Dragon Age 2 Lead Writer Blasts Homophobic Fan

[kickyourass]

It's people like this twit that make me wish you could punch people from across the internet.

I love seeing Bioware take a stance to defend what it has made, and I think more companies should take hard stances on their properties.

I'm with you, I love to see a game company stand up for their product.

 

[blackdwarf]

at my playtrough i didn't met issebella, thought that merril was a idiot, fenris a dick and anders a nice guy, but he never showed sexual interrest in me. with other words: i didn't had a relationship in my playthrough.

 

[MasterChief892039]

This article makes my heart bubble over with glee. Gaider sounds like a pretty rad dude.

 

[purple6string]

Believe it or not, the real world doesn't have filters. Just because I'm not gay doesn't mean that other men won't hit on me. (It's because they have taste that they won't hit on me.)

 

[wolf92]

Because apparently "straight, male gamers" are not pandered to enough in games?

This guy knows Duke Nukem Forever is coming out this year, right?

Clearly he must not

 

[Yureina]

Is this guy serious? Clearly he should go play DNF when it comes out, or the billions of other games that pander (almost) exclusively to straight males. As for me, I liked DA2. :3

And go Bioware Dev person. He is awesome!

 

[theguiltyone]

Good on them for standing up for their design choices! I'm glad someone shut down the self-entitled snotrag.

That poor baby. You think he'd be happy with having the option to tell any guy who hit on him to piss off, but no.

 

[Sparrow]

As much as I'm completely behind (might be a poor phrase, considering) BioWare on this one... when Anders flirted with my male PC I freaked the fuck out.

 

[kromify]

What's he complaining about?

Gay gamers get emo JRPG douchebag Fenris and whiney, insufferable Anders - straight dudes get cute, nerdy Merril and slutty Isabella with her ridiculous tits.

Seems like the straight males/lesbian females got the better deal here.

lol - i thought the romance options were much better for girls (and gays!) this time. don't you know girls love brooding rebelious anti-heroes!?

 

[SageRuffin]

I really hated how my FemShep would constantly get flirty with Jacob even during normal conversations. For God's sake girl, that whiner doesn't deserve you!

Jesus, I was beginning to think I was the only person who saw that. Outside the whole thing with Garrus and Thane (well... I guess Thane is okay outside the whole hallucination thing, but Garrus?), the whole thing with Jacob was just unsettling.

Addendum: As for me, I gonna be the somewhat shallow gamer I am and have my rogue FemHawke court sweet little Merrill, while my warrior FemHawke tries to find out how to get Isabella out of that corset. ;D

 

[Seydaman]

High five

Better to have a game that represents all sexual preferences than one that panders to a specific preference
I mean besides explicitly pornographic games.

 

[Char-Nobyl]

As for the choice I was forced into, if that was true, then Bioware really screwed up on labeling the icons for them. If it wasn't going to result into a romance, then it shouldn't have the hearts next to it, because like you just said, I was following the illustrations and avoiding any heart that popped up, yet still ended up in said situation with 2 hearts, and a heartbreak.

And neither of them resulted in romance with Anders. I already said that. Hell, for all I know, one of them was mislabeled. If memory serves, the one I picked just resulted in a "Don't worry, I believe in you" sort of comment. Potentially romantic...if it had the necessary foundations, which it didn't, and thus didn't amount to anything, as I intended.

And picking "sexuality" isn't the same as that, which is why I said it. They already do it in the game as it is, depending on if you're male or female, all I was saying was it wouldn't necessarily hurt to have it at a per-character basis.

Would people choose straight? Definitely, just like others would make him gay, or bisexual if they weren't too sure which way they wanted their character to go.

...what? What possible benefit could that system have, unless you're deathly afraid of being exposed to homosexuals? Besides, straight men/women don't regard every person of the opposite sex with the same level of attraction, and gays don't do that, either. Being sexually attracted to someone has as much to do with the person themselves as it does what they do or don't have between their legs. Why assume that all the characters (in a Bioware game, no less) are all copy/pasted blobs with only varying gender?

 

[AwesomeNinjaPowers]

Mr Gaider I applaud you

 

[Imbechile]

I really laughed when all the suddenly Anders kissed my male character

 

[Gralian]

This comic really is appropriate for this news feed.

Spoiler

Anders' behaviour.

I haven't played DA2 yet (i have it, but i'm finishing other things first) so i haven't seen if the scene really goes this way like how it was infamously easy to end up in bed with Zevran with little to no provocation, but if so then i guess it's easy to see why the guy who complained is so worked up about it. While Bioware isn't "promoting the homosexual agenda" and whatever else extremists cook up as propaganda when slandering a minority, i suppose it can feel a bit excessive to somebody who isn't expecting it or doesn't feel very comfortable with it. Someone can have no problem with homosexuals, but still feel uncomfortable if one is coming onto them. I don't want to hear "then they're homophobic" or "dude take it as flattery". It can make someone just as uncomfortable, if not more so, than a man hitting on a woman when she has no interest in him and feels awkward about the whole thing or vice versa, especially if it's not someone of your orientation.

Here, Bastel writes "Now immediately I'm sure that some male gamers are going to be like "YOU DON'T SPEAK FOR ME! I LOVE DRAGON AGE 2!", but you have to understand, the Straight Male Gamer, cannot be just lumped into a single category. " which shows, to me at least, he understands he doesn't speak for every "straight male gamer" and that not everyone in that category will think the way he does. Rather, he's speaking as an individual of that demographic, and you have to give him a little respect for understanding that. On his "No homosexuality" option, i believe he is suggesting you implement it in the way the censor option as implemented in MW2 - that is, you could opt to "hide" and ultimately skip the No Russian mission entirely. What he appears to be suggesting is an option that disables open same-sex flirting / relations. This, i do not see to be an outrageous request. He's not saying homosexuality as a whole should be censored, but that those who find it offensive or uncomfortable should have the option of choosing not to be exposed to it. It doesn't matter if they have "issues" with homosexuality or not; it's about having the option to not be forced to be exposed to it while not actively forcing censorship without the player's prior consent.

 

[The Stonker]

i actually had the same problem!
male characters were ALWAYS hitting on me, even though i was hitting on a chock that looked hot.
ijust wanted to kick the characters in the balls!
i think the game is a teeny bit *too*
homosexual
*i think the chick i was hitting on was isabela*

eeehmm....I'm not a master in the field of grammar but WHAT?

Anywho, I actually like the game because it's so diverse and that I can have sex with everything >.< Fun, fun!
P.s. That homophobic person says that "you can't lump every straight male gamer into one category", I tell you waht, he is! By saying that straight male gamers can't handle a bit of man on man flirting, nothing wrong with that!

 

[Yossarian1507]

Sure, romances are for everyone despite their sexual preferences... But really, does ANY character from the team has to be bi (except Varric for obvious reason)? That's kinda stretch in the other direction.

 

[GloatingSwine]

Seems like the straight males/lesbian females got the better deal here.

This has been a "feature" of the Bioware male love interest from Baldur's Gate 2, where you could chase after a variety of womenfolk (as long as you had an elf fetish), whereas the only male romance option was the game's most insufferable pillock Anomen. Same with KotOR, most insufferable character in the party? Yep, he's the male romance option. Mass Effect? Did you seriously like Kaiden?

 

[p3t3r]

i can see where he is coming from and i can't say i am against a turn of campion homosexual option but there should also be a turn of hetero option if that were the case.