I think the biggest thing that speaks to me about Veilguard is... I haven't touched it since I finished it.
Almost any game I've ever played that I've enjoyed, truly enjoyed, I've played at least twice if not more. It's actually a terrible habit of mine to have a bunch of saves that I haven't completed because I adore the game so much that I want to experience it over and over again.
Inquisition, Baldur's Gate 3, Destiny, Transistor, Skyrim, Stardew Valley, Witcher 3, I could keep going. The point is Veilguard couldn't deliver on the one thing that makes me love games and that's replayability. All the incentive of making a new character, making different choices, is gone because there's barely any choices to be made. So little reward for choosing a different companion to romance because the formula is the exact same for every single one. Restarting feels more like a struggle to the finish line. I dread the first six hours of gameplay because the dialogue is like nails on a chalkboard stale and stilted. I honestly dread character creation because the backstories are pretty much the same and I don't want to edit my Inquisitor and their choices every time. (Don't get me started on aesthetics.) The fact that the last three games I've sunk hundreds of hours into means NOTHING to Veilguard. That every beloved NPC from previous better games is reduced to whatever plot point serves the weak narrative.
What is there in Veilguard actually worth seeing again myself that I can't just watch a clip of on YouTube and be done with it? I look back at the roughly 80 hours it took for me to finish the game and think that I could've just made a new save on Inquisition and had a way better time. At the end of it all... I can't help but grieve for the game we could've had.
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