#completely declawing the sociopolitics of the story doesn't in any way make it a better story ugh | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

infinitelystrangemachinex · 18 days ago

Text

Veilguard vaguing:

It's not automatically a good thing, actually, that the game de-emphasizes or even outright removes racism against elves, and bigotry against other groups, from the story

#veilguard critical #completely declawing the sociopolitics of the story doesn't in any way make it a better story ugh #being of a certain race and even of a certain gender should mean something in the dragon age world and not all those things are good #and that's part of the challenge of the roleplay and part of the themes of the whole overarching story like #tevinter! is a location in this game!!#not to focus on just the elves but if we're not feeling the absolute depths and desperation of all the elves #not just the dailish #then there's no way to feel much complexity or conflict over - for example - what solas is trying to do and why he's so motivated #his character is boiled down to him being by himself and feeling conflicted over just his past actions #as if he didn't spend all of inquisition investigating yours and the companions' differing plights and worldviews #tbh though one of the biggest failings of inquisition is maybe possibly not highlighting the dailish and city elves enough #to help drive home this point - but veilguard is so clearly just kind of out here by itself with loredumping that goes completely #uninvestigated socially or politically that like... it doesn't matter much #like we just have to pretend that everyone is playing kumbaya now? with the elven god of rebellion real and running around?#that you can walk around anywhere in tevinter practically unbothered?#like bellara and davrin and every dailish elf in thedas aren't at all significantly moved by knowing their gods are just some guys?#i get more and more pissed at -good vibes- storytelling in all its mediums with every passing day #ISMtext

45 notes · View notes