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Originally Posted by Irkalla
Does it even matter if Anders or any other character is bi, straight or gay? Take them however you like (hawkesexual), their sexuality doesn't change a fig about who they are. It's a pure design choice to appeal to a wider audience, and I wholeheartedly approve of it. I'm so sick of people complaining how they ruined a character by giving people the option to chose, it's like, oh you are gay, I don't like you.  |
The thing is a lot of people would not mind if he or any other character were bi or gay. The problem about it is that even in normal conversations you're being hit on, specially with Anders it is in situations when you are just having a normal conversation. Or when somethign simple as "calm down" "stay in control" are meant as conversations that lead into I want a gay relationship when those choices (this when he's telling you about Justice and how he wants to kill Templars when he sees them now) have nothing to do with a that close intimacy. The only non gay option in it was something that came allong the lines of "shut the .. up you <insert swear words here>". With Fernis it is obvious that he is bisexual, his previous owner states this and if you do not romance him and walk around with him together with Isabella they even talk to each other about getting together that night to do naughty things, Fernis is very down to business when it comes to that.
However Anders is a different plate, you have Awakening Anders with not even the slightest hint of homosexuality and instead leans more to hetrosexuality. What I still remember fromt he conversation I had with the people who agreed on it was that the romance writer back then for Anders was different and that they pretty much compared to him from Awakening made him very ooc.
It isn't much about people finding it disgusting that a character is gay, it is something that I like having an option as in games however in DA2 it's simply like this: da
people whined about Zevran being the only gay option, they wanted more specially with Alistair but were quite annoyed that he was straight (mods ftw though). So much like they did with the entire game structure not just in DA but also in ME they took all those pointers and instead of making it balanced they threw in the whole jar and thought that it would become a stable interaction to have. It isn't, everyone you come across of that has the option rubs it in your face at the worst times possible in conversations when such mentions make no sense. It takes away how the player interacts witht he game, you hardly feel anything for it because the conversations about nearly anything are given at the wrong time and in such a way that you do not relate to it. This is what I think is bad about the gay sexuality option, not much that the character is gay but that they too no time into placing the important conversations factors at the right times so that a character isn't a flat 1 page folder but actually becomes slightly deeper and more relating with the viewer. That and if it isn't cannon :/ just leave it out, the only reason they did it is because of the demand of fangirls who want more gay characters, but quantity isn't quality.