David Gaider wrote...
Ria wrote...
Oh, you're right! I somehow completely forgot multiple origins. So Bioware already knows how to do it. Animations have become increasingly complicated but that also means designers can do more challenging things with character models. That can't be the problem. It's an issue of values.
In DAO we were allowed to identify with dwarves but not fall in love with them (or at the very least express our emotions like with Aveline). I think it's time to break this pattern and share the love with all races of Thedas.
I really have enough to contend with regarding giving real-world genders and sexualities equal opportunity in romances without having people imply they've some right to romance all in-game races as well. I mean, come on. If you're keen to romance a dwarf, just say so. It's hardly an issue of fairness.
As for difficulty, it's not much of an issue if we know the relative heights of the models involved. A DA2 romance with Varric would have been simple enough because we know that we have one human and one dwarf involved. We didn't do it because we didn't want to-- or, rather, because we wanted to do the other romances more. End of story.
Thanks for answering! I suppose you're mainly referring to the sentence I bolded. It was written mostly in good humour, I'm just allergic to extensive use of emoticons.
I'm not saying you should write a romance repertory of every race, age, gender and sexual orientation for every game (though I'm definitely grateful for the inclusion of wider range of sexuality). I get that there are many reasons why relationships between different races, species, members of organizations etc. might not fit the story.
That being said, a dwarven romance just doesn't strike me as especially outlandish in the setting of Dragon Age even if the PC is an elf or a human. The races in DA appear to be fairly similar in terms of biology. Surface dwarves, city elves and humans within the realm of Chantry influence even share similar culture. There just really isn't any lore related reason I know of why dwarves should be off-limits for us
in every DA game (what you imply, I presume).
There's also the issue of beauty standards, which I referred to in my previous post. You cannot deny that in DAO and DA2 different races represent (among other things) different body types. There's just almost zero variation within a specific race. This leaves us with a row of beauty pagent like romance options. I like characters for their personalities (that is, the writing) so it's not a big deal, but still, it would be nice to have some variation.
I know Bioware has been breaking ground by creating a sense of inclusion for all sorts of players. It may feel unfair that we're always demanding more. But we do that because we know most game developers are still stuck in the stone age when it comes to storytelling.
You just got to deal with the burden of being a trailblazer. (a mandatory whimsical emoticon
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Modifié par Ria, 06 juin 2012 - 11:03 .
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