Are gays (not)getting the shaft again?

We do you keep talking in plural though? Surely you wouldn't pretend to speak for the "gay gamers", right? That shit is tiresome.

Not everyone wants poorly animated vidya porn on an already perfectly enjoyable side story, I'm very glad that Gil has a fade to black and so does other people, specially since there's more than enough cringe in the game already and it's clear that the animation team had plenty of work on their hands.

And I'm certainly not disappointed in this "process" that you talk about either, Gil is my favourite m/m in any Bioware game, Reyes looks really fun and going back to the original trilogy I still think that Kaidan's m/m accident is the best romance in the trilogy, by far the better paced if nothing else.

So no, not everyone feels like the sky is falling, where I'm standing this stuff is great and it getting even better.

I never said in my post that a gay woman can't write a good gay male romance.  Of course they can and have. By all means let the non-gay writers at Bioware try writing a gay male romance. When I see one that is good I'll eat my own words.

They should hire the guy who directed the Hannibal tv series, now that a real pure homo erotic romance and they didnt even talk about anything gay, it was pure feelings, pretty beautiful.

Who would expect Hannibal would have one of the best most well done homo erotic relations ever.

So I said I wouldn't buy this game if there was no m/m squad option but because Jaal was "confirmed" as bi through datamining or whatever and I never thought BW would screw game men over like that, I let my preorder go through and I was like 20 hours into the game before I thought I'd check on all official options and I step into this shitstorm.

Well I played too much to get my money back now but they're not getting another penny from me for DLC.

This situation is like a giant "FUCK YOU!" from the ME team to all gay men... and I don't pay money just to be told I'm worthless.
Who would have thought that a Bethesda game would beat out a BW game for m/m companion romances. I seriously can't make excuses for them anymore.

The game itself isn't bad but it's not great either. Trying to play a mediocre game when I constantly feel left out of the proper experience just makes me not even want to play at all.

So good job BW, you've lost a customer. I'm sure you don't have any fucks to give about that but there you go.

I'm sure, that the "<deleted> type contents" prevents the designers to make a decent story with great content. (I mean: your comment disgusting.)

If you're right (I like to be bona fide), I don't understand, what means that "<deleted> type content", why needed this wording? Probably my English is a bit weak... so the wording really matter here.

Well seeing as you've responded negatively to anyone that brings that point up regardless of what type of language is used, you are not seeking a "dialogue".

Go to archiveofourown.org and look male Shepard/Kaidan Alenko stories. There are 1,673 of them. And I'm talking stories, meaning they could (and do) have multiple chapters. Maybe you wanted to romance aliens, and that's cool, but I don't think people really thought Kaidan was bland. In fact, I don't think people thought Steve was bland. The thing that turned me off from him was his stream of tears. (He's only got 297 stories pairing him with Shepard.) So, no, I don't think BioWare has a history of bad to mediocre gay romances. What I think is that they're not what you're looking for and, yes, I think you should have that option.

I'd be cautious in assuming the flirt option for Jaal is gone. The reason I say this is because male Ryder can flirt with Liam and Suvi but both of them are only interested in women. It's unlikely the flirt option was removed.

Amusing because I preferred the mShenko relationship to Inquisitor/Dorian.  Kaidan is more my style than Dorian.  Go figure.

I agree with you. On his own Dorian is a fine character. What Gaider tried to do was add a gay-relevant issue to his storyline. With mixed results. Some people liked it, some people thought it took away from Dorian's character.

I never played Jade Empire so I can't speak about Sky's romance. I haven't finished Andromeda. so I'm sticking strictly to Dragon Age and the original trilogy here. Unfortunately all of the gay male romances in these games, with one exception, has fallen into a stereotype or trope.  The only one that somehow manages to get to the end of the story while avoiding all of the typical gay male pitfalls is, believe it or not, Fenris. Kaidan, to me, is the best gay male romance they have done so far once you get to the relationship. However, for the first  two games he is very much a "don't ask, don't tell" gay character. Kaidan and Shepard have to act perfectly sterile around each other and never express an attraction until game 3.  The VO is there in ME, but was cut out of the game.  Kaidan's romance is good. but it could have been better.

So 1 or 2 romances out of this many attempts is not a good track record.

What the Dragon Age writers haven't figured out yet is that they have created their own trope: The hostile female elf. Practically every substantial female elf you meet in the games (Velana, Sera, Briala) are actively hostile/rude to the main character. Merrill is passive-aggressively hostile to the main character. Unless you agree with everything she says. Then she is sweet and dopey. So if they make another female elf character they need to get out of their rut and pick a different angle for her. Same thing with the gay male romances.

With gay male romance options being limited to only two non-party characters, as well as heavily censored romance scenes compared to other romance options, Mass Effect Andromeda was clearly developed with a bias against the gay male lifestyle. From the romance scene animation content, it seems clear this game was developed for straight males who would enjoy watching male-female or female-female interactions rather than offer options for anyone of the LGBT community.

While we fully support providing content that appeals to a straight audience, we believe that equal content for LGBT people could have been included without in any way negatively impacting the experience of straight players. This was simply not done out of bias - intentional or unintentional - on the part of Bioware.

We have attempted to contact Bioware for comment but they have not responded. Therefore we believe the best way to send our message is through financial means.

if you agree, we invite you to join our BOYCOTT of Mass Effect Andromeda.

If you have not already purchased Mass Effect Andromeda, please do not purchase it.
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Bioware has shown they are capable of offering equal experiences when they choose to... please help us show them it should be a standard part of their offerings and not something included when they feel like it.

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