“Especially since, for example, you can’t get the full Paramour achievement in Legendary Edition if you play a strictly gay male Shepard. “I think the lack of LGBT representation in the Mass Effect trilogy is quite disappointing,” Ainsworth told the site. Because of that update, the modding community is finding it easier to restore those cut romances, including Kaidan and Ashley, which were limited to just the third game. Since the Mass Effect Legendary Edition uses an updated Wwise audio engine, it’s easier to mod in cut audio than it was for the initial trilogy, something that players have seen with some of the older same-sex mods. Ryan Ainsworth, known as Audemus in the modding community, recently sat down with our friends over at TheGamer to talk about one of the many initiatives going forward with the remaster. Luckily, just like modders did for the original trilogy, the community is coming in to save the day by doing the same for the Mass Effect Legendary Edition. Most notoriously was the decision to cut Jack, a character that plainly states in her conversations with Shepard that she’s been with both men and women, due to criticisms from Fox News. While some of those dialogue options were recorded without the intention of being used, which is explained a little further down, others were cut due to social pressure to eliminate same-sex pairings. While right now there is only one mod to restore same-sex romances, one for default male Shepard only, the community as a whole is hard at work on restoring what was cut.įiles were cut in the original games, eliminating voice lines that were recorded for same-sex romance options regarding characters like Kaidan, Jack, Jacob, Thane, and even Tali. That being said, more options were left on the cutting room floor, including Jack as a pansexual option, and modders for the original trilogy were quick to restore those scenes. Mass Effect 1 didn’t do it well, but the team learned and evolved and eventually added more options in the subsequent two releases.
RPGs that allow romance as a feature give players that are interested in that kind of content another layer of immersion to enjoy.
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