But, I WANT offense. I WANT those people uncomfortable. So let’s do more not less, kthx.
Reminds me of the Wukong scandal where the devs forbade sponsored influencers to talk about feminism among other “too political” subjects.
This really puts me off purchasing a game from people capable of that kind of censorship.
That had nothing to do with inclusivity: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/28/black-myth-wukong-game-controversy-china-streamers
At this point I’m genuinely concerned you might be functionally illiterate. The comment you replied to doesn’t mention inclusivity at all, the story we’re commenting on reminded them of the wukong story.
He literally posted this as a reply to a story about inclusivity by EA. It reminds him, and I posted an article to clear up that Wukong had nothing to do with inclusivity issue. If he posted an off-topic reply, then my explanation is needed, so others understand what is happening.
This really puts me off purchasing a game from people capable of that kind of censorship.
A reminder that if you buy any game developed or published by EA, you’re funding this kind of hate.
Why would inclusivity cause offense to any rational person?
Because we live in the era of hate politics, where societies are being divided and conquered by populism’s of bigotry. Inclusivity counters that.
They are religious people. Why do you call them rational?
See, the problem is that none of these people are rational.
What I can’t get over is the idea of “You can do homosexuality in Mass Effect!?” when to have any romantic affair in the game you need to try and do it. If you’re against Homosexuality and you are a male Shepard and you have sex with Garrus, you had to fucking try to have sex with Garrus. You didn’t just press a button and butt fuck that sexy Turian. You spent hours seducing him.
The amount of people that got up in arms about KCD2 having a totally optional gay romance options, that gives you multiple, explicit options to abort (which doesn’t happen with some of the hetero flings…) but it was too much for them.
Worse there are ghouls arguing that Boltgun 2 is ‘woke’ since it has an optional female protagonist.
I certainly hope the pendulum starts swinging back soon, this is all getting out of hand.
Holy shit, there’s a boltgun 2? And you can play as a sororitas?? Sign me the fuck up, thank you for mentioning it.
I’m pretty sure the only same sex romance options are Femshep and Liara, your admin assistant in ME2 (kinda), and then your admin assistant and shuttle driver in ME3. You can’t even romance Jack as Femshep.
I think Kaidan is also an option for MShep in ME3? Maybe I’m wrong, I just pick Tali every time.
The Femshep gay options SUCK. Far as I know they planned for more, but had to tone it down for the very first Mass Effect game already. Puritan ass fucking Americans are not better than the Saudis!
And Liara barely counts because her species doesn’t even have a biological sex. They all just appear female compared to humans and so that’s how they tend to identify when working with sexually dimorphic races.
I was always a bit disappointed that there was no option to romance Garrus as Male Shep. One would think that gender comes secondary to species in terms of sexual preferences, but apparently not.
but we were just very close platonic friends!! And I accidentally hit the buttsex button!
To be honest, something like this can actually happen!
In Baldur’s Gate 3, I accidentally had very gay sex with an incubus by selecting a wrong option by mistake…
To be fair, that particular demon could change their sex at will, so maybe it’s not a great comparison.That means that you are now gay for life. You will surely go to hell. Oh, actually I think you have already been ;)
Party members are always throwing themselves at you in Baldur’s Gate 3.
In Lae’zel’s case, literally.
Romancing Shadowheart was really difficult. But very rewarding. Out of all the romance options, though, I had the most fun with Karlach’s romance plot. It was emotionally healing, especially if you’re playing as Wyll.
Romancing Shadowheart was difficult
Unless you played during launch… Month? Basically any friendship threshold above “hates your guts” (which is easy to achieve because she “Approves” of a lot of no-brainer “good default” options) had Shart wanting to bone you at the earliest possible romance opportunity. I think Gale similarly got patched to be less eager.
Yes, I too ship Wyllach!
Wyllach is OTP
Yeah, Gale went from homie to horny real fuckin quick.
I was playing as a halfling when I first came to the scene where Gale shoots his shot with the magic show, and as someone who’s normally the largest person in the room, it made me viscerally feel UNSAFE in ways I can’t experience in real life.
I mean, as long as you didn’t fuck Mizora.
something like this can actually happen
Heh, reminds me of some reactions when Cyberpunk 2077 players don’t realise that Ángel is a male Spanish name and accidentally hire a male doll at Clouds (or a female one if they pick Skye by elimination thinking that Ángel must be female; in any case, the opposite of what they were looking for).
Of course there’s no sex in that scene because V is working and has too many things in their head (both literally and metaphorically), only intimacy, but still, it can be a bit of a shock, apparently.
I guess you suffer from it still and are now gay.
/s
Then its halal.
“I tripped and fell on my keyboard and mouse and while they were in there they accidentally progressed the dialogue trees that make you have gay sex.”
Minus the gay part, I would believe that if I heard it in the context of the first ME, it all takes three polite conversations
(or was it four? idr, does Liara’s mission count?)
Your daily reminder that Grindr servers break when the Republican National Convention is in town.
It’s Saudi Arabia. They’re basically in the dark ages with the oil money to buy modern infrastructure. It’s an absolute monarchy, You get the death penalty for being any flavor of queer, It’s a surveillance state. They literally sent a kill squad into a foreign nation to (successfully) brutally murder a journalist. We don’t hear it much because of all the other constant noise in the digital world but they’re not good people. Everyone turns a blind eye because they have that sweet sweet oil and since like the 70s the US has been on it’s knees for them.
Don’t get me wrong here. It’s a very nice looking place but it’s built on some of the most terrible human rights abuses you can name.
