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Dragon Age: Veilguard lead level designer Brian J. Audette responds to criticisms on Bluesky: "We couldn't have made a better Dragon Age, only a different one." (bsky.app)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In a response to an article written for Bloomberg by Jason Schreier investigating the ten year "development turmoil," lead level designer Brian J. Audette refutes the notion that the game was "compromised" in a post on their bluesky account.

The full post reads:

Reposting without comment except: I refute that we made a bad or compromised game. We made the best version of what we released, warts and all. I'm damn proud of it and the team. We couldn't have made a better Dragon Age, only a different one.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

DA:V was such a disappointment.

It was a Disneyfication of the world of Thedas, and none of us wanted a Dragon Age game with no meaningful choices and a G rating.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The silver lining for me is that they at least closed out story lines that were set up in previous titles. The blight, the origins of the chantry and maker, they ended and I feel resolved now.

I wish it had come in, as he said "a different game", but at least I don't have burning questions longing for a new game. Dragon age is over, the stories are done. It's not the game I hoped for, but they closed everything out at least rather than "guess you'll have to wait for the next one!"

I guess it's true. This is the way Thedas ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

And, on the plus side, anyone lucky enough to have never played it can get DA:O and all of it's DLC for like five bucks no.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

No for real it was a 1 for 1, re-skinned Hogwarts Legacy. I was so crushed when I realized I just got duped into paying for the same game twice.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

If that is the truth, they oughta be fired for incompetence.

They (not he) already made a better Dragon Age. It was the first one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

"We couldn't have made a better Dragon Age."

Then you shouldn't work on Dragon Age anymore.

I mean, level design wasn't really Dragon Age's problem, so I don't even know why this guy feels the need to talk at all. Trying to defend the others that were actually part of the problem just makes him looks stupid.