Dragon Age Veilguard is a Smart game for Smart gamers

[@TerakJK]

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[@MikearoniGrill]

YES, that's my favorite video you made lol ending the companions

[@Ogata123]

A puzzle in a game can only be as challenging as the creator can solve lol

[@hydehg1441]

ogata you are truly a menace lol

[@red-merlin]

Yes. Along those lines I've been saying that you can't write a character that's smarter than yourself. And it shows in the writing of this game lol

[@DarkKing009]

Whoever designed these puzzles could never receive the Juggernaut armor in Dragon Age Origins

[@drunkenrage8996]

I was thinking theyd be locked in the hunt for sacred ashes xD

[@theSith333]

One of my favorites armor sets

[@awthorne9877]

@@drunkenrage8996 For real

[@SeventhheavenDK]

I imagine that using the summoning fonts in the Circle Tower is out of the question. Right?

[@dwaindibly772]

It's was a tranny, they are all idiots

[@manojpmys]

The puzzles was made this way to make it gaming journalists friendly to get higher ratings. Not surprising at all.

[@BoleDaPole]

Thanks for the walk through, been stuck in this puzzle for hours!

[@EremitaJ]

Considering Mass Effect Andromeda gave us space Sudoku it only makes sense. Watch out for the next entry with coloring books as minigames.

[@cantdestroyher7245]

Let's be real. that's about the hardest thing their target demographic could handle without having a meltdown

[@reidysmeidy5772]

Fit the shpe in the right Hole

[@jeremytitus9519]

@@reidysmeidy5772 the diamond shaped crystal goes in… That’s right. The _square_ hole :D

[@antillious]

People keep saying it’s an RPG, when clearly it’s a puzzle platformer.

[@MiGujack3]

Journalist platformer.

[@Blisterdude123]

With no puzzles, and minimal platforming.

[@RamsteinBus]

Map marker, NPC input, text on screen, and self-explanatory puzzle design. Just in case you were confused.

[@dificulttocure]

Without mentioning the "puzzle" is literally just go find the key in the adjacent room.

[@azurelion6722]

The Devs should Pull A Bharv for every time the community talks about this.

[@ieatpeopleand]

They'd be built like One Punch Man in a weeks time!😂

[@petemagyar1445]

Telling a Bioware dev to do pushups is basically fat shaming. Do better! /s

[@aqueleK]

I'm so impressed by your ability to solve all these puzzles

[@uraveragedude9957]

Every game journalists dream game right here....

[@Ghost_Of_SAS]

People should stop buying games that treat them like idiots.

[@cantdestroyher7245]

Bit hard when that appears to be the target demographic for this game...

[@qu1253]

Going by sales figures, they haven't been. Veilguard hasn't even broken 1 million copies sold.

[@orkhepaj]

people did stop, idiots still buy these

[@hideakiakio6698]

Even skyrim's terrible puzzles are better than this

[@burtreynolds8030]

2:22 I couldn’t stop laughing that the puzzles that far in veilguard are easier than the bleak falls barrow “puzzle”

[@LiriaLarai]

I thought the same

[@HyouVizer]

Lmfao no Sure DAV puzzles are also brain dead but they look visually more appealing and actually unlock pathways for zone progression. While Skyrim puzzles just for optional dungeons 1 of hundreds.

[@FF-tp7qs]

At least Skyrim tries to do stuff like hide the hints somewhat in the later puzzles the one where you go to get the horn of Windcaller was meant to be a tutorial.

[@spinnerleex]

You're so smart for solving these! :O

[@LifeImagine]

Ah, you’ve put it in a different room. Yes, very challenging.

[@cantdestroyher7245]

That one took me(they/them) 19 hours to solve. My wife's boyfiend was very proud of me though...

[@loserinasuit7880]

​@cantdestroyher7245 I feel like the devs could have learned a lot from Dustborn and like...did better with the diversity?????

