UsagiVindaloo wrote...
MajesticJazz wrote...
See, that is where you fail. Please tell me where it was confirmed/implied that Ashley wasn't BI in ME1? Please tell me where it was confirmed/implied that Kaiden wasn't BI in ME1? Please tell me where it was confirmed/implied that Miranda/Jack/Thane/Jacob wasn't BI in ME2?
You talk about "changing" a character's sexual preference, when it was never really detailed what their sexual preference was. For all we know, Miranda could be BI, but she wasn't BI in ME2.....but that doesn't mean she can't be BI in ME3 because it was NEVER confirmed that she only was into men and wasn't into women. So your case about changing a character's sexual preference is just as a complete fail. Try again.
Also about it being the end of Shepard's story, thus meaning that he/she cannot find a new romance is just pure weakness. A cloud in the sky has more strength then your statement. Bioware has not confirmed that there will be new romances in Mass Effect 3, but since KOTOR (And I guess Neverwinter Knights/BG/BG2....I never played those games) there has ALWAYS been a romance option. So yeah, ME3 ends the Shepard story arch, but it is also developed as a stand alone game. So if I never played ME1 or ME2, I can still jump into ME3 and experience to same great Bioware story telling....including romances.
Again yet another reply from you and you are STILL avoiding the question as to why you don't support say....Miranda or any other ME2 romance being BI in ME3 but yet you support Tali being a romance option in ME2 when she wasn't in ME1. It isn't too late for Thane to go BI in ME3 just like it wasn't too late for Tali to be romanceable in ME2. And please do not say "Thane is straight in ME1" because while he might not have been a male on male romance option, that doesn't confirm anything about his sexual preference, same with the rest of the characters
I agree with all this, but to put it in another form -
Just because someone likes the opposite sex does not mean they are DEFINITELY straight.
Just because someone likes the same sex does not mean they are DEFINITELY gay.
Just because someone does not rush to romance Shepard does not mean they are DEFINITELY gay, bi, or straight.
Just because someone does rush to romance Shepard does not mean they are DEFINITELY gay, bi, or straight.
I know I'm quoting from way back when in this thread, but these two posts are so exceedingly stellar I needed to say how much I agree with them.
This is an argument I've had time and time again (over in the Fight for the Love thread, for example). A person expressing an interest in one person at a particular point in their life does not mean they may not express an interest in another person at another point in their life, regardless of gender. To state Shepard, or any of the LIs are absolutely and definitively of one orientation or another when there have never been any lines in the game that state it as such is futile. If any of the LIs say 'Hey Shepard, I think you're great but I just don't swing that way' then we can safely assume a declaration about their orientation has been made. You might argue that about Jack (I read the 'girls club remark in another way, however - in that Jack doesn't want to be gal-pals, I never read anything about sexuality into that remark and was utterly shocked when I realised some did), but beyond that everything is open to interpretation. To make concrete remarks about something that is merely alluded to or not mentioned at all is ridiculous.