Oh, I played it on PS5. I thought I remembered hearing the PC specs were quite reasonable though?
That's what I thought, but there's something going on that's making the game not work right for me. The only other game I've experienced stuttering with on this PC was
AC: Odyssey, and the stuttering only started happening long after I'd beaten the game and was just pottering around doing post-game stuff. (IIRC a DirectX update messed it up.)
With Veilguard, I was able to play it smoothly for one day before the stuttering started, and I haven't been able to get the stuttering to stop since, no matter what I've tried (and I've tried pretty much everything at this point).
While I don’t really agree with the people who say “Veilguard is a decent game but a bad Dragon Age game,” I do admit I can see where they’re coming from about that. Dragon Age has changed a lot in terms of mechanics from each entry to the next, and the common threads have really been the world, the story, and the promise of decisions having long-term impact that carry over to the later games (though in practice that has always been a bit dubious). Veilguard makes some writing choices that feel at odds with the world as it has been previously established, and has basically zero reactivity to decisions from past games, apart from the single question of if the Inquisitor romanced Solas, which would have been pretty much impossible to get away with not acknowledging. So, I do get it. The common thread of what has made something a Dragon Age game has never been thinner. But I do think it’s a decent game, even as a Dragon Age game.
I never put much stock into "the promise of decisions having long-term impact that carry over to the later games". Like, it's a neat idea, but eventually it was going to become too unwieldy with too many different possibilities. I'm not surprised they ditched it for Veilguard. Plus, the game takes place entirely in northern Thedas, whereas the first three games took place entirely in southern Thedas, so there's that as well.
I don't really mind that each game plays differently. I love DA for the lore and the metaplot, and I've yet to be disappointed on that front.
Rook reminds me a lot of Hawke. The fact that Rook can have different backgrounds with the different factions reminds me of the various origins in DA:O.
One thing that's been consistent throughout the series is how your character's surname is always locked in.
I think it's an
excellent Dragon Age game. It builds on what's come before, making the blight and darkspawn scarier than ever before. We finally get to
see places like the Tevinter Imperium, Arlathan Forest, Weisshaupt and the Anderfels, Antiva, Rivain, and all those places we've only read about in the previous games. The overall metaplots relating to the elves, the Qunari, and all that are building to satisfying conclusions (so far - I haven't finished the game yet - just doing the Siege of Weisshaupt now).
Stuttering aside, the only thing I dislike about Veilguard is having to visit so many different merchants to sell valuables and upgrade faction strength. It feels a bit like I'm running errands. (Like finding the dwarf's lost nug in Orzammar ....)
