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[Drone223]

Two romances that I ss romaces for male sheps are most likely Kadian and possibly James I might be male but if James has a british voice that is like nigel fish'nchips a will make a manshep just to romance him we really need a british squd member

[Cootie]

I personally want Eddie Murphy playing every role.
That'd surely bring in the big bucks.

Also, to stay on topic, I haven't abandoned you guys! I'm just lurking lots!
Still supporting the thread with a huge thumbs up, honest!

[Abispa]

Cootie wrote...

I personally want Eddie Murphy playing every role.
That'd surely bring in the big bucks.

Also, to stay on topic, I haven't abandoned you guys! I'm just lurking lots!
Still supporting the thread with a huge thumbs up, honest!

But Tracey Ulman would get the artsy crowd, giving the movie credibility.

Hey! Was that a euphemism?

[Cootie]

A euphemism?!
My word! I am a gentleman, and I would never steep to cracking jokes on the internet!

Besides, that's lewd! Are you accusing me of defiling this ever so classy thread with hinting towards sexual kerfuffle!?
Unheard of!

[Jimmy Fury]

Since Javier finally got around to closing and redirecting the thread, and just in case anyone here hadn't seen the article, I'm gonna go ahead and repost the link to Scott Nichols really good article over at Gamepro.

Definitely worth a read if you haven't already.

[shepskisaac]

It was actually posted here a couple of weeks ago, people even commented ;P

[Jimmy Fury]

IsaacShep wrote...

It was actually posted here a couple of weeks ago, people even commented ;P

Apologies then. I've been away from the forums for a few months.

[Trevbo]

Well I hadn't seen it yet. It was a good read. But frustrating to read the comments on it.

Thanks for posting it (again).

[ElitePinecone]

It was an interesting article (I remember reading it the first time around) but it's basically speculation and I think a lot of what was said in it could be found in any number of the threads floating around these forums. Until we get some details from Bioware a lot of what we talk about is probably incorrect or incomplete...

Still, it's great that ME3's S/S romances are getting some wider attention and the reaction has been so positive, on the whole.

[Abispa]

Cootie wrote...

A euphemism?!
My word! I am a gentleman, and I would never steep to cracking jokes on the internet!

Besides, that's lewd! Are you accusing me of defiling this ever so classy thread with hinting towards sexual kerfuffle!?
Unheard of!

Sorry to doubt your class and morality, St. Cootie.

[Abispa]

ElitePinecone wrote...

It was an interesting article (I remember reading it the first time around) but it's basically speculation and I think a lot of what was said in it could be found in any number of the threads floating around these forums. Until we get some details from Bioware a lot of what we talk about is probably incorrect or incomplete...

Still, it's great that ME3's S/S romances are getting some wider attention and the reaction has been so positive, on the whole.

The thing that please me to no end, though, is the insistence of so many gamers that RPG VGs NEED to be more realistic. Reading so many comments from Mass Effect and Dragon Age fans who were overjoyed that Bioware FINALLY stopped allowing players to dress up their party members and started limiting powers and skills to a specific style preferred by certain characters really increased their immersion.

That is realism, and in a RPG, that is quality. Giving fans a lot of choices over their party members is blatant fan service. Quality is a party member who wears only what the game designers allow him/her too, and Merrill never being able to learn a healing spell and Garrus never handling a shotgun.

Unfortunately Bioware had to destroy player immerision by actually giving them the ability to choose some party members' sexuality. The outrage! Even though Hawke was given the ability to flirt with anyone with a pulse, it ruins immersion when the only five characters who WILL sleep with Hawke are all bisexual, especially the guys.

And read all the releases ME3. It is ruined! Not only will players possibly be allowed to choose s/s romances, but now be able to customize weapons and armor WITHOUT having to buy a DLC! If they give players he option to effect the armor and weapons of party members, that is going TOO FAR. It has already been established that Ashley prefers white armor and Kaiden prefers blue. My immersion is important, damn it all!

More realism in RPG VGs now!

[ArawnNox]

Let's not even bring up the fact that arguing for realism in games that contain magic, physics breaking science, non-human races, robotic elder gods, and and corrupted monsters hell-bent on destroying the world is like complaining that there's too much water at Niagra Falls.

