Skippy Dragon Age: The Veilguard Review

Let me put this staight: apart from the title this is NOT a Dragon Age game. This is a mediocre action adventure game with little RPG elements made for a broader 'mainstream' audience. It's a popcorn game for Disney fans. Gone is the dark gritty atmosphere of the first DA games. I am really dissapointed. The writing is very flat and often meaningless, the dialogue is so unnatural and forced, the few choices you make hardly impact the story (do not intend to play the 'bad guy' like in previous DA games or real RPG's because that's just not possible). The companions lack personality and whoever you choose the result stays the same. Combat is OK early in the game but it gets so repetitive that after a couple of hours you fall into complete boredom. A lot of cutscenes smash lgbtq+ subjects straight in your face but in the very wrong way (I say this as a gay man), obviously as a part of the Bioware/EA agenda. I play fantasy video games to get lost in another world, not to get lectured about modern time ethical subjects like if I was a 12 years old kid. I know, not every game needs the quality level of e.g. Baldur's Gate 3 to be good but at least do some effort to justify the 60$ price tag. The positive: the game looks gorgeous on PC and runs smoothly right off the box, a rarity in modern gaming. The last 2-3 hours of The Veilguard are phenomenal (compared to the rest of the game).