LegendaryBlade wrote...
lillitheris wrote...
Baihu1983 wrote...
Why should every character suddenly be BI?
They're not bisexual…they're either straight or gay, depending on which you play.
I mean, you're not arguing about Mordin being both alive and dead at the same time because that can happen in different playthroughs? 
Also, Tali was supposed to be romanceable by both – you can actually see it in the parts that didn't get cut out of ME2. (She's got some suggestive dialogue, plus the LotSB dossier gives you some more details regardless of Shepard's sex.)
This argument is so ridiculous I honestly don't understand why people still think it works. Whether or not you access part of a character doesn't mean that who the character is changes; if you never dig in to Wrex's past in ME1 to find out about the fight with his father that doesn't mean it didn't happen or that it happened differently. Characters are built, fleshed out, and then put in to a story. When you start saying that the personality and essence of those characters changes just because you want them to be one way or another you make the world less fleshed out, less real. You compromise the whole story and the characters within it, you begin to remove depth and structure.
It's perfectly valid. You may not
like it, and that's fine, but it's a completely logical argument. The characters in any two runs aren't the same.
If we go into
ad absurdum territory, consider this
exact parallel: why is a given LI (let's say Garrus) attracted to female Shepard
no matter what she looks like, and
no matter whether she's a renegade or not, no matter what she decides, no matter how she treats other people…? Realistically, all of those would be significant factors in attraction. The answer is that Garrus isn't written to have a realistic, static preference.
You want realistic? Out of N potential LIs for each sex, only 1 or 2 would
actually be attracted to them in any given run, and weighted for humans. That could be randomized, even.
The members of your crew, the people you meant on the Normandy, are meant to feel at least somewhat like real people. And like it or not, that often means that some things just don't fly romantically. If anything, Tali should of gotten an "Uhhh, I don't swing that way" dialogue like the one they shoehorned on to Traynor.
But, again, Tali was originally written
the exact opposite of that. There's nothing in her character that is affected one way or another regardless of her preference.