I am white, straight, and male.
Are you upset by this, bioware? Am I wrong for being white and straight and male?
No, of course not, I didn't ask to be born this way and to insult somebody for their race, gender and orientation is extremely bigoted.
I've noticed though that bioware is really trying to push the idea that non-white and bi or gay is the only way to play this game, and if one wants to play as a straight character their romance choices are extremely limited. In addition, there's a big emphasis on (dare I say) making the women in this game really quite unfeminine, if for no reason other than to appeal to ugly man-hating tumblr feminists. I'm talking breasts that sag impossibly low (Sera), a pig snout for a nose (Sera) and massive man jaws (Morrigan, Cassandra, Isabela). This is in comparison to Triss, Yennefer and Ciri from The Witcher 3. Women that *gasp* look like women. If bioware wants to make the women pretty ugly then please make the men also repulsive to look at. Thin arms and legs, massive pot bellies and greasy baby faces would be excellent.
It looks to me that bioware is trying to marginalize core gamers (men in their late teens and beyond) in favour of getting the support of the LGBT community and women, in regards to the character design and story. (actual gameplay looks really good though, looks like its moving towards a better version of DA2).
The statistic that 48% of gamers are female is extremely egregious at best. Only a tiny fraction of those females play anything that isn't extremely casual mobile games of which gender norms and sexuality etc do not apply (like flappy bird).
In conclusion, bioware is trying way too hard to appease women, people of colour and LGBT representation in games by shoehorning it all in with absolutely no subtlety and actually harming other groups in the process. The forced nature of this is both incredibly annoying and detrimental to telling a good story and also in my opinion very unflattering to those people bioware is trying to win over. Someone being gay, bi or trans does not make them superior over a straight and non trans person. Please keep that in mind bioware. It feels as if bioware can't decide which audience they want to take seriously.
In addition, I also have to say that the grammar in the promo art for the characters is incorrect and awkward to read.
Those sentences are not gramatically correct. Come on bioware you can do better than this. Or maybe not, the staff that worked on Baldur's Gate 2 are gone and you're now EA's b*tch.
So I got a warning for being calm about my stubborness and this moron has an open thread?
Let be debunk you quickly sir.
1) basing the looks of the women as being ugly is a subjective thing, not an objective fact. You don't like how they look, oh well. Tough.
2) The core group of gamers is no longer teenagers, in fact the median age for gamers now is closer to 30 years old, since most have been in the hobby since the late 80's. Women are probably not 49% of the audience, but they still make up a portion of it, one that you cannot ignore anymore.
3) Inclusivity is perfectly fine, depending on how its done. I think people are making a big deal out of the sexuality of Sera and Dorian personally, but their sexuality is perfectly ok, much like it was in the past for Isabela, Zevran, Leliana, and countless others. As for race, well, last I checked BioWare has always been pretty fair to the representation of races in their games, so I am not sure why its a problem now. After all, was Isabela white? Or Jolee Bindo? Or Jacob Taylor?
4) How is it forced, exactly? Can you please explain that? Also, is it any better or worse than say The Last of Us, which I would argue forced it upon Ellie as a character in the DLC for the game, or is that part of the problem too?
In fact, don't answer that. Your wisdom on this subject is not necessary at this point.
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