The Character Romance thread (Official)

Yeah we keep forgeting to wear our bells and sirens (pink light of course) to let people know TEH GAY is coming! How rude of us! 

Ok, that's a good. point. The problem with all of this is that the definitions of what counts as nudity or partial nudity are so vague. If Scott being shirtless counts as partial nudity, then I suppose PeeBee showing off her navel might as well count as well. 

I think in video-game terms it means boobs but no nipples for women and partially obscured butts for men? 

Exactly right. Though a lot of the times devs do just that. Make everyone str8 (intentional or not, I don't really care, it simply sucks lol). You can see it in games with open world type of content when you go about and do sidequests:
- man approaches you with a desperate look on his face "help they kidnapped my wife... bla bla" (repeat this in various forms 47 times)
- woman approaches you with a desperate look on her face "help they kidnapped my husband... bla bla" (repeat this in varous forms 54 times)
ETC...
And then you ask "but... are there any gay chars in this world?" and the devs go on a rant about how awesomely inclusive they are and point you to a character placed in the most remote part of the game world who, if you spend 5 hours talking to, and chop 12 trees around his house while wearing a unique type of gear, during the summer solstice, will reveal he might have possibly maybe been involved with a same sex partner once before (though he/she was drunk and drugged at the time so he/she can't be sure... but only after he/she tellls you 93 stories about their opposite sex partners of course.

I'm still waiting for devs, any devs, to start trating gay people like... you know... people... lol. I want to go about the galaxy (in this case) casually and stumble upon a guy asking me to save his husband from raiders or whatever. Or 2 dads desperate to find their kidnapped son. Or etc. You get the idea. But yeah. It hasn't happened yet. Le sigh.

PS: I'm reading the last few pages, and it's very interesting so I just have to answer and comment here and there lol... that's why the spam of messages from me 

None of this bodes terribly well. Because it would mean that they actively chose not to include any real nudity in m/m scenes but DID include it in at least some of the other scenes.

It's disappointing to think that this is the direction that they've chosen to go.

Ultimately, I don't need to see nudity in the romance scenes either.  After all, until DA: I, the most anyone had gotten was some implied, partial nudity in some of the ME scenes. 

But I think, again, that this is yet another example of a small irksome thing that just adds to the cumulative small irksome things that seem to happen to gay audiences at a much more consistent rate than other groups.  Death by a thousand papercuts. 

Without a doubt.  There is ZERO confirmed information about this stuff.  For all we know, there's a dev reading this right now and rushing to make scene edits as we speak.  What?  It could happen......