>>714325256
>a once beloved series
Just coming in this thread to seagull on this retarded opinion.
Dragon Age has always been a C-rate fantasy series with a niche fanbase hyping it like it's A-tier. When, in truth, this series only gets love precisely because the market is usually slim pickings when its latest entry rolls around.
DA:O is arguably the only good entry anyone will actually die on a hill to defend. DA2 was rushed out the door and is a bad game and story because of it mostly because Bioware was high on its own supply and paired that with an unrealistic timeline. Inquisition is a single player mmo with a story that is now meaningless because of Veilguard and it's a fuck-ugly game too- just look at that greasy skin texture everyone has.
This is a series that constantly shifted art styles, tones, and themes because it was too self-conscious to just embrace that it was a product of 1990s era fantasy novels. Instead, it continued to inject whatever pop culture fantasy trite it could to fit in and find a fanbase rather than actually making an artistic product that stood on principles and attracted a core base (hint: this is why DA is a product and not art). You can literally just look at the darkspawn between each entry and see how this series never had a cohesive identity besides being whatever was marketable for the time.
By all metrics, the last time this series was likable was before 75% of the current /v/ user base was able to shoot semen back in the 2000s. The fact anyone believes Veilguard is some abomination and not the natural conclusion of what this series was heading after it went creatively bankrupt in DA 2 is probably the most shocking outcome from this whole, shit journey.
For the rest of my life, I will randomly seagull this opinion because DA never deserved a third of the conversation it has received. It's a zombie franchise kept animated by EA burning money and fanfic writers getting hired by Bioware.
