"No Brothels to be in DA4" as per Mark Darrah Tweet.

Once again, the brothels in the previous games were mainly used for comedy and the prostitution profession primarily portrayed only positively. There was little nuance to be found in the presentation and little exploration of prostitution and the people involved in it. It was a very clean portrayal. 

Okay, non-sexual examples of what I'm talking about here; judgments.

You don't have the option to execute Ser Ruth. You can sentence her to die via calling ritual but you can't execute her as she asks. Bioware dictates that however you play the Inquisitor, they are not the kind of person who would agree that Ser Ruth's crimes merit public execution to send a message.

Grand Duches Florianne; if you spare her at the Winter Palace you don't get to execute her later when she's handed over to you for judgment. Bioware dictates that if the Inquisitor is not the kind of person who would stab a woman in the middle of a ballroom with no formal trial and having presented no evidence(evidence which they likely possess but simply haven't presented yet) other than their own accusations - which the rest of the court has no particular reason to believe - then they aren't the kind of person who would sentence her to death at a formal trial.

Nvm I no longer want brothels they're so passe.

no ur passe ;_;

To be fair, that's a case of you having the option of killing those people but you wanting the option to kill them in a specific way. I'm not knocking on you for wanting more options that allow that but I don't see that as Bioware deliberately dictating morality upon the player.

To exemplify: in Dragon Age: Origins, the player had the option of killing the Warden's companions but the player did not have the option of killing the Warden's companions until their relationship has lowered significantly enough to trigger a confrontation or the Warden had performed an act that triggered a confrontation. Basically, the Warden can have shown themselves capable of murdering people in a whim, such as seen with the prisoner at Ostagar, yet are unable to do so to their companions. 

It's the culmination of his entire character arc! You see him give himself up, you visit him in prison, you judge him in the throne room and you talk to him about it afterwards!

What version of Dragon Age: Inquisition did you play? I'm starting to think you were wearing a blindfold through half of it.

You still have to spend two acts watching him scratch one foot with another in front of the stables and tell you insipidly boring stories how he used to be young and hot knight at tournaments years and years ago... before he took up to hanging around the stables with a big beard and wearing that old wool-padded jacket.

Again, not the stuff the dreams are made of.

Game of the Year edition with Trespasser, Descent and Jaws of Hakkon included. And I found the story and the characters for the most part boring and unappealing to me, particularly the romantic interests for female PCs. I really liked Alistair, Nathaniel, Anders and Sebastian in the previous games, and Dorian - in DA3. I loved the story in both DAO and DA2. DA3 is just not my game & male characters that would romance a female PC & their stories or how they delivered did not appeal to me. I tried very diligently to get to like DA3, and to fall in love with one of the chars allocated for the female PC (I started a female PC twice, and tried to start a relationship with Solas, Blackwall and Cullen, and almost got to the end of the game with Cullen's romance still active), but I did not.

In the end I just told Dorian that I would like to continue to flirt with him and did.

And, yes, yes, I did go to Orlais to see Blackwall volunteering to be executed, did the Wartable mission to press Orlais into freeing him, and judged him back in the keep. The said sequence failed to tag on my heartstrings and get me emotionally involved/wanting to romance the guy & I managed to be emotionally involved with Altair and Barik, and Zu, Bao, Zenith and Kivan way before that who don't have romantic content, lol. Frankly, I don't think I am the only person who finds Blackwall underwhelming and boring, but even if I were... that's how it is.

So, no, it was not my eyes that were closed, it was my heart that never skipped a bit the way it does in most games, the sensation that I do enjoy.

That's why Flirts with a bunch of characters in and around the game like SWTOR, in brothels and with interesting characters, would be great for me. It doesn't take me much to start building head canon if the character captures my imagination, but if he does not, no amount of nekkid cutscenes gonna do anything.

I wasn't talking just about visuals. And I'm not saying that I'm not 'a bit troubled', but in does indeed strikes me as over-the-top, if not predictable. Like... evil monsters doing evil stuff... What else is new? In fact it's almost copied form Tolkien and orc production, with additional stuff included seemingly for shock factor rather than anything else.

I think out of whole DAO I was most upset over the fate of the Casteless, because it was not a product of hive-minded monsters, but caste system and blind adherence to tradition. I think this is where real trauma lies. And Blight itself will likely become more 'traumatic' the more we learn about what it is, other than 'evil power' that warps anything that touches it. What kind of tragedies led to either its release or creation? Why does Flemeth says that men's heart hold shadows darker than any blighted creature?

This isn't just about Future Redliffe, but just how close the world was to turning to it and in fact is risking of turning to it at a moment we stumble. Not only that, it would seem that all of it is for naught - without the Anchor, all Cory can do is destroy the world further till it's a bleak desert overgrown with red lyrium and demons feeding on the remains and warping the world further.

At a time we first lost Haven we didn't know we're going tu stumble on Skyhold, and it's not like it's 'bigger and better' from the start. We have to work to restore it. And it isn't just about the loss of Heaven it's like... okay - we just dealt with the Breach, and now we have to deal with darkspawn magister and his pet Archdemon... like what? This isn't just about what Inquisition lost at Haven and this isn't just another crisis for Thedas. The Fifth Blight was awful, but it was the Fifth one and people found how to roughly deal with those - now we just keep being assaulted by new problems and they only give way to even more complicated new problems. Thedas being a place where we have this never-ending cycle of crisis, where people can hardly go a decade without the world going to sh*t again is possibly the darkest and bleakest aspect of the whole thing.

I personally am not concerned about being dark rather than tackling mature themes. Darkness can become cartoony if used excessively.

Which is why I've found DAO more on grotesque side than dark per se. Like, some of the stuff was just over the top for me.