Dragon Age: The Veilguard Gets Launch Date, New Trailer, and Official System Requirements

[GFreeman]

Bioware has officially announced the launch date for its upcoming Dragon Age: The Veilguard, which will be available on October 31st. Pre-orders for the game have opened up as well, and we got a new official release date trailer, as well as the full PC system requirements.

Powered by the Frostbite engine, Dragon Age: The Veilguard is set in the world of Thedas, and it is probably one of the most anticipated RPGs. It will include several classes, and plenty of skills and weapons to choose from for your team of up to seven companions. Earlier rumors also suggest that Bioware and EA will also announce a partnership for Dragon Age: The Veilguard with AMD, Intel, or NVIDIA.

In addition to the new official release date trailer, which shows some action from the game itself and reveals a bit of information about the story, the game is now available for pre-order in standard and deluxe editions, priced at $59.99 and $79.99 ($69.99 and $89.99 on consoles).



EA and Bioware also relased full PC system requirements for the game. The minimum requirements list includes Intel Core i5-8400 or AMD Ryzen 3 3300X for the CPU, 16 GB of memory, and at least an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970/1650 or AMD Radeon R9 290X graphics card. The recommended list pushes it up to Intel Core i9-9900K or AMD Ryzen 7 3700X CPU and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 or AMD Radeon RX 5700XT graphics card, while memory remains at 16 GB.

These requirements are quite reasonable considering what we have seen from some games recently. The list also includes 100 GB of storage space, preferably SSD, and AMD CPUs on Windows 11 will require the AGESA V2 1.2.0.7 update. The game will work on Windows 10 or Windows 11 64-bit.



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[64K]

9 years in development. Long delays. High turnover in top employees.

Better to at least wait for reviews and gamer feedback.

 

[Vayra86]

Insta hard pass. What the fuck is this? 2000 wants its low poly blurry faces back. Facial mocap... yeah I guess Andromeda wasn't bad enough? Let's add some cartoon sauce over our abysmal cast eh. Its not even good enough for a parody of itself.

And let's not even start about how this game is dripping with zero talent infused art.

And they want current day specs for this blurfest, too. You can just smell the fiasco approaching. Perhaps they call it veilguard because you're viewing the whole thing through a blur/bloom filter?

Not paying a single cent for this ever.

 

[JIWIL]

There was a trailer and some gameplay footage released a few months back, got about 2-3 minutes into it and wasn't sure what I was watching... but it wasn't Dragon Age.

This trailer is better, that's not saying much though. Mostly because there's no gameplay in it. Really not a fan of the cartoony style and the hyper fantastical kungfu fighting.

It's been more than 10 years since I last played Origins, so can't really comment on the lore/story. I've a feeling they wouldn't be favorable though.

 

[QuietBob]

Wow, this may be the first time I see the Ryzen 3 3300X in the minimum requirements

 

[AusWolf]

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Insta hard pass. What the fuck is this? 2000 wants its low poly blurry faces back. Facial mocap... yeah I guess Andromeda wasn't bad enough? Let's add some cartoon sauce over our abysmal cast eh. Its not even good enough for a parody of itself.

And let's not even start about how this game is dripping with zero talent infused art and 'corporate must haves' in character choices.

And they want current day specs for this blurfest, too. You can just smell the fiasco approaching. Perhaps they call it veilguard because you're viewing the whole thing through a blur/bloom filter?

Not paying a single cent for this ever.

I don't usually find graphics worthy to talk about, but really, what's with the cartoony style? Any why does everyone look so damn ugly?

 

[Vayra86]

I don't usually find graphics worthy to talk about, but really, what's with the cartoony style? Any why does everyone look so damn ugly?

Zero. Talent. Company.

There are company environments where obvious cringe is just not talked about, its accepted because this is The Way the management overlords decided it. If you have truly talented designers and dev teams they will show that management there is a better way and convince them of it. There is nothing of that sort within Bioware anymore. Every title they release just screams it out loud.

 

[asdkj1740]

can you just make dao remaster

 

[64K]

There was a trailer and some gameplay footage released a few months back, got about 2-3 minutes into it and wasn't sure what I was watching... but it wasn't Dragon Age.

This trailer is better, that's not saying much though. Mostly because there's no gameplay in it. Really not a fan of the cartoony style and the hyper fantastical kungfu fighting.

It's been more than 10 years since I last played Origins, so can't really comment on the lore/story. I've a feeling they wouldn't be favorable though.

DA Origins is a classic but that Bioware no longer exists. The 2 co-founders left in 2012 and the real talent left as well. Bioware has been in decline ever since and unfortunately for a long time now they are Bioware in name only. Just a shell of what once was one of the best Developers ever imo.

