Your Expectations for Veilguard & How You Will Measure the Final Product Against Them

Only thing at this point I will be judging is the combat and party involvement/control. I don't want it to be Mass Effect with swords. ME's combat is fine for that series but it's not what I want in DA's combat, I like these 2 series feeling different in mechanic and gameplay presentation. I also prefer DA to ME in a lot more ways, so ME having an influence on and removing DA's uniqueness is not to my preference. I like controlling my party, I like telling them what ability to use and when from a large selection instead of 2 to 4 abilities, I like having a bird's eye view of the map and telling my party where to go even if my character can't see where I want the party members to go, and I also like not getting a Game Over screen if my character goes to 0 HP because the party members aren't controllable or having a window of a few seconds in which I pray that the party AI figures out I'm down and comes to help before the Game Over screen shows up. I hope none of this happens or, if some of it happens, I hope the gameplay they show will mediate with other stuff that I do prefer.

That said, I get the desire to homogenize. Since Bioware was downsized significantly over the past years (no more Montreal, Austin devs being reassigned to Edmonton, then Edmonton losing more devs due to layoffs), it makes sense to have the gameplay loop be consistent across multiple projects because it makes knowledge transfer and future improvements easier. I don't like it, but I get it.