AdmiralCheez wrote...
So do I, but sexuality is still a character triat. It'd be equally weird if everyone on the crew was a trained sniper that liked cheese pizza and The Simpsons.
I think this is getting nitpicky. Here's the thing, my fave LI/character is Liara. If they decided to make her only available to male Shepards (perhaps b/c asari go through some weird phase where they only want to meld with males of other species and this phase lasts 300 years...whatever), but keep her personality and continue her previous Shadow Broker story, I don't feel justified in saying that BW completely ruined her character/changed her character/OMG THE WORLD WILL END b/c they changed one thing that only affects who she wants to bed. Of course, it would suck for
me, as I wouldn't be able to continue the romance from before, but she's still very much Liara. Though, in this case, they are removing choice instead of adding it, and that sucks...but if it happens, it does and Liara isn't 'ruined' b/c the things I like most about her are still intact.
I think people make too much of a deal out of sexuality....no one cares much about how many people may or may not like cheese pizza though.
AdmiralCheez wrote...
In the context of the game, yeah, it's just Shepard. See Garrus jumping the species boundary--I imagine it'd be equally weird for a few characters to jump the sexuality boundary as well. Not that I don't like Garrus as an LI (he's my favorite), but all these people either making exceptions on Shepard's behalf or being designed specifically as a romance option for Shepard? It gets annoying.
No one says it has to be that way...these characters could be legitimate bisexuals.
AdmiralCheez wrote...
Making certain LIs available for only certain Shepards makes the gender deicsion matter more. Sure, it doesn't affect gameplay, but it does give a reason to try out a gender other than "I like the voice better." It's kind of like how you only get access to the specialty weapons (Widow, etc) if you play a certain class. I like stuff like that since it gives me an excuse to try playing differently the next go-round, and the changes won't be just aesthetic.
Or, you could look it at as limiting...if you despise playing FemShep for whatever reason, but want Thane, you will miss out.
AdmiralCheez wrote...
Nonetheless, it's creepy, unrealistic, and a little overwhelming. Right now, either gender can choose from five LIs--that's a whole helluva lot. Making everyone bi jumps that number up to nine. Now, there's only 17 total squadmates counting Morinth. With gender-exclusives, only 30% of crewmates can fall for Shepard, which is a decent number. But if they're all bi, over half of them can fall for Shepard. I don't know about you, but I cannot see myself potentially wooing half the people I'm close to. Basically, I'm trying to avoid LI overload.
Still, 'can' fall is not 'falling'...yes, if all of them tried to initiate a romance with you regardless then that would be odd.
I bet some people can see themselves wooing the whole crew, I can't see this myself just as you state...but I don't see that. I don't see my Shepard as having a possible chance with Thane/Garrus/Jacob even though they are possible LIs.
Anyway, this LI overload thing only seems to come up in threads like this...it's quite troubling as it always comes back to sexuality and makes a big deal out of it. Anywhere else, moar LIs is good....Joker for LI, Kasumi for LI, etc.
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). Really, all I wanted was for two new LIs in ME3 to cover the n00bs for the sake of fairness, and I was really hoping at least one of them would be the much-coveted m/m option. It looks like that's what we're getting, so I'm cool with that.
Plus that way s/s romance people get all of the history (having a romance that went from ME1 to ME3) with none of the retconning. Everyone wins. 
