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Others are exced but are still on the fence nsirg the seri homophobic past.

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It’s sweet, and isn’t often that gay characters vio gam are allowed to even have a fay of their own. Gay men, I won’t lie to you, you really lucked out the man partment Mass Effect: Andromeda and that’s never been more clear when you meet Rey Vidal.

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Comg to Bware’s recent release of s beloved sci-fi saga Mass Effect Mass Effect: Legendary Edn, I knew that I wanted to re-experience the vio gam’ journey a way I had tried and failed to as a young teenager: to st my Commanr Shepard as a proud, gay man. And so, here was my gay ass, nonted by a challenge: ignore Mass Effect’s ph to have you hook up wh one (or more) of your squadmat over the urse of the first two gam, until I uld pursue Kaidan as a romantic optn Mass Effect 3. To play Mass Effect as a story where Commanr Shepard is explicly a gay, male hero is not jt to play the wag game, but to ph back agast the seri’ almost nstant heterosexual asslt on your sens.

And now my Shepard, up to that pot gay only my ternal roleplay of the character, was gog to be gay textually, too.

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But I thk there was a ncern at pretty high levels that if Mass Effect, which only had one gay relatnship, Liara -- which on paper was technilly not a gay relatnship bee she was om a mono-genred speci -- I thk there was a ncern that if that had drawn fire, that Mass Effect 2 had to be a ltle b reful.” Kazos Prime Mass Effect Legendary Edn, which lands on May 14th, is a chance for BWare to revamp the origal gam for morn hardware and sensibili. The trilogy’s origal romance optns will rry over to the 2021 edn, homophobia tact.BWare didn’t addrs same-sex romance optns the virtual prs event held last week, spe a handful of specific qutns.

If my Commanr Shepard was meant to be an extensn of myself, and if I was gay, I tratgly wonred, why uldn’t I fall love wh this man?

My own Shepard ntued to sponntly romance Liara, first Mass Effect 2's inic bon story mpaign Lair of the Shadow Broker, and then when she returned as a full-time party member Mass Effect third game beme the first the seri to fally offer official gay romanc for male Shepards—Kaidan, who uld return if he survived Virmire, beme a bisexual optn available to female and now male Shepards, jog the Normandy’s new shuttle pilot, Steve Cortez, exclively romanceable by male Shepards. As beneficial a move as was not jt to gay male players, but to bisexual men (a likewise unrserved mory by the seri, and elsewhere), I never tried eher optn myself.

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I was gay, and I didn’t irratnally persecute myself as ls than for havg tried to pursue relatnships wh women, eher gam like Mass Effect or real life, only to fd myself romantilly unterted. It was clarified that a relatnship wh the character for gay and bisexual Shepards was never planned until Mass Effect 3, and that, as “ wasn’t tentnal the origal, ” cludg now would go agast Legendary Edn’s tent of beg as te to the source material as be a bisexual romance optn Mass Effect 3, seen here a versn of his romance scene wh a male Commanr Shepard.

Screenshot: Bware/EAOne thg that has changed all those years, if not Mass Effect self, is who I am, and how I perceive myself as a gay man. “Existg a world that pretends you don’t, yet sists you take part all the pleasur offers, even if they’re not aimed at you, requir a level of vigilance choice and teractn not required of straight players, ” Kenh Shepard wr the 2019 say To Be Gay Mass Effect Is An Act of Rebelln. “Gettg through Mass Effect 1 and 2 wh your inty tact as a gay man is an act of ristance.

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In January 2008, Mass Effect famoly beme a talkg pot on Fox News, The work famoly ed the fact that the game has tasteful sex scen as an opportuny to both slg mud at the medium, and to voice their homophobic “ncerns” about lbian sex scen the fact that Mass Effect endured such harsh scty monstrat the bravery BWare showed wh s first entry the seri.

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