Dragon Age: The Veilguard | Review Thread
Game Information
Game Title: Dragon Age: The Veilguard
Platforms:
- PC (Oct 31, 2024)
- Xbox Series X/S (Oct 31, 2024)
- PlayStation 5 (Oct 31, 2024)
Trailers:
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Dragon Age™: The Veilguard | Blighted Dragon Gameplay Trailer
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Dragon Age: The Veilguard | Progression Deep Dive | Parts 1-3
Developer: BioWare
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Review Aggregator:
OpenCritic - 84 average - 83% recommended - 22 reviews
Critic Reviews
But Why Tho? - Eddie De Santiago - 10 / 10
Dragon Age The Veilguard is a massive new world full of thoughtful stories, epic battles, and beautiful visuals to accompany them. This round of companions is among the most interesting, thoughtful, and downright charismatic, and adventuring with them made for an unforgettable journey.
CGMagazine - Dayna Eileen - 10 / 10
From style to story and everything in between, Dragon Age: The Veilguard is everything I wanted from this entry in the Dragon Age universe.
COGconnected - Mark Steighner - 90 / 100
Polished and confident, Dragon Age: The Veilguard feels like a return to form for the developer. Dragon Age: The Veilguard gives us a beautiful world to experience, interesting allies to explore it with, and action that grows increasingly more nuanced throughout.
Checkpoint Gaming - Luke Mitchell - 10 / 10
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a triumphant return to form for one of gaming's most loved developers. It's an epic and grandiose RPG adventure, interwoven with intimate, powerful stories about its cast of endearing and quirky companions. It has a truly stunning world to explore, with hidden secrets, alluring side quests and a literal treasure trove of lore to comb through. Its tight, in-depth combat systems and breadth of accessibility options deliver a highly personalised experience. But beyond the adventure itself, it's another shining testament to diversity and inclusivity, polished to near perfection in its presentation. Put simply, Dragon Age: The Veilguard is Dragon Age at its most captivating, a truly generational adventure that is as heartfelt as it is thrilling.
Cinelinx - Becky O'Brien - 5 / 5
After ten long years, the world of Dragon Age is back in the best way possible. Longtime fans of the Dragon Age series will find so much to love in Dragon Age: The Veilguard as this is the best visit to the land of Thedas yet. An easy contender for Game of The Year, highly recommended for playing as soon as possible.
Dexerto - Ethan Dean - 4 / 5
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a stellar achievement that ends a decade-long dry spell. It tells one of the best stories in the series fuelled by some of its most memorable characters. It’s not a flawless journey but the minor imperfections don’t detract from one of 2024’s best RPGs.
Digital Trends - Tomas Franzese - 3.5 / 5
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a return to form for this once-lauded RPG studio that should satiate Dragon Age fans quite well after a decade-long wait. But returning to form and perfecting form are not the same thing. BioWare has plenty of room to regrow as it gets back on track making the kinds of games RPG fans want them to create.
Digitec Magazine - Philipp Rüegg - German - 4 / 5
With “Dragon Age: The Veilguard”, Bioware delivers a gripping action role-playing game that is aimed at the masses but doesn't forget its roots.
DualShockers - Callum Marshall - 8.5 / 10
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a compelling new entry in the series, taking the franchise in a new direction with more RPG-lite ideals. This decision will alienate Die Hard fans but will undoubtedly win favor with new fans willing to embrace the series.
GRYOnline.pl - Anna Garas - Polish - 7 / 10
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is the best game BioWare has made since Mass Effect 3. It is crafted much better in terms of story and gameplay than DA: Inquisition (I find this game mediorce at best), and is superior to Andromeda in every way. But the things that used to dazzle me right now are „only” good. There's more to accomplish in the genre than that.
Game Rant - Joshua Duckworth - 10 / 10
After 100 hours and 3 playthroughs of Dragon Age: The Veilguard, I feel justified in my ten-year wait and satisfied by the results.
Gamepressure - Krzysztof Lewandowski - 6 / 10
This isn’t the end of Dragon Age that I was expecting - in this respect, the game must be rated low. However, as an action RPG with flair and a beautiful fairy-tale world, it turns out to be decent, and sometimes even more than that.
Gamer Guides - Tom Hopkins - 92 / 100
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a phenomenal return to form for BioWare. The story is well-paced and the cast of characters are the trademark BioWare staple of fully-realised, but it’s in the newly action-oriented combat where things truly shine.
GamingTrend - Ron Burke - 85 / 100
The writing can be overwrought, written by committee, and occasionally forced, but it's also a major step forward for a team that needs the win. Dragon Age: The Veilguard brings us compelling characters, excellent combat, and a world worth saving.
Guardian - Malindy Hetfeld - 3 / 5
There is lots to do in this huge and beautiful fantasy world, but inconsistent writing and muted combat dull its blade
IGN - Leana Hafer - 9 / 10
Dragon Age: The Veilguard refreshes and reinvigorates a storied series that stumbled through its middle years, and leaves no doubt that it deserves its place in the RPG pantheon. The next Mass Effect is going to have a very tough act to follow, which is not something I ever imagined I'd be saying before I got swept away on this adventure.
