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,

GamesBeat's Rachel Kaser got to play several hours of Dragon Age: The Veilguard -- and the gameplay is the shot in the arm the series needs.

Brave soul that I am, I'm about to embark on a perilous quest. Over the next however many paragraphs this potentially rambling feature ends up being, I will say some nice things about Dragon Age 2. I have done it before,