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How do we make make all these groups happy?” Instead, it is as if they went “We have straight males, straight females, gays and lesbians. And we have fans who liked the combat and we have fans who hated the combat but liked the story. We have fans that thought Morrigan was great and we have fans that thought that she was a ****.

#Dragon age 2 romance aveline how to#

…Its ridiculous that I even have to use a term like Straight Male Gamer, when in the past I would only have to say fans, but it is as if when the designers were deciding on how to use their limited resources, instead of thinking “We have fans who loved Alistair and we have fans who thought Alistair was annoying. That’s not to say there isn’t a significant number of women who play Dragon Age and that BioWare should forego the option of playing as a women altogether, but there should have been much more focus in on making sure us male gamers were happy… (Oddly enough, he names the two male romance options as being strictly for male gay gamers, and names the character Aveline as being in the game to appeal to straight women… even though there is no romance available with her.)Ĭould I have come up with my own, equally polite response? Lets take a look at how the OP phrased his argument:

He suggests that Dragon Age 2 developers should have sacrificed some of the development time spent on tailoring each character to appeal to the demographics that he perceives them appealing to in order to implement more female characters that would appeal to a straight male. The gist of poster Bastal‘s argument was that Bioware had not catered to his desires with the romance options, and that since he is a member of the majority demographic of the player base, he is justified in being disappointed with them. When an insistent Bioware forum poster attempted, several times, to create threads calling the company to task for only making two romance options for straight males in Dragon Age 2 (i.e., two out of four, so… half, unless you count a character obtained through downloadable content), the leader writer of the game stepped in an deposited a wall of text on him that was as righteous and eloquent as it was polite.