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Presumably you'll find one of those when you buy a chess set that comes with a decent story. Sorry, you lost me. Yeah, knee-jerk Bioware hate is what all the cool kids are doing nowadays, isn't it? Son, we've been hating on Biowarefor the last 10 years, before it was cool. We are the hipsters of hate.

Okay, story time. When I was playing through Dragon Age, my then girlfriend, who has no interest in games generally, started to watch me play. She thought combat was boring, and usually just read books while I was doing that, but she liked it when I was talking to the NPCs. And she especially liked watching me hit on Morrigan. And she got really really interested when Leliana showed up and I decided to hit on her, too. She started out loving Morrigan and hating Leliana, but slowly switched positions over the course of the game. In fact, she took kind of a sadistic glee in seeing how screwed up Morrigan was emotionally. The Dark Ritual thing completely knocked her on her ass, because by that point she was invested enough in my character that she didn't want him to die, but thought that Morrigan toxic and didn't want my Warden sleeping with her. Once we got to the epilogue, she was relieved to see that Morrigan actually took the evil god baby and left, since she was afraid Morrigan would turn into a crazy stalker and murder Leliana's weird little rabbit thing and turn it into a pair of shoes. So yes, I think that the romance in Dragon Age was well done. My girlfriend didn't care about video games before or after Dragon Age, but she found the romances compelling enough that she formed attachments to the various characters involved and became invested in the story. If it were just fan service, or if it were poorly written, I don't think that would have happened. And just to mine all of the controversial territory I can with this post, the exact same thing happened with one of my friends who played Dragon Age who happened to be a gay man. He was playing, his non-gamer boyfriend started watching him, and both got totally caught up in the Alistair romance. I was hearing about how they both had crushes on Alistair for weeks after they stopped playing. People who do not like RPGs start enjoying them due to added features that do not directly have anything to do with core RPG mechanics and them demanding the same in all other game shifting definitions in the process is what brought us the last ten or so years of ****. I mean look at the latest IGN trolling attempt Top 100 RPGs article.

No alignment. It's stupid anyway without the planes.

Go in house, probably cheaper.

If they survive.

Yeah, but those were for actually interesting things, not successfully mastering the art of left click.

Don't want them. Not planning on playing this on any platform that would make use of them either.

But I do not want Tim to shave

They became accepted because of Manowar and their suggestive podium presentation. Haha.

Seriously. In the midst of people clamoring for romances, mature entertainment for mature players like myself, dumbing down of mechanics and full voice overs, this is where you choose to make your stand. Why?

Unless his wife is a dude. Psyche!

People tend to like seeing characters they can identify with in various ways. If you consider that pandering, much of the game is. True but you don't see those people getting together and petitioning for representation, and furthermore you don't always see those characters always represented in every game. It differs from game to game based around what the devs want, and not what they are pressured into doing by entitled people. Most minorities are represented by default nowadays and do not NEED to get together and petition for representation. There is still major opposition to gay characters in games (or dialogue options that allow players to role-play as gay). So what if there is major opposition to gay people? Go out and fight against the discrimination instead of acting like you're being discriminated in a game if you're not represented in it. I mean why are you wasting your time here asking for gay characters in a video game instead of fighting for gay marriage or to be treated equally. I mean do you see how absurd that is? Because they are looking for acceptance everywhere and every little bit counts. Seeing gay characters (that are not portrayed as deviants/caricatures) in games might certainly help in this.

OK, I'll bite - what does the "P" stand for?

If it's done as well as in New Vegas (some NPC were gay, big deal) then have as many gays as you want. Considering who is making this game I'd say that is a given.

I'm sure that the game will also have an easy mode... ^^ Miscommunication? I was agreeing you.

But facing the horrible lich and realizing none of your weapons are capable of even scratching him is half the fun. Especially if the game then allows you to wipe the floor with him by different means.

[intelligence] The armour is designed to distract the marks.

Doubtful, they are better served by keeping silent. If they announce that romances are definitely in the old school crowd is going to blow a collective fuse, while the no comment policy let's the pro romance camp keep their hopes alive and pledge anyway.

10/10, whose alt is this? PS the avatar makes this

¬.¬ If some people hadn't had the courage to ignore naysayers, we wouldn't be able to fly and later keep improving the technilogy for it. Yes, that is the correct analogy, well done.

Can I reduce your whole position into bull**** soundbites too?

Ninja Cartographer, an RPG mainstay.

Skyrim has harems now? Holy mangled statistics, Batman. Where did you learn these tricks, Libya?

If you saw the Bioware forums around the DA2 release, there were people clamoring for incest by romancing your sister or mother. These are the kinds of people that want romances in games and can't live without them. To be fair none of them are probably here. Yet. So let's not give them any incentive to come.

So, by the posting frequency I'd say you finally begged enough and Tigranes let you out of moderation queue?