And "empathy." Most people who demand "empathy" actually want complete coddling and pandering, and it's always (ALWAYS) a one-way street with others giving and them or their proxies taking.
Christianity used to behave the same way....& still would if it retained its social power. It's a very old tactic for authoritarians. Which shows you just how much sway this idiology has.
@@FaolanHart lot of the lefties today I guarantee you are very embittered adult children filled with church hurt...just repeating the abuses they've learned upon the nearest available victims, preferably scapegoats who resemble the ones that hurt them As abusers do
Montreal, which is somehow worse. The home of Ubisoft who made Star Wars Outlaws and is making AC: Shadows, also in a country which made the critically acclaimed 'robyn hood' tv series with a whopping 1/10 on IMDB.
indeed, when i think of many races and cultures in a fantasy or scifi, i expect furries, muppets, and eldritch horrors. not 15 different colors of humans with pointy ears and horns
LMAO no offense, but you mean "West Hollywood." People in Downtown L.A. are either in a hurry to get to their (probably white-collar) jobs and in off the street, or are fiending for meth and sh*tting on the sidewalk.
This modernity could have at least made sense in a modern day or futuristic setting, but this stuff in a pre-modern fantasy setting is just ridiculous.
Imagine being able to sell elves into slavery and trading a kids soul to a demon for bloodmagick and now your forced to call someone a they instead of a her
Drake meme: Virtual slavery and trafficking children's souls?: 👌😎👍 Saying an obvious woman is a woman when she's actually not a woman, and a 'they': 😠👎
Same. I seriously do not get this trend to show yourself having an emotional meltdown. I mean, it's like they have zero concept of personal dignity. Quite frankly, if I'm upset to the point of tears, I immediately go somewhere to be alone until I calm down and get my sh¡t together. It's embarrassing and pathetic to film yourself whinging and crying. I've seen videos of people who have lost loved ones to violence or disease make statements with quiet dignity, tears dripoing down their faces but not lashing out and throwing a fit.
@sarasunshinemt4444 i agree, they seem to think having no control over their emotions is a good thing. Of course anyone can be surprised to a tearful outcome but never have i felt the need to screech like a banshee when that happens.
Recording yourself bawling is another one of those things I’ve never gotten. Just feels like a really stupid idea that’ll probably just lead to more tears down the line.
The irresistible urge to publish your most vulnerable moments on the internet instead of getting real friends or keeping healthy relationships with your family. I guess it's been spreading lately.
they are a tool used by financiers to capture gaming industry.this whole trans thing is to safely eradicate people and replace them with own bootlickers....Nobody cares about LGBT,especially the people who are using them.
No. At least everyone is united in hating Johnny Somali, while a good 10-25% of people still defend this mental illness in gaming, American comics, and Hollywood.
This DEI crap is the fakest "nice guy" shit ever. They're actually bitter assholes who take pride in not listening to the customers & removing content. They are paid professional haters who hide behind "inclusivity" I miss how unique & appealing games where from the 7th gen back. Now games obsess so much on realism, ray tracing & 4k resolution. Did they forget how important stuff like physics effects, rag doll effects, using creative art styles, satisfying gameplay mechanics, damage effects and interactive environments. Having a variety of different Single player modes. Current games are way too focused on graphics that they forget they're making a game that's supposed to be fun & appealing. Did the industry forget what fun & visually appealing is? I wish we could see a massive improvement in the ways video games can be made. I swear the fact game development is so unintuitive it restricts so much creativity and doesn't click with so many creative artistic people who do want to make games..
I think about this a lot. Got a friend of friend I have to interact with a lot who embodies the fake "nice guy" archetype and he's so incredibly frustrating because he only cares about his image, the symbolism, and seeming like a nice guy. But he's really just a bully. So called "progressives" are just pseudo-religious bullies who exploit the good will of others and moralize for control. They are hopelessly addicted to self-righteous rage. Back in the 90s-00s I used to be one of them. But back then we were transgressive, edgy, and actually believed in something. Now progs have more sacred cows than any religion before them and are the biggest corporate shills imaginable. Their cultural dominance has been miserable when they promised the opposite. The hypocrisy and betrayal sets my blood on fire.
What is even more funny are the defenders of the game crying about the criticism saying: "How about you play the game and make that decision for yourself? I find 1/2 of the game boring, and the dialogue not so good... so just skip those parts and mute the dialogue!" It's really like talking to a someone who thinks as slow as a sloth and doesn't understand the fundamentals of what makes games good.
@@animezilla4486it is wrong when the aforementioned “realism” is something happening in our world instead of in a fantasy game. You wouldn’t wanna see a Ferrari driving in a medieval town. Cuz that shit is what you see on PLANET EARTH, not whatever universe these games are set in. These characters are not even speaking in English, just localized so players can understand. There is no reason for medieval fantasy world to develop modern English pronouns.
I’m 51 years old and could someone please tell me what parallel universe I fell through that I’m in this upside down world? Please take me back to the 80’s.
@@Sarcastic_Sophistshe pretty much looks like herself. I think you were just thrown off because of the narcissistic pretend-loathing of plebs-expression on her face.
@@unturned6066 honestly it has been a long time since I played 2 so I forgot the voice actor (if they are the same) and the costume design is very different so I didn't recognize her.
At some point, we stopped caring about the content of character. And instead decided to judge based on identity of skin color and what hole you like. This is plain and simple societal regression.
Agreed, but I suppose it makes sense. We live in such a privileged time, that the most hardship these folks know is being misgendered. They would not have survived the early 1900s, and I thank ALL of the true activist who pushed for change and movement to be seen as equals in a society that treated horribly. This is truly a spit in their faces, in my strong opinion.
WTF did they do to Isabella! I didn't even recognize her with that gaudy outfit or her uglified new look; granted she's not as bad as some (looking at you SW Outlaws) but she went from a 10 to 5, 6 @ most
"Respect My Truth" they bleat while trampling all over yours. If you're a grown-up, live your life however you want, but when you push that on to others, you're being a selfish, entitled hypocrit. Your issues are not my problem.
Exactly. This is how most people feel. That's why things have gone from tolerance, to acceptance, to mandatory acceptance by government force and cancellation, to most of us rejecting this ideology and outright despising it. I feel bad for the gay and trans people out there who aren't immature narcissists who have to get lumped in with the Laura Kate Dale's, Corinne Busche's and Trick Weekes' of the world.
@MarvinPowell1 i dont feel bad for any of em. Brother is trans. Female to male for 11 years and when i last visit screamed at are dad cause he left the toilet seat up. Like your a man now arnt you? We view and treat you like a man but your mad because you didnt get a weenie and pee like one. Its been 11 years. Nonsense. Male body female brain.
Have you noticed how none of the gender fetishists ever advocate for a universal pronoun that can be used for everyone? Even aliens? No, it's always hyper-individual pronouns and then demand to get special treatment. It's attention seeking, they want to feel special and validated just for existing. It's narcissism, me me me me. They want to belong to a community but want to be THE individual in that community.
I agree and the scene where they are talking about apologizing for misgendering someone and they say if you apologize it becomes everyone's else's job to make them feel good and makes it about you....HELLO WTF! THE WHOLE SITUATION IS ABOUT YOU THE F-ING NARCISSISM!THEY TOOK OVER A BELOVED I P. AND MADE ALL ABOUT THEM IMAGINE BEING THIS BLIND BUT THATS HOW THESE PEOPLE ARE.THEY CANT CREATE SOMETHING NEW BECAUSE THEY LACK TALENT AND ARE FORCED TO LEECH OFF OTHER EXISTING I.P.'S AND SUCK OFF THE LIFEFORCE IT ONCE WAS
I agree. My sister has a they them at their work, but she says they're actually really nice, so she's like " ill call you whatever you want as long as you're nice" 😊
The phrase "makers panties" made me cringe so hard it felt like i was sticking my head inside my body like a turtle. Also, this game cost 80$ cdn, and it's basically a preachy tutorial guide on how to talk to thin skinned people who get offended too easily. And you don't have a choice, it's basically "are you gay?" and the choice are yes, definitiely, and non-binary.
isn't the Maker depicted as a Male Figure? It's the Andraste that is Female, The Prophetess and War Maiden? So wouldn't that be blasphemous? It seems like the writers got no idea about this pretty significant lore bit since it was Pivitol to the entire Last game.
@@BlueBD Andraste was a Human female. With the things I'm discovering in this game and how Solas says "Tevinter mages broke into the prison ages ago and unleashed the blight", I think "The Maker" was just Solas all along. When he created the prison he reshaped the world.
The phrase "Marika's Tits" in Elden Ring had me laugh. I wonder if they were trying to go for that spontaneous humor and just failed really badly by trying to cram their worldview into it.
I wish I could ninja turtles duck this ridiculous shit lol 😂. That’s a great analogy those I swear 😂, I’m dying laughing just imagining the sound effect of a humans head just retreating into there own neck to escape this overwhelming cringe 😂😂😂
There's an SNL skit about if HBO had made a Mario Kart adaptation, one of the jokes in there is "Marvel at the compelling and fascinating character writing". then it introduces Toad who just says "Hi, I'm Toad, I'm Bi-sexual"
Strange that people who claim to be inclusive, would exclude anyone that doesn't talk the way they want. Trying to force others to talk like you, seems bizarre
It's basic indoctrination and gaslighting. They claim they want inclusivity, but in reality, they want to force everyone to think exactly like them. Anyone who disagrees with their way of thinking is labeled as some kind of bigot in order to trick the large portion of the population that doesn't know this is going on into thinking that there's nothing insidious happening.
Let's come to term with it. The bioware that made us dream is gone.. most of the devs and artists that did all those legendary games are no more in it. All we can hope is for the studio to change it's name or close 😢
Those devs are now at Archetype Entertainment and making Exodus. It has a time-skipping dynamic that's essential to the world. Actions and long term consequences.
I not only want Bioware to go the way of Volition and Firewalk Studios, but for them to be blacklisted from every creative industry on the planet. The ideology is bad enough, but these people outright _hate us_ and expect us to pay money to ingest their propaganda and prior to 2022, would _cancel you_. if you didn't They are hateful, nasty, awful human beings, through and through.
They're faking it, they have to be, I have real mental illnesses, yet I don't need to act like these people, They're doing it for attention or for the sake of feeling different and trendy
Thing is bullies don't bully the right people they often bully the quite tall guy with autism sitting in the corner minding his own business. Speaking from experience.
