DA fans, what do you think so far of the game?

For me Bellara is Sera like, but less annoying.
But i musst say i love old Disney, so the disney dialog aren't my problem.

I am not sure about Neve or Harding yet.

Finally played a few hours of the game and in my opinion its not as bad as I expected (I thought it would be complete shit) but its still very lacking in many areas (which was obvious) and far from Bioware's best.

What I like:

- No Open world. Hated those useless open world areas in Inquisition (and Andromeda too), Bioware can't do open world well unlike CDPR so they were just huge empty areas with boring fetch quests to pad out the game. Really glad they got rid of this and returned to their linear style. This game despite its flaws doesn't feel like a chore (so far) unlike Inquisition which already had the hinterlands BS at this point

- Rook. His VA (male voice 1) is geniunely great, probably the best VA performance in the game apart from Solas and Varric. I don't like the lack of RP but overall if you are not going to have RP options at least make the character more memorable which is what they did. So I like him more than the Inquisitor.

- the environments are really beauitful and fun to explore since they are smaller, kind of like Origins. The Lighthouse is a unique "home" area

- The combat is fun, could get repetitive later on but so far I am enjoying it. Again more than Inquisitions combat which felt like a chore at times




What I don't like:

- Harding is a disappointment. She seemed way more mature and interesting in Inquisition, in this game she acts like a baby.

- the voice acting is bad apart Rook, Solas and Varric. Neve, Harding and Bellara are especially lacking in this area. The random NPC's are not good either. It feels like Andromeda, very amateur level.

- lack of choices mattering is awful and there is no excuse. Bioware had 10 years for this and just didn't give a shit about their old fans honestly. And then they still have the nerve to include fan favourites like Morrigan who for an example lacks any depth because they have to ignore all her development

- artstyle for the characters sucks. The environments look soo good but then the characters look goofy and cartoony

- lack of RP and overall juvenile tone. Rook would have been on the level of Hawke if we had actual RP opportunities. The VA would have delivered some real badass/ruthless moments well. This game is desperately missing any sort of edge. It feels too PG. This game really has no reason to be rated mature

Bit farther in and while I am still waiting for that hook think this game so far is really hitting a lot of the right DA notes of DA goodness. Quitessential Dragon Age at times and again a lot of where I thought they were going to take the story they have done so. Bit story and dialogue seem very on point and very in keeping with the other three games.

This is something i don't understand.
Development of DATV started 2017 or 2018 and Epler said he got on board 2019, so 5-6 years not 10 years minus corona difficulty and live service cut out.

Well they had 10 years but wasted most on restarting development twice. What we got now was obviously just thrown together in the past 2-3 years and it really shows.

They made an excellent game though.

Presumably, the shift to Frostbite was heavily pushed by EA (though some would claim subtly). I don't think it's one side or the other, and at the end of the day, the design decisions BioWare makes will ultimately be their own. DA2 was definitely criticized for it's more repetitive elements and odd enemy placement, but it was still considered to be a fairly tight story all things considered.

There's a trend of cozy fiction that's pretty popular in SF books nowadays. I don't mind it in principle, but the couple books I've read along those lines (A Psalm for the Wild Built and The Bone Harp) struck me as twee and saccharine. I wonder if that's what the writers were going for.

I definitely feel like I'm playing a Dragon Age game and that's enough for me 🥰

Around 20 hours, I'd say it gets better and better. I'm constantly blown away by environments and I'm happy to say they are not only pretty but also have some nice surprises.

Game started out very limiting in every way but it seems that everything opens up; from locations to dialogue options.

I hope it keeps going in this direction.

It was the angry scrunchy face that did for me - it did make me giggle haha.

That said, I think the whole argument got contextualised well later (and why the other veil jumper wanted to drop it and de-escalate)...