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machinavellian · 3 months ago

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really thinking about this again

please note, i entered my playthrough of datv with nothing but good faith and have in fact been ignoring all hype about it, for good or ill, as best i could prior to its release. but tonight something hit me irrevocably about the writing that might've genuinely trashed it for me, so... well, those who are invested in maintaining optimism about it probably should not read further.

with that said...

unfortunately, like four hours in i developed a suspicion that the dialogue in this game was written either partly or largely with AI, and... fuck. i cannot make myself un-believe that now. the dialogue is so rote and so flat and so glutted with cliché and so devoid of linguistic and emotional nuance that it legitimately disturbs me. it's like i'm detecting some kind of literary uncanny valley.

i don't know. maybe i'm being deeply cynical. but bioware also let all their writers go and were utterly unconcerned about that fact, so against my will i am now envisioning a room full of shitbrained game execs thinking this would be a fine way to make sure the damn thing ships by halloween and i don't like how plausible it feels.

#datv critical #bioware critical #lmao i was just complaining to friends #that the dialogue in this game is so fucking uncanny and weird it makes me feel like i'm having a derealization episode #it's that bizarre #and increasingly i believe the Woke controversy is being leveraged to obfuscate the real and egregious handling of this game's writing #on a production level #and everyone complaining about the flippant tone or that the dialogue sounds like it was written by an hr dept #is actually correctly detecting that the dialogue does not sound like it was written by a human #also sadly i realized launching the game at all forfeits your right to refund on psn #idk man i've had a week to process this. i'm not gonna go full-blown pepe silvia but i still have my suspicions.#no proof or anything and i suspect we may never have proof so yknow take it with a grain of salt and judge for yourself #ftr there are things i genuinely do like about the game and even the writing (yes i am a solasmancer what of it)#but man remember in da2 when you go to orlais and make your party sift through shit in order to bag an alpha wyvern #yeah you see where i'm going with this #i hope one day this game leaves a less bitter taste in my mouth but for now it still burns 😔

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