With them being so obvious, it's making people notice the programming in even older material. Keeping to Dragon Age, in Origins Leliana tells a legend about how female knights came to be. The story is some lord wanted a son but had a daughter, so abandoned her to be raised by elves, who taught her to be really good at fighting to stick it to the humans. She enters a tournament, but women aren't allowed in so she never takes her helmet off. She wins left and right, and some dude gets real pissy about it, so in the duel he knocks her down and her helmet falls off, revealing her to be a woman. Her wins are invalidated and he's declared the winner, but she was so good that the king decreed that women are allowed to be knights. Of course, all the dialogue prompts are positive.

It was a lot more subtle than Veilguard, because it's dialogue you have to actively trigger, it's framed as a legend, and it's talking past the sale since it's making women the obvious equals to men rather than trying to convince you of it.

Another case is the party chatter with Sten; it's supposed to make him, and by extension anyone that agrees with him, seem rigid and ridiculous. It's all very insidious compared to Veilguard's bluntness.

With them being so obvious, it's making people notice the programming in even older material. Keeping to Dragon Age, in Origins Leliana tells a legend about how female knights came to be. The story is some lord wanted a son but had a daughter, so abandoned her to be raised by elves, who taught her to be really good at fighting to stick it to the humans. She enters a tournament, but women aren't allowed in so she never takes her helmet off. She wins left and right, and some dude gets real pissy about it, so in the duel he knocks her down and her helmet falls off, revealing her to be the winner. Her wins are invalidated and he's declared the winner, but she was so good that the king decreed that women are allowed to be knights. Of course, all the dialogue prompts are positive.

It was a lot more subtle than Veilguard, because it's dialogue you have to actively trigger, it's framed as a legend, and it's talking past the sale since it's making women the obvious equals to men rather than trying to convince you of it.

Another case is the party chatter with Sten; it's supposed to make him, and by extension anyone that agrees with him, seem rigid and ridiculous. It's all very insidious compared to Veilguard's bluntness.