Sexism in <em>Dragon Age</em>: The Difference Between Intent and Negligence
So this article actually previews a lot of ideas that come to mind for myself, especially since I know so much about Dragon Age and will be discussing it for our podcast.
Most of the article is discussing the relationship of the worldbuilding in DA because history was heavily influenced by powerful and atypical kinds of women versus the real world parallels DA has written into its own world. Basically, the writers injected modern problems like sexism and racism into a fantastical context and they parallel how those occurred in the real world instead of using the context of the world DA exists in. This causes a massive disconnect with how certain characters are treated and looking back historically within the context of DA how they would actually be treated.
I think what point really resonated for me the strongest was “the lore of the universe seems to only have an effect on the in-game writing when the writers feel like it.”
As a massive fan of Dragon Age, that quote is one of the primary problems with the franchise and its writing as a whole. The writers aren’t really checking back on the lore that they created and constantly contradict themselves.