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Dragon Age: The Veilguard released on October 31st on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S. Right now on Metacritic, the PC version boasts a 79, while the PS5 version boasts an 84.

In stark contrast to these respectable scores is its user review score on Metacritic, which is a 3.7 out of 10 across nearly 3,000 user reviews, and counting. This makes it one of the lowest rated games of 2024, when filtering by Metacritic user review.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard sales, based on Steam data, seem underwhelming so far, though far from poor. Only time will tell what the impact the various campaigns for and against the game will have on its sales. It is pretty evident it is not going to light the world on fire commercially, or even come close to matching RPG hits of the last few years like Elden Ring, Hogwarts Legacy, Black Myth: Wukong, and Baldur's Gate 3.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard User Reviews on Metacritic Are an Abysmal 2.6/10

Dragon Age: The Veilguard user reviews are starting to post online, and it is bad news for BioWare, RPG, and the new Dragon Age game.

comicbook.com

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

I mean... how meaningful is this information, really? We all knew it'd get review bombed. It'd get bombed even if the game turned out to be good.

 

[FunkMiller]

Game gets review bombed in 2024. News at 10.

 

[Sooner]

Because user scores almost never have anything to do with the actual game.

I'm not playing this because of the SJW agenda garbage, but I'm not giving it a review either.

 

[MujkicHaris]

3.7? That's way too much.

 

[bender]

I mean... how meaningful is this information, really?

 

[HerjansEagleFeeder]

I mean... how meaningful is this information, really? We all knew it'd get review bombed. It'd get bombed even if the game turned out to be good.

Has this ever happened?

 

[Blank Space Invader]

Good.

 

[Superposition]

Did my part.

The score is 1 because there might be a block later against 0's.

 

[T_T]

I mean... how meaningful is this information, really? We all knew it'd get review bombed. It'd get bombed even if the game turned out to be good.

Not meaningful at all, agreed. Steam reviews are at 75% and PSN reviews at 8.9/10 which are better than I thought they'd be.

 

[Guilty_AI]

Not meaningful at all, agreed. Steam reviews are at 75% and PSN reviews at 8.9/10 which are better than I thought they'd be.

tbf, mostly positive on steam usually translates to "Not worse thing ever but not exactly good"

 

[R3TRO]

Children.

 

[Topher]

Personally I put zero stock in metacritic reviews. No accountability whatsoever on whether any of the people leaving a "review" actually played the game.

 

[StueyDuck]

Dragon Age: The Veilguard released on October 31st on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S. Right now on Metacritic, the PC version boasts a 79, while the PS5 version boasts an 84.

In stark contrast to these respectable scores is its user review score on Metacritic, which is a 3.7 out of 10 across nearly 3,000 user reviews, and counting. This makes it one of the lowest rated games of 2024, when filtering by Metacritic user review.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard sales, based on Steam data, seem underwhelming so far, though far from poor. Only time will tell what the impact the various campaigns for and against the game will have on its sales. It is pretty evident it is not going to light the world on fire commercially, or even come close to matching RPG hits of the last few years like Elden Ring, Hogwarts Legacy, Black Myth: Wukong, and Baldur's Gate 3.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard User Reviews on Metacritic Are an Abysmal 2.6/10

Dragon Age: The Veilguard user reviews are starting to post online, and it is bad news for BioWare, RPG, and the new Dragon Age game.

comicbook.com

I think the game looks like hot shit, as in the act of pressing buttons results in boredom... let alone the terrible writing and self insterts.

But I can also see this is just silly review bombing when majority of the reviews are 0/10

none of what is in the game was hidden before launch, if a bunch of turkeys bought the game and then felt it was a 0 then i gotta say they deserve it.

This sort of play is just ammunition for the kotakus and doesn't reach the developers/publishers, men in suits.

 

[ap_puff]

tbf, mostly positive on steam usually translates to "Not worse thing ever but not exactly good"

That sounds like what a lot of non-clickbait reviewers think of the game. Basically it's mid and somewhat disappointing to fans.

 

[Bartski]

they're mostly positive on steam at 8,5k last time I checked

 

[Plague Doctor]

You guys are fucking sheep.

Don't you see? Don't you get it?

The Chuds paid off all the users for that score.

And you fucking fell for it. Typical Gaf.

 

[Gaiff]

Consoles win again.

 

[adamsapple]

Metacritic user reviews

 

[AltogetherAndrews]

Reviews? What fucking reviews?

 

[Hawk The Slayer]

I don't trust either reviewer/journalist scores nor user scores that don't require buying the game. Although User scores are still better than journalist/reviewer scores if I have to pick one of the lesser evil. Steam score are usually the most accurate.

