Tag: biowareconfessions

Well, OP, you’re not her. If you were her, you would have no reason to feel shame for doing any of the things mentioned in the confession.

But since you aren’t her, you should feel shame for attaching shame to her work. That is the only shame that belongs here, OP.

(Also, she had nothing to do with the writing on either BSG or Mass Effect. Also, not everyone thinks those two things ended poorly. While I personally do not like how ME3 ended, I didn’t particularly have any beef with the way BSG ended.)

jeweledleah:

exactly (although with new ME3 save, its still possible to save and romance Kaidan). 

and you know what kills me though.

straight dude Shep gets 2 romances in ME1, 3 romances and 1 fling in ME2, and in ME3 at least 1 guaranteed to be alive romance (and one that is pretty much a default VS) and a fling.  plus all the imported romances can be rekindled.

gay dudeshep doesn’t get anything until ME3, but in ME3 – at least one romance is guaranteed to be alive in every game.

lesbian femshep gets 2 romance options in ME1, one fling in ME2 and 2 guaranteed to be alive romances and a fling in ME3, but lets face it – this is mostly for benefit of the male players who like to play female characters and think lesbians are hot, any hint of equality is pretty incidental

straight femshep gets 1 romance in ME1, 3 romances in ME2 and no guaranteed to be alive romances in ME3, and only ONE of her ME2 romances can be rekindled.  the other is killed off with barely any romance exclusive content and third one has been character assassinated and turned into a sleezebag cheater.

THIS is why I will NEVER praise EA and Bioware for their inclusiveness.  becasue its all smoke and mirrors.  it wasn’t done to be open minded, it was done becasue PR about no m/m relationships was getting to difficult to manage.  I will praise the individual writer who wrote Steve as a great character, I will praise Patrick Weeks who made sure that Steve didn’t get killed off by default.

but I will not praise Bioware or EA as a company. 

A lesbian femShep has one romance option in ME1 (unless one uses an edited file to romance Ashley). A bisexual femShep has two options in ME1.

goddessofcheese:

yukidama:

Yeaaaaah. I wouldn’t say it actually creeps me out as much as I find them uncomfortable to the point I can’t watch them. I don’t know how to explain it. I still talk to Thane, but the skip button is pressed as soon as one of those memory scenes come up. I already know what he says anyway, might as well spare myself the awkwardness. 

I don’t mind them so much but the way it flashes around and has weird fisheye angles makes me dizzy? @.O

I always wish we had more drell interacting with each other so we could see how they deal with it in socializing and terms of manners. Do they ignore a flashback or acknowledge it? How does one hint that whatever they had a flashback to is something they want to discuss or not? Where do the stretches of emotional privacy fall for drell? This could be expanded upon in interesting ways.

Thane’s flashbacks didn’t bother me that much. But when Kelly has a Drell-flashback-recounting-moment after being rescued from the tank…that kind of creeped me out. And all of my Shepards have been freaked out by it.

Because all the Warden options in Origins totally presented being drafted by Duncan as an honor. Not as, you know, a choice between joining the Wardens or certain death/imprisonment or some other sentence with the high likelihood of death. Because that’s pretty much what it is in Origins. It’s not an honor; it’s a “get out of jail with some pretty pesky side-effects” card.

If by “having fun with your friends” you mean the new multiplayer option that has, as far as I am aware (I’ll admit I could be wrong), never been a big thing when it comes to BioWare’s RPGs, then I think you’re going to get laughed at by a lot of ME/ME2 fans.

I play BioWare games to roleplay. For me, it’s kind of like improv acting where you’ve been given a set and some other actors to play around with. Only you can look however you want to for this role without have to gain or lose weight or muscle, you can play someone of the opposite sex without, say, the director telling you your boobs are too big for you to do the role in drag. And the audience will never decide you suck.

I like the “ham-handed romance” and hope there’s a wider variety of options open to both male and female characters. It’s an interactive story. I play for THE STORY. Not the shoot-em-up. Not saying I don’t think ME combat is fun, but IT’S NOT WHY I PLAY.

So you can continue to be shocked and disgusted in your little corner of the gaming world. I will sit over here and enjoy my single-player game.

flutiebear:

stripey-dani:

tuchanka:

whattheficus:

which is why I don’t think ME3 should have entirely bi relationships

LMFAO WHY WOULD YOU EVEN THINK ME3 IS GOING TO HAVE ALL BI RELATIONSHIPS. boo hoo giving people options in an escapist fantasy game cheapens everything and supposedly limits the way people who don’t want to take those options play HOW SAD 😥

bisexuality isn’t real lol!!!!!!!!!!!!

MAKING CHOICES ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS IS JUST SO HARDDD

Herpderp at that confession. DEAL WITH IT. I fail to see what is wrong with all bi LI’s???

Well, confessor, first of all: Sebastian.

Second: Shut up.

1) As people keep having to remind you, because maybe you didn’t have his DLC, but that does not negate his existance or romanceability or his heterosexuality: Sebastian.

2) Good job insulting bisexuals/biromantics.

3) Maybe, just maybe, BioWare noticed how many people loved having mods that allowed their characters the ability to romance characters games did not originally allow them to romance. And, ya know, how many people were annoyed that they removed the recorded romance lines for fShep/Ashley and mShep/Kaiden from ME1.