![]() ![]() "I don't know if it came down to a budget constraint or maybe someone being like 'this is too obvious' because everyone was like 'of course she's a lesbian.' But my sense was always that she was and it just didn't get followed through. "That was, what - 2008/2009? The industry has changed exponentially since then, and BioWare was leading the charge on that," Taylor said. ![]() Taylor told The Gamer said she understood her character was meant to be pansexual and she was surprised that there wasn't a female-female romance possibility in the final product. MASS EFFECT 2 ROMANCE OPTIONS FULLThe actress who played Jack, Courtenay Taylor, confirmed Kindregan's words, though she didn't have the full story on why Jack follow the original plans. He said, "The short version is, a lot of us were asked pretty late to focus the relationships on a more traditional kind of vector." Kindregan, who disagreed with that decision, explained that "it wasn't like some anti-gay person high up on the Mass Effect 2 team saying, 'we're not going to have that'" Instead, the executives of the company wanted to minimize the negative criticism that might be aimed at the title when it was released. However, all that media coverage changed the way sexuality was portrayed in the Mass Effect sequel. Apparently, Jack was written as pansexual and was supposed to originally be romanceable by a female protagonist as well. Youll have a hard time getting Mass Effect fans to agree on the games best romance option, but the fact that most of them will probably agree that Jack is, at least, one of the most interesting romance options in the game is a testament to the overall quality of this storyline. Specifically, the character of Jack is clearly not solely heterosexual based on her own dialogue, yet can only be romanced if the player chooses to play as a male Commander Shepard. Who is the best person to romance in Mass Effect 1. had drawn fire, that M ass Effect 2 had to be a little bit careful." And that whole brouhaha influenced the development of the sequel from BioWare.īrian Kindregan, who was the lead writer for parts of Mass Effect, told The Gamer, "The development team of Mass Effect 2 was a pretty progressive, open-minded team, but I think there was a concern at pretty high levels that if Mass Effect, which only had one gay relationship. Ultimately, the spot shaped how the Electronic Arts-published title was seen by the general public, if not by people who had actually played the game. She’s also the only romance option available to both male and female versions of the player’s character, Shepard the other two options, Ashley and Kaidan, are romanceable only by either male or. Back in 2008, after the first Mass Effect came out, Fox News hosted a segment that came off as pretty misinformed. Two of the commentators in the segment, who admitted to never having played the game, spread some baseless and incorrect information, calling the game "Luke Skywalker meets Debbie Does Dallas" and deriding it for its "full digital character nudity." While Geoff Keighly attempted an able defense of Mass Effect, he was constantly interrupted. ![]()
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