Game News Dragon Age concept art wallpaper

[Saint_Proverbius]

Bring on the tribal cleavage!

 

[Voss]

From the pages of National Geographic, Bioware presents:
Dragon Age!

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That is a different take on things.

 

[taks]

if the model is not indicitive of the game concept as dave g. has indicated, why did they use it as concept art? he's stated that it really is waay too cold to be running around in bikini garb in the world as is (not that any adventurer type would dress this way in the first place). i mean, why not just throw up some UFO or Sci-Fi art that looks cool if it doesn't reflect on the game anyway?

duh?

taks

 

[Volourn]

Why? Simple. The artists love looking a pretty women. OMG The horors!

 

[Spazmo]

Fine! Then why, praytell, release that piece of concept art as a downloadable background?

 

[triCritical]

Aribeth's b00bies! jiggled long before Troika sold their souls out for a goth FPS...

Yeah but Troika's don't look as fake!

 

[Volourn]

For all us perverts that's why.

Yeah, they sure look real, Tri. Or not.

 

[Dgaider]

Fine! Then why, praytell, release that piece of concept art as a downloadable background?

It's the concepting that was done for the mage used in the E3 engine demo, which didn't involve any actual characters or settings from what the game will eventually be.

Why put her up as a wallpaper, then? Good question. I guess it's still DA art... there will be plenty of concepts done for the actual story that we do for the game which won't make it into the final product and those would still be considered DA art, too. I'd just guess there's slim pickings on what we can officially release right now, I don't really know.

 

[Volourn]

Don't mind them. They're just ashamed of being turned on by a picture so as usual they take the easy route and blame you. LOL

 

[POOPERSCOOPER]

I'm more turned on to my Dgaider desktop.

 

[JanC]

Lol, there is so much of this cheesy art around in RPGs. They all look the same. I think an RPG with a truly distinctive style of dress for the characters would really stand out from the crowd. I just look at this stuff and think "Yep, someone read the 3rd Ed D&D DMG. Or at least glanced at the pictures."

 

[Volourn]

Pooper, how does that NOT surprise me? :D

 

[Transcendent One]

Yeah but Troika's don't look as fake!

Jeanette has the best b00bie physics I've ever seen!!11!!1!

 

[Mr. Teatime]

Since DGaider reads this thread, I may as well post here. I have a major problem with the barely-clothed females in fantasy games, and Bioware are the prime perputrator of this, I guess the word for it is, stereotype. Despite a lot of dungeons and dragons fantasy coming from Tolkien, I'm pretty certain thong clad ho's are from somewhere else. I find it cheapens the genre incredibly to have this kind of imagery representing the game. Though, given the mainstream, lowest-common-denominator standard of Bioware's games, perhaps it is reflective.
I just don't find it justifiable for RPGs that are supposed to be intelligent, in depth and adult (in the mature sense of the word). Bioware, grow up, you should be embarassed.

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My website: http://www.teatime.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

 

[Sol Invictus]

Thong clad heroines have always been a nagging issue at the back of my head. Even when I was a horny adolescent and had (and still don't) no qualms with barely dressed hot chicks, I just feel that for a female warrior, or mage, or whatever to be an adventurer and wear high heels and sexy clothes is just completely out of theme. It just doesn't make any damn sense.

It makes no sense for some guy to run around shirtless either, especially when all his foes seem to be equipped with armor. Where's the logic in that?

 

[Transcendent One]

Not to mention that they look like they've been sitting in the make-up chair for a few hours even though every night they camp in a dungeon with rats and crumbling stone all over the place.

 

[Sol Invictus]

Yep, agreed. Adventurers need to look a lot more worn and rugged. Dented armor, dirt-streaked faces. It's kind of sexy if they're pretty, too.

 

[Jed]

One reason I always liked the BG2 portraits.

 

[Sol Invictus]

Yeah, they were quite well done unlike the first game. Imoen even had a cute little scar to show her ruggedness.

 

[MrBrown]

It makes no sense for some guy to run around shirtless either, especially when all his foes seem to be equipped with armor. Where's the logic in that?

Real Berserkers always run around naked.


(Ever played ADOM?)

 

[Dgaider]

Since DGaider reads this thread, I may as well post here. I have a major problem with the barely-clothed females in fantasy games, and Bioware are the prime perputrator of this, I guess the word for it is, stereotype. Despite a lot of dungeons and dragons fantasy coming from Tolkien, I'm pretty certain thong clad ho's are from somewhere else. I find it cheapens the genre incredibly to have this kind of imagery representing the game. Though, given the mainstream, lowest-common-denominator standard of Bioware's games, perhaps it is reflective.
I just don't find it justifiable for RPGs that are supposed to be intelligent, in depth and adult (in the mature sense of the word). Bioware, grow up, you should be embarassed.

I understand what you're saying (we argue about this topic, ourselves), but I also think we're far from the "prime perpetrators" of this sort of thing. We've done a lot, I think, to make our games female-friendly... but I agree that we and the industry as a whole should start thinking seriously about what all the titillative stuff says about our products.

 

[Greenskin13]

So if you think the industry needs to change, why don't you start by not making your female characters look like stripers? Most likely you'll hurt sales by losing sex appeal, but I assume the rest of the industry thinks the same way so it'll be unlikely anyone will do something serious about it.

 

[BonsaiBuick]

I'm sure it's not that easy. Have you read the threads over on the Bioboards (yeah, they're people too)? Lots of different opinions on 'slutty ho's' in games. My guess, they (BW) argue as much as the folks over on their boards do about this sort of crap.

Speaking of sluts, did anyone manage to catch E3 a bunch of years back when GOD games was still running their booth/trailer court with beer, strippers and midgets? Man, you want to talk about a disgraceful... jesus. I mean, at least have some fucking dignity.

It's hard to take any game seriously when all it's doing is pushing a set of double D breasts in your face n' sayin': 'Hey, lookit! They bounce!'

 

[Stark]

I understand what you're saying (we argue about this topic, ourselves), but I also think we're far from the "prime perpetrators" of this sort of thing. We've done a lot, I think, to make our games female-friendly... but I agree that we and the industry as a whole should start thinking seriously about what all the titillative stuff says about our products.

I'm glad there's at least some argument over it. Some of us gamers (the ones in late 20s and 30s) are offended/put off by such pics. If I'm not wrong the average age of pc gamers are getting older.

And I feel embarassed buying a game with a cover art of scantily clad women. I hope the industry as a whole respect women more.

 

[Greenskin13]

I'm sure it's not that easy

I don't think so either, because there will be people who will cling on to the 'sex sells' arguement. Heck, even games with modest female leads will always add a little sex. Maya from Septerra Core was made to look very normal, but then Led was the token blonde anorexic. Samus wears full armor for the Metorid games, but I remember you can get her to strip if you beat one of the games under a certain condition. There's a difference between what is mature and what is just gratuitous, and I fear that the latter sells.

My point isn't to rag on David Gaider. Obviously he sees a fault in the current state of the industry. My point is that if he really wants to make a change, I think it will take a lot more than arguements. The preasure isn't only on Gaider, since I think many developers see this as a problem, but they can't do much against it since sex is such a powerful marketing tool.

Anyway, I'm hoping that there will be some games in the future that won't try to use skanks to sell. I'm looking at Power of Law, since it has a non-buxom female lead.