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Unless you don't have a lover or if you couldn't invite them to the party. 

you can skip the individual meetings..optional.

Kaidan can be dead... optional.

you can choose to have a lover... optional.

Shepard takes the glass of what is stated to be wine from the waiter but if we're gonna be pedantic (and we are being pedantic) the drinking is inferred not actually physically shown. besides.. optional meeting. in an optional dlc.

Well this is interesting.


Hopefully we are not gonna get a repeat of DAI for male protagonists

remember that time they forced shepard to do lines of red sand off writhing sweaty asari stripper bellies? smh

So because the game has that kind of stuff, players should just accept that being forced on their characters? Kind of defeats the purpose of a role-playing game if you can't, you know, role-play how you want. 

Do you think that the game also forces extra-marital sex on the player?  If you want to be absolutely free of adult references in an RPG, buy only RPGs that are rated "for Everyone"  The rating system basically says you are going to be exposed to those things IF you buy that game.  Doesn't matter if it's an RPG or a Shooter. 

I was actually listening to a fascinating interview by Patrick Weekes...yesterday...and I am glad I got a chance to use it today.  But, during it, he was talking about writing the Tali scene where you invite her up to the cabin verses any of the stuff which happens on Rannoch.  Wheras he wrote that Shepard and Tali had to have a friendly conversation more or less because you invited her up to your cabin.  Thus you would have to care about the person in question.  You would have to be friendly with her to ask her up.  If you did not care about her, at least in some way, or weren't somewhat of a friend with her, you would not invite her up.  Whereas the Tali scenes in Rannoch, since you had to take her along...to advance the plot in the game...he wrote those scenes differently and with a mind where someone might have Tali on the squad who did not care about her or even like her.  

As far as the Role Playing is concerned it is relatively easy to role play around this sort of thing.  Head canon your Shepard does not actually drink.  Head Canon it is a non alcholic beverage.  If its that big of a deal to you in some of these scenes that are being discussed work arounds are possible, and without doing huge mental gymanstics. 

It was Javik.  

Darn, I missed that in how many PTs?

For some things there is no way to work around it. For example there is no way to get around our character swearing when that is part of an autodialogue you have no control over. 

No, I have not. Furthermore, that is not a good comparison since that's not the only times Shepard does it. 

The only time Shepard is forced to drink in the Citadel dlc is with Joker at the beginning. Shepard takes 2 sips of whatever drink. The rest  is optional. Most of the time when I play the dlc, I stop after the gameplay part, ignore the party and meetups to finish my playthrough.