Dragon Age 2 Sure is...Busty.

[IamGamer41]

Ha I noticed this as well. It's like they only have one model for female characters and it's big breasted and thin. It certainly looked out of place when the mother character (whatever her name) from the demo has these giant cans that looks like she just came from the surgeon, instead of some thing a little smaller, flatter and age appropriate.

Can't say as I'm really surprised though. Game developers know that their largest core demographic by far is young men, and who likes tits better than men?

You mean age as in the time the game takes place in or age of the people going to play the game? Its M rated incase you didn't know.

 

[Seydaman]

Yea...
I see not problem here
Just deal with it.
Badum-tish

 

[Altanese]

I don't see how this is a problem.

After seeing the Demo video, I would have to agree with you; Not a problem.

Now if there was a NUDE mode...

I hope there is an ICE CREAM mode...

Mods, of course!

Sorry those are just for us PC players. Console players have to make due with no nudity or ice cream.

 

[Con Carne]

I have to agree with you on this good sir. I don't see how this is a problem either. I mean most guys who play this probably play females in MMOs and I can surely imagine them making a busty female in this game as well.

I almost always play a female character in RPGs and MMOs, and I certainly think Bioware have overdone it on the huge tracts of land. I mean, I like boobies and all, but these look kinda ridiculous.

How do you feel about, the sex scenes from DAO? Those were unnecessary but the developers felt they wanted to add some sexuality to the game while keeping it tasteful. I think that ginormous breasts is just another way at accomplishing that task. I mean this is a fantasy game. Bioware just decided to use "fantasy" a little more liberally.

 

[plugav]

While I do think Isabela looks ridiculous (being an expert rogue, couldn't she steal some clothes?) and Bethany's "inflation" early in the demo is hard to miss, I'd say the other women are quite well-proportioned. By current Thedas standards, at least.

I remember being put off by the first DA's marketing, as summed up by the aptly named "Sex & Violence Trailer." The game itself, though, turned out to focus on well written characters rather than fluid exchange, so I have every hope the sequel will do the same. And if the new design distracts you, there's always the option to keep male characters in your party. ;P

(Aside from the main topic, the fabled "DD cups" are not the monster tits everyone seems to think they are. They're more or less in the middle of the scale, depending on one's measurements. If they do look like overflowing superboobs, it means the bra's too small, not that the breasts are too big.)

 

[elcamino41383]

anc[is]OH I just put two and two together. You know all those loading screens? The game is loading all the boobs.

WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYY do people insist on making godawful puns that have the faintest of connections yet still make me laugh because they are so bad :<

I fall prey to the same with a RL friend all the time. Goes by Con_Carne on here.

OT: I really didn't notice when I played through the demo, and honestly I wouldn't really care even if I did. It doesn't really add or take anything away from the game for me. I mean, I tend to like big boobs, and it doesn't bug me when I see them, but I really didn't even notice.

 

[Hoplon]

Strangely enough I spent my play through trying to work out which was the most awesome class, not checking the breast size of the NPC's.

 

[silasbufu]

I cannot comprehend any phrase with "boobs" and "bad"/"problem" in it.


..and don't quote me with some smartass example, it's just an expression.

 

[Haydyn]

I think the contributing factor is these ladies' busts is that they are large, but not hanging low. I don't wanna perve out here, but they appear perky and have a powerful presense.

 

[cystemic]

wow, I'm so used to all games having women with a minimum D cup that I didn't even notice. nothing new though, it's always a pair of giant breasts attached to a woman so that the men have something to look at while they rattle off dialogue

 

[plugav]

Strangely enough I spent my play through trying to work out which was the most awesome class, not checking the breast size of the NPC's.

That's probably because you're here for the gameplay and we're here for the, um, story. ;P

 

[Deviluk]

I didn't mind, it was just like most other games, where after prolonged play you wonder why you're so f***in horny. Although keep the grannies as grannies please, don't tart up the grannies! Give them there wrinkles back, its like being in a dark fantasy L'Oreal advert.

 

[Hjalmaror]

Im very interested in character design in games and i do find the constant sexualization of women tiresome, and destracting of the character traits beneath, her personality ext...

It was though clear that Bioware was always making a "sexy" game as they said. But i whant to issue a challange to gamedevelopers, make a female character sexy without overexaggerate their body proportion and give them skimpy clothes. Im sure its posible and as a strait male myself I would like the idéa of a realistic sexy female character.

 

[infohippie]

How do you feel about, the sex scenes from DAO? Those were unnecessary but the developers felt they wanted to add some sexuality to the game while keeping it tasteful. I think that ginormous breasts is just another way at accomplishing that task. I mean this is a fantasy game. Bioware just decided to use "fantasy" a little more liberally.

I thought the sex scenes were fine. They were tasteful and appropriate, and better handled than the Mass Effect ones. Although it does look a bit weird that everyone still wears their underwear.

