Player voice · Dragon Age: The Veilguard
The patterns long-haul reviewers keep returning to.
What players love
Players who stuck with it credit the prime-and-detonate combat and the romances, and several say they enjoyed it far more than they expected to.
Reviews behind this:
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"great game, my bf got me into it, i romanced a hot dilf, we have a skeleton son, ive never played any of these games before 10/10 i cant wait to play it again"
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"Absolutely fantastic game! So glad I ignored the negative reviews and finally got around to playing this (especially as a long-time BioWare fan)"
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"Look, it's not a bad game, okay? It suffered due to all the nonsense, the combat is more God of War than the classic we are used to, I'm sad about the lack of tie-ins from the previous games and some parts seem more like first drafts than a finished game, but overall it's fun, it made me laugh and c…"
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What frustrates them
Series veterans say the writing lost its moral weight and that Thedas here feels generic next to Origins.
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"i defended the game for a long time, but lets be honest, it really went far from its roots and it turned into a bland generic fantasy setting that killed their whole franchise, it sucks what they did to my boy."
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"What a disappointment!!! After waiting so long for this it turns out to be utterly stupid. It's pretty, but that's the only good thing I can say about it."
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"How Veilguard was done=Take everything that was good in the first games, dramatic and epic stories, characters that you would die for, strategic combat where you had to actually think step by step. Now pull a Uno reverse card and here's Veilguard"
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