This was my first DA game, and it sounds like going in blind really improved my experience. I had a blast, kinda bummed by the hate.
RIP the Dragon Age series.
eh it’ll be back. they are doing another mass effect after Andromeda.
Mass Effect 5 is going to suck. See the pattern, their last three games sucked.
yet they still keep making them.
Until they reach a threshold of consecutive disappointing results, and EA lays off the entire studio.
…and then hand the IP to another studio.
The last three bioware games or the last three mass effect games?
Of Bioware’s last three games, Andromeda sucked, Anthem was an atrocity, but Veilguard was decent, not great like classic Bioware games, but it wasn’t bad, it was at least fun to play and had a decent story and characters.
Of the last three Mass Effect games, Andromeda sucked, ME3 was great until the Horizon mission then it goes to absolute dog shit, and ME2 was great as a character driven RPG but feels a bit out of place in the franchise as a whole.
Only in the latter case do I really see a true downward trajectory. In the former there’s a tentative upward trend in the quality of Bioware’s games.
Did Veilgaurd actually have a good story…? The videos I’ve seen had atrocious writing.
It didn’t, it’s extremely boring, everything is disney-ified to unbelievable level, and there is no conflict, at all. At worst someone can say something mildly hurtful (acceptable to children <10 years old) but at the end of the dialog everyone return to happiness, the villains are bad and evul, the heroes are good and heroic, there is no option to even be impolite, lol. Add to it “puzzles” that won’t puzzle a kindergardener, and that’s what veilguard is. I honestly don’t get why they hate their players so much as to assume that they are regarded.
That was… fast? The game hasn’t been out that long, has it?
The game was solid from launch. When a game is an offline, single-player game, with no future content planned, and good QC from the get go, you don’t need a whole lot of updates. You just need to fix the bugs that pop up when the general public with their wide variety of hardware/software configs and gameplay styles that weren’t tested for get their hands on it.
Shame all anyone talks about is the bad writing
But it’s kinda a non-starter in an rpg. Especially since the combat looked like a slog
It amazes me that the developers and executives really thought they were cooking with this one.
The game was really solid right from launch, so I guess it’s not lacking any updates. Bummer that it’s perceived as such a failure.
The one thing it can’t be criticised for as I understand it is polish. I’ve heard many complaints about almost everything else, but as far as technical matters it seems to have shipped very well optimised and largely bug free - a welcome change from what we’ve grown accustomed to.
Shame about the actual you know, game.
