Dragon Age The Veilguard - Story & All Endings Explained!

[@averyaustin1]

First: I'm sorry you had to do this. Second: Thank you FOR doing this so I can further justify my reason to avoid this "game" like the plague.

[@hogexd]

I love the Dragon Age series, but this game genuinely feels like short term memory loss summed up as a videogame

[@BioshadowX]

You know all those interesting, complex villians throughout the series? Yeah well, fuck them, they're actually being manipulated. Modern storytelling continues to retroactively make previous media worse

[@C5Dynamite]

I can't believe the Jailer manipulated every bad guy in DA!!! Truely aone of the best twist.

[@tonyspizza6606]

....sry dude but thats nothing new, this trope comes really often. I dont like it either but i see it so often that i say for myself that these people would still done it, they just needed a little push.

[@65firered]

@@tonyspizza6606 Bad writing doesn't become better just because other people have done it.

[@tonyspizza6606]

@@65firered dont get your point sry

[@efu2046]

​@@tonyspizza6606 "Just because everyone is doing it, doesn't mean it's the right thing to do"

[@cotykilgannon1468]

Dang dude I didn't know you were a challenge runner too lmao "Can I beat and analyze DAV without losing my will to live"

[@vlad4o813]

I'm not a fan of the Executor retcon. Having a secret third party manipulate events from the start feels cheap. It especially feels cheap knowing that every single villain in this series was being guided by them. Loghain went from a complex and nuanced character who betrayed Cailan of his own volition due to his extreme hatred of Orlais to being stripped of all agency because the Executors made him do it. It's just a weak way to introduce a new threat. And there's also the fact that everything we've done in previous games is rendered null. Ferelden, Kirkwall, and Orlais fall to the Blight, so all that time spent there trying to save those places now means nothing. That doesn't even get into the other retcons. What a disastrous story this is.

[@OrphanCrippler1]

Yeah. Its actually world ruining bad. Like im not interested at all in anything dragon age has to say going forward

[@devinb4928]

Prob something to do with the writers trooning out but leftists don’t seem to think so

[@ArtemisZ3000]

Not buying or playing this game. Im a huge DAO fan and this game is trash compared to it. Much love for the video!! Here to find out what happens without giving my hard earned money to new BioWare.

[@C5Dynamite]

The Jailer strikes again. lol

[@mattphoenix4702]

@@C5DynamiteI was literally about to say this.

[@arg_9584]

I can’t believe my HoF and his son Kieran were completely ignored in this game. I can’t bring myself to play this game man, the story is so disappointing.

[@65firered]

Remember the ONLY things that mattered is wheter you romanced Solas (who gets banished to the fade because he's a beloved character) and what happened to the Inquisition in Trespasser according to Bioware. So only the last half hour of the last DLC in Inquisition are the only things Bioware felt was worth carrying over.

[@AL-lh2ht]

real talk, every single dragon age game barely brought anything over.

[@65firered]

@AL-lh2ht Let's assume that's the case, the choice he brought up was so significant it was a plot point of Inquisition and isn't a choice that is carried over here where it would be most relevant.

[@tonyspizza6606]

I must say....the story sounds pretty good, but a shame how they ignore the choices, maybe in the next game

[@mattphoenix4702]

To be fair, they said over and over that the HoF AND the Champion of Kirkwall/Gray Warden companion wouldn’t be in this game. This was back when the writers who created Dragon Age and Thedas were still working on Dreadwolf. The original intent seemed to be that the FINAL resolution of the story, or at least the story of the group of characters we’ve played as and with, would have been wrapped up in 5. But then BioWare fired all the original writers that were still employed there and they scrapped the story of Dreadwolf and shifted to what we got in Veilguard. The story feels disconnected and clunky and rushed because it IS.

[@kibikiwi175]

I love how everywhere you go, this game has unanimously brought everyone together to take the piss out of it. I love democracy.

[@goldholmes3668]

Good, now I don't have to play this game :)

[@blackusai]

Yeah I really didn't want to give EA my money.

