January 22, 2021 12:22 pm GMT
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Queer romance was removed from 2011's Mass Effect 2 to appease Fox News
Bioware's 2011 game Mass Effect 2 features Jack, a woman who hints at pansexual relationships but will only romance the player if they're playing a man. It's because they removed the option in fear of a conservative media backlash. [thegamer.com]
Here's the game's writer Brian Kindregan, interviewed by Cian Maher:
— Read the rest"Mass Effect had been pretty heavily and really unfairly criticized in the US by Fox News, which at the time… maybe more people in the world thought that there was a connection between reality and what gets discussed on Fox News," Kindregan continues.
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