BrotherWarth wrote...
EJ107 wrote...
BrotherWarth wrote...
With DA2 they basically said "**** it, they're all bisexual" and then had to constrain interactions around that decision. I'm very much opposed to making all love interests bisexual for the sheer fact that it's stupid for everyone to be so enamored by this person we're playing that their sexuality can be swung. I am bisexual, but if I were straight I don't think I would jump Hawke's bones were we of the same sex just because he's this adventurer type.
The most important thing in any RPG is player choice, and just like Heterosexual players homosexual players should get a choice in who they romance. In DA:O it was fantastic that Zevran and Leliana was availible for people who wanted s/s romances, but unlike a straight player you only had one choice and if you didn't like their character or preferred Alistair/Morrigan it did not matter because they were the only choice you had.
Ideally there would be a straight LI of each gender, a bisexual LI of each gender and a homosexual LI of each gender, so that everybody got equal choice, but having 6 NPC's with full romances is a lot of work, and is not practical. 4 Bisexual LI's gives everyone as much choice as possible, while not putting too much development time into romances alone. It may not make the most sense setting-wise but things like that come second to just providing the choice that people want. I thought that Bioware was right to do that with DA:2 and I hope they do it again in the future and in Dragon Age 3.
It all comes down to resource management. Gay/lesbian/bi gamers make up a minority of their customers so content geared toward that base will be played by fewer people than content geared toward everyone else.
When it comes down to it, Leliana and Zevran being bisexual made sense, whereas every LI in DA2 being bisexual made none. I mean come on, Anders was obviously striaight before DA2 came along. Is it nice that everyone gets more than 1 or 2 choices? Sure. But it's nonsensical and as I said earlier lead to less substantial romances.
There are many female players who romanced Merrill, and many male who roamnced Fenris. Should all of those people not have been allowed to play the romances they wanted to because having 4 Bisexual LI's is "Nonsensical"? It's incredibly selfish to deny others the choices they want just because having the choice exist bugs you.
In no way does being Bisexual make the romance "less substantial". For characters like Isabela it adds to their character, and was already a part of their character to being with, and if Merrill and Fenris were straight Li's their romances would be no different at all, and no deeper than they are currently.
In the same way Alistair and Morrigans romances would not be very different were they bisexual- Alistair would likely reject you if he becomes king because you are male the same way he rejects you if you are a female elf or dwarf, and Morrigans would be exactly the same save for the dark ritual, which could play out nearly exactly the same as it does for a female character anyway. In no way would these romances be less substantial than they were to begin with.
Modifié par EJ107, 18 août 2012 - 01:56 .
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That to me again is more of a developer not adding enough choices problem than a sexuality problem.
He's just a jerk that way. Make sense?
