I’ve mentioned it earlier than and I am going to say it once more: I am bullish on Dragon Age: The Veilguard and I am not ashamed to defend its honor. Sure, BioWare’s had a streak of lean years. Sure, there have been quite a few high-profile departures from the studio. Sure, Larian and CD Projekt have type of eaten BioWare’s lunch within the meantime. And sure, there was simply one thing barely off about its first trailers. Regardless of all that, the sport beneath all the time appeared stable to me. However god rattling, EA and BioWare may have prevented numerous doubt in the event that they’d simply led with one thing extra like in the present day’s launch date trailer for The Veillguard’s official reveal in June.
The unanimous take from DA-likers on the PCG staff is that this simply felt extra Dragon Age than something we have seen of The Veilguard thus far. The shock return of Claudia Black as Morrigan helps hyperlink The Veilguard to the remainder of the sequence, and I believe greater than something it helps that this video reveals us extra of the sport. As an alternative of a context-free rundown of companions we’ve not but shaped attachments to or a let’s play of the prologue—the worst a part of any RPG—this newest trailer is delivering core samples from deep into the sport.
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And I like what I am seeing! The foppish necromancer companion appears to have a sick necropolis stage related to him, full with an enormous skeleton baddy straight out of Darkish Souls 3. There’s lots for lore sickos to chew on as effectively, together with what may be our first have a look at the within of the Black Metropolis, a staple of Dragon Age skyboxes and codex entries for 16 years. I additionally love the sheer number of fantasy environments: We have a minimum of two different city environments alongside Minrathous, autumnal elven ruins, a rocky desert zone, and extra. It jogs my memory of Dragon Age: Inquisition’s eclectic world, however based on the builders, The Veilguard will not have Inquisition’s MMO-style open world bloat.
This is able to have made for a much better first impression of The Veilguard than what we noticed in June. Even the sport’s companions, the nominal focus of that first reveal trailer, come off higher right here—they’re extra organically launched, with small snippets of the way you work together with them within the sport, versus some type of heist film roll name.
This newest trailer ends with one final nice shock: An October 31 launch date. That is on the sooner finish of EA’s projection from the start of this month, and I used to be anticipating one thing in mid-November on the earliest. We cannot know for certain till we lastly have the sport in our arms, however a pro-Veilguard vibe shift is continuous to take root in our collective unconscious—possibly that is only a fancy means of claiming I really feel actually good about it now.