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Post by bloodofthefirst on Apr 12, 2017 16:55:45 GMT
I generally can't grow hair below the neck when i was 8 yrs old i was pushed into a bonfire by another kid, it didn't leave much in the way of scars thankfully, but i tend to not wear shorts in public, cause I inevitably get asked why I shave my legs... Why do you shave your legs?
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Post by bloodofthefirst on Apr 11, 2017 7:08:59 GMT
I have so many unfinished Inquisitors going right now. This seems like the game more than any other where I can't figure out who I want this character to be. I finished the game once with a very srs Lavellan mage romanced to Dorian, but I keep trying to find something that fits better. I've got a Lavellan bow rogue, Trevelyan mage and warrior, plus a dagger rogue Adaar all just in various early stages. IDK what I'm going to settle on. I think I'm going to carry through the Trevelyan mage with Dorian, this time as kind of a sarcastic asshole, and maybe it'll feel more right this time. I might continue the Adaar and try Iron Bull's romance, I don't know. With Adaar especially though it sort of feels like, wtf am I even doing here, to me. I liked that Lavellan had a connection to the elf plot, but the romance with Dorian doesn't feel right with an elf. What are you guys favorite Inquisitor race&class/LI pairings? Do you think it matters? Well, besides the fact that it locks you out from some, obviously. lol Male human Inquisitor/Cassandra. I really like how hopelessly romantic she is. She reminds me a lot of Alistair, she may look like a tough warrior on the outside, but inside, she's all fuzzy and warm, awkward and wanted to be wooed. Still, pretty upset you can't get married to her like Cullen and Sera. She should have been a prime candidate due to how she goes on and on about romance. I really wanted to do a Cullen and male Inquisitor, but alas... For once, I like for Bioware to put gay players first in just one game, just ONE is fine. I just want to taste what it like to not have the least option in every game. I would prefer it if everyone is equal, but if there are extra options, just throw an extra option our way just for one game. It's just me being wishful, I guess, since it will never happen. lol
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Post by bloodofthefirst on Apr 11, 2017 6:26:40 GMT
There is a gay patch that allow you to romance everyone. I only played male Corrin and married myself to Saizo in Birthright, Benny in Conquest, and Shiro in Revelation. I find Conquest to be the most satisfying gameplay wise, it was tough and missions are varied. But Corrin and Azura are both so stupid in that route: I love Fire Emblem because it's a strategy game, but Revelation and Birthright is too easy for me, and I don't like how Revelation being too happy. I'm not against happy story, but it makes everything so convenient, outside of Corrin and Azura being stupid, Conquest makes the best storyline and ending (Fuck Takumi). Still, in Revelation, I become king, together with Shiro being king of Hoshido, basically 2 kings. It has the whole ego stroking that I like. Don't fault me, I'm shallow. lol Gay Patch, are you playing it on an emulator or something? -blinks-
Yep. Many horrible choices were made in Conquest. I think that's basically the theme of that storyline. (what would happen if the PC made every wrong choice possible) Though I do like super happy endings, so Revelations having rainbows flying out everyone's asses is cannon for me. -dead-
No, I play it on my 3DS. All you need is the gay patch. gbatemp.net/threads/fire-emblem-fates-expanded-same-sex-marriage-patch-wip.416109/It would require you to have homebrew or access to homebrew. It's possible for even the current 3DS to access homebrew. It allows you to do a lot of things like remove grinding or cheats in your games, get exclusive items and pokemon, a lot of function. I also used it for Harvest Moon game to use their gay marriage patch. It's also useful for Japanese games they translated to English that require a patch. Anyway, it's very useless, it maybe possible to do it with an emulator, I don't use emulator, so I can't say. On the topic of Conquest, the Conquest people actually show the most mercy and pardon a lot of characters from Birthright, while characters from Birthright just kills everyone they see. It puts a wench in the whole Birthright is good, Conquest is evil.
