Honestly, who cares? Elder Scrolls has such weak stories they may as well be nonexistent. So restarting doesnt really mean a whole lot. It'd be different if you had to watch a bunch of cut scenes and plot development to get back to where you were. But Oblivion has all of 5 minutes worth of a story so all you have ✅to do is start a new character, which is t🐎he fun part.

I personally don't save scum. If I have too much premeditated control of the outcome in narrative heavy games (especially with games like BG3 or Oblivion where it completely dictates the progression of the story), it starts to feel like I'm playing make believe with toys instead of a game. I personally enjoy when things go bad sometimes. It makes consequences feel real instead of reloading the conversation 12 times to ge🔜t the best results. But I also don't insult anyone who DOES play that way. People should enjoy their games how they want as they bought them.

I kind of feel like anyone who thinks of BG3 as a dating simulator before anything 🎃else is playing the game wrong. Romance can enhance the narrative of the story, sure, but it hella isn't enough to play through this 100 hour behemoth of a masterpiece.

Dragon Age Veilguard was just very poorly written. The charac๊ters and the story were both so underwhelming. And it did, as you said, feel extremely linear. I enjoyed the combat! That's about it though.

"People picked Neve and Lucanis! How boring! I instead chose the most annoying character in the game, wh💛o although they're a dragon slayer, has nothing♍ to talk about other than their gender. Aren't I special?" Lol

But yeah, the choices in this game are ext𓆏remely shallow. The writing is even worse. The combat is a blast for a couple hours but then gets repetitive. I'🎉d give Dragon Age Veilguard a solid 3 out of 10.

It's not that it's writing is "polarizing". That implies that it has controversial topics or something. That isnt the problem. It's downright lackluster. They were so afraid toཧ go anywhere at all interesting with it that it became an incredibly shallow experience.

Even the things they did do that were unique, they ruine🦩d. Lucanis, an infamous assassin is just a "dont talk to me till I've had my cup of coffee (wink)" character and the demon posse✅ssing him, a literal incarnation of spite, acts like a cutesy demanding 5 year old. Its embarrassingly bad.

The combat is fun. But if that was enough to carry a game for me, I'd just play some💞 game like Fortnight all day. I need substance and depth.

Honestly, it sounds like you may just want to like it so much that you're ignoring this extremely valid complaint. These characters are laughably 2 dimensional. Characters with ♉zero conflict are extremely boring. An assassin should be a little more edgy, especially being as he's possessed by a demon, but he's the exact same as every other companion. Just 100% nice, nothing you could say could possibly upset them, they get along with everyone. It's like ever๊y member of the team is HR.

I enjꦉoy the game! The gameplay has been a blast and the story is pretty good. But the compan♕ions are easily the worst part of the game.