[@WrathfulGamingByWrath]

Somebody has kidnapped this mans family, and they clearly demanded ransom via high quality video essays. Another banger video Gingy, and with blistering speed. You're work is impressive just dont burn out brother. You're welfare matters to us too. ❤

[@hinkelstein1494]

So, Flemeth doesn’t make much sense, right? Morrigan essentially states that possessing Mythal’s soul does not make her immortal. So how did Flemeth manage to stay alive for so long? If the Flemeth we meet is indeed the same Flemeth from centuries ago, and if she inherited Mythal’s soul from previous vessels, then why is this Flemeth specifically immortal until Solas kills her? Isn’t this a pretty big retcon? Logically, Flemeth didn’t give Morrigan her consciousness or anything like that-just memories and a fragment of Mythal’s soul. Or does this imply that the Flemeth we meet might actually be a distant descendant who remembers the life of her ancestor and simply continues the name “Flemeth”? It feels like either a significant oversight in writing or perhaps yet another retcon. I also HATE the reveal that Andraste was just one of Mythal’s vessels. Why did they have to strip away any nuance around whether Andrastianism has some credibility, even in its basic tenets?

[@efrenarevalo2025]

I hate this game's dialogue and I hate EA Bioware for everything they've done to DA but I can't understand why some people Dislikes THIS video too. This is a well done video explaining the things that happened, nothing more. Don't prove to those assholes that we're just trolls who hates for the sake of hating.

[@MusicaX79]

30:20 The golden city not being the seat of the maker is the worst kept secret in all the games up till now. It was all but stated by the developer to be Arlathan shunted to the fade. It's also one of the few things in the Dragon Age series that is extremely stupid since there is evidence Everywhere and I mean Everywhere that Arlathan is the Golden city. But the world acts as if its some insane leap in logic.

[@Snappybiscuits]

It was ridiculous that they didn't have the maker be an actual entity. That would've made "the secret" that really isn't a secret have more bite to it. A better secret is if we found out the maker was around since the time of the elves and titans but was completely neutral during the war, or better yet, he be the one pulling the strings between elves and titans causing them to kill each other so he can amass more power without starting a war.

[@XxXVideoVeiwerXxX]

Well this video was interesting. It confirms for me that they should have kept the name "dreadwolf" The whole veil breaking thing seems like a straight rehash of inquisition, but man, that true ending stuff and lore dump with solas and the elves and golden palace, thats pretty cool. The varric twist being the same as the mgs5 paz reveal is, eh, but sounds like it works a bit better here, still sucks but given it was solas who did it and that matters narrative wise, it sounds well done from the video anyway. Also the party being able to die and stuff, and one being straight forced to die is unexpected. However, I am glad i spent 40 minutes rather than dozens of hours or however long it took. Given the lore stuff seemed mostly finale based. Wasn't a fan of the full action game shift, inquisition was a nice upgrade to origin IMO. Then you have the overall writing quality, it just screamed "modern" which, i don't want in an old timey pre gunpowder fantasy world with high magic...the pixar/disneyfication bit seemed so over the top, it probably would have soured any cool lore dumps after hours of hearing it. Also wtf was with all those frumpy/short elves? Thats what dwarves are for. It really does seem like there was a good foundation, then the lead guy left, the project was thrown to the 'new age' types and we got a lot of bad writing with tidbits of goodness. Shame really.

[@laju6398]

Slight nitpick: the setting isn't pre-gunpowder, but the gunpowder is faction locked. The technology level otherwise is also more likely 17. or 18. Century.

[@MusicaX79]

Solas screaming like some Weeb Villian as he gets banished, will never not irritate me. It’s Kai Leng 2 Electric Boogaloo. Except they butcher a well-established character to do it.

[@65firered]

Too many people liked Solas and were excited to see him be a main character, so they sent him to the shadow realm as punishment.

[@MusicaX79]

@@65firered Current Bioware was too scared to do a High Magic Fantasy game.

[@65firered]

@@MusicaX79 They want to turn Dragon Age into something else. We saw this with movies as well, Rings of Power for example. People who hate the souce material and the audience and purposely attempt to rewrite franchises into their own vision.

[@gavincarothers595]

You mean he wasn't already butchered to begin with the last we seen him in Inquisition?

[@MusicaX79]

@@gavincarothers595 The ending of Inquisition, especially in Trespasser showed that his character was the same. He acknowledged that the current world has value, he also states that he knows he is going to kill millions. He's not happy about any of this, he's not closing his eyes to it either, and most importantly he's not making excuses. It’s why he doesn’t tell the Inquisitor ‘gear up I’m going to kill you and everyone’ he says ‘prepare for the apocalypse that is to come because I know you can handle the consequences.’ In his mind he went from heaven to earth, while it's not hell it's still a vastly different landscape than heaven. He sees value in this earth, but it’s not where he believes he belongs. Listening to him calmly explain everything even when he has been wronged by the inquisitor shows an extreme control over his emotions. For him to go from that to him screaming “Your nothing but a mortal.” Is not only jarring but absurd. I want to point out: “Your nothing but a Mortal.” - Solas DA Veilguard “Your nothing but a mere Human.” - Ribbons Almark Gundam 00 I wonder where they got the dialog from? I’m not joking here his character change and the way he talks is almost parody of Ribbons Almark, it’s cringe.