@@animezilla4486 bobble-heads + Pixar animation. Personally I like the style (not the bobble-head part) of Pixar animation type stuff. And the environments look gorgeous. But it feels out of place for a Dragon age game with the animation/artstyle. Really wishing they just went and started a new ip with this game.
@@Zephy_Sky "it feels out of place for a Dragon age game with the animation/artstyle." This. Which is the main reason why I'm not touching it with a stick - it doesn't look like Dragon Age any longer. It's like some cosplay using plastic instead of steel, leather and velvet.
Being neutral and tolerant of this nonsense is why we end up with more of it. It's not enough to simply not buy it. We need to gatekeep these losers from the gaming community as a whole.
"special privileged" people like to assert dominance to normal folk and act like they are the majority and have to be pandered to so give them an inch and they take a whole 10 miles and be offended to get more "privilege" we should laugh and shame them out of the industry lol.
Oh we are gatekeeping alright. The game peaked at 70k players on steam. Let's times that by 3 for the sake of other platforms and offline players. 210k estimated people bought the game. Game is priced at 70 US dollars. By my math, the studio has generated near 15 million dollars for their game that was likely 200 million to make. That's 185 million in debt still, and word of mouth will only continue to choke this game out of potential buyers. GG freaks.
absolutely it is beyond me how people can just blindly accept this. I will never support this crap even if the game is good i am so done with this topic and let no one force their opinions on me. On top of that if they make a decent game without DEI they just try to gain our trust to sneak it back it. The bigger gaming studios voiced their opinion about this and they want it they don't care what we want and they will enforce it at all cost. My solution is to completely move on and pick specifically the studios that stay away from this or support more indie devs.
People always say this but how are we supposed to gate keep when they're industry plants who came in from the top through the corporation. They fire the old guard & replace them with sjw drones. Avellone is bisexual but even he was cancelled from writing Wrpgs because he committed the crime of being a man who's also attracted to women. Gate keeping seems to only favor the corporation. The audience & the original artists of gaming (such as Avellone) are viewed as irrelevant.
Dragon age origins:Hero to Villain - I don't care who you are;you're going to die. Dragon age veilguard:Hero to Villain - I won't let you do these bad things. Why are you doing this? Also, I'm gay.
Yeah, I remember being able to mistreat my companions if I wanted to, I seem to remember being able to kill one of them in dragon age. Hell evil Shep was genocidal in mass effect. Why didn't bioware just make the "evil" route the trump supporter path? That would've been really funny. You have someone start talking about gender ideology and rook just buts in and tells them to shut up. It probably would've been the first evil route I would've gladly taken.
@@crashzone6600 In origins, every single one of your party members can be killed by you except for Alistair & Morrigan. Although you can stab Morrigan in the heart instead of kiss her in the final dlc lol.
A lot of game designers and storywritters have forgot the golden rule of making a game using investor money/company money. We were taught this in college. Play it safe, and avoid modern day controversy because your aim is the attract the largest possible audience and adding controversial topics, even if you don't find them controversial, is risky because you will lose customers. If you want to make a controversial game, do so in your free time as a hobby, don't use investor's money to do so and jeopardize the companies future to push your politic/social views.
Tbf, no developer or publisher is capable of meeting those standards. Bloodborne is as close as ive ever seen a game come to 10/10 perfection, but its unfinished and not optimized so it loses a point for me.
@@captainbube1217 I didn’t waste any money one this game. I’m not sure why everyone is assuming I did? I was just making a joke about how bad the game is based on the review footage I’ve seen.
The way that one individual needs to be loved is to be sent to therapy. It is not normal to be crying because you were "referred to as someone you're not". That is, in fact, rather concerning.
Not to sound like a RW or anything, but why does a game with a dark fantasy setting have to preach to me like current day California? Immediate turn off
@@KeirnothVT We live in a time when outright communists are being declared right wing. Anyone who doesn't subscribe to the narrowest of ideological margins is declared to be a Natzee.
I renember when the genre "fantasy" was about creating a universe different from ours, I'm tired of this excesive need of representation and identification, it's messing everything it touches
Being someone that is actually Autistic and was through being tested by a certified professional when I was 13. Attention seeking a holes using it as a label and change it on and off like a hat is infuriating. Some people really struggle with having it and it really makes it even worse because people won't believe that they actually are autistic and are acting for attention.
Yeah, same with my ocd It was a different game 12 years ago where asking people not to drive through graveyards to not trigger my ocd, and have that uber driver to drive through it ANYHOW for me to "get over it" Nowadays its just playing the victim
As someone who was always called "Mr." in emails and was thought to be a boy based of my name, i try to imagine my life if i bawled my eyes out everytime i am, what these ppl call, "misgendered". But from a young age, I always understood it's always just based on an assumption of my more boyish name, but I know I am a girl/ female, why do i need to care so much? These people should grow up lol
Ironically, I keep getting misgendered these days because I ... sometimes wear a bomber jacket and jeans, possibly at the same time? Don't have a BBL / influencer plastic-surgery face and never wear false eyelashes? Tend to speak with a certain amount of confidence while still being polite and even nice? It's like people don't think a woman / female human being can just *be.* If we don't act like full caricatures of a stereotype, and sometimes even if we do, it's better to err on the side of calling us "them." It doesn't destroy my day or rock my sense of self, but it's obviously something I do think about sometimes.
@@MachineMan-mj4gj My mother, my brother, and myself all have nearly identical voices when heard over the phone. That's not a knock on my brother; it's mom and me that always get called "Sir". XD
I'm an empath but can't feel anything from these people because it's not real emotion. It's mental Illness or it's fake attention seeking. Probably not the 1st take
I've always had long hair by choice and as a child I was always taken for a girl, to the point where I was fed up correcting others. What's more, my masculine name also exists in a feminine version with a slight difference when written but not when spoken, so that didn't help. Even when I was a teenager, people still sometimes mistook me for a woman from the back, despite my larger build. I never took it seriously. Sometimes people told me to cut my hair, but that was my choice, and I accept it, whatever the minor consequences. The funny thing is that I've received quite a few insulting comments, but not from boys, no, it was always girls who made fun of me because "I looked like a girl".
Many things about this game reminds me of Concord and Dustborn. The preachy dialogue that talks to gamers like they're children and the forced modern identity politics, including the "surgery scars" were more than enough to avoid this game.
@@TheLongestConfidence some ppl keep on saying its "fine" lol i dont understand why they have to add these "weird" features. They advertised it like its a 18+ game...when its just a "M-rated" story-telling RPG game.
_"For me, the best way to increase society's resistance to insulting or offensive speech is to allow a lot more of it. As with childhood diseases, you can better resist those germs to which you have been exposed. We need to build our immunity to taking offense. Our priority should be to deal with the message, not the messenger. If we want a robust society, we need more robust dialogue and that must include the right to insult or to offend."_ - Mr. Bean (aka Rowan Atkinson)
@@pheunithpsychic-watertype9881 There's a video here on TH-cam called: *Rowan Atkinson on free speech* the timestamp for where the quote can be found in the video is around 5:50
It's not just the dialogues, the writing is awful too There's a mission where you need to recruit the Antivan Crow, an assassin, but they told you that person was dead, but seconds later the leader said he's actually alive, just kidnapped, she just kept it a secret because she's worried for the traitors. And so you're on a mission to rescue him, but when you get there he already broke free himself, and suddenly you have to help him on a contract in order to recruit him It's such a point-to-point storytelling, you don't care about the character or the mission, not even the story because things just happen
Or in the second area of the game where the mage you meet says there is no way of taking down the magical barrier and walking into that much pure magic energy would be suicide……. But there might be a way to take the barrier down….. you just told me that there wasn’t.
Yikes. And the sad part they actually thought they were being clever. They pull plot points out of a hat, string them together, "This happened, and then this happened, and then this happened," .... and that's what passes for writing.
That scene in particular….ugh. It tells you exactly how they want you to be punished for your “trans”gressions. They will not accept an apology. They act like uou are either trying to escape or outright avoid any uncomfortable feelings and consequences of your actions….OR….and this is my favorite part….IF you are sincere in your apology and desperate to show how truly awful you feel and ask what can you do to make amends….they will not give any forgiveness or absolution…In fact the more remorseful you are, the more upset you become….the angrier and more dismissive they will be. Because they feel you are only trying to distract or obfuscate from the problem ….you are trying to make yourself the victim instead of atoning for your sins and taking whatever punishment they want to give you. (sigh)
It's generally the mindset of the "trans-trenders". Ie, those people who hopped onto the "trans/non-binary" bandwagon the moment they saw it would be a useful label to slap on themselves in order to get away with anything they wanted to, by screaming "transphobe!" at anyone who dared question them. About anything at all. The best examples of those are the people who post videos that they took being outraged that someone "misgendered them", when they don't even TRY to pass as the gender they claim to be. They go out looking to start a fight and post videos of it for social media clout.
@@ToxicVex267Exactly! If someone wants to LARP as the opposite gender, or no gender at all, I will respect and defend their right to do so. But they have no right to force me to agree with their choices or play along with their delusions. To the OP, that's why you NEVER apologize to these people. They take it as an admission of guilt and use it to demand more and more concessions, while never intending to give any sort of forgiveness. It's narcissistic manipulation at its finest.
Baldur's Gate 3 has LBGT themes, but the writing is good and I never felt it was preachy because Larian Studios doesn't appear to hire morons. Modern day Bioware's writers are awkward jackasses who are blatantly pushing an agenda down everybody's throats. Screw Bioware, I haven't bought anything they made after DA:O and ME3.
LGBT was never part of BG3's marketing. They focused on gameplay and story, the things gamers cared about. It was after release that they mentioned the companions were bi, so the player can romance them however they wanted.
@@vergillives9890eh, not really, bg3 is hell bent on sexual relationships, you cant just be platonic friends with your party mates, you either screw em or ignore them. I found this out when i was just trying to talk and be friendly with gale, who then started hitting on me... bg3 is not this epic standard of neutral gaming, its very woke.
I found the "everyone is limitlessly horny for you with zero context to support it" deeply immersion breaking for BG3, but the overall writing was great. The developers specifically listed "everyone being horny for you" as a major selling point . . . Without any writing to let me look past it. Will not buy, this is EA using an imposter in a DA costume to defraud former players into throwing their money away on a product which is no longer the thing they loved.
Sweet Baby Inc. was involved with God of War Ragnarök (Narrative and character consultation) and it has won many awards. I am unsure if I will play the game myself, as I know they made the Nordic god Angrboda (Angrboða) black, so when you look her up on Google you will get a black chick as you first result... She is an important character in the Norse mythology in the way that she is the mother of three monsters: the wolf Fenrir, the Midgard serpent Jörmungandr, and the ruler of the dead Hel. And even as I am pretty sure they probably never mentioned her skin color, as it's Norse mythology, I would assume no one even imagined her as a black girl... But the game won a lot of awards as this was before people starting to notice Sweet Baby Inc.
