Mass Effect romanc, by the numbers: How gay mal have been shafted | Stevivor

Contents:

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

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.

MORE GAY ROMANC

Origal story (29 March 2017): An -pth look at the romance optns available the Mass Effect anchise has revealed that gay mal have, by far, the least number of possible pairgs. Data gathered by Nic Watt, gay male Founr and Creative Director at the Sydney-based Nnooo gam velopment and publishg stud, shows that those who play as a gay male the four available Mass Effect gam n only romance 5 non-playable characters.

Straight female Shepards or Ryrs n romance 12 love terts, followed by gay femal at 14 and fally straight mal wh 21 potential panns.

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

Gay mal were not prented wh the opportuny for a same-sex romance until Mass Effect 3, when shipmate Kaidan Alenko (above) was ma available alongsi Alliance pilot Steve Cortez (below). Gay female relatnships have been possible sce the origal Mass Effect and bisexual squadmate, Liara T’Soni. Femal of any sexual orientatn had equal numbers of suors the first three Mass Effect tl – 1 each the origal, 3 each ME2 and 5 each ME3 – until gay relatnships managed to outnumber straight on 5 to 3 the recent Mass Effect: Andromeda.