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

'identical to Andromeda sans the bugs' . . . Veilguard does appear to be doing a good job of replicating 'my face is tired' 🤣

“Can’t go to sleep. Smooth Qunari will eat me” -YouTube.

Saw that coming years ago.

I vaguely remember gameplay videos where the combo wheel showed healing skill icons for both companions (Bellara? Neve? I'm not 100% sure) but never for Rook. I suppose that's why we're still collecting potions.

Would have loved a dual wield warrior but I guess my Grey Warden will remain unique among DA protagonists.

A little fanservice to make the Solasmancers shut up?

He did quite a good job cleaning up the glittery clutter.  However when your target audience is children, you need all this hand-holding and you need everything glowing to constantly grab their attention.  We can only hope modders can fix this mess, but like the guy said, nobody knows at this point how moddable this game will be.

The quest markers can be turned off, based on what was said in the IGN preview, and the option was shown. 



They did mention projectiles and warnings in combat can be toggled off, but I've see different opinions on that regard, so I don't know how effective the option will be. An option to toggle the duration of the glowing effects of chests/interactive objects in the world was shown in the menu by IGN (I think it was a youtube short/tiktok/instagram reel), but we also had negative opinions on how well it'll work.

I'd say those are things that can be worked on between the feedback they might've received after the hands-on and release, even with a day one patch, possibly.

To me it's not about the glowing effect (at least not all of them) but it's more about the icons on the items/things we can interact with, also the "hey come this way" icon. There is a moment when he says something like "let me discover things, don't guide me". Also those ones have to go.
I can stand the graphic on the wheel and other things he did better but they are not really necessary

I have to suspect a remake would likely require a brand-new engine, which could be a significant time investment if it's anything other than the Unreal Engine. It's also not entirely clear how amenable a younger audience would be towards Origins RtwP gameplay. That's not to say those in the younger audience can't like it. It's more about how many.

Some people doubt that it's the full import choice in another thread. They are so going to be disappointed. They are like " we don't know, or Bioware would never do that, there are necessarily other options, you don't know, please don't spread false informations "

And I'm like, eeeh hello, Bioware removed the ability to control the companions, removed one companion from our team. How about you wake up from your sweet dreams and start realizing a few things ? Have you seen the 6 six similar background origins ? The same heroic path forced upon the players ?

Yup it's totally going to happen.

Remind me of, DAII. People didn't want to believe that the demo had the same rushed beginning as the real game released later. There was necessarily a bit of the intro cut for spoiler reasons. The same " No, you don't know that " A lot blindly wanted to believe that the intro would be slow and deep like in Dragon age Origins.

The same with the ending of Mass effect 3. We already had informations before the release of the game about the A,b,c or blue, red, green ending. But " No no no, you don't know that, it's not necessarily the whole prologue, "

Most of the informations are there, but people would rather ignore them. It's human in some way, but funny. Just watch after the release of this game. It's going to be fun. After the " no no you don't know that it will turn into " , yup Bioware was right to do that, it was fine, you are just a hater "  

Totally understandable with such reasoning ! Even I, had some difficulty to believe such thing ! 
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Also I'm wondering if Bioware will ever show one side quest (that isn't involving a companion), so we could see what it looks like, or are they going to hide them until release. I'd like to see how the facial animations work for the minor npcs. And Bioware promised that there aren't anymore mmorpg side quests. I only believe what I can see, not a fan of " this is probably our best game, just trust us bro " Like we had for months in articles and tweets.

I find it weird that instead of showing a few minor side quests, that don't spoil too much, they keep showing us the big spoils with the main quest or the companions. 

I remember the original demo gameplay of Inquisition where, several years after the fact, the devs gloatingly admitted they pulled told bold face lies to the audience about the complexity/stakes of the game to boost sales. The specific demo in question was in the Crestwood map, where players had the option of "dynamically" choosing to pursue the Red Templars or protect the village. Again, no war table, this demo framed it as an in-map/instance change. 

The developers and marketing team aren't above lying or at the very least obfuscating the truth to boost sales, and this whole gimmick of flying out Youtubers, playing for their hotels and giving them early access --- it doesn't sit right with me. It doesn't sit right with me that they explicitly told these influencers to not talk about the import choices (or lack thereof, if leaks are to be believed).

I also don't like how they keep sidestepping the issue of player healing/specialization. Inquisition already gimped healing hard, and they've refused to give a direct answer about its use in DA4. Almost all of the spells we see from mages are offensive, not to mention bizarrely "melee-esque".

I also really hate the forced good guy nonsense. Hawke could be an absolutely bastard if you played him right, but the Inquisitor was hardlocked into the good guy role. Rook seems like an even more extreme case of that than the Inquisitor