5:52 “You know, when you tell a man that he's too short, or too poor to date, and he comes out as rude. Try to understand that you are not the first woman that told him this.” Yeah. That is how that sounded in my head.
I genuinely can’t relate to people who shed actual tears over being called the wrong pronoun. Because people can and do get this stuff wrong all the time and until like 20 years ago there were no debilitating tantrums over it. People just woke up one day and decided that shit was sadder and more hurtful than it actually was.
@@Zephy_Sky 'Toxic positivity'. You can't criticize or say anything wrong to them. Always be praised, and rewarded when you shouldn't be. And this is a result. Someone who can't handle ANY pressure, and they crumble to the smallest issue. They have no mental resistance.
I'm black and i'd feel annoyed and pandered to if a game were to make everything about my race. No seriously imagine having white characters acting like white apologist, or discuss which nationality/part of Africa i come from. Not everything has to be about my race just like how this game shouldn't be focused on someon'e gender identity. You can make character(s) who happen to be a minority or whatever sexuality/gender those are aspects and or layers to their character not their entire personality
As a black person myself I really am sick and tired of everybody and I do mean everybody making a big deal about skin color and sexuality I can relate to any character as long as they are well written
I never understood people that can´t get into a game, because the main character doesn´t look or behaves like them. How narcissistic do you have to be that you NEED to play yourself instead of diving into a complete different character in a fantasy world. That said it only works, if the character is well written or at least doesn´t pull you actively out of the story by dumb decisions or modern day politics.
@@Tallacus lol thank you! I live in L.A. and a lot of us are still kinda based when we know we aren't being monitored by the terminally online. We have absolutely nothing on the Canadians.
I saw someone point out that she doesnt even do 10 pushups like she says. You put on this big song and dance to make up for things and then you dont even follow through with it.
@@dh599 She goes on and on about how a person shouldnt make it all about themselves, yet all I could think of is that she interrupted the entire flow of the conversation and made everyone else confused to go in a corner to do some push ups and make it all about herself, and then she even half asses it, because she can't be bothered to actually do it *properly* apparently.
What makes that scene even worse is that character is Isabella, who became a major companion in DA-2. And in DA-2, she was a brash, arrogant, snide, and sharp-tongued woman who didn't give a shit what anyone thought about her, and would insult you just for the sake of getting you mad. They've taken her and turned her into someone who's concerned about someone else's pronouns, praises her trans crewmates for being so much better than her, and comes across like HR is in the shadows with a gun trained on her head the entire time.
@@wumpusratYooo the way you describe her in DA2 was spot on! I was so confused about "why is this person talking about Isabella?". I'm actually more disappointed that I couldn't EVEN recognize one of my favorite characters in DA2... WTF??
Especially when it no longer looks like Dark Fantasy and instead looks like a cartoon. The art style is worse than whatever modern culture bullshit they put in the game, everything just looks so soft compared to the previous games. The Qunari all look like soft femboys. Ogres look like babies compared to previous appearances. The Darkspawn look like something out of fucking Oblivion instead of Dragon Age. Everything just looks softer and, well, puss-ified.
So what makes that whole scene worse is that's supposed to be returning character Isabella from game 2, a sexy pirate lady who uses her appeal to get the better hand on her enemies and literally willing to kick a man in the balls for a drink at the bar, she was unapologetic about anything she said and actively did things to get under peoples skin, this? This is not that.
@nolandavis5699 I think she shows a different side to her when you interact with her but I don't know because I haven't played the game but I know other people who have who have said that. Also I think that like if this takes place after maybe she's just shown some growth as a person or had something significant change her perspective. I don't think it's unlikely. But I can also see where you are coming from.
@LoveAlwaysWins333 she does grow on the player but she doesn't change too much. Even if you're best friends she will straight threaten half jokingly to cut your balls off if you harm Merril while romancing her
There has been one amazing Dragon Age game. One OK Dragon Age game. One mediocre Dragon Age game. And one filth Dragon Age game. And they go in release order.
I thought DA2 and DAI are pretty cool tho? Where is the criticism for both of these to state it was the downfall? Honestly after Mass Effect Andromeda I literally believe it was over for both franchises...
@@tngaming50 i played both okay for one play through. 2 was quite short, inquisition was decent, didnt play the dlcs though. But origins was pretty exceptional game when it was launched. Its way ahead 2 and inquisition and this. Still to this day IMHO.
Lmao, they dont even realize how theyre telling on themselves. "They think its on everyone else to smooth things over." Lol that line of dialogue is so non self aware
To your hypothetical. No. No. No. It's not hard, no. Have a spine, hold to your morals. If you don't you aren't a human, you're just an animal that can't control themselves.
As a heterosexual male, I can see this game isn't made for me. The original was - look at the design for Morrigan, and check out the history of the voice actor. She was a sex bomb, and her voice had associations amongst the customers of that time. They are making games for eunuchs.
Hey now, just because eunuchs were castrated doesn't mean they're smooth brained... 😂 I'm sorry but Idk man, these games feel like they were made for lizard people or by secretly aliens that don't comprehend how human dialog and biology works..
@@RandomAnagram.No. This game was made for Heretics who worship Slaanesh by changing their bodies into something they never meant to be. This is Chaos Propaganda, the Imperium of Mankind does not and will not support these Xeno Filth.
I swear, all of these movies, shows, and video games made for modern audiences feel EXACTLY the same, they sound the same, they talk the same, they even look the same... like a bunch of people playing characters in halloween costumes.
Not at all surprising, They've all gone to the same Universities, been taught by the same Professors, attended the same lectures on diversity. And come out like clones. If they have a different thought then it's cancel time.
Feels less like im escaping reality and more like I’m being lectured to by some chick that took gender studies class for years and is yelling at me cause I said mam.
Sometimes an apology isn't enough; the character who (may) show up after plunging a city into war, with untold deaths, and offers a simple 'sorry, we good?'
Well how long does it take to make a game now? 3 to 5 years on average? So even if game companies made a 180 pivot right now we won't see any changes till closer to 2030 ☹️
@@LowlyInternetPeasant if players did that, wouldnt there be like a gazillion different tags on games? I mean, there must be some oversight there right?
The orange man argument, perfect analogy. Literally my argument for stuff like this. And on top of that stuff, they butchered the lore, written so poorly even the non current day stuff is cringe, and combat looks boring and the furthers thing from origins you could think of, no tactics at all
Man is no prophet but his accuracy in predicting events is pretty good. But of course, the group in question doesn't make it hard for people to predict what they will do.
At one point you mentioned how it feels like they're trying to force a different way of speaking. When you take a look at how they've been pushing this on different cultures where the languages are actually gendered and this kind of speech doesn't even work on a conceptual level, you see why people even outside the US are starting to get annoyed by this. They'd rather make up words and try force them on the vast majority of the population, that don't even know what they're complaining about, than respect another language and follow basic grammar rules. It's like the latinx thing all over again.
Polital tangent: a few days ago a headline on CBS (I think) said "Harris tries to sway black and latinx voters," and i was like, yeah, disrespecting a culture and language is the best way to do that.
I heard the german localisation is so bad they've got words akin to like 'fighter*ess' and more of that kind of neo-talk. Takes you straight out of the setting. I bet the Spanish version is full of 'latinx' stuff too. Pulling a barf on this. 🤮
English isn't my first language so it's weird because my language doesn't have a pronounce, it's just a simple "Me" and "You" gender neutral. The fact that this is a big deal for someone is very laughable. People demand someone else to call them this and that.
The funny thing is that in that dialogue, she says that some people say, "woops sorry," and doesn't seem actually sorry for "misgendering," but then only does 5 out of the 10 pushup "punishment." Might as well be the equivalent of not meaning it. Also, this stupid punishment of hers just shines the light on herself and makes it all about herself too. What in the world is she talking about?! We're creatures that recognize pattern recognition. If I see that California type BS, especially to that degree, then I'm safe to assume that the rest of it is trash. If you see enough of this in movies, TV shows, movies, comics, etc., then I'm going to assume this will be the same. They can screw off. I don't financially support people who actively hate me.
Unironic sign of self-righteous people not even holding themselves accountable to their own made-up BS. Again, coming from the same people who decry everything as "racism and sexism" while unironically sh't-talking white males non-stop. Are you really surprised they can't even hold themselves up to their own BS standards?
If the writers were even remotely competent the clumsy scene would've been done on purpose to show that the character doesn't actually care and is really taking the piss under the facade of apologizing (making everyone feel awkward which the player can call out on), but nooooo, this stilted dialogue is the writers being 100% sincere and preaching. It's astounding how hypocritical and tone deaf this reveals them to be, they think this is how apparently a normal conversation is and how you interact with people.
Also people are having too much fun with making the ugliest characters they can customize. And it is so ironic that they say they want inclusion and a variety of body types, but you can’t give a female character a bust, a thin waist or round hips.
Hearing them talking woke sh*** in a British accent literally enough to give me the worst ick... British accent is supposed to remain pristine. Stop spreading the poison!
I still believe DEI is just a fad. The only thing I wonder is for how long it will continue be "the focus group" for game devs... Or when game devs decide not to use Twitter as their focus group.
It's hard to see it as a fad when laws are passed enforcing it. In california, it's mandatory for 30% tax breaks, and there was that game - dustborn? - that was entirely paid for by mandatory taxation. In that circumstance, the game devs can exist without making sales, because the only customer is the Socialist State.
Nah I don't think it's a fad, man. Not when it reached and is still infecting ALL types of companies, not just gaming related ones. Not when even the education system is also touched by these policies. Not when freaking tax dollars of various nations are supporting companies that push these ideologies. No, I believe that even this is but the tip of the ice berg, and excising it will take much, much more than what we have done now. If you want to know who still has this infestation, please read the language that they speak. Almost all companies that claim that they have removed their DEI consulting companies still mention that they will still practice the ideology, but without having a dedicated group that pushes it, having it be integrated into their company culture instead.
