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[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ok then dont buy it and bridget-pride-stay-mad snowflakes.

I mod my fantasy games to make them even more sicko-hexbear-woke

Everyone NO PANTS! I already have to get pants SHOVED DOWN MY THROAT EVERY DAMNED DAY! I CAN'T GET AWAY FROM IT! All women are NB, trans, and fembois with highly detailed uncut 4K res dicks. No one is cishet in MY FANTASY games.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

This is ignoring the real problem with DA4: why is Varric back again?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

They changed his hair color those time even

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Generic

My brother in Andraste, the game is set in Thedas because it's THE + Dragon + Age + Setting. It's so generic they kept the place holder name for the continent it's set on.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Let me guess, they added a black person?

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They made all the love interests player-sexual (will romance regardless of gender), which upset reactionaries because "there's no straight option", because even if you play a guy and romance a lady, she could have romanced a lady too.

It's wild because player-sexual NPCs is kind of a step back from DA:I, that had explictly Bi characters (Iron Bull, Josephine), explicitly straight (Blackwall, Cassandra), explicitly gay (Dorian, Sera) and people who had limited romance options like Cullen (only female humans and Elves) and Solas (only female elf, but was meant to be bisexual but only to elves but cut due to time).

Fallout 4 is 9 years old and has player-sexual romances. The complaint about player-sexual relationships is that it erases queer identity and queer characters people can see. Having a character like Sera or Judy (from Cyberpunk) who is explicitly a lesbian etc. The argument for it, is if you don't you get silly things happening like Mass Effect having clearly queer or bisexual characters locked as straight.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I liked Cyberpunk's relationships. There's a moment after rescuing Saul, where Panem and V are drinking and can flirt, Panem has her legs on top of V, V can run their hand up Panem's thigh. If you're masculine it leads to a kiss and falling asleep together, if you're feminine it leads to a jarring shift in tone as Panem suddenly recoils realizing you're not joking and then awkwardly tries to diffuse the situation.

Even though it's a scene of rejection, it feels like a real lesbian experience, with all the discomfort attached.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I prefer when everyone is bi ¯\(ツ)

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The problem is they aren't often actually portrayed as bi or pansexual. If the player doesn't interactive with them, nothing happens to establish their queerness and the fandom treats them as if they straight by default. Bi character in a game are good when they're making it clear from the get go that they are bi (like Iron Bull in Dragon Age).

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I'm guessing there are women in it without awooga

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

DA3 already had a powerful, bald, black woman as a companion so Bioware really has to up the ante if they want to be more woke in DA4. It must be revealed that in Tevinter the slaves are all woke and wear nametags with their pronouns, and that every slave-owner is white and speaks with a southern drawl.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Such a weird character arc she has too. She can become their equivalent of Pope, even though it should be impossible as she is a mage. Then if you do she sticks to the status quo on Mages and causes everything to be fucked up by not resolving the Mage-Templar contradictions.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Obviously they can't resolve the contradictions in just one subvariant of an ending that most people won't see, but that just raises the question of why they went with that as an option in the first place.

Also I forget, what were the two factions actually arguing for? Templars wanted to eat rocks and kill all mages, mages wanted to not be killed?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The three Pope options were her, Leliana and Cassandra. She was probably the least popular so it kind of makes sense to give her that ending. Leliana had the most revolutionary one where she freed the mages and allowed them to govern themselves, which ended up causing lots of conflict.

Cassandra had the centrist option of making the mages cops partnered alongside the Templars (instead of their prisoners) and that fixed most things.

Templars wanted to eat rocks and kill all mages, mages wanted to not be killed?

Pretty much.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

A franchise which only had one good entry and it was the first one

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I liked Dragon Age 2. It was not good gameplay wise, but I did like that you were just some guy/gal and their odd collection friends hanging out in a fantasy city doing jobs and get rich schemes, rather than some chosen hero on quest to save the world.

Inquisition had some really good story beats but it was basically like playing a single player MMO, so much grinding and fetch quests.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I sincerely don't understand why people keep buying these games. Bioware massacred all the gameplay elements that actually made the game special.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

The tone of the trailer did seem kinda "wacky genre fantasy". But I haven't played since DA2.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

After BG3 coming out how can anyone enjoy this trash from a company that makes nothing but trash?

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

This CriticalDrinker dude is a character or is a real dickhead?

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

dickhead... last time I've heard of him, beyond politics, this guy really slept out on Midsommar and said it was boring, no film analysis beyond that...

No analysis, just vibes...

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Woke age the wokeguard

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

WAOW I can't believe they included short kings in my Dragon Ages. Varric?? Who thought that men under 7 feet tall are cool????

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I've been getting this sub and some other generic pronouns sub recommended to me lately and I keep them around like little guilty desserts of stupidity. Their vague and wildly flailing seriousness is very funny to me.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I am pretty sure they grow guys like this on a farm... next things are gonna be the cynical agarthan, the meth critic, poopenfahrtenkommando and Jack the cockroach rantsona

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Poopen Fahrten Kommando is my favorite magma album

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

it's a german word, you gotta write it together nerd

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