I can get it for cheap. Is it fun for a few days?

it's decent

Gameplay is good if you can stomach the writing

>>712922116
>decent
in the same way that Andromeda was a "decent" Mass Effect game
it wasn't
they still can't do facial animations and the writing is dogshit, why would it be fun even for an hour?

>>712922229
because it's a game and the gameplay is good? who the fuck rates games with facial animations like wtf

>>712922392
>narrative-driven game has terrible writing and characters that act with the same emotional range as a plank of wood
no, no, you're right, how could that possibly take me out of the story, anon?
nobody plays BioWare games for the gameplay.

>>712921987 (OP)
gameplay is standard
faces are bad
story is bad
characters behave like idiots
4/10 being generous

it's terrible and not even worth a pirate

>>712922392
>who cares about animations lol

bethesda employees detected

>>712922392
Even if you think a narrative driven game doesn't need good story or characters, the game is still trash. The gameplay is trash as well.

>>712922930
>bethesda

bioware*
fuck I can't even keep track of the countless awful western studios

>>712922930
this has better animations than BG3

>>712922930
kino

>>712923042

>>712922930
I would forgive SWTOR on the basis that it's a dumb MMO where three quarters of the budget probably went to those three trailers everybody loved
But Mass Effect and Dragon Age are BioWare's mainstays, their relevance and success is tied directly to how these titles perform and they can't be bothered to deliver even a halfway decent product despite throwing hundreds of millions away between Andromeda and Veilguard.
They deserve to go under if that's the effort they output.

>>712922968
>Even if you think a narrative driven game doesn't need good story or characters, the game is still trash. The gameplay is trash as well.
Now you're just lying to yourself. The gameplay is fine, the writing is good as long as you know when to skip the cringe parts, and it's a fine game. You're just mad that it went top of the charts while you're doodbro shooter lost.

>>712922392
Are we talking about Andromeda or Dawnguard? Former had a far better game-play experience than any other ME game, but its still fucking ME that's like trying to jump start a motorized hotwheels car. No one thought ME was an example of good gameplay; decent and serviceable but not the sole draw.

people saying the combat is 'standard' just shows how low we've fallen

Might as well try Tainted Grail if you want a decent rpg, avoid this one.

>>712921987 (OP)
this shill attempt is so lame
I've seen so nany of these 'is it good or what" threads pop up for hated games like this

>>712922930
that neckroll fucking kills me every time

>>712923391
>defending 2024's slop of the year
You cannot even pretend that it was liked by journos. They obviously did not.

>>712923391
The gameplay is trash. It's Inquisition, but even more repetitive. The story is trash, "just ignore this and this part" is not a point in your favor.

It's an objectively bad game. Do a barv for disrespecting me.

>>712923649
>I've seen so nany of these 'is it good or what" threads pop up for hated games like this

true. i recall seeing a few for dustborne and saints row reboot this year.

>>712923391
>frogposter
>retarded take

every fucking time

>>712923391
neck yourself

>>712921987 (OP)
No it's not good

Here let me save you some time and explain...

It was elves the whole time.

>The Blight

Elves

>The corrupted magisters opening a gateway into the fade and entering the Golden City only to become corrupted

Elves

>Darkspawn

Elves

>Archdemons

Elves

>Tevinter's entire society based on slavery and mage domination

Elves

>Dwarves losing their connection to the Titans

Elves bro

Everything evil in the world was caused by the persecuted minority.

Elves really do deserve to be put into alienages.

>>712921987 (OP)
Stay the hell away from this game if you have any investment in the story of the previous games and lore of the Dragon Age series. Veilguard absolutely wrecks all of it. You're also likely going to come out of the experience not liking or outright hating all of the companions. The story and characters are that bad. If this is your first exposure to anything Dragon Age then the gameplay can be serviceable (as long as you stick to the lower difficulties where everything isn't a damage sponge) as generic action RPG slop but it's nothing great.

>>712924198
This post promotes antisemitism.

>>712921987 (OP)
Trannies are so fucking desperate to change consensus around this trash and act like all the shit around it hasn’t already been argued already and it’s been proven to be utter ass.

>>712921987 (OP)
Boring, bloated game. The gameplay is simple, but serviceable and even quite fun for a while. But even at its best the writing is extremely bland, especially for a party-based RPG and the game is way too damned long given the dearth of actual roleplaying. You keep getting sent to the same locations over and over to kill more and more dudes via poorly motivated missions. But it is polished. So it ends up being a really, big overstuffed beat em up without either the mechanical complexity or the character or narrative hooks to keep the whole thing interesting for long.

>>712921987 (OP)
Its shit

>>712921987 (OP)
They tried to turn it into fortnite, it's a very repulsive game if you've played DA before.

>>712923391
>the writing is good as long as you know when to skip the cringe parts
>If you ignore all the parts that prove me wrong then I would be right.

>>712921987 (OP)
Pirated it and it was very boring.

