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[jones81381]

that prefers to play a straight male character most of the time, I am thoroughly disappointed with the viable romance options that I am given. It's either Cassandra or Josephine, neither of which are very appealing to me. I hate hoity toity rich nobles and the game (politics) so Josephine is not compatible at all and the seeker is too bitchy. I did romance Cassandra because she was the preferable of the two options, but I still am not thrilled with her. I realize the romance is just an optional part of the game, but to opt out simply because I don't particularly like either of my very limited options is nowhere near the same as opting out because I wanted to play a pious inquisitor who has no time for romance. I really like Sera, but she doesn't like wieners so she's not available (gonna play a female next go around just so I can romance her). I don't like Vivienne at all, see above comments about Josephine then multiple by 5, but it wouldn't matter if I did like her because she shuts you down real fast if you try. Since there are already threads devoted to her I won't rant about it here but we can flirt our asses off with Scout Harding but it never actually develops. 

 

I really hope next time around, assuming there's a DA4, we have more options. (also, give us dwarf romance options, damn it, male and female. I dwarves)

[David Gaider]

It's perfectly fine for someone to say "I didn't find the options I had appealing."

 

People do that all the time, here. No matter how many or how few options they had, none might be suited to their personal taste. And there's really no taste more personal than who you find physically or romantically attractive.

 

We offered two female romance options to straight male players in DAO, DA2, and DAI. Someone's view on whether either of the two in any of those games was personally appealing will vary, but one simply has to look at the characters overall to see that we don't tend to repeat ourselves insofar as "types" go. If there was no "type" for you this game, that's really too bad, and there's no harm in saying so.

 

The part where this conversation often goes south is when the implication is carried with it that the "straight man" in question has tastes that apply to all straight men, as if there were a universal standard of beauty that all straight men subscribe to. Perhaps they're trying to say the options lacked someone "conventionally attractive" enough...which may just be a way of them dancing around trying not to say "why didn't you give me a hot, buxom babe?"

 

No? Didn't mean that? Fair enough, but understand there's only so many ways to interpret that kind of question.

 

Regardless, even if that was what someone meant, all the dev team's ever going to respond with is "hopefully the next game will have someone more to your taste". Like Is said earlier, our emphasis is always on making an interesting variety of characters, and the artists don't generally try to tailor their appearances towards some kind of "hot or not?" metric. Some folks may think they're owed a romance option that hits their particular button -- and I'll just point out that this sort of entitlement is hardly restricted to straight guys alone -- but that's simply never going to happen.

 

Certain folks (cough) like to assume this kind of denial of their manly desires must be the work of "SJW's and feminists" (sic), since that's clearly the only reason why someone wouldn't cater to their particular demographic (which, as we all know, consists of all straight men and any so-called straight man who doesn't consider themselves part of that group is either brainwashed, cowardly, or lying, if not all three). Perhaps they're more sensitive to being denied options others are (in their eyes) receiving, because they're not accustomed to it? Arguable. Either way, if the OP is wondering why his relatively-innocent question is being reacted to in this manner...well, it's come up.