Mass Effect: Andromeda – The Journey Ahead (The Real Big News)

The caveat then is it loses characterization that makes the characters more unique.

Ultimately I was worried about this being a problem, because honestly...and I hate to say this, but BioWare cannot keep making gay romance options the way they have been equally because then it will look unrealistic for them.

It's basically, we as an audience need to pick what we want. More dynamic characters...or slightly flatter characters but more player-centric options.

Do we go full on Power Fantasy, or have dynamic characters? 

I mean things like patches and DLC.  They ended the MP weekends for ME3 after a year as well, but I am not sure if that was because it was a year or that there might have been problems with entitlements on player's accounts if they continued.

>Console
>Say hello chaps
>Profit? 

No, it doesn't work anymore... 

I'm feeling pretty brand new here, because I didn't even know she was trans. I wasn't paying enough attention. 

Like reading the entire list they will be doing for THURSDAY is really impressive.

blog.bioware.com/2017/04/04/mass-effect-andromeda-patch-1-05-notes/

It's your typical throwaway one liner during a conversation about everything else under the sun which is, as usual, blown up into some vast conspiracy to force the evil trans stuff onto these innocent purebloods.

Basically, as it is now (rightly) unacceptable to be homophobic people have moved onto trans people.

Could be that she just doesn't fancy asari.

I didn't know that. Is it banter you get with SisRyder?

True but that was not the impression you got in the dialogue. 

It's also like when Liam, for example, says to male Ryder i'm not into guys but hes flattered. Little things like that do add up, which can be lost if it's too homogenous, basically.

It's why Dragon Age 2 got so much flak in the end, the romances felt a bit flat compared to Origins and Mass Effect. If they do go back to Dragon Age 2-style of it, I bet we would still have this conversation in the end, but from the opposite end of the spectrum as well.

BioWare cannot win anymore. 

Don't you know preferences are discriminatory and you're not allowed to have those?

Because contrary to certain media outlets of the issue the whole "trans" thing in western society is rather recent. Most would be ostracized. Half the time it is a fantasy that people want made into reality. The other half is going against the grain of actual real biology. Men cannot be literal women. They can never carry a child in a womb. Neither can women be literal men. They can never carry the tools necessary to propagate life. They only end up butchering themselves in the end.

If it weren't for specific instances talked about in the media like Bruce Jenner and this real obsession by liberals/progressives/sjw of trying to "represent" the fringe elements of society then Bioware and companies like it probably would not even consider having this in their products. Not only that but it is only recently that the whole "homosexuality" thing has taken off in western society. You will pretty much not find it in previous generations of video games on the whole.

Yet, people actually requested incestuous relations between the Ryders.



Its only a matter of time before this would be common place in video games as homosexuality is becoming.

TL:DR; It bothers people because they know its put in there to make a stand against those who disagree with it for any reason. That's why.