The Veilguard has superb combat and charismatic companions but if you're hoping for a return to the series' origins, you'll be disappointed.

Be it classics like Knights of the Old Republic or big standbys like Mass Effect and Dragon Age, the archetypal BioWare experience is “here’s me on a snarky, death-filled road trip with my friend group of extremely damaged disaster bisexuals.

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When you finish Veilguard, turn your hopes for a big expansion elsewhere, because its story is seemingly a one-and-done affair.

This week, nothing in video games resulted in more takes being heated and tweets being fired off than the release of Dragon Age: The Veilguard, the first new entry in BioWare’s series in 10 years. We took a look at the different reactions some critics and players are having to the game.

But after the critic reviews come in, user scores go live, and it was exceptionally easy to predict how they were going to split between players who had played the game, and ones that likely hadn’t. See if you can spot the difference.

If you've played all three previous Dragon Age games, how many choices do you think you've made across the series as a whole? Hundreds? Thousands? Certainly enough for it to be a little disappointing that new entry The Veilguard doesn't really care about any of them.