Underwhelming Gay Romance Options In Mass Effect: Andromeda Disappoint Many Fans

Why do you care about facial animations? These characters are not real, ITS A GAME, they're not supposed to be real people. 

Why do you care about good writing? ITS A GAME, if you want good writing read a book.

Why do you care about character customization? ITS A GAME, all that armor and clothing is just pixels rendered on a screen none of it is real.

What a stupid argument. People play games for different reasons, for many of us its to escape and be immersed in a world we will never inhabit in our dreary "real" lives. When are we ever going to get to be part of a team of ragtag space badasses and fight with them, befriend them, fall in love with them? The fact of the matter is Bioware set the standard for escapism like this, and to see them take such a massive step back for one of their core fanbases is disappointing. If you don't care about it personally good for you. I'm sure there are plenty of other aspects of these games you do care about and would hate to see ignored and disrespected. Send your comment to yourself then and see how it makes YOU feel. 

Yeah, the writing across the board isn't great so I'm not surprised that the straight romances aren't exactly Oscar-worthy on that front but  you can still see that a lot more effort went into them, especially on the animation front. Not to mention that her character as a whole gets more and better content than either Gil or Reyes who didn't even get faces of their own.

Sh*t I'll be honest as a straight dude Reyes seemed to have the best potential story content... but yeah Gil/Reyes had ME1 CC presets/archetypes.  I'd trade Cora's animation for a better storyline romance/content wise.

Not surprising.. BW games are like a magnet to "certain people".

Also: Most romances in this game a superficial shit... just saying.

You guys can't just agree to disagree? Really?

Yes, sad but true... especially if you imagine what shitstorm would have happened if straight guys were in our position. But I'm glad that there are at least some people who are empathic enough to sympathize with our situation...  

Bioware should have stuck with the four bisexual characters approach... or playersexual or whatever.

Not because romance-gating sucks. I kind of like it for replay value. But because of discussions like these. Somebody will ALWAYS feel excluded if you start down this road of "presentation". It feels like ticking a box. It's hypocritical, especially considering how gay men are still underrepresented in comparison. So what's the point?

I really wish developers would focus on writing good characters again and treat romances as a small side adventure. I strongly oppose the romance madness that Bioware has engaged in since DAI to please everyone's special sexuality. We had EIGHT romances, now we have TEN, I heard? That's crazy. That's going down the dating sim road, and fast. Bioware romances aren't even well done most of the time.

I never understood what was wrong about playersexual. Everybody is equal, everybody wins.

Somehow it's not realistic for some people. I hate set orientation, especially the way Bioware does it. They typecast gay characters because they said that "it has to make sense" for gay characters to be gay, meaning that sexuality has to define a character instead of a character happened to be gay. Whenever set sexuality is in the game, gay players always get the scraps and the leftover. The bisexual characters are playersexual instead of bisexual because they are created for the opposite sex before switching it for the same gender. It's very obvious and blatant in this game where Peebee rides an invisible dick while Scott stares at the sky instead of Reyes.

As for the Cora thing while I don't think there is any problem with Cora being straight I think I understand where some of these people are coming from. Bioware always seem to make their lesbian or bisexual female characters quite feminine, girly, quirky ect. The "butch" women are always straight or at least unromancable. I think they do this to avoid stereotypes but it's kind of silly because they just end up perpetuating other stereotypes and ideas about women who aren't heterosexual.

Like it's almost as if some straight people think it's progressive that a character like Jack isn't interested in women, because well THAT would be a homophobic stereotype about lesbians. Even though there are plenty of lesbians with that kind of look and plenty of lesbians into women with that kind of look. Same goes for gay men and characters like Dorian who was criticised for being too stereotypical.

Also I've seen plenty of comments and tweets ect from straight men complaining that Suvi is a lesbian, but nobody made a collage of those to bash that part of the fanbase with did they.

I'm straight and I would gladly romance Jaal as Scott after my Peebee and Vetra playthrough, I just want more Aliens they are the stars of this series. Also Cora looks good to me, I get a 80's sci-fi vibe with her appearance.


Gil looks like a minor npc to me and the fact that he is at the back of the ship not help.