Trans characters in Mass Effect Andromeda

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If we're dealing with a setting hundreds of years in the future, with interstellar (and now intergalactic) travel, with dozens of species of sapient life out there (some of which aren't even humanoid in appearance), with their own customs, religions, taboos, governments, and such, the differences between groups of humans should shrink away to triviality.  

Which is, of course, the simplest explanation we can come up with these days... you know what I almost never see in those discussion? People that are thankful for the fact that they - by shear luck - happen to life in a society and time, where their personal circumstances actually matter to ANYONE other then themselves. All I read is more more more better better better... you know why people call today's social advocates regressives? Because your judgmental narcissism will cost you everything previous generations have worked for.

Social bias my a**...

Just to let you know, Kaidan was the Asian squadmate (He's half Singaporean on mom's side). He brought that up in ME1.

Indeed.

You want to know who the true minorities are in Mass Effect and many other science fiction settings? The aliens. And no, not ones who are just humans in green makeup or humans with pointy ears either; the 'alien' aliens. White/black, men/women straight/gay, etc. we are all equal in the sense that we are all equally boring. Who wants to sit there and listen to a group of people go on about how they view their view their gender roles, or about who they find sexually attractive when an alien that feeds on silicone and communicates via x-rays is right over there?


What I wouldn't give to see an 'alien' like the Rachni given just half the screen time and narrative focus that all these human minorities and special interest groups have gotten. 

Oh, I agree. People on either extremes wear on me easily. There are assholes on both sides, people who cannot imagine Bioware or any other company not catering to them in every insignificant detail and who will wail and bitch and whine whenever everything isn't up to their most minute specifications.

Myself, I think Bioware can get preachy and show off their "progressiveness" exceedingly, and their attempts at being inclusive often miss the mark in other respects. I understand what they are trying to do, respect them for it even, but I am also glad their design philosophy is not the norm, seeing how awkward their approach ends up being more often than not. Take romances, a popular feature that is more fanservice than masterful storytelling. The developers admit as much, or at least Weekes does. Once you have decided that fanservice is a big part of your design philosophy, does it really matter once you take it to absurd extremes, be it by making almost every lady bangable for the benefit of straight dudes, as in the first Witcher game, or by meticulously planning which characters will be romanceable by whom and inflating the LGB demographic so everyone gets a fair shot, as in recent Bioware games? Fanservice is absurd by its very nature.

I am not indifferent to being catered to (when it is my tastes specifically and not those of a nebulous group I belong to supposed to all have homogeneous inclinations like "straight male geeks all love blue space bisexual babes, right?"), but at the end of the day I care most about a quality story, and the gender, sexuality, or ethnicity of the characters factors little into it. I am guessing we agree on that.

I misquoted a previous poster. The actual statistic referred to a particular age group. At any rate, my point is that regardless of the specific numbers, outliers do exist. That is to be expected, and I don't find the idea of a small squad where half the people are something other than heterosexual implausible.

Yeah, I suppose I counted him more as mixed race. So was Ashley, by the way: ME1 gave a better impression of a globalized humanity than the later games did. I also forgot Kasumi, since I never got that DLC. Even so, my point still stands that there are a lot less Asian people and a lot more of European descent than you might expect.

Not really, you just have to go to google and type, Canidian population by gender a see if there is more women or men, than look at Dragon Age Inquisition cast of companions. Again just because there are more women in Canada does not mean Bioware is going to make a game with more female companions, that is the whole point of numbers having no meaning. Also there are still less devs and female gamers, this is not new. All this problems with diversity come from changing things, unless those articles about diversity in gaming being a big lie, and it was 50/50 all along.

I mean I don't care about statistics, especially not the real world's statistic in game (except the reality simulation, but I don't like simulations too much).

No really, just that numbers mean nothing. It is not about realism it is about artists and devs bias and experiences.

It makes me laugh when people say DAI has a bias towards LGBT people

Its actually biased towards straight female elves, they get the same amount of possible options as same-sex options for males and females added together, and twice as many as a straight male Inquisitor (because they get the same each)... yet like... apparently im the only one who has noticed??? Also I think next in line is straight female humans who get 3 which is one less than elves because of Solas


Personally, so long as I get plenty of options (which is the point of an rpg) im a happy person and like having LGBT people (especially romance options) adds more options to the game, and theyre options for everyone not just LGBT people and im all for having more LGBT people in (and hey, its MEA, it could actually make sense to have lots of people of different types because personally if I was planning a space mission id take loottttsss of people from all different backgrounds and stuff because I wouldnt know what id face and you never know where different perspectives could come in useful)

Honestly? I don't care about Kaidan's origin so much, I only guessed. Kaidan just fine. The engine was shitty at white skin as well: most character's face and hand seems dirty... I hope we get much better character creator and possiblity and type. And the new engine will better handle all skin tones.

My Shepard's from Mindoir.  What does that make him?