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VanceIX said:

If that's not sterotypical I don't know what is.

That stache looks like it was photoshopped on. 



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VanceIX said:

If that's not sterotypical I don't know what is.


So don Diego from Zorro was gay ? its how a lot spanish type ppl was looking some (lot) years ago... if this was a 2010 ingame time i would may agree with you but not at all in fantasy game.

And i talk about don diego, because when i first seen the picture i have think of him and not some gay problem some ppl look like to have.



Lyrikalstylez said:
Don't care if there's gay romance in games but please for the love of god please don't make achievements or trophies gay related and stuff, it was pretty creepy having to do it just for the achievements in dragon age o_O

Which trophy required you to do that? You know Zevran can sleep with women too, right!



KylieDog said:
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KylieDog said:
If they really believe in themselves like this they should add another 'Dark Ritual' type thing like Origins had, only this time make it gay sex or your character dies.

What was the sex or die thing on Origins? All I remember is sex or Morrigan runs away. Sex or die is rape, plain and simple I would not want that in a game unless it was the main villan making the demand, which again is not the context in Origins.

In any case what's so enlightened about forcing a sexual act home or hetero? The whole point of the dark ritual wasn't about sex, it was about Morrigan wanting an arch demon baby of her own to control. Sex just happens to be the mechanism by which babies get made...in case you hadn't heard.

The whole point of their views is freedom to chose your fantasy fulfilment. And a gay sex or die "choice" is not freedom to choose as there is such a huge difference in consequences. Sex or I leave is a more balanced choice.


Sex or die was because if you do not sleep with Morrigan (or in case of female warden, have Alistair do it) and do the ritual then whoever killed the Archdemon would die.

Morrigan did it to save the Wardens life.

That depends on how close you are with Morrigan. It's simply the carrot that Morrigan dangles in front of the Warden. Her primary objective in the ritual isn't to save the Warden's life but to have a baby Arch-demon. If it saves your life then so be it.



ParryWinkle said:
VanceIX said:

If that's not sterotypical I don't know what is.

That stache looks like it was photoshopped on. 

Nope, 100% straight from the dev.

http://www.dragonage.com/#!/en_US/news/character-profile-dorian

Saeko said:


So don Diego from Zorro was gay ? its how a lot spanish type ppl was looking some (lot) years ago... if this was a 2010 ingame time i would may agree with you but not at all in fantasy game.

And i talk about don diego, because when i first seen the picture i have think of him and not some gay problem some ppl look like to have.

Bioware has explicitly come out and said he is gay. I was happy when they announced that they won't back off from homosexual characters, but this is just kinda stereotypical, the kinda "fabulous!" idea people have of a lot of gay men. 

It just frustrates me, since I have gay friends at college, and none of them gives off that stereotypicl vibe. Maybe it's just me though.



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I'd rather have stereotypical gay characters in games than have them not exist at all, like some people like to pretend irl. In time they will get better, hell Naughty Dog is already there, see TLOU.



bubblegamer said:
I'd rather have stereotypical gay characters in games than have them not exist at all, like some people like to pretend irl. In time they will get better, hell Naughty Dog is already there, see TLOU.

Oh, I agree. Stepping stones. I just feel Mass Effect and the previous Dragon Age games handled it a bit beter than Inquisition, but you're right, stepping stones for the industry.



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Hey, now. I want Bioware to be careful. They might put too much RPG Adventure in my Porno game.


Let's be honest: Bioware does this because they think including a token gay sex scene 90% of players will never seek out will ship more copies to the 10% who will. Maybe they're right.

All I know is that I find the fact that the game even *has* sex scenes included a bit distracting. Which one is better at emotionally involving the player; a gay sex scene, or a side-quest to unite a gay couple? Think if Kafei and Anju in Majora's Mask had been a gay couple.

I'm firmly in the latter camp, and I think Bioware's lazy about this. Sex scenes don't actually add emotional depth to the game, and they do not count as character development. Everything leading up to it, maybe, but not the sex itself.

Of course, Bioware can't seem to wrap their teeny brain-stems around the idea of a "say nothing" prompt. No, you must either be a loose cannon or have a stick up your ass. And we can make that one literal! HA!