Dragon Age: The Veilguard has received numerous criticisms since its full unveiling a few months ago. These criticisms have taken aim at the game’s new art style, its writing, its character design, it abandoning player world states, and generally how unfamiliar it feels in comparison to its legacy. It has also been engulfed by the […]
  • Catoblepas
    38·
    3 months ago

    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.

      • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
        13·
        3 months ago

        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?

          • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
            8·
            3 months ago

            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?

              • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
                4·
                3 months ago

                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]

                  • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
                    4·
                    3 months ago

                    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?

                  • Mrs_deWinter@feddit.org
                    2·
                    3 months ago

                    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.