[@strgz5329]

28:00 bro the writers did solas dirty in this game, also how is varric narrating the story if he died?

[@65firered]

Because PLOT TWIST

[@OhCheez]

@@65firered Its just the plot of his steamy new romance book.

[@jervistetchMadHater]

Oh no why would you do this to yourself !

[@Svafne]

So that the rest of us wouldn't, just like Jesus did!

[@justcast1429]

This game could’ve been great if they didn’t restart production 3 times over and delete player choices

[@DM-kg2jp]

The fact that Varric was dead the whole time and there was almost no mention after you learn about this and no 'clues' beyond him not leaving his room. You can hardly call this a twist. They did a beloved character SO dirty.

[@efrenarevalo2025]

They saw MGSV and think it was a nice twist so they copied it.

[@65firered]

@@efrenarevalo2025 But they didn't understand it at all so they ended up completely messing even the most basic things.

[@jossebrodeur6033]

There are clues though, you just didn't catch them. Varric is ignored in all the meetings, whenever anyone brings him up Rook changes the subject immediately (almost compulsively), and Varric very clearly telegraphs that he's probably going to die at the beginning of the game. Its actually pretty obvious once the twist is revealed.

[@pnjdumal]

Thank you for this video, i tried to finish this game but even as a gift i couldn't go past 20 hours because of the god awful dialogues and characters. Edit : The final act of the game seems to be LEAGUES above of the other arcs, what a waist of potential.

[@geogeo3733]

I played 15 hours then uninstalled and now I'm here. I always finish the games I start but this time I couldn't, was bored out of my mind.

[@Greendawn-di3dl]

I knew this game looked like trash. Damn man. Why cant we get a good dragon age.

[@Quiet_Winter]

Even after so many years and having an example on how to do the final mission good, they still failed, all your choices and hard work have literally no meaning because they wanted for you player character to have regrets lol. Retconned literally whole series and in the end implying that next game will be on the different place entirely, why would you call it a dragon age, if you butchered everything that made this world, thank God I did not buy this. I wish we could all pretend that this game does not exist. Thank you for your work

[@SpicyGinge]

Sheeesh my boy Gingy has been in the lab day and night cooking up back to back to back BANGERS

[@zainroshaan]

First game I just watched the story video of without playing

[@solarianvoid-pi9428]

Don’t overwork yourself with the rapid-fire upload schedule, tho Take care!

[@JettSchnapp]

10:43 THAT IS NOT MY DORIAN

[@thiagofod]

fr lol, i had to pause to take that one in

[@LongTran-kp3kz]

Damn. I liked how they tied DA 2 and 3 into Veilgurad and explaiend so much, but what the hell happened to the HoF and Morrigan's son!?

[@MauOlivares1]

Not even Gingy can make this story interesting

[@digitalizotakugamer_]

Okay this was unexpected glad to see another gingy video as well

[@theeagleswill2928]

Man I can't believe how far dragon age has come I got it for the 360 for like 5$ used at GameStop and loved it but haven't finished any of them shame on me

[@KeyboardSavant]

The most important aspects of this game's story are found in Taash's journal.

[@Gryffisnmore]

I hate this game for what it did to my favorite created game universe.

[@joelando9485]

This game looks like it was made 15 years ago

[@lgeagle8225]

No it doesn't lol the game not good but the graphics are nice af stop hating just to hate

[@lgeagle8225]

What fuckin game from 15 years ago looks like this

[@65firered]

Anthem is unironically a better game in every way. Which... well that says everything honestly.

[@PlaceGunToHead]

and by 15years old children*

[@JohnDBlue]

It has the vibe of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning in it's style

[@healsallwounds]

What godawful decisions BioWare has made with the Dragon Age lore. The origin of the Blight, the Golden City, the Old Gods … all of it is just the laziest bullshit imaginable. I refuse to acknowledge Veilguard as a true Dragon Age sequel. For me, this is just shitty fan fiction, and the DA series ended with Inquisition.

[@Astartes-6969]

Press F To Pay Respects to my boy who had to play this dogshite game.

