jeweledleah wrote...
Bamboozalist wrote...
jeweledleah wrote...
Garrus tells you about his experience with FEMALE scout. they would have to rewrite that entire story, probably changing it so that he never uses gender pronoun...at a minimum. of course that also makes it interesting in terms of translating to other languages, since unlike English, in a lot of languages verbs also denote gender. OR... they would have to figure out a different opening for maleshep, to start the romance.
And? When you're deal with humans that makes sense but when you're dealing alien races, cross species gender starts to not matter especailly with Tali and Garrus since any real physical relationship isn't exactly really feesible with the two of them.
and....the way they set up an opening for Tali wasn't gender specific. She tells you that linking suits can be both gesture of trust (like her mother and aunt) and intimacy and that she never trusted another quarian that much, but she trusts Shepard. its not gender specific and its vague enough that they dind't have to rewrite it in any way. it was open ended enough to work the same way as Liara worked.
Garrus's romance opening was as much as you'd like to deny it - gender specific it seems that when it comes to Turians, sex is very similar for them to the way humans see it. can be done as recreational activity and is done between oposite genders at least some of the time. so. in order to make that opening feasible for a male shepard as well as female shepard, they would have to write it differently, becasue the way they wrote it as it exists right now - straight turian males just fight to release stress and males/females may fight...or they may go ahead and have sex in adition (or instead). I'm not saying that gay turians don't exist, but I am saying that current romantic opening doesn't work so well for a male Shepard. you can say that developers wrote themselves into a corner with that one.
was the opportunity there? concidering how much Garrus trusts and respects shepard and concidering that its interspecies relationship - yes, opportunity was there, just as it was for Tali. I'm not entirely sure how they could have written it, and maybe that's part of the problem? Maybe if they had written that scout story to show that Turians basicaly fight (or have sex with) each other more or less indiscriminately of gender? maybe if they wrote a wholy different story and a completely different opening? who knows.
Not sure I get your point.
Just because they are talking about stress relief with a Turian of the opposite sex, doesn’t mean Garrus would only consider femShep as a partner. She’s not a Turian, so regular gender roles don’t apply.
Yes, I agree that it would come across kind of strange to connect a conversation about sex with a female Turian to gay flirtation with a male Shepard. So I do get your point, I guess. But as has been said several times, Garrus is attracted to Shepard specifically, as is Tali.
So they could just have added a couple of lines to modify the existing conversation to a male romance IMO.
All of the alien romances make sense for both sexes, since normal gender roles do not apply. What is “male” or “female” to a Turian or a Quarian? The aliens are very humanized, so the players can relate to them better. That’s why Garrus or Tali have character traits that come across as male and female. But actually, an alien should not have any understanding of what’s female or male behaviour in a human. So they shouldn’t be turned off by it. This is why the alien LIs are only attracted to Shepard’s personality.
I really don’t understand why BW is denying the players gay romances (if you want to call an alien romance that), but chose to meet fan base demands for freedom when it comes to romancing in DA2.
Does this have something to do with outcries about how the male Shepard cannot be gay because that would ruin the character? I imagine that adolescent crowd would say the same stupid thing about Hawke, so I still don’t get it. But apparently BW thinks a gay Shepard would seriously offend a large portion of potential buyers, while such concerns must have been less strong when it comes to DA. Otherwise I can’t explain it.
Tali, Garrus and Thane as romance options for both sexes would have made a lot of sense to me. Since they are aliens and therefore not gay in the actual sense of the word, it wouldn’t even have been unrealistic to have so many bisexual characters, the way some people complain about now on the DA2 boards.
Well, now it’s too late. I’d rather the characters keep their sexual orientations for ME3.
Btw, yes, I was surprised there was no Jack romance for femShep, too. As has been pointed out, Jack says herself she’s bisexual!
The ME team needs to get themselves some stem cells from the Dragon Age developers and grow a spine!!
Modifié par Kappa Neko, 06 avril 2011 - 11:17 .
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