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Dragon Age: The Veilguard Preview - Here We Go Again

Dragon Age: The Veilguard makes plenty of improvements to Inquisition's decade old formula but retains everything that makes the franchise special.

gamerant.com

Dragon Age: The Veilguard starts its prologue with a bang

Before throwing players into an expansive world, BioWare wants to establish that it's one worth saving.

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Dragon Age: The Veilguard starts its prologue with a bang

Before throwing players into an expansive world, BioWare wants to establish that it's one worth saving.

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First Dragon Age: The Veilguard Gameplay Ups The Action

After ten years, BioWare is showing off the next entry in its fantasy RPG series

kotaku.com

Dragon Age: The Veilguard looks better than its trailer

Don’t let that weird CG trailer scare you if you’re a Dragon Age fan.

venturebeat.com

Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a fantasy epic filled with big decisions

For fans of Dragon Age, the latest installment is aimed at expanding the world you probably already love. And once again, there are big decisions to make in Dragon Age: The Veilguard.

www.engadget.com

After a first-look at Dragon Age: The Veilguard, I'm all-in

First-look at Dragon Age: The Veilguard, oh man...

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• Two companions will be with us when traveling, but possible obligatory third members can join during specific quests (like how Varric is in the 24-second sneak peek).​
• Game will let you play as a Human, Qunari, Elf or Dwarve.​
• Schedule of Dragon Age Stuff // June 18 will include a 12-page Game Informer cover story.​
• Gameplay reveal later will cover 20 minutes rather than the original 15 minutes. No sneak peek of character creation, but maybe someday. Later, will most likely explore the facial animations, too.​
• The Inquisitor will be back and customizable; so most likely expect American and British female/male VAs back. We will also get to "make some key decisions that will impact how the Veilguard begins."​
• Six Factions to start as an Origin: Grey Warden, Antivan Crows, Shadow Dragons, possibly Mourn Watch, Lords of Fortune, and Veil Jumpers // Not sure if it we will have a unique prologue like in DA:O (possible implication from these official art) or if we will have a DA:I/BG3-like "Origin" where different NPCs react to our protagonist differently + Exclusive dialogue choices and quests.​
• Character Creation, we can play as different races: Human, Elf, Qunari, and Dwarf and possible long hair options.​
• Companions are 2 elves (Bellara and Davrin), 1 Qunari (Taash), 1 Dwarf (Harding), 3 Humans (Neve, Lucanis, Emmerich). Additional companions are Manfred, Emmerich's skeleton assistant and Assan, Davrin's baby Griffon. EA Press delves into the deeper specifics of each companion: https://news.ea.com/press-releases/...agon-Age-The-Veilguard-Arriving-in-Fall-2024/​
• It's still a speculation that all companions are romanceable by any RP Origin. Confirmed are: Lucanis can be romanced by a female Qunari, while Bellara can be romanced by a female elf. Scout Harding is a confirmed romance companion, but still unsure whether gender-locked or race-locked.*​
• Companion armours can be changed.​
• No micro-transactions.​
• *Interjecting for third to the last previous bullet point, but gamer articles about romance were made from Bioware GM Gary McKay's single comment during the IGN interview. The statement is specifically "you can romance the companions you want," but imo it doesn't reveal anything yet. Initially, this same article was the same post that mentioned "Bioware confirmed" to have seven playable companions but was spontaneously changed to omit the "playable" adjective and added a comment stating that the story 'has been updated with additional clarification on the role that companions play in battle.' If journalist news are fickle to these spontaneous changes for their supposed "confirmed" article, then I think it's better to rely on the game devs and test players' literal insider-info.*​

 

[balls of snow]

Oh no fortnite in my dragon age. The horror.

 

[scoobidoo112]

The trailer did nothing for me, but everything I've seen and read afterwards has made me more and more interested.

I really hope that they nail it this time, cause I have not been very excited about this franchise since Origins.

 

[rhodesianshepard]

Looking so good. Corrine Busche seems to be crushing it as game director. Good for her!

 

[ChuckeRearmed]

Yeah, I am curious how it is going to perform in sales.

