Talk about ignorant media.soaringbiscuit said:I can see it now:
"FOX News Channel 10 with Laura Schneider. The newest Video Game console to be released from outlaw developer, maker of the perverted sex simulator, Mass Effect, has recently released a new game with the same concepts. This game is apparently based in the Star Trek universe. That's right folks, gamers who play this game have sex with Wookies and a variety of other races from Steven Spielberg's famous film. Bioware's Greg Muyzka could not be reached for comment, because right after he saw this broadcast, he killed himself."
im only quoting that much, because im sure you were annoyed enough by the original post.SykoSilver said:Because gays cannot contribute anything to society if they can't have kids. =_= Gee thanks.psijac said:They NEVER said gays don't exist in the Star Wars Universe. They said the labels for gay people don't exist.
During a press conference for Star Trek: TNG Someone once asked "Surely by the 24th Century they would have found a cure for male pattern baldness" Gene Roddenberry replied, "No, by the 24th Century no one will care"
although on the other hand if space is our Manifest destiny Gays have no place there. We need settlers and squatters to build lands, have kids and generally settle a place down. Even if a gay couple wanted to have kids I don't they will have room for an invitro clinic when settling a wild planet
I don't care that BioWare isn't including orientation labels in their games. I get frustrated at labels too. What concerns me is that while this is OK, if they also intentionally do not include any male-male romances, then they have basically affirmed that such relationships are either unimportant, inferior, or even worse: offensive (and I believe they only included a lesbian relationship because their target audience find that titillating)
oh yea....oh, freaking yea.Lonko said:So reproduction will be mandatory in these space colonies?
Who do they think they are, wanting to make money off of a video game? Don't they realize that the whole point of creating a business is to make something "ground breaking" that causes you to lose three fourths of your audience because you made the lead character a homosexual male? I mean, gawd.SykoSilver said:I am sick of the way this industry makes claims to being centered around an artistic medium but all it's concerned with is marketing and business.
I'm curious now. Wookies are like eight foot tall bear-gorrilla's... Makes you wonder... *shudder*Ajna said:Who do they think they are, wanting to make money off of a video game? Don't they realize that the whole point of creating a business is to make something "ground breaking" that causes you to lose three fourths of your audience because you made the lead character a homosexual male? I mean, gawd.SykoSilver said:I am sick of the way this industry makes claims to being centered around an artistic medium but all it's concerned with is marketing and business.
More seriously: I think an interesting feature to stick into a game in the future would be an "orientation" option that is right by the "gender" option. Only a few lines of dialouge are changed when you change gender in a game, so the same would go for orientation.
OT: I find the term "Wookie Nookie" extremely amusing. Expect to hear it become a meme in the near future.
oh, so like, now being gay is a choice?Ajna said:More seriously: I think an interesting feature to stick into a game in the future would be an "orientation" option that is right by the "gender" option. Only a few lines of dialouge are changed when you change gender in a game, so the same would go for orientation.
I am not sure if this statement is win or fail.hcig said:oh, so like, now being gay is a choice?Ajna said:More seriously: I think an interesting feature to stick into a game in the future would be an "orientation" option that is right by the "gender" option. Only a few lines of dialouge are changed when you change gender in a game, so the same would go for orientation.
Hciq's comment completely came out of left field for me... I wasn't thinking of it as a political statement, but as a character creation concept...I3uster said:I am not sure if this statement is win or fail.hcig said:oh, so like, now being gay is a choice?Ajna said:More seriously: I think an interesting feature to stick into a game in the future would be an "orientation" option that is right by the "gender" option. Only a few lines of dialouge are changed when you change gender in a game, so the same would go for orientation.
Enlighten me escapists.
I can see it nowThe_Oracle said:Damn it! I wanted to have my Sith Bounty Hunter have a threesome with two twi'lek dancing girls! DAMN YOU, BIOWARE! FRAK YOU ALL TO HELL!
(Seriously, though, how much innuendo d'you think we can expect?....)
So truesoaringbiscuit said:I can see it now:
"FOX News Channel 10 with Laura Schneider. The newest Video Game console to be released from outlaw developer, maker of the perverted sex simulator, Mass Effect, has recently released a new game with the same concepts. This game is apparently based in the Star Trek universe. That's right folks, gamers who play this game have sex with Wookies and a variety of other races from Steven Spielberg's famous film. Bioware's Greg Muyzka could not be reached for comment, because right after he saw this broadcast, he killed himself."
dude, thats awesome, my first win.Ajna said:Hciq's comment completely came out of left field for me... I wasn't thinking of it as a political statement, but as a character creation concept...I3uster said:I am not sure if this statement is win or fail.hcig said:oh, so like, now being gay is a choice?Ajna said:More seriously: I think an interesting feature to stick into a game in the future would be an "orientation" option that is right by the "gender" option. Only a few lines of dialouge are changed when you change gender in a game, so the same would go for orientation.
Enlighten me escapists.
I'd say it's fail though. Unless he's saying it as a joke, in which case it's win.