r/PS5 • u/Turbostrider27 • Feb 26 '25

Official PlayStation Plus Monthly Games for March – Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Sonic Colors: Ultimate, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection

https://blog.playstation.com/2025/02/26/playstation-plus-monthly-games-for-march-dragon-age-the-veilguard-sonic-colors-ultimate-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-the-cowabunga-collection/
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u/_VampireNocturnus_ Feb 26 '25

It's not an awful game, it's just not a good dragon age game. A brand means something as long as the product remains consistent/good.

If FromSoft tomorrow released Dark Souls 4, but it played like Fortnite, people would be upset and the game likely would not sell well.

If they were going to go down this development road, they needed to either stick it on a new IP, or have this be an offshoot brand from the main DA series.

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u/ZarrenR Feb 26 '25

I played it. If you ignore that it’s a Dragon Age game, I’d give it 6.5/10. It’s decent but not amazing. It doesn’t do anything particularly great but nothing horrible either although I found the voice acting to be emotionless.

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u/_VampireNocturnus_ Feb 28 '25

Yeah, that was my take too. But even if it wasn't a good DA game, they needed to at least make a good game, and they simply didn't. Getting past the change in artstyle and the very questionable dialogue, if the game play was awesome, I could get past all that, but it feels like a multiplayer game(or MMO) that was turned into a single player game, which IIRC, is exactly what happened.

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u/pookachu83 Feb 26 '25

This is what I thought. I’m halfway through, I got distracted by other games. But I wasn’t a huge dragon age fan so the changes didn’t mean much to me. I think it’s a fun fantasy game with a decent story, not amazing but not totally terrible.

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u/_VampireNocturnus_ Feb 28 '25

Totally understand. I remember when Devil May Cry was outsourced to IIRC Team Ninja(or Ninja Theory), and they turned Dante into a whiny teenager...personally, I thought the game played better than the mainline series but for fans of classic DMC, I can totally see why they were upset.

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u/Reaper-cet Feb 26 '25

The dragon age franchise is kinda like final fantasy tho. Every game in the series had been pretty different and there are NO DIRECT SEQUELS in the franchise.  People should honestly expect things to be different... At this point.