[@Em-ih5du]

One correction: Solas doesn't kill Flemeth/Mythal at the end of the Trespasser DLC. He does it in the post credit of the Inquistion main game. Trespasser is when he removes the Inquisitor's arm and anchor.

[@thegaaraqueen3489]

Omg, I didn’t know varric actually died!! Wtf?? 😭 come on, that is so not fair.

[@SimonBanquillo]

From what I've seen on the internet the writing seems awful, but I'm curious on how the whole thing with Solas and the cast of inquisition will end, I hope it's not that bad at least

[@Gnight787]

Damn dude that was fast!

[@solarianvoid-pi9428]

Nice, you’ve got perfect timing! I just ran out of stuff to (re)watch when the notification for this upload popped up ❤

[@dranzerjetli5126]

They could have involved the architect, hawke Sutherland and others but nope let's ruin the design of qunaris and make them dragon people.

[@toptechtrendss]

C'mon gingy man we need that blasphemous 2 dlc video fr I know you trying but pleaseeeeeee

[@Fryzzi]

jooo, my Man is pumpin Content, noice.

[@timhurtienne7760]

Gingy this IS the 3rd Video in such short time. Why do you spoil US this much 😢 pls never Stop

[@michaelreber7581]

I haven't finished the game. Gonna save this for when I do.

[@ConAgni]

Nice work on the video, sadly the game is "missed" the potential, to become a true dragopn age succesor...

[@RedDeadAuto1]

Bro you have been BUSY! 5hr silent hill video, 2hr call of duty video. Now this. We’ve been eating 🙌🏽

[@workrase1]

Saw Asmon play it but a few specific scenes just broke this game for me. General story seems interesting tho so glad you made this video. I was interested on who the Dreadwolf really was and the old gods. I am not a DragonAge player.

[@nightefx7618]

gingus kahn conquering one story at a time...thank you chief

[@The_DB9223]

Dude, calm down. Blops6 and now this? Gingy is working himself to the bone.

[@G_korek]

I was very curious about the story of the companions, but I understood why I didn't want to go into the subject in the video, anyway, very good video, thank you for being so quick to send it.

[@RalphELee]

Anyone else watch this so they don't have to play it 🤣

[@TheGameShocker]

Thanks for playing this for me. Not much of a gamer anymore but wanted to see what this game was all about. Especially with all the controversy

[@Equalitro]

great vid

[@Vislow]

This game reminds me why I love FromSoft so much

[@stevemaynard2622]

I'm not planning on playing this, that's why I'm watching this.

[@Svafne]

The first Dragon Age game was superb! The second one was so dumbed down that I quit less than 30 minutes into it. And this is just a facsimile, I'm guessing none of the original creators had anything to do with this game, and that shows.

[@Capital_snack69]

40 minute gingy vid? Impossible

[@Pendji]

I fucking LOVE female dwarves in all games and this one is really well designed. So I avoid playing the game to learn she's written like shit.

[@TheNamdz]

Amazing content as always! I know the resident evil series is old but with all of the remakes recently, I would love to see a video from you on some of the games or ideally, the series as a whole.

[@WingZX1103]

They broke Bianca....THIS SHALL NOT STAND!!!

[@modernhaze3]

It's Concord Time now it's Veilguard Time

[@TheGman567]

The story of Flemeth that you recalled was told by Leliana not Morrigan

[@HUNT736]

I sent the mayor to be a grey warden. He hasn't returned yet that I've noticed so maybe he failed the ritual

[@bryanmartin8935]

Bro, how did you find the time to play this and 8 silent hill games?! Don't burn yourself out 😂 but it has been a helluva month for gingy fans!

[@sweetman6685]

Geez Gingy is pumping out these vids. Makin' me so happy.

[@Okivaviko]

Fun fact You can have infinite blast build op build During casting takes no dmg xD

[@bloodbrother1251]

So Solas is basically the universe's biggest fuckup

[@nicosonico94]

Wait wait wait... Archdemons are not Dragons with the soul of an old God, but Dragons corrupted/enslaved by elven gods? But doesn't Morrigan do her ritual thingie in Origins specifically to put the soul of an Old God, liberated from the slain Archdemon, inside her baby? Am I remembering it wrong?

[@65firered]

You're right. It's another retcon in the long list of retcons this game does to it's detriment.

[@coopercooley2872]

Holy crap 3 videos in the same week, best creator on the platform 🙌🏼🙌🏼

[@hakim6933]

there were 'seven' Elven Gods, yet there was little explanation as to the fate of the other three (excluding, Mythal, Solas, Elganan, Gillamain). Did they die? Go back to becoming spirits?

