Dragon Age: The Veilguard has become Bioware’s latest release. A “final” culmination to a franchise that for decades has been the greatest exponent of RPGsand that left an indelible mark on the world of video games and in that field. What a time when the story and the construction of the characters mattered more than fulfilling the dreams of a group of scriptwriters who wanted to include themselves in the game instead of leaving us a memorable story.
It will be memorable yes, but Veilguard will be remembered as the Dragon Age that was NOT a Dragon Age.
Unfortunately, it seems that over the years, the changes within Bioware and the future of the franchise have caused it to lose its essence. Something that has become more than evident with the premiere of The Veilguard. A title that is a tribute and lays the rug for the “woke” culture, and that adds another stone to the grave of the Bioware that we knew in the past.
*This is an opinion article, in no way does it reflect the general feeling of the website’s editorial team.*
Dragon Age: The Veilguard takes away everything that made the saga great and makes it a complete restructuring
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Dragon Age: The Veilguard It has become one of Bioware’s most successful releases, as I reported weeks ago. However, many outlets have sold this tagline as a mantra that is attached to the inherent success of the game. This is flatly false. Dragon Age: The Veilguard It was the biggest success of Bioware’s Steam debut of the saga, however Dragon Age Inquisition was launched a decade ago, Origins 15 years ago, and at that time the active users on Steam were much smaller than those there are now. .
So it’s simple math, the more players on a platform, the more likely the sales will be higher. This does not translate into a success for the game at all. Veilguard has a average number of players on the Valve platform currently (just two weeks since its release), which barely reaches the 20.000 despite all the marketing and streams and coming from a saga as renowned as Dragon Age. A saga, which the current Bioware has taken care of burying.
The ghost of “woke” culture in Dragon Age: The Veilguard
Overwhelmed these weeks by titles like Monster Hunter Wilds, or Farming Simulator 25and even for Baldur’s Gate 3, which has been on sale for more than a year nowVeilguard has forever ended the legendary saga that once served as an exponent of RPGs. Just take a look at Dragon Age: Origins o Inquisition to realize what I’m talking about. And diversity or inclusion is not being criticized (which there was already plenty of in the franchise’s past), the poverty of the game’s narrative is being criticized, the self-inclusion of a small group of scriptwriters that is at the antipodes of meaning. common and good taste, and above all, the big kick in the face that they have unleashed on the spirit of the saga.
- I recommend you take a look at this video, starting at minute 7:19:24.
And the problem with using this “non-binary language” in Spanish is that you kick the grammar and the construction of a language that has been around the world for centuries one after another. Really, a real joke for anyone who wants to be even remotely interested in history.
When you play a title, you do it normally, to escape from real life, from the society we have, and while it is cool to implement some nods to our social problems, Veilguard is the result of a couple of people with complexes, making the game’s narrative a well to reflect their own feelings.
Making Dragon Age: The Veilguard a comical and even vulgar mockeryto everything that made the saga great in the past. It is enough to walk through some media today to see how they have rectified their initial Dragon Age analysis, and review the reviews in Steam or the average grade of the community in Metacriticwhich does not reach 4 to see the feeling of the gaming community. It is an undeniable reality, and we should not be afraid to talk about it.
Veilguard is a mockery of the good taste and decent narrative that has always framed Dragon Age
Because yes, if you are looking for a decent RPG that allows you to enjoy a wide variety of decisions and dialogue options, you can play Dragon Age: Originsor its spiritual successor, Baldur’s Gate 3, made by Larian Studioswhich has known perfectly how to develop that spirit, essence and freedom that Bioware left in the past. Curious, because with Veilguard, the company has done the opposite.
The game has a story to tell you, and you can’t get away from it, you can’t empathize with your character Rookbecause you choose a dialogue option (one of the few that the game offers), and the character decides to speak something totally different from what you wanted to say. I attach an example of a review that, from my point of view, is perfect for you to know what the game really consists of:
Even relationships with characters in Veilguard they feel forced and bland (especially with Taash, the non-binary character in the game). It seems that the game’s scriptwriters have had no contact with reality apart from the development of the title itself, of which we certainly do not know official figures regarding its cost, which we would appreciate knowing. Since the game is one of the most notable triple AAA games of the year, and already has tens of thousands of returns, few active playersand the ghost of mediocrity swarming during his 40-50 hours of play.
This Dragon Age is NOT an RPG
Veilguard DOES NOT allow you:
- Be aggressive with any character, all of Rook’s dialogues are conditional and you cannot choose an “evil” route like in previous Dragon Ages.
- Your companions cannot die, you cannot, in fact, choose whether or not to incorporate them into the Veil Guard.
- In addition, the game has combat cinematics in which blood does not appear at any time, it feels more like a casual fantasy made by Disney than an adult saga.
- Furthermore, Veilguard ignores emblematic characters of the saga, in fact it forgets essential plots such as those of the templars and the magicians (“magues”, sorry).
- Each companion’s stories are bland, full of ridiculous moments and scenes that seem more like a 2000s American sitcom than a serious game.
- The problem with Taash is not that they have included her as a non-binary character, it is her excessive use of pronouns, aggressive rhetoric with all the characters, she feels like a teenager angry with the world and makes her lose interest in her story , which is also shoehorned in to fulfill the most “wet” dreams of the game’s management team.
- The combat can be visually attractive, but when you’ve spent more than 10 hours, it becomes the perfect sleep aid, with repetition of the same combos and little depth in the challenges.
And I could go on, but we won’t even finish tomorrow.
Bioware has said goodbye to its past and embraced an uncertain future, taking Dragon Age ahead of it in its descent into the “nonsense“
And Bioware has forgotten that what makes a game great is its community of players on many occasions. and for Veilguard They have targeted a “modern” audience, often ignorant of what the franchise represented in the past. An audience that prefers to worry about the color of their hair or the use of their “correct” pronouns rather than worrying about the game’s narrative, its coherence, its playability and its respect for the origins of the saga. Even for the freedom of dialogue.
The Bioware that we fell in love with years ago, no longer existsthey themselves have wanted to dig their own grave. And I repeat, the problem is not the inclusion or aspects such as “transsexuality” of a character. The problem is the mediocre narrative that the game presents, the impossibility of offending anyone in a title that It is assumed to be an RPG (totally false, Veilguard has nothing RPG about it), dull voice actors lacking impetus in each scene, unpleasant comic moments that completely differ from the feeling and essence of the saga.
Taash is a monument to hypocrisy and that teenager angry with herself and with everyonea character who demands respect for his pronouns, but who then cannot respect any contrary opinion, and even attacks another member of the group, despite the latter telling him that he prefers to be called something else. Hypocrisy at its finest. I leave you the video that demonstrates it:
A mediocre show praised by a few, and criticized by many, because what we wanted after 10 years of waitingwas a worthy continuation of Inquisition and the saga, not a hodgepodge of ideologies, pronouns, meaningless scenes, and truly embarrassing moments throughout the game.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard It is an ode to the so-called culture Woke and the last stone in the grave of the saga, and without a doubt, in what made the studio great years ago. I could go on, but this article would be twice as long. I let everyone have their opinion on the matter, I have mine.
