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Dragon Age: The Veilguard will feature nudity. That's something I learned firsthand while customizing my Rook within BioWare's Edmonton, Canada, office earlier this year during my cover story visit. We were customizing a feminine Rook, and while adjusting body options - read Game Informer’s in-depth feature about Veilguard’s character creator here for more details – our Rook's shirt disappeared to let us customize things like chest size.

And that's when Veilguard game director Corrine Busche smiled, likely knowing full well that nudity in the character creator means nudity elsewhere in the game, like in Veilguard's romances, something I know BioWare fans will be delighted to hear. "This is a mature RPG," she tells me.

I only see topless nudity in the character creator, and when I later ask BioWare if there is bottom nudity as well, I'm told that's something it wants to let fans discover for themselves in the game. Interesting answer, considering we're talking about genitalia here, but I don't push further. Though the game's leads wouldn't share too much about romance options in the game, I have a feeling nudity will play a part in some cutscenes and that's what BioWare is alluding to.

Nudity has been present in previous BioWare games, but it's almost always been implied. Characters are sometimes naked in romance scenes and elsewhere, but arms, legs, shadows, and pieces of scenery obscure characters' more… oogly bits. With some of those bits on full display in the character creator, I have a feeling Veilguard's romantic scenes will be the spiciest in the series' history. And the game's pretty visual design, running in EA's Frostbite engine, only adds to that.

Okay, I think I've hit the limit that I can write the word nudity on my work computer before it gets flagged by HR or something. You'll have to wait for the game's full release this fall to learn more about nudity, romance, and more.

 

[mitch1971]

So, judging from the art direction, cartoonish nudity?

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Too bad I don't want to see none of the females fully nude

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

Oh man just imagine these people naked. Sign me up!

 

[Hrk69]

Oh man just imagine these people naked. Sign me up!

People?

 

[LectureMaster]

On one hand they meltdown at every revealing outfit in Stellar Blade, yet on the other hand they celebrate explicitly depiction of genitals, especially if a female figure with a penis.

Fucking self-contradictory psychopaths.

 

[EruditeHobo]

Too bad I don't want to see none of the females fully nude

Just the dudes then?

 

[Complistic]

This should be good.

 

[Arsic]

Got it. Ignore romance entirely unless I want to see some fucked up cocks on dudes and chicks.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Just the dudes then?

 

[Punished Miku]

They've got very little else going on in this game. Might as well go for it.

 

[Unknown?]

On one hand they meltdown at every revealing outfit in Stellar Blade, yet on the other hand they celebrate explicitly depiction of genitals, especially if a female figure with a penis.

Fucking self-contradictory psychopaths.

They have women with a penis on the back like a tail.

 

[pqueue]

Press "X" to wiggle dick.

 

[JayK47]

We so badly want to be BG3.

 

[Optimus Lime]

Translated: 'We want the Baldur's Gate audience, but we also want the blue haired genderfluid psychopath audience.'

 

[Gaiff]

So, can I romance Scout Harding this time? She was the cutest girl in Inquisition but not even an option.

BG3 also gave the short end (no pun intended) of the stick to dwarves. Shortstacks need love too.

 

[Northeastmonk]

yea more flaccid 3D penises to look at.

 

[Arsic]

yea more flaccid 3D penises to look at.

So if they were erect you’d be excited?

 

[Lokaum D+]

yeah, i would rather have good writing with likable characters, not this shit fest.

 

[Raven117]

there is less than one percent that this game will be any good.

They are chasing too much.

 

[simpatico]

How much money did these people con EA into spending on penis rendering?

 

[Cert.in.Death]

The internet has occupied that space for them for 20+ years

Server farms have been laid to waste by the sheer volume of NSFW Mass Effect content (albeit I'm more of Jade Empire man myself)

 

[Deerock71]

 

[Pejo]

It's gonna be that nasty kind like Abby in TLoU2 though, not the good kind that anyone sane would want to see.

Oh man just imagine these people naked. Sign me up!

Exactly.

 

[Salz01]

Looking at the characters, this is not a good thing.

 

[Agent_4Seven]

Early July, BioWare HQ, 11:00 a.m.

DAV Game Director and Narrative Lead:

OK team! Nobody gives a shit about our game no matter what we do, we need to do something to save this sinking ship ASAP!

Dev #1:

How about even more diversity and representation?

Narrative Lead:

It didn't work the first time, do you want to make it even worse?

Dev #2:

How about no MTX and lootboxes?

