PC Gamer staff delve into their diverse opinions on Dragon Age: The Veilguard, highlighting its strengths and weaknesses.
Game of the Year Awards 2024, each member of the PC Gamer team is shining a spotlight on a game they loved this year. We'll post new personal picks, alongside our main awards, throughout the rest of the month. I can't remember a single game that has polarized the PC Gamer team as much as Dragon Age : The Veilguard .
Even pre-launch, opinions were mixed, and now that it's been out for some time, we've congealed into three camps: Anti-Veilguardites Robin and Fraser, Radical Veilguard Centrists Harvey and Lauren (Dragon Age: The Veilguard is not my personal game of the year, that's gotta be Shadow of the Erdtree. It's also not my second favorite game of the year—that title belongs to Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. But by God, Veilguard is 100% mygame of 2024. While not perfect, I think it's a heartening return to form for BioWare, and one whose finer qualities have been eclipsed by both valid critiques of its storytelling, as well as far less acceptable'antiwoke' bellyaching. I really dug this game, and I want to give it its flowers before the year is through. Even as BioWare struggled with everything else during its wilderness years of the late 2010s, it's only been getting better at making action-RPGs, and Veilguard is no exception. I love tactical RPGs, but that hasn't been BioWare's bag for a long time, and while I could take or leave some of the ways Veilguard smooths away the last remnants of CRPG-adjacent rough edges from Inquisition, a lot of the team's decisions here were pretty inspired. I appreciate the way Veilguard curbed loot inflation, as well as Inquisition's tedious and unbalanced item crafting, with a unique, upgrade-centric system that incentivizes finding duplicate copies of the same weapo
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