I know, I know, Garrus already can hook up with female Shepard and Ashley seems to fancy male Shepard. But when playing as a male Shepard, I can’t recall a single time when Garrus or Kaiden made any reference to their sexual orientation. Likewise with Ashley when playing as a female Shepard. As far as relationship options go, these characters are blank slates.
I disagree with the author here.
From his point of view, any character that hasn't outright told you that he or she is straight is a blank slate that can be defined by Bioware as bisexual in the next game. The proplem with that is that people don't usually go around telling people that they are heterosexual unless they've got insecurity issues or it is relevant to a conversation, but how many times does that come up in conversation? I can think of only one time in my life where I've straight up told someone I was heterosexual, and that was in a Marine recruiting office before 'Don't ask don't tell' was implemented, and it was one of the screening questings asked along with, "Have you ever been arrested" and "Have you done drugs."
If you think of people in your life that you'd define as heterosexual, what gives you that impression? Is it because they've told you they are heterosexual or is it because they've only dated and/or married people of the opposite sex? I suspect that with the majority of people it is the latter.
So why shouldn't the characters in Mass Effect be similarily defined? If a character has only shown interest in Shepards of the opposite sex and their known dating history only involves people of the opposite sex, then they should return in ME3 as heterosexual romance options only. This might rule out characters like Garrus, Ashley or Kaidan for same sex romance options, but Bioware kind of dug themselves in that hole by defining them as heterosexual for two games. Jack however could be made a same sex romance option for women since she has been with a least one woman in the past.
The other issue I have with making every character that hasn't told you they are straight a blank slate, is that by default it removes heterosexual characters from the game. Now everyone is either defined as gay or bi, and those that aren't defined as gay or bi, are ambiguous rather than heterosexual. This isn't an accurate reflection of reality where there is no ambiguity about heterosexual people being the majority.
The only blank slate characters should be characters that are being introduced in Mass Effect 3, or characters from previous games who have not discussed past relationships.
Modifié par Han Shot First, 08 juillet 2011 - 06:21 .
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Er, for a lot of higher order species in the animal kingdom, males have peens of various types, too. It's kind of de rigeur to have a slot and tab for reproduction.
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