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#look ma! jasko is bitching about dragon age again as if they haven’t been obsessing over that trash for 5 to six years
perkeleen-lavellan · 3 years
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There is a reason actually, beyond just my desire to avoid having to read books where I must assume the narrative wants me to sympathize with such stalwart pure characters as Celene Valmont, why I don’t read Dragon Age books or comics.
See, in an interactive story such as an RPG I as the reader have an unusually significant amount of control over the story, in the form of making my character make their own choices, their story being one I am in control of, and in the level of freedom I have to interpert the text, sometimes in the form of headcanon.
This means that even if the game writer’s own intention was to tell a story where, say, the Dalish desire to reclaim their past is deemed foolish, I as the reader have more flexibility to ignore that and tell a different story with a different message through the actions of my own character.
However in book and comic form this is a power I as a reader lose, and I don’t have faith in the narratives BioWare chooses to tell. So without that flexibility that lets me see a better story than its original intention, why would I waste my time reading a story I’m likely to dislike?
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