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

And I stand by my original Skepticism.  This blond Rook is NOT as thicc or busty as the default female body in Baldur's Gate 3.

I don't have a dog in the race of who BW "represents" in their CC, but is it not obvious to everyone how it's all the currently hot topic issues, like nonbinary, transsexuality, top surgery. If it's really about being inclusive, where's the amputees, ALS sufferers, blind people. Why are they not represented? FFS, it IS about pandering to a certain audience.

My much bigger issue is the faction backgrounds, that does actually limit my roleplaying significantly. Give me a background that doesn't set my character's moral stance please. I can deal with a set history for my PC, but straight out telling me how they felt about what they did is an RPG nono for me.

I mean the CC, you can't "represent" yourself as an amputee there. What I'm trying to say is not that representation is bad, but that BW is only representing certain people, the ones who are very visible rn, and that makes me look very cynically upon them. Obviously, you can't have an option for every problem we face as real people, but addressing and advertising these very specific ones is hard PR money-making strategy, rather than inclusion.

More OT, I believe since the theme is supposed to be "regret", that would open many more options for our Rook to have done something bad in the past, but anyway, the actual actions should have been left to the imagination and rp of the player. I like to be a fairly blank slate shaped by my choices in rpgs, rather than a set nice protagonist given the option to save A or B and being all broken up about it in cutscenes. And as for the Solas comparison, I don't think any of our Rook's blunders could be compared to his, so it feels a little weak to me.

The facial animations are quite concerning. I've seen a few with Neve and Harding and it is really hard to not notice. 

Unbelievable how uninspired and similar are all the background origins, they aren't even diverse while all heroic. It's just the same " Rook saved a few folks against orders but it had consequences " Very disappointed with the warden's background. Very disappointed with all the backgrounds, we are close to laziness at this point. 

What if I wanted to roleplay a selfish ot ruthlesss character ?

As for the CC. Full of hypocrisy as usual. They keep talking about being inclusive but they always have to exclude a demographic or something that are opposite to their weird beliefs in their actions. Lately, everything that is feminine or close to a traditional woman to them has to be eradicated or twisted. Female characters have to look androgynous, muscular or manly, some bizarre ideology in the western video game industry lately. 

The same as ubisoft, starfield. Having trans things is OK, he/she/them, i don't know. However, we are not okay for big chests for women. They all have to get small tits. They said " you can be whatever the hell you want "

Bellara looks terrible. My god, her face is so weird. 

I really hope they don't give our Inquisitor the shaft in that respect since I see they were creative with Neve. I wonder if their combat class will include different prosthetic types? We already saw one in the Red Jenny slide in the Trespasser epilogue referenced, so I'm curious if they've modeled one for mages and of course warriors; the latter already has a RL reference they could use as well.

More OT, I believe since the theme is supposed to be "regret", that would open many more options for our Rook to have done something bad in the past, but anyway, the actual actions should have been left to the imagination and rp of the player. I like to be a fairly blank slate shaped by my choices in rpgs, rather than a set nice protagonist given the option to save A or B and being all broken up about it in cutscenes. And as for the Solas comparison, I don't think any of our Rook's blunders could be compared to his, so it feels a little weak to me.

The other concern I have is what choices will carry over from past games. Rumors are there will only be four choices and they all relate to Inquisition. Specifically in regards to Morrigan, since her characterization is actually quite different if she has Kieran as opposed to not having him. Most of Origins choices can be handwaved by being in a different region and massive time gap, but that's not one of them. I don't really expect him to show up in the game given quantum issues, but I'd like the option to discuss him with her.

It couldn't possibly be because the writers are genderqueer or transgender and want the option to express themselves and give people like them a similar chance to express themselves.