Push Square - Robert Ramsey - 8 / 10
Dragon Age: The Veilguard isn't quite BioWare back to its absolute best, but it is the most cohesive and emotionally engaging RPG that the studio has delivered since Mass Effect 3. Its shift to crunchy action combat is an improvement over Inquisition's middle-of-the-road approach, and although the game feels a little light on meaningful player choice, the storytelling pulls no punches when it actually matters. This is a gorgeous and gripping adventure, backed by a cast of endearing heroes and deliciously devious villains.
Quest Daily - Julian Price - 9.5 / 10
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a fantasy epic that showcases the best voice acting and overall polish of any game I’ve played this year.
SECTOR.sk - Táňa Matúšová - Slovak - 7 / 10
The latest chapter in the Dragon Age saga successfully combines the best of semi-open-world gameplay with a balanced and engaging combat system. While Dragon Age: The Veilguard falls short of previous installments in areas like side quests, story choices, and dialogue depth, it excels in combat quality, world design, and audiovisual presentation, delivering some of the most epic battles in the series. This game is a roller-coaster experience; at its peak, it entertained and amazed me, yet at times, its lack of depth dampened my enthusiasm.
Stevivor - Hamish Lindsay - 8.5 / 10
Dragon Age The Veilguard is the epitome of 'better than the sum of its. It’s been so long since I experienced this level of joy in a long-form RPG; I have a compulsion to keep playing and finish one more quest.
TechRaptor - Erren Van Duine - 9.5 / 10
Dragon Age: The Veilguard delivers an incredible experience built on fluid combat, deep lore and characters, and player choice. All of this is wrapped up in a polished package that is a must play for Dragon Age fans and RPG fans alike.
TheGamer - Stacey Henley - 4 / 5
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a Dragon Age game like no other, and that alone will put some people off. But it brings with it the traditions of excellent character writing, strong world building through narrative quests, and offers the most exciting combat the series has ever seen. There is a stronger version of The Veilguard in here, one with more Solas and companion quests that find a more natural ending, but the one we’ve got is still a worthy successor to Dragon Age: Inquisition, and is a much needed return to form for BioWare.
VGC - Jordan Middler - 3 / 5
Dragon Age: The Veilguard feels like BioWare playing it too safe. While it nails what it does best, like the excellent cast and interpersonal relationships, from a gameplay perspective it feels out of date.
XboxEra - Jesse Norris - 10 / 10
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I'm still gonna wait and see, I think user reviews might turn out very mixed in contrast to the critics reviews. Not that I value user reviews all that much, but I'd like to see a bit more from the game before deciding anyway.
What really put me off from this game was the insanely boring dragon fight they recently showed in the PlayStation presentation, it dragged out so long too and nothing really interesting seemed to happen, it felt like a really outdated kind of boss battle, especially after games like God of War and Horizon. It just did not look that fun honestly, but perhaps story and other parts of the game are more entertaining.
"professional" reviewers never tell how the game runs or any problems games always have these days when they're released. They're basically useless.
I wait for a Digital Foundry tech review before making a purchase on AAA game these days. They tackle what’s quantifiable and add their thoughts on the game in general which is about as much as I need from a professional outlet.
Part of the issue is that modern games are usually getting fixes right up to release. Pre-release reviews tend to focus on things that aren't likely to ever change significantly, like design and writing.
It would be nice if they gave a summary of issues they saw with a disclaimer that they may get fixed instead of omitting that information entirely.
They need to stop reviewing games based on "if" patches fix things. What is the state of the game right now? That sort thing.
Looks like Skill Up on YouTube did not recommend -- I typically trust his takes over review outlets
Watching Skill Up's review now, and oof. That art style... that writing. Don't know who they made this game for, but it's definitely not me.
Yeah I just watched Skill Up’s video and then was surprised to see so many positive reviews on this roundup. What gives? Are folks so keen for more Dragon Age that they turn a blind eye to such deficiencies? Or is it just a difference of opinion.
Yeah, I don't get it either. What I've seen doesn't look anywhere close to an 8+ out of ten rating. Will be interesting to see the player ratings on this one...
Access journalism. If you agree to say whatever EA wants EA gives you first access to the next game, which increases your views. Idk the exact process for this game, but big publishers often bribe these reviewers with expensive vacations too (it's why they fly journalists out to demo the game instead of sending the outlets a digital demo), Bethesda did it with 76 for instance.
Just watched the first part of his video. It seems to line up perfectly with what I was expecting based on the gameplay we were shown so far, it's just outright boring. The amount of criticism and the footage in his review does not line up with the high ratings this game got.
Looks llike it's gonna be a skip. Shame, because visually it looks nice to me and I kinda dig the art style (except for the Qunari), but if story, animations and gameplay are bad and boring it's gonna be a no from me.
I don't dislike that art style in general, but to my mind it seems like a poor fit for a Dragon Age game. I guess they're pivotinf strongly away from the series dark and gritty roots, which is unfortunate because I think that was one of its strong points.
weird. Mortismal Gaming rated it extremely highly. and even went so far as to say its his game of the year hands down.
guess people should just form their own opinions.
Just heard of this guy for the first time in the chatter around reviews for this game (which has been...interesting, to say the least). Similar tastes to mine, so that's promising for me for Veilguard. Speaking of which, sounds like I should be trying Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous.
i have been subscribed to him for quite a while because we have very similar tastes when it comes to games. so I know what you mean.
his review of Veilguard put me at ease a bit. I'm quite excited to play.
that talent/ability tree looks massive. i wanna get in there and try stuff.