[Abispa]

ArawnNox wrote...

Let's not even bring up the fact that arguing for realism in games that contain magic, physics breaking science, non-human races, robotic elder gods, and and corrupted monsters hell-bent on destroying the world is like complaining that there's too much water at Niagra Falls.

I have no problem with Niagra Falls having water, I just hate it when it keeps shoving all that mist into my face. It really ruins my immersion.

[ElitePinecone]

^ Sadly enough, I can guarantee a hundred threads like that are going to pop up in the next few months. 
RUINED! 

It's going to be worse if familiar characters are available for S/S, thogh. 

As we've seen it's extremely difficult to change perceptions that "all characters are heterosexual hurr dur RETCON RETCON CHAAAAANGE!!"

[ArawnNox]

Abispa wrote...

ArawnNox wrote...

Let's not even bring up the fact that arguing for realism in games that contain magic, physics breaking science, non-human races, robotic elder gods, and and corrupted monsters hell-bent on destroying the world is like complaining that there's too much water at Niagra Falls.

I have no problem with Niagra Falls having water, I just hate it when it keeps shoving all that mist into my face. It really ruins my immersion.

:lol::lol:

[Jimmy Fury]

ArawnNox wrote...

Let's not even bring up the fact that arguing for realism in games that contain magic, physics breaking science, non-human races, robotic elder gods, and and corrupted monstershell-bent on destroying the world is like complaining that there's too much water at Niagra Falls.

I've always had a slightly skewed view when it comes to sexuality and what people call "realism"
I know several bisexuals. Male and female. White, black, asian, etc. Various faiths, various philosophies. And I met them all quite randomly. I don't go to gay bars and I've only been to one pride festival and the only new friend I met there was a heterosexual...So it's not like i've put myself in a position where I would logically meet lots of GLBT people bny being somewhere that would naturally have a higher concentration of them than anywhere else . None the less I do know at least ten bisexuals... possibly more as a couple of my friends are a bit iffy.

One thing I have never done though, is meet an elf.

So when people were saying the 4 bi LI's were just horrifically completely entiiiirely unrealistic... in a game full of dragons and elves and darkspawn... I just had to assume I live in the wrong reality. A boring stupid reality that lacks dragons but apparantly makes up for it with an excess of bisexuals.

Modifié par Jimmy Fury, 09 juillet 2011 - 05:40 .

[ArawnNox]

ElitePinecone wrote...

^ Sadly enough, I can guarantee a hundred threads like that are going to pop up in the next few months. 
RUINED! 

It's going to be worse if familiar characters are available for S/S, thogh. 

As we've seen it's extremely difficult to change perceptions that "all characters are heterosexual hurr dur RETCON RETCON CHAAAAANGE!!"

This is pretty much the main reason I can't go into the DA2 forums and spend all my time in this thread. Every change in DA2, according to the forums, was made for the worse.
I'm the only one who looked at it as a fresh start, rather than a true sequel.

Back on topic:
What would your fave s/s couple do after the Reapers are defeated?

[Abispa]

ElitePinecone wrote...

^ Sadly enough, I can guarantee a hundred threads like that are going to pop up in the next few months. 
RUINED! 

It's going to be worse if familiar characters are available for S/S, thogh. 

As we've seen it's extremely difficult to change perceptions that "all characters are heterosexual hurr dur RETCON RETCON CHAAAAANGE!!"

I think the characters who will be the LEAST (though still A LOT) amount of criticism will be Kaidan or Ashley since there is a good chance they are dead already. I believe that point has been brought up before.

I will be STUNNED if "bro" characters like Garrus, Grunt or Zaeed come out of the closet.

I am NOT sure why, but I do not think that Miranda will get as much of a backlash from fans.

[ElitePinecone]

Abispa wrote...

ElitePinecone wrote...

^ Sadly enough, I can guarantee a hundred threads like that are going to pop up in the next few months. 
RUINED! 

It's going to be worse if familiar characters are available for S/S, thogh. 

