Sexuality in Mass Effect

Straight men of color do not like tits and ass?  Only White men?

My world view is shattered.

I think Bioware does a poor job at sexualization in general with their games.

Straight guys are you overwhelming consumer for these types of games. It's like chick flicks for men. You might be able to make a male-targeted movie that has the aspects of chick flicks, but they are rare and don't often do well.

FYI, the movie I'm talking about is Brian's Song.

Bioware revealed the stats themselves for both ME2 and ME3. 80% in ME2 played Male Shepard, 82% in ME3 -- and even if you account for female players rolling a Sheploo, the number disparity puts male players as the majority when it comes to the people playing Mass Effect. A poll by PCGamer found that the four most popular romance options were all females, with only one being bisexual: Liara, Miranda, Tali and Ashley. Hell, Garrus was beaten out by Kelly Chambers; though if it's any consolation, PCGamer also rated Garrus the most popular squadmate (he's damn near tied with Liara officially for usage). I mean, a lot of it's supposition and from different sources, but there's no easy way to track these things, at least not with Bioware's lips sealed.

No, only white straight males like some giant colossal​ tits and butts. Females, and black straight male don't like that. Boobies and booties are a social construct made by white straight doctors. Fuckin' patriarchy.

This is coming from the same children who stereotype gay-bi people after Cora's hair.

Never change, fandom.

I think they did a great job with the male Shep and Kaidan romance... It felt very realistic to me, honestly. Reminded me of some of the times I've had with the guy I was with or talking to. And omg, they were just SO frickin cute together, it was perfect.

I had some head canon that Shep had feeling for Kaidan since ME1, but never had the chance to act on it. So when in ME3 they get together, it was just perfect when Shep was like "Yea, after all this time... you and me. It feels right"... And I actually said the same thing when I was with my first guy "It just feels right". Idk, this one just hit home for me, and I used to find Kaidan so boring, now he is a favorite of mine.

Mmm, I'm not really comparing them to other studios really, just my personal taste.  I think that it can be done well in a game sometimes, but they overuse it.

Wouldn't that just be "built for straight men" in general. Ethnicity having nothing to do with it. Actually come to think of it, what about lesbians and bisexuals? They suddenly stop liking female tits and ass too?

I do find it humorous how patronizing bioware games have to be towards heterosexual males. Loved the segment on the "yes I'm really gay" dialogue choices as I always found this funny. If someone couldn't tell what was going on without having to say you are gay twice, you'd have be dense as hell.


Would be funny to see straight versions of these.


Miranda, while bending over to tie her shoe or pick up something she dropped or just because her chest is so heavy:  "Do you want to sleep with me?"


MShep:  Sure.


Miranda: Wow I never would have guessed you are into women.  Are you sure?


MShep:  Oh I misunderstood. 

They do it well enough considering it's a feature and not the focus of the game.

That's a good point as far as the romances go.  It's voluntary and usually easy to avoid or at least put the breaks on it early.  More importance is given to romance by the devs and other players than what I give it, but it's a voluntary feature.  I was also referring to some of the comments earlier.  We get jump suits, cat suits, no suits, lol, etc., and situations where NPC's are sexualized and displayed, or something sexual can easily be inferred from a situation.  That's where I think it's overused.