Dragon Age Veilguard NEW IGN GAMEPLAY

I’m rooting for this game, but this Qunari Rook is NOT a good advertisement for the character creator. I was thinking about playing a Qunari my first playthrough because of their relevance to Tevinter. Hopefully you can make a Qunari that somewhat resembles their design in DA2 or even DAI. But if all you can do is grey human with horns, I’ll probably skip my Qunari Rook idea.

I don't mind spoilers to a certain extent. Assan is super cute. I like that they showed some cutscenes and conversations. The Lighthouse is HUGE. Companions don't just have their own rooms, they have their own suites. I recognise some gameplay style that is similar to Inquisition. I too hope that there is so much in the game that these spoilers are nothing in comparison. These spoilers, however, seem fairly tame compared to the last one. Or maybe that's just because my brain can only process so much right now.😅 Boat man though, that's something.

Thanks for covering this.

I must say it. This qunari Rook look so goofy. Not the best showcase for character creation.

Overall I'll say it's fine. Nothing insane. Nothing awful. I just feel like it is going to be a mid game. Which is a shame for a dragon age game. We'll see 🤷‍♂️

You can make fun of how Rook looks but honestly as someone who likes to play as a pretty feminine men (which most games CC's won't let you to create) I'm honestly happy of an idea i might FINALLY play something different than an elf. Especially if human CC will also provide that option.
Anyway LOVED the location design, especially the light house!!! I think this is the first time locations in Dragon Age looked so stunning and stylish.❤

Was really hoping they’d use a different Rook voice for this reveal. Alex Jordan sounds cool but it’s weird that they’re not advertising the other options.

Holy crap, Bright mode killed my eyes. Kala please enable dark mode for the health of our eyes. 😭

YIKES on the Qunari character's appearance. It's alright, I only play elves anyway. Im very excited for Halloween yippeee

I personally like the waiting music reminds me of the music I listen to when I’m high

I will not watch more gameplay. I want to discover these locations and quests by myself.
Just came here to say that you work at covering this game is really appreciated 👏.

I like how the blight makes places look, it reminds me of resident evil! I just cannot wait to play veilguard😭😭😭

Mage gameplay is wonderful!

Ok I'm in. I'm ALL in. I was an Origins truther when DA2 came out, hated 2, hated Inquisition when it came out, but then revisited the series some years ago and grew appreciation for DA2 and came around to really like Inquisition, but Origins is still peak Dragon Age for me. So when Veilguard had its character reveal, i was ready to jump ship especially after the first gameplay reveal, but I gave it a chance, dove into the lore, listened to the devs, looked long and hard at Neve and decided to give it a chance.

But seeing the warrior play was...nice, but the mage play, and the world ambiance, and the companions looking really interesting...I'm sold, I'm ready for 10/31!

It's definitely weird to see each character only able to use 4 moves in combat in inquisition you could only use the quick bar for abilities and in origins/2 you could use all abilities as an option in you weel. So I wonder are we only getting 4 ability slots to use in combat or is this just early game? Graphics and everything else looks pretty good so far.

Haters are out of their mind to think it looks like fortnite

I cannot wait for skin texture mods, other than that, looks great. The spoilers are wild though. World changing spoilers just thrown out there lol

I just cannot get past this art style, it's just way too cartoony and unserious

I’m not fond of the huge spoilers 😅

I'm cool with the rest of the content but that Qunari Rook looks GOD AWFUL 😞

If they can do it like Inquisition where you can colour the horns and forehead around the Qunari, I'll be excited. The face was fine but I don't get the smooth forehead thing 😞

Okay, something positive. The environments looked gorgeous and the story sounds great, I just feel I know too much of it

Ok, first the bad: Anyone else getting flashbacks of "My face is tired."? I hope they improve these facial animations, bc everything else look great. The Good: The environs are beautiful. Regarding spoilers: there must be an insane amount of story developments in this game, bc they really don't care about spoilers - which tells me that they have only shown us what BioWare considers to be minor spoilers. So, expect lots of twists and turns.

Guess what Brian Scott harden in the mage woman that uses iced I quit them with a revival spell so if you die you can be revived by the mage

If you can't figure out what I'm talking about and tell my dragon age valguard

this thing...whatever you think it is, is not dragon age. Wtf am i even looking at here?

