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Dragon Age: The Veilguard User Reviews on Metacritic Are an Abysmal 3.7/10 on Console (2.2/10 on PC)

Lunatic_Gamer

Gold Member
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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.

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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.

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StueyDuck

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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.

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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.

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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.
 
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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.
 

lh032

I cry about Xbox and hate PlayStation.
Game is woke but let's not pretend metacritic user reviews are serious .

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

Kamina

Golden Boy
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
 

Cakeboxer

Member
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.
 
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Ozriel

M$FT
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?

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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

M$FT
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.
 
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