Dragon Age: Inquisition: First "Fully Gay" Male Love Interest Revealed

Yamota

So can you ignore this character or are you forced to engage into homosexual activities with him?

Rzep

Originally posted by Yamota
So can you ignore this character or are you forced to engage into homosexual activities with him?

When were you ever forced into any realtionship you did not want in Dragon Age? Answer is never, just a little hint.

Yamota

Originally posted by SBFord

Originally posted by Sovrath

Originally posted by Loktofeit

 

My question is who is the audience that wanted romance in these games?

Was the existing predominantly male audience asking for it? If so, maybe we need a lot more romance in these games. 

Was it to attract more females to the game? If so, isn't that sexist?

Was it to attract more LGBTQ to the game? If so then that goes into the interesting territory of representation vs tokenism, the latter being the view often taken regarding the gay/minority sidekick in sitcoms and movies. 

Who is the audience they are catering to with romance in this game? Did Scalpless hit the mark with his assessment, or are the people cheering about this actually going to buy it?

What you basically just did was demonize any group of people who would want such things in their games.

So if they are catering to straight men then it should be added.

If they are catering to women then that's sexist.

If they are catering to the LGBTQ community it has to be about representation vs tokenism.

but again, if it's straight men then it should be added.

My idea? It's that the creators of the game wanted to add it because they aren't just monkeys who turn cranks and turn out video games. They are artists, creators, writers, etc and they have something to say and they are saying it through the medium they work in.

This is so brilliantly stated. Why are the ostensible wishes of  "straight men" the only ones that should be honored?

Additionally, why is this, an optional portion of the game so controversial? Romance in general, and so-called "gay" romance in particular, are not required to progress the story. It is a fully optional portion of the overall game. For those who wish to save the world as a single unattached character, brilliant. For those who choose to save the world as a romanced character, brilliant as well.

What Bioware has done is bring a reflection of the real world into its roleplaying game. Believe it or not, most of us actually know people who are gay or lesbian. Why is having a representation of that fact in DAI a bad thing?

Why is the wishes of straight men the one that should be honored? Oh I dunno, perhaps because the vast majority who traditionally bought and played RPGs were straight men and arguably still is?

Rzep

Originally posted by Yamota

Originally posted by SBFord

Originally posted by Sovrath

Originally posted by Loktofeit

 

My question is who is the audience that wanted romance in these games?

Was the existing predominantly male audience asking for it? If so, maybe we need a lot more romance in these games. 

Was it to attract more females to the game? If so, isn't that sexist?

Was it to attract more LGBTQ to the game? If so then that goes into the interesting territory of representation vs tokenism, the latter being the view often taken regarding the gay/minority sidekick in sitcoms and movies. 

Who is the audience they are catering to with romance in this game? Did Scalpless hit the mark with his assessment, or are the people cheering about this actually going to buy it?

What you basically just did was demonize any group of people who would want such things in their games.

So if they are catering to straight men then it should be added.

If they are catering to women then that's sexist.

If they are catering to the LGBTQ community it has to be about representation vs tokenism.

but again, if it's straight men then it should be added.

My idea? It's that the creators of the game wanted to add it because they aren't just monkeys who turn cranks and turn out video games. They are artists, creators, writers, etc and they have something to say and they are saying it through the medium they work in.

This is so brilliantly stated. Why are the ostensible wishes of  "straight men" the only ones that should be honored?

Additionally, why is this, an optional portion of the game so controversial? Romance in general, and so-called "gay" romance in particular, are not required to progress the story. It is a fully optional portion of the overall game. For those who wish to save the world as a single unattached character, brilliant. For those who choose to save the world as a romanced character, brilliant as well.

What Bioware has done is bring a reflection of the real world into its roleplaying game. Believe it or not, most of us actually know people who are gay or lesbian. Why is having a representation of that fact in DAI a bad thing?

Why is the wishes of straight men the one that should be honored? Oh I dunno, perhaps because the vast majority who traditionally bought and played RPGs were straight men and arguably still is?

Not sure what you mean by traditionally, but I know more women that play RPGs than men. It has been likes this since the olden days of Diablo. In general if a girl plays games it's rpgs, in my experiance.

DashiDMV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdP7HOKehNc

 

Can we customize our gay? I'll be really upset if I can't have a dual wield spec powerbottom.

Well they can put whatever they want in the game as long as it doesn't suck(pun not intended). After the last offering though, I am not hopeful.

 

IRandom

Originally posted by Loke666

How about adding some interesting and fun characters? I don't care one bit if someone is gay (IRL or in a game) but Biowares characters have become worse and worse. 

Sad but true. And from the looks of various previews I don't expect the situation significantly change in a positive direction in DA:I (hopefully I'll be wrong).

BartDaCat

Originally posted by Yamota

Originally posted by SBFord

Originally posted by Sovrath

Originally posted by Loktofeit

 

My question is who is the audience that wanted romance in these games?

Was the existing predominantly male audience asking for it? If so, maybe we need a lot more romance in these games. 

Was it to attract more females to the game? If so, isn't that sexist?

Was it to attract more LGBTQ to the game? If so then that goes into the interesting territory of representation vs tokenism, the latter being the view often taken regarding the gay/minority sidekick in sitcoms and movies. 

Who is the audience they are catering to with romance in this game? Did Scalpless hit the mark with his assessment, or are the people cheering about this actually going to buy it?

What you basically just did was demonize any group of people who would want such things in their games.

So if they are catering to straight men then it should be added.

If they are catering to women then that's sexist.

If they are catering to the LGBTQ community it has to be about representation vs tokenism.

but again, if it's straight men then it should be added.

My idea? It's that the creators of the game wanted to add it because they aren't just monkeys who turn cranks and turn out video games. They are artists, creators, writers, etc and they have something to say and they are saying it through the medium they work in.

This is so brilliantly stated. Why are the ostensible wishes of  "straight men" the only ones that should be honored?

Additionally, why is this, an optional portion of the game so controversial? Romance in general, and so-called "gay" romance in particular, are not required to progress the story. It is a fully optional portion of the overall game. For those who wish to save the world as a single unattached character, brilliant. For those who choose to save the world as a romanced character, brilliant as well.

What Bioware has done is bring a reflection of the real world into its roleplaying game. Believe it or not, most of us actually know people who are gay or lesbian. Why is having a representation of that fact in DAI a bad thing?

Why is the wishes of straight men the one that should be honored? Oh I dunno, perhaps because the vast majority who traditionally bought and played RPGs were straight men and arguably still is?

At least you gave yourself some room to wiggle-- "arguably" being the key operative word here.

ste2000

Originally posted by Yamota
So can you ignore this character or are you forced to engage into homosexual activities with him?

No you can't avoid him.

He is going to stalk you until you either quit or fall for him....................