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Dragon Age: The Veilguard Reviews Are In — Is BioWare’s Back in a Big Way?

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Can someone give me a rundown on why there‘s so much negativity revolving around this? I saw the review thread and it seemed to have scored quite a few good reviews. I‘m not informed regarding the matter at all, the last Bioware game I‘ve played was Dragon Age 2, so I‘m genuinely clueless.
- Can someone give me a rundown on why there‘s so much negativity revolving around this?
  First five minutes of SkillUp's review is a good rundown. It seems like a mindless action clickathon with imitation of gameplay seen in better games, a safe sterile story and a large chunk of world design repurposed leftovers from someone's abandoned Overwatch-but-DA ambitions.
  edit: also, I note how reviews that peg this as a "return to form" are written and SkillUp's has video to back his opinions and it looks pretty damning.
  
  Yet mortismal gaming says it's his persona goty
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCz1ITSy2O8
  I don't really know what to say about it at this point, but as I loved inquisition I'll probably love this one. The best thing to do is wait for release and make your own opinion.
- They changed a few key components about what some people were looking for in a Dragon Age game, which Dragon Age 2 did as well.
Is BioWare’s Back in a Big Way?
No, they're not.
EDIT Prediction of Veilguard's & Bioware's future
High Early sales due to the name.
Massive drop off in sales shortly after release due to word of mouth about game being shit.
The game will sell well enough for Bioware, Reddit, Twitter, and ResetERA to say that the negative buzz around the game was just from incel chuds, but not well enough to be a massive success.
There will be very little DLC for the game, probably just cosmetic microtransactions and a small quest chain due to lack of sales.
Bioware once again limps away just barely escaping death due to mediocracy and a slow release month.
Fextralife was not given a review code due to their pattern of objectivity
Fextralife also mentions they host the most widely used DA:I wiki, they went through the effort of preserving the original Dragon Age forum threads from the Bioware forums prior to EA's closure of them. They have a long history of being one of the central hosts of the largest community of Dragon Age enthusiasts, and longtime proponents of the Dragon Age series overall. When they expressed cautious optimism after the reveal trailer, their press contacts at EA went silent and they were not selected for an advance review code due to the risk of them being critical or not giving a high enough score to the game and dragging down the initial metacritic score.
Either way, if the company is worried about the perceived quality of the game, they wouldn't have cherry picked favorable reviewers. It looks bad.
i can't wait to play. the combat looks fun af from the reviews ive seen. I'm interested in that bigass talent tree.
super excited!

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