14 DAY TRIAL // David Gaider, the leading writer on the upcoming Dragon Age 3, says that BioWare is trying to introduce more female characters into its video games, but the process is a complex one because it also requires changes in the audience of its title.
He tells Rock, Paper, Shotgun in a much larger interview that, “The things that the industry decides are treated as incontrovertibly true until someone else comes along and proves them definitively wrong in a way that we cannot ignore. Then, of course, everyone jumps on it.”
Gaider admits that Isabella in Dragon Age II used her feminine traits to achieve her goals, but explains that the character needed to have that element to work in the story.
He also offered Aveline as a counterweight, a female character that was important because of her skills and not because of her looks.
Dragon Age III is supposed to launch this year and will use Frostbite 3 for better graphics quality.