Bioware, Please Make A Plus-Sized Female Dragon Age Character!

[Hagi]

Whelp, now this is a weird thread.

Going for diversity but apparently not the right kind of diversity. Can't have anyone saying big tits are anything but a blessing or video game characters aren't absolutely perfectly fine just the way they've always been.

It's just that none of it makes sense. Liana confuses "plus-sized" (fat) with "buxom", then complains she can't cosplay as videogame characters because her breasts are too big, as if female VG characters had anything but.

It's a big non-issue within an even bigger non-issue.

So what? People complaining about things you personally deem non-issues on the internet!

I don't really see how that justifies some of the responses we're seeing here.

And I don't really think the complaint is simply about a lack of VG characters with large breasts, rather VG characters with large breasts wearing outfits you'd both want to cosplay in as well as actually being comfortable to wear considering real physics. Which doesn't sound that odd to me, games don't really have the very best track record when it comes to combining large breasts, realistic physics and outfits both practical and awesome.

 

[BarrelsOfDouche]

I have no problem with the concept or the request...

I only have a problem when 'asking' becomes 'asserting' or sanctioned pandering.

Then again, if the game was fun enough I wouldn't really mind playing as an anthropomorphic scrotum with hands and a flamethrower...so maybe I'm the wrong guy sharing my opinion.

 

[Samsont]

Wait, I thought the whole point of being athletic and constantly at war meant you were thin and fit. Like it seems unrealistic to have obese people on a war footing. Don't forget, as much as Bioware is about inclusivity in their games, their games are about WAR.
As in soldiers. Warriors. People who fight. Those people are, through dint of the physical strains of war, going to be thin and fit.

If you're "plus-sized" maybe you shouldn't cosplay as someone who is fit and athletic. Just saying, Bioware is not the one at fault.

The thing is though, plus sized doesn't necessarily mean unfit, just take a look at a lot of female olympic athletes! Many would be considered unfit upon first glance, until you realize that most of what they've got on their body is packed in muscle. Not to mention the fact that because of the twisted standards of women's clothing sizes, if we had a woman who matched Shepherd's muscle mass, they'd be considered plus-sized.
Examples:
https://fiercefatties.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/lemos-sandra.jpg?w=454&h=512
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44926000/jpg/_44926437_19abb610-e4a9-4f8f-a25f-675d38e3abd3.jpg
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploads14/female+weightlifter1228845702.jpg
http://americaninlima.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/081708-0358-thebuzzonpe1.jpg
Note on this one, this is Amanda Bingson, she broke the world record last time she competed: http://www.takepart.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/AmandaBingson-MAIN.jpg?itok=gnd6uf1i

Just keep in mind that there are many different types of bodies, and large doesn't necessarily mean unfit

 

[happyninja42]

Wait, I thought the whole point of being athletic and constantly at war meant you were thin and fit. Like it seems unrealistic to have obese people on a war footing. Don't forget, as much as Bioware is about inclusivity in their games, their games are about WAR.
As in soldiers. Warriors. People who fight. Those people are, through dint of the physical strains of war, going to be thin and fit.

If you're "plus-sized" maybe you shouldn't cosplay as someone who is fit and athletic. Just saying, Bioware is not the one at fault.

The thing is though, plus sized doesn't necessarily mean unfit, just take a look at a lot of female olympic athletes! Many would be considered unfit upon first glance, until you realize that most of what they've got on their body is packed in muscle. Not to mention the fact that because of the twisted standards of women's clothing sizes, if we had a woman who matched Shepherd's muscle mass, they'd be considered plus-sized.
Examples:
https://fiercefatties.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/lemos-sandra.jpg?w=454&h=512
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44926000/jpg/_44926437_19abb610-e4a9-4f8f-a25f-675d38e3abd3.jpg
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploads14/female+weightlifter1228845702.jpg
http://americaninlima.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/081708-0358-thebuzzonpe1.jpg
Note on this one, this is Amanda Bingson, she broke the world record last time she competed: http://www.takepart.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/AmandaBingson-MAIN.jpg?itok=gnd6uf1i

Just keep in mind that there are many different types of bodies, and large doesn't necessarily mean unfit

Not to mention that stating a female warrior would be "unrealistic" if they weren't slim and athletic is at the bottom of the list of unrealistic things that happen in Mass Effect. Seriously it's all "unrealistic", so who cares if the player's avatar doesn't exactly fit a preconceived body model for a 'warrior'? We have aliens and hyperdrives, and tossing people around with brain powers, NONE of which is at all realistic (though I personally would say aliens is likely, but that's me), but we draw the line at plus size heroes? THAT is the line in the sand we're going to hold true to about our "realism"? But all the other entirely fanciful stuff is just fine to let slide past the realism scale? Let the character play a body type they want, it's hardly a game breaking detail compared to everything else.