I was born with a cleft palate and have undergone cleft palate surgery, also known as palatoplasty, it's a procedure that closed the gap in the roof of my mouth to helps me eat, talk, and prevent food from leaking out of my nose. That being said, you're telling me that if I don't see myself; in all my hair-lipped glory, represented in modern entertainment spaces, that all I need to do is begin a movement on college campuses across the nation and draw attention to my deformed upper lip area thereby beginning a campaign demanding of others that they see me and my kind as non-cleft palated using protests, professors and pronoun nazis in order to fulfill my need to be fully featured in modern entertainment spheres as actually non-clefted even though I'm in fact fully cIefted, ushering in a social movement that leans heavily upon others to recognize my delusion of existing in a non-clefted state even though I am clearly the victim of newborn palatplasty!?!? I'll get right on that and you will soon see me in the next installment of cleft palate simulator, a couch co-op adventure set in a fantasy medieval renaissance realm where folks are constantly pulling a Barve for not seeing cleft palated folks as non-cleft palated. Which is obviously violence. So it finished as a beat-em-up game.
I have to also make a point that there was already a trans character in DA. Lesbian and Gay characters too(Sera/Anders/Dorian were all good examples)! Our baby Krem was an awesome character, and he was trans! Iron Bull even added a tidbit of lore that there was a term used by the Qunari to describe Trans people in Thedas, and I quote, “In Qunandar, Krem’d be an Aqun-Athlock. That’s what we’d call someone born one gender but living like another.” And although Krem didn’t get much screen time, he was loved! So I guess my first point here is that there was never a need to shove body dysmorphia and transgender inclusion into the communities face. Because this community already had those inclusivities there! It’s like they made this game a political experiment and as a person who is in fact a part of the LGBT community, it’s so gross. It’s shoved in your face so hard that it feels like a sick joke. Another thing they ruined, is using modern terms like “non-binary” and “transgender” in a fantasy rpg when they already had some established lore-accurate terms used by characters in their stories to describe them. The writing is awful, the characterisation is awful, it’s just awful. I regret letting my boyfriend preorder it for me, and I hope if you guys bought it you can get a refund for it. This game is NOT my DA canon.
I find it extremely immersion breaking that the sexy, busty beach from earlier games who sold out an entire city and stabbed you in the back dooming thousands of people to slavery is suddenly flat and all about apologizing for misgendering. Edit: I also hate how you can’t be an a hole and contradict your party members. Seem really railroady and contradictory to their, “there is no absolute canon because so much player choice.”
I find it weird that the new characters just have generic Californian accents. Haven't played Dragon Age for years, but I'm pretty sure the Elves and Qunari had particular accents that helped distinguish them from other races, showing that they have unique cultures and heritage. Now they all just seem the same.
Another issue is the art style it self. It just isn't Dragon Age. Dragon Age is supposed to be DARK FANTASY. All these bright colors and don't get me started on the Dark Spawn redesign.. The art style might be fine for other games but it doesn't work for Dragon Age at all. Dragon Age Origins and I hate to say it but even DA2 had captured the Dark Fantasy atmosphere and that is very important. The bright colors and fortnight style of graphics make it feel way less dark and gritty and more high fantasy and cartoonish. As a long time dragon age fan this new style completely turned me away.
I remember playing DA:O the day it came out when I was what, 18? It's actually surreal to see what they've done to the franchise. I honestly don't think we've seen a franchise be this thoroughly deconstructed before, like, bioware should have just made it an entirely new IP. But they didn't because money. I hope the studio gets shut down so we can at least remember the bioware name fondly
The reason they don’t make new IP’s often. “Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made.“ J R R Tolkien
Remember Krem? Dorian? I remember them..... they're LGBT, but subtly so. There was.... tact in how they were handled, a sense of respect. These guys...... don't even get me STARTED.
I have already held boycotting grudges to certain game companies for over a decade just because I was clearly lied to. Bioware died long ago and Dragon Age has been getting worse with every iteration, I don't even consider it a game series beyond Origins. If someone *demands* that I respect their pronouns, I will retaliate by actively not doing so.
There's an element of "this is the way everyone ought to be" in these things that I don't think was present in a lot of earlier media. I'm not saying that polemics never existed before, of course, but it's as though now there's nothing that rises two inches from the floor that _someone_ doesn't think is their podium or pulpit. Characters in life-or-death situations, reasonably, are under stress; they have conflicts and arguments. They also have bigger things to worry about than pronouns- and if they don't, I'd seriously question that there was no one else who could take their place.
"Misgendering" is like getting upset that someone describes an apple as being the color red, but you describe it as purple. That would be you trying to force your own incorrect perception of reality onto others.
Bullying never went away, it just started calling itself benevolence.
And "empathy."
Most people who demand "empathy" actually want complete coddling and pandering, and it's always (ALWAYS) a one-way street with others giving and them or their proxies taking.
@@joywagner979 I noticed the same thing about a decade ago. 'Empathy' was suddenly another stick to wield.
Christianity used to behave the same way....& still would if it retained its social power.
It's a very old tactic for authoritarians.
Which shows you just how much sway this idiology has.
and tolerance
@@FaolanHart lot of the lefties today I guarantee you are very embittered adult children filled with church hurt...just repeating the abuses they've learned upon the nearest available victims, preferably scapegoats who resemble the ones that hurt them
As abusers do
They lied... they said this game would feature many races and cultures...
This is just modern day California.
Montreal, which is somehow worse. The home of Ubisoft who made Star Wars Outlaws and is making AC: Shadows, also in a country which made the critically acclaimed 'robyn hood' tv series with a whopping 1/10 on IMDB.
@@gothicfan52 Watch the Heel vs. Babyface reviews of the Robyn Hood show. Hilarious.
Even then it just LA.
indeed, when i think of many races and cultures in a fantasy or scifi, i expect furries, muppets, and eldritch horrors. not 15 different colors of humans with pointy ears and horns
Camp Buddy has better dialogue that makes more sense for its series than Dragon Age Veilguard: California at this point. xD
The dialogue just pulls you out of the fantasy world of monsters and magic, and throw you into downtown LA.
LMAO no offense, but you mean "West Hollywood."
People in Downtown L.A. are either in a hurry to get to their (probably white-collar) jobs and in off the street, or are fiending for meth and sh*tting on the sidewalk.
You're risking your life to prevent Armageddon when you remember you still gotta be politically correct! LOL
And what’s worse is that scene with Taash’s pronouns that’s basically her quest is just constantly being reminded that she’s nonbinary.
This modernity could have at least made sense in a modern day or futuristic setting, but this stuff in a pre-modern fantasy setting is just ridiculous.
@@emaldon7 Is there any way to help Armageddon? That could make suffering through all the nonsense be worthwhile just to be able to put an end to it.
Imagine being able to sell elves into slavery and trading a kids soul to a demon for bloodmagick and now your forced to call someone a they instead of a her
Drake meme:
Virtual slavery and trafficking children's souls?:
👌😎👍
Saying an obvious woman is a woman when she's actually not a woman, and a 'they':
😠👎
you forgot having a demon baby with a witch to save yourself
I dont get the want to turn a camera on yourself when crying. Thats why we clown them so bad. Theyre the "look at me" circus lol 😆
Same. I seriously do not get this trend to show yourself having an emotional meltdown. I mean, it's like they have zero concept of personal dignity. Quite frankly, if I'm upset to the point of tears, I immediately go somewhere to be alone until I calm down and get my sh¡t together. It's embarrassing and pathetic to film yourself whinging and crying. I've seen videos of people who have lost loved ones to violence or disease make statements with quiet dignity, tears dripoing down their faces but not lashing out and throwing a fit.
@sarasunshinemt4444 i agree, they seem to think having no control over their emotions is a good thing. Of course anyone can be surprised to a tearful outcome but never have i felt the need to screech like a banshee when that happens.
Narcissism issue.
Recording yourself bawling is another one of those things I’ve never gotten. Just feels like a really stupid idea that’ll probably just lead to more tears down the line.
The irresistible urge to publish your most vulnerable moments on the internet instead of getting real friends or keeping healthy relationships with your family. I guess it's been spreading lately.
Activists in gaming are the Johnny Somali of the industry.
Fucking hell, if that ain't the truest thing I've read all week.
they are a tool used by financiers to capture gaming industry.this whole trans thing is to safely eradicate people and replace them with own bootlickers....Nobody cares about LGBT,especially the people who are using them.
@@thisguy3500 I was about to say it's too much.... and then realized you're right! Sorry for doubting you. I'm going to pull a brav now
No. At least everyone is united in hating Johnny Somali, while a good 10-25% of people still defend this mental illness in gaming, American comics, and Hollywood.
Crashing out, but at game companies expense
This DEI crap is the fakest "nice guy" shit ever. They're actually bitter assholes who take pride in not listening to the customers & removing content. They are paid professional haters who hide behind "inclusivity" I miss how unique & appealing games where from the 7th gen back. Now games obsess so much on realism, ray tracing & 4k resolution. Did they forget how important stuff like physics effects, rag doll effects, using creative art styles, satisfying gameplay mechanics, damage effects and interactive environments. Having a variety of different Single player modes. Current games are way too focused on graphics that they forget they're making a game that's supposed to be fun & appealing. Did the industry forget what fun & visually appealing is?
I wish we could see a massive improvement in the ways video games can be made. I swear the fact game development is so unintuitive it restricts so much creativity and doesn't click with so many creative artistic people who do want to make games..
Because they don't care about "escapism" rather than having us become activists 24/7 365 days a year.
I think about this a lot. Got a friend of friend I have to interact with a lot who embodies the fake "nice guy" archetype and he's so incredibly frustrating because he only cares about his image, the symbolism, and seeming like a nice guy. But he's really just a bully. So called "progressives" are just pseudo-religious bullies who exploit the good will of others and moralize for control. They are hopelessly addicted to self-righteous rage. Back in the 90s-00s I used to be one of them. But back then we were transgressive, edgy, and actually believed in something. Now progs have more sacred cows than any religion before them and are the biggest corporate shills imaginable. Their cultural dominance has been miserable when they promised the opposite. The hypocrisy and betrayal sets my blood on fire.
There's nothing wrong with having realism in games
What is even more funny are the defenders of the game crying about the criticism saying: "How about you play the game and make that decision for yourself? I find 1/2 of the game boring, and the dialogue not so good... so just skip those parts and mute the dialogue!" It's really like talking to a someone who thinks as slow as a sloth and doesn't understand the fundamentals of what makes games good.
@@animezilla4486it is wrong when the aforementioned “realism” is something happening in our world instead of in a fantasy game.
You wouldn’t wanna see a Ferrari driving in a medieval town. Cuz that shit is what you see on PLANET EARTH, not whatever universe these games are set in.
These characters are not even speaking in English, just localized so players can understand. There is no reason for medieval fantasy world to develop modern English pronouns.
