Mass Effect 2 cut queer romances because of media backlash

[ZMOT]

Well I for one will NOT purchase this game when it comes out!

why would you rebuy something when you already know how it ends?

 

[Big Blue Titties]

However, the heavy and incessant backlash from mainstream media outlets like Fox News caused the BioWare team to back off of pansexuality, and swap Jack's romance options to male Shepard only late in development.

I'm convinced this is BioWare retconning reality to seem more woke. If the Jack romance was truly designed as an option available to females from the start, why didn't they get to the point of recording dialogue for her like they did with Mass Effect 1's romance options?

 

[FunPosting101]

No link to an archive of the Sex Box article? For shame.
The Sex-Box Race for President

Man, that shit's a blast from the past. It's hard to remember when the conservatives were the moral guardian types sometimes.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Mass Effect 2 was a completely pointless game due to the galaxy brain move of making the plot about assembling a badass crew and then allowing it to die in the final mission, meaning they can't be used since they are Schrödinger's characters.

 

[Whoever]

Doesn't Mass Effect 2 have a bunch of bi romance options? Maybe someone with braincells told the devs that pansexuality isn't a real thing and they misinterpreted that as "cut the Jack romance!"

This just reeks of them trying to gain back favor with fans by taking shots at the easiest possible target.

 

[Drain Todger]

>Everyone's favorite biotic criminal, Jack from Mass Effect 2, was originally meant to be pansexual but was changed due to negative feedback from Fox News, according to The Gamer.
Lol, no it wasn't. They cut out some of the fag shit because sales absolutely sucked for the first game in non-western countries where homosexuality is either outright illegal or heavily frowned upon. I also find it hilarious how stories like this about a topic that hasn't even been talked about in a while suddenly get aired by a myriad of outlets parroting each other from out of nowhere. It's almost like (((someone))) gets all of the "journalistic" outlets to say the same thing in order to control public opinion.

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I still remember how, during GamerGate, GGers who were digging deep into some of that shit found that a bunch of different think tanks like DiGRA where people sat around theorizing on how to add more woke shit to games were behind the journos, and all these journalists shared the same mailing lists and parroted each other’s stories, etc.

There’s nothing organic about video game journalism. It’s suffused with propaganda pieces written by brainwashed college kids who often aren’t very good at games and would rather be doing literally anything else.

 

[Bass]

When you think about it, the gay romance options aren't really the most offensive thing about Mass Effect's romances. 3/4ths of them are interspecies romances, so the game promotes bestiality more than anything.

That and Tali is the only one with an ounce of personality anyways.

 

[More AWS-8Q Than You]

That and Tali is the only one with an ounce of personality anyways.

Casey Hudson wanted everyone to love his Blueberry Waifu, but people loved Tali and dem hips. I wonder if he was bitter and that's why he made the Quarian reveal so shitty.

Also, Garrus and Tali's bits together in ME2 were great.

 

[Pentex]

Hey, LGBTQROFLMAOs, we have this mass murdering space pirate for you to fap to. Don't worry about her mental instability or homicidal ways. She has a buzzcut! And tattoos! You like buzzcuts and tattoos, right?

I would be more insulted than anything else.

Also, Tali is best girl.

 

[Secret Asshole]

Its a bit late for this article, isn't it?

 

[Snekposter]

Also, Tali is best girl.

Don't forget what her class in ME1 is: Quarian Machinist. Just as handy with a lathe as a shotgun.

(That said ME1 Liara best girl. Fite me, fag.)

 

[Miller]

Its a bit late for this article, isn't it?

There's a remaster coming out next month I think, but yeah it's ridiculous to bring that topic now.
Wasn't the real issue coming from the Tumblr fans who wanted every character to have a gay option? I remember that it's what pushed Bioware to turn every squadmate bisexual in ME3.

(That said ME1 Liara best girl. Fite me, fag.)

I like ME1 Liara, she didn't have that slutty/ASMR voice that they gave her in ME2 and 3.

 

[Balr0g]

There's a remaster coming out next month I think, but yeah it's ridiculous to bring that topic now.
Wasn't the real issue coming from the Tumblr fans who wanted every character to have a gay option? I remember that it's what pushed Bioware to turn every squadmate bisexual in ME3.


I like ME1 Liara, she didn't have that slutty/ASMR voice that they gave her in ME2 and 3.

Wait what? ME3 didn't have much BI characters (Liara and Kaidan come to mind but nothing else there were some gay options too). Are you perhaps mistaking it for Dragon Age 2? Because in that game EWERY romance option was bisexual

 

[Quintex96]

Wait what? ME3 didn't have much BI characters (Liara and Kaidan come to mind but nothing else there were some gay options too). Are you perhaps mistaking it for Dragon Age 2? Because in that game EWERY romance option was bisexual

Ashley is also a bi romance in 3. The whole virmire survivor romance in 3 always makes me laugh because if you romance them as the same gender it seems like they turn gay after a traumatic head injury

 

[April Ryan]

Ashley is also a bi romance in 3. The whole virmire survivor romance in 3 always makes me laugh because if you romance them as the same gender it seems like they turn gay after a traumatic head injury

No she isn't. I remember people got kind of pissed off when Kaiden could go gay but Ashley was only straight.

 

[mr.moon1488]

Get fucked game journoscum. Why no articles on the absence of gay pride celebration for Middle East game developers?
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Lol, I love based Russia being on that list.

 

[Quintex96]

No she isn't. I remember people got kind of pissed off when Kaiden could go gay but Ashley was only straight.

I was about to call you out but you're right. I must be confusing her with the reporter or something.

 

[Pentex]

Don't forget what her class in ME1 is: Quarian Machinist. Just as handy with a lathe as a shotgun.

(That said ME1 Liara best girl. Fite me, fag.)

How can girl marine and space smurfette even compete?

 

[Dave.]

Who cares about romance in a game? Literally every RPG I’ve played I’ve never taken advantage of that and sometimes I never even know it’s there.

 

[Goodbye Horses]

Who cares about romance in a game? Literally every RPG I’ve played I’ve never taken advantage of that and sometimes I never even know it’s there.

Even in Dragon Age Origins I have Alistair fuck Morrigan to make the elder-god baby rather than do it myself. This is all down to Black Isle introducing this shit in Baldur's Gate 2. Screw them and their waifu simulator bullshit.