Story isn't very interesting and for the few choices you have there's even less consequence.
Characters aren't very interesting and behave like children.
DA had a certain edgyness to it and they sanded all that down.
Gameplay was mind-numbingly boring.
Your companions are just there to offer you a few extra spells, they can't die, their normal attack damage is very low and enemies tend to prioritize you.

I mean this with all seriousness: even Andromeda was better.

The one thing I was impressed by was the hair physics/shader. That's the one and only thing they should copy over to the next Mass Effect game.

>>712921987 (OP)
It was an unmitigated success that blew chuddies out of the water but made back no money for the studio and had less peak players than a nine year old map painting game where you roleplay as Nazi Germany.

>>712921987 (OP)
The gameplay is fine for the first 20hrs then it becomes really boring an repetitive. Everything that's not directly tied to the elephant in the room is either mediocre or mid. It's not worth playing, it's not worth sitting through, not now. I finished it because I started playing on release to see how bad it truly was but without that context, you're wasting your time and you will regret it, there are better games to play.

>>712921987 (OP)
No
Play something else

>>712923520
what do you mean? its bad?

>>712921987 (OP)
I got this game for free and I still won't play it.

>>712923520
It's standard by AAA standards yes. It plays like a less polished nu GoW

>>712921987 (OP)
Nah.
I mean, it has some fun, but I don't really recommend it.

>>712921987 (OP)
Will we look back fondly on Veilguard in a few years just like with SW Outlaws?

>>712921987 (OP)
>I can get it for cheap. Is it fun for a few days?
I pirated it and just stopped playing 2/3rds in because it just stayed awful all the way to that point.
Combat is a waste of time but the writing is even worse than the previous Bioware disasters.

>>712925845
>Expect wheyfu
>Get that face
>Get that quest line
>Get that personality
Thanks.

>>712924404
>>712926768
>Will we look back fondly on Veilguard in a few years just like with SW Outlaws?
He's not wrong. Uncs are always willing to glaze old shit. Look at Simpsons Hit and Run. Rushed slop licensed game, but you still have r-tards on here posting about it.

>>712923391
>the writing is good as long as you know when to skip the cringe parts
It really isn’t, and that my problem. The characters are all super nice and safe and never push back or have even the illusion of any autonomy or agenda. And the way you interact with them more or less doesn’t matter. Overall plot wise the writing is better, but not much, and nothing they came up with is particularly interesting. Even if the party was six Morrigans in jewelry and body paint the writing wouldn’t be able to sustain the game.

>>712925418
Yeah, the scenery and visuals were very good. The overall Blight scenery is the best the blight has been depicted in the series I think. (not the darkspawn enemies though).

They sadly fucked the characters with those messed up proportions with the big heads but the scenery is absolutely top tier. About the only thing objectively good about the game.

>>712923391
wokies still coping about veilguard lmao

>>712921987 (OP)
if you care about gameplay and don't care about writing, sure

>>712921987 (OP)

>>712921987 (OP)
>So was this game good or no?
Time for a reminder.
"Writing notes to work through gender crap. (Showing to Rook for help maybe.)

Maevaris pretty. Tarquin tough. Both trans!
(Both open about being trans and said I could share stuff if it helped me on "my journey.")
( I did not ask for "a journey.")

Trans means was other gender. Then changed?
—Wait. No. Was always new thing. Just now acknowledged.
—Not changing. Affirming.

Trans woman IS woman.

Not feeling right in body is dysphoria—WHOLE BIG THING.
—Could feel like want to be guy instead of girl. (no)
—Could feel like not connected to body. (not everyone does this?)
—Could feel uncomfortable with girls who act more feminine.
—No. I like girls. Girls smell good.
—But like hanging out with Lords more than girls.
—Ashamed of not doing what your gender "should do." (UGH)
—Getting euphoria is feeling right.

Non-binary means not man or woman. Can feel like either?
—Can look like guy/girl/neither.
—Some use she/he. Some swap. Some use they. But still single with name?
—"Flynn IS non-binary. They ARE coming this way."
—Confusing but sure.

Also gender-fluid.
—Feel different on different days.
—Can switch pronouns.
—Don't think that's me.

Agender/bigender/demigender/others
—Lot of different ones.
—Not me but okay.

Never too late. Valid even if no words when younger blah blah blah.
—Maevaris saw notes and is mad
—"Write this down, exactly. You're valid. People will say you're not enough this, or too much that. Do not let it diminish you. No two journeys are alike. That's wonderful. Embrace it. Did you... did you get all that?"
—Okay fine."

BioWare degenerates wasted ten years of development to write dialogues like this.

>>712927370
When kids grew up on slop from the bargain-bin at Walmart, of course they would be nostalgic over that trite.

We live in a sea of choices for vidya, some for free even. What kind of parents or, pray tell, a gen-α zygote wants to purchase a $60 game and make fucking Veilguard part of their childhood? No neurotypical would do that.