 

[Onasi]

The 2 co-founders left in 2012 and the real talent left as well. Bioware has been in decline ever since and unfortunately for a long time now they are Bioware in name only.

I remember the rumor that I’ve read a while ago that Jade Empire was the game that the OG owners really wanted to make and after that they kinda lost interest. Shame, if true, since it remains the studios probably most underrated project. I like it quite a bit, though. Always wanted a JE2, though obviously not from the current zombie wearing BioWares skin. Hopefully after Veilguard inevitably flops they will finally be put out to pasture. Surprised they haven’t been already, considering that the last… acceptable… game they’ve put out was Inquisition and that was almost a decade ago.

 

[Halo3Addict]

Excited to see Dragon Age coming back, but Bioware has been a mess for a while.. hopefully this game is just a step back in the right direction for the company and they can at least produce a good story because the gameplay looks very generic.

 

[AGlezB]

They all look like they're a couple of hours late for a bathroom break.
Well, all except the dwarf that is. She looks in the middle of letting go.

 

[Frick]

I remember the rumor that I’ve read a while ago that Jade Empire was the game that the OG owners really wanted to make and after that they kinda lost interest. Shame, if true, since it remains the studios probably most underrated project. I like it quite a bit, though. Always wanted a JE2, though obviously not from the current zombie wearing BioWares skin. Hopefully after Veilguard inevitably flops they will finally be put out to pasture. Surprised they haven’t been already, considering that the last… acceptable… game they’ve put out was Inquisition and that was almost a decade ago.

This makes sense because it was their last pretty great game.

 

[TechLurker]

Geez, even the maligned DA2 still has a better art aesthetic than Veilguard, and probably will still have a better story than Veilguard too.

There hasn't been anything good I've read about Veilguard, and while I still hoped it would get better, this just shows there's nothing left of the original DA trilogy in it. The characters somehow look worse and uglier than anyone in DA1-3, despite the hardware generation differences.

 

[Onasi]

Geez, even the maligned DA2 still has a better art aesthetic than Veilguard, and probably will still have a better story than Veilguard too.

No doubt. Absolute retardation of the finale of DA2 aside, the story itself and the premise overall of a refugee nobody trying to make a name for themselves in a hostile city is actually *chefs kiss*. Potential peak RPG material. It’s just that a development cycle of barely a year, trying to repurpose what was originally a second expansion for Origins and a lot of EA meddling led to the final product being… kinda shit.
Veilguard doesn’t even have that. The trailers and interviews already smell like Marvel tier nonsense for zoomers.

 

[ZoneDymo]

this is going to suck, hell you wont even control a team anymore, its just one a-hole......
nobody who made the old is on this team, its just nonsense

 

[tfdsaf]

DA Origins is a classic but that Bioware no longer exists. The 2 co-founders left in 2012 and the real talent left as well. Bioware has been in decline ever since and unfortunately for a long time now they are Bioware in name only. Just a shell of what once was one of the best Developers ever imo.

Same thing happened to Blizzard as well and Bethesheda, all of the top talent left or retired and they are now run/managed/worked by a bunch of DEI woke hires that don't even like or play games.

 

[AusWolf]

They all look like they're a couple of hours late for a bathroom break.
Well, all except the dwarf that is. She looks in the middle of letting go.

Thanks for that. Now that you said it, I can't unsee it.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Man people are bitter AF around here.

Game isn't my expectation of Dragon Age, but I'll let it release and wait for the feedback before casting judgement.

Every game is a $10 complete edition buy for me nowadays, just doesn't make sense to rush out and drop $70 for anything anymore with my backlog and work/life/etc. That said, I do tend to enjoy Bioware narratives so I'll almost certainly be picking this up at some point.

 

[rtwjunkie]

Add me to the not impressed list. They actually lost me back at DA:I. That was the final straw for me with Bioware. It was such a chore that despite starting twice I never finished. If I could burn it out of my account I would. Oh well, back to the backlog and replay lists.

 

[Prima.Vera]

By the looks of the graphics, this better be played on an integrated GPU on 4K without issues.

 

[AusWolf]

Man people are bitter AF around here.

Game isn't my expectation of Dragon Age, but I'll let it release and wait for the feedback before casting judgement.

Every game is a $10 complete edition buy for me nowadays, just doesn't make sense to rush out and drop $70 for anything anymore with my backlog and work/life/etc. That said, I do tend to enjoy Bioware narratives so I'll almost certainly be picking this up at some point.