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Post by bloodofthefirst on Apr 11, 2017 6:12:10 GMT
There is a reason why Birthright is called Ryoma Emblem, you could basically solo lunatic with my father in law and a healing unit. Hoshido princes, Ryouma and Takumi really makes the whole route a cake walk. Xander an Leo are fine, but they're too slow on lunatic, when Ninjas are everywhere, which debuff them even further. Plus, Elise was a terrible dual guard character, almost as bad as Lilith. My hatred for Takumi is the last lunatic chapter, where he just Nohrian Scum everyone with his bow. Go home Takumi, Hoshido belongs to the Nohr. Leo is a real bro though. He's a real tsundere, he's a cool nerd and collective, my favorite sibling. I have a very hard time picking a favorite version of the story. Birthright's characters are great, but the ending is the least satisfying cause of who dies, and how much they show Azura in pain. Conquest's story is just face palmish for me, but it has the gay romance and I adore Leo and Camilla (even if she is mostly boobs). Revelations would be the best....but there's just too many damn kids to farm, and I feel obligated to get them all (even if I don't strive for good kids per say). There is a gay patch that allow you to romance everyone. I only played male Corrin and married myself to Saizo in Birthright, Benny in Conquest, and Shiro in Revelation. I find Conquest to be the most satisfying gameplay wise, it was tough and missions are varied. But Corrin and Azura are both so stupid in that route: I love Fire Emblem because it's a strategy game, but Revelation and Birthright is too easy for me, and I don't like how Revelation being too happy. I'm not against happy story, but it makes everything so convenient, outside of Corrin and Azura being stupid, Conquest makes the best storyline and ending (Fuck Takumi). Still, in Revelation, I become king, together with Shiro being king of Hoshido, basically 2 kings. It has the whole ego stroking that I like. Don't fault me, I'm shallow. lol
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Post by bloodofthefirst on Apr 11, 2017 6:02:50 GMT
If you look at characters without any sexualities, male characters with a feminine side like like Zevran, Alistair, Dorian, Sten (Despite his appearance, his interests are more on the feminine side like sweets and butterflies), male characters with more of a masculine side like Oghren, Iron Bull, Blackwall, Varric. Female characters that are more feminine like Lelianna, Merrill, Josephine. Female characters with more of a masculine side like Cassandra, Aveline, Jack. There are characters of various demeanor. Many of the characters that are straight have demeanor that goes against the societal expectation like Cassandra, Cora who people perceived as butch or Alistair who is more sensitive. Sexuality don't define who you are. If they write characters naturally, some characters may just happen to have attributes of masculinity or femininity. It doesn't have to be forced. Those are all DA examples. ME has largely not been so fluid in assigning not so typical gendered traits to characters. Honestly. Edit: Except Jack. I'm not into Mass Effect too much anymore, but there are Jack, Cora, ME1 Ashley who was very militaristic, dislike fraternizing, ME3 turned her into Miranda, other guys that are not masculine like Joker, Kallo, so there are examples of them, considered there wasn't gay until the third game while DA has gay in it in their very first game. I don't even know if I should bother with ME anyway considered despite making progress in the third game by including it for the first time, it was still a half ass job, and the fourth game, they regress, no companions at all, the bi option like Kaidan is made from females, they don't even adjust it like with Kaidan, and the Gil has half the contents and unpolished.
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Post by bloodofthefirst on Apr 11, 2017 5:55:36 GMT
But Tacomeat is love! (I don't like his personality much either, but I like his op weapon, why do the Hoshido princes get the best shit?!?) *nose wrinkle* The only Hoshido prince that gets anything decent is dodge everything lobster lord. Otherwise Xander and Leo all the way. There is a reason why Birthright is called Ryoma Emblem, you could basically solo lunatic with my father in law and a healing unit. Hoshido princes, Ryouma and Takumi really makes the whole route a cake walk. Xander an Leo are fine, but they're too slow on lunatic, when Ninjas are everywhere, which debuff them even further. Plus, Elise was a terrible dual guard character, almost as bad as Lilith. My hatred for Takumi is the last lunatic chapter, where he just Nohrian Scum everyone with his bow. Go home Takumi, Hoshido belongs to the Nohr. Leo is a real bro though. He's a real tsundere, he's a cool nerd and collective, my favorite sibling.
