Much like its predecessors, Dragon Age: Inquisition is steeped in lore, and there’s no shortage of odd and unusual leads to follow from its plethora of codex entries. Some lead to exemplary gear, others lead to exclusive story additions or dialogue between characters. But none lead to one of the game’s strangest and most humorous…
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Dragon Age: The Veilguard – Success and Struggle
At the time of writing my Dragon Age: The Veilguard first impressions post, I claimed having a solid and mostly positive start. While it was plain to see BioWare’s work in weaving Veilguard into the Dragon Age series, it was difficult for me to detach from the events of Dragon Age: Inquisition – Trespasser. Because…
Listmas 2024: Five Great Things About Dragon Age: The Veilguard
If you happen to follow me on my personal blog, there I’ve been a little down on Dragon Age: The Veilguard. In hindsight, I don’t know that I’ve been abnormally picky, but I haven’t yet reached a point where I’m seeing BioWare’s vision for what it wants the game to be. At the moment, the…
Dragon Age: The Veilguard First Impressions
While I count the Dragon Age games among my most favorite RPGs of all time now, it wasn’t always like that. My first playthrough of Dragon Age: Origins was distracted, at best. I had a false start with Inquisition, and I held the second game in contempt for far longer than was warranted. While I…
A (Skill) Tree Grows in Veilguard
A couple weeks ago, BioWare released a video highlighting the various means of progression in Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Into focus came skill progression, item progression, and companion progression, which sounds like…a lot. However, watching the video, the general tone of progression is in step with what BioWare’s done before, particularly in the Mass Effect…
Combat Un-Savvy
BioWare recently released a video showing off Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s combat, specifically that of the warrior class. The system appears to be very engaging…with more than a few shades of Mass Effect thrown in. In that, in Veilguard, players can pause combat to issue commands to companions in much the same way as they…
Dragon Age: The Veilguard Likely a “Holiday” Release?
Unless you happened to be at the San Diego Comic-Con’s Dragon Age: The Veilguard panel, which introduced the game’s voice cast, more news about the game just trickled out over on BioWare’s blog And by “news,” I mean mild bits of information about the game’s companions. What’s clear from the article is that these actors…
The Dragon Age Continuity Conundrum
Of all the recent game announcements via the weekend that was not E3, the one I’m most excited about is Dragon Age: The Veilguard. I had thought we wouldn’t see it until next year, but no…it’s promised to be out this fall, and I cannot wait! The prospect of seeing this new entry in the…
Listmas 2023: Gaming Goodies for BioWare Buffs
It goes without saying that I enjoy BioWare’s games. True that I’ve not played each and every game the studio has offered since its inception, but I can say that I love their brand of gaming. Deeply narrative, infused with choice, and set in imaginative worlds, BioWare has hit some lasting homeruns with the likes…
Dragon Age: Origins is Both Better and Worse 13 Years Later
It’s amazing to me that 2009 is already practically ancient history as far as video games are concerned. Yet, a lot has indeed changed, especially when it comes to presentation and storytelling. Where everything was (for some reason) meant to be dark, gritty and very brown back then, now vibrance carries the day.
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