Playing Dragon Age The Veilguard.
Solid game, honestly probably the best bioware game in some time. Graphics are great and on a technical level it's excellent. Runs really well, looks awesome.
Combat is a lot of fun, though pretty much full blown action combat now which I know a lot of people aren't looking for in these games, but I think it's a lot of fun and probably the most enjoyable combat has been in the series. Playing as a warrior basically feels like playing Assassin's Creed or spiderman now. Lots of dodging and parrying and counter attacking, but there's still enough interesting skills and abilities that it's satisfying and fun.
I do have a few issues with the game, some pretty significant. First is the whole tone feels off for Dragon Age. DA has always been a gritty kinda grimdark-light fantasy setting. Pretty grounded and dirty and all that. But this new one feels like a completely different world. It feels like the world of some young adult teen fantasy novel. Everything is very bright and pretty and something about it just doesn't feel consistent with the tone of the rest of the games.
Also I don't like how all your team members just seem to immediately like you and trust you without making you earn it. Bioware games are at their best when it feels like the new team members are hesitant to trust you or like you, and you have to slowly earn their trust and friendship over time through conversations. But that's gone. Basically it's just you meet a new character, they join your team, and you're just good friends with them, and they're friends with everyone else. There's very little, if any, inter party conflict or tension. Feels very artificial and kind of boring.
Also most of the characters aren't very interesting. Emerich the charming necromancer is by far the highlight of the bunch and is the only one that really feels like he could have been in an older, better written bioware game.
There's just like no bite in this game. No edge. Everything feels very safe and like someone else put it in a review I read, it feels like the dialogue was written by HR as to not offend anyone or make anyone feel uncomfortable in any way.
Props for it not being an open world game crammed with a bunch of busy work, though.
Overall, fun game that I think is getting more hate than it deserves, but still has some significant issues.