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

That is perfectly put.

I also had tons of fun with BG3, but that fun didn't involve wanting to listen to banter videos 8 years after first playing the game. It didn't mean wanting to play the game through once almost every year. It had no profound effect that other RPGs have had, despite having lots of fun with it. 

Fascinating how people differ. I don't much care for my two wardens. I cannot even remember how I played them differently or not. I really struggle with connecting to silent protagonists when everyone else has a voice. Then again I also don't care for my inky. Shepard was amazing y Hawke was amazing, the rest I don't much care for.

I'll never forget my BG3 durge though I think. Mostly because of how unique of an experience that was. I roleplayed him hard and got the absolute perfect bad ending for him.
My sweet druid though I don't really have strong emotions for, I admit. Again, silent protagonist issues and not enough narrative ties to that character.

I often emote the most with (semi) set protagonists since I care more about emotion than roleplaying freedom. Either the companions have to make me fall in love with them or the protagonist, ideally both.

I can relate to anybody if the narrative is good enough. Sometimes even when it's not. I get emotional easily about fictional characters while you'll rarely see me cry about things happening in my own life.

I want a romance with Henpecked Hou at the end of which his wife comes, murders me and chop off his dick

Correct.

Veilguard is not a good game, and BG3 is not a Bioware game

Yet there are games I think are much closer to peak Bioware that are not made by Bioware

I finally had to tell him:  “If I wanted to rut with half a tonne of dumb muscle, I'd seduce a deep rothe”

He finally got the point then, but he had the nerve to say 'You needn't be so blunt about it"  

I believe specifically, the CC asked Who do you dream of?"

I recall one early reviewer saying it was cringe that BG3 made you design your dream lover. I also imagine some aro/ace people may have disliked their PC needing to have a dream lover at all. Mind, I'm a big proponent that artists should just tell the story they want to tell and damn the fans. Can't please everyone anyway.

They REALLY should have kept that

Straight out of the horse's mouth "nobody likes being a woman". Holy shit. The hate. I'm really surprised they've gotten away with this shit. You put any other group there besides men and it's a big can of 'ism and 'ist that they never recover from. The fact that nobody seems to be talking about this line is a deeply depressing statement on the culture itself. The boob/ass slider and the Brock Lesnar jaws all make sense when you look at it from the perspective of someone who hates women.