Sometimes the loudest voices are not the most honest ones.Dragon Age The Veilguard is one of those rare games that reveals more about its audience than about its own quality. Beneath the online noise, what BioWare actually delivered is a confident, visually stunning, emotionally engaging action RPG that feels like a genuine return to **** world of Thedas has never looked better. Neon-touched grandeur of Minrathous. Art direction is striking and cohesive. Combat feels fast, fluid and satisfying.Where the game truly shines, however, is in its characters. The companions are charismatic, layered and deeply human, with personal quests that carry real emotional weight. Relationships feel earned, dialogue flows naturally, and the found-family dynamic that BioWare is famous for is alive and **** is also impossible to ignore how much of the hostility around Veilguard comes not from its mechanics or storytelling, but from veiled homophobia, transphobia, and racism dressed up as “other” criticisms made by closeted white, straight, cis, men.Some people called it a "LGBT agenda" when in fact the backlash and hate speech towards the game was a right wing agenda plain (and loud) and simple.Every character can be romanced by any gender. Even though if you don’t like same-sex marriage, you simply… don’t do it. If you don’t like broccoli, just don’t eat broccoli. You don’t need to demand that broccoli cease to exist.There is 2 or 3 quests and a few lines of dialogue about a character discovering they identify differently from their assigned gender (inside a game that could easily reach 100h gameplay, mind you) . For these people, that tiny fraction alone was “woke” (the same guys who don't even know what "woke" trully means and use the word to hide homophobia and transphobia, while their wives and kids don't even imagine they have a Grindr profile in secret when no one’s **** can choose your pronouns when creating your character, so NPCs address you correctly. For these people, that was apparently outrageous, as if they couldn’t just pick their usual cis pronouns and move on with their **** game’s director is a trans woman, and once this loud part found out, the hate train was ready to roll with extra carts.There’s a Grey Warden, he is an elf and Black. And apparently "God forbid" an elf not to be very male, white and blond, right?False complaints about poor dialogues and texts and honestly, we had much worse dialogues and the past games and nobody say a **** character is sexualized for the male gaze, especially the women. There are sexy characters. There are beautiful characters. There aren't sexualized characters just for free porn-ish. These guys wanted Morrigan running around in a purple bikini, casting spells with big bouncing breasts, in high heels and a giant rear part, which proves me that these people never played a Dragon Age game in their lifes since they were expecting a generic chinese game or a sorceress from Conan the **** there imperfections? Of **** game begin production as a multipplayer game, demanded by EA. Bioware fight against it to the last. They managed to shift the game mid production to a Single Plyers game, and this obviously had impact in the writing and in cut **** is a cancer inside bioware since Mass Effect Andromeda and Anthem, the same way Activision was a cancer inside Blizzard, Sony inside **** shift toward a more action-heavy style instead of classic RPG didn’t meet some fans’ expectations (and yeah, I’d also have preferred a classic RPG, but I’m loving this God of War-style direction, especially the item system).Some classic Dragon Age elements are missing: stopping possessions, more Fade-related conflict, more spirit-related **** game lacks explanations for newcomers: what lyrium actually is, events from the first game, the Grey Warden joining ritual, what a Blight or an Archdemon really is (and how massively important they are). You only understand that if you played the previous three games.Regarding the end of Dragon Age 2, the fanbase (myself included) wanted a clearer explanation of what happened and how it connects to Veilguard. Instead, we only got a few lines of dialogue and collectible lore texts. It really should have been a nice short **** slightly more cartoon-ish-less-realistic art style disappointed some people (me included). Between Pixar-like animation and hyper-realism, Veilguard landed right in the middle, which turned off players expecting something closer to Inquisition. But, honestly, the game is beautiful, this is not a problem. You get used to it.Veilguard is not the Dragon Age of 2009, and that is not a failure. It is Dragon Age evolving, adapting and still retaining its heart. After a decade of uncertainty around BioWare, by the time the credits roll, one thing becomes clear, Thedas still matters, these characters still matter, and Dragon Age still has a future worth caring about.

One of the most powerful entries in the series for its identity, representation, trans inclusivity and safe dialgoue. It only failed because there are loser cis white dudes who attacked it because it wasnt made for them.

Was turned off for a while from playing with all the bad reviews and hate this got, so although I bought I had not touched it after a while. Then decided to give it a chance with prejudgment, and gotta say it was amazingly well produced. Had to make an account just to leave this review to be honest. Great stories, don’t really see why people are such haters. Yes it was driving some lgbtq themes but it was subtle part of the story and had very moving things to say. It didn’t overshadow the rest of the stories. Satisfying ending, beautiful art direction, well balanced difficulty (not super hard but not easy either, just right). Had a lot of fun throughout which is more than can be said for a lot of rpgs with bloat, and menial tasks (picking flowers side quest really final fantasy ); even the side quests were interesting. It was a good time highly recommend.