![]() So why did I stop playing my Femshep story? It was from Virmire on that I began to truly love the series. Starting with Baldur’s Gate 2 and then continuing with KOTOR and the proto-Kaidan hunk that was Carth Onasi, and of course now with Mass Effect. My weakness to this silly narrative device now causes me to base entire RPG experiences around who my lover will be. It’s ironic that I still gravitate to this as a gay adult with a husband, but it all began when I was an isolated not-out gay teenager who was desperate for examples of love that I was scared I would not ever find for myself. Which means I’m no stranger to playing as women in RPG’s. In some ways it’s more compelling but for years it was also the only way I could hear another man tell me he loved me, even though it was all a fiction. So playing Femshep was not a problem for me. Jennifer Hale’s voice acting didn’t hurt either. Playing Femshep gave me access to all of those juicy, juicy (okay, only a couple) love scenes and all that flirty dialogue.īut then Mass Effect 3 started to happen. And Mass Effect 3 also gives the player access, finally, to some same sex romances, besides Liara. So as my Femshep chatted away with Kaidan in the hospital, asking forgiveness for working with Cerberus and cheating on Kaidan with Garrus (poor Garrus, he turned out to be amazing!), I realized that I could have been romancing Kaidan *as a man*.Įmotional paralysis set in. Should I forge ahead with Femshep, or could I trudge through the romantic desert of the first two games with a Gayshep? Instead of deciding, I set the game aside and never looked back. ![]() I mean, nothing was stopping me from sleeping with whoever I wanted, right? Wouldn’t Kaidan still love me anyway? Then, several years later, with the release of Mass Effect: Legendary Edition I finally had a chance to rectify this.Īt first I was daunted by the fear of missing out.
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