Dragon Age creator David Gaider weighed in on the discourse surrounding Veilguard.

Not sure I’d consider things like the ability to make your character trans a symptom of anything other than the game being made in the 21st century.

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because the creators using it to hide their bad games

How does this work in particular? The hiding bit? Doesn’t it actually draw attention, considering how many people then spam “OMG SO WOKE!11!!angry-1!!” and so on threads everywhere?

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When they have no good material, they start to promote unrelated things to gameplay. This is just one of those things.

Didn’t YOU just say that people focus on the visuals of characters? As in, something unrelated to gameplay?

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Visuals are part of the experience, it’s not unrelated.

Why? Or rather, why this, but apparently not your character or their back story?

There are a lot of good games that can be considered as “woke” and no one talk about them like this.

[citation needed]

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So “woke” means all of the following together, trying to summarize:

  • A game includes anything related to LGBTQ+ or political left-leaning ideology.
  • The above is presented via non-gameplay elements. It’s fine if its in the gameplay.
  • The game was a commercial flop or critically panned.

Did I sum that up correctly?

Citation: Cyberpunk 2077, Baldur’s Gate 3, I can even put Stardew Valley in this list, though not as vocal as others. I didn’t see anyone bash these games as being woke, or maybe they are a minority if there are.

You have spend zero time in game forums talking about Baldur’s Gate 3 if you think it wasn’t criticized for being woke. The best game of the year by every metric, and conservatives got batshit insane about a slider for gender that contained “non-binary” as an option. The first year or so every second steam discussion was about that topic.

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