It would be interesting too see them release an upcoming game into the past, five months ago.
I assume that's what you meant.
Anyway, outside of some hype that might have created, I don't see how that would have made a big difference. DAI and TW3 seem different enough that there's room for both in the market. Plus there are people out there who simply will not buy one regardless of the other (I'm leaning toward not getting DAI, myself).
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I started the new novel this weekend, and it's dedicated to "our LGBTQ fans" and by the 2nd chapter you're into the lesbian elf mistress with the empress. They're really laying it on thick these days. If they want to be a niche developer, though, that's their business.
At least the panel acknowledges a bit how juvenile and silly it gets. You just have to think of it as they're writing the fanfiction pre-emptively. Inclusive of the fetish literature... god, that part where the crowd goes wild talking about how huge the "iron bull" is... fucking creepy. No pun intended.
One thing I think is funny is that they always bring up how many female Wardens romanced Leliana as proof that teh ghey is so popular in the DA fandom. Meanwhile the only way you could keep Leliana from humping your leg was to leave her in Lothering.
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explain why it's great and especially interested to know why it's "important".
No. CDPR Has done a gay and lesbian(bisexual) character. Bioware throws LGBT characters in that suck. The former was quality, the latter was about quantity.
Including specific race, sex, sexual preference, or religious characters makes not a good game. It's about how well of a character they are. I know we use Dethmold and Phillipa to death as well written characters who are not straight, but look how much better those two are versus all Bioware LGBT characters. If say Wolfenstein the New Order included more Germans, would thathhave made it a better game? C
dpr did not stereotype their gay characters. But look at Gaider, "oh this character is fully gay". Yeah I'll stick to Cdpr and their gay characters.
Maybe you and I are reading different posts, but I don't see many people at all against LGBT characters in games. More so I see a lot of distaste for the way specifically Bioware uses LGBT characters. For instance Dorian, who when introduced as a character was put up in a lot of press releases about how this is the first ever fully gay character in your party. And what did they say about Dorian? He likes to 'look dashing' first and save the world second.
More often than not in people posting about how much they dislike gay characters in Bioware games they will hold up examples like Arcade Gannon from Fallout NV as a deep, well written character that happens to be gay, as opposed to a character existing in a game only to be a gay character.
A lot of people feel that Bioware uses unfavorable stereotypes and then falls back to being pro-LGBT as a defense for poor dialogue.
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People dislike pandering and feel Bioware goes down a diversity checklist instead of just writing characters well, regardless of sexuality or ethnicity. Then they fall back on that checklist to defend themselves against legitimate critiques.
More often than not in people posting about how much they dislike gay characters in Bioware games they will hold up examples like Arcade Gannon from Fallout NV as a deep, well written character that happens to be gay, as opposed to a character existing in a game only to be a gay character.
A lot of people feel that Bioware uses unfavorable stereotypes and then falls back to being pro-LGBT as a defense for poor dialogue.
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People dislike pandering and feel Bioware goes down a diversity checklist instead of just writing characters well, regardless of sexuality or ethnicity. Then they fall back on that checklist to defend themselves against legitimate critiques.
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In what way ? If a developer includes LGBT characters that are shallow and superficial in a game to only give a nod to the LGBT community then in my opinion they are doing them a disservice .
Try telling the BSN that. They were content with table scraps when they deserved better, especially from a dev that supposedly cares about this stuff. At least they committed for DA:I, but unlike TW2, the gay characters look awfully cliche.
That's very much subjective. I disagree.
Yeah great. We already have to suffer one dimensional gay characters defined by their sexuality in Bioware games and now CDPR should adopt this practice..?
How about no.
You sound as if Bioware had created only LGBT characters, which is not true.
What is wrong with including more LGBT characters. Would the story suffer? Or the characters? Also not every character that Bioware created is shallow just as not every character in the Witcher games is well written. Both developers had created great and less great characters.
Casually tossing out accusations of homophobia or sexism on this site isn't going to fly, especially when you've provided zero evidence of it happening. This isn't the BSN where it's perfectly acceptable to sling this shit around like nothing. Here, people take such topics seriously.
Dorian is a new character. Maybe we should wait and play the game first, before we start judging the writing.
Regardless of any strides taken with regards to the LGBT community, where's my Dwarf romance option you racist Bioware bastards!!
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