• bread@feddit.nl
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    9 hours ago

    There usually aren’t many complaints of something being woke if the product is actually good. I think the main takeaway is that nobody wants to be lectured, and told they are wrong for having a different opinion, and amateurish writing can easily come across as preachy or being a self-insert.

    • PunchingWood@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      Pretty much this.

      I will likely get downvoted into oblivion for saying this (as usual), and I will prelude by saying that I generally never care if there are gay, trans or whatever stuff in games. But transgenders and pronouns were never ever a thing in the Dragon Age franchise, and now they suddenly feature these so prominently. They just handled this very badly.

      The fact that writing is generally just plain bad for this game, these inclusive options also seems to affect the rest of the game as well. And it indeed makes it look like they focused on the wrong narrative so much. The way Skill Up reviewed the game was perfect, his best summary was “it’s as if HR is standing in every room” or something along those lines. Like nobody is allowed to insult, or be insulted, in this franchise that used to be pretty dark and grim.

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        1 hour ago

        But Dragon Age was never good, either.

        The first one was mediocre at best with some good ideas, and it was all downhill from there.

    • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
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      9 hours ago

      Yeah but have you seen the cutscenes of DA:V?

      If that childish word salad sounds “preachy” to you, you need to go to a different preacher! Yours can’t even english.

      How can this sound preachy to anybody? Has the fascist right lowered their own standard of education enough to where they think Marvel-style dialogue is normal?!