The irony of the dialogue is just painful
"there's not always time for big drawn out apologies" as we are subjected to a big drawn out apology.
Yeah. A *full scene* dedicated to what amounts to a long, drawn out, preachy, self-centered apology.
@@WarZealot The best kind of apologies are preachy and self-centered, that's how you know they are genuine 😆
saying "i apologise" 5 seconds
doing 10 pushups and calling it barvs 30s
and 5 minuta game time
I feel like the writers published their first draft without even rereading what they wrote.
She spends more time explaining what "pulling a Barve" is, that she never even does all 10 pushups.
Not paying 60 dollars for a lecture, thank you.
Identify as non-buynary
I’m 51 years old and could someone please tell me what parallel universe I fell through that I’m in this upside down world? Please take me back to the 80’s.
I will taxi you to the portal if I can tag along
46 here..I want the 90's back
Right with you - I played Pong on the pong console...
...I'd rather go back and play that, than Veilguard.
@@darianstarfrog
the damn movies of those decades... Surreal how spoiled we were back then.
I wasn't even born in the 80s but I'd like to join. :')
Isabella: "People make the apology about themselves."
Also Isabella: "LOOK AT HOW SORRY I AM!"
Modern writing, folks.
Well shit you're right. She's literally doing a "look at me!"
That's Isabella? Jesus what did they do to her design?
@@Sarcastic_Sophist Removed whiteness and femininity, because they hate those things.
@@Sarcastic_Sophistshe pretty much looks like herself. I think you were just thrown off because of the narcissistic pretend-loathing of plebs-expression on her face.
@@unturned6066 honestly it has been a long time since I played 2 so I forgot the voice actor (if they are the same) and the costume design is very different so I didn't recognize her.
At some point, we stopped caring about the content of character.
And instead decided to judge based on identity of skin color and what hole you like.
This is plain and simple societal regression.
Only just a character based on their actions and personality I don't judge a character based on skin color or sexuality
Nah, we never cared, and still don't. Stop pretending.
I dont think its regression,people are and will eventually get sick of it.
bingo
Agreed, but I suppose it makes sense. We live in such a privileged time, that the most hardship these folks know is being misgendered. They would not have survived the early 1900s, and I thank ALL of the true activist who pushed for change and movement to be seen as equals in a society that treated horribly. This is truly a spit in their faces, in my strong opinion.
A random fact about that person doing the pushups: In one of the older games, she betrays you and sells out a city to slavery.
Was just thinking that 😅
I miss origins. It was ahead of its time.
And what’s crazy is I still tried to smash.😂
I believe it depends on your friendship status. If it's high enough, Isabella comes back to help you.
@@BridgeTROLL777 i think it was from DA2. Isabela in origin only train you duel
WTF did they do to Isabella! I didn't even recognize her with that gaudy outfit or her uglified new look; granted she's not as bad as some (looking at you SW Outlaws) but she went from a 10 to 5, 6 @ most
My mom's time had Hippies. My time we had Goths. Today in my niece's time we have wokies.
What you call woke it's actually the opposite
Crazy people existed since forever.
At least goths and hippies had style.
I love it too when my fantasy world has many different species that are all the exact same.
"Respect My Truth" they bleat while trampling all over yours.
If you're a grown-up, live your life however you want, but when you push that on to others, you're being a selfish, entitled hypocrit.
Your issues are not my problem.
Exactly. This is how most people feel. That's why things have gone from tolerance, to acceptance, to mandatory acceptance by government force and cancellation, to most of us rejecting this ideology and outright despising it. I feel bad for the gay and trans people out there who aren't immature narcissists who have to get lumped in with the Laura Kate Dale's, Corinne Busche's and Trick Weekes' of the world.
@MarvinPowell1 i dont feel bad for any of em. Brother is trans. Female to male for 11 years and when i last visit screamed at are dad cause he left the toilet seat up. Like your a man now arnt you? We view and treat you like a man but your mad because you didnt get a weenie and pee like one. Its been 11 years. Nonsense. Male body female brain.
Have you noticed how none of the gender fetishists ever advocate for a universal pronoun that can be used for everyone? Even aliens?
No, it's always hyper-individual pronouns and then demand to get special treatment. It's attention seeking, they want to feel special and validated just for existing. It's narcissism, me me me me. They want to belong to a community but want to be THE individual in that community.
I agree and the scene where they are talking about apologizing for misgendering someone and they say if you apologize it becomes everyone's else's job to make them feel good and makes it about you....HELLO WTF! THE WHOLE SITUATION IS ABOUT YOU THE F-ING NARCISSISM!THEY TOOK OVER A BELOVED I P. AND MADE ALL ABOUT THEM IMAGINE BEING THIS BLIND BUT THATS HOW THESE PEOPLE ARE.THEY CANT CREATE SOMETHING NEW BECAUSE THEY LACK TALENT AND ARE FORCED TO LEECH OFF OTHER EXISTING I.P.'S AND SUCK OFF THE LIFEFORCE IT ONCE WAS
I agree. My sister has a they them at their work, but she says they're actually really nice, so she's like " ill call you whatever you want as long as you're nice" 😊
The phrase "makers panties" made me cringe so hard it felt like i was sticking my head inside my body like a turtle.
Also, this game cost 80$ cdn, and it's basically a preachy tutorial guide on how to talk to thin skinned people who get offended too easily.
And you don't have a choice, it's basically "are you gay?" and the choice are yes, definitiely, and non-binary.
isn't the Maker depicted as a Male Figure? It's the Andraste that is Female, The Prophetess and War Maiden?
So wouldn't that be blasphemous?
It seems like the writers got no idea about this pretty significant lore bit since it was Pivitol to the entire Last game.
@@BlueBD Andraste was a Human female.
With the things I'm discovering in this game and how Solas says "Tevinter mages broke into the prison ages ago and unleashed the blight",
I think "The Maker" was just Solas all along.
When he created the prison he reshaped the world.
The phrase "Marika's Tits" in Elden Ring had me laugh. I wonder if they were trying to go for that spontaneous humor and just failed really badly by trying to cram their worldview into it.
I wish I could ninja turtles duck this ridiculous shit lol 😂. That’s a great analogy those I swear 😂, I’m dying laughing just imagining the sound effect of a humans head just retreating into there own neck to escape this overwhelming cringe 😂😂😂
@@BlueBDYES like WTF are thru doing going out there way just being contrary. The lvl of narcissism is astronomical.
This isn't a game it's a struggle session simulator
It is ! That's exactly my first thought when I watched clip from Melonie Mac
Damn you're right.
Even trying to normalize punishment exercise.
Most of us identify is None-Buy-Nery
There's an SNL skit about if HBO had made a Mario Kart adaptation, one of the jokes in there is "Marvel at the compelling and fascinating character writing". then it introduces Toad who just says "Hi, I'm Toad, I'm Bi-sexual"
I'm Yoshi , I'm Bi-sexual"
I'm Toad, I'm also Bi-sexual"
This game was created by and for people who want to be badass but get trigger when you use the wrong pronoun
They want to be heroic warriors, but are scared of violence.
@@TundraCrow and you arent?.
What does that have to do with enjoying fantasy?
Silly point.
@@BridgeTROLL777 username checks out
@@BridgeTROLL777 Usually being a badass is associated with acts of physical confrontation. Being adverse to that can be seen as a contradiction.
@@TundraCrow and what does that have to do with enjoying hedonistic media, a fantasy?
Nothing.
Strange that people who claim to be inclusive, would exclude anyone that doesn't talk the way they want. Trying to force others to talk like you, seems bizarre
And these are normally the people that love throwing the word nazis at others that don’t agree with that.
@NYGiantsfan1029 Exactly 💯
It's basic indoctrination and gaslighting. They claim they want inclusivity, but in reality, they want to force everyone to think exactly like them. Anyone who disagrees with their way of thinking is labeled as some kind of bigot in order to trick the large portion of the population that doesn't know this is going on into thinking that there's nothing insidious happening.
@@NYGiantsfan1029well that party had socialist in their name. Seems fitting for these types now
They redefine words. You try to make sense of their behavior by the common interpretation of a word. Rookie mistake.
Let's come to term with it.
The bioware that made us dream is gone.. most of the devs and artists that did all those legendary games are no more in it.
All we can hope is for the studio to change it's name or close 😢
The latter.
Those devs are now at Archetype Entertainment and making Exodus.
It has a time-skipping dynamic that's essential to the world. Actions and long term consequences.
I not only want Bioware to go the way of Volition and Firewalk Studios, but for them to be blacklisted from every creative industry on the planet. The ideology is bad enough, but these people outright _hate us_ and expect us to pay money to ingest their propaganda and prior to 2022, would _cancel you_. if you didn't They are hateful, nasty, awful human beings, through and through.
Close.
They can't be given any benefit of the doubt.
Or sell their successful ips to a dev that cares about games than bioware does
We have normalized severe mental illness and we're starting to see the consequences.
They're faking it, they have to be, I have real mental illnesses, yet I don't need to act like these people, They're doing it for attention or for the sake of feeling different and trendy
No we are not. Character flaws are not mental illness
@@Psychologicaldeformality
It can easily be both, one just exacerbates the worst out of the other.
4:47 this is what a lack of bullying looks like.
Thing is bullies don't bully the right people they often bully the quite tall guy with autism sitting in the corner minding his own business. Speaking from experience.
This has the type of story telling as The Rings of Power and the same ugliness as Concord...
I have a image in my head and I want that image dead
More like Rings of Woke at this point lol
Disagree how is this ugly
@@animezilla4486 bobble-heads + Pixar animation.
Personally I like the style (not the bobble-head part) of Pixar animation type stuff.
And the environments look gorgeous.
But it feels out of place for a Dragon age game with the animation/artstyle.
Really wishing they just went and started a new ip with this game.
@@Zephy_Sky "it feels out of place for a Dragon age game with the animation/artstyle."
This. Which is the main reason why I'm not touching it with a stick - it doesn't look like Dragon Age any longer. It's like some cosplay using plastic instead of steel, leather and velvet.
Being neutral and tolerant of this nonsense is why we end up with more of it. It's not enough to simply not buy it. We need to gatekeep these losers from the gaming community as a whole.
Ikr, how can anyone be neutral about this bs, its intolerable, obnoxious and doesn't belong at all.
"special privileged" people like to assert dominance to normal folk and act like they are the majority and have to be pandered to so give them an inch and they take a whole 10 miles and be offended to get more "privilege" we should laugh and shame them out of the industry lol.
