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Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s Clumsy, Preachy Political Messaging Does More Harm Than Good (www.forbes.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Not sure how particulary I think about it.

I kinda agree though because, honestly, I genuinely like prodding at RL-issues in my video games, but if the best the writers can do is some MCU-level shit that I would expect in Forspoken or Fortnite, then I really wish they'd not. It just feels like making fun of transgender people with how terrible the scene's dialogue is (there's a video in the article).

Plus, as the update says, they couldn't even be arsed to search through the previous games for whether this was already talked about.

Sigh.

Still, the game is far better than I expected it to be, so this isn't just a rant, but I wish the dialogue in particular had decent writing behind it, it breaks immersion near-constantly even if the general scene and story were done well.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

This article perfectly sums up the issues with this way of writing. Unfortunately people often don't acknowledge the nuance there, and will jump down this reviewer's throat for the take I imagine.

It's icing on the cake that apparently there was even an in-lore term for something like a trans character of this species that they didn't use. That makes it seem like they didn't even study their own lore well enough. Never what you want to be thinking about a writing team. 🫤