Mass Effect Andromeda Skepticism thread

Having to? What are you talking about?

That much is obvious, but I think the point he made is that a person like Krem would be accepted.

Thanks, you said it way better than i ever could. I am just a bit worried as in the next Dragon Age game we might get our first transsexual companion and possible love Interest, Maevaris. I want them to handle it better than they did Krem, make it feel natural and not dropped in the dialogue tree out of the blue. We'll see when the time comes. Over to being skeptic about ME:A.

True enough. It just made Sten's whole "women can't be warriors" thing seem strange. Maybe we didn't know the Qun, but I assumed a Sten would know it pretty well. The new lore opens up a whole can of goofy worms.

It's their world, and they do an amazing job with it, but I feel their desire to address real world injustice may have clouded their judgment in this case. It's an opinion, not a fact, and not something I care to debate at length, since I'm in pain, and that debate has played out as many times as the Reapers' Cycles.

That's not the messy part. What about the reverse? Do transgender women suddenly become men, again, while they are soldiers? It's just not sensible at all.

The rest of the Qun makes sense to me. I wouldn't want to live under it, but I understand their logic and motivations. (I even think I have surmised its origins, but that's a different thread.) This transgender bit, though, is silly. It was tacked on for Krem, and needlessly so. Who cares if the Qun accepts Krem? He's a Vint, anyway. Bull could've expressed his personal thoughts on the matter, and that could've been the end of it. We don't need the Qun to validate it. As it is now, we have this weird side bit of the Qun that seems out of sorts. It will almost have to be revisited, if only to demonstrate how "un-stupid" it actually is.

I would say that Krem was unimportant enough to the overall experience to where I didn't have any issues with how he was handled. He's a side character with very little dialogue. I haven't played Inquisition since 2014 and I literally don't remember a single conversation I had with him. I don't remember how the topic came up, and I don't remember how the replies went.

I do remember that I didn't have to opt into that conversation, though. So it being "forced down our throats" is actually a load of IronBullshit.

As for the topic of doing quests centered around companion's personal issues, that's, as far as I know, in every single Bioware game, and most RPGs as a whole. It doesn't really matter if the world is ending, people have their own shit to do too. Complaining about those kinds of missions is actually really stupid.

Hell, the world could be ending right this second, and we'd still be on the internet arguing about fucking video games until the day we all die. Humans are petty. People care about their lives and the people in them. That would never stop being the case, regardless of whether or not the world was ending. Especially when there's times of peace to actually think about your own problems, such as what Haven, Skyhold, the Normandy, and the party camp offers.

If you hate Dorian's mission because it's "not about demons" or the end of the world or what the hell ever, I'm sorry to say that you probably have some other issues you're not addressing.

But nothing Sten actually said is contradicted. Krem isn't a woman.

Exp is exp

He has similar banters with Morrigan, Leliana, and Wynne as well

@element Zero , That's fair, tbh. I hope they do end up addressing it. Not just because I would like more explanation and detail on the matter, but also because BioWare is pretty good at respectfully handling these issues. Not perfect, mind you, but it does create a small sense of pride when a game you like allows everyone to feel included without becoming a shallow political message. I like inclusion. I just hate the compromises some developers make to have it.

I don't see why he'd be wrong about that. The Qun runs on Insane Troll Logic anyway; it's not like they'd care what Krem has under the codpiece as long as he's fulfilling his duties under the Qun. 

This is definitely how I'd write it, moving forward. It's the only way that works with established lore, honestly. We'll see how BioWare decides to handle it.

With tamassrans, they may not care how one identifies, as long as the person continues to fulfill their role. As long as you don't seem to be having some type of existential crisis, maybe you escape the reeducators as a tamassran?