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Dragon Age: The Veilguard strips your RPG party down to two companions, but they’ll be “deeper” with a lot more banterThe most banter ever
The most banter ever
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Image credit:EA
“Two’s company, three’s a crowd,” the saying goes, unless the first two are warriors and the third one is a priest, in which case the superior proverb is surely “three’s a moderately balanced squad, two’s a massive liability”? Here to put such kitchen wisdom to the test is BioWare’sDragon Age: The Veilguard, which “only” allows you to bring two companions into the fray, one fewer than 2014’sDragon Age: Inquisition. It’s another indication that this will bemore biffy action game than thinky party-based RPG. The upside, assuming you find that last sentence disappointing, is that exploration and combat will be more “intimate”, and individual characters will have more screentime to bounce off each other and flourish as personalities. All this comes care of a BioWare Discord Q&A from late last week, which you can watch in full below.
DA: The Veilguard: Discord Q&A with Developers!Watch on YouTube
DA: The Veilguard: Discord Q&A with Developers!
If you don’t have time to watch an hour’s worth of BioWrangling first thing on a Monday, Keywords Studios staffer and noted scuttlebutter Shinobi602 has donea quick Xeet round-up. Some highlights: BioWare are saying that Veilguard will offer their “deepest” companion arcs yet, and that your interactions with them may go as far as angering them so much they go AWOL for a while. They’re also capable of falling for each other, not just the player, which I’d welcome formerDragon Agescribe David Gaider’s thoughts about in the wake ofhis thread last weekon how difficult it is to endowRPGcompanion characters with agency, when they’re designated as player love interests.
Dragon Age: Veilguard New Discord Q&A Details🔷Asked about the world🔷▪️Takes place 10 years after Dragon Age: Inquisition▪️The Inquisitor will definitely be part of the story▪️You can go back to previous locations you visited, do side content, etc▪️Everything is…pic.twitter.com/413CWAlL5y— Shinobi602 (@shinobi602)June 14, 2024
Dragon Age: Veilguard New Discord Q&A Details🔷Asked about the world🔷▪️Takes place 10 years after Dragon Age: Inquisition▪️The Inquisitor will definitely be part of the story▪️You can go back to previous locations you visited, do side content, etc▪️Everything is…pic.twitter.com/413CWAlL5y
There’s a lot more in the video so please accept this runner-up handful of Veilguard trivia: mages get healing spells again. There’s no campaign progression block akin to Inquisition’s power mechanic. Your new base of operations is called the Lighthouse. Tavern songs return. There appear to be fewer fetchquests. You can pet the griffin.
Anyway: thoughts on the new party size, everybody? I compared Veilguard toMass Effect 2inmy first look previewand this certainly chimes with that analysis. Personally I’d like the extra body, but I must admit I always felt that one member of my Inquisition party got left out of the chinwaggery, which made me anxious. So thank you BioWare, I guess, for lowering the odds that I will feel like an Xmas host trying to ensure that nobody ends up in the corner of the room pretending to check their phone.
