Alucard788 said:
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That would actually make sense in the context of the world of ME3. Considering what they said here http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/99710-BioWare-Explains-Why-Theres-No-Homosexuality-in-Mass-Effect-2 which well...it seems like to me they completely ignored the 120 pound blue alien in the room.
Why do you guys think? How should they handle this?
How they should've handled it: Make male homosexuality available or even existent from the start to not pigeon hold themselves
How they should handle it: Make male homosexuality very scarce in the game world. One, maybe two couples or just one couple and one solo gay guy at a club is all you see. Make it seem like it was part of the universe all along, but it's just in such a rarity that no one ever payed mind to it. Explain during the gay romance that the reason male homosexuality and female homosexuality (barring asari) is so rare is because of how every race views relationships in terms of genetic offspring.
_This ties into why the asari don't like "purebloods" and asari on asari romances- because they fear genetic mutations like the Ardat Yakshi and find the lack of additional race DNA to be bad (insulting?) and that it stagnates their gene pool.
_This concept that relationships need to have babies at the end is something thoroughly discussed in Mass Effect 1. It can be utilized to it's full potential to explain the lack of same gender relationships in ME up to this point (except with asari), and can bring more drama into pre-existing cross-species relationships. Relationships = babies. Cross species and homosexuality = no babies, in turn = Society at large: "Not acceptable"
Why they can't handle it: Thanks to the creators being awful ignorant retconning writers, Mass Effect 2 broke apart the idea that was unique (relationship must = babies) with how extras conversed, namely the quarian and the turian hitting it off in the bar on Illium (I think that's the name). There's also the "Fleet and...whocares" movie that's mentioned and the utter lack of mentioning this societal ideal from either Tali, Thane, or Garrus. Or anyone, really. No one mentions something so important that was clearly established in the first game. Quarians and turians are just assumed to be so understanding of a cross species relationship, despite being defined as hard-asses about everything.
_The result of the bad science and lazy retconning in Mass Effect 2 leads to the inability to clearly and understandably explain why something so fundamental (Over 60-70 hrs traveling between galaxies and not a single gay man/gay couple not involving asari? ...That's just stupid...and creepy) was never part of the universe to begin with.
How they will handle it(?): My educated guess is that Bioware's writers will either make homosexuality an on-ship/player-driven discovery only (meaning the rest of the universe will still have no sign of being gay, yet the characters are now totally fine with being gay),
or they'll go overboard on trying to make homosexuality a part of ME and have numerous extras spouting off "witty" exchanges about how gay they are, trying to make us think that "lulz there were always gay people, silly". No, there wasn't. But there probably will inexplicably be en masse now.
_If they decide to take ques from Dragon Age then there'll probably be characters sexually harassing us to let us know they are in fact options for gay romances now, and when we turn them down they'll call us everything but homophobic and not like us anymore...or they'll just continue harassing us.
Between the points I just made and the beautiful example (golden one really) of how Bioware has no concept for continuity, especially in characters and it's executives' own statements, that Alucard788 pointed out, it's pretty much obvious to say that: All in all, Bioware done fucked up.
At least gay gamers can have fun now. If they manage to disregard the blatant retconning and grotesque lack of continuity, that is. Tali fans did with her health after all. Have at it! Just because Bioware doesn't know it's ass from it's elbow doesn't mean you should deprive yourself of fun. To help me through my long nights of tossing and turning, I think of Mass Effect as "just a game" instead of "this game is an experience/is a great piece of work" like I do with certain other game titles. That way I can have fun with the game instead of ranting on and on about how bad the writers at Bioware are.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go romance Tali again and bite my fist when she talks about her immune system to keep me from punching the TV. Tatta! /jk