[@gunnellagann]

Read it in Zoidberg's voice

[@SirUlrichVL]

Clearly the modern audience found the Astrarium puzzles in Inquisition too hard

[@przemyslawwasowski7450]

Well, some of them were indeed difficult. People also were CONSTANTLY complaining about the fade quest in origins. They often say that it's the worst part of the game. Mostly because they fail to recognise patterns and algorythms. All it takes is to detect in which sequence you need to go to certain parts of the fade. Unlike astrariums the fade in origins is mandatory element of the game. But even then, when certain astrariums happen to be too difficult for me, I simply resigned from doing them and came back later OR went on wiki and find solutions that someone smarter happen to share that it can be done. I stand with my standpoint and modern games are made to be more and more idiotproofed. From the sims 1 where your sims could die because of the gust of the wind to the sims 4 where they simply refuse to die under any circumstances UNLESS you REALLY want it and ACTIVELY try to do so. From unforgiving Baldur's Gate 1 (original, not EE) where survival was really difficult to BG3 where you can make difficulty such that you won't have any problem with any enemy at all, from dragon age origins where sometimes you can look after a "third" answer, a smart way to have it all and not choose and live with consequences of every standard option to DAV where choice was never an option.

[@sanderkiki]

@@przemyslawwasowski7450 makes me think of people whining about puzzles in Pathfinders or Rogue Trader. They are hard and interesting but people dont want to think. And Owlcat provided overall really best RPG experience of all modern RPGs.

[@przemyslawwasowski7450]

@@sanderkiki Honestly, I can't relate because I haven't played them, but I believe you. Still, imagine how frustraited I was when I was around 10 and I've got a riddle in BG2 about age of prince and princess which involved quite advanced math, I mean, more advanced than the one I knew at that time. Or riddles in Lionheart or even those in mage origin in DA:O. People sometimes need to either think harder or simply reload save. And it's not a matter to be stressed about, but apparently some people can't stand even the smallest failures. There are games like Portal or Shift happen that are ALL about riddles and puzzles. Are those-whose-names-cannot-be-named too insecure, impatient, or god knows what else to even try intellectual stimulation?

[@Fdzzaigl]

​@@sanderkikithese puzzles in DAV seem ridiculous. That said, I found the Pathfinder puzzles pretty annoying at times due to going all around the map for the pieces and how long it all took to do.

[@Rohtix]

These aren't puzzles, this is padding, make no mistake.

[@RichardSimmons-r3c]

Not even the greatest minds of our generation could come up with such genius! How did they do it?

[@datbio4986]

Love the bgm. Makes watching Veilguard gameplay somewhat bearable.

[@zarddin]

I would love this game as a 8 years old.

[@SelfRighteousBasterd]

Mind-blowing! The number of neurons needed to make this game must be in the double digits range...

[@a_kuma]

IGN needs to put up a guide to solve all the puzzles. They might be too difficult for the modern audience.

[@Loain]

Finally a game for such big brains as DSP.

[@DeadEndScreamer]

Most people don't even realise just how insulting this truly is, there were harder puzzles in games since at least the Atari.

[@сергейчернов-ъ4п]

Those puzzles was designed by the fucking Great Papyrus

[@TheGrave999]

"What a minute, those symbols.(pulls out piece of paper)" -Booker Bioshock 3

[@sems7827]

They clearly went to the Skyrim school for dunegon puzzles lmao. Match the pictures.

[@TehReasoning]

Must tske a lot of brain power to solve these puzzles, the party member even tell you to match the symbols how revolutionary.

[@cantdestroyher7245]

Most of their brainpower is dedicated to figuring out which bathroom they're supposed to use, so they can't make the puzzles too hard

[@baddogkelevra1]

These devs likely never made it through Mass Effect because the Tower of Hanoi puzzle was just too much

[@kreb9721]

They really copied the Skyrim symbol matching "puzzle" in the year of our lord 2024. Wow.

[@killer3000ad]

Mass Effect 1: Tower of Hanoi puzzle. Failguard: puzzles for 2 year-olds

[@enrique6335]

I remember the tower of Hanoi was also present in the final Sith tomb on Korriban.

[@selectionn]

tower of hanoi puzzles suck and are a lazy, easy to implement puzzle. not that this non puzzle is any better but still.

[@kreb9721]

"Swiper, no swiping!" said Rook.

[@IvanGarcia-xy7bf]

The Lego game's have harder puzzles 😂

[@kingszeno]

This is revenge for complaining about the first mass effect's elevator level loading scenes.

[@Noxthedunmer]

You know Hogwarts Legacy has pretty decent puzzles. They could have at least made theres like that.

[@sol-hunter2332]

Copying transphobic puzzles in a pro-trans game?! Heresy.

[@enrique6335]

Remember how in KOTOR, you actually had to solve a couple of math problems in some computer terminals? And even Dragon Age Inquisition had better puzzles. Like the one that plays out across a few of the War table missions (root out Venatori in Nevarra), the one in the Fade and especially the one under the Silent Plains that you had to figure out all by yourself because the game gave you no hints.

