Lightice_av wrote...
Well, what would you suggest for those reasons? Time constraints? Practically all the content exists for ME1 even though it was never used, so it doesn't seem likely. Sometimes developers get excited over an idea, do it, but then get shot down by the marketing or publisher who review the final product.
I don't think the marketing department gets a say in what content stays or is removed from the game. As for the publisher, I have a suspicion that EA has given BioWare quite a bit of leeway to decide how they make their games. In fact, almost every time someone claimed it was pressure from EA that caused something in Dragon Age's development to be changed, one of the developers would come on and say that it was their own decision.
There are so many aspects to making video games that it's impossible to really know why it was removed without someone explaining it. It could have been something as mundane as the reason why Shale was originally cut from the game - the model was too large that it had problems pathfinding through doorways. There could be an untold number of bugs or glitches based on the content that they may not have been able to fix it in time of release. Maybe they didn't finish animating the actual sex scene, who knows?
If they used the same characters for ME2, I would also consider this, but since they use almost entirely new cast, I don't consider this likely. Ofcourse it's also possible that the content was removed to avoid a different kind of controversy; according to people studying files hidden in the game disk, all the planned homosexual romances were with aliens. Maybe the same marketing team decided that it would imply that homosexuals are freaks. Yeah, Liara is an alien, but also far more human-like than any romanceable alien in ME2. The sad fact is that sometimes content gets made only to be cut out in the last minute over some minute issue.
I agree that minute issues can often cause content to be cut, but I don't think it's from any worry over controversy. BioWare has a long history of including same-sex relationships, starting with Juhani in KotOR, to Silk Fox and Sky from Jade Empire and Leliana/Zevran in Dragon Age. It's illogical to think that there would suddenly be concern for Mass Effect, especially since there is nothing that separates Mass Effect so thoroughly to warrant removing content they spent creating.
Indeed. I don't think it was necessary for Mass Effect to have non-mainstream romances, or any romances at all. I didn't think that a videogame romance could be anything but embarrasing and silly in when I started ME1, but I was proven wrong. But it did have a non-mainstream romance in more ways than one with Liara. And ME2 has even stranger romances with Thane and especially Garrus, the latter something that I wouldn't have believed in a million years when I saw the petition threads.
You forgot Tali.
Bioware has now consistently added just about every kind of non-mainstream romance option imaginable (without even dirtier imagination than Garrus-fans, anyway), except M/M, and it's become extremely conspicous in its absence. There are few excuses to exclude the option, at this point. Kelly Chambers was also rather embarrasing, since she confirms that FemShep can be lesbian towards humans, but does it in a rather shallow manner, and without the Paramour-acheievement.
Considering some of the other... issues with the game, I think BioWare really bit off more than they could chew for the second one. With 12 characters at launch, each with their own recruitment and loyalty missions, plus trying to put so much emphasis on the decisions in ME1, plus trying to do six romances, plus have an epic story to match the first... I really think they ran out of time and just started cutting their loses halfway through development.
Jimmy Fury wrote...
I believe the reason Casey gave was something along the lines of resources being limited and needing to conserve disc space so they had to cut back on some things. This included the s/s relationships with Kaidan and Ashley because they were perceived to be the least popular.
If true... Vindication!
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