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Wait what?? Banter is interactive this time???
EDIT: Wait, what, banter is interactive?!
It's unclear how interactive it is, but yup! I'm not sure who it was that said, but it seems like you have an option to weigh in during banters and it's on a kind of timer, so if you choose not to say anything it times out and the people bantering will just keep talking.
Oh, okay, sort of like Shepard's Paragon/Renegade interrupts. I dig it!
I am so looking forward to that!
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I also like that you can now just walk away during mid conversation with your companions. :3
Inquisitor, Varric, and Iron Bull are all having such a nice conversation...
Varric: So... Where's an apology for Kirkwall, Bull?
Inuisitor: 
Oh, okay, sort of like Shepard's Paragon/Renegade interrupts. I dig it!
More like the light conversation shown at the start of the E3 demo. They are talking, and you have the option of popping up the dialogue wheel if you have an interest in seeing what your Inquisitor might have to say. You can opt back out if none of the responses interest you or if you change your mind.
More like the light conversation shown at the start of the E3 demo. They are talking, and you have the option of popping up the dialogue wheel if you have an interest in seeing what your Inquisitor might have to say. You can opt back out if none of the responses interest you or if you change your mind.
Ah, I see! Very neat. Thanks for clarifying. =)
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Inquisitor, Varric, and Iron Bull are all having such a nice conversation...
Varric: So... Where's an apology for Kirkwall, Bull?
Inuisitor:
More like the light conversation shown at the start of the E3 demo. They are talking, and you have the option of popping up the dialogue wheel if you have an interest in seeing what your Inquisitor might have to say. You can opt back out if none of the responses interest you or if you change your mind.
I remember us discussing this way back when.
Glad it made it into the game.
XD Oh Maker! That was great. I think I envisioned that too well lol
Yep that's pretty much my quizzy's reaction to. Gonna nope right outta there.
Well, thank you for telling me. How would an asexual romance work, then?
Honestly, that's the thing I keep coming back to. Thinking about it in the Dragon Age world, it would be hard to depict a character like this, because do Thedosians understand the differences between sexual and emotional attraction? Perhaps a member of the Qun would, and maybe that could be something to look into.
(A qunari Tal-Vashoth who left the Qun and tried sex a few times because it wasn't allowed, but not because she felt the urge to. Realized it just wasn't for her, and carried on. Prefers having her hair brushed to kissing.)
One way to do it could be an ace LI who isn't repulsed by sexual contact, that way even sexual characters don't feel like a zot has been 'wasted' on an asexual LI. The ace LI has to be asked about sex, and maybe he turns you down the first time, because he's just not up for it. You ask again, later, and he says he hadn't thought about it, but he's willing. The scene after would be really hard, though, because how do you depict someone who's happy the Player is happy, but really just wants to get back to trimming the feathers on his arrows? And not insult the Player?
On that same note, how do you make sure that it's actually asexual representation there? You can't say the word 'asexual', that term doesn't exist in Thedas. But you also can't say, "I don't want to have sex with you," because most players will take that as a rejection. You could have the ace LI explain further, but how do you do that without coming across as an Asexuality 101 professor? There's a fine line that has to be balanced there. But... I think it could be done.
I feel there would have to be 5 things for an asexual relationship in Dragon Age:
1) Obvious Asexual Representation - If you're going to do it, make sure the character reads as asexual. Otherwise, what's the point? The character has to be disinterested in sex, and the only way I can think to show that is to, simply, not have them come to the Player asking for sex. 
2) Content for Sexual Players - The asexual crowd is itty-bitty, and the sexual one has shown they generally don't like their LI's to be chaste. (Sebastian.) So, write the asexual LI that's willing to have sex, but you have to make sure the character is still asexual. Asexual people can have sex, can enjoy sex, but really we'd rather be doing something more productive. Perhaps the after-sex scene could be a sexual Player waking up and seeing the asexual LI, freshly-washed, doing some work in a chair.
