And is there really something wrong with preferring attractive characters in a fantasy game?
There's something wrong with DEMANDING the default character be physically attractive TO YOU in a game with full character creation, especially when you are playing a character of the opposite gender.
I mean, imagine if male lead characters in games were subject to the same sort of "She doesn't make MY dick hard so she's ugly and the designers are bad people!" criticism female characters routinely are?
But you do have to imagine it, because they aren't. The world is full of fairly ugly, unattractive male characters, who instead of being "hot" have faces "with character" or even some cases, are just ugly fuckers (Kratos, Marcus Fenix). I mean, can you imagine if you tried to make a game with the female equivalent of Marcus Fenix - raddled, lined, scared, with a head that's a fundamentally ridiculous shape, a terrible fucking bandana, and instead of awful, shameful facial hair, let's say, really stupid makeup.
You'd never, ever hear the end of it.
Yet who even critiques Fenix or Kratos' looks? Pretty much no-one.
And anyway, as noted, because there's chargen, you have the option of making a main character to perv on, so whinging that the default doesn't get your engine revving seems particularly extra-lame.
While i haven't seen too much gameplay yet (will watch the stream later when i can), is whether this will be a "Ubisoft-style" open world game a concern to anyone else? By that i mean a large, mostly empty open world filled with repetitive, barely engaging content, enemies placed randomly and overall being quite bland and lifeless where a huge part of the gameplay is basically doing the same thing just to tick boxes until you reach a certain point. I might be wrong but that's sort of the impression i've got from some of the other things i've seen of it.
It doesn't seem to have been a complaint from people who have played it, and didn't seem that way in the livestreams, but it's always a possibility.
That's the thing with open worlds - the line between letting you choose what to do and filling the world with pointless content is pretty damn narrow. TW3 occupies both sides of it, for example, but ends up being thought of fondly because enough of the content doesn't feel pointless.
Shadow of Mordor is another interesting example, because whilst it's full of pretty much what you describe, the gameplay and just the way the game works serves to actually make it pretty engaging (until towards the end when you get totally OP, anyway).
I seriously doubt the enemies will feel like they were "placed randomly". Even with all of DA:I's flaws, it didn't give that vibe.