 

[Kungfu_Teddybear]

I only thought Isabella's melons were massive, didn't really notice if Bethany or Aveline's were.

 

[Silver]

I'm pretty sick of hearing people whine about large breasts. It's gotten to the point where people act like anyone having large breasts is unnatural and never happens. I've spoken to a couple of large busted females, and they've noticed it as well, and they aren't even hardcore gamers.

It's almost like some people are jealous that their real life selves or girlfriends do not have a chest that big. Why else should you care? Girls that have big boobs do exist. Just because they are not A or B cup does not make them abnormal.

True. But most girls do not. Some characters having massive breasts? Fine. All of them? Stop it.

I wouldn't care if some of them had massive breasts, but had more clothes on. What I dislike is the blatant sexualisation of women and their breasts. It's one thing to have them, it's another thing entirely to have them hanging out all the time. Once they put men in skimpy little tops and short shorts to show off their assets, I'll be cool with it. As it is, they only do it to women, which is essentially the problem.

Most don't? As of 2009, the average size was a 36C.

Regardless, men do show off a lot, but people don't take note. All those muscles you see, how many men in real life have huge bulking muscles? Almost no girl has huge bulking muscles, so what else are you going to show off? Not that you have to show something off. A guy walking around with his shirt off, no ones going to take notice, and it does happen often, It's just girls boobs are a lot more noticeable because they are generally covered up.

As of 2010 79% of the American population is overweight, and the average cup size is actually closer to a B. The average cup size sold at fashion stores is 36C, but that's not really a valid comparison. If we take the entire world, instead of just America, both of those figures get lower (much lower).

So, the cup size is generally lower, and the people are generally fatter in the real world. While of course, no one would want to play a game where 79% of the characters were overweight, so some artistic freedom is expected, but in most games it's done to an insane degree.

See, the worlds these games are often attempting to portray are in some form of distress. Usually worlds where food is not readily available with a mcdonalds around every corner, where people have to do physical work to survive, which doesn't lead to the same physique as a super model carefully monitoring her diet and working out using exercises specifically designed to mold her physique into looking like a stick with two big lumps of fat (or substitute) on it.

It's both sexualisation and unbelievability (and no, the depiction of males isn't realistic either, but it's contextually fitting). A person who grew up with probably too little food, working hard, and then training as a warrior, or thief, would not have that kind of physique. They wouldn't look like the men do either, but the male characters are idealised warrior stereotypes, while the female characters are idealised sluts, hookers or models, depending on how cynical you want to be (and if you listen to the dialogue in addition to looking at the character models you usually want to be cynical).

There is a better way, look at Jade from Beyond good and evil or Kate Walker from Syberia. Both are idealised, really goodlooking characters, not realistically so given what they do, but they're believable. They're sexy (or they can be seen as such), but not sexualised (by modern western standards), and their physique fits what they do pretty well.

 

[twiceworn]

I'm pretty sick of hearing people whine about large breasts. It's gotten to the point where people act like anyone having large breasts is unnatural and never happens. I've spoken to a couple of large busted females, and they've noticed it as well, and they aren't even hardcore gamers.

It's almost like some people are jealous that their real life selves or girlfriends do not have a chest that big. Why else should you care? Girls that have big boobs do exist. Just because they are not A or B cup does not make them abnormal.

this, i mean im sick of people complaining about woman looking good in games, LOOKING GOOD IS NOT A SIN!!!!

 

[Realitycrash]

Ugh, the fanservice is getting so tiresom. Nothing beats the Soul Calibur-series tho (except DoA, but they make a point of it), just goddamn annoying. I don't want to watch porn, I want to play a game.

 

[Wondermint13]

Now I'm not averse to large breasts, but to have them in every single scene and on every single female character is a bit much. Even Flemmeth now has a sturdy DD going and Isabella is 25% of Isabella is her boobs alone. It's to the point where it's just distracting.

I don't know why but I expected a bit more class from BioWare.

That was the first and only possitive observation I made of the game when the demo came out! I even posted it!
..thanks for not making me feel so alone I guess.

 

[plugav]

It's both sexualisation and unbelievability (and no, the depiction of males isn't realistic either, but it's contextually fitting). A person who grew up with probably too little food, working hard, and then training as a warrior, or thief, would not have that kind of physique. They wouldn't look like the men do either, but the male characters are idealised warrior stereotypes, while the female characters are idealised sluts, hookers or models, depending on how cynical you want to be (and if you listen to the dialogue in addition to looking at the character models you usually want to be cynical).

I think you may have nailed the problem.

Still, I woudn't generalise about Dragon Age 2 until I see the full game. I've played several BioWare products and the characters weren't all warriors and pornstars.
So far, I'd say I only know Isabela to be this ridiculous, overly sexualised character. The Hawkes' designs, for example, seemed relatively reasonable to me (except for the mother, who looked as young as her children), at least in the demo.