dbankier wrote...
It just seems that most of this discussion has stemmed from something that was never said in the first place. I'm sorry if that wasn't what you meant, but I've seen a lot "David Gaider said elven romances have been done to death," without any actual quotes to back that up.
It's a bit of the telephone game in action, I think. Someone interprets something I say, and then someone reads that interpretation as a quote, then later others forget that their interpretation wasn't a quote... and so on. No worries.
I can only speak from the romances for games I've been involved in making-- which for me run from BG2 to KotOR to NWN (and expansions) before DAO. Ignoring KotOR, there's a fair number of female elves in that batch (especially in BG2, which still resonates strongly with me even though it was so long ago) and I was interested in trying something a little different for DAO. That's the same desire that brought forth Alistair and Zevran, as well.
The same thing applies for DA2, meaning the "doing something different" angle. Elves are not off the table, nor anything else really. The only thing you're most likely to not see are romance characters that are very similar to those we had in DAO, and only because I'd rather not do the same thing twice in a row.
I really doubt I'd ever say "you know what? We need a female elf!" and build a character concept built entirely around that. That would be an incredibly boring concept to start with. But if we had a concept that worked well with an elf and it was different enough, sure it could happen.
No promises, however.
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