Dragon Age: The Veilguard ~Discussion,Speculation & Wishlist

I like the Female Antivan Crow and the Female Qunari with the ponytail

They kind of had Cassandra as the very Not-Nevarran Nevarran companion, so it'd be interesting to have a companion from Nevarra who identifies more with their culture so we can learn more about their national identity, so to speak.

Some random thoughts and responses to some of the ideas already here...

Instead of a power mechanic if any kind of gating mechanism needs to happen again, I would rather they go the route of having five optional main story quests and we have to complete at least three of them, our choice. If we do all five we get some better outcomes or additional allies or something, so it's still rewarding for a completionist to do as much as possible but doesn't punish people who want to move through the game faster. And it could encourage replays. This is probably way too much work to implement especially if there would be different outcomes based on which base three quests were taken. But in my ideal world...

I think the fex are probably just a native people and not a new species, as the lore would have made a bigger deal about a fifth species if that were the case.

I want a nice balance between urban and wilderness areas for DA4. I want to see Minrathous, not a tiny marketplace in Minrathous and then go into the countryside for the rest of the game. I would love to visit the Anderfels and Rivain and Nevarra as well as Tevinter. I'm actually not bothered about going to Seheron as I figure it will be a generic war torn battlefield and not have much personality to itself. I would be interested to go to Par Vollen but think that's outside of the scope of the game except maybe as a final mission.

Personally, I want an f/f love interest who is not Andrastrian, especially if she's gonna be from another culture. We just had Sera and Josephine of DA:I and Suvi the vaguely religious one of ME:A. I'm kind of bored of the whole "she's a lesbian/bi woman but still believes in a monotheistic God" thing. Most likely Harding will be Andrastrian anyways, so it'd be cool if the other were either part of some other non-Chantry religion or had no religion at all.

One thing I'd rather they didn't do again is branching the main quest in a way that locks you out of massive amounts of context, like the Inquisition "mage/Templar" choice. I feel like that's basically why so many people feel like the main story of Inquisition is small or weak. They spent twice as much time writing and creating content as anyone sees in a single play through, you can just never access all of it. Having some branching quests that lock other content out isn't horrible as a standard, but I think they went too big with it in Inquisition and it left the actual main plot that everyone can access in a single game standing a bit weakly on its own.

It also annoys me that Calpernia was so obviously the villain they thought of as the "better" character, tbh. Samson is weak compared to Calpernia. The fact that he gets captured and can die, but she ambiguously disappears and will probably come back, makes it more obvious. I'm not ever going to side with the Templars because I want them to all die in a fire, but I'm bummed that I can't get Calpernia in my game. In the future I hope they won't lock out these major chunks of the game like this. It's just too much and making both halves balanced enough and developed enough was obviously not really possible for them. I'd rather it was like Origins, where you could choose to go deal with major missions or just go to the Landsmeet ASAP. You don't have to do all the faction missions, but they're all available if you want to.

Yeah I wish it could have been more dynamic. Let the Inquisition recruit both mages and templars, but if they do, a number of Inquisition troops in Haven are guaranteed to die. Maybe don't allow the Inquisitor to save any of the people so that we feel the impact more personally. Or if we choose the mages first then the templars, Barris always dies and the number of templars we receive is less, and vice versa. Then the subsequent war table missions are harder to successfully complete because we have fewer troops or agents to send in the field.

And later on have some conflict between the mages and templars at Skyhold that either damages the castle or forces us to take some action to prevent bloodshed. Apart from companion approval most of the choices didn't feel like they had a noticeable effect on the world.

I think it's very difficult for them to go there all the way because they'd have to make two whole different games in the next installment, but also because it's like.. if you fix it, then what? Now what do we do? lol I'm sure they could actually think of something, but let's be honest, they can barely come up with new characters that aren't just recycled tropes from their last game. 

Maybe Tevinter will be different? It's pretty different and it's also isolated, so they wouldn't have to incorporate it as much in the next game as the standard all over the rest of the world. I could see them having a slave uprising in Tevinter that sticks.

Actually, I would want more political-based intrigue and missions too. Much more story oriented than fetch quests, like the war table but... not just text lol. Small scale maps would be ideal, with bigger maps for more important areas and hubs. Think of even that one area in the Western Desert Whatever with the frozen demons... imagine if we got more of even that lil quest type instead of a big dumb empty desert. Does anyone even speak positively about huge open worlds, outside of the context of Bethesda games?

For how flawed the Winter Palace was, it is still one of the most memorable aspects of Inquisition and I Want More.

The Tevinter temple that's frozen in time, right? I love that mission. It's probably my favorite side thing. It's creepy and interesting. I do wish Inquisition had more like that. I don't think Bioware handles open world very well. Elder Scrolls/Fallout don't do story as well as Bioware, either, but they do better with sprinkling little, self contained stories out in the world. Finding balance with this is difficult, but I think Inquisition did overreach.