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Dragon Age Veilguard, Non Binary character

PeteBull

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Yooo that first clip

"Nobody likes being a woman."

Chris Pratt What GIF


Like, seriously what the fuck? All this dialogue is like journal entries from the headcase writers who clearly hate themselves and the human existence.
A bunch of retarded transgender people decided to turn a grim dark fantasy RPG into an Avengers cartoon with wokeism. I usually am not this harsh but holy shit this is hilarious
 

TransTrender

Gold Member
The sad part is that I did a scathing criticism of Dragon Age 2 at release -- justifiably so at the time -- but in hindsight I wish we could rewind to those days.
I keep searching for the shit mountain picture but nothing turns up even when chasing down all the smallest breadcrumbs from the thread.
 

Danny Dudekisser

I paid good money for this Dynex!
Someone has compilated the complete Taash story. Prepare for hard cringe. It was on Youtube but EA is striking it down.

Wow. The second clip has Taash or whatever her name is literally saying "So.... I'm non-binary" as a conversation starter. No context, no lead up. Just *BOOM*. PROGRESS.

And then she proceeds to get super pissed and yell at people when she's not immediately met with adoration.

Complete self-insert.
 
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EviLore

Expansive Ellipses
Staff Member
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It's supposed to highlight how she resents her gender identity, the first steps on a path to non-binary discovery, I suppose. But it's handled so poorly.

Because she is a woman. She's rejecting that reality, embracing her self-loathing resentment towards femininity, and resolving it by demanding to be called different pronouns, which doesn't actually resolve anything. The real way to resolve it would be to accept herself and let go of the angst, a critical part of progressing from adolescence to maturity.
 

kruis

Exposing the sinister cartel of retailers who allow companies to pay for advertising space.
This whole sequence lmfao


This is going to fuel the internet for soooooo long ..... this is so forced, so badly written, so embarrassingly bad .... The game's game director fulfilled her promise to have LGBTQIA+ representation in the game, but I don't know about the "quality representation" aspect .... This is the cringiest thing I've ever seen in a game.

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ResurrectedContrarian

Suffers with mild autism
The high reviews on this game are so damning to every publication. If they can't discern the low level of basic quality here, they have no reason to exist.

I'm not sure we should ever waste time again on review threads / Metacritic etc. It's clearly all dead and completely falsified to its core.

Finding a random YouTube that you trust, or reading Steam discussions/reviews, is just about the only way to find out anything anymore.
 

Chuck Berry

Gold Member
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It's supposed to highlight how she resents her gender identity, the first steps on a path to non-binary discovery, I suppose. But it's handled so poorly.

Because she is a woman. She's rejecting that reality, embracing her self-loathing resentment towards femininity, and resolving it by demanding to be called different pronouns, which doesn't actually resolve anything. The real way to resolve it would be to accept herself and let go of the angst, a critical part of progressing from adolescence to maturity.

I feel like that particular line is very strongly emphasized though. Like the dialogue was utter, unlistenable nonsense to me until that thing piped up with that statement.
 

EviLore

Expansive Ellipses
Staff Member
I feel like that particular line is very strongly emphasized though. Like the dialogue was utter, unlistenable nonsense to me until that thing piped up with that statement.
It’s clear that the people who wrote it have serious unresolved issues with their own identity.

Making this game could’ve been a way to work through it and come to a better personal understanding by exploring different paths and their consequences, but instead it’s a series of dogmatic lectures directed at the player.
 

Saber

Member

I honestly wonder what people expected from a character creator that gives the option to give chest scars implying breast cirgury removal.

These people are straight up doing mysonogy in the face of everyone, not being subtle at all. Literally wiping your face with it, no buts not codes.

Meanwhile if someone don't agree to play a certain character because the character is insufarable, but that character happens to be a woman... Bam, you are mysonogist!1!
 
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The only thing that seems "optional" is the character you create, but it does not look like the heavy handed identity politics can be avoided. That video cormack12 cormack12 posted was about as in your face as anything I've seen.
Gross. Hold the line everyone. Let it bomb. I’m doing my part. This political cringe bullshit that has never been in games prior to these movements and they did just fine and they’re quite a few classics. None of this pop culture bullshit is ever going to create a classic sexuality and gender. Don’t have a place in gaming. It never needed it before it doesn’t need it now.
 
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The thing this most immediately reminds me of is the morality speeches at the end of the He-man cartoons in the 80s.
It all make sense now, the new art aesthetic, the tone of the messages, this game is not targeted at the Dragon Age fan base, they really are after the “modern audience”, basically the 10-year-old and teenagers who might pick up this game.
This is a grooming game.
 

VenomousCoffee

Gold Member
Someone has compilated the complete Taash story. Prepare for hard cringe. It was on Youtube but EA is striking it down.
The dialogue here is (and I say this with zero hyperbole) like an old after school special. Most of it is, literally, characters just being mouthpieces for political views and/or just saying what their character represents. As Richard Hugo put it in the classic creative writing book "The Triggering Town," it's 'too much about what it's about.' And that's the calling card of bad writing.

It's like if instead of "I can do this all day," Steve Rogers said, "My incredible resilience allows me to overcome impossible odds." It's shit.
 

Fbh

Gold Member
You know with all these annoying characters if at least this was a proper Bioware RPG and you could sort of disagree with them or tell them to fuck off or something I could see some enjoyment to be found.

But from the reviews I've seen this is modern Bioware and it's based on fantasy for modern audiences it seems like the overall tone is very mild and everyone gets along and you aren't really allowed to be mean or bad.
 
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