Mass Effect allows lesbian alien sex, men remain vanilla

How about this big freaky mudbug, Fry?

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It doesn't smack of story constraints - just dialogue. Gotta understand, there's 200,000 lines of dialogue from what I understand - on one DVD-9 disc.

i agree - story, shmory. Someone came up with the story, its not gospel brought down from the mountain. Its chosen. Timid exploration of sexuality is what it is. Alien sex is just a mask for intercultural sex, in my box. Same sex, same gender, cross gender, trans gender those are different territories to explore.

I guess the writer didnt have the fortitude and just stuck to what 12 year olds think is hawt.

I swear, if the female Shepard has a romance with "Joker", I'll throw up.

Um, yeah, sure, Cliff Clavin.

Wow. So if a boy is raised nursing from a bottle instead of being breastfed, is he more likely to be gay because he didn't have a breast to guide him to the light? What the hell are you talking about? Sexuality is not based on your mother... unless... hey, whatever floats your boat, Oedipus.

fanservice ... that sounds dirty

You're not going any boy-on-girl or girl-on-girl action either. This isn't an AO game.

Funny to see how much angrier Jonah Falcon is getting in his posts.

Well, Jonah congrats, a thread on Mass Effect where you can talk about the game in context and not just be trolling like you get 5 cents off each copy they sell.

You do know that there's male-female romance in the game, right?

PS. There's NO SEX. It's ROMANCE, not PORN.

I don't recall Troi bending over and begging for Worf and Riker to DP her.

Seeing that just might have made Star Trek:DSN watchable for me.

Gives the phrase 'Deep Space Nine' a whole new meaning.

NO, REALLY?

FYI

It does however say that there is "breast nudity"

So what you're saying is if someone's an asshole for business reasons, we shouldn't consider them real assholes, just greedy cowards, nor should we criticize the assholes who create the market demand for lesbian action but not man-on-man action? You seem to be encouraging a very passive method of social progress.

The whole premise of the Joystiq post seems to be that we're all Larry Craig douchebags if we let our double standard, hypocritical beliefs keep on flourishing, in games, politics, and so forth. I think we're all aware that Bioware can't make a game starring a fat, black, female, homosexual Muslim as a main character anytime soon and expect the game to sell well, no matter how well crafted the game's graphics, story and gameplay is.

But, at a certain point market demands need to take a backseat to what we think is morally right. A certain game that features Big Daddies tried to hammer this idea home, but I guess a lot of people didn't pay attention.

My personal take on this story (if true) is that since there are many more gay men than gay women in the world, it makes more sense to feature gay male relationships in a game than gay female relationships. A lesbian relationship for the primary reason of pleasing STRAIGHT MALES is practically turning the game into a porn game.

If they put their backs into it a fat, black, female, homosexual Muslim might be pretty cool. That's how art is made - by tastefully crossing the lines we are draw in our mind.

As some point video games will take this role from movies. But at this point the technical and economic barriers are too high for cutting edge artistic achievement in video games. There are just not enough gamers. But joystiq is working on it.

Yeah I thought that too but the fact that the alien race consists of all "females" made it plausible.