EA Staff (Retired)
@Vandymon wrote:
Go woke and go broke.
Baldur's Gate 3 is one of the wokest games ever made, and that was a massive critical and commercial success.
@Vandymon wrote:
Don’t change character design on decades old series either.
Every Dragon Age game has a different art style. You mentioned qunari, but they have a different design in every Dragon Age game.
Claiming that this game is woke or not is stupid. We should not enter into that discussion.
Dragon Age has always been a game open to everyone, and that's never been criticized. Since DA Origins, where there were bisexual main characters, and it was great, at least for me. In Mass Effect, I almost always choose a male Sheppard, and I love that he falls in love with Kaidan, and how well written all that development is.
The problem with VEILGUARD is that someone entrusted the direction of this game to a person with zero experience in this type of games and narratives (the sims is another world). And possibly people with much more capacity and skills to lead a project of this size fell by the wayside. The direction of the game opted for a brutal change in the design of characters, their faces and nuances, which no one asked for and almost no one liked. The critics are almost unanimous in this sense, and those who do not want to see it, should look at what is happening with Ubisoft.
There are countless hairstyles and a purple color permeates everything. They try to disguise this with arguments that may seem reasonable (more customization and that the color purple is of the "high nobility"), but how sad and pathetic are purely personal decisions of the director of the project, because they are simply things that she loves, especially the color purple which is her favorite color. He told IGN in a recent interview. I don't care about the color, the thousands of hairstyles or the surgery marks. The problem for me is that it has taken time away from the developers to create a better game by doing these things, or, worse, that very competent people have been fired for not agreeing with these decisions... artistic and others.
joseluisduran01 wrote:
The direction of the game opted for a brutal change in the design of characters, their faces and nuances, which no one asked for and almost no one liked.
I know a lot of people who like the new art style. Would you like to prove that "almost no one liked" that art-style.
I mean, you must know of a representative survey, right? You wouldn't make such a claim without proof, would you? 👿
A art-style is always subjective, some people will like it and others not. That's just how it is.
joseluisduran01 wrote:
.....that very competent people have been fired for not agreeing with these decisions... artistic and others.
Again, do you have any evidence to support this rather large claim?
These people were laid off a few moths ago, after working on the game for 9 years.
I doubt very much that these people suddenly turned against what they had spent so long helping to create.
joseluisduran01 wrote:
or just calling it "it's just your opinion".
But that is exactly what it is, your opinion, and your opinion is not the law of the land, and there are many people with a different opinion.
You're criticising a massive RPG just because of how it looks and certain decisions that were made that you don't like, before you've even played it, so forgive me if I don't care much for your opinion.
It seems this game is not for you, that's fine, there are plenty of good games out there that you might like, I'm going to enjoy DAtV in the meantime.
