I know! No more only gifting or managing approval to help get you there I.E. leave Fenris at home, just a few dialogue wheels and instant panties dropped! Works for mansluts like Zev but when it's everyone it's like "Damn am I a desire demon or what"? They way they approached the main character was kind of weird; Rook usually approached by strangers for a quest but Rook is no Hawke that made a name for themselves or the Grey Warden that proclaimed very loudly we're here on Blight business just a stranger walking through town I'll give them a quest logic that is present in every RPG from the dawn of time not the odd justified logic Bioware used in all the previous titles. And goodbye nearly an hour long dedicated prologue to your character's backstory to build up your RP in your head.
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Sir Auriel of Lionel
I have spent the past half hour trying to post this elsewhere and it still has problems even after a character count cut down. I really want to talk more about gender within this series but damn I don't want to risk people holding back in fear of an account ban. If we don't talk about it how can we talk about what we like and don't like if we keep dancing about it.
Octopus
It wouldn't bother me on the other site, but unfortunately thems the rules. It's a double edged sword; the 'politics' ban or whatever you want to call it rightfully stops weird Carinshake's or whatever that guy's name was, but also completely reasonable talks about Dragon Age waifus and husbandos.
Sir Auriel of Lionel
And I didn't even try posting in the thread but my in my status to avoid it being overtly seen by everyone, and it still keep getting rejected, maybe some words are triggering it to say there was a problem? So I skirt the main thread to have the conversation out of sight but then flack for dare being honest about the word choice. And I really think we need to talk about Veilguard without one side being the argument of why it failed, just explain where it failed, don't use fighting words and be mature when a certain someone is brought up and put the elephant out of it's misery so we can walk all out like adults with accounts intact and a much better understanding of each other and shake hands of agree to disagree at times.
Octopus
I'm not sure about that auto rejection thing; maybe it was still too long? We can try starting a thread here of course, but wouldn't be as much engagement and I feel it would just be the two of us mostly talking.
Not that I'm opposed.
Not that I'm opposed.
Sir Auriel of Lionel
Overthinking time: Bioware unintentionally made a fully gender neutral experience or in current terms a nonbinary experience in Dragon Age 2 as I can't remember gender being used in exclusive routes or choices only flavor text, save for a few lines. I will replay to confirm this but it would explain why I felt indifferent to each replay no matter gender or flipped the rivalry/friendship meter, hell being a mage gives more characterization. Is it a bad thing? No, weak at worst for replay value. It also felt like actions didn't matter with Hawke-sexual tension so strong, even 1 or 2 just having a preference would have added not just history of past loves but not everyone instantly slips into Hawke's pants.
I know there were constraints and pressure from EA to ship out a follow up to Origins I understand, it just adds to the pile of what ifs I have as it was meant to be a personal story unfolded by the player. I still do love this series and the game (except combat) and I enjoy the banter even after I kill Anders in the end.
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I know there were constraints and pressure from EA to ship out a follow up to Origins I understand, it just adds to the pile of what ifs I have as it was meant to be a personal story unfolded by the player. I still do love this series and the game (except combat) and I enjoy the banter even after I kill Anders in the end.
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Like you said, the biggest thing with 2 is that there's only one gender-locked romance with Sebastian, and he's optional DLC (and also barely a character). It could have been the development rush job also like you said, but I'm not sure; maybe it was their intention to have 99% of the options be player-sexual. I'm glad Inquisition had a good mix of locked gender and player-sexual options, and not because I don't like 'all that woke shit' or whatever weird things lunatics say online, but just that it makes them feel that much more unique, also like you said. It helps make them stand out a little more, gives you some variety.
They then immediately went backwards in Veilguard by having literally every option as player-sexual and you literally just had to say three flirt options to lock in a romance as they removed any and all difficulty in it, but I mean yeah it's Veilguard. The whole thing was backwards.