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

I saw a lot of sexy ladies in Dragon Age Inquisition, most notably Leliana.

Anyways, I have no objection to the presence of gays or transgender people in Dragon Age, since the setting has always been friendly to both. I also don't have a problem with the presence of people of colour in Inquisition. Some of my best RPG characters are black.

Nonetheless, I do perceive certain patterns emerging. One need only look at the ranks of the Inquisition, which look like the cast of Rent, and compare it to the ranks of Corypheus' servants, who look more like the cast of Downfall (the Hitler bunker movie). Just look at these fucks!



What I fear is this shit getting out of hand. I mean, Dragon Age is supposed to be a fairly dark fantasy setting — not Witcher dark, not Dark Souls dark, not Berserk dark, not W40K dark, but certainly darker than Final Fantasy: Male Models Riding in Cars.

I can already feel it in my gut that one of the straight male LI options (assuming there are any) is going to be Maevaris, and the romance is going to be a very special episode of Dragon Age 4 where we learn that you should be deeply ashamed if you don't find transgender or non-binary women as attractive as cisgendered women. SHAME ON YOU. YOU'RE WORSE THAN CORYPHEUS.

If Dragon Age 4 opened with a time skip and a cut scene where two men discuss how slavery came to an end in Tevinter 10 years before — with no economic repurcussions whatsoever! — and then they kiss and go skipping down the road holding hands, I would not be shocked.

The larger issue (and why I bring up Desire Demons) is that supposedly (I have not found the source but I am searching) that Bioware has mentioned that they were a bit ashamed about some of the content they put out in their early games and now that they are mainstream, they are more self conscious about the type of content they put out. I believe Gaider or Weeekes mentioned something about that. In addition (again, need to find link), Bioware admitted that they have been influenced by LGBT groups, womens advocates etc and wants to make their games more inclusive and something that everyone can feel comfortable playing instead of just straight males.

If all that is to be true, then the Desirr demon situation along with the lack of brothels could be a result of Bioware being influenced by internal or external factors.

Not saying that is bad, but to some people see it as a double standard. They do not want any overly sexualized women like Isabella because they dont want ti exploit women but yet we get Iron bull who was a overly sexualized male and yet that is okay.

Kind of ties into the MEA default Scott and default Sara Ryder stuff. The female Ryder was toned down from the model who provided the look by not having makeup and other stuff. Whereas the default Scott Ryder looks very similar to the male model and no signs of "toning" him down. Again, the double standard that males can be sexualized but women can't because this may piss off women gamers believing that women are exploited in videogames.

Again, this leads to a much larger discussion that would need a thread of its own.

Quit pushing your fake news. There's already two threads about this nonsense.

Whatever busts your nut, I guess....

*drinks*

Frilly cakes is an Orlesian thing. Tevinter will do something original with their pastries. They are in the right part of the world to have lots of things made from chocolate.

Well, Iron Bull, Blackwall and Solas all look way uglier than an elf, Qunari or a human male I can make in the creator. In fact, there is a mod that changes only a skin tone on Solas and adds dark stubble to his skull and that tiny tweak alone makes him look handsome rather than nightmarish. That's what I don't understand...

I understand randomly generated models being ugly because of random combinations or just not enough time like with Floriane, but why not change things a tiny bit? And Iron Bull? Every other male Qunari looked gorgeous in three games, even when they looked the most inhuman in DA2, but the Iron Bull? And they purposely created the only overweight avatar for a bisexual romantic option with the only Qunari we are allowed to romance? While there was no other overweight character in the whole of Thedas? I don't understand what drives these descisions.

If Iron Bull, Solas and Blackwall's appearances were supposed to draw in me as a female gamer and welcome me... I am gonna say that DA2 did a far better job in that department, and so did DAO. All I wanted was a better wardrobe so my char was not looking mousy next to Isabela.

And Zevran was sexualized before Isabela was... so... I don't get it. It makes no sense.

Someone had to make the treats and lace them with poison in an undetectable way; that takes skill!

Well, unfortunately modding is limited in DAI for the NPC character models, and all the reskin companions mods crush the DLCs, so BioWare's presentation is pretty much final for DAI. I would rather they would lean more towards what they did in DA2 and DAO than in DAI. Of course, there maybe players who find Anders unattractive, because his nose is too long or his lips are too thin, or whatnot, but I think overall, there is the intent to make him handsome. While in DAI, I can definetly see they wanted to make Dorian handsome, but not the other male companions. I understand the extreme pallor on Cullen to an extent, and maybe Solas was not intended to be romanced, but both Bull and Blackwall were the original romantic options, and both of them do not look like leading men.

Blackwell has a punchable face without the beard.

Which makes me wonder if she's going to be back, now that it's canon that she worked for Inquisition for a while. It would make sense - she has a ship and IF DA4 takes the route of, say, Inquisition agents moving around the continent, especially Tevinter, she could help transport them or their equipment.