Amac Productions

January 2025

I stayed up until the wee hours of the morning to play it and unfortunately had to go to work the next day.

So far, it’s a great game!

I played the very first Dragon Age not too long ago. I managed to get a copy for PS3 and started playing it. I was addicted to the number of choices that could be made. That changing something or going the wrong way had true consequences. Like not being able to save my family because I took too long to get through the castle.

I’d never experienced that in a game before. Usually it waits for you or the clock runs out and it makes you start the process over again. Not give you real in game consequences. I was shocked by the choice and delighted.

I still haven’t completed that game, but I purchased the new released regardless. Because well, it’s my life and I’m an adult and I can do what I want.

So there.

Got the new game and if I thought there were a lot of choices in the original game, I was nearly overwhelmed by the amount in the newest game. Everything about your character could be customized, right down to the size of their head.

It’s incredible and a time-consuming process. I think I spent an hour going through all the choices and backstories I could have taken.

There will definitely be another play through once I complete the first one to see what other stories or plots, I could have gotten. Or just how it changes the playthrough of the very same game.

I love being able to make decisions that affect the outcome of the game.

One of my first was Telltale’s Batman series and I was addicted.

Being able to play through open world with a rich story and characters is so much fun.

Also, playing the beginning of this game, I know there are characters from the previous installments that I don’t know yet. But the game doesn’t make it feel like it’s the end of the world to not have played the previous versions.

You can pick up and be clueless. Characters give enough explanation to understand the gist of what’s happened before now.

Which I greatly enjoyed because I have skipped ahead.

But I would also think on the flipside that people who have played the previous versions would be thrilled to have tidbits dropped in for them. To be able to fully understand the history that led to the moment I was trying to stop at the beginning of the game.

Someone wanted to remove the Veilguard.

You know, the very thing keeping all the really bad stuff away.

He’s decided it shouldn’t be there anymore, even though he put it there in the first place. He’s decided he was wrong.

But everyone else wants to stop him. So you do.

Injuring your party members along the way and then learn that something worse than the guy who wanted to bring down the Veil has escaped. Oh, and my character is linked to the bad guy who is stuck in the Veil.

It’s a wild storyline.

But I loved it.

I loved the mechanics of the game.

Since I decided to play a rogue, I have swords and a bow. I typically do not lean towards magic when I play these games, but I didn’t want to play a warrior this time. So I picked a rogue. A little long range and close range. I can live with that.

And a bit of low rent magic.

The mechanics for using the bow are not as simple as someone like me would like. It gives the feel of someone making this that believes the people playing will know how to use shooting mechanics in game.

Which I really do not.

I typically never play a shooting game.

The closest might be Spidey with his web shooters, but the aim is auto there and not really here.

Also, you can run out of arrows which is new for me.

That’s something that happened back in the PS2 and PS1 days, not in the PS3 games, and definitely not in PS4 or PS5. Like that was one of my favorite things that was done away with.

Randomly running around picking up the spawned ammo.

Nothing killed me more in those games than grabbing ammo or health.

They were always out in the open, if you played the game enough, you’d know where to find them. But so did everyone else and someone was always lying in wait to kill you or get it first. It was an annoying thing I remember as a kid that I hated.

It was worse too, because you couldn’t even pick up extras of stuff. Like if you’re full on health that was it. You had what you had, no taking extra.

Unlike newer games where carrying healing potions is about how many slots you have. Or whether or not you’ve fought enough to be able to heal yourself or having a party member who can heal.

It’s much more conducive to fluid gameplay. At least in my opinion.

So I do not like needing to reload my arrows.

Also why I like swords. I can’t run out of them. They’re just deadly always.

Overall, so far I’m really enjoying the game and can’t wait to get further into it! What are you guys thinking about Dragon Age: The Veilguard?

Drop me a message in the comments!

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