 

[captainnapalm]

Well they've been working on this for 10 years and Bioware's entire future likely rests on it, so they better have something good here. Remains to be seen if they were able to beat their EA overlords (and DEI gods) and make something worthwhile.

 

[Arsic]

The game being good or not, BioWare is automatically going in with the deck stacked against them:
-Their history of turds.(Their doing)
-Baldurs Gate 3 exists now, and so this game will automatically be compared to that in many ways.

 

[MujkicHaris]

The game looks like it's made for people who have never played RPGs.

 

[Mister Wolf]

The in game models look good.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Well at least there's no micro-transactions.

 

[Arsic]

The game looks like it's made for people who have never played RPGs.

??? Based off of what.

 

[splattered]

Game looked good to me at the reveal, I laughed at everyone freaking out over "fortnite graphics" ... I will give it a shot. If it sucks it sucks but I'm not gonna be negative about it before we ever really even see the gameplay.

 

[Damageinc103]

I want this to be good so bad….it kinda sucks only having 2 companions.

 

[ungalo]

It's rarely talked about but i feel Dragon Age and Mass Effect were destroyed as franchises because of people who played it for the romances.

This thing existed in DAO and Mass Effect 1 but it never felt like it was fetishized. It was just because it's an RPG and you can do what you want. But then interpersonal relationships became the main focus. And it even looks like people who grew up with those IPs then went to work for Bioware are really "into that".

 

[EverydayBeast]

Origins remains a favorite and it was an honor to play it as a freshman in high school 2009, this game looks intriguing, are the darkspawn back? Morrigan?

 

[Punished Miku]

I'll play it on GP.

Loved Origins. Skipped 2. Skipped Inquisition.

 

[Toots]

Dragon age art direction was never really interesting, but here it's so bland it makes me want to do nothing actually it's just so bland.

Looks crappy, small and clustered.

 

[MujkicHaris]

??? Based off of what.

It has a clay-like shading model and mesh modeling design language that's reminiscent of Pixar movies and toy miniatures that are consumed by masses. Scenes look more like amusement parks, made out of props and not lived in. Too clean, no grittiness, dirt and decay. All these things are something every experienced RPG player notices. Some know how to express it, some don't. But we all feel this. The game looks like it's made for casual gamers.

 

[Doczu]

Well at least there's no micro-transactions.

Get ready for macro-transactions

 

[sigmaZ]

No.

 

[Stafford]

No information at all on combat? Will it be like DAI or will it do away with any TB stuff and is fully real-time? I recall a leaked clip a while ago and the combat was fully real-time. I also believe they wanted to go for like God of War esque combat?

 

[STARSBarry]

??? Based off of what.

The marketing up to this point? Your saying its not been aimed at the "LOL FORTNITE" crowd so far?

 

[ComputerBlue]

I want this to be good so bad….it kinda sucks only having 2 companions.

I could be misremembering because it’s been so long, but doesn’t every other dragon age game only allow you two companions at a time?

 

[captainnapalm]

It's rarely talked about but i feel Dragon Age and Mass Effect were destroyed as franchises because of people who played it for the romances.

This thing existed in DAO and Mass Effect 1 but it never felt like it was fetishized. It was just because it's an RPG and you can do what you want. But then interpersonal relationships became the main focus. And it even looks like people who grew up with those IPs then went to work for Bioware are really "into that".

This is my issue with BG3. I feel like all the hype is just because of the sex and nudity. The game is basically Divinity Original Sin with more cinematic dialogues. Take away all the fetishization, as you call it, and I don't think the game becomes a phenomenon. It's not like we've seen an explosion of interest in other CRPGs or anything.

 

[Terenty]

Art style straight up of a mobile game

 

[AJUMP23]

I think only 2 companions sucks, I would want to take everyone and use them at all times.

 

[Roman Empire]

Wow, that's a larger departure from the art style than I expected. Not really digging it. And the "mobile" art style comment sounds appropriate.

 

[YuLY]

I'm really not feeling that cast tbh, the only one interesting seems the dwarf female. Purely based on looks and previous trailer.

