After taking 10 years to arrive, Dragon Age: The Veilguard didn't quite manage to live up to everyone's expectations. Although the 2024 action-RPG played well, the writing and tone felt off to many, coming across scattered and not as deep or compelling as Inquisition. A new report shines some light on what happened behind the scenes, and it turns out Square Enix's Forspoken may have caused some panic internally.
According to a report from Bloomberg, the at best middling reaction to the chatter in Forspoken contributed to BioWare higher-ups initiating a top-down rewrite of The Veilguard's dialogue. Due to time constraints and other problems, this wound up exacerbating problems by creating tonal gaps between characters and plotlines.
