Bayonet though, do you believe that what you see as the "added value" of having a romance option that fits your ...idk, what kind of standards they are, biological? Aesthetic? Anyway, do you think that what you are proposing has more value to the game than the devs pursuing a story that they are invested in? If so, I would suggest that character driven RPGs like Inquisition are not designed to give you what you are looking for. While there is an emphasis on character creation and player created stories, it is heavily balanced out by the need to tell a compelling narrative that frames it and gives it weight. That drive is what fuels the addition of things like Cassandra's romance. You can't ask someone to create a story and then demand it fits your terms. Furthermore, given that the story actually does fit your terms by offering you an arc you enjoy, it seems petty to demand that other arcs be different. As said before, if your complaint was about the lack of content for Josie, it would more more reasonable. The way you're framing it now is just entitled.
Blackwall is brought up because it's further evidence that the older characters are intentional, not an oversight. All players have the option of romancing someone older (Blackwall, Solas, Cass, IB) or someone younger (Josie, Sera, Dorian, Cullen). This allows for a range of romances and stories. If you don't like having that kind of range, that's okay, but it's not your decision to make and your specific priorities don't get to dictate how they make their game.
From my point of view, Josephine Montilyet is the better woman. Age is but one reason but I will try to list all of them.
Religion
Cassandra is a devout Andrastian. She tries to be preachy with you. For example, early game, she talks about adding one more God to your roster of Gods. I find it hypocritical that Cassandra doesn't try to incorporate other Gods but pushes for others to accept hers.
By contrast Josephine is a moderate/liberal Andrastian. The protagonist's faith or lack of it or indifference to it does not matter to her.
Beliefs
Cassandra can disapprove of your stances, actions and beliefs, doubly so if you toggle certain option in the menu, courtesy of Trespasser DLC.
Josephine is pretty chill with what you do. She does offer commentary on them such as when you recruit the Mages or Templars as allies or conscripts but her demeanor towards you do not change.
Culture
Cassandra gives next to zero **** about the culture of the non-Human protagonist. She doesn't care about any problems he might face.
Josephine's first introduction to the protagonist involves her giving specific responses, depending on your racial background. Later when you converse with her, she asks you if you have been facing any discrimination as well as more details about your past.
Romance Arc
Cassandra's romance arc is one where the protagonist gives everything and receives next to nothing. You pursue her, you declare you will woo her, you buy things for her and then later in Trespasser, you try to propose to her. In return, she, well, doesn't really give you anything.
Josephine's romance arc is far more balanced. If you did not bring your love interest to Halamshiral, Josephine is the one that comes to talk to you at the balcony scene. She also takes you out on a date to the theater, which can be a very thrilling and new experience to a Dalish Elf or a Carta Dwarf or a Tal-Vashoth mercenary. She lets you win the Wicked Grace match. When its all over post-Trespasser, her familiar home is open to you. In return, you pursue here, give her gifts and duel for her. There is giving and taking from both sides.
A relationship of any form, especially the romantic kind, is a two way street, not a one way street. If its a one way street, its nothing more than blind worship or if you want me to put it bluntly, **** begging.
Conclusion
On the one hand, you have a woman, Cassandra, who is around the age of an auntie, who is from a family with questionable proclivities, who is judgemental, who is devoutly religious and tries forces her God onto you, who gives next to no care about any possible discrimination or problems you might face, who makes you do everything in the courtship process while giving next to nothing in return.
On the other hand, you have a woman, Josephine, in her mid to late 20s, who is from a good family, who is pretty chill, who is religiously liberal or religiously moderate, who cares about the problems you might face and who reciprocates during the courtship ritual
My question is:- Why is Cassandra the primary love interest option who was given more content ? IMO, she doesn't deserve it.
If what many of you say is true, that Bioware needs to cater to the majority of gamers, then why did they not make the woman who is more chill, more moderate, more reciprocal, more open the primary love interest option with more content ?
Now some of you might say that Bioware is doing this because of request from the fanbase. Well, if that is the case, then why the Inquisitor was not able to romance Varric ? If I recall correctly, there were numerous requests for Bioware to make Varric romanceable. Yet Bioware did not do it. So why the double standard ? Why no Varric but yes to Cassandra ? So that argument holds no water.
My Personal Real Life Stances
My real life stances are due to the evidence that I have that is available to me.
I am not the kind guy who looks around at all the other men who got cleaned out by divorce, who had their lives ruined by things like alimony and child support, looks at the statistics and naively think to myself:- "You know what, those things won't happen to me. Somehow, magically, I will make it work. Somehow, by the power of faith, I will make all this romance, marriage and kids thing work"
Faith is a belief based on an absence of data. It invites disaster. Data tells me that romance, marriage and kids are risky as ** with very little benefits. Therefore, I am not interested in it and that does not make me a misogynist, it makes me a cautious realist. Besides, I do not recall telling anyone else not to get romantically involved, get married and have kids.
"But your parents made it work." Yeah, they did but they were people born in the 1960s living in Southeast Asia. It is, to use SJW lingo, current year. 2016 =/= 1960s. Different times, different circumstances, different environment, different data sets, different people.
I mean, I don't smoke weed or pot. I don't drink alcohol. I don't do drugs. I know many others do it but I don't. Why ? Because I come from a family with crappy genes health wise (both grandparents had alcohol addiction, many of my aunts & uncles suffer from diabetes, stroke, high blood pressure, etc). So am I an alcoholophobe ? Or a drugophobe ? Or a drugophobe ? Or a cautious realist who understands that things such as alcoholic addiction can be inherited ? I haven't told anyone else to not partake in these things either.
Cheers.
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(Sorry Seattleites, but it had to be said).
Check you mage privilege, yo.
