Asan action game, The Veilguard is a success.
The games are aiming for, and hitting, different targets.
Baldur’s Gate 3 took 2023 and 2024 by storm, but who will take the crown this year?
By all accounts, The Veilguard did well for BioWare.
Itsurpassed 85,000 concurrent players in its opening weekend, the most ever for a BioWare game on Steam.
In the long-term, it’s performing like a typical single-player game.
It hasmore concurrent players than Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, which alsoreportedly did well for Xbox.
It took me a year to finish a single playthrough.
And once you get into the game proper, the choices quickly multiply.
Before leaving the game’s tutorial area, the Nautiloid Ship, BG3 presents several consequential choices.
Will you destroy the Intellect Devourer, set it free, or something else?
Will you rescue Shadowheart or leave her in her pod?
This just isn’t something Dragon Age: The Veilguard is interested in offering.
The game has a handful of decision points, but is hyperlinear in the stretches between them.
That makes it more difficult to see the purpose of a second playthrough.
Baldur’s Gate 3 proved, and continues to prove, that players are hungry for a deeper experience.
The Veilguard would have been a much stronger game had it broke Dragon Age tradition.
