Dragon Age: The Veilguard - A Disappointing Sequel

[@joannerosalind]

I have a theory that the minor references we do get to the previous games probably came out of the "community council" saying there should be at least SOME call backs. My guess is that the team added some codex at the last minute to appease that feedback.

[@joannerosalind]

And I agree with your review basically 100%. I'm the same, watching a scene thinking the writing is not cohesive but tearing up all the same. I'm a sap.

[@GooseGamingPond]

@@joannerosalind That is a good theory I didn't know that they had a community council but ya if I'd been on it I would have said the same 💀 LOL - and I know right, my lore brain says this is bad but my feewings brain is getting emotional!! 🥺🥺 dang bioware you got me again!!!

[@maia_beans]

Loved this vid, everything you said is 100% spot on, and I appreciate it coming from a true fan. I'm so sad about what this game ended up being, and we're never really going to get a satisfying conclusion to the world we've come to love, and to these characters we've spent years with. Just sad all around T^T

[@GooseGamingPond]

I kinda hope so bad that they do an "Extended Cut"-style DLC that just adds some world state reactivity, it wouldn't fix everything but it'd make me happy!!! (they said t hey won't be doing any DLC but im DELUSIONAL) So glad you liked the vid, and thanks for watching!! ♥

[@iluvBFMV07]

9:06 Such a mood. I see we both were glad to finally be out of Solavellan hell after 10 years.

[@GooseGamingPond]

me sitting on 10yrs of unrequited solas love: lavellan u should go in the fade with him i think

[@kirashepard5863]

I will saying that seeing your title made me go "aw no 😢"

[@sizzybubbles]

As soon as you show the footage of the Litch Emmerich and say that you had to pause from laughing because he was just a skeleton in the team meeting... I WAS DYING XD I hadn't seen anything (didn't play that route) and it was sooo fuckin funny! Like, wow bro. What a flex, casually pulling up to a team meeting like that with everyone else in their casuals. So anyways, your review/thoughts/rambles feels so authentic and I pretty much agree with everything you said 100%. Especially as an original-dragon-age-geriatric-millennial-player whos also a big lore whore... game had a lot of "omg I fuckin love this!" moments, a lotta "wow! that was stupid!" moments... the messing up of well established lore like with the Crows really threw me off. Like I'm cool with there being morally grey and notably nefarious factions! The world ending stakes are high so I makes sense to me that there would be partnerships to get the job done. The game really is a mixed bag and its okay to love it and be critical of it at the same time, at least that's how I feel. Shoutout to the scaredy mud alligator things 10/10

[@GooseGamingPond]

i for real lost it I was NOT expecting my mans to just Be A Skeleton like?? he's crazy he's nuts and yeah definitely! like I said there's a ton to love and I've already started a new playthrough lol I just wish it'd given us more on the Dragon Age front the worst sin is I cant have one of those little mud creatures in the lighthouse with me wtf

[@sizzybubbles]

@@GooseGamingPond Absolute madman! Ohh dude, I am also on act 2 of my second playthrough... after my 125hr launch day 1st playthrough... I swear I smelled every shrub and pet every cat lol. I am veeerrry much on my Dragon Age Bullshit as the tumbr users say. I am unstoppable. Yeah! I wish we could have a 'pet' at the light house? I suppose thats kinda being greedy as we already have Assan, Manfred... Lucanis...

[@GooseGamingPond]

TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Introduction 3:01 The Stuff I Like 10:10 Story Presentation 20:27 Worldbuilding 25:24 Agency/Reactivity/Choices 32:10 Companions 43:16 varric. 47:08 Respect for Prior Games 55:05 Miscellaneous and Nitpicks 57:54 Conclusion

[@kirashepard5863]

At work rn but will give this a proper watch later 💜 I am 40hrs into my **second** playthrough and have put in about 160hrs total so far into Veilgaurd?😂 So I very much like it alot but i do have my own criticisms - so I'm curious to hear what your experience was ♡

[@GooseGamingPond]

Tell me what u thought too! LOL despite all my thoughts I do mention there is quite a bit I rly rly like and I'm already startin a new playthru 💀💀

[@ShadowSomniari]

An hour-long video with opinion of a person who who doesn't even like the gameplay in games while claiming to be a fan? No, thanks

[@ZenJestr]

Not everyone plays games for the same reason. Its like how some people play fighting games to dick around and mash buttons and some take it pro or how some people play Pokemon hyper optimally and some just use the cutest critters they run into

[@GooseGamingPond]

^this! I genuinely love all 3 of the prior games and have hundreds of hours in each, I just find the combat a bit hard to sit through. Origins has the crustiest combat IMO but it's counteracted by having the most reactive, responsive and varied story paths, so I still love it!

[@ShadowSomniari]

​@@GooseGamingPond if people just stayed away from games where they "find the combat a bit hard to sit through" we probably wouldn't see Dragon Age turning into fantasy Life is Strange. DA was simplified and flattened exactly for people like that. "Button-awesome" approach and etc. Everything for 'broader audience', for people who complain when RPG is more complicated than a glorified datesim they think it is. And due this trend latest DA is barely an RPG at all..what a shame, i mean

[@ZenJestr]

@@ShadowSomniari ok but if they have enough data to say that the majority of the playerbase (remember, if you're online talking about a game you're in the minority) doesn't care for the combat, they are incentivized to cater to that demographic. I say this as someone who genuinely prefers Origin's combat system because of the amount of build variety you can squeeze out of it if you know what you're doing and it feels good to set up the tactics in such a way that the game plays itself. but I'm in the minority. most gamers prefer something akin to Veilguard (which I detest, I really didn't like DATV's system) if I was in charge I would've refined the DAO/DA2 system of combat instead of making it temu God of War but pinning the blame on individual consumers is just weird.

[@ShadowSomniari]

@ZenJestr BG3 exists. And combat there is even slower, turn-based one. Bioware followed the desires of people who don't even understand why their games were so good before and lost in a long run