3) Content for Asexual Players - If you're not gonna have sex, what are you going to be doing? Talking about all that sex you're not having? I hope not. There does need to be a conversation, though, or else it's not representation, it's ambiguous. So, perhaps something like, "So, you ever gonna ask me to have sex?" "Uh, no. Why? Do you wanna have sex?" "Nnnnnooo... It's just... everyone else always asks me to have sex." "Ugh. Why? Let's play chess." and that's it. Then we get lovely scenes with cuddling and hugging and nuzzling and face-touching. All the face-touching.
4) Ability to Be Asexual as a Player - Let me say, as plainly as I can in the game world, that my character is asexual. And don't make the Player automatically act approving to a flirt. The Reaction Wheel sounds like it could be perfect for this kind of thing.
5) Team Banter About an Asexual Relationship - This is probably where the character will talk most about their asexuality, actually. And, really, part of this banter would end up, for an asexual pair, being about all the sex they're not having. And that's great. No, really, this is important here. Acknowledging that these two characters are not having sex is important. Acknowledgement from the outside world is important.
Aaaand, that's all I can think of. I should preface this by saying I in no way speak for all asexuals. This is just what I would be comfortable seeing in a game, and what I hope for in an asexual relationship. Really, at the end of the day, all I want is acknowledgement and love. Just have to make that work in this kind of setting.
More like the light conversation shown at the start of the E3 demo. They are talking, and you have the option of popping up the dialogue wheel if you have an interest in seeing what your Inquisitor might have to say. You can opt back out if none of the responses interest you or if you change your mind.
That is awesome! That makes me really happy! I have always wanted to chime in during the banters! Thank You!
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Yep that's pretty much my quizzy's reaction to. Gonna nope right outta there.
The interactive banter is one of the things I'm most looking forward to in DA:I. I was super excited when I first heard about it. 
The interactive banter is one of the things I'm most looking forward to in DA:I. I was super excited when I first heard about it.
That's a mechanic I've sorely missed as well!
I had no idea they added it so I am really excited about this! 
Wait what?? Banter is interactive this time???
Yes
Hmmm makes me wonder if some banter reactions will be with your LI? That would be awesome
Hmmm makes me wonder if some banter reactions will be with your LI? That would be awesome
I know I hope so.
I wonder how they will release the last two LIs. In the past, they've made kind of a big deal about it. Cullen, Cassandra and Iron Bull were at two different conventions. Josephine was over the Raptr chat. Sera was even on a TV show. I guess Dorian was just confirmed over social media, so there's a precedent for them just blurting it out over twitter/facebook/etc.
Pretty much everything he does wouldn't be allowed by a common member of the Qun. Especially if he's in a relationship, he's a huge hypocrite.
I don't know if he is a hypocrite so much as he is going through an identity crisis. We don't have much information on the characters yet and the game is still three months from release, so maybe I'm way off base. But my impression was that he originally went native as part of his cover as an agent, but what was originally an act sort of became part of who he is. He went a little too native and is now torn between his past as a loyal servant of the Qun, and the hard-fighting decadent lifestyle of a Tal-Vashoth mercenary. Maybe time away from Par Vollen also has him questioning past beliefs both about the Qun and the Bas.
isn't there a comic con soon?
So, I see that we're talking about asexual romance... And that's rad, but I just wanted to throw something out there for all my aromantic sistas and brothas...
Queerplatonic Relationships
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I'll just leave now that you've probably looked that up.
So, I see that we're talking about asexual romance... And that's rad, but I just wanted to throw something out there for all my aromantic sistas and brothas...
Queerplatonic Relationships
Spoiler...
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I'll just leave now that you've probably looked that up.
[HIGH-FIVES] I'm either aromantic or demiromantic, so I feel you.
The profiles say Solas and IB don't get along and Cole and Sera, for sure.
I believe Cass and Varric don't get along/see eye to eye either.
I'm really looking forward to the interactive banter. As entertaining as it is to listen to companions banter between each other, like in Origins, I like being able to have my PC get in on the chatter now and again. And as neat as it is to hear your PC join in on the banter like in DA2, I really really really really disliked not having control over what my PC says. That bothers me greatly as a roleplayer. So this version of banter for Inquisition seems like it'll be right up my alley.
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