Dragon Age 2 Sure is...Busty.

[dubious_wolf]

Because videogamers aren't immature. Right?
Although at least BioWare is adhering to rule 31.
:eyeroll:

 

[Super Toast]

I've just played the demo for the second game in order to get myself familiar with all the changes and all I could notice was that there were giant tits everywhere.

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.

Yep. Because the original didn't have large breasted women at all.

 

[mirasiel]

Wow the level of prudishness, cattyness and all round faux rage in this thread is actually kind of saddening.



It speaks well of the game that this is the worse thing about it that folk can find and poorly of y'all that you consider this to be a worthy expenditure of your time, moaning about some video game characters breasts being slightly larger than you would like.

Im looking at a still of Isabella from in game and I'd say she's a C cup but with seemingly awesome support from the bra I cant see her wearing. They aint huge folks they are just well scaffolded.

 

[cefm]

Appeal to the lowest common denominator = easy path to profit.

 

[For.I.Am.Mad]

How does a game having girls with big breast correlate to immaturity? I don't get that. Has anybody read a magazine or watched a movie lately?

 

[Eleima]

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.

As a woman, I find it degrading when a game panders to the 16-year old pocket mining demographics by painting some huge titties on the girls, to drive sales. It's demeaning.
Its just not realistic either. As someone thats trained in martial arts I know that if you're working your body in that sort of a way, theres one and only one way you're going to keep those giant tits, and it involves a knife and silicon.

Amen to that. I don't mind having a few big breasted women, but let's at least have them actually representing the true demographic, here! Do we really need to have 95% of the women in the game with banging double D's? No, we don't! It's just totally unrealistic, and impractical. Women who went into battle with breasts that big usually had to strap them down, if anything.

 

[Fappy]

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.

As a woman, I find it degrading when a game panders to the 16-year old pocket mining demographics by painting some huge titties on the girls, to drive sales. It's demeaning.
Its just not realistic either. As someone thats trained in martial arts I know that if you're working your body in that sort of a way, theres one and only one way you're going to keep those giant tits, and it involves a knife and silicon.

Amen to that. I don't mind having a few big breasted women, but let's at least have them actually representing the true demographic, here! Do we really need to have 95% of the women in the game with banging double D's? No, we don't! It's just totally unrealistic, and impractical. Women who went into battle with breasts that big usually had to strap them down, if anything.

Its kind of the same principle that super heroes/villains follow in regards to their capes. As Taskmaster once said, "I know its a liability, but it just looks so cool."

Obviously in this case we can substitute "cool" for "hot". And while I agree that the massive chests on these women is unnecessary, the whole realism argument kind of falls apart when you have characters in full plate armor lunging into giant groups of enemies while swinging a sword that can kill horse and rider in one chop. I don't think physics are taken into consideration when making fantasy RPGs.

 

[hazabaza1]

I'm actually hoping there'll be a mod to reduce the overall massiveness and give Isabella some more god damn clothes.

I doubt you'll need a mod. While your inventory was locked in the demo, I see no reason to believe that you won't be able to change the attire of your party in the actual release of the game.

Didn't Bioware say that there was no changing of Ally cosmetic looks?

Did they? Dammit, it IS like in ME2. I can't customize the look of my part in a RPG, just wonderful.

Well I can't confirm that,I just heard some people talking about it.

I did see an achievement from the game that they posted on Facebook that said something like "Fully upgrade an ally's armor." So you may well be right.

Maybe it'll change with each upgrade.
Because I cannot see Carver sticking around in that peasant gear for the whole game. Hell, even mage Hawke gets a robe after the time skip.

 

[jaywalker118]

Nothing wrong with a pair of big boobs, I'm all for it.

P.S. This site has CAPTCHAS? Goddamn it.

 

[theevilsanta]

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.

As a woman, I find it degrading when a game panders to the 16-year old pocket mining demographics by painting some huge titties on the girls, to drive sales. It's demeaning.
Its just not realistic either. As someone thats trained in martial arts I know that if you're working your body in that sort of a way, theres one and only one way you're going to keep those giant tits, and it involves a knife and silicon.

Amen to that. I don't mind having a few big breasted women, but let's at least have them actually representing the true demographic, here! Do we really need to have 95% of the women in the game with banging double D's? No, we don't! It's just totally unrealistic, and impractical. Women who went into battle with breasts that big usually had to strap them down, if anything.

