Vormaerin wrote...
I don't agree that its more work than a new romance. Do you have some secret information that Ashley won't be an LI if you aren't importing from ME1? Because, otherwise, you'll have to have content for a 'just met the character in ME3' romance. The whole reason the devs always go with the bisexual character is because writing a romance that goes both ways is negligibly more work than writing the romance in the first place.
Writing a pure gay character is the real problem, because that would be catering to a minority in a big way.
writing bisexual character who is avaialble as bisexual LI from the moment they meet a protagonist IS easiest, becasue in case of bioware, they just record the same dialogue for both genders and use the same animations (which in case of female characters lands them with swan necks and longer then normal limbs) lets take DA2 for isntance. none of the characters have history with Hawke. none of the characters were previously available as love interests and in case of Fenris/Merril, they wren't even developed much at all. Anders was the only one that needed to be explained in some way, but again, no prior history with Hawke = clean relationship slate.
I don't have information if Ashley comes back as new LI as well as old
LI, only that if you romanced her in ME1 she comes back as relationship
you can possibly rekindle (whether you played ME1 yourself, or picked her via
comic for ps3 - she is NOT coming back as a returning LI if you just
played a default game in ME2 with no save editing - portrait in Shepards
quaters, or no romance flag for Ashley). if you don't have an existing romance flag for Ashley - this meas writing a new relationship subplot as opposed to rekindling old relationship. this is where variables come in.
in case if male Shepard, Ashley was atracted, but if the romance didn't happen that was either do to him picking Liara, or due to him turning Ashley down, period. either way, but the time you finish the game, there is no romantic tension, the relationship is platonic only. However... that innitial atraction was still there, so you have a "what changed your mind" situation in case of male Shepard, and it becomes sort of rekindling relationship, but not the same as rekindling actual existing relationship.
in case of female shepard, relationship was platonic and friendly (or professional depending on how you play your shepard) from the beginning, no romantic tension in existance. in ME3 - this becomes a "I didn't know you felt that way" plot. different dynamic then with a male shepard, different relationship. eventualy it will end up in the same spot with identical dialogue, but to get there, you still have 2 different paths. and that's not counting renegade/paragon
its a bit more complex then just saying: I still love you/I always loved you, not if you want it to be well written and believable in context of you knowing the characters for a while.
new character? can have well written relationship that's non gender specific, identical in its implementation and therefore easier to write without losing the quality.
edited to add - thanks for the quote Rizaki. he didn't say when it was cut though, so if I'm assuming correctly, they originaly planned it but never fully written it. in general voice recording doesn't start untill all the writing is done, so it was cut during innitial writing, and not when it was almost done with some voice recordings remaining
Modifié par jeweledleah, 24 avril 2011 - 05:05 .