There is 5 Massive Red Flags , Pc Specs they are 2019 Old or older , So it means they did Very Minimal Upgrade to a 2008 Game engine . This tells me as a PC enthusiast that EA Limited The Budget heavily on BioWare , Bioware was top notch when Mass effect and Dragon Age first came out even Pushed High end Pc Hard ware and pushed High end story and Graphic's But it seems They have had a massive Down Grade in How They Develop Games For Next Gen But Dragon age Veilguard is Far From next gen , it dos look like the Game was being design For a MMo version then somewhere in 2020 they pulled the cord and made a change to game and the name of it also , Frostbite engine is 1 of the worst as a Pc gamer its so bad to even touch new 2025 Computers , also the Pc specs for this game is on the lower side of Console its like they Forgot Who they are as a Company EA is a Billion dollar company t. it seems they delayed this game 5 years and now its coming out now AAA title is now out of reach for Bioware , we all must Hold Big companies like EA , Microsoft , Bethesda to a higher standard so we Get True Next Gen hardware & True AAA games . Ea has done something i also thought not possible they made the UI & all the Colors based off of Sweet Babe Inc and Disney Character's i thought Dragon Age is Based off of High Fantasy Not avengers cyberpunk Colors like armatures made dragon age veilguard . its just what i see Hollywood ideology on IPs that don't mix

Is it just me or dos the home base remind anyone else of skyhold like a fade version of skyhold

If you're saying the whole title, it sounds weird to leave out The. I only do it when I cut out Dragon Age.

It looks amazing. Maybe work on facial animations.

Was it just me or did the two npcs’ voices sound AI generated?

Honestly think that this was the most mild of the spoiler vids we've already gotten. Like they have spoiled way more heavy content up till now and the biggest thing here was that we are going to be seeing Solas's Rebellion up close...but they already mentioned there will be flashbacks in previous interviews and tweets and what not so even then its not THAT big of a spoiler. And that's the thing to that they have spoiled that element, but also in such a way to tease it. We still haven't seen those scenes yet, they have told us they are othere so we'll look for them, so now we'll get the opprotunity to see what they look like in game.

Facial animations giving me PTSD from Andromeda.

Wait that little Griffin is adorable as hell 😍

Assan is very cute. I'm wanting to see if Qunari horns are separate from hairstyles...wonder if we'll get big Arishok horns. You should do a Let's Play, I'd like to watch it once I playthrough the game myself.

The mage combat look sooo good! Definitely more active and involved than previous games. I've always played mage first for rp/story reasons, and it's always my least favourite playthrough from a gameplay perspective. You just stand still and cast your abilities when they're off cooldown. It's always felt like I'm playing a mediocre mmo. Now with a more diverse regular attack kit and weapon switching it looks like it's way more engaging moment to moment. Can't wait to get my hands on it!

P.S. Assan is sooooo cute!!!

In regards to the discourse around how the races have looked in past games:

-DA2: Qunari looked great, people had issues with lack of face variation though (all Qunari looked the same) but those 2 models in the game looked good. People didn’t really like how “alien” the elves looked. I think it was the big eyes. Fenris looked ok but Meryl had both a different personality and look in comparison to DAO.

DAI: Relatively reception was good, expect everyone hated how skinny the elves looked. There was no other body type but it was weird how Sera and Solas had the human body but the Inquisitor and other elves always looked super small in comparison.

DAV: Qunari mixed reception. I think that forehead is way too smooth and creates this weird distortion. I feel like if Tieflings in general don’t have giant foreheads, they could’ve done the same here for Qunari. I think it needs more texture going from skin to horn, etc. Hopefully there are better options in the character creator

A few positive things I can say is that they took all the good stuff from Andromeda like the combat and environments and elevated it. The Rook they featured looks better in the darker lighting which is great. Davrin's afro curls look moisturized and that has me so excited for CC.

Now that one is somewhat of a mixed bag for me. First, the good stuff:

- The environments look stunning. Part of me is still grieving the lack of visual realism, but this series was honestly never about that anyway. It does overall still very much look like a Dragon Age game and that's ultimately what we're here for.
- I really like the level design and the many ways the areas could be explored. It is much more similar to DAO and DA2, which were both superior to Inquisition when it came to exploration. This definitely doesn't feel linear, at least as far as the series history is concerned.
- The combat looks... promising I guess. Still not the fan of not being able to directly control my companions (and I find it hard to believe that I would ever forgive them for it), but the more I see of it, the more I am at least convinced that it is going to be fun. Different and not what I wanted, but fun nonetheless
- Griffon cute, no need to elaborate
- Love the Lighthouse, for anyone who watched Critical Role's second campaign, it truly gives me the same vibes as Caleb's pocket dimension tower

