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March 25, 2011 06:59 pm PDT

Bisexual romance heats up Dragon Age II

Homophobic (or at least stridently heteronormative) fans of Bioware's Dragon Age II are upset at the game's omnisexual characters, which offer players romantic dalliances regardless of their avatars' sex. After a player requested a "no homosexuality" option, one of the game's writers let him down firmly but gently. The real problem, of course, is that the romances are played out in game-engine CGI, summed up by QT3's Malcolm Tucker as "cringe-inducing gamer-stigmatizing Uncanny Valley evoking boner-annihilators."...


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