Captain_Obvious wrote...
I really don't think a game about mass effect relays and faster than light travel is a place to quibble about certain degrees of realism. I really don't understand why people are willing to suspend disbelief in the laws of physics for a video game, but will argue incessantly about how having a ship full of bisexuals "lacks realism". Realism is being stuck on Earth doing a job you hate for less money than you are worth for people you don't like. Realism is not "space opera is sweet, tantalus dive cores FTW, but don't you retcon those darn gheys!!!" My 0.02 cents, and my opinion only.
I'll never say "those darn gheys!!!" or any similar thing, so I hope you're not putting me in a group with people who would. Please bear in mind that I already stated
twice that I have no problems with all LIs being bi if it's implemented well from the start (as it was in DA2), but I think it breaks what one would expect of humaninteraction to have all LI characters come out as bi during the final game.
There's a difference between including advanced technology as part of sci-fi world-building and reconfiguring human relationships. Unless one makes some fairly severe technological changes, human beings are still going to desire a lot of the same things in life. While Mass Effect's relay technology breaks some boundaries in physics, its main result is to make the enormous scale of the galaxy manageable; little else. That's really not sufficiently radical to make my expectations of what's realistic in terms of human desires and sexual behaviour change a great deal. For that, one would have to look further afield to some works that do interesting things with sci-fi technology when it comes to human sexuality. [i]As part of the advanced technology element of world-building[i], some novels in Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan series have elements as unusual as genetically engineered hermaphrodites and a planet populated only by men (who reproduce using donated and/or genetically-engineered eggs and uterine replicators). Iain M Banks's Culture series shows societies so technologically advanced that almost no restrictions of any kind (barring negative actions towards others) have existed at all for millennia upon millennia, leading to very different patterns of sexual realism. Mass Effect just doesn't accomplish feats like these.
Again, let me repeat that this doesn't mean it would be beyond the pale if, by coincidence, a large number of crewmembers on board a particular ship - say, all the LIs on the Normandy - turned out to be bi. That's not unrealistic, simply unusual. It would just strains credulity too much for me for all of them to be retconned at once. But, again, that is just me.
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