I'm not passing judgement on the game - just the trailer, which is a several minute long display of nothing, featuring ugly characters and cartoony graphics, neither of which is my cup of tea.

 

[Vayra86]

Man people are bitter AF around here.

Game isn't my expectation of Dragon Age, but I'll let it release and wait for the feedback before casting judgement.

Every game is a $10 complete edition buy for me nowadays, just doesn't make sense to rush out and drop $70 for anything anymore with my backlog and work/life/etc. That said, I do tend to enjoy Bioware narratives so I'll almost certainly be picking this up at some point.

Well look, its like this, I am actually playing DA Origins right now because in general this is the type of game I love.

Its just a huge letdown to see a decent franchise spoiled by such bad, bad releases. DA Inquisition, Andromeda... they are all shadows of what could have been. Yes, you'll play through them, I did too. But at the end of it all? Nothing remained. I don't remember those games, not a single scene in them, as memorable, and that makes total sense because the whole experience is basically a grind with some loose RPG elements around it. Its not a CRPG anymore, realtime or turnbased. Every subsequent release we've seen from Bioware is a 'features dumbed down' move and now with Veilguard you don't even control the party anymore, its basically just a glorified, on rails point and click action game; a whole bunch of nothing because it will not play as well as a God of War, but has those limitations in combat options, so its not interesting long enough either. DA Inquisition suffered from this already, but at least you had the party, and even then every combat was rapidly turning into a 'click through your rotation' thing in any somewhat interesting fight, because then you'd win. Tactics barely came into play, just spam your 4-5 skills and all is well. How many skills do you get in Veilguard? 3?

Its so strange too, because surely even the management at EA has seen the success of RPG's with depth like Baldur's Gate, right? Or remember where they came from with DA O? Is this what their market survey came up with as 'what people want' in a Dragon Age? Man have we sunk deep.

 

[chrcoluk]

Requirements hints the game might actually be reasonably optimised, will wait and hope.

Are all the deluxe edition bonuses cosmetic only?

Still need to finish the 3rd game. I got put off when they released a major patch, as I am not a fan of major rebalancing post launch. But will finish at some point I guess.

 

[AusWolf]

Well look, its like this, I am actually playing DA Origins right now because in general this is the type of game I love.

Its just a huge letdown to see a decent franchise spoiled by such bad, bad releases. DA Inquisition, Andromeda... they are all shadows of what could have been. Yes, you'll play through them, I did too. But at the end of it all? Nothing remained. I don't remember those games, not a single scene in them, as memorable, and that makes total sense because the whole experience is basically a grind with some loose RPG elements around it. Its not a CRPG anymore, realtime or turnbased. Every subsequent release we've seen from Bioware is a 'features dumbed down' move and now with Veilguard you don't even control the party anymore, its basically just a glorified, on rails point and click action game; a whole bunch of nothing because it will not play as well as a God of War, but has those limitations in combat options, so its not interesting long enough either. DA Inquisition suffered from this already, but at least you had the party, and even then every combat was rapidly turning into a 'click through your rotation' thing in any somewhat interesting fight, because then you'd win. Tactics barely came into play, just spam your 4-5 skills and all is well. How many skills do you get in Veilguard? 3?

Its so strange too, because surely even the management at EA has seen the success of RPG's with depth like Baldur's Gate, right? Or remember where they came from with DA O? Is this what their market survey came up with as 'what people want' in a Dragon Age? Man have we sunk deep.

That's the thing. If we take Mass Effect: Andromeda as an example, it's not a bad game. It's got great ideas in it: the story isn't bad, it's got the element of mystery, space exploration feels great, etc. But there's just not enough of all of it. Sure, it's not an exploration game, it's a team building RPG, and there lies the problem, because that aspect, which is supposed to be its main thing isn't done well. The team is full of annoying brats and planks of wood that I wouldn't want to spend a single minute with, let alone work together on a space ship in an alien galaxy, their side quests are uninteresting, dialogues are pure cringe, etc. In the original trilogy, romance missions were the ultimate reward for your team building efforts and you had plenty of choice depending on your taste and your choices in the game. It had chemistry. In Andromeda, it's all sorted by clicking the dialogue options marked with a heart symbol, but why would you when your choice is annoying child or plank of wood? I ended up going with the Asari woman girl, but man, did it feel forced and lifeless... And the away missions... Driving around alien planets is great, but would the teammates just shut the hell up for a single second? Argh! Such a shame to be disappointed by a game that had so much potential to begin with!

And this is what gets us to why we're posting here. It's easy to turn the other way when a game is simply bad or uninteresting. But when it's part of a great franchise with great potential, it's hard not to voice disappointment.