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Post by bloodofthefirst on Apr 11, 2017 5:43:49 GMT
It's a very convenient storyline, and it's just happens to be on the gay characters. Especially with how it has to makes sense. It's no coincidence that there were a lot of talks about gays in space especially on a mission to repopulate the planet. It's not a coincidence that the only character that is gay get the repopulation storyline. It doesn't happen to any of the straight characters, specifically because that character is gay. The narration happens because it "fits" with the gay story. That one specific character is there for Bioware to use to tell a story about gay. It's not subtle in any sense, Bioware is not known for being subtle, just look at the trans character that announced herself to be trans by talking about her birth name. Because Gil is gay, it's convenient to tell an story about it as well. That's why the whole story revolved around the baby. I hate it. I don't want to deal with being gay all the time, I don't want to be put on display. I feel like the nurse in South Park, where they throw a parade for her, talking about how brave and courageous she is and how open minded the whole town is, when she just wants to be treated the same, just want to be treated like everyone else. I just want a story about a guy who likes guys who has missions to fulfill in space, maybe a plan to colonize the country, maybe he wants to find his family, maybe he's tired of his old life and want a new life of exploring a new galaxy. I'm in space, I don't need to hear about how gay we are, I don't need to talk about mundane life things like obligation to have babies from society, societal rejection, gay this, gay that. I just want to love a guy while worry about shooting aliens. I agree that I think the ME team is putting too much into making this whole thing more complicated than it needs to be. A gay character does not have to deal with like some sort of persecution to be in their games, which is what their whole "it has to make sense" thing reads to me, that they only want to include gay characters if by including them they get to feel like they are 'solving' real world problems by ineptly writing about some sort of issue that affects real world gay people. That's patronizing and often times what we do not want. But I also don;t like the "happens to be gay" idea because that is and exclusive category. It ties waaaay too much into "straight acting" for my comfort level. It makes me worry that certain types of gay people will be excluded because they are too butch, too femme, too clever, too whatever and we'll be left with a character who is mostly just a bland slab of arm candy because they were afraid to give the person a personality for fear that that would be seen as a "gay character" and not a "character who happens to be gay" If you look at characters without any sexualities, male characters with a feminine side like like Zevran, Alistair, Dorian, Sten (Despite his appearance, his interests are more on the feminine side like sweets and butterflies), male characters with more of a masculine side like Oghren, Iron Bull, Blackwall, Varric. Female characters that are more feminine like Lelianna, Merrill, Josephine. Female characters with more of a masculine side like Cassandra, Aveline, Jack. There are characters of various demeanor. Many of the characters that are straight have demeanor that goes against the societal expectation like Cassandra, Cora who people perceived as butch or Alistair who is more sensitive. Sexuality don't define who you are. If they write characters naturally, some characters may just happen to have attributes of masculinity or femininity. It doesn't have to be forced.
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Post by bloodofthefirst on Apr 11, 2017 5:25:54 GMT
Just check Patrick Weekes, he played Fire Emblems Heroes as well. Pretty awesome. His pull was pretty crappy though. I saw his post. He was bitching about not getting an archer if I remember correctly. I was half tempted to tell him if he thinks that's hard try playing a gay Scott in ME:A. He didn't make the game clearly, but I bet he might could understand the grief better then the MEA team does. Not just any Archer, Takumi. That fucking OP guy who has no triangle weakness, no weak stats, can counter you regardless of distance, and shoot you 2 spaces away, so most of your characters can't counter him. Fuck Takumi. I hate him in Fates, now I hate him in Heroes.
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Post by bloodofthefirst on Apr 11, 2017 5:19:04 GMT
Just check Patrick Weekes, he played Fire Emblems Heroes as well. Pretty awesome. His pull was pretty crappy though.
