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[captainnapalm]

Does this RPG give me the freedom of choice to refuse their pronouns? To be rude, mean and directly insulting to them?

Or are their pronouns simply forced upon me?

Not only is the answer no - but one of the reviewers said it's particularly annoying with Taash because she behaves horribly and you can never rebuke or disagree with her in any way. This is a common woke trope - people behaving badly but the story in no way acknowledging that they are behaving badly. Basically it's the writer's lack of character and moral fiber shining through.

 

[Mister Wolf]

Not only is the answer no - but one of the reviewers said it's particularly annoying with Taash because she behaves horribly and you can never rebuke or disagree with her in any way. This is a common woke trope - people behaving badly but the story in no way acknowledging that they are behaving badly. Basically it's the writer's lack of character and moral fiber shining through.

Taash is his self insert.

 

[xanaum]

What the fuck are they doing with these games nowadays? My 12 year old niece could write less stupid dialogue than this.

 

[captainnapalm]

Taash is his self insert.

That's how you know he is not a serious person. If you were serious about the job and the game you'd be careful not to make it all about yourself. You'd probably overcorrect just to show that you're not going to make the game just a vessel for your own beliefs. But the fact that he's trans and literally puts a whole 'you can become trans' thing in the game - it's beyond pathetic. How they allowed him to do that I have no idea.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

It's an RPG, right? So I'm sure you can keep calling her "she" if you want to.

Player choice and all that.

Or kill it.

And solve it.

 

[MetalFreak]

Worse, being a human and finding people who are biologically different, but still human disgusting.

Accepting non binary as a real thing is like saying Tess Holiday is thin and is anorexic...

 

[Mister Wolf]

That's how you know he is not a serious person. If you were serious about the job and the game you'd be careful not to make it all about yourself. You'd probably overcorrect just to show that you're not going to make the game just a vessel for your own beliefs. But the fact that he's trans and literally puts a whole 'you can become trans' thing in the game - it's beyond pathetic. How they allowed him to do that I have no idea.

They(Electronic Arts) either share the same way of thinking or are being bankrolled by those that do.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

Accepting non binary as a real thing is like saying Tess Holiday is thin and is anorexic...

She can view herself as that if she likes just don't force everyone else to label you as such

Keep your private life private

I don't have a problem with how people view themselves, don't force your views onto others.

 

[jason10mm]

Accepting non binary as a real thing is like saying Tess Holiday is thin and is anorexic...

This poor woman is trapped. She COULD lose weight, get more healthy, and live longer while being able to walk up a flight of stairs, but this is her grift so she CAN'T without being called out as a hypocrite, losing her market, and ending her career (unless ozempic hires her as a spokesman I guess).

 

[clem84]

This wouldn't prevent me from playing the game, but yeah it's silly and stupid. I get that the point of these games is to be able to customize you character to be able to create whatever character you want, but the level of customization doesn't need to include mental disorders. Again not a big deal, but it's not needed.

 

[DeepEnigma]

This poor woman is trapped. She COULD lose weight, get more healthy, and live longer while being able to walk up a flight of stairs, but this is her grift so she CAN'T without being called out as a hypocrite, losing her market, and ending her career (unless ozempic hires her as a spokesman I guess).

Reminds me of this.

And Lizzo got the memo, she's actually losing weight (and probably taking Ozempic).

 

[s_mirage]

Stuff like this always makes me wonder: at what point did game directors/studio heads (especially American ones) go from wanting to make cool games that people will enjoy playing, to frustrated wannabe film makers who give the impression of looking down on the idea of game being a game?

 

[Sweden85]

I'm tired off all these american developers destroying series after series.

 

[ManaByte]

 

[Tangerine]

Remember the game is straight trash regardless of pointing out the woke trans idealogical self insert bs; like skill ups review doesn't mention it.

That said I'm pretty sure he refused to review hogworts legacy so he keeps any political opinions a secret which makes me assume he may be afraid of being canceled or agree with the ideology.

Anyway he's still reliable for his honesty I feel. He was honest about deathloop, seems like he knows his shit.

His review is scathing. Who would pay full price or any price for this???

 

[MMaRsu]

Dragon Age Failguard.. Lol

 

[Schmendrick]

Worse, being a human and finding people who are biologically different, but still human disgusting.

"biologically"

When I pretend to be a couch and demand other people to treat me as one I´m not "biologically" different, I´m just an idiot with severe Muenchhausen syndrome or other psychological issues.

