The women are more traditionally attractive than the men. Imagine if the female love interests didn't just have the dreaded short hair or dark skin or angry eyebrows an you had a big, beefy 300lb woman with heavy scars, a crazy nose and face shape, and a missing eye? A woman who was old enough to be your mom with a bit of a pot belly and no frills, a completely bald woman with a plain face and no makeup who dresses like a hobo...the female equivalents of the male LI. DA:I is meant to be much more real than most fantasy games. The characters are designed as people with their own motivations, goals, personality and emotions rather than just eye candy. If the only thing you care about is seeing hot women with photoshopped skin and massive implants running around in battle bikinis then DA:I isn't for you but there are plenty of games which cater to that.
I don't even see a reason to care about how the characters look. This is a story, you aren't in a relationship with this person in real life and this isn't a porno (and for those expecting something explicit you'll be disappointed). It's a story.
This post gives me life.
Actually this is the reason to call them ugly:
http://tinyurl.com/nq8y7s9
http://i.imgur.com/qRwMcT1.jpg?1
http://41.media.tumb...nss0jo2_400.jpg
I understand that people have personal preferences but this is little too far from "good looking". So yes, i call them ugly, there are always beauty standards for majority and i assure you those characters don't fit. You might call them pretty but you will not convince me that most of people think the same, just look at them.
I don't count morrigan and leliana, They have been created in dragon age origins.
I'm still baffled when people suggest that Sera is physically unattractive. Like, say whatever you want about her personality, but you go on YouTube and every other comment is calling her an orc or something... meanwhile the moment I saw her promotional images I was like, "YEP I'M GONNA BANG THE CUTE ELF."
It's like no one can tolerate female characters that don't fit their
ridiculously specific requirements for attractiveness.