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

No, I am saying that despite having brothels, it didnt deter it getting high review scores and selling well. Yes, DAI sold well but we dont know how well in comparison to TW3 cause EA never gave full sales numbers.

Oh please, Dragon Age Inquisition had adult themes that weren't always black and white in their portrayals but was done beautifully. We don't even know how dark DA4 is going to be if anything it might morally grey considering Tevinter and the Qunari are going to war.

But they slowly reduced the sexual encounters each game.

"Going there" is not a mark of adulthood. In fact, not that rarely it's the opposite, because so many gamers are not adult individuals but horny teens that know zilch about "adult dark fantasy" and only call it that way to tickle their ego and justify the demand for content they like. Hence even Witcher toned it down. And in fact, as far as I recall, sex in Witcher 3 had little to do with darkness - so did presence of brothels in, say, DAO - and it amuses me that these two things are conflated.

And nobody is sanitizing Tevinter so far as we know it. We don't even know what is going to be in DA4 and all the talk about 'oh, they don't want to offend anyone' is just empty talk done in bad faith. Like I said - hard to argue that DA became timid when advisers can marvel at the size of Qunari equipment. And then make that Qunari watch his friends die, only to ignore his suffering and instead focus on getting all the sex - and then watch as he betrays us.

I'm thinking of all the brothel experiences I've had in RPGs...and they've been quite fun. It is, after all, a role play option. And in games like DA:O and TW3 the devs had some rollicking fun with it, or even tied them into interesting characters and quests. Just not much for the sanitized version of medieval fantasy.

WTF? How is my character suppose to be whoring around, now? Damn Bioweenie.

Oh, I'm sure everyone will survive without Tevinter brothels. If they don't add anything to the story why have them anyway?

"Mature themes"

Brothels are fun in theory, but to this day I've found only one brothel in gaming to be enjoyable: The Blooming Rose Others have been rather lousy. So I don't think we are losing anything important even if we can't bang prostitutes in DA4.

But definitely support OP's opinion that we should be able to see the DA4 cities in all their splendor and gloominess. No more Val Royeaux bullshit please! DAI failed big time because it didn't have a single proper city. Give us DA4 version of Novigrad, or even better, Kirkwall

And yeah, I want casual sex as well! DAO didn't have a lot of redeeming qualities, but hilarious random sexual encounters was one of them. Spoiling Cammen's relationship by seducing the elven girl was one of the highlights

This is a little off topic and it's actually something that many people may not even notice, but it's actually ridiculous when you think about it. I'm replaying DAI now and I've been doing companion missions and it's just so unrealistic going back and forth all over Orlais and Ferelden to do these 5 minute missions and then go back to Skyhold, which is in the middle of nowhere so to travel to these places you have to go through wilderness for at least a few days. Like with Cole after his quest, I remember the first time I played the game, my first reaction was "are you seriously going to Val Royeaux, have dinner and then go back to Skyhold like it's just next door?". I know this is a minor thing, but when you open up that map and see the distance of each place it's mind blowing that the Inquisitor would travel for days/weeks just to do something that is often trivial and doesn't even take a day to complete.

I hate that I notice these things and that it actually bothers me sometimes. But I think this is one of the problems I have with the locations in DAI too. They are too stretched out and unrelated to one another and to the main story, so everything feels disconnected like I'm playing two different games (when exploring the maps and then doing the actual main missions). I know people don't like when others bring up TW3, but honestly TW3 maps are a great example of how to handle open world. We still get 3 different maps but White Orchard is more of a tutorial and an introduction to the game than anything else (still great though), Velen/Novigrad is where most of the story happens and then going to Skellige feels like a completely new world. But the important part is, it's the main story that takes you to these places and you get to explore and do sidequests while doing main missions as well. Everything is connected and makes sense. And the "companion" missions (Triss, Yen, Dandelion, Zoltan) all happen on those places too. I so want that to happen in DA4, you have no idea.

Ok, no more off topic, sorry.