I love Isabela SO much. And well, um, pretty much all the women of Dragon Age.
Randomly, one of the best panels so far has been the Identity in Video Games panel, which I had been to right before the Vid Party, so your video really sort of brought the themes of that panel ALL together in an awesome way for me?
I mean, there are definitely OTHER themes here that are intriguing me VERY much? But I probably don't know enough about the game to comment on them in a meaningful manner, but just the realization that this story CAN be told in this medium? Very powerful. To have a female heroine that you can lead on a journey that doesn't screw her over because you ACTUALLY have agency with the narrative? Just <3.
And just the EPICNESS of the video (and Femshep!) and the realization that that's the PRIMARY story the game is telling, and of course, your own interpretation of the events is going into it, too, but it's a VALID interpretation and not one that's challenged by authorial intent to a degree it would be in other mediums, if that makes ANY sense. I can't wait to watch this again after playing the games.
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Date: 2012-05-27 04:52 pm (UTC)Randomly, one of the best panels so far has been the Identity in Video Games panel, which I had been to right before the Vid Party, so your video really sort of brought the themes of that panel ALL together in an awesome way for me?
I mean, there are definitely OTHER themes here that are intriguing me VERY much? But I probably don't know enough about the game to comment on them in a meaningful manner, but just the realization that this story CAN be told in this medium? Very powerful. To have a female heroine that you can lead on a journey that doesn't screw her over because you ACTUALLY have agency with the narrative? Just <3.
And just the EPICNESS of the video (and Femshep!) and the realization that that's the PRIMARY story the game is telling, and of course, your own interpretation of the events is going into it, too, but it's a VALID interpretation and not one that's challenged by authorial intent to a degree it would be in other mediums, if that makes ANY sense. I can't wait to watch this again after playing the games.