DAV Game Director:

That's not enough and we didn't had plans for this anyway.

Dev #3:

Well, how about some ugly, heavy stylized, cartoon-ish, fully naked chicks and dudes with boobs and dicks?







....

....






DAV Game Director:

AAAAAAND... We have a winner, team! Let's roll with it!

Dev #4:

Um...

...but sir...

Game Director:

Don't wanna hear it.

Let's move out, boys and gals, there's no time to lose!

Dev #4:

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

I like how the same types of developers who told us that we can't have pretty girls or scantily clad outfits in games because it's immature pandering is now telling us "there's nudity! It's a mature RPG!"

Go fuck yourselves, Biow-- whatever the fuck you actually are these days.

 

[TransTrender]

Incoming automatic XBOX account bans for verboten content.

 

[iorek21]

Yep, I’m sure that’s what Bioware was lacking in the last 14 years.

Very glad they’re taking their priorities straight.

 

[PeteBull]

Too bad I don't want to see none of the females fully nude

Amen to that, brother

 

[Chechack]

Ah yes

Western Nudity : Stunning,brave,open minded,progressive

Eastern Nudity : Sexist scum,weird freak

 

[Danjin44]

If this was Asian game, western journalist would have lost their mind but for western game thats apparently okay.

Meanwhile game like Stellar Blade people got upset because main character is good looking and shows little skin.

Ah yes

Western Nudity : Stunning,brave,open minded,progressive

Eastern Nudity : Sexist scum,weird freak

Western games, having sex with the bear: very brave

Eastern games, characters looking attractive: crime against humanity.

 

[semiconscious]

Dragon Age: The Veilguard will feature nudity. That's something I learned firsthand while customizing my Rook within BioWare's Edmonton, Canada, office earlier this year during my cover story visit. We were customizing a feminine Rook, and while adjusting body options - read Game Informer’s in-depth feature about Veilguard’s character creator here for more details – our Rook's shirt disappeared to let us customize things like chest size.

And that's when Veilguard game director Corrine Busche smiled, likely knowing full well that nudity in the character creator means nudity elsewhere in the game, like in Veilguard's romances, something I know BioWare fans will be delighted to hear. "This is a mature RPG," she tells me...

so: nude boobs = 'mature'. alright, then...

 

[Soltype]

Too bad I don't want to see none of the females fully nude

Just the dudes then?

Bioware's got everyone covered.

 

[adamsapple]

Great. Will make a big titty goth dragon age-r.

 

[Gp1]

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Great. Will make a big titty goth dragon age-r.

With a dick

 

[existensmaximum]

Too bad I don't want to see none of the females fully nude

That's probably a feature for them, not a bug.

 

[adamsapple]

With a dick

 

[amigastar]

Sex box! Scandal!

Spoiler

i'm kiddin

 

[whyman]

Full nudity? Finally some vagina! I hope we get plenty of customisation options.

 

[TheThreadsThatBindUs]

This is gonna be maximum cringe.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

EA~

'We do naked people now'

EA Fans~

 

[Puscifer]

Literally the only worth seeing naked is Varric and honestly he's been the main character since the second game

 

[ahtlas7]

Oh my!

 

[T4keD0wN]

Oh man just imagine these people naked. Sign me up!

For PTSD therapy in advance you mean?

 

[Doom85]

If this was Asian game, western journalist would have lost their mind but for western game thats apparently okay.

Meanwhile game like Stellar Blade people got upset because main character is good looking and shows little skin.


Western games, having sex with the bear: very brave

Eastern games, characters looking attractive: crime against humanity.

Mmm, don’t know if I’d be pushing the East vs West angle seeing as the Japanese version of Baldur’s Gate 3 censors the nudity. Both sides have morons in this matter.

 

[SJRB]

This is very important, please spend as many dev resources on this as humanly possible.

Fruitcakes.

 

[Killjoy-NL]

Oh man just imagine these people naked. Sign me up!

Seriously though, we all know that Asian looking elf in the middle would give an amazing Nuru massage.

 

[Hypereides]

If this was Asian game, western journalist would have lost their mind but for western game thats apparently okay.

Meanwhile game like Stellar Blade people got upset because main character is good looking and shows little skin.

I'd argue if its any game featuring a conventionally attractive female character, period. The double standards are hilarious. Beautiful characters dressed in attractive attire is "literally porn" (or worse), however this type of explicit nudity is "okay". How in the world do these people make this logic work is beyond me.