemingly not agree with him post-imprisonment). But there are ways to make chaotic good/rebelling backstories that are different from each others a bit more.

I'm personally worried about the writting since I've seen the 6 background origins. I can't understand how they could be so uninspired and generic. That type of story you heard it thousands of time.

Even if Rook had to be railroaded into an heroic background, how is it possible that with such a rich universe, such a rich lore, you couldn't do better than " Rook saved a few folks against orders and it had consequences " and six times for god sake, even for the crows.

Even Mass effect 1 has at least a real neutral/survival and ruthless background, while remaining heroic. It has more diversity between the backgrounds. 

You couldn't have something more creative for the wardens, a little more ambiguous and deeper than Rook saved a few villagers instead of holding the line ?

So far for me, the Mourn watch is the only one that seems to save this whole disaster. Shadow dragon background, I'd say it's normal to have something like that. But why they couldn't write different things like in DAO ?

They had 10 years for the writting. Ten years.