It's a shame, really. Anders was done
nearly perfectly. He's an obsessive mentally unstable emotionally desperate basketcase, who latches on to you in a moment of turmoil. You act unreasonably nice to him and he dares a bit of a flirt. It's 100% in character and pretty awesome. Then you get the option to shut him down. If you do, he gets understandably pouty about it -- again, moment of turmoil, plus you're being inconsistent and giving him whiplash and nobody likes that -- but help some mages where he can see and he gets over it. Either way he never tries his luck with you again.
The
only thing that dialog needed was a way to gracefully and politely turn Anders down instead of being kind of a jerk about it. The
only thing. It did
not need to not exist. It needed very
much to exist and I would like to see more conversations like it in the future.
Additionally, I cannot help but notice that
no one complains that after killing Hayder, Isabela a) will
always straight up
proposition you, no matter what you say or do leading up to it,

offers
no dialog wheel with which to shut her down or tell her off, and in fact c)
has a built-in animation that forces Hawke to look interested. Isabela will
always flirt and Hawke will
always smirk.
So it's okay to scream bloody blue murder when a boy flirts with you
once and you have every option to turn it down or avoid it completely. But Isabela's unavoidable overtures/Shiala's handsy pawing/Liara's viciously relentless fixation on a woman she's barely met, that's totally great. The hypocrisy is blinding, and I hate that people at BioWare have talked like they're thinking about bowing to it.
Modifié par Quething, 19 septembre 2011 - 08:39 .