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villainanders · 1 year

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seeing mass effect 2 came out just about a year before da2 is explaining a lot to me bc 1) even tho me2 seems to be a more thought out game than da2 in just about every regard it seems like there's a lot similar stylistic impulses going on 2) bioware was REALLY into 9/11 during this timeframe apparently. i don't know what was going on over there nearly 10 years after the event that made them feel like it was finally time to start dropping their 9/11 political commentary but it was happening i guess

#i mean obviously. very important event that had and continues to have major consequences in many areas of life across the world #but in my complete lack of education in the specifics i do wonder what was going on then #kind of wonder if this is a first term obama presidency thing? (i know bioware is Canadian)#like we are far out enough from the event and there is some hope what the us will start pulling back at this point #that we start getting more critical of the initial american response?#as much as neither game is particularly inspired in this regard and da2 in particular has a lot of latent islamophobia #both games are trying to be critical of conservative islamophobia and nationalism #da2 definitely thinks its being Super Fucking Nuanced (i am not far enough into me2 to know where its whole patriot act in space plotline #goes beyond just noticing that its a thing they're doing) anyway idk if any of this is true or if I'm forgetting something major going on #at the time that these games are clearly responding to so if anyone knows more i would be very currious #ask to tag

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