Summary
Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s recent marketing has everyone excited about the long-awaited fourth instalment in the series. However, if you cast your mind back just a few months, the sentiments weren’t as positive.
Theinitial reveal trailerfor Dragon Age: The Veilguard was met with mixed reception from the community. The trailer which introduced each of the game’s companions was shot in a style reminiscent of a superhero action movie, with irreverent characters that aren’t phased by the mayhem happening around them. Fans of the series were worried that the tone of Dragon Age had shifted away from the series' dark fantasy roots.
The20-minute gameplay snippetreleased just a couple of days later quickly put these worries to bed, showing off the beloved characters, worldly consequences and mature themes that fans of Dragon Age know and love.
The Veilguard Was Met With Scepticism
According to YouTuberLuke Stephenswho previewed Dragon Age: The Veilguard for 7 hours, his conversations with people from BioWare suggest the studio wasn’t thrilled with that trailer being used as the reveal, either.
“I spoke to a number of people [at BioWare] and one thing I heard from pretty much everybody I spoke to was that they didn’t like that trailer either. They didn’t want the trailer to go up and be the first look at Dragon Age: The Veilguard. It seems as though internally the people actually making the game felt as though that was not representative of what the game was…” Stephens said.
Stephens goes on to say that he feels a marketing arm of Electronic Arts or someone else was insistent on portraying the game a certain way and BioWare couldn’t do anything about it, but that’s all conjecture on his part.
At the very least, everyone has seen enough of Dragon Age: The Veilguard to know the game appears to be tonally faithful to the rest of the series. That being said, Vows & Vengeance, the game’s companion podcast is victim to some of thesame tonal and narrative problems.
Our own Eric Switzer alsopreviewed Dragon Age: The Veilguard, predicting it will be a big success for BioWare despite the game’s departure from the series' cRPG beginnings.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard
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Dragon Age: The Veilguard is the long-awaited fourth game in the fantasy RPG series from BioWare formerly known as Dragon Age: Dreadwolf. A direct sequel to Inquisition, it focuses on red lyrium and Solas, the aforementioned Dread Wolf.
