InvincibleHero wrote...
Siansonea II wrote...
Ah, arrogance and entitlement rears its head again, as usual.
Yes in every post from the OP.
This has never been answered by any of those wanting ss relationships in the game.
1. What entitles you to demand BW change Shepard to be what you want? It is their character and they have given gay options in several of their other games. So if they wanted ME to have a male loving Shepard it would have been done. It is their character abnd their dime. They made the property to make money and can use it as they see fit.
2. Are you more important than 1.5+ billion Asians that have no male or female human love interest to represent them? how about all Black males that would like a black female human LI? How about all white females that might want a white male human LI? I could list dozens and dozens? Why are you special and ENTITLED to jump to the head of the line?
3. Any time and resources spent on giving this would take from other areas of the game. This is immutable fact. They can use their scarce limited resources making features for EVERY gamer to make the experience more pleasing for all.
4. New idea Everyone says it will not hurt the property well admit this you tube and every other video site will have sanctioned OFFICIAL videos of a gay male Shepard posted. Do you think this would have no financial impact on the salability of the character? They want "iconic or marketing Shep aka default" to be heterosexual and they don't want to offend anyone and have received vast negativity from the fanbase here for attempting to explain how Shep isn't gay with Liara. They tried to tell you but no one listens.
I have nothing against love choices in real life but this is a product put out by a company for consumers. They have a right to make what they want and either you buy it or don't. Yeah making suggestions is great but suggesting how to change this character to suit personal preference is not quite what constructive feedback is meant to entail. Not every product is meant for every consumer. Just basic logic.
How about I suggest making Kaiden female that is just as reasonable right? He didn't resonate to me as a male and I want him changed into a hot Arabic woman to suit my taste being a hetero male. All opinions being equal and some such makes this my right. ER no I would never suggest such a thing.
1. I'd say Shepard as a character with very little defined canon, least of which his/her romances, could hardly be called a character, and should, until player input canonizes his history in their game, be referred to as Bioware's character ideal or template. I have no qualms with the idea that people are entitled to homosexual romances is wrong, entitlement period is pretty stupid, though it's a double edged sword: You seem to assume that because there are romances, heterosexual relationships are standard protocol and therefore players are entitled to that. Correct me if wrong.
2. A fair point, and although we can make statements about the difference between race and sexuality that would just be a stupid debate, as in the Mass Effect universe all those types you mentioned are non-existent as romances. Let me throw this at you though, why should the current romances be continued after getting some screen time when so many groups are unrepresented romantically? Why do heterosexuals end up at the front of the line automatically?
Your argument here is insulting if you're only using it to back up why homosexuals aren't included in LI situations because by lumping the absence of racial and sexual minorities within the crew spectrum together you are barring them from being represented by the same argument, and if that's the case then you don't really care about those minorities, you're just using them as a tool to preserve a character and universe you agree with.
3. Resources will be taken up by any romance, resources will be taken up by really badly done assignments or missions or good ones, resources will be taken up adding features to Shepard's cabin or by allowing players to customize Shepard's face. This argument is fallacious and it demonstrates that you feel you are entitled to a higher priority on the list than other people.
4. Mass Effect WILL sell regardless of whether some people who don't like homosexuality get their knickers in a knot. Gay players who are denied a feature they would like have pulled their heads in and said: "Well this sucks, and it feels unfair, but the game at its core is still good and I will buy it", why is it so much to ask for heterosexual people who don't like homosexuality to do the same? Because there are less homosexuals than heterosexuals? I'm sure there bisexuals who have something to say on the issue.
The argument of changing a character to suit people isn't entirely unfair however when you then go on to suggest female arab Kaidan then you are just being silly. It's been established that at some point in the development of Mass Effect, Kaidan was intepreted as potentially having a same sex relationship with a male Shepard, however it was phased out for some reason. Yet, in-game Kaidan has never given any inclination to be only heterosexual only that he is at least attracted to women, it is less changing a character and more exploring an avenue that has potentially existed from the beginning.
If Shepard can be intepreted by players by the allowed variables to a heterosexual male or a heterosexual, bisexual or homosexual female and those are clear expressions of sexual preference, why then are two categories mysteriously removed? In a game about choices, having an uneven field of sexual preferences for whatever reason does not seem right, and to claim that Bioware's Mass Effect team shouldn't respond favorably to the fans feedback and cries for equal representation so that their preference is catored in an act to balance the field is just insulting.
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there are people asking for specifically a black woman