They have almost open slavery. It’s not a good place. The fact that they were allowed to buy EA at all is a problem.
So kinda like what a lot of Republicans want for the US?
That’s were our presidents advisor lives so yes.
the curtain drops on the entire strategy for why so much money is being invested in US media, games, news and sports by outsiders
Toning down inclusivity offfends me.
I want more optional homosexual romance in my games, not less!
If these people think Homosexuality is a choice, then let people choose to have a straight relationship or a gay relationship. If they’re so hellbent on sexuality being a choice, they’ll just intentionally avoid all the homosexual romance options throughout the game, right…?
Right…?
Sure but they only care about not offending the right people.
Do you have a shitload of money? Then they don’t care.
Why the fuck would any rational person buy a game from EA. That company hasn’t produced a decent game in almost a decade.
Hey Titanfall 2 was really good! Wait it’s been exactly 10 years? Fuck.
Jokes aside, the Jedi games were pretty good imo. Can’t say the same about anything else though to be honest.
It Takes Two was pretty amazing, and they published that (though Hazelight Studios developed it).
Called it (not that it took a crystal ball or anything.) the day the EA+PIF news came out. I had just wrapped up playing the ME series and Dragonage games, said it out loud to my spouse. Saudi Arabia sucks camel balls and chops up reporters.
I think its for the best that it was cancelled. The first two Mass Effect games are some of my favourites and I would rather have no new game in the series than whatever EA would produce today.
But we’re missing out on an alien race of traders that will only accept Mass Effect Funbucks, and sell you a range of cosmetic items that change weekly!
I loved Mass Effect 3’s multi-player despite expecting it to be horrible, but it was also the first game I really enjoyed that had such horrid lootbox mechanics.
ME3’s single-player was a masterpiece until the last hour. I didn’t even necessarily hate the endings. I just hated that in the end no matter what had happened, it came down to “pick the ending”. I would have been much more satisfied if your actions throughout the trilogy had determined the ending you got - especially since they had done so much tying together loose ends from the previous games.
I loved that you could actually save both the Geth and the Quarians, but only if you’d made the correct decisions in Mass Effect 2 AND 3. That same kind of logic could have been used to pick the ending.
Fucking cowards. Outside of MAGA, the world has never known a more chickenshit culture of butthurt little sons of weasels that these sub-human Muhammad-blowing embarrassments in human flesh.
A bit of a sensationalized headline, considering BioWare was only asked to remove a flag which resembled an LGBT flag in the game. IMO that is a bit different from “removing inclusivity,” which does a lot of heavy lifting. I mean, ignoring that this happens all the time for games sold in the region of Arabia (and maybe also China, but I am not sure about that, though I do know marketing materials are often altered for the CN region to make certain race characters less prominent such as Disney’s Star Wars The Force Awakens making John Boyega less prominent in marketing materials, for example).
Personally, I don’t really see why there would even be any flags at all in a Mass Effect game in the first place. In the original 3 games it seemed that humanity as a whole had advanced beyond the need, desire, or use of flags as representative of people or their identities. I cannot recall any of the first 3 ME games having any, and BioWare made the romance options not care about the gender of the player character. NPCs in the games didn’t seem to care about it, really, so I don’t understand why the flag would have existed in the first place. For the same reason I would wonder why any current country flag would appear in the game either, I just don’t remember any flags at all. Perhaps I am misremembering and just forgot about one somewhere.
To that end, IMO including any flags at all would seem like a regression of human society compared to the first three ME games, unless the cancelled ME took place in a human timeline very close to our current year. It just seemed humanity had advanced beyond the use of flags entirely, which I would imagine most space-faring civilizations would. I am not praising EA here, I am just confused as to why the situation happened in the first place, considering the established lore of the series.
It’s a galaxy filled with warfare and warring factions and you think there can’t possibly be any flags or insignia?
Well that isnt what I said. I said to me it would feel out of place because I dont remember there being flags in the other games like that. So it confused me why this situation would happen in the first place, that’s all.
Perhaps I am unable to use the correct words to adequately describe my thoughts, which is way they end up being misinterpreted. It wouldn’t be the first time. My apologies for this.
No alcohol. No exposed ankles. No gays.
No smoking, no swearing and no ALIEN SEX!
natural allies of western civilization somehow
Is it ok to dismember journalists while they’re still alive though?
Hilariously, one of the parts of Mass Effect that hasn’t aged super well is a running joke across all three games where you (a decorated military figure) can punch out a news reporter for trying to make you look bad on the news. To the point where if you do it in 1 and 2, she dodges in 3 but you can react to a prompt to headbutt her and walk away with her slumped against a wall.
The paragon options for dealing with her include responding to her goading question about military losses caused by your decision by being a good brave little soldier and listing the names of the ships lost in the action.
Ok sure, but beating the reporter is the bad option in those scenes, just to be clear.
Only if you keep the dismembered ankles covered up.
Well, I doubt most reasonable people strictly needed more reasons to want EA and everything associated with it to stop existing, but here is one anyway.
You don’t fucking say
saudis gonna sod
Isn’t this exactly the kind of thing conservatives were always worried about happening to them?
conservatives happen to be retarded. They literally promote and support fascism all the time and then when fascism effects them negatively they yell and scream about how bad it is. They are on a neverending loop of retardation.
Its always projection
Projection is a psychological defense mechanism that involves attributing one’s undesirable traits, feelings, or impulses to other people.
https://www.simplypsychology.org/psychological-projection-defense-mechanism.html
