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fandomsecrets2011-06-05 03:36 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2011-06-05 03:36 pm
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(Anonymous) 2011-06-07 06:43 am (UTC)(link)Who really cares about the default designs? They're all boring and/or weird looking. Did you even try to make a male character you thought looked good? Just curious.
I'm not in the DA:O fandom. I took one look at it, noticed the high amount of people who gleefully talked about how they always slit Zevran's throat because "That fucking faggot deserves it for hitting on me!", and decided that I want nothing to do with this fandom. I just play the game. But thinking all men are silly is a thing I've seen from fandom "feminists" quite often, on this very community even. Your lack of elaboration on why you think an empty male shell is ridiculously silly when the empty female shell isn't made me wonder if that was the case with you.
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Well, I didn't say that at all. I have no trouble hearing voices in the voices of characters when they're from a TV show or something and I have something to base it off. I guess the M!Warden default voice is ubiquitous enough that I can't really project it into an actual whole male voice in my head.
It must make role-playing difficult and boring. Or reading books.
Well, I'm not sure how it's supposed to have made role-playing difficult (if we're talking solely DA!RP), but it certainly hasn't made it boring. I guess if I really wanted to play M!Warden for plot reasons or whatever I could assign him a voice I know from TV? Thankfully I prefer F!Warden for plot reasons too, so this has never come up.
Who really cares about the default designs?
I do, obviously! I played that semi-Asian-looking default girl character for my first playthrough and she's still the prettiest Bioware character I've ever played. Also, I absolutely can't customise DA faces, I tried once and the result was just terrible, I actually ended up starting over with a default just because it looked so bad. So yes, I did try, and it was a huge disaster.
lack of elaboration on why you think an empty male shell is ridiculously silly when the empty female shell isn't made me wonder if that was the case with you.
80% of comments on this community are short and lacking in elaboration, though. I guess people open themselves to all sorts of conclusions if they state a point without necessarily giving reasons, and I'm glad you did kind of ask me for reasons, but at the same time, for me, "thinking one very particular model of man is weird = do you think all men are weird?" it's a weird leap to an unfamiliar conclusion.
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(Anonymous) 2011-06-07 11:40 am (UTC)(link)"... I'm glad you did kind of ask me for reasons, but at the same time, for me, "thinking one very particular model of man is weird = do you think all men are weird?" it's a weird leap to an unfamiliar conclusion."
Thing is that I've never seen M!Warden as a very particular model of man. To me the character customization screen is just a blank page where I create a character I want to play as. So when I hear someone say that male Warden is ridiculously silly but female Warden isn't, I only really hear that person say that MALE is silly, since there is no Warden until you create one, unlike some other games where you pick between a specific female character and a specific male character when you start the game. And I guess that's where I saw the "Lol, penis! Silly!" part of your comment, which I now realize you did not think at all.