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

The whole world falling apart and continuing to fall apart even with all we accompished just ain't dark enough, huh?

Yes, the NPCs were definitely standing idly as demons, red templars or bears or rogue mages/templars burned and fought and attacked, kidnapped peasants to be shipped to Red Lyrium mine to conduct experiments on or be food for blighted lyrium or toys for demons or slaves we saved from Venatori...

Well maybe I worded it wrong but clearly since DAI and with MEA, there seems to have been a slow shift in the tone of their games.

Again, compare how ruthless Shepard, Hawke, Spirit Monk, and Warden are compared to the IQ and Ryder.

With Anthem and DA4 we will clearly see if this continues.

Thats the thing with Bioware games, they give you good/bad choices but always fixes it in a way that the paragon choice generally yields the best outcome and renegade yields the worse outcome. Compare this to Witcher where the good choice can have a bad outcome, the bad choice can have a good outcome, or sometimes you choose between to bad choices that both leads to bad outcomes.

Anyone who thinks DAO is "dark" needs to read more fantasy/sci-fi.

And thus a large problem with DAI. The world isnt as emergent as The Witcher 3. NPCs are just static. You react to the world and so does your companions, but not the NPCs.

Example: The window quest in Hinterlands. Had this been in TW3, we would have gotten close up cutscenes with the widow crying hard with emotional music playing in the background. When you finally see the body, the camera would have a zoomed in shot of the body with it being in a very bad condition with sounds of flies flying over the decomposing body. That is how TW3 would have done it.

With DAI, none of what I explained happened in that quest.

Again, an example of how far TW3 would go and Bioware shys away from.

Considering the 6 year wait between novels, only if they wish to learn the true meaning of frustration

The pain is real.

You're going to have to work a bit more to sell "bold" there. I don't have any fantasy of being persecuted by feminists, so what's the evidence that "boldness" had anything to to with it?

Yep, ME:A is lighter in tone. So what? DA2 was darker, DAI was lighter. Why shouldn't different games have different tones?

Remember, nobody's actually saying that DAI had the exact same tone as DA:O or DA2. The argument is that the differences are not very significant, that such differences as exist are not caused by what you're saying they're caused by, and that brothels, in specific, are not really relevant because any darkness (or whatever) a brothel could provide would require attitudes towards the presentation of sexuality which were never present, by design, in any DA game. Thedas isn't about sexism; it just isn't. There's economic exploitation aplenty, but that's not something you need a brothel for.

Discussion question : were the revelations about qunari culture in DAI controversial because people wanted sexism in Thedas, and the qunari were the last hope for that?

The Witcher fans in here certainly act like it is infallible. As for sale numbers and reviews, that's meaningless. Justin Beiber sold millions of records and got a lot of awards as well, doesn't make his music any less garbage. 
I'm just tired of it always being the great and powerful Witcher being held up as the example, hence the drinking game. There are plenty of other and better RPGs than the Witcher games to use, just to mix up the conversation if nothing else. 

I dont recall the music industry holding Bieber in high regards in terms of quality output.

On the other hand, The Witcher series is held in high regard within the industry from devs, gamers, and media in many areas.






But that is irrelevant. The point is the comparison of how the Widow quest would have been handled had CDPR been at the helm given how they tackle sidequest and approach many themes in TW series.

Exhibit A