And when the developer falls short, fans make noise. It’s been years since Mass Effect 2, of course, and during this time, BioWare has released games that include options beyond heterosexuality. Maybe someday Jack will be portrayed as pan.” “And I have to say ‘I’m so sorry, it’s partially my fault.’ But I still stand by the thing of keeping her with a more varied background. “I’ve worked with lesbian developers who have come up to me and said like, ‘Why is Jack not into me?’” Kindregan says. That’s why Jack seems pansexual, despite not actually being available in that way.
“The development team of Mass Effect 2 was a pretty progressive, open-minded team, but I think there was a concern at pretty high levels that if Mass Effect, which only had one gay relationship, Liara - which on paper was technically not a gay relationship because she was from a mono-gendered species - I think there was a concern that if that had drawn fire, that Mass Effect 2 had to be a little bit careful.”Īnd so the romance was changed in the eleventh hour of development, though by that point, some dialogue lines that hinted at a different route had already been recorded and put into the game.
maybe more people in the world thought that there was a connection between reality and what gets discussed on Fox News,” Kindregan says. “Mass Effect had been pretty heavily and really unfairly criticized in the US by Fox News, which at the time. “She was essentially pansexual for most of the development of that romance.” “I was trying to chart out the arc of romance, which for much of the development - it was actually very late that it became a male/female-only romance,” Kindregan says. Polygon has reached out to BioWare for comment regarding this anecdote. Well, there’s a reason for that.Īccording to a recent interview conducted by TheGamer with Mass Effect 2 writer Brian Kindregan, Jack was actually initially conceived as a pansexual character who could be into anyone.
But, bizarrely, Jack could only be romanced by male Shepards in the game - which left some fans feeling confused. Players of the galactic role-playing heist game might recall a certain mercurial character named Jack, who over the course of the game reveals that she had once been a part of a throuple with a man and woman. But during the development of Mass Effect 2, one potential affair was apparently tweaked due to a scaremongering news clip. As far as big budget video games go, Mass Effect has traditionally been a pretty progressive franchise that allows for a variety of different romances, depending on your character’s sexual orientation.
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