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Post by bloodofthefirst on Apr 11, 2017 5:12:37 GMT
Yeah, Steve definitely seemed to be like how Bioware says they write a character which is they write them as a character first and then they decide on the sexuality. Steve didn't seem to be written as a gay character, but as a character that was gay. I haven't done the Gil romance enough to comment but from a non-romance point of view he seems the same way. Dorian was an exception to that because David Gaider always wanted to write a story like that for personal reasons and Dorian seemed the ideal choice to him(plus he probably already knew DAI would be his last Bioware game at that time). Gil is strange because he has the thing where he wants to find a purpose, and his friend Jill kind of latches on to his sense of aimlessness to convince him to have a baby. In a way, that is kind of a 'gay narrative' in that he's not capable of procreating with another man and needs Jill... but it's also a narrative that say, a straight person could express. Or say a person who is infertile. But the narrative evolves into a more obvious 'gay narrative' (I'm using this term because I hear it from other people) at the end where for some reason Ryder's presence changes Jill's plan from being her wanting to be a presumably single mother with like a 'god father' in Gil to all of a sudden she is now the surrogate for a gay couples child. So it's kind of get's de railed into a 'gay narrative.' It's a very convenient storyline, and it's just happens to be on the gay characters. Especially with how it has to makes sense. It's no coincidence that there were a lot of talks about gays in space especially on a mission to repopulate the planet. It's not a coincidence that the only character that is gay get the repopulation storyline. It doesn't happen to any of the straight characters, specifically because that character is gay. The narration happens because it "fits" with the gay story. That one specific character is there for Bioware to use to tell a story about gay. It's not subtle in any sense, Bioware is not known for being subtle, just look at the trans character that announced herself to be trans by talking about her birth name. Because Gil is gay, it's convenient to tell an story about it as well. That's why the whole story revolved around the baby. I hate it. I don't want to deal with being gay all the time, I don't want to be put on display. I feel like the nurse in South Park, where they throw a parade for her, talking about how brave and courageous she is and how open minded the whole town is, when she just wants to be treated the same, just want to be treated like everyone else. I just want a story about a guy who likes guys who has missions to fulfill in space, maybe a plan to colonize the country, maybe he wants to find his family, maybe he's tired of his old life and want a new life of exploring a new galaxy. I'm in space, I don't need to hear about how gay we are, I don't need to talk about mundane life things like obligation to have babies from society, societal rejection, gay this, gay that. I just want to love a guy while worry about shooting aliens.
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Post by bloodofthefirst on Apr 11, 2017 4:36:19 GMT
Bioware's guide on how NOT to write a gay character:
1. Write a gay character.
2. ???
3. Profit
Bioware's guide on how to write a gay character:
1. Write a character.
2. Make him gay.
3. Profit.
It's so simple yet none of Dragon Age or Mass Effect game were able to achieve it.
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Post by bloodofthefirst on Apr 11, 2017 3:32:03 GMT
True, people complain about Anders should know how aggressive Peebee is toward you. It's not even just a one time thing either. She straddles and pushes you down the first time you meet, the developers even said that who would be in the right mind to push her off. She then goes ahead and hit on you, asking to bang and get really offended when you don't want to bang her. It's like the narrative was pushing her onto you because we're just automatically be into her. I have never been a fan of Asari because their race is being treated as a Mary Sue, everyone is expected to love them and be into them, men, women, Krogan, Angaran, etc. They make the Asari into this sex symbol that you can't even escape from hearing the Angaran talking about how they want to bang them as well.
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Post by bloodofthefirst on Apr 10, 2017 23:42:14 GMT
Regarding Reyes and the dance scene - I think the hands/arms and such were misaligned, sort of like if you used a mod in DAI. The balcony dance scene would be off (like Solas x male Lavellan; their hands don't quite touch). But I just played through the whole romance, and everything seemed to fit perfectly. I recall someone else saying that the patch had fixed it, and it seems it has. They fixed it. Pre-patch: Reyes checking out Scott's nose hair, Scott stares at the sky. Scott using Sara's animation during the kiss: very feminine during the kiss, he sway his hip and push out his ass: They fix it with the new patch, now Scott will stare at Reyes properly.
