Don't get me wrong I like unicorns and rainbows as much as the next person.But people should undestand that DA is set in a gritty,dark universe.
Ofcourse not everything is going to be ideal,and as long as the darker aspects of the game are portrayed as such and not disguised as ideal I'm totally fine with them existing.
Because let's be real fantasy is fantasy,true but there are different aspects of reality,adressed in each genre of fantasy.
I think the problem is that certain people think that just by having problematic elements in a video game, it's already making light of them. Portraying an abusive relationship in a video game is unnecessary and only serves to trigger players. The thing is, video games can have problematic or disturbing elements but only the ones that aren't involved in their particular agenda. Murder and brutality and genocide? Whatever bro. A relationship that has possible "abusive" elements? TRIGGERED, TAKE IT OUT.
Both are things that are very much real in the real world and yet it's only those things they complain about. They want to pick and choose which problematic storylines should and shouldn't be in a video game and cite that video games should be escapism and thus shouldn't remind them of those things. And yet there's no issue with blood or death or loss being in the games. Gritty realism mixed with fantasy is always what DA did, and that extends far beyond just killing.
To an extent I understand. Smaller things like abusive elements in relationships hit much closer to home for more people, since most people playing video games don't experience murder and brutality. However, if content makes me uncomfortable because of how much it reminds me of bad things in reality, I don't demand it leave the game (as long as it's not handled as a joke or anything). If I can't handle it, I avoid the content and recognize the genre of game I'm playing. To demand that story elements are taken out is censorship, plain and simple. I will never, ever support that in any art form, especially when it isn't just inserted for laughs or not taken seriously.