 

[CompleteGlobalSaturation]

Remember the game is straight trash regardless of pointing out the woke trans idealogical self insert bs; like skill ups review doesn't mention it.

That said I'm pretty sure he refused to review hogworts legacy so he keeps any political opinions a secret which makes me assume he may be afraid of being canceled or agree with the ideology.

Anyway he's still reliable for his honesty I feel. He was honest about deathloop, seems like he knows his shit.

His review is scathing. Who would pay full price or any price for this???

Who on earth has 45 minutes to spare to watch a review?

 

[Tangerine]

Because this shit wasn't noticed or a trigger for most because it wasn't as frequent, the trans activists hadn't infiltrated every area of our lives and ruined countless franchises, games. and movies ten years ago. Or at least people hadn't noticed on mass.

 

[Kacho]

You've chosen to encourage NeoGAF by focusing on the benefits of a multicultural background.

 

[Tangerine]

Who on earth has 45 minutes to spare to watch a review?

Hundreds of thousands of people apparently. You can watch at 1.5 speed, watch half or even 10 mins you get the jist of it.

But tldr; the game sucks in almost every way possible.

 

[Rentahamster]

It's hypocritical when all things are said and done. Ideological, really.

"No, no, not that biology, but this biology."

It's also a massive medical business now worth hundreds of billions with patients for life. Especially ironic knowing where and whom it all started with, really.

I don't see what's hypocritical or what biology is being denied, but OK.

 

[DeepEnigma]

I don't see what's hypocritical or what biology is being denied, but OK.

It's hypocritical to pick and choose what delusions get attached to which biological markers. If one can feel they are "genderless," and one argues that is linked to biological genetic markers, then one can think they're another race, which also has biological genetic markers.

This is a dance of convoluted word salads (on purpose) backed by lots of money to be made, and hundreds if not thousands of lives ruined more than helped. Always follow the money and ideological players.

 

[Last Hearth]

The rot started with Inquisition, a game I was bored by and never finished. None of the characters were interesting and they deliberately made none of the female companions attractive.
But it was one of the early woke games so the whole thing hadn't formed a pattern that people are sick and tired of at the time, so people just thought it was a quirk for that game. Looking back on it, you can definitely see it was the beginning of things of going off the rails at Bioware.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Ah no mam... .


If they didn't have that character... Then take 6 of score?

 

[jason10mm]

Ah no mam...

Why would they say "If we never get another..." if it's so good? When has "it's just too good, it's definitely getting cancelled" EVER happen in the game industry?

 

[UnrealEck]

I remember people were pointing out all this stuff in Inquisition. I just think it didn't cause as much of a stir at that time because the gender marxism wasn't so widespread into so many facets of every day life. From advertising, to music, to movies, to job recruitment.
People are clearly so sick of it now that there's a lot more speaking up against it than there ever was. Besides that, it's worse now in games than it was back then. Veilguard has more gender marxism in it than Inquisition did.

 

[Bojji]

Ah no mam... .


If they didn't have that character... Then take 6 of score?

9 for IGN is probably 6 for gamers:

 

[jason10mm]

I remember people were pointing out all this stuff in Inquisition. I just think it didn't cause as much of a stir at that time because the gender marxism wasn't so widespread into so many facets of every day life. From advertising, to music, to movies, to job recruitment.
People are clearly so sick of it now that there's a lot more speaking up against it than there ever was. Besides that, it's worse now in games than it was back then. Veilguard has more gender marxism in it than Inquisition did.

If folks let it slide then it just encouraged more of it now. Gotta draw that line in the sand.

Imagine almost any other social hot topic (gun control, illegal immigration, abortion, #metoo, voter fraud, body positivity, child labor, etc) being discussed in such frank and open ways.

You gotta code that shit. Like Tanis Half-Elven in Dragonlance, clearly a metaphor for mixed race or mixed class kids, accepted by neither side, having to forge their own way. THATS how you bake yer ideology into fantasy! Star Trek does it all the time as well. You NEVER go full retard on this stuff!

 

[Mister Wolf]

If folks let it slide then it just encouraged more of it now. Gotta draw that line in the sand.

Imagine almost any other social hot topic (gun control, illegal immigration, abortion, #metoo, voter fraud, body positivity, child labor, etc) being discussed in such frank and open ways.

