What we've been playing – advent calendars, tricksy trials, and ages of dragons
13th December
Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we’ve been playing over the past few days. This week, we admire temporary rule-changes in a game, we play a real-life advent calendar somehow, and we push to the end of a long fantasy adventure.
Catch up with the older editions of this column in our What We’ve Been Playing archive.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Xbox Series X
This week I’ve been looking at my Xbox version of Spotify Wrapped – the thing that lets you see how much time you’ve spent playing games this year and which games you played the most – and while my favourites weren’t too much of a surprise (an egregious amount of Fortnite and another 90 hours of Baldur’s Gate 3, standard) I was taken aback by the amount of time I’d already put into Dragon Age: The Veilguard.
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To be clear, I have not yet finished The Veilguard. I fully intend to, and maybe next week when I have some time off I finally will, but right now, going by Eurogamer’s handy list of main missions, I think I’m only probably around half-way. And I’m already at 45 hours. Have I really spent nearly two days playing? I mean I guess so – I’ve put in an hour or so a night for a lot of the past month. But what have I actually been doing? Is everyone else taking this long?