Oh we are gatekeeping alright. The game peaked at 70k players on steam. Let's times that by 3 for the sake of other platforms and offline players. 210k estimated people bought the game. Game is priced at 70 US dollars. By my math, the studio has generated near 15 million dollars for their game that was likely 200 million to make. That's 185 million in debt still, and word of mouth will only continue to choke this game out of potential buyers. GG freaks.
absolutely it is beyond me how people can just blindly accept this.
I will never support this crap even if the game is good i am so done with this topic and let no one force their opinions on me.
On top of that if they make a decent game without DEI they just try to gain our trust to sneak it back it.
The bigger gaming studios voiced their opinion about this and they want it they don't care what we want and they will enforce it at all cost.
My solution is to completely move on and pick specifically the studios that stay away from this or support more indie devs.
People always say this but how are we supposed to gate keep when they're industry plants who came in from the top through the corporation. They fire the old guard & replace them with sjw drones. Avellone is bisexual but even he was cancelled from writing Wrpgs because he committed the crime of being a man who's also attracted to women. Gate keeping seems to only favor the corporation. The audience & the original artists of gaming (such as Avellone) are viewed as irrelevant.
Dragon age origins:Hero to Villain - I don't care who you are;you're going to die.
Dragon age veilguard:Hero to Villain - I won't let you do these bad things. Why are you doing this? Also, I'm gay.
this is literally hilarious 😂 😂
DAO: People are in peril - Choose which group you want to save
DAV: Nobody is in peril - Try to stay awake while getting lectured
Yeah, I remember being able to mistreat my companions if I wanted to, I seem to remember being able to kill one of them in dragon age. Hell evil Shep was genocidal in mass effect.
Why didn't bioware just make the "evil" route the trump supporter path? That would've been really funny. You have someone start talking about gender ideology and rook just buts in and tells them to shut up. It probably would've been the first evil route I would've gladly taken.
Hahahhahahahhahah
@@crashzone6600 In origins, every single one of your party members can be killed by you except for Alistair & Morrigan. Although you can stab Morrigan in the heart instead of kiss her in the final dlc lol.
A lot of game designers and storywritters have forgot the golden rule of making a game using investor money/company money. We were taught this in college. Play it safe, and avoid modern day controversy because your aim is the attract the largest possible audience and adding controversial topics, even if you don't find them controversial, is risky because you will lose customers. If you want to make a controversial game, do so in your free time as a hobby, don't use investor's money to do so and jeopardize the companies future to push your politic/social views.
Right there. When I see companies put themselves out there in the middle of nothing I get a bit confused as to why would you do that
Sbi making a perfect 10/10 no nonsense game is a impossible scenario. It would never happen to begin with.
Tbf, no developer or publisher is capable of meeting those standards. Bloodborne is as close as ive ever seen a game come to 10/10 perfection, but its unfinished and not optimized so it loses a point for me.
In particular if they did, the company could replicate it and they wouldn't be hired again.
Dragon Age: Veilguard. The ending will make you cry, but not because it's a sad ending, but because it's finally over and you wasted 60 bucks on it
This ain’t even worth 50
The fact that after all warnings you still wasted Cash on it means you deserved it. They can't get any benefit of the doubt anymore.
@@ToxicVex267 it's not worth to pirate it. no need to consume leftist propaganda.
You deserve to be 60 bucks poorer bro.
@@captainbube1217 I didn’t waste any money one this game. I’m not sure why everyone is assuming I did? I was just making a joke about how bad the game is based on the review footage I’ve seen.
The way that one individual needs to be loved is to be sent to therapy. It is not normal to be crying because you were "referred to as someone you're not". That is, in fact, rather concerning.
Not to sound like a RW or anything, but why does a game with a dark fantasy setting have to preach to me like current day California? Immediate turn off
Communism isn't about money, it's the message driven home.
Why are you scared of being right wing. That's the normal mentality now.
@@KeirnothVT We live in a time when outright communists are being declared right wing. Anyone who doesn't subscribe to the narrowest of ideological margins is declared to be a Natzee.
There is nothing wrong with being right wing.
It's not about right or left. It's about common sense.
I renember when the genre "fantasy" was about creating a universe different from ours, I'm tired of this excesive need of representation and identification, it's messing everything it touches
Being someone that is actually Autistic and was through being tested by a certified professional when I was 13. Attention seeking a holes using it as a label and change it on and off like a hat is infuriating. Some people really struggle with having it and it really makes it even worse because people won't believe that they actually are autistic and are acting for attention.
Yup
Yeah, same with my ocd
It was a different game 12 years ago where asking people not to drive through graveyards to not trigger my ocd, and have that uber driver to drive through it ANYHOW for me to "get over it"
Nowadays its just playing the victim
As someone who was always called "Mr." in emails and was thought to be a boy based of my name, i try to imagine my life if i bawled my eyes out everytime i am, what these ppl call, "misgendered". But from a young age, I always understood it's always just based on an assumption of my more boyish name, but I know I am a girl/ female, why do i need to care so much? These people should grow up lol
Ironically, I keep getting misgendered these days because I ... sometimes wear a bomber jacket and jeans, possibly at the same time? Don't have a BBL / influencer plastic-surgery face and never wear false eyelashes? Tend to speak with a certain amount of confidence while still being polite and even nice?
It's like people don't think a woman / female human being can just *be.* If we don't act like full caricatures of a stereotype, and sometimes even if we do, it's better to err on the side of calling us "them."
It doesn't destroy my day or rock my sense of self, but it's obviously something I do think about sometimes.
I remember being mistaken for a girl on the phone until my voice changed. That was funny.
@@MachineMan-mj4gj My mother, my brother, and myself all have nearly identical voices when heard over the phone. That's not a knock on my brother; it's mom and me that always get called "Sir". XD
I'm an empath but can't feel anything from these people because it's not real emotion. It's mental Illness or it's fake attention seeking. Probably not the 1st take
I've always had long hair by choice and as a child I was always taken for a girl, to the point where I was fed up correcting others.
What's more, my masculine name also exists in a feminine version with a slight difference when written but not when spoken, so that didn't help.
Even when I was a teenager, people still sometimes mistook me for a woman from the back, despite my larger build.
I never took it seriously. Sometimes people told me to cut my hair, but that was my choice, and I accept it, whatever the minor consequences.
The funny thing is that I've received quite a few insulting comments, but not from boys, no, it was always girls who made fun of me because "I looked like a girl".
Many things about this game reminds me of Concord and Dustborn. The preachy dialogue that talks to gamers like they're children and the forced modern identity politics, including the "surgery scars" were more than enough to avoid this game.
It's literally encouraging self harm. It's sick, sick shit.
@@TheLongestConfidence some ppl keep on saying its "fine" lol i dont understand why they have to add these "weird" features. They advertised it like its a 18+ game...when its just a "M-rated" story-telling RPG game.
I disagree how exactly you're going to compare this to Concord and Dustborn do you actually play those games
@@TheLongestConfidencethat makes no sense how exactly it is encouraging self harm
@animezilla4486 Cutting off your breasts to cosplay as a boy or some androgenous thing. What do you think top surgery scars are? Are you stupid?
_"For me, the best way to increase society's resistance to insulting or offensive speech is to allow a lot more of it. As with childhood diseases, you can better resist those germs to which you have been exposed. We need to build our immunity to taking offense. Our priority should be to deal with the message, not the messenger. If we want a robust society, we need more robust dialogue and that must include the right to insult or to offend."_
- Mr. Bean (aka Rowan Atkinson)
Atkinson is a credit to his trade, as well as the species.
Ahh, yes. Based Bean
When did he say that?
@@pheunithpsychic-watertype9881 There's a video here on TH-cam called: *Rowan Atkinson on free speech* the timestamp for where the quote can be found in the video is around 5:50
It's so true.
Pulling a Bharv is fat-phobic and ableist! I'm 400 pounds and can't do push ups😢
Pulling a *barf* every time I see that scene: 🤮
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OMG. Love it. Nobody is safe... LOL.
This game is written by people that don't have any social interactions outside of twitter.
It's not just the dialogues, the writing is awful too
There's a mission where you need to recruit the Antivan Crow, an assassin, but they told you that person was dead, but seconds later the leader said he's actually alive, just kidnapped, she just kept it a secret because she's worried for the traitors. And so you're on a mission to rescue him, but when you get there he already broke free himself, and suddenly you have to help him on a contract in order to recruit him
It's such a point-to-point storytelling, you don't care about the character or the mission, not even the story because things just happen
EXCELLENT AITEORI WORK. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤😂😂😂😂😂
Or in the second area of the game where the mage you meet says there is no way of taking down the magical barrier and walking into that much pure magic energy would be suicide……. But there might be a way to take the barrier down….. you just told me that there wasn’t.
Yikes. And the sad part they actually thought they were being clever.
They pull plot points out of a hat, string them together, "This happened, and then this happened, and then this happened," .... and that's what passes for writing.
They only had 10 years...
@@nonexistent6353 and only between 100 and 250 million dollars.
That scene in particular….ugh. It tells you exactly how they want you to be punished for your “trans”gressions. They will not accept an apology. They act like uou are either trying to escape or outright avoid any uncomfortable feelings and consequences of your actions….OR….and this is my favorite part….IF you are sincere in your apology and desperate to show how truly awful you feel and ask what can you do to make amends….they will not give any forgiveness or absolution…In fact the more remorseful you are, the more upset you become….the angrier and more dismissive they will be. Because they feel you are only trying to distract or obfuscate from the problem ….you are trying to make yourself the victim instead of atoning for your sins and taking whatever punishment they want to give you. (sigh)
It's generally the mindset of the "trans-trenders". Ie, those people who hopped onto the "trans/non-binary" bandwagon the moment they saw it would be a useful label to slap on themselves in order to get away with anything they wanted to, by screaming "transphobe!" at anyone who dared question them. About anything at all.
The best examples of those are the people who post videos that they took being outraged that someone "misgendered them", when they don't even TRY to pass as the gender they claim to be. They go out looking to start a fight and post videos of it for social media clout.
What I hate is I’m expected to play along with these pronouns and if I don’t I’m the bad guy somehow.
@@ToxicVex267Exactly! If someone wants to LARP as the opposite gender, or no gender at all, I will respect and defend their right to do so. But they have no right to force me to agree with their choices or play along with their delusions.
To the OP, that's why you NEVER apologize to these people. They take it as an admission of guilt and use it to demand more and more concessions, while never intending to give any sort of forgiveness. It's narcissistic manipulation at its finest.
