SWTOR

[Crumbs]

I just wanted to jump on and tell you guys that I'm glad this thread is doin ok.

[Ingmar]

Y'know what I'd like to see?  Before gays have their 'gameday' so to speak...  how 'bout we patch in some inter-racial romance?  
It's like Lucas/Bioware would rather run some CG-human-on-bothan action before depicting two humans of differing color.  Seriously.

If we're gonna mess with this, at least go all the damned way.

And boobies.  I want boobies.  

Hell Miranda and Jack can both easily be interracial too, all you have to do is, you know, not make yourself white.

[Evildrider]

It's like Lucas/Bioware would rather run some CG-human-on-bothan action before depicting two humans of differing color.  Seriously.

It's cuz that covers their ass with the furry crowd.

[Margalis]

All of this reminds me of a joke...

What do you call a black man flying an airplane...

Damn, that sure beat my answer of "airplane thief."

[Sky]

poor cobbler... shoddy manner...

Wokka wokka!

[Paelos]

Hell Miranda and Jack can both easily be interracial too, all you have to do is, you know, not make yourself white.

Were there any black chicks in that game unless you made one though?

I couldn't recall off the top of my head.

[Ingmar]

I can think of Indian, East Asian, and Middle Eastern women in the game, no black ones immediately leap to mind though.

[Draegan]

Do you think Bioware will put the ability to have your companions get pregnant?  And if you decide that it isn't a wise choice, will Bioware let you have an abortion?

We'll get to page 300 in a few hours.

[Evildrider]

Do you think Bioware will put the ability to have your companions get pregnant?  And if you decide that it isn't a wise choice, will Bioware let you have an abortion?

We'll get to page 300 in a few hours.

Well only if they make it so that the same sex partners can pay another character to be their surrogate so they can have kids.


Also, this could be the legacy system right here!   

[Rasix]

Do you think Bioware will put the ability to have your companions get pregnant?  And if you decide that it isn't a wise choice, will Bioware let you have an abortion?

We'll get to page 300 in a few hours.

I've deleted threads for rampant trolling.  

Just sayin'.  

edit: Of course, I wouldn't break your hearts like that.  Now another mod is going to do it and make me look like a dick.

[Ingmar]

Also, pregnant companion wouldn't be all that new in a Bioware game:

[climbjtree]

Trolling or no, Draegan has a pretty legit point: You really can't include everyone in everything.

I mean, come on. We get it. Everyone from every lifestyle deserves to be who they want to be, but it's really not feasible for a game company to cater to every person who might buy their games.

What's comes next? People are going to start complaining there's no female Space Marines

[koro]

That would hold a bit of weight if not for the little problem that Bioware's included homosexual romances in more or less all of its games since Jade Empire in 2005, so they've kind of built up this expectation in folks that their gender preferences would be taken care of by default.

Whether that's a sensible position to take is another story, but there you go.

[Ingmar]

Trolling or no, Draegan has a pretty legit point: You really can't include everyone in everything.

So why even try, even when it is pretty trivial to do so? 

[sam, an eggplant]

That would hold a bit of weight if not for the little problem that Bioware's included homosexual romances in more or less all of its games since Jade Empire in 2005, so they've kind of built up this expectation in folks that their gender preferences would be taken care of by default

It's their sexual preference, actually, not their gender preference, but you bring up an excellent point. What about the transgendered? Why won't they let me crossdress and speak in an affected falsetto? Sith ladyboys demand representation!

(Noto bene: Do not google image search any common variant of "sith ladyboy" in hopes of finding a clever representation of this idea in picture form. You have been warned.)

[Velorath]

Trolling or no, Draegan has a pretty legit point: You really can't include everyone in everything.

I mean, come on. We get it. Everyone from every lifestyle deserves to be who they want to be, but it's really not feasible for a game company to cater to every person who might buy their games.

What's comes next? People are going to start complaining there's no female Space Marines

I'm just going to assume that Draegan wasn't actually making a point that people wanting more homosexual characters in games is a slippery slope towards people who have had abotions demanding their representation in games.

[sam, an eggplant]

No, it was an old LtM reference.

http://wiki.onlinegamers.org/index.php?title=Fetapult

[Cyrrex]

The last several pages of this thread have been lame retarded gay dumb mute cobbled highly entertaining.  We are teetering on the cusp of 300, and we are getting there in style!

[Sjofn]

Hell Miranda and Jack can both easily be interracial too, all you have to do is, you know, not make yourself white.

Were there any black chicks in that game unless you made one though?

I couldn't recall off the top of my head.

I can't think of any either, alas. Made me glad I made Sally black, really. She slept with Carth Kaidan AND Jacob. She clearly has a thing for bland dudes. WHICH BLAND MAN WILL WIN HER HEART IN ME3?! Maybe Broseidan will be boring, she can make out with him next.

Isabela ain't white either, AND she swings both ways. She's a two-fer! But do not get me started on the creepy "make Isabela fair skinned, blonde and blue eyed" mods.

[Tannhauser]

Ok that I don't get.  Men will have sex with a woman of any color.  Any.  See our paragon, Captain James Kirk.

