Vovea wrote...
Elton John is dead wrote...
Why would having one man who views women as sex objects or even a woman who views men as sex objects be so bad? Such clearly exists in Antiva where there's an ideal of women being pure and delicate. So different gender views aren't absent from the world of Dragon Age.
Because people who suffer sexism in their real life don't want it in their escapism as well. Same for homophobic or any other derogatory content.
But it exists in the universe whether you like it or not and it's lore-breaking when the Qunari or anyone from a culture in the game don't really comment on such things but then again DA2 also had rogues with magical abilities such as the ability to teleport behind people so I guess lore doesn't matter anymore.
I'm not really asking for sexism to come into play either. That's not what this topic is about. I'm not asking for every single NPC to remark on your gender either as both men and women are seen as equals in Fereldan and Orlais. Taking Sten and The Arishok as examples, that's the type of stuff I would want to see and I guess it would only come into play if we encounter the Qunari again. You could still duel the Arishok if you had his respect.
I mean the Andrastian Chantry only has female priests whereas the Imperial Chantry has male priests. There's some type of gender role going on there because the Andrastian Chantry doesn't believe men should be priests so to pretend gender roles and views don't exist in Thedas is ignorance really.
I'm not asking for content to be locked off based on gender either. As I said earlier in this topic, you might get a quest where you have to sneak into a Chantry. Female characters could steal some robes from a priest leading them down a different path to acquire those robes whereas male characters could steal armor from a Templar which in turns leads down a different path to acquire the armor. Both characters still end up in the same place though and that's the Chantry.
Faerunner wrote...
To be honest, I agree with Elton John is Dead.
Bioware has set Thedas up as a world where people treat each other differently based on their race, gender, class and specialization. In the first game, people treated your character differently based on your race, gender, class and specialization just like anyone else (mostly). People who play the Dragon Age games should come to expect this already. To have NPCs turn around and blatantly take exception with the main character just because the player might find it unpleasant frankly breaks the laws of their own universe and suspends disbelief (further than when it was unintentional or cut for time/budget).
This sums it up perfectly. Racism is okay but sexism (which I'm not asking for anyways) isn't? Dragon Age is supposed to be set in a dark and gritty universe. Not some fairy tale universe where everyone holds hands and dances around. We've got the elves who are oppressed and who are treated as inferior to humans and yet playing as an elf in Origins didn't net you with limitations not experienced as a dwarf or human. You got a few differences in dialogue which made the role believable.
Dragon Age 2 was rushed. You got maybe one or two remarks here and there about your gender and you got maybe one or two actions specific to your class.
The rogue for example had an action to throw the murder knife in one quest which no other class could do.
Add more examples of this and you've got a game that should be as replayable as Origins minus the origins.
Having all classes and both genders experience the same dialogue, same paths, same reaction and same choices kills replay value. What's the point playing a female blood mage if all NPC's see me as a male warrior? The only thing class changes then is your abilities and playstyle of the game. I mean as others have expained, all content could still be accessed but a different class might just access it in a different way and a male/female might get an extra dialogue option at one point.
Modifié par Elton John is dead, 14 mai 2012 - 12:32 .
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