Dragon Age: The Veilguard is now just a few weeks from release. BioWare has been engaging in a lengthy pre-release campaign, so we already know a lot about what we'll see on Halloween. It's impossible to gauge how good a game will feel to play from start to finish without doing exactly that. Still, everyone speculates about how well a game will perform commercially and critically, and developers are no different.
Mark Darrah was a director on Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age 2 and Dragon Age: Inquisition. He left BioWare following the completion of Inquisition, only to return as a freelance consultant on Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Darrah hosts a YouTube channel, Mark Darrah on Games, where he's candid about his time working on BioWare and Dragon Age, and speculates about the future of the series and studio.
In a reply re-posted to Reddit by Srefanius, Darrah gave his prediction on what Dragon Age: The Veilguard's score on Metacritic will be. He answered, "88 per cent" before adding that his prediction is within 5 per cent of this number, above or below. A game's Metascore has always had a disproportionately strong pull in the gaming industry - we all...
