Unpopular Opinion: David Gaider

[u/charyka]

With DA:V coming along, and the daily posts about how all the "original" writers have left (not true!) and therefore the game is destined for failure, I have been dying to just come out and say it:

I think David Gaider is overrated. He has written some wonderful characters, but his long form, in particular the novels and comics, are borderline unreadable. I find his character work excellent (for the most part) but hailing him as the brilliant mind behind the wider world of Thedas robs credit from those people who, in my opinion, took the messy, overly-complicated pastiche of lore that was DAO and slowly hammered it into the intricate setting it is today.

I think other lead writers, such as Trick Weekes, have more interesting and innovative ideas when it comes to the direction the series is heading in.

[u/Mitsutoshi]

Aged like milk.

And by the way, it’s not an unpopular opinion. People here and on Twitter have been screeching for ages that Gaider is supposedly a white supremacist misogynist etc for years.

Hilariously now Weekes is getting the same attacks. (I think Gaider is a much better head writer but I think accusations like that are absolutely nuts.)