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

Even if that wasn't their intention, the way it's worded really rubs me the wrong way. It sounds like it was written by someone who lacks common sense, to say the least.

I have the game on steam. I've completed several playthrough's before DAV was released. The game played well until it crashed a lot on one playthrough. Anyways. This is what I did to fix the issue. It's a 4gb patch. Since I downloaded the patch, I've had no crashes even with the number of mods I have for the game.

And a lady Rook can only say "well I like being a woman but if you don't maybe you should think about what works better for you?" to maintain peace because God forbid we be harsh or argue with Taash. I get them not wanting to have Rook be negative about their identity cause that could get a bit gross but, you know.

I hate that a good amount of the complexions have stubble, too. Frustrating. For all the talk of wanting people to feel represented I couldnt represent having tits, smh.

But yeah, the fact as well that so many of the individual antagonists are "crazy woman" as well as all the things you mentioned kinda sucks.

Every single thing about this title is a political statement from a visual perspective. Down to the cc, the discount Pixarification, and the gaudy purple palette. We must fight the male gaze!

I am not part of the LGBTQ+ community myself, but I found this thoughtful critique from that perspective of the game's handling of these issues.

www.pcgamer.com/games/dragon-age/dragon-age-the-veilguards-leap-forward-in-trans-inclusion-comes-from-a-heartfelt-place-but-its-problems-left-me-feeling-frustrated-angry-and-tired/

I thought we weren't supposed to talk about "That"? I'm so confused.

I wonder how many push ups we'll have to do in order to get a good Dragon Age game.

Busche and Weekes (and I suppose rest of the writing staff) absolutely had a plan for how to include more trans-related things in the game, and some of the writing around it was complete garbage. But I genuinely think this is a subject that will almost never be well explored or included in a video game setting, especially a medieval inspired fantasy RPG of all things. It's just really hard to write well without it feeling really narcissistic, navel-gazing or transparently ideological/political. I'd say the same about any coming out stories though.

I do think Gaider had a better knack for writing about sexuality though. I think Dorian worked out well enough (I didn't love it, but it was alright), and I think his initial inspiration for gay Zevran being '' gay people who are recruited for secret services because they often don't have good relationships with their families so they have less to lose '' and gay espionage in general was actually really freaking cool. Sadly it fell through because Bioware said NO.

I never had any huge issue with Maevaris but them including that '' Maevaris? She is WOW '' in Sera's letter to the Inquisitor kind of soured me on her as well. Again, personal gripes and annoyances that only a few people will understand.

I certainly dislike the only lesbian character in the entire series thinking Maevaris is a totes hottie because of course lesbians need to validate trans women.  

Just these small things only us terrible terfs and tehms (who deserve to be punched like nazis or something) would notice! 

But IGN gave it a 9/10. Surely they wouldn't revise their opinion now that BioWare and EA are radio silent. Their integrity and stalwart gaming journalism wouldn't allow it.

To be fair, BG1 sort of does pigeonhole you to an extent - for those that never played the first two BG games, you have a reputation score. If your score goes low enough, you'll actually be prevented from shopping at stores and even entering the city. But, as I've said many times already - they didn't expect BG1 to be the smash hit it became, which is why BG2 is head and shoulders above the first one.