Meta Ray Mek wrote...
Besides, I think the LGBT population deserve to have a bi love interest, even if it's Garrus. Believe it or not, there ARE gay fans of Garrus out there who want to romance Garrus with a male Shepard. They may not want to play as a Female Shepard for it and that's okay. Maybe they feel more comfortable playing a player character of their gender. And that's okay too.
And really, how should the way they play a game with a bi/gay Garrus affect how you play your game? If you're already romancing Garrus with a female Shepard, then voila! He's not bi in your game. If you're a dudebro, guess what? You can easily avoid any sort of romantic advancements if you just pay attention to the dialogue wheel (or if they enable a Dragon Age 2 system, any symbols that indicate a romance path).
It's not going to be that hard to avoid a gay/bi Garrus. But to say that the idea is "gross" and stuff is a huge insult to the gay gamers who've been wanting a M/M romance with him as much as the females among us -myself included- wanted a hetero romance with him from the very beginning of the franchise.
But that's only my opinion. I could be wrong.
One problem is that it has been that hard to avoid many, many relationships in Mass Effect, and some in other Bioware games too. There are a lot of people who DID NOT WANT to romance Kaidan in ME1 who had him showing up in their rooms that last night... awkwaaaaard. Same with Ash, and same with Liara. Then there's ME2, with "creepy-hitting-on-Jacob-during-casual-conversation" Shep, which almost nobody likes.
I'm not against Bi love interests, but I'm strongly for more careful romance/nonromance divisions, and fewer stealthromances of both genders. Increasing the number of people who are interested in my shep just increases the opportunity for ninjawkwardness.
I have two possible solutions for this: in the first one, there are LIs for all genders and orientations, but not every single romanceable character is available to every gender. You can "unlock" the "locked" romances with a dialogue tree or in-game switch, that makes every possible love interest available, but if you want to avoid the "harem" problem, you just keep it on the default. In this example, Miranda would be male only, Tali would be bi by default, and Samara would be female only by default, unless you switched your settings to unlock all the LIs.
Solution two is this: Early in the game, you get a dialogue tree where you can select from three responses: "I prefer men" "I prefer women" "gender doesn't matter" and "I consider relationships unprofessional." This dialogue either unlocks relationships of one gender, unlocks all the relationships, or locks all relationships keeping things "professional."
My only problem with "everyone is bi" is that it also means "six people are hitting on you rather than three" and I found three people hitting on me almost too much. It's about sheer numbers, rather than gender issues.
While I intend on keeping a lot of my Garrus relationships brotastic, I don't want to deny anyone the glory that is a Garrusmance. So there should be some option for every LI that is available without modding, but I'm OK if they have to trigger something very specific (and difficult to do accidentally) in-game to access it.
Modifié par CulturalGeekGirl, 15 mai 2011 - 11:24 .
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Don't really want ME3 characters fighting over Shep, though. Sheesh, end of galactic life here, let's stop acting like pre-pubescent children and start acting like adult professionals.
