I've been re-playing Dragon Age: Origins and I was shocked how much things changed in writing in such a short period of time.
It's not the plot but the characters. Flemeth appears intelligent and commands respect without being a girl boss, even Morrigan does not appear as a girl boss despite her jabs at Alister - being voiced by Claudia Black does help.
It is also a lot grimmer, the 2 that die during the ritual to become wardens are made to be liked, the guy that was newly wed with a baby is killed by Duncan because he was afraid. The mages being turned tranquil or killed if they fail a test. You understand why but it is incredibly dark.
The writing is totally incompatible with what ever the DA: Vailguard is. in Origins we understand that killing an innocent father is ok in order to protect the world but in Vailguard it is a problem if you use the wrong pronouns?
I know all the woke leftist crap but did they ever read books or played games written before 2015?
Thematically, The Witcher series always felt like what Dragon Age desperately wanted to be, including Origins, but never had the guts to fully commit to. Or possibly the talent.
At least witcher ended without the woke overflow.
They're fixing it now with the next witcher game in name only.
That being said, you could see woke writing in Witcher 3 already. It was odd how different writing was between the start of the game to mid game..
Yeah i know. Writing in w3 is a mess and bad parts of it are simply ignored by many mainstream influencers and their audience. I still enjoyed the game though at the time i was more forgiving towards this sort of meddling.
Same and the 2 DLCs had good writing with nothing woke.