Marta Rio wrote...
I don't like to post on these types of threads but here goes.
So let's say I play ME1 and ME2 with a male Shepherd, with the approach that I'm gay. Throughout both games, I do not engage in romances with any of the female characters. I don't even flirt with them. I ignore the Consort in ME1, even though she's the best lay in the galaxy (apparently). Still, because none of the male squadmates in the first two games are gay, they don't try to flirt with me, and I don't flirt with them (since my Shep's respectful of other people's personal sexual preferences). This means that as far as my Shep is concerned, he's a gay male, but there haven't been any other gay males aboard ship, so there hasn't been any opportunity for romance in the first two games.
Now, let's say Bioware decides to introduce a homosexual male character in the last installment of the trilogy. How is it now out of character for my Shephard to flirt/have a relationship with this character? The way I've played him from the start is as a chaste gay man with no viable partners, not as a heterosexual man.
I do think it would be out of character for any of the existing male squadmates to all of the sudden start acting romantically interested in a male Shep, but because Shep's character is based so much on an individual player's choices, I can't see how it would ruin his character for Bioware to introduce a possible gay male love interest in ME3. People talk about ruining Shepherd's character, but what character? He can be completely different from one person to the next. He doesn't exist really outside of the person controlling him (nor does he really exist at all, but that's getting philosophical...).
BTW, I'm a heterosexual female, but I do hope that Bioware gives the gay gamers an option of a LI in ME3. Everyone else has got their chance for luv, with the exception of the Volus/Elcor/Hanar/AI fetishists (but fingers, crossed for the last game, eh guys?)
DUDE. READ PREVIOUS POSTS.
I don't care how you played your Shepard, EVERYONE'S Shepard has a few things in common. In the romance department, Shepard has the options to be a space pimp that chases skirts around galaxy, or be a mission first kinda guy that is thinking about romance with these girls, but doesn't. Those are the dialogue options.
Those are your choices. Those are Shepards choices. That's what's going on in his head. He doesn't have any tendency to flirt with Kaidan, Jacob, Jeff, Presley, or any other guy for that matter. He's not a ******, he never will be.
Your fantastical assertions that he didn't romance the girls because he's into dudes are completely in your head. In reality, where things really happen, he isn't a ******. He doesn't have the options to flirt with guys for a reason.
Is this really that hard to understand?