It'll be enjoyable once the first face mods are released to make some of the party members look half-decent.
What an arrogant, stupid article. I stopped being a feminist half-way through my economics degree and switched to being an anti-feminist, so the latter is certainly no less philosophically justifiable.
Articles like this are prime examples of journalists who need to get off their high horses.
It's not that all of feminism is bad, but in 2014, most of it is crazy extremist pedantry which has become quite toxic and very judgmental.
And the endless "but feminism just means equality" responses, as if the definition of "equality" is totally clear cut and obvious.
Equality can mean Communism or Anarcho-Capitalism depending on which definition you wish to use and with feminism its range is no less problematic. Even then equality might not satisfy whatever definition of "fairness" one believes in.
It'll get boring after five mins. Waste of money.
This game is acceptable because freedom of speech is absolutely crucial for the future of video games, and anyone calling out against it must be viciously rebutted.
However I do agree that this game is distasteful (in addition to looking boring) and so won't be playing it myself. This whole thing is just some weak dev team courting controversy to make some quick money while provoking people.
Gamersgate is the movement against censorship. The only people they want to censor are those who want censorship. Get your facts straight please.
@ginganinja
Previous Bioware games were pretty balanced, and they did a great job at catering for different player demographics. I was happy when they mentioned inclusion of a gay character in Dragon Age 2 because I thought it would make the game more interesting, but then with the announcement of a lesbian character as well...I just think they're being a little immature with character demographics (and then only two LIs for straight males? Are they living in a cave or ar...
Agh....the high-definition social justice is burning my eyes!!!
In all seriousness, the graphics are looking great!
@diablo2157
It's not childish to want your own way. We all want our own way. It is childish to evade compromise, and so I don't demand that every single option is aimed at me, but rather that options are allocated using a mathematical mechanism to ensure fairness (though it's not authoritarian as the only punishment I support os not buying their game). In this case, one option for the four major player genders and then the rest allocated based on player demographi...
@Diablo2157
I genuinely think you're alone in those sentiments (or share them with a small group). In Mass Effect, allegedly 82% of players chose male Shepard, and that comes from Bioware itself. So to put this another way, male characters, gay or not, get 4 options, whereas female characters get 6.
I don't see how you view other people as more immersive. For most, I imagine importing their own body into the game is the most immersive, but it might get boring...
@anticlimax
Well statistically, one in twenty people are LGBT therefore if I take a handful of seven people (assuming games have an average of seven main characters), there's a 30% chance one of them will be LGBT. This means we should see about one LGBT character in every three games. As most games don't let us know the sexuality of characters (there's more to life than sex after all), we cannot say they are underrepresented at all in other games.
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Bioware have failed to realise that you can be fair to all players without taking going to childish extremes in pursuit of gender "equality", which seems to imply that 25% of players receive 75% of the attention.
Actually, the marketing has been 50/50 or ambiguous.
They speak of Anita Sarkeesian being an "intellectual".
Anyone who has completed a decent degree would realise that Sarkeesian is guilty of confirmation bias. She takes a gendercentric approach to criticise games which are created for the majority of the market, who are of a different gender, and who also take a perfectly natural gendercentric view.
And these commenters also call the outrage "prepubescent", and strawman the entire oppositi...
There is no such thing as "unfair" in business. There are "right" decisions and "wrong" decisions, which are easily identified by how much profit they bring in relative to each other.
Perhaps the reason these SJWs spend all their time whinging on the internet is that no business wants to hire them because they're out of touch with reality.
If we like Ubisoft's choices we'll buy the game. If we don't, we won't....
I found it somewhat boring. I've played better Half Life 2 mods.
@mixelon
Their argument is indeed correct: they can make it as LGBT as they like.
But surely over-representing a biological demographic constant throughout the entire human race is no better than under-representing it?
I mean they have a right to do that if they want, but unless they create extensive backstory to justify why that's the case, I just don't really see what the point of it is.
I mean I fully support provi...
That's quite true. I mean I can see how some characters might be made deeper through being homosexual, and it adds new story potential to the game.
What I worry about though is that this is going to be a trend in Bioware games, where parties end up looking more like LGBT rights rallies than believable groups of interesting people trying to save the world.
What I'm saying is that I'm fine with them including a gay character in DAI and a lesbian in ...
Bi characters rather than exclusively homosexual work more towards that end.
I'm offended by people who take offense therefore this article offends me.