And they all look ugly as fuck
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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.
I didn't think she was that bad, mostly because she was so giant overall that it didn't stick out as much as it does on the dainty women they give it to now. And her entire character arc was finding a way to marry a man, which lol could you even imagine that now?
DA2 is filled with a lot of proto-woke, especially in the writing which is so fucking painful to even remember, but I didn't find the characters themselves very ugly.
Don't forget Meryl the elf being voiced by Gwen from Torchwood.
Gwen is that much of a cunt in Torchwood any time I hear her voice it makes me see red.
I'm still missing things out and that's before getting onto the rest of the cast who were also some of the worst people you can imagine being in charge of anything, let alone acting as the hidden line of defence against aliens and other potential world ending shit.
She 100% stood out as having a manjaw. It was a deliberate design choice, for sure.
I haven't played it in like 10 years, because its a fucking awful game in every way, so maybe I just wasn't as tuned in to notice those things at the time.
da2 had isabella the pirate chick though
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