You fight together, you are betrayed together, you distrust Morrigan together. You meet up with this other dude named Alistair. So, this is how a gay romance with Alistair goes (minor spoilers await - then you'll get another warning about major spoilers): So kudos, BioWare.īut none of that 'intentional' gay content compares to how rewarding I found Dragon Age when I hijacked Alistair's sexuality. And this is all the intentionally designed LGBT content that BioWare saw fit to implement, which isn't a complaint because this is probably as 'progressive' a major commercial Western RPG has ever been. I mean, Dragon Age has plenty of other gay shit in it: lesbian dwarves, a threesome, two bisexual romance options, etc. (Inadvertent because I had to use a mod to get this reading of it.) So I tricked Dragon Age: Origins into temporarily thinking my dude mage was female to trigger a gay romance with the dashing knight Alistair (and for anyone wanting to do the same, it works pretty seamlessly, just get the mod at Dragon Age Nexus) - and the result was an oddly tragic playthrough with inadvertent commentary on gay marriage. and now with that incredibly misleading and generalizing hook, let me explain: (I was waiting to see if the Escapist cared for an article pitch based on this blog post, but they didn't, so now I'm just going to ahead and post it.)ĭragon Age is the world's first commercial video game about gay marriage.
