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Date:
12/2/2024 8:53:41 AM
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Thoughts on Dragon Age: The Veilguard
It does reek of that "modern audiences" infection, but not to the extent some of the ragebait youtubers claim. Other than that, it's just a bunch of fantasy characters who decide they have to save the world from an extinction-level event. The game's most amazing achievement is making you care absolutely nothing about this threat.
The problem with Veilguard isn't its wokeness. It's a mind-boggling stew of mostly bad fan-fiction writing interspersed with occasional decent scenes. The moments of acceptable writing do the game no favors because they merely call attention to the overcharge of vapid dialogue cluttering up all the other moments.
There is no urgency about defeating the big threat. Before you can do that, you have to do 60,000 side quests to resolve your party members' neurotic problems. This wears very thin very fast.
The combat is extremely repetitive, involving no strategy apart from using your party members' activation/detonation skills. There is no real sense of peril because the party members are all immortal. You, on the other hand, can get kicked around at a moment's notice by enemies that are only dangerous because even the trash mobs have boss-level armor and health pools. The fights just go on and on and on.
To the game's credit, it is very polished, very AAA, but it really gives your computer a drubbing. Be prepared for a lot of cpu and gpu heat.
I wanted to finish Veilguard, but I just couldn't go through any more dumb Saints Row 4 conversations or drawn-out spongey brawls. It's not all that fun, and it's certainly not Dragon Age.
6/10
