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00:07Welcome to mojo plays and today we're looking at everything that you need to know about Dragon Age the Veil guard
00:14Releasing on October 31st for PS 5 Xbox Series X and PC
00:19You and me work
00:20Maybe that's what scares me
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00:31the name change
00:33Dragon Age dread what I mean veil guard wait Dragon Age the veil guard for years
00:39Dragon Age 4 was known as Dragon Age dread wolf and was believed to follow up closely on the cliffhanger at the end of
00:45Inquisition that solace is the dread wolf one of the elven gods
00:49It's rare that a game gets a name change after the game has already been announced with a different name
00:54But Bioware has said that this reflects the change in direction. The game has taken
00:58We'll talk more about why the name has changed in relation to the story later on
01:02But suffice it to say it doesn't look like solace is our big bad anymore with the game instead more concerned with the fade
01:09The magical realm where Dragon Age's spirits live
01:17The team are they after us is it because of the bar word travels fast in Minrathus
01:23It's no secret that Bioware has struggled in the last 10 years while Dragon Age Inquisition was a monumental game
01:312017's Mass Effect Andromeda was poorly received as a disappointing sequel to the groundbreaking trilogy
01:37After that EA dictated that Bioware changed direction and the studio put out the live-service flop anthem in 2019
01:44Veilguard looks like a return to form but it's also had a tumultuous time behind the scenes with a lot of developers leaving the project
01:51This includes the game's former creative director Matt Goldman leaving Bioware in 2021
01:57Luckily, it's starting to look like the next Dragon Age game is coming together. And at least it's not going to be online anymore
02:03Let's go honey. No keep the demons office
02:07You got it the story. Come on Eric. We didn't come all this way just to talk to him
02:13He was my friend Brooke. I've got to try to reach him if the name's been changed
02:18What's the game about now from the trailers is clear that as said soulless isn't the main villain
02:24IGN's exclusive footage of the game reveals that soulless will feature prominently including in the intro
02:29But that two other elven gods Elgar non and Gilanane are the villains here and they're much more dangerous
02:35There's also another darkspawn blight ongoing and therefore another archdemon threatening Thedas
02:40Most interesting of all is one moment in a trailer that shows Scout Harding a dwarf using magic
02:45Longtime Dragon Age fans will know that dwarves can't use magic. So whatever's happening to the fate is affecting everybody
02:51We can't wait to find out
02:55These are the times in which legends are born character creator and I'm pleased to say that it's a very robust character creator
03:01We've finally been shown footage of the character creator and as expected
03:05It's even more complicated than it's been in the previous games yet again
03:09We can play as a kunari which the hardcore Dragon Age fans will love
03:12But you can also play as the other three main races human dwarf and elf
03:17It's got incredibly deep options for how to customize your character
03:20Including adding blemishes and eye cataracts and having some of the best hairstyles we've seen so far in a Dragon Age game
03:27This even includes long hair, which hasn't been in any of the previous entries presumably because it's not easy to animate
03:33You also pick a backstory and which of the game's many new factions you want to be aligned with
03:39We need a better plan
03:41Morrigan
03:43You battle against gods
03:45They will not rest until you are on your knees
03:48The first trailer for veil guard featured Varric heavily
03:51Which is no surprise the dwarven storyteller was certainly the standout character in Dragon Age 2 and a fan favorite party member in Inquisition
03:59Though we're going to be devastated when Bianca gets destroyed in the prologue
04:02But later trailers have featured a different returning character and it is of course
04:07Morrigan revealing Morrigan definitely won over a lot of the more skeptical fans, and we're excited to see her again
04:13Despite her moral ambiguity. She's always an asset and easily a selling point for veil guard other returning characters include Scout Harding and obviously
04:21Solace
04:25These are the times in which legends are born Minrathus, I'll take it from here
04:31Are you sure?
04:33Positive it was rumored for years that the next Dragon Age game was going to take us further north than we've ever seen before
04:39Into the Tevinter Imperium. This is absolutely true as the first gameplay reveal showed
04:44We got to see Rook and the party fighting through the streets of Minrathus
04:47Tevinter's capital and the biggest city in the entire game
04:50But it's not just going to be set in Tevinter as we've also seen footage concerned with the Antivan Crows
04:55It would also be fun to see some other classic locations revisited like Kirkwall and Denerim though
05:01We wouldn't be surprised if Orlais is largely skipped since it featured so heavily in Inquisition and Dragon Age generally likes to move on
05:09Agreed Solace isn't waiting. Neither. Can we have you got my gear right over there skill tree?
05:15Dragon Age
05:20Like all good RPGs Dragon Age has classes
05:23It's got a simpler class system than other fantasy games having only mages rogues and warriors
05:28But there are various subclasses and specializations to invest in
05:32It looks like all of this is going to continue in Valeguard and we've seen so far a large
05:37Constellation looking skill map which is very different to how skill progression has looked in past Dragon Age games now
05:43it's hard to tell without getting hands-on with all the different classes exactly how very the potential builds are going to be or how useful the
05:50Skills and specializations will become hopefully different specializations will affect the narrative and what dialogue options you can use
06:02We're good, but we need to move the lighthouse maybe I suppose you were born for this sort of fight boy
06:09Once again, we have a large home base for our characters much like Skyhold in Inquisition this time
06:15It's called the lighthouse and it exists in the fade
06:18This is where you and your companions will spend time as well as providing tons of new lore about the elven villains
06:23it's also presumably where you'll be doing all of your romancing which we'll get to
06:28Bioware has implemented a useful system where companions his rooms will be
06:32Illuminated if they have a unique cutscene to watch to save you from running around after every mission
06:37Checking which characters have something to say the fade will be even more important since a particular area at the crossroads is how you fast
06:43Travel via the alluvians which have all now reactivated you fight through the crossroads to get to other areas of Thedas
06:50After the area is cleared you can fast travel
06:57Companions you don't slow down for much. Do you the first unpopular trailer was a roll call for a bunch of new companions?
07:04We haven't formed an attachment to this along with the cartoonish art style made people worried that the game wasn't going to be the sequel
07:11They actually want it that doesn't appear to be the case though
07:14And veil guard will introduce a cast of new characters that are sure to become beloved
07:18Bioware's trademark dialogue wheel is also coming back along with symbols that tell you the tone and meaning of each option not to mention the
07:24consequence system the
07:26Consequences are even deeper now with the game telling you exactly why one character did or didn't like something and how it's changed their opinion
07:33Of you overall and yes, there's going to be plenty of romance here the combat
07:43The biggest thing people have been talking about is the combat and how different it is from Inquisition
07:48After going for a more actiony route for Dragon Age 2
07:52Bioware backtracked with Inquisition and made the combat slower and more complex again
07:56But now we have another Dragon Age with more action oriented combat
08:00Including the ability to switch between different weapon types during encounters
08:03Which you were previously unable to do you also can't control their party members directly anymore by playing as them
08:09Which has been a staple of every other game in the series
08:12There is still real time with pause though. So the focus on tactics isn't completely gone
08:17We've got company
08:19Let us know whether you'll be checking out Dragon Age the veil guard and which class you'll be playing as either way
08:24Someone needs to stay back and deal with the demons
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