[@uraveragedude9957]

lol really? They don’t even make kids do math problems in school anymore ahahahaha

[@enrique6335]

@@uraveragedude9957 Yep, and it was more about pattern recognition than anything else. If I remember correctly they gave you a string of numbers and you had to choose what the next one would be based on the single hint of the operation used (add, subtract). It only got complex in the last two choices because they decided to use logarithms and exponents.

[@uraveragedude9957]

@@enrique6335 if that was in a game now *MASSIVE OBVIOUS SKIP BUTTON IN CASE YOUR WITTLE BRAIN STARTS HURTING* the new sped-erman games did this for easy puzzles

[@anonimo6603]

But math is racist.

[@KO-iw3vu]

If they/thems get stuck on a puzzle, it would be a form of oppression. The devs made the right call imo

[@sewnmind1786]

This is what you get when you give a popular series to people that want a soap box instead of a video game.

[@LordShrub]

They liked that puzzle so much they put another version with a wisp instead of a power cell. But, get this - the wisp disappears over time AND you can still jump!

[@brendenstyre4784]

To this day I dread going through the circle of magi in DAO cuz 90% of the level is a maze and puzzles, but I feel so accomplished when I’m done. None of it is hard it’s just so fucking tedious

[@lowflo_3530]

I liked the part when he picked up the crystal

[@eugeneoisten9409]

When the designers for this games puzzle system only has a bedroom full of ...participant.. and ...God Help them, they tried... trophies!!!

[@BehuraStudio]

Even the presentation is lame, in Skyrim when you completed puzzles the whole room could shake, and you can see dust crumbling off the walls as these ancient Nordic mechanisms open up these huge metal Doors going deeper into the dungeon…. Here there’s not as much response or momentum and it gets repetitive fast

[@francisco646]

Participation trophies and their consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

[@SpookyDraculaTA]

Looks like a thrilling puzzle game, but I'm unfortunately still stuck on the friendship puzzle in the Temple of Ashes. Don't worry, I'll get DAV as soon as I finish DAO- just have a quick mage tower left.

[@feeble_goblin3764]

My brain is expanding rn

[@JohnDog-bb4nr]

These are not puzzles. These are chores.

[@zlf377]

Do game designers even understand video games nowadays if you give song names I'll smooch ya

[@greenbyob]

Delicate Steve

[@zlf377]

@@greenbyob Consider thyself smooched ! Thanks

[@actiongameaddiction591]

Darksiders franchise has far better puzzle despite being hack n slash games

[@burtreynolds8030]

The first dark sides is definitely top 100 game of all time, just pure fun start to finish

[@VladtheDragon-v4c]

It's almost as if they are trying to train thought OUT and not in.

[@danguy6591]

They clearly were inspired by genshin impact

[@parsley555]

the virgin the legend of zelda puzzles vs the chad veilguard puzzles

[@occorner2502]

We had astrariums which were fun and challenging to solve but masses of idiots complained these were too hard... I bet those same people currently are complaining these are also too hard...

[@atlanteean]

I loved astrariums

[@occorner2502]

@atlanteean you are person of culture then.

[@angelaharris53]

I knew there was a reason why I didn't dare pick this game up after BG3 near broke me with its puzzles. I think after this I'd just be stuck in the fetal position, gibbering in a corner for days.

[@michadybczak4862]

Looks like a mobile game for kids. If there is no hint of realism, even in the fantasy, it's not relatable. This game is even worse than I heard.

[@aquapendulum]

Whoa, we got some big-brain gaming over here?

[@LouieLouLoo]

Skyrim's first puzzle in Bleakfalls Barrow is way better than this 😂

[@giancarloribeirobrito659]

Better than Uncharted and Tomb Raider, very complex

[@DeadEndScreamer]

Who wants to bet DSP will get stuck on one of these.

[@AbstractTraitorHero]

I kinda thought that last puzzle was probably the best they could do forced into those constraints, it was like okay, maybe decent but thats it.

[@SuffocatedGuy]

Wait a minute that (quest) mark!

[@TheSpongyMallard]

When you make puzzles easier than Genshin at launch, you know that they’re made for games journalists.

