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[Kilau]

I’m hoping if I don’t add it to my library, Sony won’t give EA and money for this trash.

 

[ResilientBanana]

At least Avowed doesn’t force any woke shit on you.

 

[ManaByte]

If you have a Pro the upgrade is nice, just always chose the asshole responses to the horned chick.

 

[laynelane]

The OP asks for the opinion of those who have tried the game, yet people who don't even want to try it are replying here. This forum really is something alright.

It's a forum that doesn't rigidly adhere to topics and questions in posts. I prefer it that way since it allows for more perspectives when discussing things.

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

It's probably not nearly as bad as many make it out to be but their, ahem, aversion for Trans people and apparently the color purple will stop them from even trying it.

According to your own words, you haven't downloaded it, yet you are calling people names.

Time is gold and I don't usually trade gold for shit.

 

[Sooner]

If someone gets a sex change, then gets another one to reverse it back, can it be argued the person never really got a sex change to begin with? lol

Are you implying there are only two genders?

 

[Coconutt]

Are you implying there are only two genders?

 

[T-0800]

I played about 15 minutes before deleting it. Not enough time to know if it is any good but enough time to know I didn't want to find out.

 

[thatJohann]

Loved it!

 

[EverydayBeast]

Dragon age 1, 2 and Inquisition are absolutely good games and I think the pettiness surrounding Veilguard (dreadwolf) is from smug elder ring, souls players.

 

[DaGreatBeRich]

I beat it in December as a Rogue, it was pretty good and had an epic ending, took about 57 hours. If u want to avoid the woke stuff then dont do the taash missions. It was actually quite funny to see that even in the game the mother of taash didnt aprove of her non binary gender identity, lol. I recommend doing all the loyaly missions though. Even though they say this game is woke trash, Avowed had a gay character who took it in the a**. I beat that game too and it was also a good playthrough on gamepass. (not worth $70)

 

[MayauMiao]

On a related note, the Veilguard subreddit noticed that the Player Rating has been steadily decreasing since it became available on PS+, but the nutjobs think its being unjustly review bombed

The copium

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

Didn’t try it yet. Maybe after I beat Balan wonderworld and E.T. from my backlog.

 

[Revolutionary]

The copium

Top 1% Commenter on a subreddit less than a year old. Poor guy is working overtime (for free) to alter the narrative.

 

[mgcemir85]

So I actually bought psn subscription to give this a try, and 5 hours later I regretted it already.

So here is my short take.

Made a female character, mage, and 2 hours in realised I was playing in a all female squad trying to stop some evil. Exclusively no men. 4 woman sitting in circle with very, very childish dialogue, discussing the obvious. Love women, but man...

Made a male warrior, played for 3 hours more, realised this isn't and rpg, it's very bad action game, the dialogue only got worse.

Figured there are much better ways to waste my free time, and shut it off.

 

[Paasei]

Cancelled my PS+ when it hit.

 

[Lord Malachite]

I refuse to add this to my game library. I don't want EA getting any kind of monetary kickback from my activating a license for it, nor do I want any measure of player engagement to accrue based on my actions.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a game that I do not want to exist. While I don't have a time machine to prevent its development and release from occurring, I will take every reasonable action to let EA know they develop games like this to their own financial detriment.

 

[hollowcupra]

Played it a few months ago. Not as bad as everyone here claims it to be. Not a great game either but if it's free it's worth playing it.

 

[duck_sauce]

I could not get past the character creator. It was too cringe for me.
I don’t want the words pronouns and non binary in a fantasy game.

 

[Icymanipulator]

I refused to even add it to my collection. I will literally never play this. My time is far too valuable to waste on this, so it being free doesn’t mean anything.

 

[MaxwellParrish]

The copium

Well, in their defense, you can find on the internet one such video for pretty much every game ever released (and even for some that have been axed before release), so they are probably right, at least literally...

 

[Damigos]

I stopped at character creation screen, the they/them pronoun killed me.
Wont make it to "so i m trans" scene

 

[RagnarokIV]

Don't put this cumstain on your account. Once it's there, it's there.

 

[PectacularOz]

Downloaded it but i don't think i'll be able to start it soon.
Newborn won't let me enjoy my console...

I will give it a try at some point that is certain, but i won't insist if the gameplay doesn't click soon enough.
I already watched some footage and writing seems very bad. Even though combat looks like fun, most reviews i read say its very repetitive and you pretty much do everything the first 5+10 hours.

Bruh my guy is 1.5 years - Newborns sleep so much, we played so many games. Now I get maybe 2 hours a day, if I stream over lunch in the office.

 

[MetalFreak]

Didn't even add that shit to my library.

