But is it all for the best?
I’m not so sure.
It’s at this point that I throw rotten tomatoes at those cheering in the audience.
I like that it’s gay, and my reservations aren’t that it’s ‘too gay’.
But that’s not to say I’m notnotconcerned.
The days of BroShep and FemShep are over.
Some fans have decided Taash, the qunari, is a non-binary protagonist.
But how progressive is that, exactly?
The same thing happened with Cassandra, when fans were mad she was straight because she had short hair.
Why is Bellara or Davrin not the non-binary one?
Why must it be the masc woman from a more animalistic and creaturfied race?
That the community has rushed to Taash shows an underlying bias that feminine women cannot be non-binary.
The non-binary companion could be any of the other six aside from Harding, or several, or none.
Giving Tassh a more gender-neutral appearance and then making them non-binary is fine.
Assuming that on looks alone though raises issues.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is the long-awaited fourth game in the fantasy RPG series from BioWare formerly known as Dragon Age: Dreadwolf. A direct sequel to Inquisition, it focuses on red lyrium and Solas, the aforementioned Dread Wolf.
If Tassh is non-binary, then it’s bigger than an Etsy Pride sticker.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard Lets You Romance Who You Want
Then there are the romances.
Thedas is a land free of inhibitions!
It’s playersexual, come on now.
Playersexual means the characters have no true preference and are just open to the whims of the player.
Everyone being pansexual is also less progressive than it sounds.
It could be argued that Astarion’s gay experience has been erased for the benefit of straight women.
is not necessarily the only way to be progressive.
Simple logistics are in play as well.
With only seven characters, Dragon Age’s lowest ever number, playersexuality keeps your options open.
But even with a more realistic spread of sexualities, getting up to four or five seems pretty easy.
And if said character is NB, is that not saying ‘the made up genders stick together’?
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is the long-awaited fourth game in the fantasy RPG series from BioWare formerly known as Dragon Age: Dreadwolf. A direct sequel to Inquisition, it focuses on red lyrium and Solas, the aforementioned Dread Wolf.
If you plant your flag on the hill of progressiveness, everything you do is under a microscope.
Maybe the free-for-all route is the easiest way to navigate that.
A direct sequel to Inquisition, it focuses on red lyrium and Solas, the aforementioned Dread Wolf.
