Abispa wrote...
I am not asking for a foul language, a long diatribe or violence. But having Shepard in a**hole mode react harshly toward homosexuality would help to establish that it exists and is real to ALL Shepards in the ME universe and not some fragile porceline fan service insertion.
This is pretty much my thoughts also.
But Bioware don't have complete freedom to do whatever they want, exactly, because fans and wider society do have opinions and comments on what they put in their games.
Aliens don't exist, and no alien advocacy groups are going to be upset if we can be xenophobic douches in a video game. But plenty of people would be upset (depending on how ridiculous the media response was) if a video game included explicit homophobic dialogue that went beyond mild discomfort to actual 'renegade psycho hatred'.
Giving players the freedom to role play their own reactions to situations has to be tempererd by two things: a) the artistic vision of the developers (from what we've seen, the writers prefer universes that are liberal from modern perspectives, and certainly integrate feminist themes into the writing, if not the art direction) and
the real-world constraints on markets, media and so on.
In an ideal world where this game was being made purely as art, including the full range of human experiences would be almost obligatory - but Bioware are working in the real world and some things are very clearly off limits. They might judge that this is one of them, and opt to play it safe® with less emotive dialogue.
For all we know, indeed, attitudes have changed so much by the 2180s as to make the issue irrelevant, and so including renegade options is a moot point.
That's exactly the sort of reasoning Bioware could use - justifiably, since it's their universe - to explain not giving players the option of responding harshly to s/s advances. After all, some elements of Shepard's personality are set in stone, and we can assume that even the most 'ends justifies the means' person wouldn't necessarily have a problem with people's private lives if it didn't relate to the mission. Remember that 'renegade' refers to the attitude to the mission, rather than (well, in theory) personal morality or 'evil'.
Retour en haut
)
