I don't get why people thought the game was SJW overreach.

Not all presets could be made to appear white. I never said anything about the Ryders. You really like moving goalposts don't you. Just admit you're wrong and we can drop this.

"See, Andromeda bases its character creation heavily around nine presets. These presets are what your father's appearance will be based off, as well as allowing you to customise your twin from the same set. The problem is, presumably to keep the Ryder family looking like a family, you're not allowed to stray far from the preset.

The options for changing face shape, eye shape, eyebrow style, mouth style and nose style are now completely gone — you just have to pick the preset with the features you like best to begin with. You can also only adjust skin tone a few shades either way from the preset."

www.kotaku.com.au/2017/03/mass-effect-andromedas-character-creator-is-a-bit-shit/

And turns out you couldn't make pale/white characters in the trial. Which is the version I played. Maybe now you can drop this strange vendetta you have against me. Seeing as I am right. And you are wrong.

"Lead designer Ian Frazier has commented on Twitter about the possibility that a pale skin option might be coming in the future to Mass Effect Andromeda. While he said the team at BioWare is indeed investigating about the chance of introducing deeper skin customization, there's not something like that included in the day one patch."

Actually, you are the one moving goalposts because that is not what you said. This is what you said in the beginning of the discussion: "Wouldn't have been as controversial if you could... make custom white characters at the game's release."

You may have meant to say not all presets but what you said was that you could not make custom white characters at launch. 

Well seeing as I only played the trial - that's what I meant by "release" - some of you are just so ever trigger-happy to jump over everything I post and twist it to suit your own narrative. I can't help that.

There was clearly a lack of white skin options, Bioware admited as much, and then patched it back in.

A ME game without a single asari stripper seemed wrong. I mean, that's half their culture isn't it?

Nope. I was speaking from what I knew having played the trial. Which didn't even have white preset options. Everything I originally said is true of the trial version. Those characters you posted are not white skinned characters.

You and the other guy assumed I meant the non-trial version. Just a misunderstanding on your part, is all. Being such huge fans of the game, I'm surprised you wouldn't have purchased the trial yourselves, and then my points would have been clear to you.



John cena and his Latino gf do have nice tans though.

And it made no sense lorewise. Why wouldnt there be strippers on Kadara, to make money to pay Sloane and stay safe. The alternative is the poisonous badlands.

Going too far with your sjw wish world hurts reality and how believable your worldbuilding is.

Absolutely. However, when a few of my patreons went down that SJW road... I listened. I really thought there was something there. Heir exasperated the situation and made terrible jokes. That's what it boiled down to for me. He was being an ass and BioWare stood by him instead of hitting the eject button. I'm so damn old and confused that I'm not sure whether to praise BioWare for showing loyalty to the end or angry for not addressing it and letting it fester. The malcontent was real, but it was also profitable for YouTube. Certain topics like BioWare can ignite the YouTube community for clicks. After 1.09 and listening to these UNOFFICIAL forums... I learned that SJW conspiracy is crap. We're talking .5 % of the game. If that. I don't know. I pulled that number out of the air. Anyway, take it from me. SJW conspiracy is the competition planting seeds of hate. That's all. They don't have to do that... all they have to do is open the web page to EA's Executive Board. That's the real enemy.

I'm blinded by the virtue signaling in this thread.

Anyone else remember when we used to just play video games because they were, you know, fun?

These days it's like every single thing that happens in gaming causes it to kick off between a section of hypersensitive liberals and the less-pleasant aspects of gamergate

Gamers in general have devolved into savages that I often wonder how many of them would torture small animals if they could get away with it.

CDPR did put more progressive content into TW3, they just did it with finesse. And for the most part they didn't abandon their more hardcore material. Full frontal nudity was nixed though.

At launch the only options for a passable caucasian character were the default Scott/Sara, and Sara has that odd jaundiced tint to her.  The closest the custom options could come was a rather swarthy Spaniard look.  Several months after release they added the pale ginger option.  There aren't any options in between.  But we do have 9 variations of brown/black, so at least they got that covered.