And they all look ugly as fuck
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Did Dragon Age EVER have good looking characters?
I'm seriously asking as origins and you can argue a bit on 2 were limited by the tech, inquisition only had one and she had a kid when you meet her.
Compare it to bioware's other game Mass Effect and you can see confidently from 2 and 3 they DEFINITELY had good looking characters by comparison.
DA 1 and 2 did have pretty good looking characters. Morrigan is probably a lot of people's "goth gf" archetype to this day. I'd say it was pretty even handed in the fact that most companions seemed to appeal to some form of escapist love interest you could be into, both male or female.
I will still argue they aren't good games (Origins is very overrated imo), but character appearances wasn't one of their weaknesses. Which made it incredibly obvious when DA 3 was making sure to go out of its way to make them ugly. The same way that Andromeda was clearly using the ugly stick after the original Trilogy had legions of attractive female aliens.
I put morrigan as the only good looking one in inquisition, the pirate looking girl in 2 wasn't bad but there was some graphical issues that kept her looking better.
Lilianna, or however it was spelled, wasn't bad in DA 1. She just was up against hard competition from Morrigan so most people forget her (plus I think she showed up later looking less good).
And 2 had a dorky paladin (not romancable though I don't think) and a hot little sister witch on top of the rogue girl. The Blood Mage elf was cute too imo, minus the magic tattoo things.
Point being they clearly could make attractive characters. Which makes it obvious that they were intentionally not doing so.
Dragon Age 2 might be patient zero for female characters being deliberately made ugly. The female guard captain companion is the first instance I recall of obvious manjaw, and I remember thinking it was very odd at the time.
that’s the part most gamers remember and hate, all the times it was pointed out what they were doing, no matter how obvious, they would just lie and hand wave. i’m glad to see these big woke companies fall apart
Dragon Age Origins was legit.
Everything after that is a skin suit.
Honestly it was the last Bioware game.