 

[Warnen]

Can't trust critics, can't trust users…

Man I miss the good ol days of console wars

 

[Unknown Soldier]

It's the Star Wars: The Last Jedi of gaming

 

[tTHANOSs]

Greg Miller says if you don't like this game because of the forced woke it's because you're a bigot.

 

[TGO]

It's the Star Wars: The Last Jedi of gaming

That's The Last of Us PT II

 

[Kacho]

Greg Miller says if you don't like this game because of the forced woke it's because you're a bigot.

Absolutely devastated to hear that

 

[BacklashWave534]

Greg Miller says if you don't like this game because of the forced woke it's because you're a bigot.

Greg Miller has the world's smallest junk. He literally turned on his best friend to support the church of Woke.

 

[Thyuda]

CohhCarnage, the most diplomatic and safe streamer out there called the writing "as if it was written for a 4 year old" and " one of the worst writing I've seen" .

 

[hemo memo]

Game gets review bombed in 2024. News at 10.

Accurately you can name it review corrected.

 

[HogIsland]

Game seems to be doing well.

 

[tTHANOSs]

Greg Miller has the world's smallest junk. He literally turned on his best friend to support the church of Woke.

I used to enjoy watching kinda funny but right now with election season they are insufferable.

 

[Digital-Aftertaste]

is gifting the game to a friend, who's a diehard fan of DA:O's story, as an april fools joke too mean?

 

[SmokedMeat]

BioWare may have fucked up, but Metacritic user reviews are meaningless.

 

[Lokaum D+]

Game seems to be doing well.

 

[lh032]

Game is woke but let's not pretend metacritic user reviews are serious .

Console wars , trolls, ranting , haters all affect the user review scores.

 

[Eesha]

You guys are fucking sheep.

Don't you see? Don't you get it?

The Chuds paid off all the users for that score.

And you fucking fell for it. Typical Gaf.

but chuds are mostly poor, how do they pay for those reviews?

 

[FunkMiller]

I'm struggling to think of anything more pathetic than leaving a review for a game you've never played, just to annoy people on the other side of a fucking stupid political argument than you.

 

[ap_puff]

I'm struggling to think of anything more pathetic than leaving a review for a game you've never played, just to annoy people on the other side of a fucking stupid political argument than you.

"Pathetic" seems like an adequate word to describe the current state of public discourse on just about anything

 

[Hugare]

Steam reviews are much more reliable than MC user scores from people that havent touched the game but have their own agenda.

Just saying

 

[FunkMiller]

Steam reviews are much more reliable than MC user scores from people that havent touched the game but have their own agenda.

Just saying

Any review platform that does not require the reviewer to have purchased the product can be safely ignored.

 

[tommib]

Now do Steam where it's doing fine.

Stop with the hate train. It leads to nowhere.

 

[MMaRsu]

Holy shit at Schrier on Twitter

'i dont actually like the game but I like seeing you chuds owned'

Holy shit, so if you dont like this game your a chud?

Whats wrong with these people?

 

[MMaRsu]

Now do Steam where it's doing fine.

 

[Kamina]

From what I've seen so far the game is a 6/10, perhaps a 7 at times.

- boring repetitive puzzles
- good gameplay
- story somewhat interesting
- good looking environments
- immersion breaking modern SJW dialogue
- generally weak dialogue
- no blood magic
- whats with the oversized heads on almost all characters?
- weak character creator

 

[Digital-Aftertaste]

Now do Steam where it's doing fine.

Stop with the hate train. It leads to nowhere.

73%... all they had to do to avoid the shit user reviewing on metacritic was not write the story, characters, and scenes as if it were theater kids doing larping in a liberal arts college. the 84 from journos would probs have made sense if that was the case.

 

[Cakeboxer]

Metacritic is already pointless, but the user score is even worse. People rating anything but the game itself.
- Trying to punish something they don't like like DEI content
- Console fanboys spamming 10s for exclusive games they eventually never played and 0s for the competition's games they 100% never played.

 

[Robb]

"user" reviews.

 

[Ozriel]

So user reviews from actual purchasers on Steam weren't negative enough, so the gameplan now is to cling to Metacritic user reviews that are functionally useless?

 

[Lucifers Beard]

3.7 seems low since the game is actually functional. With the writing I've seen in an RPG that started life out as extremely dark and almost horror like in places, I can't see why anyone would give this more than a 5.

 

[Ozriel]

From what I've seen so far the game is a 6/10, perhaps a 7 at times.

- boring repetitive puzzles
- good gameplay
- story somewhat interesting
- good looking environments
- immersion breaking modern SJW dialogue
- generally weak dialogue
- no blood magic
- whats with the oversized heads on almost all characters?
- weak character creator

'Seen'? Not even played?

My word

Not meaningful at all, agreed. Steam reviews are at 75% and PSN reviews at 8.9/10 which are better than I thought they'd be.

Well, there it is.