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Post by bloodofthefirst on Apr 10, 2017 16:09:03 GMT
Damn, I started writing here, cause I thought this place was friendly. Guess I was wrong. I gave my opinion and suddenly everyone is bashing characters I like, including Ashley, lol. I mean, sure, everyone has an opinion, not every character is likable for everyone, but even when I don't like someone I'm not gonna smear that fact over other people's faces. Well, you guys have fun. I'll just stay away from this thread. My favorite characters are Danse and Kaidan, and I hear everyone calling Danse Nazi and Kaidan boring. I think there's character bashing for everyone. Still, I actually like Ashley. I just don't know her very well personally since I always have her die mainly for Kaidan because I dislike Cortez, so Kaidan was the only one for me. Still, sorry that your character was attacked though. People were just on edge at the moment. Hope you stay though, I'll try to remind people not to bash Ashley.
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Post by bloodofthefirst on Apr 10, 2017 5:46:21 GMT
It's still unforgivable to me you can't take Reyes up on his offer to join him in that broom closet at the end. Maybe Scott just doesn't want to stay in the closet like Shepard for 2 whole games.
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Post by bloodofthefirst on Apr 10, 2017 4:23:20 GMT
1. You've spent past few weeks shitting on Gil in nearly every post in this thread. Of course i will think you're completly biased against him. Cool that you like Reyes but clearly not enough to post much about it compared to hating on Gil. 2. Wait, do you think gay romances are played by more than few % lol? You think Bioware expected them to be? Have you seen any trilogy stats? FemSheps, how many players had Kaidan alive etc? 3. Don's speak for the entire LGBT fanbase, "we" have our own opinions and of ten disagree with yours and consider your conclusions simply wrong You try to start personal drama with nocte every time you're both in here together, calm down a bit. Don't start drama over opinions on video game characters. I've been stalking this thread hardcore for hundreds of pages and he posts about a lot more than Gil. I want to start a drama with you. Dorian is ugly.
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Post by bloodofthefirst on Apr 10, 2017 4:09:48 GMT
I'm not sure how that helps. If he comes back, it makes sense to just have him be the engineer for everyone. Why would adding another character to change out be good? That's just twice as many resources. Best of both worlds option. Gil stays for the people who want him. ME3 especially has tons of contingency characters a person may never meet. It wouldnt be the first time and assuming the other engineers isnt an LI then they dont have to make scenes for them as well but should still treat Gil as an equal. That's less of a strain than the virmire survivors. I doubt they would dedicate that much contents for gay options. It would mean double the word budget for 2 voice actors, coding to alternate between the two, facial animation, quality control just for a character to appear mainly due to being romanced. They have never done that with any of the romance, and I doubt they start with a gay player. It's gonna be either Gil or someone replacing Gil. It's 4 games already, we should just start to accept the minimum of quality gay options instead of asking for more options on top of the gay they already presented. Even the straight females which should account for their second largest player base got treated merciless in ME3, and has the third least options in MEA. It's straight player first, lesbian got straight player's scraps, straight females, then whatever scrap you can get from straight females.
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Post by bloodofthefirst on Apr 10, 2017 3:58:39 GMT
Speaking of Jaal, Michael Gamble popped by. I wonder what it means. At least, it doens't seem like they were just trying to wait until the controversy die down, the developers actually check out makejaalbi.
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Post by bloodofthefirst on Apr 10, 2017 3:34:17 GMT
Yeah. There's a silent majority out there and we have no way of knowing what they're thinking. Most people who play these games are never going to register for a forum or tweet about it. I recall Gaider saying they brought Oghren back in DA:Awakening due to popularity (and that he regretted it and wouldn't bring characters back for that reason again), but most people I see on the internet can't stand Oghren. I loved Oghren but I thought that was an unpopular opinion until I heard that he was brought back in DAA for popularity. That totally blew my mind xD Isn't that just the case of personal opinions, especially on this forum where there are a lot more females and gays who may more likely be offended of his sexist and homophobic stuffs? Oghren reminds me a lot of middle age American dads. I can see a lot of people related to him or have someone like him.
