Interpreting Hollywood films as a realistic portrayal of American society could lead to some alarming conclusions. (Also, foreigners taking Hollywood literally to amusing effect is in of itself a Hollywood trope. The ride never ends.)
I lived long enough in the US to know the difference.
Anyway, thinking of the scene in DA:I again, I guess the cringeworthy aspect is that everyone's face immediately lights up when the singing starts. This gets emphasized with RK47's choice of music. That reaction is completely unrealistic. This kind of scene may lift you out of your depressive thoughts, but it doesn't completely erase and revert them.
it could've been good, but the terrible lyrics and unrealistic staging made it embarrassing. this is part of the problem with any kind of big-budget storytelling, that it always wants to hammer on the positive and give the audience/player this feeling of heroism. I find it so fucking awkward when crowds of digital people spend screentime shouting about what a hero I am. I can -feel- some corporate slug somewhere saying 'but we have to tell the sheep how great they are so they feel good.'
you may shear me, Bioware, but don't condescend to me. I don't need a herd of your voiceactors shouting about what a great guy I am. that does nothing but make me think you have no respect for me, which, well, apparent already. especially because it would've happened the same way even if I'd been deliberately making the worst decisions possible and letting everyone die and shit.
I still don't hate the game. switching from tank spec to giant fuckoff two-handed axe spend my whole time whirlwinding spec may be part of this non-hate. but I really, really wish it were a little more grounded. if you're gonna fucking sing at me in the snow, sing something haunting like Ain True Love and develop a great soundscape and show me varied reactions from the other characters (I liked that Solas didn't join in, but that's the best we got), not just universal fervor. and take out all of your fucking postprocessing and drop the instrumentation. make it feel like a real moment and maybe I'll have a real emotion. as is, any reaction I have to it I immediately lash out at as falling victim to a calculated marketing move.
if I think the people who wrote a scene won't feel anything when they watch it play out, didn't feel anything as they were writing it, then I'm going to rebel against anything I feel while playing it. sorry, "watching it," in this case.
also...better lipsynching would really, really help.
you had the ritual with morrigan, and in the witch hunt dlc she pisses off to fuck knows where, but its hinted that theres something important coming. Is this actually important to the story this time or is it ignored like it was in da 2?
