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#26
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Having 'pretty' hairstyles for women would imply that we derive their worth from how they look and not their actions. Therefore your request is misogynistic and not worthy of Bioware's new ethos of inclusiveness. 

 

 

I think you are sadly mistaken - my statement of DA:I lacks aesthetic design such as hairstyles doesn't neccessarily imply good looks. Instead, it's more towards having more distinct difference between male and female characters, which is evidently lacking in the current game design. This, in turn will enable players to create a more diversed player characters...

Elleria, I believe Vanth is being sarcastic.

 

That said, I find the suggestion that long hair is only suitable for female characters to be unnecessarily restrictive. Why can't a guy wear his hair long?

 

Prior to the 19th century, men were the peacocks of Western civilization. They wore their hair long (or wore long, elaborate wigs), wore cosmetics (and corsets!), and tottered around on high heels. Women typically wore long hair, too, but traditional female dress - a gown - was usually considered far simpler than the many-layered and much-ornamented look favored by men. Women's dresses were long, so no one would ever know if they were wearing heels or not (they usually were, but they were shorter heels than the male models).

 

Oddly enough, short hair on men was originally something of an early 19th century fad. Military styles became popular in civilian dress, and short hair along with it. Male hair and beard length increased again mid-century, but when WWI broke out in the early 20th century, long hair for men went out of fashion and it's never really regained its popularity.

 

So I don't see any reason why men can't have fabulous longer styles!


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A pity that you are unaware that the Inquisition tac system is dumbed down to the "never played a combat game before" level.  Don't bother playing the previous two games, if you find the Inquisition combat acceptable.  No disrespect but I suspect, from your PoV, that you will find the tactical combat of DA:O and DA2 to be very non-standard.

 

Your other complaints hit a main theme about Inquisition... basically, you are not alone with that analysis.  And, interestingly enough, After five months of lousy hairstyles and PJ feedback, Bioware has yet to bother addressing these shortcomings. You would think that keeping your armour in Skyhold is an easy fix.  Apparently it is not.

I may play DA:O(at least) for the sake of experiencing through the story as I believe it's where it all began in the Dragon Age world. I don't think the tactical combat will bother me if it's really to be very non-standard as you pointed. However, I shall reserve my judgement until I really get my hands on DA:O which I'm not sure when...

 

I'm actually waiting for hairstyle mods to be made available for DA:I but as I'm aware there is none right now so not sure if will I still have interest to play/revisit this game when more aesthetic design variety are made available either officially(Bioware) or through mods.

 

Also interestingly, I found a dated livestream of BIoware developer showcasing DA:I character creation http://www.escapistm...aracter-Creator. Notice how the developer showcased the male character creation and female qunari, which to me was an act to maybe cover the obvious shortcoming of lack of hairstyles?

 

@OP please don't mind my rant here about tactical games of old, or you playing them. Everyone has a right to play games he/she desires. 
It's only up to you, and the reference is made just to explain certain images in my mind.

None taken :)

 

Elleria, I believe Vanth is being sarcastic.

 

That said, I find the suggestion that long hair is only suitable for female characters to be unnecessarily restrictive. Why can't a guy wear his hair long?

 

Prior to the 19th century, men were the peacocks of Western civilization. They wore their hair long (or wore long, elaborate wigs), wore cosmetics (and corsets!), and tottered around on high heels. Women typically wore long hair, too, but traditional female dress - a gown - was usually considered far simpler than the many-layered and much-ornamented look favored by men. Women's dresses were long, so no one would ever know if they were wearing heels or not (they usually were, but they were shorter heels than the male models).

 

Oddly enough, short hair on men was originally something of an early 19th century fad. Military styles became popular in civilian dress, and short hair along with it. Male hair and beard length increased again mid-century, but when WWI broke out in the early 20th century, long hair for men went out of fashion and it's never really regained its popularity.

 

So I don't see any reason why men can't have fabulous longer styles!

Thanks for the brief history of long hair for males. I'm not against males having long hair, what I really am hoping for is firstly, to have more varied hairstyles for both male and female, not half of the selections bald and shaved :angry:
   

Secondly, there should be some differences in hairstyles between male and female, for example braided hair for female, something like this:

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And ponytails for both male and female, like this:

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Fringe ponytail

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And this high bun braided will make my female inquisitor have more authority and class :)

Smooth-High-Bun-with-Braided-Wraparound.



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You will love DA:O, mostly because of the ability to mod the game. And what fantastic mods there are! For hair, for skin, for face makeovers, etc. etc

 

Just have a look at nexus mods DAO area, you will be blown away. As another benefit, the story is better, characters are deep and engaging, and you have many different origins of which to choose from, and several different midgame results, and endgame choices, making many playthroughs possible



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Ok I have to get through this out my chest and I think this forum is the best conduit for me to do it. I'll keep it brief so I don't sound like a naggy old lady lol. Also, I must state that I've never played the earlier Dragon Age series so my rant will most likely based on this game(Dragon Age: Inquisition) and other similar RPG games such as Neverwinter, Mass Effects,Skyrim...

 

The story of this game is pretty engaging so far(SPOILER: I just acquired Skyhold after narrowly escaped my encounter with Corypheus at Haven) and doing some side quests and war room thingy and trying to figure out what I need to do next) so, I guess I'm not very far yet into the game. The dialogs are pretty well done I must say and I'm glad that the close-up dialogs are somewhat like Mass Effect. Looking forward to learning the story more as I progress through the game...

 

The combat is pretty standard I must say, nothing complicated - hit pause whenever things get a bit out of hand. The tactical system is pretty handy at assigning actions to individual group member. So, I don't see any major issue as far as combat is concerned in this game.

 

Now here's where my rant comes in and it's in the aesthetic department - first is the very limited hairstyles and no long hair??? To make matters worse, half of the hairstyles are bald and shaved!!  I believe I'm not alone showing great displeasure in this as I did quick research and found that many posts showing complaints about this game hairstyles too, so I really have no idea why Bioware did this. I watched some in game Dragon Age Origin gameplay footage and found that it has better hairstyles(especially for females characters) than this game, talk about backwardness...

 

Another dissapointment is my character Skyhold outfit - it looks so misplaced, almost as if my character doesn't belong in Dragon Age era and more suitable in Mass Effect era. What was Bioware thinking??? Also I notice that my human female character hunches in some of the cutscenes and she walks more like a man. Even Cassandra walks more feminine in that cutscene than mine given that she looks like a butch...

 

I'm sure I have many other things to rant about as I progress through the game but I'm pretty sure that these two are the biggest dissapointment I have with this game but I would like to hear what you guys could add the dissapointment that I might not have encountered yet(try without spoiler please) to see if this game really deserves the 100 plus game of the year awards the official website is so proudly advertised -_-u

 

Ok, first your not allowed to sound like a naggy old lady.  That's my job.  Lol

 

One of my favorite dialogs in the game is with Iron Bull on the Hushed Whispers quest when you free him from the cell.  Also a big fan of the interaction with the mercenary captain in Wicked Hearts.. that one always cracks me up.

 

Limited Hairstyles... hmm.. you know that sounds vaguely familar.. it's almost like.. I've heard it somewhere before.  Lol.  Yup, that is one of the most common gripes with the game.  The hairstyles are pretty limited and some of them that are available are so horrid I cn't imagine ever using them.   So right with you there.

 

The jammies at skyhold are also a very common complaint, They look bad on most characters and absolutely horrid on elves.  Frankly the elvish body type needs an overhaul as far as I'm concerned..  I think they were shooting for "lithe" and honestly to me what they ended up with looks more like malnourished to nearly the point of death.