#gaiderless dragon age does feel different after all

[rin-hanarin]

The funniest and saddest thing Veilguard has done: it made people retroactively appreciate how solid DA2 actually was despite one cave and one thousand enemies dropping on you from the ceiling. Even the dudest of bros looks at DA2 party banter for instance and goes "That was the shit". Hilarious, 10/10.

And honestly, yeah. I personally naively believed that Weekes's experience and skill in character writing would translate to the entirety of the story, because their characters tend to be good, right? They were responsible for Trespasser, I loved Trespasser! I went from being a downer when I saw that Bioware named another game "Dreadwolf" to cautiously optimistic after they renamed it, because maybe I'm wrong in my assumptions! But instead it was exactly what I thought it was gonna be in many ways, and Weekes just tied every thread to Blorbo From Their Mind with new characters feeling underdeveloped and the lore bits often having shit explanations (did you even read World of Thedas, bro?) It's like if Gaider looked at the ideas for the script for Inquisition and decided to make Silent Grove: The Videogame instead, focused entirely on Alistair and how he's a cornerstone of every piece of lore ever conceived or some shit.

Saying all this as a Veilguard apologist, by the way. I'm not vehemently angry at it because 1) I didn't expect the game to come out to begin with, 2) my expectations have been pretty low since "Dreadwolf" because. Y'know. Don't make sequels about some guy you decided was so beloved and important that every single plot thread ties back to him, even though the setting was perfectly fine without some Singular Overarching Big Bad and every question being answered?

Anyway, turns out every previous Dragon Age has been good and bad in its own ways this whole time. Shocker.