I do not recommend: 'Dragon Age: The Veilguard' (Review)

[Kenrou]

Long but very in-depth and insightful, worth the watch

"Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a collosal disappointment. It apes the most superficial elements of a Bioware game, making no effort to modernize what is a now fairly dated formula, while delivering absolutely none of writing, characterization, rpg depth and imagination that made previous Bioware games so great."

 

[infinitevalence]

given how crap the 2nd one was vs the original I had no hope anyway that this would be worth spending money on.

 

[Janus67]

Looks like the biggest complaints that I've read is that the writing is just mediocre and bioware haven't evolved their 'choice' methods in 20 years

 

[Kenrou]

Pretty much, I never really cared about Dragon Age in the 1st place, but as the guy says in the video, if this is the best BioWare can do, I shudder to think what's happening to the new Mass Effect in development (if it ever comes out)...

 

[mackerel]

Claim of manipulation of launch reviewer selections to get better average scores. I don't follow this guy but his videos pop up in my feed now and then.

 

[Kenrou]

Oddly enough, seems to be very well coded

"Dragon Age: The Veilguard - Simply Brilliant On PC - DF Tech Review - We've spent months - years, even - demanding more from PC versions of multi-platform titles. And would you believe it? It's BioWare that has stepped up to deliver a performant, scalable, stutter-free PC experience. Alex has the DF tech review for Dragon Age: The Veilguard, including the requisite console comparisons and optimised settings."

00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:04 Finally, A Good PC version
00:01:45 Good Frame-Times
00:04:55 Good Settings Menu
00:06:45 Ray Tracing on PC vs PS5
00:11:06 Optimised Settings, Excellent Hair Rendering, 8GB GPUs
00:20:42 Conclusion

 

[rainless]

I was about to say... This game got some amazingly high review scores from IGN and other places... So this one was surprising.

Not that I'd entertain another RPG anyway until I finish BG3.

That said... Dragon's Dogma II is on sale... right now... on Steam.