When Maxim first posted their exclusive slide show of the women in Dragon Age Origin’s, they had some rather condescending copy that made it clear that they usually didn’t have anything to do with nerdy ass RPG games. They were just slumming it because some of the female characters in Dragon Age: Origins were based off actual hot models with boobs. It’s like that time you let that Arby’s waitress lick half your scrotum in exchange for two free roast beef and cheddar sandwiches. Ok, it’s nothing like that — Maxim’s website didn’t grow fungus and rot off.
Good for Maxim if they want to alienate a large portion of their audience. Who’s stopping them? The post was written and edited and published. Maxim must have analyzed their audience and figured it was worth pissing off the geeks to score points with the faction of Internet users who think any video game without “Modern Warfare” in the title is too “nerdy” to play. Here’s the original copy.
Unless doing it kinky-style with your significant other, role-playing is the second nerdiest thing you could possibly do. Playing role-playing video games is No. 1, which puts Bioware’s upcoming RPG Dragon Age: Origins at a severe disadvantage in the “make us interested” category. Fortunately for them, they’ve got a couple of aces in the hole: sneaky seductress Leliana and shapeshifting mage Morrigan. Both are possible romantic companions in the game, but you don’t have to wait until the release date to fall in love with them. We’ve got exclusive photos of real-life hotties Alleykatze and Victoria Johnson who lent their sexy curves to their video game counterparts.
Yeah! Those losers got lucky by making sure their game is only one degree of separation away from girls with real vaginas. Writing that copy was probably the third nerdiest thing that author has ever done. I have it on good authority that he spends most days crumpling up pictures of elves and burning Magic cards.
Either a bunch of nerds wrote emails to Maxim complaining (this doesn’t seem likely because it’s quite complicated to roleplay the invention of a medieval email system) or EA, the publisher of Dragon Age: Origins, told Maxim to change that shit before it hurt preorder numbers. Which do you think?
Cut from the same cloth as their previous Baldur’s Gate series, Bioware’s upcoming RPG Dragon Age: Origins thrusts players into a world of magic, nobility, and bloody battles. Lots and lots of bloody battles. But, killing off seven-story tall dragons and no play makes one’s game character a dull boy (or girl). Fortunately, the developers included a couple of ways allowing one’s avatar let off some virtual steam: sneaky seductress Leliana and shapeshifting mage Morrigan. Both are possible romantic companions in the game—the second best kind of sex, next to the real thing!—but you don’t have to wait until the release date to fall in love with them. We’ve got exclusive photos of real-life hotties Alleykatze and Victoria Johnson who lent their sexy curves to their video game counterparts. That’s some levelling up we can all get behind!
“The second best kind of sex, next to the real thing!” Well, that’s certainly a big change of heart. But, to be fair, it doesn’t get much more “kinky-style” than sex with a character from a video game, especially if that game happens to be Second Life.
