Dragon Age: The Veilguard reviews are split predictably between people who have played the game, and people who haven't.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard arrived with pretty solid critic scores, racking up an 84 on Metacritic, translating into what appear to be pretty solid sales, at the very least, putting up the highest playercount EA or BioWare has seen on Steam, with seemingly good console performance as well.

But after the critic reviews come in, user scores go live, and it was exceptionally easy to predict how they were going to split between players who had played the game, and ones that likely hadn’t. See if you can spot the difference.

  • Steam – 77% “Mostly Positive” scores
  • PlayStation – 4.45/5 stars
  • Xbox – 4/5 stars
  • Metacritic – 3.4/10

You can guess which three platforms there require you to own the game to rate it, and which one does not.

  • fckreddit@lemmy.mlEnglish
    74·
    2 months ago

    I am liking the game so far. I am only couple of hours in, though. But the most common complaint that dialogue is cringe is patently false, imo. I love action games and I am enjoying the combat.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
      91·
      2 months ago

      Dialog gets better when you get to know the characters, but yeah everyone is… very happy. Or at least optimistic and such. I read something a while back, apparently they did take some learnings from ME:Andromeda. Andromeda felt way too young and spunky, and felt like it was inappropriate for such a serious game. They said they had applied that from Inquisition after they applied young and spunky to it and thought it would work everyone (see: Sera). So going forward Dragon Age is optimistic and happy, Mass Effect is darker and more serious (apparently)

        • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
          51·
          2 months ago

          I’ve had mixed emotions about her. On one playthrough she’s a ton of fun, and brings some lighthearted fun to the group, and pairing her with Bull can be a ton of fun. On another I found I was taking the Inquisition much more seriously, and came down very hard with her and we were at odds the whole game. I like that I can have very different relationships with the characters based on how I play

    • Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      82·
      2 months ago

      I’m a die-hard Dragon Age fan, and yeah, there are times when the dialogue is pretty cringey and has all the subtlety of a brick to the face. But I’m really liking the game so far.

        • Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          No, I’m not. I’m saying the game is good but occasionally has clunky dialogue. A lot of things have a line or two that’s clunky.

              • Imhotep@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                2 months ago

                I thought I saw a misunderstanding to the comment you were responding to, that’s all

                the most common complaint that dialogue is cringe is patently false

                yeah, there are times when the dialogue is pretty cringey

                same goes for the other response by Scrubbles

                if I’m still not clear forget it, really it’s unimportant, I shouldn’t have commented