Mass Effect 3 to (Finally) Support Same-Sex Love Interests

Lol great, a more developed dating sim. Now ME3 is perfect.

 @S0ndor said:

@Mowgers said:

So tired of sex in games being newsworthy. It was interesting, now it's just dull. Seriously. Who gives a flying hows-your-father about this?

Romance, not sex

Wow! I didn't expect this much negative feedback. They aren't forcing you to be gay in the game. You have the option.

Seriously people, it's the 90's!

Can I still be straight? Also, people sure throw the word "love" around, now it's in games.

I'm not interested in my male Shepard getting it on with another man. I just can't really imagine it. Female Shepard MAYBE, but not male.

Not to open a can of worms but I still think this is silly, Shepard has never been a blank slate and people who were expecting to be able to engage in same sex relationships were expecting too much from a character with an established identity that merely allows for some wriggle-room. Ultimately though if this makes more people happy then it's probably for the best.

Mmm....

Finally, my dream of space lesbian Shepard has come true.  Travelling the galaxy having lesbian sex with space ladies, and kicking space bitches out of space windows.

Space.

If it forces Shepard to be bisexual then it gives the player less choice. They need to have him state through a dialogue choice what he's in to. "No, I'm not into men/women. Go away."

Who is that guy on Shepard's right?  Is that Kaidan?  He looks awesome now, compared to the last two games.  New haircut does a lot.

What?! i thought that was in the previous games.
But then again, i didn't have a reason to try.

#ME3!!! Tweet ur arse off

So tired of sex in games being newsworthy. It was interesting, now it's just dull. Seriously. Who gives a flying hows-your-father about this?

Not to open a can of worms but I still think this is silly, Shepard has never been a blank slate and people who were expecting to be able to engage in same sex relationships were expecting too much from a character with an established identity that merely allows for some wriggle-room.

Ultimately though if this makes more people happy then it's probably for the best. Whether I thought the initial demand for same sex relationships in ME was slightly unreasonable or not the inclusion of such an option isn't going to effect me at all so it's pretty much a non-issue.

Of course the inclusion of these options isn't likely to prevent there being some kind of shitstorm on release, people will always find a way to complain.

I never really cared much for the relationship thing in Mass Effect. I was connected to my characters, but I didn't feel compelled to do that sort of thing. I never do, unless it's for some easy "romance" achievement.

A same sex relationship was available in the first Mass Effect title. Complete with copulation. 

It's gonna be really weird to tell Liara that I'm gay now.

I'm taking the approach of going all self reinforced story canon on ME3, so that if I never had relations with certain characters before I'll never try to have relations with them in ME3.

I will in replays after my first playthrough, but not until I've completed it with my own canon version of the ME universe save done and completed first.

do i have to kill you again, kaidan?! gtfo my mass effect!

As long as they don't make every bi like in DA2.

it sucks

Kaiden, more like GAYden… right?

Finally Bioware has decided that maybe same sex relationships aren't nearly as taboo as inter-species ones. 

This is gay.

W@DemiGodRaven said:

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Fuck yes.

HOMOSEXUALITY!

meh. I always thought the romance parts were the worst part of bioware writing.

My Shepard almost went gay for Kaiden in one of my playthroughs. It freaked me the hell out.

@zoner: I wasn't aware that you had played the game already and had any experience with how it worked.

Tell me, time traveler, how does Shepard defeat the reapers and can I make sweet sweet man-love to Captain Anderson?

Players are so weird, if you want lesbian action, get it on with Liara, duh.

Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh.

I always play as female characters so I have no problem with this... FemShep FTW!

Weird, I thought ME1/2 already did if you chose to take things down that path. Never really explored different paths though, I kind of just played through once and ended it with whatever happened in that story.

I really hope they make it that some characters don't want to jump in bed with you, no matter how much you sweet talk them. 

Hell yes! I've been roleplaying a gay Shepard who had unrequited feelings for Kaidan and Jacob, now the man can finally get some love.

W@DemiGodRaven said:

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Having the option is what's important.

Threesome! 

Seems like a weird thing to introduce at the end of a trilogy, suddenly everyone's gay!

You let me down, Male Shepard.

Can I bone a Salarian? 

Keep boning, boning, boning, boning, YEAH!

Great. So now it's another shoehorn job of 'oh hey everyone's bi. Every god damn person in your party.' The sad part is that people will think Bioware's being progressive, but they're really just being lazy and unrealistic in their handling of same sex relationships.

They couldn't not.

Finally, my dream of space lesbian Shepard has come true.  Travelling the galaxy having lesbian sex with space ladies, and kicking space bitches out of space windows.