Topic: Dragon Age: The Veilguard

@Pizzamorg Just wanted to say that I really appreciate your impressions. I'll revisit them once I beat the game.

In the meantime after 55 hours I'm really glad that the game is good. It's one of these games for me where it's well-sized. So it's not a big Open world game where you travel hundreds of Kilometers to reach your point and it's not too linear where you feel you're just being directed to follow a specific path.

• Yes, the dialogues are cringey sometimes but for someone who's coming from FFVII Rebirth and LAD: IW, I felt it's pretty normal.
• Once I hit level 30 and being able to choose a specialization, the gameplay is way better than before and at some points it reminded me of how Epic God of War combat was (Playing as a Spellblade mage with Orb + Dagger as main).
• This is the best looking world I've ever seen and while I saw Pizzamorg critisize it, I didn't feel it's all over the place and each area has its own unique style that represents it. Maybe I'm a little biased here since I saw a lot of representations to the Middle East and North Africa cultures but that made me happy. The highlights for me would be (Treviso - Dock Town and The grand Necropolis).
• The companions are really interesting and I enjoy their side conversations either in the Lighthouse or during our travels together however I'm really disappointed with Varric's role in the game and that I can't even have a proper conversations with him.
• It's not only Varric but even Morrigan, The Inquisitor and Solas. I hoped I can have more personal conversations with them.
• From the technical side the game is really gorgeous and looks even better on PS5 Pro.

On a final note: One of my shots got featured on the official PlayStation Share of the week blog and here it is

Thank you both! I feel like conversations around this game have been really poisoned online and so I tried to stay as far away from those conversations as I could while sharing my thoughts on the game. GG on the shot too @Khwarezm89, it is a beauty.

@Khwarezm89 @Pizzamorg
nice little write ups. I do think I will try this game out when I've finished off a few others and i'm waiting for the likes of KCDII and AC Shadows. And having a strong ending is always good. And, as with movies, sometimes it's best to absorb all you've seen and make up your mind after it's long since been processed by the old grey matter.

What is the PS Share of the week, btw? Is it direct from console shares, or social media etc? Cool that you got to feature 😁

Oh, and also. Any other captures, stick em in here https://www.pushsquare.com/forums/retro_and_other_gaming/the_... i'm always keen to have a browse of photomode efforts

@Pizzamorg thank you

@Ravix Thank you for the forum thread . I'll put some shots there.
Re: Share of the week. There's a weekly blog on PS Official blog where they ask the community to share their screenshots for a specific game/ theme using #PSShare #PSBlog and they feature the best shots on the next blog. For example here's this week's theme
THEME: Dragon Age: The Veilguard – Companions
SUBMIT BY: 11:59 PM PT on November 20, 2024

You can find more details here: https://blog.playstation.com/2024/11/15/share-of-the-week-dra...

Ok guys it's time.

I've finally beat the game yesterday after 97 hours of gameplay and got the Platinum Trophy on top of it - got it automatically after beating the game -

I've a lot to say but I don't know where to start to be honest. Act 3 - which lasts for around 6 hours - is the best 6 hours I've played in the whole series. It's BioWare and Dragon Age at its peak. Great conclusion for the 15 years of the series and a secret ending to give you some hint where are we heading next?!!!!

I fell in love with the world and it was great to visit some of the locations that I hoped to visit one day in the series. Treviso, Docktown and Necropolis were my favorites and Rivain was the one I mostly hated.

While it was great to see some of the heroes from the previous titles but I hoped that I can interact with them more than what the game offered.

The soundtrack was my favorite alongside the original Dragon Age: Origins. Hans Zimmer did a great job here and some scenes I got goosebumps because of how the soundtrack was done there.

As a fan of Action RPG games compared to CRPG or Tactical (Sorry about that) so the combat for me was a big highlight and I really enjoyed every combat. Sometimes the combat felt easier than expected so I had to finish the game on Underdog difficulty. The boss battles were awesome and dragons fight are good too.

So far so good. Right? Well, I hoped that dialogue were more mature than what I found in the game. Putting Act 3 aside which has some of the best dialogues in the series too. The rest of the game dialogues was a bit streamlined than expected and not having this type of serious tone to it. And yes there are some cringey moments that I didn't like at all.

I didn't feel satisfied with the Romance scenes to be honest. I fell in love with Bellara but I hoped I had more actual time with her than what was offered in the game. I hope they can maybe do like what they've done with Mass Effect 3 director's cut update or something like that to give us better Romance scenes. Not sure about other companions but at least for Bella's was really undercooked.

Overall, I enjoyed the 97 hours I spent in this game but I don't see myself going back to it anytime soon. It's not because something with the game but it's more of the ending and I don't feel like I can go through these emotions again anytime soon.

If I've to give it a score I would give it as Push Square's review: 8/10

Reportedly most (if not all) of the writing team of Veilguard was laid off after the failed projections.
Only confirmed by the posts of the people affected.

I wonder why the writing team thought 🤔 😀

Just wanted to throw this game some love. Finished it last week, snagged the platinum trophy, and was thinking how I really enjoyed it and was bummed it gets such a bad rap. Played as a lord of fortune warrior, and I really like the shield bouncing and parrying (I'm a big fan of souls games so this was right up my alley).

Prolly gonna make a mage my next playthrough, but it'll be awhile. I bought an Xbox one so I could replay origins and 2.