 

[SNPlayen]

I’ll give it a go when I finish Robocop. Looking forward to pulling a barve or 2.

 

[The Pleasure]

 

[Embearded]

Bruh my guy is 1.5 years - Newborns sleep so much, we played so many games. Now I get maybe 2 hours a day, if I stream over lunch in the office.

You are lucky!
Mine doesn't sleep that much and she wants to sleep on us because we didn't leave her in the crib thst much due to spit up...
Now i get maybe 2-3 hours of play during the entire week.

 

[KungFucius]

Is the woke stuff as bad as people were complaining about or was it a lot of hype about nothing?

It depends. I don't give a shit about this stuff usually, but You could actually say that they force it on you. Not the trans quest which is both fine for what it is and ridiculous because this shit should take the back burner when there is end of the world stuff happening. There is trans stuff they want to put in your character's diary or whatever even after you clearly chose male, he/him and made a complete douchebag of a character. That is pretty forced because the choices you made should have filtered that out. I then ignored that thing as I normally do because I aint reading lore in a game that is already packed with hours of dialogue.

 

[Ev1L AuRoN]

Didn't bother to add to my game library, and I won't do any type of support for this game. The price wasn't the issue for me. I have a huge backlog of great games, I won't waste my time on sh*t

 

[Seomel]

From first combat encounter i could smell how dhit this game was. Didnt even bother playing further.

 

[ChuckeRearmed]

I remember times when Morrigan was hot.

 

[Killjoy-NL]

Are you implying there are only two genders?

Off-topic, but there are only 2 genders.

 

[Kvally]

Sounds like Avowed to me

 

[Shtof]

Tried it on the Pro.

It's a prime example on games can look absolutely beautiful and ugly at the same time.
I don't know what it is. Maybe I dislike the art style.
Comparing it to Forbidden West, which I think is the best looking game this generation.
Seemingly on a similar technical level, they are just miles between in how "beautiful" they look.
This is of course heavily dependent on art direction.
These days, "art direction" is like an umbrella term for the entire graphics pipeline.
And there are probably many important steps in that pipeline.
Maybe it is like Veilguard gets some of those steps right, but Horizon gets almost all of those steps right.

 

[poodaddy]

It's probably not nearly as bad as many make it out to be but their, ahem, aversion for Trans people and apparently the color purple will stop them from even trying it.

It's certainly why I won't try it.

 

[Complistic]

Tried it on the Pro.

It's a prime example on games can look absolutely beautiful and ugly at the same time.
I don't know what it is. Maybe I dislike the art style.
Comparing it to Forbidden West, which I think is the best looking game this generation.
Seemingly on a similar technical level, they are just miles between in how "beautiful" they look.
This is of course heavily dependent on art direction.
These days, "art direction" is like an umbrella term for the entire graphics pipeline.
And there are probably many important steps in that pipeline.
Maybe it is like Veilguard gets some of those steps right, but Horizon gets almost all of those steps right.

I think a lot of the environments do actually look all right, the characters just don't fit in them.

 

[MayauMiao]

It's a prime example on games can look absolutely beautiful and ugly at the same time.

We already have a prime example of beautiful graphics with ugly design.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Steamdb CCUs. It broke under 800 last night. Down to abut 760.

 

[Dr. Samuel Hayden]

The copium

Just like TLJ stopped being a festering pile of shit that killed the franchise after nearly 10 years, right?

 

[MayauMiao]

Just like TLJ stopped being a festering pile of shit that killed the franchise after nearly 10 years, right?

TLJ killed it, RoS was the nail in the coffin.

 

[Matchew]

Had a great time with it at launch. I don't hold the Dragon Age IP very highly to begin with like others, so I just approached it as a game and had a good time.

 

[rubik's dude]

We already have a prime example of beautiful graphics with ugly design.

It's giving gas station vibes.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

I've never played a Dragon Age game, I'm not about to start now

 

[Ronin_7]

It's pretty good actually.

 

[Complistic]

Origins is great. And that's it.

 

[Matchew]

Origins is great. And that's it.

Origins has a section that might be the worse in all of gaming. It isn't great.

 

[Complistic]

Origins has a section that might be the worse in all of gaming. It isn't great.

The fade doesn't last that long, certainly not long enough to bring down the experience. I've always played with the "Skip the fade" mod ever since my first time though.

 

[EN250]

People are adding that shite to their library?

 

[Matchew]

The fade doesn't last that long, certainly not long enough to bring down the experience. I've always played with the "Skip the fade" mod ever since my first time though.

You mod out entire section of the game. Not saying the game isn't good, but Dragon Age was never great.