Elephant in the Room

Yep, but IMO it wasn't as blatant as in TW or TW2. I think CDPR improved a lot on this (and on everything, it's wild to think the same studio did TW and TW3, the quality gap is huge).

I'll take the bait.

Background - I am a straight female and I like to play the Bioware romance arcs (it is embarrassing, but I do enjoy them). I usually play either as a female with the male love-interest OR is as the male with a female love interest (though I did roll M/M once in DAI because I adored Dorian and wanted to see what happened in a romance with him). I also like the LI's to be attractive folks, because I like pretty things (yes..it is shallow...but it is honest). I also loved TW3 and thought Triss and Yen were beautiful pixelated gals.

HOWEVER...I think you are really blowing smoke, OP.

Cassandra was hot and had a sexy accent. In my opinion, she was as hawt (and confident and capable) as Triss and Yen. She had a classic romance arc where you got to be the one guy (ie, the "special" guy) that can break thru her tough exterior to find the sweet romantic gal underneath. That's about as ego-stroking as a Bioware romance arc can be. She also had great boobies. I mean...what the hell more do ya want? Seems like male fantasy through and through to me.

Sera was not for you. She was the F/F choice. Are you gonna start complaining about Cullen too (who was also for the ladies)? Cause he lacked boobies for you?

Sheesh. I mean, come on.

Found the elephant OP keeps talking about:

That's really great, but you'd be complainging if she was exactly the same character with a different appearance not to your taste.

Just like you bitched about Cassandra.

...That was quite a post to read. I do believe that part of the reason dudebros hated the game was that Bioware doesn't pander to them as much as the majority of game developers do, but your solution to that is to make 50 % of the population feel unwelcome by being relegated to eye candy? Yeah, no.



 

IMO, if anyone was "primed" to hate Andromeda, I'd guess it had less to do with Inquisition and it's entirely subjective lack of female spankbank material specifically, and more to do with general Internet circlejerk cynicism and meme culture. I mean, bless their hearts but let's be honest, Bioware has been fumbling the ball on the handling of their public image for a long time, from the acquisition by EA, the infamous Awesome Button, the ME3 ending fiasco, the handling (or lack thereof) of their community assets, etc., and I think the cumulative effect of dozens of poorly received decisions both in-game and out have positioned them squarely in damned-if-they-do-or-don't territory. Seems like some people and certain communities thereof are just determined to hang on to bitterness, and will find some crusade to latch their hate on to, however tenuous or shallow. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Something the elephant and the internet have in common...

Yeah, I've randomly seen him commenting on Youtube videos, and in the old Bethesda forums iirc. It's like internet version of running into an annoying acquaintance at the store. Oddest feeling.

That gif!!!!! LOL. Where is this person now? We need him. The trolls here are so weak and lazy in comparison.

The Witcher 3 is pandering? ME1-3 is pandering?

This merger has nothing to do with reception ME:A got, as clearly EA was merging BW Montreal with EA Motive long before game was put on Gold.

www.psychologytoday.com/articles/201011/the-truth-about-beauty

It was this biological imperative that Bioware ignored, resulting in a lot of disgruntled gamers.

We can call these gamers douchebags all we want, but that won't change the fact that men are attracted to beauty.

True. And I would add that for many hetero males, the beauty issue is one of those transgressions.