DA 4 Romances! New info for real this time!!! Zom-bangin'?

They weren't even in the fade itself.

I chalk it up as bioware for some reason being afraid to include the sexy, demonic, almost naked body! Imshael was a terrible desire demon! He should have clad himself in less!

Like... a mankini.

Oh, I have. That Merrill looked like an alien or a twelve-year-old, that she was stupid, that she was a blood mage. Complaints about Isabela's face and chin and skin color, complaining about her promiscuity, her not being honest about the relic, etc. That was mostly when DA2 came out. What usually happens is the criticism gets really strong until the next game comes out, and then people get disillusioned with the new game/characters, nostalgia kicks in and all of a sudden people love the previous one. (That's true of almost everything about DA2 lol).

Am I the only one that just goes, "Ew. This character isn't for me." and just wander off to the next one without the need to say the character was disgusting due to an elaborate SJW plot?

Granted I suppose I might bitch slightly if I found zero characters interesting in any given game or romance worthy with the character I was trying to roleplay, but even then it would probably be minor. As much as I enjoy the romances (and the occasional fantasy fullfillment) of these games I don't really play them just for the romance.

Oh I fully agree. It’s cool that some desire demons are nonsexual, but I would have preferred if the first masculine desire demon we meet hadn’t been that way. Male bodies are sexy too!

If they wanted to show desire demons could target other kinds of desires, they could have started with Xebenkeck instead. She’s a draft dodger who flips out when books are destroyed, if any desire demon is gonna be a clothes-wearing nerd (or a nudist, but in a hippie way rather than a seductive way), it’s her.

DAO and DA 2 were, with all due respect, less complicated games...at least from a lore/ story integration standpoint. There was a LOT of inconsistencies between the lore and gameplay/ presentation....

And if they go back to having the 'sexy' desire demons back for DA 4 I don't think I'd mind over much but if they go in another direction or give us more desire demons like Imshael those paths would be just as valid.

DA2 facial expressions were great.

But madam, you have a blonde avatar. Is it not hypocritical, madam, to support the existence of one blonde character whilst detesting the calculated change of a different canonical character's darker coloring? For certainly, the opposition to one instance of blondness can only reasonably be indicative of an opposition to all cases of same. 

(and other ill-founded inanities... you know, just to get them out of the way as early as possible)

When I hear complaints about Bella's skin since I've joined the fandom two years ago, it is mostly the claim that they black-erased her because she's not midnight dark and her nose doesn't have the more flat wide african look to it<- but this in itself is one of many ways people of multi generational african descent can look. Isabella's father could have been super white, making her coloring a midway tone, but it would never occur to me not to call her black unless she told me not to.

All that said, I find my brain struggling with this conversation. Skin color is absolutely irrelevant in a world where there is a different species to hate as well as a kind of super human to hate and has been inherently implied never to matter. You can't black erase someone in Dragon Age when being black never mattered. A black person in Dragon Age is not a bad or good representation of an African in a world where there is no Africa

I love Sera without regard to her skin/eye/hair color. Waifu.

They never called her black. Just non-white.