As we've seen it's extremely difficult to change perceptions that "all characters are heterosexual hurr dur RETCON RETCON CHAAAAANGE!!"

I think the characters who will be the LEAST (though still A LOT) amount of criticism will be Kaidan or Ashley since there is a good chance they are dead already. I believe that point has been brought up before.

I will be STUNNED if "bro" characters like Garrus, Grunt or Zaeed come out of the closet.

I am NOT sure why, but I do not think that Miranda will get as much of a backlash from fans.

I'm hoping that if the Virmire Survivor is the familiar option chosen, then the hubbub won't be as ridiculously over the top. 

A lot of the "OMG DUDEBRO" people posting in various threads on this board have stated very emphatically that they don't want Garrus (it's always Garrus, for some reason) to "be gay", but were rather less concerned about, say, Kaidan (and they weren't at all worried about f/f options. I wonder why?).

Still, I'd never underestimate the power of game fans to turn a molehill into a mountain. I can guarantee that there'll be anti-s/s threads, even anti-character threads, popping up no matter what Bioware do. You're right though that some would attract less vitriol than others (and the 80% of players with male Shepards, many of which may be adolescent male shooter fans, probably would've killed Kaidan or used a default Kaidan-less save in any case).

Now that I think about it, actually, the VS (plus a new character?) would be *the* least-fraught option for Bioware if they were choosing a past character to be available for s/s. Many ME players would've saved the opposite-gender VS, and default Shepards in ME2, before the introduction of the comic, killed off the same-gendered VS in any case. I'm sure they have internal telemetrics, but it's likely that only a tiny proportion of maleSheps even have Kaidan alive, and ditto for femSheps with Ashley. 

[Abispa]

ArawnNox wrote...

Back on topic:
What would your fave s/s couple do after the Reapers are defeated?

Sorry to kind of sort of get off topic. I have been wasting too much sick time on other threads where this subject comes up. Damn morons.

As for your question, it depends on the romance. IF I can have a male Shepard romance Garrus, I see that as more of a tumble with a friend than a long term relationship.

As for Kaidan or Joker, I just want an epilogue scene where my Shepard can say he is leaving the service. I believe that would be a pretty dramatic moment since up till that point all the Shepards have looked like career men, and the admission that he is physically, mentally and spiritually exhasted from being a soldier, terrorist, Specter for the last five years could be very powerful if acted well. Then Kaiden/Joker should be moved near to tears that that means Shepard will be devoting the rest of his life to him.

That would work for some of the hetero romances as well.

[bleetman]

ArawnNox wrote...

What would your fave s/s couple do after the Reapers are defeated?

Shore leave.

[ElitePinecone]

bleetman wrote...

ArawnNox wrote...

What would your fave s/s couple do after the Reapers are defeated?

Shore leave.

This is relevant to my interests. 

I'd like something definite and final, but with a large degree of player choice. The worst thing would be an open-ended or vague epilogue to Shepard's story that left the possibility of a return in future media. 

Settling down or touring the galaxy would be top of the list. All my Shepards are career Alliance soldiers, though, so I'd want to stay in the navy with any LI if that were an option. 

It really depends on the character, though.

[shepskisaac]

ElitePinecone wrote...
A lot of the "OMG DUDEBRO" people posting in various threads on this board have stated very emphatically that they don't want Garrus (it's always Garrus, for some reason) to "be gay", but were rather less concerned about, say, Kaidan

Garrus is a 'bro' and he needs to be straight so they can talk with him about nothing but all the girls they will score and all the strip clubs they will visit together.

ElitePinecone wrote...
(and they weren't at all worried about f/f options. I wonder why?).

Because "girl-on-girl sex is hawt!!!11" of course and being bisexual they will surely invite the male to join them and focus all their attention on him.

[bleetman]

Heads up people, here we go again. This must be what Groundhog Day was like.

Part of me is wishing they hadn't announced their intention to include s/s romances this time around, and just gone down the DA2 route of adding them quietly for people to discover on release. As least the hip deep vitriol wouldn't start for another nine months or so.

Modifié par bleetman, 09 juillet 2011 - 06:21 .