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Post by bloodofthefirst on Apr 10, 2017 3:22:34 GMT
It's Mass Effect. A gay squad mate would not make sense TM for the character. Another possibility is making Gil a squad mate. Or they just keep everyone the same and add more people on Tempest. How about male bi squadmate then? Kaidan happened. It's an unspoken rules with Bioware at this point. It's no coincidence that we always only have 2 options regardless of how many options there are. ME3 has the most options ever, 2 gay options, SWTOR has the most options ever, no gay options, DAI has the most options ever, gay guys have 2 options, MEA has pretty good banging and the most options ever, 2 options and no banging. It's pretty much the rule that if there is a minimum being set, the gay options will be that minimum. If that's the minimum,
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Post by bloodofthefirst on Apr 10, 2017 3:00:08 GMT
I like Liam a lot! I just don't want to get anywhere near his nasty couch. I thought you said "crotch" when I glance at it the first time. lol
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Post by bloodofthefirst on Apr 10, 2017 2:51:53 GMT
I still haven't finished my first playthrough of MEA, but I don't think Ryder is going to be abandoned in the next game. From everything that I have read, it doesn't look like Ryder's story is finished. Yeah, sure, they may have "concluded" the storyline for MEA at the end (again, I don't know, since I haven't finished), but that doesn't mean Ryder is gone. It seems like there are a few loose ends that are uncovered late in the game that would lead in to Ryder's next part of the journey in becoming a hero. Ryder is still young, so there is a lot of potential there. Also, we have only explored one cluster. Ryder could go "pathfind" a whole other cluster next game, come into contact with more alien species, see the arrival of other Milky Way species (Quarians, Drell, Hanar) to help them settle in Andromeda. There is so much that Ryder can do, the sky is the limit. As far as romances for MEA2, with Ryder as the continued protagonist, I feel like they can expand upon the current relationships, add more LIs, and yes, sadly to do that, some LIs from the first game will be cycled out. As much as that sucks, it can't be helped. I do think that they could cycle out some of the straight male romance options, and add more M/M options (and F/F options that aren't Asari) to level out the playing field first. I do have a question for people though. How do you guys feel about the "light romances"? It seems the only flings in the game are Keri and Avela (again no M/M or straight FRyder options, why Bioware). I honestly don't care for the light romances, cause the term "light romance" or fling implies that it will always have less content, hence the term fling or whatever. I know some people love Avela and Keri, but I would rather have quality for romances rather than quantity of LIs. As a straight woman, I would rather have two really well written, fleshed out love interests who were companions and plot specific than 3 or 4 shoddily written characters with no impact on the story whatsoever. A high number of romance options is not necessarily mean that it is better. Of course, I always end up playing male protagonists and romancing characters outside of my sexual orientation, so I never have a problem with romance options cause I end up experiencing most options if not all. Anyways, I would rather Bioware and Mass Effect focus less on the fling type romances and put more resources into making quality romances. Use those resources to have the option to have a non-sexual romance or a sexual romance with a companion. Make the romances more meaningful instead. Put time and effort into every orientation instead of cranking out and putting as many romances you can in one game. What do you think? I really don't care about quantity or flings, because like it or not, the gay players are in the minorities, but what I want is quality, I didn't even care 5 options for straight guys, but I care about 2 completely inferior gay options that are not even squadmates and half the contents. I was happy with Kaidan, even if that option wasn't made for me because the two options in ME3 has a bi squadmate and a gay crew have more or less equal in contents as other groups. The main problem I have is that I have never quality nor quantity, but at the same time giving every other groups full 3 options with 2 squadmates minimum, they clearly have the resources and time to add in that many options but can't even put in the time and attention for the 2 nonsquadmates to make them on the same quality as the other groups.