[@DisturbedBroski]

The true ending doesnt sound bad at all. Too bad its locked behind a really bad main story and dialogue.

[@codykelly1949]

This story is wild and only addresses dwarf and elven lore. I can see how what the chantry follow could be false but to ignore Leilana dying and coming back to life with Andraste's ashes. There has to be some other power at play there. Also no mention of Morrigans child again!?! Like the insinuation was she was taken over from Flemeth and she was rasing another child for her body to encumber 🙄🙄🙄. Cool aspects but heavily flawed, while ignoring original reasons people were so hung up on this series, only to wrap up the lackluster DA2 lore and Inquisition. And the choices in the game to see whose character you dislike the most die??? Friggin kill em all, please. Whiny bunch. I thought Inquisitions good party pool became small.

[@djtoxicdhg]

The first game i could cair less if I get spoiled because I'm never touching this rubish

[@luciuscreeps7494]

a man after my heart i must wait till i beat it

[@DarkKing009]

Good story, Good in-game lore and revelations, Bad dialogue, and Bad role-play elements.

[@John-xd9wr]

Just here to like because I love your videos but I don’t want spoilers so I’m out all quick-like.

[@Discographic]

thank you for explaining this so nobody has to buy the game

[@Fabulous-Spider]

if only the characters had better dialogue and personalities. still good video.

[@fahrenheit1522]

So what's the impact of varric death ? Did the inquisitor knew His friends is unalive ?

[@spark556]

All endings lead you to becoming a non-binary 😂😂😂😂

[@CynicalWarlock]

Golden.

[@yvanbrunel9734]

Aight, I'll circle back to this video AFTER i'm done. You were too fast on this one !

[@fall5923]

No wonder Solas choose to be bald.

[@anti4zz]

cool, i can finally watch full story without bothering with a crapy game

[@goodtaste2185]

Bioware in name only.

[@jacobbowlby5957]

Man he’s been putting in the work lately holy crap!

[@phoquedisshit1710]

Gotta put voice speed at 90% to make these videos more bearable at times…..

[@Nigel2259]

W gingy

[@erwerewolf]

Sigh. Looks like a third or less of inquisition content and or story telling which was half of origins. Good to know I saved my money.

[@alfriesmacdonalds5879]

PLS DONT DO ANYMORE VIDEOS ON THIS GAME

[@Lloyd00]

Damn boy u r busy!

[@darovitman6720]

For me Dragon age the vailguard is way to high fantasy in comparison to DAO and even DA2. And this high fantasy storytelling and worldbuilding ruins the DA world for me as it was very low fantasy in its worldbuilding To echo sentiment from other comments: thanks for making this video so I don’t have to play this game; if the executor retcon is true it character assassinates the previous villains like Loghain (my beloved).

[@Katastr0phic_Katicorn]

I couldn't get it to work on my laptop after 6 hours of playing. Not the game's fault my laptop is hitting the 5 year mark and newer games just run like ass. In addition, it really felt like the game was not directed at me, someone whose played every single other DA game multiple times and was very invested in the world state and knew WAAAY more lore than was ever going to be necessary. I got 6 hours in a felt like "it's okay." I had no significant emotional reaction one way or the other and was not even very invested in the characters and I'm a fkn SIMP for romance options. I was an og Zevren to Anders to Fenris to Solas to The Iron Bull girlie cuz I loved making mistakes with my heart and then correcting them in the next play through. But in those 6 hours (yes 2 if them WERE in CC, shush) I hadn't met all the chars and hadn't really felt like I'd had a chance to experience their personalities or the story like I wanted to before my laptop started choking on its own fans. Tl:dr: THANK YOU. I can't don't want to buy a new platform to play this fkn game and I wanna know what it's story is like.

[@curie1420]

this game has the worst dragon age story its disappointing

[@KYZX_]

LETS GOOOO FINALLY HERE AS SOON AS IT RELEASES

[@DailyDoseOfRandomLogic]

Bankruptcy is upon them

[@saschaberger3212]

Pass on this one. The less I hear from this dumpster fire the better

[@Adv3.]

Bro is fast

[@ernimuja6991]

The worst case of “and then” story.

[@err0rc0degames]

I like your channel but I am not going to watch this video or play Dragon Age The Failguard

[@emergency_broadcast_system]

Too bad the new game was ruined by activists pretending to be game devs