The first previews of Dragon Age: The Veilguard have been released. Many gaming journalists who have seen it rave about the new role-playing game, calling it a contender for “Game of the Year,” but criticism is already echoing from one corner of the internet. The game is said to be too “woke,” lament the new representatives of GamerGate on Twitter and Twitch. The discontent stems from details in the character editor.
The general mood towards Dragon Age: The Veilguard is as follows: The international gaming press has already had a look at the new role-playing game at exclusive events:
- MeinMMO writes: Veilguard is a game that “only BioWare could make”
- GameStar says: In Dragon Age: The Veilguard, there is surprisingly much that we have missed from BioWare for so long
- IGN praises: BioWare has nailed the character creator I have always wanted
- PC Gamer raves: After 6 hours of gameplay, I have regained hope that trailers have never given me: This is the BioWare comeback players wanted
Many are looking forward to the new information about Dragon Age
What are fans saying? Fans are also quite taken with the first impressions. Readers write on MeinMMO:
“What I see so far is extremely pleasing. I am very excited” (Mithrandir)
“I am so ready to return to Thedas.” (CandyAndyDE)
“I remain skeptically curious […] I would love to love it already, because excitement is the greatest joy, but I hold back until 1-2 weeks after the release.” (Geroniax)
On reddit, players are judging:
“It’s completely crazy how BioWare goes from miserable hair selection options to 88 (!) different hairstyles in Veilguard”
“I refuse to get too excited; I’ve been disappointed too often. I will wait until it comes out and then check it out, but … it looks very promising.”
“Pretty unanimous praise that BioWare is finding its way back to form and developing the game that one could expect from them at their peak.”
So the general mood can be summarized as: Confident, despite skepticism after games like Anthem.
“Woker than you think”
Who has a problem with the game? The Twitch streamer Asmongold and the game developer Mark Kern, both present on Twitter, find options in character creation that they can criticize because they are seen as “too woke”.
In the character editor, there is an option to display surgical scars in the chest area. This is seen as a sign that the character once had breasts which were surgically removed. The option therefore cosmetically displays that the created character is trans.
Mark Kern criticizes,
- that “the butt of the female models is too flat” even setting it to 100% would still result in too flat a butt
- “women look like men”
- there are cellulite and pigmentation disorders in the game
Mark Kern accuses the developers of making the game “Woker than you think” and introducing “fetishes” into the game.
Asmongold calls BioWare intellectually bankrupt
Asmongold titles as usual understated “BioWare is F*cked” (via youtube) and complains about exactly the things that Kern addresses.
He calls the scars “intellectually bankrupt” – in the world of BioWare there should be magic. It is “completely crazy” that in the world of Dragon Age, the same surgical methods would be used to remove breasts as in our world.
And also the butts are too small
People could transform into animals in the world of Dragon Age, but not into another gender? Asmongold finds this a superficial appeasement to transgender people. He cannot speak for transgender people, but he can speak for many people with scars. No one wants scars.
Furthermore, the butt slider is “painfully conservative”. The video has received 412,000 views in 8 hours
Comments complain about “de-sexualized figures”
The mood in the comments sounds like in Stellar Blade: Asian developers made attractive, sexy women – Western developers focused on scars. They talk about a “de-sexualization” of the characters.
This is a “normalization of madness”.
Well, we probably know what the next target of the GamerGate corner will be. In recent weeks, they have taken aim at anyone who dared to look even slightly in the direction of Stellar Blade or Black Myth: Wukong – and of course, they had Concord in their sights: Why did Concord fail so badly on Steam and PS5 and waste Sony 250 million $ on a woke catastrophe?
