LobselVith8 wrote...
iakus wrote...
Jennifer Brandes Hepler wrote...
We are quite aware that we have many fans who dislike organized religion and also many for whom religion has been a positive force in their lives. We are keeping both groups of players in mind while we write. Obviously, we can't promise a perfect experience for everyone, but we are quite conscious of both points of view and are striving to recognize them in the game.
That's what I like to hear.
In the previous Dragon Age games, the Chantry has had both its saints and sinners as followers. I'd hate to see it get overly streamlined just to demonize one side or th eother.
What about this have to do with the topic of this thread or the current discussion? People were asking for the return of the option to be an atheist, which is seperate from the issues of the people who compromise the Chantry or the views on organized religion. I'm actually very concerned that the developers seem to confuse atheism with a dislike of religion, or confusing hatred of the Chantry specifically with a hatred for all religion.
Lob, I don't really think you ever had the option to truly declare yourself an atheist in Orgins. I think rather that you had the option of a handful of lines which varied from saying you didn't believe in the Maker, to arguing against the alleged benevolence of the Chantry, to just keeping your mouth shut when someone else went on about something religious, and maybe a couple other similar references. That doesn't mean you had the option to play an atheist. It means you had the option to pick responses that allowed
you to interpret your character in several ways outside of the paradigm of the devout Chantry believer: you chose it to mean your character was an atheist, but another player could as easily have chosen all the same lines and interpreted their character as being anti-Andrastianism but not anti-religion, or anti-Chantry but not anti-Andrastianism, or just a character not really atheistic but suspicious of organized religion altogether. This wouldn't be true of those lines were intended by Bioware to definitively make your character an atheist.
At no point does the game ever allow you to say "I'm an atheist, I don't believe in the Maker or any Gods at all." All it ever does is allow a person to choose from a number of statements ambiguous enough to be interpreted by the player in various ways.
This is not to say I don't agree with you that those optional lines shouldn't be returned. I never rolled a character as an atheist, but I did roll ones that were too intelligent to swallow Chantry dogma as a given, and I'd like to see those options come back for DA3, particularly in light of the character being an Inquisitor. It'd be so utterly delicious to have the possibility of playing someone involved deeply in Andrastian politics who was trying to use their position to subvert the whole order.
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