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Post by bloodofthefirst on Apr 10, 2017 2:44:05 GMT
Liam, Liam, Liam... Jill, Jill, Jill But seriously, I think they can continue and involve past romances in the game. Just look at PB - it was very hard for her to trust Ryder in the first place so if something happens, I don't think she'd come back. And she has the highest % in statistics so she's locked for sure. Same for Jaal. And Cora - I can't see them not continuing her either. No idea about Reyes and Gil though. Gil would be difficult, I think. Yeah, I definitely feel like, of the romances... Gil, Keri, Avela, and Liam all seem like contenders for being dropped, if only because of their lack of popularity. It's hard to say which is the most popular characters, this forum is not a good representation, they are very slanted toward some demographic having Reyes as the most popular romance which I know 100% that he wouldn't be the most popular romance if we poll all the players mainly due to the demographic and population of players, not even twitter. Kaidan was very popular on this forum, but he's one of the least popular option when they release the infographic, very few even kept him alive. It's only a very small segments of people playing video games that are on here. I'm guessing that Bioware has their own data tracking based on players accessing Origins to see which romance is the most popular. Maybe they will release another infographic.
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Post by bloodofthefirst on Apr 10, 2017 2:35:08 GMT
We don't know what the next story is to be honest or if the initiative is still the focus of the next game. We could only say what should or shouldn't be done, but it's still up to Bioware. It could even take place in the future where the colonization has already taken place, no one can say. Still, the game often leave certain unresolved issues for later games like Solas with Inquisition. From what they said, it's a self contained story, whatever it means, since Mac basically repeated it in his interview. Anything can happen in the next game is my point. We could say it doesn't make sense to have a new protagonist just like it was with Inquisition, but it's still up to Bioware at the end of the day. They rarely if ever read comments on the forum, and I don't even think they read this thread, especially with all the off-topic and weird things people discuss here (God bless them). lol Maybe they offer a survey just like with post Mass Effect 3 asking if people want to see a sequel or some kind of prequel, I remember. And yet, I still say DA4 makes zero sense without Inky being a protag because Solas is alive and it's Inky who should hunt him down. I also didn't get the true closure to Inky's story and characters involved, but it also feels like my beloved characters have no way to be a big part of the story and if they ever come back, it'd be Hawk-like or even less. I'm not interested in DA4 at all. I won't pre-order it, I won't buy it until the prices gets at least 50% down, if ever. And as I've said before - ME is not DA. They never had "new protag every game". Shepard made ME strong even though ME1 wasn't really great. I'd pick up ME3 over ME1, even with the shitty ending, every day. ME was intended to be a trilogy, it's not guarantee with MEA which wasn't intended to be a trilogy but a self contained story with each game going forward like Mac Walter stated, the developers said it themselves that they can't say at this point. If they have a clear vision, they could have said that Ryder is gonna come back. Arguing about this with me won't make a difference because I don't think the developers know themselves whether Ryder will come back. That's why I said it's depending on the reception because they made this game to be a self contained story. It's like they want to see whether people like Toy Story 1 to make a Toy Story 2. If it gets made, it could be Ryder or it could be a new protagonist. We can only guess and state what would make the most scenes, but the bottom line is none of us know which direction they will take. In term of Dragon Age Inquisition. It doesn't really make a big difference to me whether it's the Inquisitor or a new protagonist. I see Solas as a sequel hook for the next game like Coryntheus. It's the world at large. It's just my personal opinion, of course, we each have our own. Although I really like the prospect of playing as a city elf again, I'm sorry you didn't get to play as Inquisitor.
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Post by bloodofthefirst on Apr 10, 2017 2:20:03 GMT
My concern with continuing Ryder is how are they going to justify bringing in a new batch of romances? They did it in ME2 with the whole "you were dead for 2 years" thing, but they already did it once and it'll be really contrived if they do something similar again. *cough* Red Wedding *cough*
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