Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, which is rumored to be released in March, will surely be a testament to its legacy. Mass Effect still stands as a quintessential series to not just the LGBTQ+ community in games, but the industry as a whole. And, by all intents and purposes, many developers wanted this and fought to have it in the final product. Even so, the series could have led the charge on LGBTQ+ representation by having a queer black man in Mass Effect 2′s main cast. Jacob is known among the Mass Effect fandom for being a character who could have had much more screentime, especially in Mass Effect 3. An Ode to Miranda Lawson from Mass Effect.Canon Choices Have No Place in Mass Effect.Mass Effect: Legendary Edition Is a Chance to Make Amends With Gay Men.People with a problem with can go fuck themselves - they don’t deserve to play our games.” You May Also Like: Personally I still believe it was the wrong call to cut, as we protested at the time. We matched Brokeback so it wouldn’t be unacceptable - but different rules for film and games I guess. Was told at the time ‘America isn’t ready for it.’ Perhaps it still isn’t. We prevized Jacob as the male/male, matching shot-for-shot from Brokeback Mountain. “I animated both scenes for Male & Female. “TIL you can’t romance Jack as Femshep in Mass Effect 2,” tweeted Cooper. Former Mass Effect 2 Lead Animator Jonathan Cooper took to Twitter to reveal this information after the report about Jack’s pansexuality came out. Now, we know Jack wasn’t the only character whose sexuality was changed. Brian Kindregan, Jack’s writer for Mass Effect 2, said the change happened very late in development. But because of the infamous exaggerated backlash to the first Mass Effect’s sex scenes from Fox News, her romance with a female Commander Shepard was cut. Jack explicitly states in conversations with Commander Shepard that she has been with men and women.
It’s a long-time question many members of the Mass Effect community have wanted to know the answer to for over a decade. Last week, it was revealed via The Gamer that BioWare changed Jack’s sexuality from pansexual to heterosexual over the course of that game’s development. Compared to the final product, Mass Effect 2 originally had several more same-sex romance options - including Jacob Taylor.
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