You really didn't think this one through, did you?
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Nobody seems to care about creating an especially believable person when we're talking about straight characters, so I think it's long past time we dropped the dumb double standard. Two dimensional or not, token or not, you have to start somewhere. And right now there's a striking lack of diversity in games, so much so that we still have to have discussions like this one.
This is a tough subject lol
In my opinion people in this thread expect way too much of Bioware. I don't mind LGBT in my games, it makes them more realistic. But look at rest of the game and see what a fuck up it is, WTH did you expect then? They can't manage to create a somewhat realistic straight character with correct animation and you expect them to create a realistic LGBT character? Sorry to tell you this, but you are expecting too much. I can only image that BW management went like:"Guys/Girls don't forget we are a LGBT friendly company. Create some LGBT characters and love options". And then there is this straight writer sitting there not able to create realistic straight characters tasked to create all the variety of LGBT characters to satisfy everyone's demands. Of course it would turn out like this!
I guess this is all part of the mismanagement that happened for the game overall. For realistic LGBT stuff you need real LGBT people. I bet they didn't hire anyone for it. So please don't expect straight people to cover your demands without support from LGBT people. I didn't even know about deadnaming until OPs post, dead naming is really rude.
I hope they patch everything, not just animations(which is a must), bugs etc. but also writing and story fuckups. This includes giving us all LBGT choices
Writing and vocal performances are things that happen fairly early on in a game's development. Regardless of how "finished" the game is, their plan for the game was to give LGBT romance options the short end of the stick. Perhaps it wasn't maliciously done, but it's certainly representative of a pervasive thoughtlessness in the industry regarding LGBT representation in games. The further along we get with the industry putting its head in the sand and pulling out the "innocent ignorance" card, the less cute it gets as an excuse.
One thing to mention though is that you can't create an 'offensive' depiction of a straight person. Well, you can, but to do that you'd kinda have to create a setting where every straight character is the same offensive stereotype (which I guess would be making them all bigots or something?), and you'd really have to go out of your way to do that.
Well, us non-straights are already doing that kind of "roleplaying" all the time in other games
The achievement is not the problem. The achievement is a small part of a much larger problem that has existed since the series' first game.
Dude, those aren't comparable. It's not "just a bug" when held against the context of the marginalization of the LGBT community, which is not only fairly rampant in the industry but in society in general as well.
You're being a little unfair. I specifically said it was okay for people to raise their concerns, even though I personally would probably disagree with some of the complaints. It's bad writing (again, this is Bioware), but I think it came from a decent place, and that's my argument. We aren't talking about another character trying to shame or remove this trans character's actual identity -- traditional deadnaming -- it's just that character talking about their own history in a clumsy way. You might find it extremely unlikely, and that's fine, but that doesn't inherently make it wrong or transphobic.
