BioWare says that you won't need to play previous games to understand Dragon Age: The Veilguard. This is despite the game kicking off with the aftermath of Inquisition, with several characters from the last game making an appearance.
Instead, BioWare says that The Veilguard will be accessible to fans both old and new. However, it adds that it will still be "respectful" to the previous games in the series, so we can still expect references to be made to older titles.
"One of the things we wanted to make sure with Veilguard is that it's respectful and referential to previous games without feeling like you needed to have played Inquisition, or [Dragon Age 2] or [Dragon Age: Origins] to understand what's going on," says John Epler, creative director on Dragon Age: The Veilguard, speaking in an interview with Game Informer.
"While there are references, there are moments that we have callbacks, it really is its own story, its own continuation with a different cast, with different characters," Epler explains. "Historically Dragon Age always has had a different cast per game, so that gives us a lot of freedom in terms of what we want to lean on in the past,...