You gotta code that shit. Like Tanis Half-Elven in Dragonlance, clearly a metaphor for mixed race or mixed class kids, accepted by neither side, having to forge their own way. THATS how you bake yer ideology into fantasy! Star Trek does it all the time as well. You NEVER go full retard on this stuff!

It's like a pimple under your skin you could feel that has now emerged as a massive pus filled whitehead.

 

[Krathoon]

lol. That is pretty much what they did here. They went full retard.

The didn't try to blend it into the fantasy setting at all.

 

[Kacho]

This game would have been amazing if they actually let you role play mature themes. Instead we got this leftist ideological playground wrapped in bubble tape. Yawn.

 

[Krathoon]

It is like if Star Trek had literal Space Nazis instead of the Cardassians.

 

[Rentahamster]

It's hypocritical to pick and choose what delusions get attached to which biological markers. If one can feel they are "genderless," and one argues that is linked to biological genetic markers, then one can think they're another race, which also has biological genetic markers.

This is a dance of convoluted word salads (on purpose) backed by lots of money to be made, and hundreds if not thousands of lives ruined more than helped. Always follow the money and ideological players.

Your hypothetical example isn't what's going on, and your assessment of the market being "hundreds of billions" is also overestimated, but I don't know exactly what market you're talking about.

 

[yurqqa]

If the game is great and the story is interesting, what difference does it make?

If the game is lame and the story is shit, what difference does it make?

People that judge the game simply by existence of non binary characters are as stupid as Era dwellers.
It's the same kind of stupidity.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Your hypothetical example

Cute.

 

[PianistaMacabro]

OP didnt realize it's dangerous close to hate speech, which is hmmm....crime.

 

[StueyDuck]

Wait...

People are pretending like DA:I wasn't painfully mediocre now.

 

[RJMacready73]

I dont think anybody has any issues with the LGBT crowd, I have a blast every year at pride here in Ireland but this non binary gender fluid nonsense is just a big fuck off you cunt, honestly if someone came up to me and started the conversation with my pronouns are.. I'd just laugh them outa the building, having said that, it's definitely an American thing (isn't it fucking always) cause in my kids schools nobody does that shit, they all think it's fucking stupid and they're young kids

 

[Imru’ al-Qays]

Why would they say "If we never get another..." if it's so good? When has "it's just too good, it's definitely getting cancelled" EVER happen in the game industry?

Excellent point. They clearly know the game is shit, but they're keeping the kayfabe for some reason

 

[The Saint]

How much longer are people going to rage about this instead of moving on with their life? it's dumb, but the constant bitching about it is not going to change it.

 

[ManaByte]

Wait...

People are pretending like DA:I wasn't painfully mediocre now.

That’s not what the Tweet said. But nice deflection.

 

[DeepEnigma]

That’s not what the Tweet said. But nice deflection.

 

[StueyDuck]

That’s not what the Tweet said. But nice deflection.

Deflection...

You are posting some tweets of some 5ft 2 loser being mad at people and owning the chuds what exactly is the deflection?

All im saying is that no one gave a fuck about DA:I because it was just as shit. This wasn't some chud owning tweet that it is presented as.

Also where do you guys even find these accounts. Like I scrolled a couple of pages and he just seems like a chop who uses internet outrage to get likes

 

[MMaRsu]

It is like if Star Trek had literal Space Nazis instead of the Cardassians.

Sorry bro Voyager is way ahead of you

 

[Krathoon]

Wait...

People are pretending like DA:I wasn't painfully mediocre now.

This is a perfect example. Notice how it is blended into the fiction here. The new game is blatently using real world terms in a fantasy setting.

DA: Inquisition handled it better.

 

[Topher]

Thought you were telling everyone to get off X....

Or alternatively, get off X, stop listening to people like Grummz, That Park Place, and rage grifters on YouTube and learn how to form opinions for themselves for once.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Thought you were telling everyone to get off X....

"Get off X unless some random tard's opinions aligns with what I'm promoting."

 

[Kacho]

Thought you were telling everyone to get off X....

Manabyte just wants us to appreciate the latest product

 

[StueyDuck]

This is a perfect example. Notice how it is blended into the fiction here. The new game is blatently using real world terms in a fantasy setting.

DA: Inquisition handled it better.

Honestly I couldn't get past the first 3 or 4 hours of DA:I and that was at launch when it was the only game to play.

To me it's all pretty poorly written. Just in different ways