Ya people play video games to escape these politics. Glad to see this game fail miserably
The game is bad because of bad writing not because of politics.
BG 3 is even more “woke” and it’s great.
The game is bad because it’s repetitive and just not fun to play, which are design flaws.
I’ve been having fun with it but I wanted a hack and slashy fantasy game that wasn’t depressingly “souls like”. This kinda scratches that itch.
The taash bits are a little on the nose sometimes with the gender stuff but it’s really not a big deal or a lot of the game.
I really like the deep lore of the game though I haven’t played any of them since like the first one or two. I like how the dialogue “feels” but I don’t think there is much of an impact on how you behave other than key events, and sometimes there’s a little too much dialogue, but it does seem to flow like real conversations with good voice acting a lot better than other rpgs I’ve played. And it’s beautiful, the maps are sandboxy but layered. Some stuff is time gated so I’ll be trying to figure out how to get somewhere only to give up and it be available later.
Anyway I’d give it like a 7 or 8 at this point
Woke is fine if it doesn’t break immersion. In BG3 it feels like part of the in game universe. In dragon age it feels like it was just forced in like “hey look how progressive we are” and it’s just very tiresome
It reminds me of the runescape pride parade. The whole community was mad not because they are anti gay it’s just not a place for blatant real life political stuff when we are all playing for the sole purpose of escaping real life
The whole game has bad dialogue. It sounds stiltet or like a bad Marvel movie no matter what they talk about.
Also, including gay characters is only political if it is something you object to. Are black characters also political?
Things that break immersion for some gamers:
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Main character isn’t a white cishet male
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NPCs that don’t reinforce the primacy of white cishet males
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Acceptance of non-cis/het people in a story involving fantasy creatures that is otherwise totally believable, well-written, and, above all, where only this scene is clumsily delivered (and not the fact the supporting character’s hat appears to be a folded bird)
No sarcasm in the third point at all. (Edit: That’s more sarcasm where I’m indicating I’m being sarcastic in point three)
They don’t play it to be lectured on politics that’s for sure. The sales speak for themselves lol
Yeah, definitely it was because of your issues and not just because it was a bad game. How did disco Elysium gross 84 mil being such a political game, again? Helldivers 2? Cyberpunk? Rdr? Metal gear? Fallout? Deus ex? Papers please?
C’mon… I’ve never heard of a good game being unpopular because of its politics… are there any?
Because you apparently missed the parts of Dragon Age 1, 2, and 3 where you are involved in heavily ethical government decisions? And that’s on top of the heavy messaging about abuse of power by mortal leaders that starts literally from the first few minutes of DA1.
Games with literal politics as integral parts of the plot, and the thing that melts these snowflakes is the existence of a gay person. Something that’s only “political” if you’re a complete piece of shit.
It’s only recently that Italians have been considered “white.” So the Super Mario Bros. series is political and woke I guess?
It will undoubtedly turn many gamers off entirely, not necessarily because they’re unsympathetic to trans rights, but because they’re tired of being preached at.
exactly, which is why politics free games like assassins creed and call of duty sell like hotcakes…
wait, Ass cree is a series about political intrigue throughout history and call of duty is about warfare as a result of political goals.
Are you sure people play games to escape politics?
Yeah uh what the hell was Mass Effect and the Witcher if not extremely political. You could be a genocidal Shepard remember, you could let the entire council die and push for a human only version. Most people who cry out “it’s woke” just have never put it together before.
Yeah but those aren’t the same on the nose reminder of real life politics that dragon age is guilty of
The game literally stops to lecture you on how progressive of a game it is, it’s just stupid virtue signaling
What’s most laughable is they’re clearly unaware of the political themes in the games they’ve listed as nonpolitical. I’m torn between them being an absolute doorknob that is outraged by whatever outrages their in group, or them being an absolute doorknob that only just began to comprehend the simplest of video game plots and is outraged every aspect doesn’t match their myopic worldview.
