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Dragon Age 2: Fuckin' Bitches, Stabbin' Dragons
Caleb:
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/gaming/2011-02-15-felicia15_ST_N.htm
I am wondering if she has just given up on being a traditional TV and movie actress and is just going to try to cash in on webisodes for the rest of her career?
KvP:
Live action Joss Whedon roleplay!
--- Quote from: cyro on 15 Feb 2011, 02:15 ---Personally I want Varric as the gay love interest.
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Ha! Not happening. Two things that creep out Dave Gaider: Dwarves, and gays. His reasons are marginally better than the ME2 lead's ("gays aren't PG-13") but they still seem to point toward gay romance not being worth development time. Not because gays are gross! No, they just don't fit with the Dragon Age setting.
--- Quote from: David Gaider ---It's not free, as I said-- and there really seemed to be no point because Morrigan was not interested in women and Alistair was not attracted to men. That's how we thought of them, and the idea of having bisexual characters was something we were going to try out... it wasn't a question of "why wouldn't we?" but "why would we?" Because we had such a tradition of doing it prior? We had two characters we concepted as bisexual and accepted the extra costs with.
If we started out and said "the goal is to make all romances accessible to all players" and we were willing to accept the costs there as well, we could arrange the romances to make the costs as low as necessary and keep the impact on players who weren't seeking gay content minimal. That's not always going to be the goal, however, but it's a perfectly acceptable one.
We didn't (and won't) do strictly gay romances because a romance is very expensive content-- both from a writing, cinematic and testing perspective. It's one thing to add the extra costs to piggy-back on top of an existing romance plotline (and by this I don't necessarily mean "add gay option to straight romance"... it could just as easily be the reverse) and quite something else to have a romance created from whole cloth.
All content has a cost. Sometimes people forget that we as developers create content -- not romance options. It's not solely about whether you have the choice and how fair that is, but whether or not we can afford to make it and whether it fits into the rest of the project we're making.
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--- Quote from: David Gaider ---I'll point out, first off, that the New Vegas characters had very little romance to speak of, as well as no cinematics involved with said romance. Thus their "romance" is very cheap. We'd have nothing against having a strictly gay or lesbian character in our games... so long as you couldn't romance them. Our romances make for very costly content, after all, by our own choice. That's how we want to do them, and thus it affects just how much we can dole out. It's not candy.
As it is, let's pull this back to the topic at hand and keep things civil, shall we? Or we shall have yet another thread closed down, not by homophobia but by militant campaigners who evidently can't see the forest for the trees. Which, again, is too bad.
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He also came out pretty early against the legion of Varric shippers.
--- Quote from: David Gaider ---I apologize for not pandering sufficiently to your jaded sensitivities by offering up exotic, titillating non-human porn. Clearly any good roleplayer understands that having horns or pointed ears makes the romance extra special. My mistake.
People who need a romantic interest to be non-human in order to have their boat sufficiently floated disturb me on the same level as furries. Some of you might want to have that looked at.
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(Gaider has a toxic co-dependent relationship with the shippers on the forums)
Naturally, the announcement of a Varric-less list of love interests was a dark, dark day on the Bioboards.
--- Quote from: Bioboards ---
--- Quote ---... Wow, BioWare. Just wow.
I'm so bloody impressed, I just may pass out.
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--- Quote ---F**k. *sigh* Oh well, here's hoping for DA3.
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--- Quote ---dammit. Dammit.
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--- Quote ---What. What? What?!? WHAT?!?!
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--- Quote ---Guys. I seriously cried.
I need hug.
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--- Quote ---[pouty.png]...[sad.png]...[crying.png]... I thought that I could be all cool and calm about this situation. But after I saw Aimo's picture, my heart broke.......don't let them see you cry ol' girl...don't let them see you cry... [crying.png]
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--- Quote ---That just ripped the heart from my chest and threw it to the ground with bittersweet tears of unfulfilled love. Seriously. It was a punch.
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--- Quote ---Oh, well. I can't imagine that he won't be awesome anyway, but.. Darn.
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--- Quote ---*SOBS*
this is even worse than no romanceable sten.
...very sadpanda.
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--- Quote ---Whatever. I tire of this nonsense. I was hoping that they'd give me the one romance I was really interested in, but noooo. Calla never gets what she wants because she's a bloody weirdo who ~isn't into the mainstream.~
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--- Quote ---An abomination over a dwarf. Really? REALLY?
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cyro:
Damn, ah well. Personally I just thought it'd be a laugh. I'm not going to have emo attacks over this.
Oh, the official Romances are out now:
--- Quote ---Chris Priestly wrote...
Hello Dragon Age 2 fans.
Happy Valentine’s Day to one and all. We know many of you have romance on your minds today, so we thought we would confirm for you the potential romance characters in Dragon Age 2.
You can choose to romance:
Isabela
Fenris
Merrill
Anders
Keep in mind that all Dragon Age 2 romances are optional, so you can choose to follow these subplots or not as you prefer. All four NPCs also have other non-romance subplots that you can again choose to follow if you want to learn more about these characters. To learn more about the romances, you will need to play Dragon Age 2.
So, if you are romantically inclined during your Dragon Age 2 playthroughs, you now know who you can pursue. Pitch your woo accordingly.
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Johnny C:
--- Quote from: Jeans on 16 Feb 2011, 04:41 ---Am I the only one that thinks the focus people seem to have on the romance parts of the game is completely absurd?
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no you aren't
snalin:
Am I the only one that thinks that Bioware's romancing trope is a bit absurd?
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