The Hypocrisy of Dragon Age: The Veilguard

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Dragon Age: The Veilguard broke my heart, and not for the reasons you think. Dragon Age has always been a franchise about choice and consequence; so when Bioware abandons this very principle in Veilguard, can we even still call this a Dragon Age game? Or is it just a hypocrisy-laden husk of what Dragon Age once was, a return to Thedas with none of the charm, depth, and excellence of the previous games? #dragonage #dragonagetheveilguard #bioware Chapters: 0:00:00 The Dragon Age Legacy 0:01:34 Art Style 0:04:52 Environments 0:06:22 Graphics 0:09:15 UI 0:09:53 Character Creator 0:10:58 Sound & Music 0:12:53 Gameplay: Combat 0:19:49 Gameplay: Exploration 0:22:41 Writing: Tone 0:29:23 Writing: Dialogue 0:33:44 Writing: Rook 0:42:34 Writing: Companions & NPCs 0:46:34 Writing: Romance 0:49:29 Writing: Factions 0:52:43 The Story: Act 1 0:58:19 Minrathous vs Treviso 1:01:02 The First Warden 1:04:39 The Inquisitor (and Southern Thedas) 1:08:35 Lore Reveals 1:13:29 Weishaupt, Wardens, Blight 1:18:38 Act 2 1:19:08 Act 3 & Finale 1:23:57 After-Credits 1:27:28 The Hypocrisy of Veilguard 1:32:12 Thank You Some gameplay footage from the following channels: https://www.youtube.com/@scerebropsnu https://www.youtube.com/@BenGun https://www.youtube.com/@GogaNC Music Credit: Dragon Age Lofi Remix | Lo fi beat versions of a few DAO and DAI game songs by Sonavo Background Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtINkVsn3a4 Lost Elf - Dragon Age Cello Cover by James McGonigle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1Hd5lyD8KI The Dawn Will Come - Dragon Age Inquisition Cello Cover by James McGonigle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWPiG0ONQQ8 Dragon Age Origins Intro - Cello Cover by James McGonigle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6q8abBaryY Dragon Age: Origins - In Uthenera (Cello Cover) by James McGonigle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH0GLAUi36w I Am The One (Dragon Age Harp cover) by Anastasia Sergeeva https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX6-YMZ2pPs Oh, Grey Warden - Dragon Age: Inquisition on Guitar by Isac Saleh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_xyqDmViXI Packington's pound - Anonymous – lute by Luthval https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZiiCu4GHw8 Dragon Age 2 - Hawke Family Theme - Piano (w/sheets) by RigorMortis999 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZKGr8Ynwxk Dragon Age II - Hawke Family Theme Classical Guitar by Harry Murrell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmlsE0vzR3s Dragon Age: The Veilguard is an action role-playing video game developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts. The fourth major game in the Dragon Age franchise, The Veilguard is the sequel to Dragon Age: Inquisition (2014). Set ten years after Inquisition, the game features new locations in the fictional world of Thedas for the player to explore. The story follows a player character known as Rook who was recruited by Varric Tethras to help him stop Solas, also known as the elven trickster god Fen'Harel, from bringing down the Veil. While disrupting Solas' ritual, they accidentally unleash two imprisoned elven gods – Elgar'nan and Ghilan'nain – who then wreak havoc across Thedas with the Blight in an attempt to conquer the world. Rook, supported by companions and various factions, sets out to stop these members of the elven pantheon from achieving their goals. Players control Rook from a third-person perspective and travel to various zones via magical portals known as Eluvians. Veilguard utilizes a hub-and-spoke world design unlike its predecessor's open world design. The game's development, which began in 2015, has been marked by lengthy delays, several fundamental changes in design, and high staff turnover. The game was announced as Dragon Age: Dreadwolf in 2022, and retitled to Dragon Age: The Veilguard in June 2024. After release Dragon Age: The Veilguard topped Steam charts and broke BioWare's concurrent player record. Dragon Age: The Veilguard received "generally favorable" reviews from critics for its Windows, Xbox Series X/S, and PlayStation 5 versions according to the review aggregator website Metacritic. OpenCritic determined that 69% of critics recommended the game. Veilguard was also subject to review bombing on Metacritic, with users criticizing the game for being "woke". Some outlets noted that while the user reviews on Metacritic are largely negative, the user reviews of Veilguard on Steam have a "mostly positive" rating. In response, Metacritic emphasized their moderation system which would remove offensive reviews. This video falls under Fair Use, as per the US Copyright Act. Fair use is a legal doctrine that promotes freedom of expression by permitting the unlicensed use of copyright-protected works in certain circumstances. Section 107 of the Copyright Act provides the statutory framework for determining whether something is a fair use and identifies certain types of uses—such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research—as examples of activities that may qualify as fair use.