Veilguard was way bellow mid, it was slop. Completely homgenized mechanics to be another shit 3d action game and took out all the love that origins and inquisition had. Then it sealed it with a terrible plot.
It makes sense if you imagine them all as being developed for a light hearted live service game where stakes would be an impediment to keeping a meandering story lumbering on for 5 years
And terrible companions, or at least, companion interactions. I swear if I had to babysit that group for another 2-3 scenes I would not have finished the game
It’s a trend I’ve been seeing with western RPGs and it happened with BG3 too. The characters get their edge removed after community feedback and we’re left with extremely dull cartoon characters better fit for fan fiction.
So wild to me to see how the narrative of games change over time. Inquisition has a couple compelling characters but to me it's a hella generic MMO-like mapiconslop-type game that was en vogue at the time.
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u/JannySmasher98 6h ago
Veilguard was way bellow mid, it was slop. Completely homgenized mechanics to be another shit 3d action game and took out all the love that origins and inquisition had. Then it sealed it with a terrible plot.