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

Like 10 years after Inquisition. Varric's a bit of a silver fox, now!

Chapter 3 and its a 7-8/10 experience so far, between what I've played and what I understand for the later parts of the game.

Its something that could have been truly great, but holds its quality back at nearly every opportunity, in nearly every aspect.

How anyone can claim rep standards are high when there is little breadth allowed in main character beyond dress up is bemusing to me

That is funny, i play rogue and it isn't for me. I think mage or warrior would be better for me.

The dialogue definitely reminds me of Urban Fantasy or romantasy. Lighter, more modern, more relatable, not so grandiose. And maybe there's a reason for that. Maybe romantasy is doing extremely well in the book scene and epic fantasy has been on the decline (people sometimes question whether it's dying), and maybe people write what they enjoy and maybe that has more of an urban, modern tone now. It has been 15 years since Origins and trends tend to come and go.

I am to slow for rogue dynamic. The enemie hit me to often. No problem on easy difficulty, but i can not use ability that much because of it. So i think it will be better with mage mana.

my feelings
0/5 it doesn't work, for most/anyone
1/5 it doesn't work for many, and what's playable is trash
2/5 it doesn't work for some, and it likely fails too much in most regards, earning a failing grade, despite any plusses
3/5 it arguably works, but with many disappointments, mistakes, issues, etc, but it clearly doesn't fail as a video game, it works and you can find the fun
4/5 it definitely works, and is worth a recommendation to most people taking an interest, though your own response may vary
5/5 its at least near pinnacle of genre and is broadly recommended, its not perfect but its what makes gaming still great in the year its released

Could get more particular if we go into a scale of 10.

Veilguard 'working' means its automatically higher than a 2/5. I can (at my point; subject to change) understand some giving it more of a 5/10 or 6/10 (3/5). Personally after playing several hours, there's no way I'd give this game under a 6/10, though its maintained my pattern with Bioware games where I simply can't give it a 10/10. Where it lands in 6-9 will depend on how things proceed, but the start is too 6-7 for all I hoped .
Agreed the pros like environment art really help it. The locations so far, and those I've seen preview of, is more or less where I'd have hoped we'd reach since not just DAI but DAO. There's a BIT of an exaggerated element to things that can make what should be more sprawling feeling locations feel contained like a fantasy play pen (the Fable/Pixar/etc effect), but its much more moderate in environment art than in the characters and effects. And the dark areas feel sufficiently dark to me, though maybe a little more on the 'gross' side rather than 'disturbing', even if the content is meant to go for the latter. I wish the big chests were less flashy and lootboxy. A lot of this game feels like remnants of a multiplayer game (with possible mobile compatibility!), just with up to years of retooling. I play multiplayer and mobile games, so cool, but I don't love that here.

I'll probably update my thoughts a lot as I get into Ch ~6 and Ch ~9.


EDIT: I'd give a 0/10 even if  technically the game can open for someone and you can do something in it, but if the overwhelming experience is failure, application opened or not, than its a 0. But similarly if I'd give a 10/10 if its the best game in the world for some, and for its genre to many many people - it doesn't have to be the literally best, perfect game. Just something that's an automatic 'you'll probably like/love it' and the degree of love might be intense. I don't take issue with people giving BG3 a 10/10, I do take issue with mass 0/10s just because you don't like some design aspect very much. Publications should save 10/10 for games they strongly believe will belong on a 'Games we reviewed 10/10' for decades to come. Not because it'll seem 10/10 even years from now, but because they feel great about being on record about that game being the best of gaming at the time. You probably shouldn't put a game 10/10 when just a year later you act like this didn't exist.

It shouldn't be a thing to be praised for this, because it should be the norm, but, provs to the devs for the nice performance/optimization of the game, RTX 3080 Zotac with 12gb vram, and I can play at 1620p (through DSR of course, my monitor native resolution is 1080p) with nvidia dlss at quality and also help from the Frame Gen mod.

No stutters, micro stutters, lag or anything, solid 60 fps.

Again, this should be the norm, but props to the developers nonetheless.

I like Renfail, that was a good vid with great points. Bellara's behaviour and masking is a lot more understandable now.

And he seems to be just ahead of me in this vid- that quest he has active has become the main quest for me now after the first big major decision (and I didn't quite know that book character would defo be in the game, spoiler but... nice!).

I remember a decent amount of silly dialogue/moments in all 3 previous DA games. Is it more frequent in Veilguard? Yep. But it was always there DA had a hell of a silly moment when Alastair is playing with the toy griffon and warden (the gift we gave him) in camp. Hell, as Renfail evoked BG1 etc, there's stuff there too sometimes, especially the sarcastically toned or argumantative choices.

Honestly after the disaster that was release Cyberpunk, it feels good to have a dev team actually optimize their games for all parties.

Does this game have a banter bug like DAI or why don't I get much banter? I explored the Crossroads for an hour with Harding and Neve and they had ONE conversation, that was it. They do comment on what is happening but they don't talk with one another at all. :/

Almost no banter so far for me which is really disappointing. Do I need to cycle the party more or do I need to progress more? I'm still missing half the companions. I'm level 10?