Bioware Interview re: Mass Effect 3's exclusively lesbian/gay NPCs, a first for the company

[salacious_pop]

"Same-sex romances have been part of previous BioWare games, but until now, these romance-option characters could be attracted to a player character of either gender. Mass Effect 3 characters Samatha Traynor and Steve Cortez represent the first time BioWare has written full romances that are exclusively for same-sex characters. Patrick Weekes and

Comments

[alias_sqbr]

I adored Traynor but my feminist principles about male gaze tend to be overridden if it manages to hit my (apparently kind of geekboy-ish) buttons.

I find it interesting that they didn't mention that both of them are POC, and how that played into their writing (I didn't get the feeling it did much with Traynor, it did a bit more with Cortez afaict. But I am also white, so I could be way off base)

[anunreallife]

I think it's bizarre that FemShep might have to be in either a same-sex relationship or none at all in ME3 since in ME2 your only romance options are men. (You can have a relationship with Samara without sex, or you can have sex with Kelly without having a relationship with her, but you can't have a romantic and sexual relationship with a woman. Samara and Kelly also don't give the "paramour" achievement.) Which frustrated me, because my Shepard is a lesbian.