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

No, SWTOR was. It did have central missions on each planet, class stories, heroics and hop missions for your class story. It was less weird than DAI, with more story content per planet than Andromeda, but similar organization.

You did not play Swtor, did you?

The thing that made the brothels and bars fun in past games, was because they were casual, slice of life, atmospheres, where you could go have a drink, hear gossip, funny banter, do a quest, etc... I liked in DA2, how there were quest lines that brought you there, and you would meet the workers and it wasn't just about "sampling the wares". Just because there is a brothel doesn't meant it has to be portrayed negatively.

Besides, I have a feeling slavery in Tevinter is going to be depicted as a lot more subtle than we think...thats assuming the game even takes place there. But I would doubt the lower classes in Tevinter tend to be slave owners. For all we know, sex work might be considered respectable work in a society like that, if it is legal, and it one of the few professions open for people to earn a living and have some means of independence, regardless of where tbey came from, if they were run by free persons or ex slaves. It doesn't have to be a stereotype. Isabela in DA2 could have been just a stereotype, but was actually pretty good.

On the other hand, they can be examples of some of the worst sides of a society, especially one where slavery is legal.. that's something that shouldn't be whitewashed, even if it isn't actually shown or depicted.

Oh please, you cannot with a straight face say that DAI is on the same tone as DAO/DA2 where you could kill Connor, sell off an elf to be raped be a blood mage, sell a party member into slavery, see your mother become a half dead bride, wipe out an entire village of innocent elves and much more.



Why was the desire demon look not carried over to DAI?

Name one example that DAI is PC.

What? I just said that Inquisition felt with mature themes that ranged from dark to wonderful. 

As for the desire demon? Who knows? It’s probably because it doesn’t the story.

Another one has plans that may destroy the world. Yet another one can betray us after we made him watch his friends die. Another is a spirit who got broken because he couldn't find a way to help a mage who starved to death in a cell and is suggested to have been abused by Templars.

Haha, must be nice to close your eyes and ears to the issue just because you find it suits your own tastes.

I have no time for willful ignorance.

Sure... now compare that to Templars making mages Tranquil and raping them. Hunting down A serial killer who rapes and murders young elven woman. A necromancer who murders older women, cuts them up, and recreates the body of his dead wife, and puts a spirit inside her while she's wearing your mother's face...

Too scared to mention rape or sexual assault.

- I think there is a codex in Hinterlands mentioning Templars raping? And there are many sex contents mentioned in banters.

First ever fully gay and lesbian companions.

- There are gay and lesbian companions in previous Bioware games.


First ever trans character.

- Maybe. But in DA2 there is a elven man acting like a woman. And in the comic there is Maevaris.

Ugly women make characters more interesting apparently.

- I think Josephine, Morrigan, Leliana, Fiona, Briala are beautiful women.

No evil option, must play the hero.

- You can play evil in Judgements. You can abandon the chargers. You can negotiate with Imshael.

Desire demons being cut.

- So how are Terror, Fear, and Despair more PC than Desire? 


No sexualizing of women in anyway, only male characters like Bull.

- When you romance Cassandra, her nipples are shown. I can't remember whether I saw nipples in previous games.


Nearly all villians are male. Only female villian was Floriane. Calpernia and Clarel redeemed themselves and were clealy noble. Men were portrayed as idiots (Roderick) evil (Corypheus) brutal (Gaspard) addicts (Samson) power mad (Mage from into Abyss) or demons (Imshael).

- Why aren't Celene and Briala villians when you take Gaspard as an example? Fiona can be a boss in a main quest. And Roderick also redeemed himself.

There's no point arguing - if someone tries to make "ugly women" an example of the franchise "getting more PC" it's an automatic sign that we're not dealing with a reasonable individual.

Uh... how do you do these things?

Well, I guess you can abandon the game at this stage and let it come to pass. Overall, the quest actually demonstrates the problem with DA3 presentation, it immideatly tells you that it is not real and you are neither in doubt that it can be averted, nor you have a choice to let it come to pass, or do something that has terrible consequences in what is real. Something that would leave Leliana scarred for example, or condemning your companions to eventual slow death because there is lyrium left in them somehow or ordering Dagna to use it against your foes, etc. You have no choice but to deliver the world with Dorian cheerfully assisting, and your companions right as rain "for reals". Alexis and his son's tragedy is not even used to their full potential, as Felix dies off screen "for reals" not, say, in PC's and Dorian's presence, and wth PC not being able to say condemn Felix to die by insisting on just punishment for his father.

That's the essential problem of DA3. Good story in essence, but devalued by "it's all gonna be fine".