Dragon Age The Veilguard Criticism Thread (formerly Skepticism Thread) [Spoilers]

I agree with this guy in the video 100%.   I couldn't have put it better myself, although I have expressed some similar sentiments on this thread.    When he was saying about how they want to wipe away the past so they can continue in the future without having to be constrained by it, this thought popped into my mind "unburdened by what has been".   That is part of a political ideology originally promoted by Marx.  You no longer learn from the past as we previously did, so you do not repeat their mistakes but nevertheless continue those things that were good about it.   You erase the past so the current regime is the only one you ever know.   

Ironically the writers of the earlier games understood this.   So, they introduced the idea of the Chantry removing parts of the Chant for political reasons, of Drakon destroying every cult of Andraste that did not agree with his own, even possibly the Keepers of the Lore in the Dales conveniently ignoring inconvenient aspects of the history of their gods (we will never get to the bottom now whether they knew the truth about the abuses of the gods).   What was clear was how forgetting the past was dangerous to the present and did mean that people would be destined to repeat their mistakes.    However having an idealised view of what the world once was and thinking you could restore that without the bad aspects, as Solas wanted to do, was equally faulty.   

Clearly, the current writers didn't understand this because they are of the mindset that everything in the past is bad and needs to be destroyed, to be replaced by their own vision.   As the guy in the video says, this is not just true of Dragon Age writers but across the entertainment industry.   Instead of having the courage to create their own new franchise embodying the ideology and stories they want to tell, they use a franchise with an established popularity and then destroy what other people have created before them, replacing it with their own "vision".   Then they wonder why people attack what they have done and refuse to buy their product.     Then they claim they are the victims of toxic fans who are racist, sexist, transphobic, etc, etc.   No, I just refuse to buy into your bull****, literally.