But it's not 95%. It's one companion character. Let's do a rundown of the female companion characters:

Isabella - huge breasts
Bethany - initially huge breasts, but a joke. They're actually average sized, maybe a bit bigger than average.
Aveline - average breasts (and thick armed if you're interested in some realism)
Merrill - small breasts to almost flat chested, if you look at the screen shots.

So we're essentially looking at 25% of the main characters having larger than normal breasts. Not bad for a video game.

ps - i was creeped out at nearly seeing Isabella's waste ejector every time she turned around. That's something I'd complain about.

 

[Super Toast]

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I'm assuming you live in the middle of L.A, right next to a plastic surgeons office.

 

[Caiti Voltaire]

Its kind of the same principle that super heroes/villains follow in regards to their capes. As Taskmaster once said, "I know its a liability, but it just looks so cool."

Obviously in this case we can substitute "cool" for "hot". And while I agree that the massive chests on these women is unnecessary, the whole realism argument kind of falls apart when you have characters in full plate armor lunging into giant groups of enemies while swinging a sword that can kill horse and rider in one chop. I don't think physics are taken into consideration when making fantasy RPGs.

Yes, I do suppose that we are in the realm of juvenille male power fantasy, but it would be nice if, one of these days, someone would make a fantasy game that at the very least was less demeaning to use "girl gamers". Who says I even WANT to make a character with huge jubblies? Honestly I see some of the women in these games and cant help but sympathetically wince, because tits that large are an express ticket to lifelong back pain.

So sure, its shallow and demeaning and all that, and we've probably beaten that discussion to the ground in countless other Escapist threads, but I basically have to play a kid, to play a girl that doesnt have huge mammaries. And that's both frustration and depressing.

 

[Super Toast]

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I'm assuming you live in the middle of L.A, right next to a plastic surgeons office.

Not at all. Big boobs are everywhere. Also my wife has a pair.

Yeah... well... SHUT UP, THAT'S WHY!

[sub][sub]Lucky son of a...[/sub][/sub]

 

[Dethpixie]

I subscribe to the "this isn't an issue" school of thought. It's fine for characters to be sexy so long as that's not all they are. That is to say, as long as Bioware still puts the kind of effort into their backstory that they usually do the game won't suffer and I'll still thoroughly enjoy it. Besides, the point that Varric is telling the story and he's prone to embellishment is valid, they've been using it all along to justify their changed character models.

So, pretty much, if the story is still good I could care less what someone's cup size is.

Now can we please stop complaining about tits? Seriously guys it's just getting silly.

 

[Zom-B]

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.

I actually meant age as in age of the character. How many 50 or 60 year old women do you see with such round and perky breasts? Not too many unless they're wearing an incredible bra or have had implants put in. In reality (yeah, I know this is fantasy) life expectancy in a medieval type society could be anywhere from somewhere in the 30s to maybe the 50s. Health care as we know it was non-existant and we didn't have the modern bra until about 1913 and before that it was corsets, which weren't meant so much to support the breasts as they were to narrow the waist.

All that being said, a woman such as the character I mentioned would probably have flattened, well used breasts from breastfeeding many children (child mortality rates being what they were) and she certainly wouldn't have a pair of luscious knockers like she had.

 

[Zom-B]

Now can we please stop complaining about tits? Seriously guys it's just getting silly.

I think that's the point though. Hollywood and by extension, the gaming industry either cannot or refuses to give us female (and for that matter, male!) characters with realistic or even average proportions, except in a small minority of cases.

Sure, I love tits. You love tits. We all love tits, but do they always need to be gargantuan? Does the female character always need to be long legged, thin waisted, huge chested and beautiful? It really shows a lack of imagination, imo.

 

[Agayek]

What he said, unreliable narrator and all that.

[sub]I mean, it's probably just to show great tracts of land, but that's the justification.[/sub]

You totally just won the internet with that.

 

[Dethpixie]

As someone thats trained in martial arts I know that if you're working your body in that sort of a way, theres one and only one way you're going to keep those giant tits, and it involves a knife and silicon.

Actually I dated a very, very, well endowed black belt for quite a while. And since I'd known her since we were in junior high I can vouch for their natural qualities.