What I took from Isabella's insane little tangent is to just not apologise
Baldur's Gate 3 has LBGT themes, but the writing is good and I never felt it was preachy because Larian Studios doesn't appear to hire morons. Modern day Bioware's writers are awkward jackasses who are blatantly pushing an agenda down everybody's throats. Screw Bioware, I haven't bought anything they made after DA:O and ME3.
@@RyllenKriel you just have to Google ‘Laura Kate Dale’ who was involved in the script and that explains everything.
And you could choose to have a straight play through as well without any forced nonsense-
LGBT was never part of BG3's marketing. They focused on gameplay and story, the things gamers cared about. It was after release that they mentioned the companions were bi, so the player can romance them however they wanted.
@@vergillives9890eh, not really, bg3 is hell bent on sexual relationships, you cant just be platonic friends with your party mates, you either screw em or ignore them. I found this out when i was just trying to talk and be friendly with gale, who then started hitting on me... bg3 is not this epic standard of neutral gaming, its very woke.
I found the "everyone is limitlessly horny for you with zero context to support it" deeply immersion breaking for BG3, but the overall writing was great. The developers specifically listed "everyone being horny for you" as a major selling point . . . Without any writing to let me look past it.
Will not buy, this is EA using an imposter in a DA costume to defraud former players into throwing their money away on a product which is no longer the thing they loved.
Sweet Baby Inc. was involved with God of War Ragnarök (Narrative and character consultation) and it has won many awards. I am unsure if I will play the game myself, as I know they made the Nordic god Angrboda (Angrboða) black, so when you look her up on Google you will get a black chick as you first result...
She is an important character in the Norse mythology in the way that she is the mother of three monsters: the wolf Fenrir, the Midgard serpent Jörmungandr, and the ruler of the dead Hel. And even as I am pretty sure they probably never mentioned her skin color, as it's Norse mythology, I would assume no one even imagined her as a black girl...
But the game won a lot of awards as this was before people starting to notice Sweet Baby Inc.
The carried, that god was self inserted fan fiction
1:52 "Disassociating" looks a lot like being a jerk.
Alteori you have offended us
Drop and give us 20!!
Pull a barv
Pull a barf *🤢 🤮
@@obrians-brown1307
I can give you 30 and an ear scratch
@@Alteoriyour proposal is acceptable
@@AlteoriThat's not how bargaining works!
5:52 “You know, when you tell a man that he's too short, or too poor to date, and he comes out as rude. Try to understand that you are not the first woman that told him this.”
Yeah. That is how that sounded in my head.
3:56 "We do a quick 10 to set it right..." She says after only doing 5 push-ups. Or a big fat ZERO if I were her DI.
Not even breaking the plane... "Zero! Zero! Zero!"
Like any of these "Non Binary" or whatever imaginary beast they think they are, could do one pushup....
I hate the people that made this dialogue. Terrible.
It will be discounted to 20$ by thanksgiving
It's not even worth $5 in the bargain bin.
I genuinely can’t relate to people who shed actual tears over being called the wrong pronoun. Because people can and do get this stuff wrong all the time and until like 20 years ago there were no debilitating tantrums over it. People just woke up one day and decided that shit was sadder and more hurtful than it actually was.
The price of being spoiled rotten
@@Zephy_Sky 'Toxic positivity'. You can't criticize or say anything wrong to them. Always be praised, and rewarded when you shouldn't be. And this is a result. Someone who can't handle ANY pressure, and they crumble to the smallest issue. They have no mental resistance.
I'm black and i'd feel annoyed and pandered to if a game were to make everything about my race. No seriously imagine having white characters acting like white apologist, or discuss which nationality/part of Africa i come from. Not everything has to be about my race just like how this game shouldn't be focused on someon'e gender identity.
You can make character(s) who happen to be a minority or whatever sexuality/gender those are aspects and or layers to their character not their entire personality
As a black person myself I really am sick and tired of everybody and I do mean everybody making a big deal about skin color and sexuality I can relate to any character as long as they are well written
Damn, its like you're just people 😮
To keep from making people uncomfortable about our differences, I just run out of the room and avoid all interactions. I assume it's working.
I never understood people that can´t get into a game, because the main character doesn´t look or behaves like them. How narcissistic do you have to be that you NEED to play yourself instead of diving into a complete different character in a fantasy world. That said it only works, if the character is well written or at least doesn´t pull you actively out of the story by dumb decisions or modern day politics.
Nobody's going to mention that nightmare conversation at the end?
Ok. 🤐
The last thing i want is do is go to LGBT CHRUCH to entertain myself.
😂 that dialog just takes me out of the game..
Az "california sht" !
CAUSE YOU'RE BORRRING, SO EFFING BORRING!!!
Nah it's from Montreal where the game was made
@@Tallacus lol thank you! I live in L.A. and a lot of us are still kinda based when we know we aren't being monitored by the terminally online.
We have absolutely nothing on the Canadians.
@@Tallacussame thing basically, just ones colder 😅
Az has never been to ca
This game doesn't feel like it was made by devs. It feels like it was made by gender studies majors and hr.
I saw someone point out that she doesnt even do 10 pushups like she says. You put on this big song and dance to make up for things and then you dont even follow through with it.
Correct she half asses it and only does 5, talks at length how an apology shouldn't be all about the person apologising, but did exactly that.
@@dh599 She goes on and on about how a person shouldnt make it all about themselves, yet all I could think of is that she interrupted the entire flow of the conversation and made everyone else confused to go in a corner to do some push ups and make it all about herself, and then she even half asses it, because she can't be bothered to actually do it *properly* apparently.
What makes that scene even worse is that character is Isabella, who became a major companion in DA-2. And in DA-2, she was a brash, arrogant, snide, and sharp-tongued woman who didn't give a shit what anyone thought about her, and would insult you just for the sake of getting you mad. They've taken her and turned her into someone who's concerned about someone else's pronouns, praises her trans crewmates for being so much better than her, and comes across like HR is in the shadows with a gun trained on her head the entire time.
@@wumpusratYooo the way you describe her in DA2 was spot on! I was so confused about "why is this person talking about Isabella?". I'm actually more disappointed that I couldn't EVEN recognize one of my favorite characters in DA2... WTF??
@@wumpusratplease put your comment on the main section for everyone to see. This is LITERALLY THE BEST SUMMARY!
When the DARK FANTASY game starts making current year politics the focus of cutscenes and the story, I know to avoid it.
Especially when it no longer looks like Dark Fantasy and instead looks like a cartoon. The art style is worse than whatever modern culture bullshit they put in the game, everything just looks so soft compared to the previous games. The Qunari all look like soft femboys. Ogres look like babies compared to previous appearances. The Darkspawn look like something out of fucking Oblivion instead of Dragon Age. Everything just looks softer and, well, puss-ified.
@ Oblivion has the excuse of being built on ancient graphics technology.
@@stephengrant4841Don't insult oblivion graphics. At least some of those enemies are kinda creepy looking. 💀
Fun fact i didn't even know that was Isabella 😅
So what makes that whole scene worse is that's supposed to be returning character Isabella from game 2, a sexy pirate lady who uses her appeal to get the better hand on her enemies and literally willing to kick a man in the balls for a drink at the bar, she was unapologetic about anything she said and actively did things to get under peoples skin, this? This is not that.
@nolandavis5699 I think she shows a different side to her when you interact with her but I don't know because I haven't played the game but I know other people who have who have said that. Also I think that like if this takes place after maybe she's just shown some growth as a person or had something significant change her perspective. I don't think it's unlikely. But I can also see where you are coming from.
@LoveAlwaysWins333 she does grow on the player but she doesn't change too much. Even if you're best friends she will straight threaten half jokingly to cut your balls off if you harm Merril while romancing her
People paid 70 dollars to get humiliated, some people are so clueless.
A form of cuckery
Origin and it's DLCs were masterpieces, it all went dowhill after 2
2 was the start of the downhill. What are you on about? Lol
There has been one amazing Dragon Age game. One OK Dragon Age game. One mediocre Dragon Age game. And one filth Dragon Age game.
And they go in release order.
I thought DA2 and DAI are pretty cool tho? Where is the criticism for both of these to state it was the downfall? Honestly after Mass Effect Andromeda I literally believe it was over for both franchises...
@@gaz4553 2 was awfully short and streamlined.... origins though was wayy ahead of its time.
@@tngaming50 i played both okay for one play through. 2 was quite short, inquisition was decent, didnt play the dlcs though.
But origins was pretty exceptional game when it was launched. Its way ahead 2 and inquisition and this. Still to this day IMHO.
Lmao, they dont even realize how theyre telling on themselves. "They think its on everyone else to smooth things over." Lol that line of dialogue is so non self aware
To your hypothetical. No. No. No. It's not hard, no. Have a spine, hold to your morals. If you don't you aren't a human, you're just an animal that can't control themselves.
As a heterosexual male, I can see this game isn't made for me. The original was - look at the design for Morrigan, and check out the history of the voice actor. She was a sex bomb, and her voice had associations amongst the customers of that time.
They are making games for eunuchs.
These devs are outright saying “the game isn’t made for you, and you shouldn’t buy it.” So we don’t, and they suffer financially because of it.
Hey now, just because eunuchs were castrated doesn't mean they're smooth brained... 😂
I'm sorry but Idk man, these games feel like they were made for lizard people or by secretly aliens that don't comprehend how human dialog and biology works..
@@RandomAnagram.No. This game was made for Heretics who worship Slaanesh by changing their bodies into something they never meant to be. This is Chaos Propaganda, the Imperium of Mankind does not and will not support these Xeno Filth.
@@RandomAnagram. I believe Asmongold said it best: "It's not dialog, it's a sermon".
Didn’t like Morrigan. Her chest is too small get that much attitude with me. Lmao
I miss Kunari from first 2 games. So "alien" yet grounded in their ideology. Something unique... Then they turned them into "humans with horns".
I swear, all of these movies, shows, and video games made for modern audiences feel EXACTLY the same, they sound the same, they talk the same, they even look the same... like a bunch of people playing characters in halloween costumes.
Not at all surprising, They've all gone to the same Universities, been taught by the same Professors, attended the same lectures on diversity. And come out like clones. If they have a different thought then it's cancel time.
Feels less like im escaping reality and more like I’m being lectured to by some chick that took gender studies class for years and is yelling at me cause I said mam.
I have one of them in my anatomy course. It walks out at least once a week during lectures, I can't wait to see the posted finals in a few weeks.
Sometimes an apology isn't enough; the character who (may) show up after plunging a city into war, with untold deaths, and offers a simple 'sorry, we good?'
So how long will it take for companys to finaly understand what escapeism is. Labeling a game with Politics seems like the worst decision ever.