And now the bad, because unfortunately there is a bit of it

- Let's deal with the most obvious one: this Rook looks like a hot pile of garbage. I don't know why anyone would design their Qunari this way, but the smoothness of skin, the continents spanning forehead, the horns... Just, no. I really hope that in CC we can achieve Qunari appearance more in line the DA2 design. They aren't some D&D Tieflings and they shouldn't look like ones.
- The facial animations in general... wow, didn't expect them to underdeliver so much in that regard, I am genuinely shocked. Rook and Davrin are overall good when it comes to that, with maybe a few slightly odd moments, but the other NPCs? Holy cow, they are just hideous for 2024s standards. It seriously looks like Skyrim animations, if not Oblivion. I genuinely don't understand how they could end up with the facial animations looking so half assed. Smaller games with lesser budget have done a much better job years ago (like GreedFall for example).
- Speaking of NPCs, the dialogue camera is... well it feels genuinely unfair comparing it to BG3, so I'll compare it do the first two games in the DA series. It's still worse. Much worse. There is no excuse for that lazy zoom, especially when NPCs are so stiff and so little to look at.
- Still not a fan of what they did with the darkspawns. Sure, they now have given us a plausible explanation for the change but... that design was still their choice. It's goofy and doesn't fill me at all with the same sense of dread I to this day fill in DAO whenever I encounter these folks. Also, those Darkspawn birthing pools... again, they gave themselves a plausible explanation but all I see and hear is "we don't have the balls to do Broodmothers again". Hurlocks and Ogres (I really do hope that Shrieks still exist) just spawning randomly is so disconnected from the horror of their origin we had in Origins. I was never the same after the first time I explored the Deep Roads in DAO and I find it sad that now when the Blight should be scarier, grimmer and more gruesome then ever, they made it more generic.

The last thing is less of a "bad" and more of a "worry", and these are of course spoilers. It reallt looks like they really are spoiling a lot of the game and I know we all hope it means that there is SO MUCH left that we don't know of... I just hope it ain't copium.


Regardless, I am still immensely excited for this game. It's been way too long.

The Bad: Qunari Rook was too human with horns looking (the horns made the forehead look way too big); the amount of spoilers
The Good: everything else - the mage combat, the look of the lighthouse, the look of the crossroads, the everything (except Qunari Rook)

Hopefully we can make our Qunari Rook look more like the Arishok in DA2, or at least as we could make our Qunari Inquistor look, but I am still looking forward to 31-October.

Liked a lot of stuff. But I didnt like the Batman Arkham asylum vibes

Pretty. But too flashy and marvelized. I wish there was blood and not flashes coming out of hits

I wished there were more cities and world to simply meet and conect with.

aside for the awful quinari rook looks this are Awesome gameplay

i honestly feel mrhulthen so much about the party member situation. i also want to hop on and play as neve or harding or whoever. disregarding what kala was writing that guys like us are staistically in the minority, its STILL a core element of Dragon Age (and if the majority really didn't use companions then the all played on easy mode.... like srsly....) its a major element: you have your "hero" team of special characters which you can navigate and change gear wise. core gameplay element. they got rid of it. okay but then AT LEAST make the AI more intelligent and impactful. it looks more like a movie where the characters are there to let the protagonist look stronger than he would actually be in a party of so many skilled unique characters....

You're an inspiration for us new streamers

Atmosphere 10/10. I also like the verticality. With 2 months left, if I were BioWare, I would work on refining character expressions, lip sync flapping, and skin detail. The characters created within the game creator look very 'clay' and reminiscent of Andromeda... or 'Gumby'. Take your pick. While I like the Mage's dodge mechanic, the overall gameplay is extremely disappointing because of how restrictive it is. DA:O got Mage right. The companions' AI is weak and it seems like the only real damage comes from combos, which only you can perform. This means you must spam the same weak skills at a meat shield until you can combo. Not a fan which is a shame because I usually love Mages. I am curious to see what your honest take will be in your upcoming breakdown, Kala.

Kala - you rock. (You should be told that often & repeatedly). For me, I cannot wait for this game to come out. More Solas? Yes, please! More Lucanis - without a doubt. And, of course, sweet little Assan. :-)

They’re dumb! I will say it out loud ok?? They said so many spoilers in this feature and it is really DUMB of them. This gameplay director Corinne Busche omg. She is so out of touch. Her being transgender doesn’t make her immune to legit criticism, ok, don’t use the homophobia card on me for saying what’s obvious.

Hello Kala! I've just seen that you left Twitter. I understand why and I just wanted to know if you are ok? What you do by sharing your passion for Veilguard is incredible, and just know that your community loves you and will be there for your next videos here or anywhere else you could be ❤. Take care and forget these assholes 😊

The voice acting seems flat.