[@MikearoniGrill]

I've watched a ton of your vids lately, I gotta say, your DWARF looks awesome despite this game being a dumpster fire lol

[@TheAdminSlayer]

This game really makes you feel like you're playing Knack 2

[@BrovarSpirytus]

So it's basically less anoying God of War and Skyrim "puzzles". I mean if they had to put this kind of braindead stuff then at least they made it possible to do it almost instantly, without the need of wasting time to carefully scour the area.

[@cantdestroyher7245]

I got through seafoam islands when i was 6, and i'm an idiot. People can handle puzzles with a little bite, bioware...

[@DamnOldAlready]

Gosh, how could you handle this. It's so confusing. 😯 Remember the temple of Mythal in DAI? Hours just for one place to solve.

[@DeepestDankest]

Maybe Bioshock Infinite players were onto something....

[@Garrus1995]

I never saw this franchise as being about puzzles, but if you’re going to include them, I feel you should at least put some degree of thought and challenge into them so that players can actually feel good about completing them. This right here is just tedium.

[@susangoaway]

I mean, is it that much of a surprise? It is clear that the IQ of the devs is reflective in the dialogue they made. Meanwhile the engine was probably outsourced. Also the level of these "puzzles" is at grabbing the rectangle and pushing it through the rectangular hole... in a set where there is only a rectangle and a rectangular hole.

[@LimC.A]

they probably had their dev's IQ outsourced too cuz boy is it funny to see such "mind-blowing" puzzles.

[@thegodofvodka]

They managed to make the puzzles dumber than Skyrims

[@nuclearchezburgr3857]

I saw the first little bit and was like "aight, its a little simple but whatever" and then the video continued to be the SAME "puzzle" over and over

[@devilbob]

Why is he runnin' in dat armor faster than Usain Bolt?

[@SOSO_CREPITUS]

I like the stock music

[@KingBuilder525]

The LEGO video games had greater puzzle complexity

[@trulydeadly]

dude really struggled with that last puzzle tho...

[@Atarashifatan]

Bruh i thought that one viral video of this 00:18 only happened that time and people are overhating the game I stand corrected, the whole game's puzzle is like this? wtf lmao. I remember people joking how Skyrim has bad puzzle, but this is worse lmao

[@assassinb460]

The mini map is more challenging than the puzzle. 😅

[@nikosantos1172]

HELL YA CAMPING GEAR +6 BABY

[@Lardcraf]

idk at that point its not a puzzle anymore but slop to keep you busy.

[@syther6768]

Oh god, I am so glad I refunded I didnt realise that it didnt get harder I thought it wad just the tutorial

[@keshonbuckner128]

What’s the name of the song at the start of the video

[@Walooeegie]

What's the time signature of this song?

[@kraglord1997]

Damn.. did you figure out all these things without a guide?

[@dearcastiel4667]

Wow, 1995 level of game design, and I might be insulting 1995 gameplay when I say this...

[@RandomWandrer]

You can turn off the markers. I dont get playing with all the markers turned on in accessibility mode, then complaining that there are markers making it too easy.

[@aayeah-y9t]

How much did they pay you bro.. oh sorry i mean it

[@darkmoollll7703]

Even Skyrims puzles are more challenging.

[@daboikeyle1093]

Wait, I still don’t know how you did it!

[@Buzani27]

Kinda feel like this was targetted at children. ''Nice that's a neat trick'' okaaay. Seeing how those types of people usually do too weirdos.

[@adrianstachowski9422]

This game have beaten skyrim in riddles low difficulty riddles which is not easy to do :D

[@justaquietpeacefuldance]

this is lobotomy in a video game format

[@spaceaf_wtf]

make me fell like a jeeneus

[@therebelfrogy9287]

Journalist mode 😂

[@moongurd20]

This looks... like a toddler could figure this out? Like you did not have to think that hard or at all for these... "puzzles"

[@Philliwolf5]

Dumbed down game for dumbed down players (not gamers). Looks like they took some of the green, blue, and purple they use in their hair and put it in the game. Especially purple.

[@miscielrossvillegas6307]

jesus christ tfw when a 1995 PS1 platformer game has more puzzle complexity in its obligatory tutorial level. This is just insulting for a Rated M game. I didnt know it was this bad. This is what we get for letting those "Video games shouldn't force players to think/ play the game!" troglodytes into game development.

[@nikosantos1172]

WHY ARE THE SYMBOLS SO ANNOYING TO LOOK AT IS THAT THE PUZZLE?

[@orkhepaj]

power crystals...

[@TheTyas]

Still game journos need 10-30 minutes to solve it

[@feiwong3634]

You expected more than this from activists?