All of the LGBTQIA characters Mass Effect - Gaymg Magaze

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• MASS EFFECT ROMANC, BY THE NUMBERS: HOW GAY MAL HAVE BEEN SHAFTED
• MASS EFFECT 2 NEARLY HAD ANOTHER GAY ROMANCE OPTN WH JAB TAYLOR, ACRDG TO EX-BWARE ANIMATOR
• MASS EFFECT 2 ALMOST HAD ANOTHER GAY ROMANCE, WH JAB
• MASS EFFECT 2 ALMOST FEATURED GAY ROMANCE OPTN WH JAB TAYLOR
• JAB FROM MASS EFFECT GAY ROMANCE WAS CUT BEE “AMERI WASN’T READY FOR IT”
• MASS EFFECT LEGENDARY EDN LETS GAYS BE THEMSELV WH NEW ROMANCE MOD

MASS EFFECT ROMANC, BY THE NUMBERS: HOW GAY MAL HAVE BEEN SHAFTED

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. There were no gay male relatnships and a very limed spe for lbian romanc.

Bware add two new gay characters to the Normandy crew: specialist Samatha Traynor and shuttle pilot Steve Cortez.

Bware has claimed that a gay relatnship wh Kain, one of the Normandy crew, wasn’t even planned – a stg gay men mt have felt when playg the game.

MASS EFFECT 2 NEARLY HAD ANOTHER GAY ROMANCE OPTN WH JAB TAYLOR, ACRDG TO EX-BWARE ANIMATOR

I remember, wh amement and sadns, a banner mon on the Bware foms at the time ed by those who wanted a b of gay Shepard their liv. Others are exced but are still on the fence nsirg the seri homophobic past. But ’d be wrong to ny that the Mass Effect seri hasn’t had some posive impact on gaymers.

MASS EFFECT 2 ALMOST HAD ANOTHER GAY ROMANCE, WH JAB

Steve is the first gay love tert for Male Shepard. Introduced Mass Effect 3, Steve Cortez is the very first gay love tert for a Male Shepard. Gil is gay, and as such n only be romanced by a male Ryr.

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.

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. The trilogy’s origal romance optns will rry over to the 2021 edn, homophobia tact.

MASS EFFECT 2 ALMOST FEATURED GAY ROMANCE OPTN WH JAB TAYLOR

Why not have the optn to have homosexual relatns? Though perhaps for a big anchise like Mass Effect, which is meant to appeal to the largt dience possible, homosexualy was nsired to be too ntroversial for the general public (see the backlash agast the female Shepard-Liara scene the first game).

" So would cludg homosexualy make "rated R"?

JAB FROM MASS EFFECT GAY ROMANCE WAS CUT BEE “AMERI WASN’T READY FOR IT”

Meanwhile, Muzyka suggted that different anchis offer different choic pendg on the fn of the character, and for Mass Effect 2, the optn of homosexualy wasn't one the velopers cid to offer to do you thk? Do you thk that BWare played safe this time by leavg out the optn for homosexual relatns?

Mass Effect: Legendary Edn Is a Chance to Make Amends Wh Gay Men.

The velopment team of Mass Effect 2 was a pretty progrsive, open-md team, but I thk there was a ncern at pretty high levels that if [the first] 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. While the first Mass Effect featured one ostensibly non-straight romance optn (female Shepard and Liara), Mass Effect 2's bigger st offers no full non-straight romance for female Shepard and no gay optns for male Shepard at all.

MASS EFFECT LEGENDARY EDN LETS GAYS BE THEMSELV WH NEW ROMANCE MOD

BWare fally troduced an array of non-straight romance optns Mass Effect 3, wh multiple gay and bisexual characters among that game's crew. The clud the seri' first gay male relatnship choic and the first characters tablished nonilly as gay and lbian, rather than as a choice for both male and female Shepard. 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. 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.