Yeah, it's true. My husband, T, who is Chinese-American, was able to make a PC who was tolerably close to his skin tone/hair color/eye shape, but it took some doing, and the character doesn't really look "Asian". But then, pretty much everyone in Ferelden reads as white to me, party members and NPCs alike. Racial diversity is not DA's strong point (not, so far, in DA2 either).
On the other hand, I do think that the DA series does pretty well by its female characters, at least in DA:O and the first half of DA2 issues mentioned upthread notwithstanding. It's not perfect, by any means, but I've found it one of the better games I've played in that respect.
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Date: 2011-08-05 01:32 pm (UTC)From:On the other hand, I do think that the DA series does pretty well by its female characters, at least in DA:O and the first half of DA2 issues mentioned upthread notwithstanding. It's not perfect, by any means, but I've found it one of the better games I've played in that respect.