It’s over

[u/Queasy_Section7]

Well, that’s that then

[u/Ultron_waterheater]

I hate that game, I hate that I hate that game and I hate that the chuds jumped on the hate train for all the wrong reasonings

I do blame the BioWare for throwing out almost everything that made the series great and it damn sure wasn’t the diversity that made it bad

I just feel… kinda awful… empty. most my top 5 games ever are BioWare games

[u/mpelton → u/Ultron_waterheater]

This exactly. It's not like getting rid of the diversity would've magically made the game a masterpiece lol, diversity had nothing to do with it.

[u/Baggermedkrull → u/mpelton]

Diversity had a little bit to do with it... or rather how you handle it in the game, if you do it like bg3 its good, because its not a lecture in progresivenes. If you let the story suffer in your attemt to lecture people, its bad.

[u/mpelton → u/Baggermedkrull]

Metaphor is literally an entire story about how social justice is good and has a stat dedicated to how woke you are.

It doesn’t get more hamfisted than that. Yet the game is still incredible.

Diversity was never the issue. If a game’s writing is bad, it’s because it’s poorly written. Not because of “diversity”.

[u/Baggermedkrull → u/mpelton]

I have not played it so cant say but if i understand you the story is about, or have a general theme of social justice? And thats fine, the problem i se is when someone tries to shohorn a message in to a game and the story suffers from it. "Suffers from" is ofcours subjective but I feel like there have been a few games the last couple of years that suffers from it. So diversity is not the culprit per se but the implementation, hence my: "little bit" :-)

[u/mpelton → u/Baggermedkrull]

That’s kind of the issue. If the story is “suffering from it”, then it’s suffering from more than just “diversity”, right?

So the issue is that the writing as a whole is poor. Taking away the diversity isn’t going to make a poorly written narrative any better.