Did the game label itself that way, or did players tag it with those descriptions?
Well how long does it take to make a game now? 3 to 5 years on average? So even if game companies made a 180 pivot right now we won't see any changes till closer to 2030 ☹️
@@LowlyInternetPeasant if players did that, wouldnt there be like a gazillion different tags on games? I mean, there must be some oversight there right?
@@blablubb8615 I don't know, I don't have Steam, or use any hub for digital games beyond the PlayStation Store. It was a genuine question.
Their mk.ultra programming will never allow them. We need to go east. Or wait when said east will come to us.
The orange man argument, perfect analogy. Literally my argument for stuff like this. And on top of that stuff, they butchered the lore, written so poorly even the non current day stuff is cringe, and combat looks boring and the furthers thing from origins you could think of, no tactics at all
Man is no prophet but his accuracy in predicting events is pretty good. But of course, the group in question doesn't make it hard for people to predict what they will do.
At one point you mentioned how it feels like they're trying to force a different way of speaking. When you take a look at how they've been pushing this on different cultures where the languages are actually gendered and this kind of speech doesn't even work on a conceptual level, you see why people even outside the US are starting to get annoyed by this.
They'd rather make up words and try force them on the vast majority of the population, that don't even know what they're complaining about, than respect another language and follow basic grammar rules. It's like the latinx thing all over again.
Polital tangent: a few days ago a headline on CBS (I think) said "Harris tries to sway black and latinx voters," and i was like, yeah, disrespecting a culture and language is the best way to do that.
I heard the german localisation is so bad they've got words akin to like 'fighter*ess' and more of that kind of neo-talk. Takes you straight out of the setting.
I bet the Spanish version is full of 'latinx' stuff too.
Pulling a barf on this. 🤮
English isn't my first language so it's weird because my language doesn't have a pronounce, it's just a simple "Me" and "You" gender neutral.
The fact that this is a big deal for someone is very laughable. People demand someone else to call them this and that.
Lifehack: If you want a pizza, you can save cash by putting a potato in the microwave and selecting 'pizza' :)
Dialogue sounds like proofreading by HR. No, more like Political officer looking over shoulder with pistol drawn.
Have you seen the 'party disagreement' scenes? It sounds like they're on sesame street.
The funny thing is that in that dialogue, she says that some people say, "woops sorry," and doesn't seem actually sorry for "misgendering," but then only does 5 out of the 10 pushup "punishment." Might as well be the equivalent of not meaning it. Also, this stupid punishment of hers just shines the light on herself and makes it all about herself too. What in the world is she talking about?!
We're creatures that recognize pattern recognition. If I see that California type BS, especially to that degree, then I'm safe to assume that the rest of it is trash. If you see enough of this in movies, TV shows, movies, comics, etc., then I'm going to assume this will be the same. They can screw off. I don't financially support people who actively hate me.
"Look at meee! Look at how sorry I am!"
Mission... failed... successfully?
And that is correct approach.
Unironic sign of self-righteous people not even holding themselves accountable to their own made-up BS. Again, coming from the same people who decry everything as "racism and sexism" while unironically sh't-talking white males non-stop. Are you really surprised they can't even hold themselves up to their own BS standards?
If the writers were even remotely competent the clumsy scene would've been done on purpose to show that the character doesn't actually care and is really taking the piss under the facade of apologizing (making everyone feel awkward which the player can call out on), but nooooo, this stilted dialogue is the writers being 100% sincere and preaching. It's astounding how hypocritical and tone deaf this reveals them to be, they think this is how apparently a normal conversation is and how you interact with people.
It's why I don't trust a king of the hill so called revival in modern day.
Also people are having too much fun with making the ugliest characters they can customize. And it is so ironic that they say they want inclusion and a variety of body types, but you can’t give a female character a bust, a thin waist or round hips.
Hearing them talking woke sh*** in a British accent literally enough to give me the worst ick...
British accent is supposed to remain pristine. Stop spreading the poison!
I still believe DEI is just a fad. The only thing I wonder is for how long it will continue be "the focus group" for game devs... Or when game devs decide not to use Twitter as their focus group.
It's hard to see it as a fad when laws are passed enforcing it. In california, it's mandatory for 30% tax breaks, and there was that game - dustborn? - that was entirely paid for by mandatory taxation. In that circumstance, the game devs can exist without making sales, because the only customer is the Socialist State.
Nah I don't think it's a fad, man. Not when it reached and is still infecting ALL types of companies, not just gaming related ones. Not when even the education system is also touched by these policies. Not when freaking tax dollars of various nations are supporting companies that push these ideologies. No, I believe that even this is but the tip of the ice berg, and excising it will take much, much more than what we have done now.
If you want to know who still has this infestation, please read the language that they speak. Almost all companies that claim that they have removed their DEI consulting companies still mention that they will still practice the ideology, but without having a dedicated group that pushes it, having it be integrated into their company culture instead.
As long as the DEI money flows.
You have no idea about the Massive Money Interests behind all of it do you. I'd tell you but my posts get deleted if I mention it or its acronym
How many "fads" were strong enough to make society CHEER for males literally punching women in the face in the Olympics?
15:30 isn't a hard question if you have real convictions. but most modern westerners don't have conviction, just consumerism.
I was born with a cleft palate and have undergone cleft palate surgery, also known as palatoplasty, it's a procedure that closed the gap in the roof of my mouth to helps me eat, talk, and prevent food from leaking out of my nose.
That being said, you're telling me that if I don't see myself; in all my hair-lipped glory, represented in modern entertainment spaces, that all I need to do is begin a movement on college campuses across the nation and draw attention to my deformed upper lip area thereby beginning a campaign demanding of others that they see me and my kind as non-cleft palated using protests, professors and pronoun nazis in order to fulfill my need to be fully featured in modern entertainment spheres as actually non-clefted even though I'm in fact fully cIefted, ushering in a social movement that leans heavily upon others to recognize my delusion of existing in a non-clefted state even though I am clearly the victim of newborn palatplasty!?!?
I'll get right on that and you will soon see me in the next installment of cleft palate simulator, a couch co-op adventure set in a fantasy medieval renaissance realm where folks are constantly pulling a Barve for not seeing cleft palated folks as non-cleft palated. Which is obviously violence. So it finished as a beat-em-up game.
Don't give them ideas! 😁
6:15 Good lord, what IS that hairstyle?
@@chaddieladdie6312 the Dr. Seuss curl.
if SBI made a good game hell froze over
I have to also make a point that there was already a trans character in DA. Lesbian and Gay characters too(Sera/Anders/Dorian were all good examples)! Our baby Krem was an awesome character, and he was trans! Iron Bull even added a tidbit of lore that there was a term used by the Qunari to describe Trans people in Thedas, and I quote, “In Qunandar, Krem’d be an Aqun-Athlock. That’s what we’d call someone born one gender but living like another.” And although Krem didn’t get much screen time, he was loved!
So I guess my first point here is that there was never a need to shove body dysmorphia and transgender inclusion into the communities face. Because this community already had those inclusivities there! It’s like they made this game a political experiment and as a person who is in fact a part of the LGBT community, it’s so gross. It’s shoved in your face so hard that it feels like a sick joke.
Another thing they ruined, is using modern terms like “non-binary” and “transgender” in a fantasy rpg when they already had some established lore-accurate terms used by characters in their stories to describe them.
The writing is awful, the characterisation is awful, it’s just awful. I regret letting my boyfriend preorder it for me, and I hope if you guys bought it you can get a refund for it. This game is NOT my DA canon.
stellar blade, warhammer 40k SM2, black myth wukong. these 3 games are the only ones that launched this year that i think dont suck.
ITS PAID PROPAGANDA. Show them what to expect when they continue this. BOYCOT THIS.
I find it extremely immersion breaking that the sexy, busty beach from earlier games who sold out an entire city and stabbed you in the back dooming thousands of people to slavery is suddenly flat and all about apologizing for misgendering.
Edit: I also hate how you can’t be an a hole and contradict your party members. Seem really railroady and contradictory to their, “there is no absolute canon because so much player choice.”
I find it weird that the new characters just have generic Californian accents. Haven't played Dragon Age for years, but I'm pretty sure the Elves and Qunari had particular accents that helped distinguish them from other races, showing that they have unique cultures and heritage. Now they all just seem the same.
Another issue is the art style it self. It just isn't Dragon Age. Dragon Age is supposed to be DARK FANTASY. All these bright colors and don't get me started on the Dark Spawn redesign.. The art style might be fine for other games but it doesn't work for Dragon Age at all. Dragon Age Origins and I hate to say it but even DA2 had captured the Dark Fantasy atmosphere and that is very important. The bright colors and fortnight style of graphics make it feel way less dark and gritty and more high fantasy and cartoonish. As a long time dragon age fan this new style completely turned me away.
I remember playing DA:O the day it came out when I was what, 18? It's actually surreal to see what they've done to the franchise. I honestly don't think we've seen a franchise be this thoroughly deconstructed before, like, bioware should have just made it an entirely new IP. But they didn't because money. I hope the studio gets shut down so we can at least remember the bioware name fondly
The reason they don’t make new IP’s often. “Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made.“ J R R Tolkien
Have you noticed how clean and fresh off the laundry everyone's skin and clothes look? It's so weird. It's like Fortnite/Overwatch.
17:13 this is 100% how you get H1V 😂😂😂😂
Remember Krem? Dorian? I remember them..... they're LGBT, but subtly so. There was.... tact in how they were handled, a sense of respect. These guys...... don't even get me STARTED.
I have already held boycotting grudges to certain game companies for over a decade just because I was clearly lied to. Bioware died long ago and Dragon Age has been getting worse with every iteration, I don't even consider it a game series beyond Origins. If someone *demands* that I respect their pronouns, I will retaliate by actively not doing so.
STD isn't worth being with 304s.
There's an element of "this is the way everyone ought to be" in these things that I don't think was present in a lot of earlier media. I'm not saying that polemics never existed before, of course, but it's as though now there's nothing that rises two inches from the floor that _someone_ doesn't think is their podium or pulpit. Characters in life-or-death situations, reasonably, are under stress; they have conflicts and arguments. They also have bigger things to worry about than pronouns- and if they don't, I'd seriously question that there was no one else who could take their place.
Pattern recognition seems to keep getting stronger for some reason.
"Misgendering" is like getting upset that someone describes an apple as being the color red, but you describe it as purple. That would be you trying to force your own incorrect perception of reality onto others.
SBI can't make a good game, because it's a part of who they are is thier politics. You can't seperate one from the other.