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People are all for calling woke bullshit until you call out the woke bullshit in something they have nostalgia for. But I’m going to point it out anyway.

Mass Effect 3 was the blueprint for woke story telling before the term “woke” even existed.
The only box it didnt check was slut shaming attractive women and insulting men for existing.
Glad to see they are checking off both of those boxes with The Legendary Edition’s marketing and censorship.

“Mass Effect 3 wasnt woke! What are you talking about!?”
Correction: Woke story telling hadnt infested everything so the nonsense in ME3 wasnt as obvious.
Although, even back in the day, there were certain moments that seemed off to me.
“Why is Kaiden bi-sexual, suddenly?”, “Why is caring about humans being treated as villianious?”,  “Why is the game only giving me the option to get mad about a joke I find funny?”, “Why does it feel like the game that’s about making choices feel like it’s pushing one choice so hard, I feel like it’s judging me if I dont pick it?” These were a few questions I was asking, as I played it, in 2012.  A term just hadnt been assigned to the nonsense, yet.
If I played this game, for the first time, in 2021, I would hate it.

Here’s a small list (I copy/pasted from a reply I made in another post) showing examples of wokeness in ME3.

-The Paragon/Renegade system is a Democrat/Republican system
-Gay characters popping up everywhere when character’s sexuality, other than Shepard’s, never came up, outside of Shepard trying to date them
-Giving renegade points (which is reserved for shit like punching reporters and killing people in Me1/Me2) for, nicely, telling a gay dude you dont wanna listen to him cry about his husband
-The pilot that wants to cry about his husband has no other character trait but “I’m gay”
-Joker makes a dark joke about the Asari Homeworld after it’s destroyed and you cant laugh, you can just choose how you belittle him because Dark humor is evil
-The advertising around the game was hyperfocused on “We have a canon FemShep now!”
-The only female Krogan ever shown is superior to every male Krogan ever shown
-Ashley’s character is altered because in ME1 weirdos liked to cry “Ashley is rahcist”
-The Illusive Man is depicted as a straight up villain because he wants to look out for humanity, where as in ME2 he’s a morally grey character you can understand, even if you disagree with him  (The globalist messaging, isnt even subtle, and all over the game.)
-The counsiler (whose name I forget at the moment) that’s kind of an ass but still a good dude that supports humanity in the first 2, all of the sudden is an extremist that wants to destroy all non-humans.
-Joker dating a robot and it’s treated as normal (As a whole, ME3 focuses way to much on the lovelifes and sexuality of other characters when, other than Shepard, the first 2 games, barely, do that shit).
-Replacing a Krogan squad mate with a Mexican (Latino Heritage)  no one liked because “muh representation!”
-Protheons being revealed to be the biggest assholes ever because everything that came before has to be evil.

There’s many other examples.