But thankfully they'll be mxm romance in ME3, which is making a lot of people happy. More specifically, Bioware fell to the 'girlxgirl = hawt and okay', but 'guyxguy = GASP no (male!)Shepard can't be gay!' trap, which I almost find as being worse then if they just didn't include it in the first place (seperating it from their first Star Wars game, which did have a lesbian romance option but no gay male one, but Juhani felt much less 'look, girl on girl is sexy lol' then Liara did). I can understand if the simple explanation for Academagia is that 'It's too time consuming to write', but I wish that even if they won't allow a gay romance in game, they would allow us to play our character as gay without writing them as automatically heterosexual. And that's my opinion, expressed as politely as possible. (.some specific notes about the game.)Īnd the person who says that the only way to please them is to restrict options for others is, if you ask me, the one who deserves it least. They don't see anything wrong with having things set up to suit them, what's everyone's fuss all about? That's the way it should be, any everyone else should be used to not getting what they want. They're so used to being catered to that they see the lack of catering as an imbalance. You can write it off as "political correctness" if you wish, but the truth is that privilege always lies with the majority. If your attempt is to convince BioWare developers, I can tell you that you do in fact make your opinion less convincing by doing so.Īnd if there is any doubt why such an opinion might be met with hostility, it has to do with privilege. I have no doubt that any opinion expressed on these forums is shared by many others, but since none of them have elected a spokesperson you're better off not trying to be one. If you wish to express your personal desires, then do so. More than that, I would question anyone deciding they speak for "the straight male gamer" just as much as someone claiming they speak for "all RPG fans", "all female fans" or even "all gay fans". The majority has no inherent "right" to get more options than anyone else.
The "rights" of anyone with regards to a game are murky at best, but anyone who takes that stance must apply it equally to both the minority as well as the majority. and that's ignoring the idea that they don't have just as much right to play the kind of game they wish as anyone else. We have good numbers, after all, on the number of people who actually used similar sorts of content in DAO and thus don't need to resort to anecdotal evidence to support our idea that their numbers are not insignificant. We have a lot of fans' date=' many of whom are neither straight nor male, and they deserve no less attention. The romances in the game are not for "the straight male gamer".
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