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[Sandytimeman]

The Witcher.

EA pumps out Witcher 3 in a year, splits the game up into 3 pieces of DLC. It's 10 hours long and [b/]theres a shit ton of gay sex that gets shoved in your face. [/b]
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eh?...I don't get the connection with EA there

unless your talking about ME3...but come on...it wasn't shoved in your face, neither was it an EA marketeting decision...it was just a story desicion by Biowae

Pretty sure EA are back there rubbing there hands since they know Biowares habit of "embracing" (but really insulting) the gay community is selling 500.000 extra copies.

it wasn't shoved in your face

Except it was.

I explore my ship. I reach the lower level, talk to the first person I see. He blurts out "BY THE WAY I'M GAY AND I HAD A HUSBAND AND HE DIED IN THE WAR DID I MENTION I'M REALLY GAY". Yeah, that's how homosexuals always introduce themselves to others, apparently.

So after a resounding fuck that I take Shepard to the citadel. Yeah, this is pretty cool, just walking along... Suddenly, you overhear a LOUD AS FUCK conversation between a gay couple who just can't stop emphasizing how gay they are.

What makes this doubly amusing is that the straight couples in the ME universe never got this treatment. Apparently heterosexuality is out of fashion in the future.

In reality you get that for a few reasons. The first being that most likely that bioware writers probably arn't gay but is trying to write a gay relationship.

Second a real homosexual relationship from where I live would be a quiet scared short term thing between two people who desperately don't want to get disowned/fired/assaulted. If a character went into a game like that you probably wouldn't ever find out he was gay or get to engage in a gay relationship.

And that isn't fun for me, I want to be invested in the Shepard character and have awesome man love in space! (though wouldn't mind them bringing in some bishonen writers on it)

 

[Avalanche91]

EA takes over Bioware and......oh wait........

EA takes over Activision. The internet collectivly decides gaming wasn't that cool anymore anyway.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

1) No one is there for the gameplay anyway. You'd be hard pressed to find someone who plays ME for the shooting bits. Close to everyone is there for the juicy conversations and story.

*raises hand*

I actually enjoy just about all of bioware's gameplay...hell, I don't think my 100+ playthroughs of kotor 1 and 2 could be justified without me enjoying it, and i know I put at least 10+ playthroughs into me1 and me2, which as said, I'd have to be crazy to replay that many times if i didn't enjoy it. granted alot of the enemies don't change much in actual styles and such, but really, not too many games do either, so I don't think you can really count that against them that they have only 4-5 different types of enemies.

Yeah it's not the best gameplay, wouldn't ever argue that, but it's enjoyable enough that it has never once stopped me from continuing the flow of the game or being actually broken.

Heres a question then; would you have played ME1+2 10+ times if the story and dialog had been shrunk to an absolute bare minimum, making the shooting the games defining trait?

eh i'd play it once or twice,then maybe once every 6-9 months, but then again, you'll be hard pressed to find me play any game more than once or twice that i don't enjoy the story/characters/dialogue in.

that's how about 90% of my games are, you'll be diggin for quite a while to find games that i play that i played more than once that focused on gameplay above all else. (except for mount and blade warband, which is because, horseback sword and shield slicing through 60+ bandits doens't get old very fast.)

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

*snip*

I actually did end up seeing your conversation with the other person, a long time after I quoted you. Like them, I won't get into a debate about ME3's quality, as we would accomplish exactly nothing. We clearly just disagree about a few things, and that's obviously fine. I guess I'll just leave it at that.

 

[Headdrivehardscrew]

The Witcher.

EA pumps out Witcher 3 in a year, splits the game up into 3 pieces of DLC. It's 10 hours long and [b/]theres a shit ton of gay sex that gets shoved in your face. [/b]
.

eh?...I don't get the connection with EA there

unless your talking about ME3...but come on...it wasn't shoved in your face, neither was it an EA marketeting decision...it was just a story desicion by Biowae

OT Reply RE: gay sex in the ME franchise - aye, it's a Bioware thing. It's probably 'good' that gay folks get their share of the old in-and-out, I just think it conditioned a whole lot of young folks to never, ever be nice to members of the same sex, or end up seeing things they're usually not allowed to watch in video/DVD form.

Still wondering how many male players went for some hot lesbo action, though. Awesome poll material right there.

 

[Vault101]

anyway, Traynor, gay sterotype?....she doesn't hate men, she doesn't talk about feminism, no shaved head....nothing to indicate she is gay untill the shower scene..

Dispite going into the game completely blind, and not even knowing that there were homosexual romance options in the game, I had still picked up on the surprisingly unsubtle clues by then.

I worked it out pretty quickly only because I saw her as cortez's counterpart and since it was obvious with him from the get go

I didn't notice much aside from her comment on EDI's voice....but then I had no Idea Zevran from DA:O liked men so I guess its just what you pick up on

 

[Trasch17]

Traynor.. is gay? Wow. Didn't notice that despite making my first playthrough with my FemShep.
I also had no idea about Zevran (well I killed him anyway...).
Also just found this (most might already know this, but I don't care)

 

[Redworld13]

Damn Bioware games always taking over threads!!!!

O.T:
A little bit different but here we go...
EA buys Desura. Changes the name Desura to "The EA Indie Experience".
-Eliminates mod support suggesting its cutting into their profits.
-Takes control of Project Zomboid and turns it into a linear, dead island clone.
-Rejects 80% of indie developers and alpha funding, claiming their games are not up to the high standards of EA and their studios.

 

[Darknacht]

If EA took over Sega they could try the only thing to destroy Sonic that Sega hasn't tried yet, making it a grey/brown FPS.

EA takes over Paradox Interactive.
"We can't work with this folks, turn Hearts of Iron into a first person shooter!"
"Victoria is too obscure, market it as a cheesy Command and Conquer prequel."
"Europa Universalis IV should be the next BioWare project, make it a Mass Effect/Dragon Age crossover!"
"Crusader Kings is the new title of The Sims Medieval II."
OH LAWD. PLEASE KILL ME.

If EA tryed to take over Paradox I would find a way to hire Harebrained Schemes to put together a team of runners to take them out.

EA takes over Activision. The world as we know it ends and we enter the Dark Age of Videogames?.

If EA took over Activision it would probably collapse in on itself from so much pure crap being in one place, this would likely end the Dark Age of Videogames.