Do you think Andromeda will be full of SJW narratives?

So, you decide whether it bugs/offends you based on what it is vs who you are as a person? That's not my issue with the SJW-ness in BioWare games. To me it's about honesty and I guess authenticity. You can tell that sometimes, prime example would be Patrick Weekes, is desperate to write characters to represent groups of people he isn't part of himself. Part of that isn't bad, but writers are usually at their best when they really mean what they write, so if he empathises a lot and finds a lot of narrative merit in representing more genders and sexes, more power to him but sometimes his, and BioWare's bias towards making everyone feel comfortable and welcome hurts the narrative when the writing choices become political for the sake of not treading on anyone's toes.

You can't even have characters commenting about race, I bet. That's a big internal "no-no!!" at the studio, when exactly themes such as racism, albeit with aliens, was such an important theme in the first game. They're holding themselves back to avoid the comments they'd get from transgender people attending their cons and basically threatening while going "I'm glad you wrote Krem - a transgender character who isn't either disgusting nor a monster." and granted their examples in DA2 were maybe a tad rude (a woman NPC with a deep man voice for laughs) but the fact that they're writing Krem because of that irks me. The fact that Patrick Weekes got so invested from speaking to the needy fans that attend cons and then decided to go to a Transgender bar to research for Krem and god knows if that's the biggest RL research he ever did while writing at BW... for representing a character just so the game could be "progressive.

I actually highly respect what David Gaider (former lead writer of Dragon Age) wrote here recently, on Twitter:

Not to twist his words here - he was actually talking about this in relation to the statement that games need to have socio-intellectual relevance in their content in order to be useful vs being mindless time-wasters while "people are dying somewhere in the world" and Gaider adamantly said he strongly disliked this notion for saying that games cannot be escapism, and in another tweet specifically said he didn't want games to be solely rated based on their ability to be progressive.

This by extension is how I feel about the representation thing, but unfortunately (for me, but not to others) BioWare realized at some point that they had opened the floodgates. They were making RPGs where the first choice is about representation for your player avatar. Male, female and then later a romance option that was exclusive to whichever representation you chose. This led to criticism, because we had choice but several minorities had been locked out and ostracized from the concept. At first BioWare defended this, saying that Male Shepard as they saw him was heterosexual in ME1 www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/2010/02/08/bioware-shepherd-is-heterosexual-by-choice/1 which obviously came across as "We have decided that the game we've made is for US, the heterosexual men ((and some women))" which led to a lot of angry internet-goers from all sides and slowly but steadily, tadaa, we got Dragon Age Wonderland Inquisition almost as a biproduct of synthesis which was already a big load of "everybody should be equal" crap.
I don't care how many toes I'm treading on when I speak for myself but say life is too short to compromise with every type of person you meet - I for one do not care for the increasingly excessive amount of development priority put into representing more and more sexual subgroups. Same goes for feminism and the sometimes forced "Strong female protgaonist". How about instead of using Uncharted 4 as your soapbox to speak on behalf of women (even though Neil is a man), move forward with new franchises - like Horizon - where the woman is the default and people have to deal with it. Then I'll accept it. But Mass Effect? Dragon Age? Those are settings established back in 2007 or 2008... you can't just reshape that as you please without hurting the narrative.

For Andromeda though, it's whatever. Ryder is new, he is not any sexuality "by choice" now that Bioware is smarter about it. And the futuristic setting of Andromeda also means that the contemporary nature carries with it. Characters in the game come from the mindset we have to day but thought 200 years ahead by imagination and obviously a lot of people can freely be whatever sexuality they have then. I'm still honest though and I have to say I've grown slightly less fond of the games constantly teasing me with gay and transgenderism when I do not personally want that for myself, and that's the result. Please everybody with a product and all you get is inflation out of the average user's enjoyment because maybe only a 3rd of the content was made for one particular group but they still have to ignore the other third of the content that was designed for the other sex or sexuality.

...Stuff like this is why another asteroid should just come by and end it all.

Man, I hope so, just so I can sit back and watch some people absolutely melt the hell down. That's always fun.

Im gonna be honest, this kind of bitching is really pathetic. Its so very very shallow and incredibly pathetic...like its hard to get across just how scummy and pathetic this kind of complaining is.

Who the fuck cares if there are straight, gay, bisexual, asexual or pansexual characters? why do you care?

Who the fuck cares if there are black, white, asian or hispanic human characters? why do you care?

Who the fuck cares if there are themes of capitalism or communism or any other political structure? Why do you care?

Are you telling me when you see ANY of these in a game you immediately get turned off and put the controller down? Are you that sickened by the fact that the human race is diverse? Well I guess you're shit out of luck because there just so happens to be one or two human characters in Mass Effect. If it bothers you so fucking much that Bioware is attempting to show how diverse we can be as a species, which is a plot point in pretty much all the ME games, then dont buy the game. Period.

Could we just get back to complaining about animations or something? Id much prefer that.

I expect some SJW lite. Whatever agenda Bioware puts in doesn't bother me or ruin their games.

Oh sorry, I thought we were just linking youtube videos.

While I agree with all of what you said, none of that actually has anything to do with the problem of SJW stuff. This is why i always tell people to look this stuff up. It sounds like you are referring to the widely incorrect use of the SJW term used by people who don't know what they're talking about. It gets even worse with politics when people like to use words like "leftist" or "liberal" and they don't know what those words mean. They sound "bad" to certain folks so they just use the terms incorrectly to insult others.

All same sex relationship dialog in a Bioware game is SJW narratives. Bioware is a LGBT SJW organization. And all the writers are gay too I guess. And transgendered.

Narratives? No. Present, perhaps. Full, no.

Influence? Perhaps more than ever.

There's a lot of logical justifications for 'changes' I notice in MEA compared to previous games, but they're all consistent with what you'd find the social justice activists generally support. Get back to me when Asari strippers are confirmed and I'll admit I'm a little proven wrong.

But what many seem to call 'SJW', can often just be more social liberalism than one likes. Those complainers are even more annoying to me than almost all SJWs (except my ex, ahem). Its also predictably becoming more and more of a lazy insult instead of a abbreviated but pointed critique. Typical.

At least we may be evolving past libtard and dirty hippie.

As others have suggested, the idea of colonizing an already-populated sector of space, exploiting all the resources (substitute 'oil' for 'Element Zero'), establishing a network of military dominance to ensure 'peace' - not classic SJW terrain

Rather reminds me of that GOP guy who last year said when America was settled by Europeans 'no-one was there before'.

On the other hand, I imagine there will be some missions which involved healing harmful planetary environments, helping the needy or sick, defending the weak. If 'conservatives' have decided to label that kind of thing as 'SJW storylines', I think they've given up too much ground! I'd be quietly impressed if, in honour of Pruitt, you get to massacre the indigenous Krogan on the desert world, pollute the ground and air, and steal the resources in order to make your 'business' Initiative run more smoothly...