BioWare Doesn’t Want To Invalidate Your Earlier Choices In Dragon Age: The Veilguard

With series like Mass Effect and Dragon Age, BioWare has made a name for itself as the “choices matter” studio. These games have allowed players to import their choices from previous entries in order to keep a consistent world state that feels shaped, to some degree, by your actions. The process by which players do that has changed over the years, with the Mass Effect games reading your old saves and Dragon Age getting a separate app to craft your world state for Inquisition. Dragon Age: The Veilguard will handle this differently, allowing you to make a few key decisions in the character creator that reflect choices made in Inquisition before you get started on your next journey. Still, for all its apparent concern with making players feel like their decisions have lasting impact, BioWare’s track record is arguably a bit spotty in this regard, and at times the studio has outright undone the effects of major choices players have made. At a preview event earlier this month John Epl…