User blog comment:Kiadony/Same sex romances in ME3 confirmed?../@comment-1691295-20110517111348

I have no problems with this. Why would I? Why would anyone? At least, theoretically. There are some implementation issues that could concern me.

First of all, I don't want them to do the lazy thing and just duplicate the romances and swap pronouns. It strains credibility and for people doing multiple playthroughs it immediately exposes the inner workings of the game and pulls you right out of the story when you can see the branching occurring.

They also need to be careful with existing characters. Not because they've been 'established as straight'. That's nonsense. Just because a character has so far only had a romance with the opposite sex doesn't necessarily mean they're 100% straight. So far, apart from any Asari, Kelly and Jack (others?), none of the characters have explicitly stated their sexual preferences at all. However, if after the last game a character that didn't express any sexual or romantic in Shepard, or any other person of the same sex, you can't just suddenly have them do so without a good explanation or approach.

It also strains credibility when all of a sudden everyone is bisexual. I would be more believable if there were a mix, some straight, some bixsexual and some exclusively gay. Obviously that's much harder to do, and takes more resources, but I think it's worth it.

Even though I would probably say no, I wouldn't have an issue with a gay character hitting on my Shepard, a la Anders in DA2, but only if it is a new character. If an existing male character all of a sudden starts hitting on my Shepard, it's just going to be weird. Maybe not for new players, but for someone who's been with the series since ME1, it would just be too jarring to have an existing character all of sudden express an interest they hadn't even hinted at before.

I won't be playing a gay romance myself, and as long as I don't notice sudden jarring changes in existing characters, then I don't care, and good news for the people interested in this content.