 

[Dazraell]

No information at all on combat? Will it be like DAI or will it do away with any TB stuff and is fully real-time? I recall a leaked clip a while ago and the combat was fully real-time. I also believe they wanted to go for like God of War esque combat?

Looks like it will be real-time like God of War. GameInformer mentioned this on their cover story news:

We visited BioWare's Edmonton, Canada, office for an exclusive look at Dragon Age: The Veilguard, including a look at its character creator, its prologue and opening missions, and more. We also spoke to many of the game's leads about the name change, the series' shift to real-time action combat, the various companions (and the relationships you can forge with them), and The Veilguard's hub location. You can learn about the titular Veilguard, Solas' role in the game, and so much more in our 12-page cover story for Dragon Age: The Veilguard

 

[Stafford]

Looks like it will be real-time like God of War. GameInformer mentioned this on their cover story news:

If done well, let's FUCKING go!

 

[Zheph]

No information at all on combat? Will it be like DAI or will it do away with any TB stuff and is fully real-time? I recall a leaked clip a while ago and the combat was fully real-time. I also believe they wanted to go for like God of War esque combat?

we will see it in 2 hours hopefully

 

[Methos#1975]

So is the inquisitor the main again?

 

[Bert Big Balls]

It has a clay-like shading model and mesh modeling design language that's reminiscent of Pixar movies and toy miniatures that are consumed by masses. Scenes look more like amusement parks, made out of props and not lived in. Too clean, no grittiness, dirt and decay. All these things are something every experienced RPG player notices. Some know how to express it, some don't. But we all feel this. The game looks like it's made for casual gamers.

Yeah, you just described every Fantasy TV show that isn't GoT or HotD. Where everything is shiny and bright, nothing looks lived in, there's no grit. Clothes look like they just came out of the drycleaners. Everyone's skin is clean and shiny. It fucks me off.

 

[Dazraell]

So is the inquisitor the main again?

No, MC is a new protagonist named Rook or something like that. You can pick race, gender and background for him like for Inquisitor, but it's not a same character

 

[Salz01]

Character designs look straight out of the book Lame…

 

[Methos#1975]

No, MC is a new protagonist named Rook or something like that. You can pick race, gender and background for him like for Inquisitor, but it's not a same character

Oh, I was kinda of hoping they were again.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

My Inquisitor has waited 10 years for this. Hope it doesn’t suck as bad as I expect it to.

 

[Hudo]

My Inquisitor has waited 10 years for this. Hope it doesn’t suck as bad as I expect it to.

That nose alone gives you +5 cunning.

 

[Metnut]

All this sounds solid. I’m willing to pretend that the trailer never happened if they show 20 minutes of good stuff today.

 

[Dazraell]

That nose alone gives you +5 cunning.

Sniffer buff unlocked

 

[stn]

Looks better than the trailer but I'm still not thrilled.

 

[T4keD0wN]

No information at all on combat? Will it be like DAI or will it do away with any TB stuff and is fully real-time? I recall a leaked clip a while ago and the combat was fully real-time. I also believe they wanted to go for like God of War esque combat?

Ive never played 2, but wasnt Dragon Age was always real-time with pause though? I wouldnt worry at all about them switching to turn based given the franchises history and that leaked footage.

 

[Life Diff]

Based on the writing in the trailer I don't have any hope for this and its marvelification of the gory dark fatansy landscape DA is supposed to be, but hopefully I'm wrong

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

Too many games and other things to enjoy than dedicate precious time to Marvel Age The Veilguard.

 

[Stafford]

I'm not going back to DAI for that though, but it's cool.

 

[Bartski]

here

 

[sigmaZ]

Based on the writing in the trailer I don't have any hope for this and its marvelification of the gory dark fatansy landscape DA is supposed to be, but hopefully I'm wrong

But there's DRAGONS!

 

[Madflavor]

Gameplay Trailer in 7 minutes. It's supposed to be 20 minutes long.

 

[Zheph]

its on, looks decent so far

 

[Draugoth]

Previews are coming up