[Pennilenko]

Ok that I don't get.  Men will have sex with a woman of any color.  Any.  See our paragon, Captain James Kirk.

Green is soooooo hot!

[Surlyboi]

Ok that I don't get.  Men will have sex with a woman of any color.  Any.  See our paragon, Captain James Kirk.

Green is soooooo hot!

Well, that and Orion chicks are notoriously easy.

[Merusk]

But do not get me started on the creepy "make Isabela fair skinned, blonde and blue eyed" mods.

Wait.. what? I don't even get why. All I can think of as the motivation behind that is the pure-racist crowd.  That just makes me sad.

[Shatter]

Ok that I don't get.  Men will have sex with a woman of any color.  Any.  See our paragon, Captain James Kirk.

Green is soooooo hot!

Well, that and Orion chicks are notoriously easy.

The things I would do with a blue Twi'lek with tentacles...all Im saying

[Lantyssa]

Twi'leks make Orion gals look stuffy.

[climbjtree]

Trolling or no, Draegan has a pretty legit point: You really can't include everyone in everything.

I mean, come on. We get it. Everyone from every lifestyle deserves to be who they want to be, but it's really not feasible for a game company to cater to every person who might buy their games.

What's comes next? People are going to start complaining there's no female Space Marines

I'm just going to assume that Draegan wasn't actually making a point that people wanting more homosexual characters in games is a slippery slope towards people who have had abotions demanding their representation in games.

I didn't mean to imply anything about a slippery slope. I meant to imply that game developers should just develop games for whatever their target audience is. Just like everyone else develops everything else.

And I feel like it's pertinent to point out that they decide who their target audience is.

All that being said, I also really have no dog in this. I could care less if in this game there is a Jawa/Astromech droid couple who aborts their unborn child who is being carried by a Twi'lek.

[Kirth]

I could care less if in this game there is a Jawa/Astromech droid couple who aborts their unborn child who is being carried by a Twi'lek.

would that be a dark side or light side choice?

[Sobelius]

Twi'leks make Orion gals look stuffy.

And Deltans make everyone else look prudish.

Uh oh.  We're crossing the streams. Why did someone have to mention Kirk? We must click our heels three times and repeat:

There's no one like Vader.
There's no one like Vader.
There's no one like Vader.
There's no one like Spock.
Doh!

Too late.

[Bunk]

Also, pregnant companion wouldn't be all that new in a Bioware game:

Huh, I don't remember that. Now I have to go look up storylines from ten plus year old games...

[Paelos]

I can't think of any either, alas. Made me glad I made Sally black, really. She slept with Carth Kaidan AND Jacob. She clearly has a thing for bland dudes. WHICH BLAND MAN WILL WIN HER HEART IN ME3?! Maybe Broseidan will be boring, she can make out with him next.

Isabela ain't white either, AND she swings both ways. She's a two-fer! But do not get me started on the creepy "make Isabela fair skinned, blonde and blue eyed" mods.

It's those damn German modders!

[Bunk]

After the last couple pages I'm a little hesitant to enter this discussion, but what the hell.

I was annoyed when I first heard that they were leaving same-sex romance out of ToR. The excuse given at the time was stupid (something like, there are no sexual labels in the SW universe) and went against what they'd already established (albeit just barely) in KotoR. I honestly figured it was just a case of being overly conservative with a huge title and that nothing was to be done about it. Wasn't exactly going to stop me from buying the game, but it still pissed me off.

I consider myself a social liberal, and I do get annoyed any time a company feels the need to pull back on content because it might offend their more conservative customer base. I enjoy a variety of things in my entertainment that would make some God fearing, conservative types run for their bibles. It pisses me off that they seem to have the biggest voice out there right now when it comes to complaining, and if it weren't for people standing up for silly inconsequential things like the completely optional buttsecs same-sex flirting in a video game, we'd eventually find ourselves back to having nothing but Little House on the Prarie on TV all day. Or something like that.

Yes, I do make female characters in games sometimes, and if I have the option I'm more likely to run a same-sex romance with those characters. And blue Twi'leks are hotter than green Orionians, err Orionites? Whatever.

[luckton]

I'm still trying to figure out when this game turned into The Bachelor/Bachelorette Online   

Would it help if we privatized the MMO Discussion forum to Member-only and lift the  ban so we can talk about the game as a game again?

[Megrim]

I'm still trying to figure out when this game turned into The Bachelor/Bachelorette Online   

Would it help if we privatized the MMO Discussion forum to Member-only and lift the  ban so we can talk about the game as a game again?

Because given the opportunity, the human race will devote 99% of their time to fucking. Be it imaginary or otherwise. You have read the Bioware forums, right?

[luckton]

I'm still trying to figure out when this game turned into The Bachelor/Bachelorette Online   

Would it help if we privatized the MMO Discussion forum to Member-only and lift the  ban so we can talk about the game as a game again?

Because given the opportunity, the human race will devote 99% of their time to fucking. Be it imaginary or otherwise. You have read the Bioware forums, right?

I have.  'Tis a silly place. 

[Sky]

I just want to know if a certain protocol droid can finally get it on with a certain astromech.