Look, I’m not a fan of censorship in any form no matter how dumb people feel it is.

All i wanted was the exact same games with updated graphics higher framerates and all dlc. Nothing about these games needed to be changed imo. I still cant wait as this trilogy is one of my all time favorites.

talent less hacks trying to 'improve' other peoples great work

No ME3 multiplayer (which was awesome) and now they're pulling shit like this? If they're trying to redeem themselves they sure as hell don't know how. RIP Bioware.

Its EA did U actually think U were gonna get something good 😅

They talk about artist integrity, but this is not the same people who built the game, bioware is a very different company now focused on profits. If they cared about the integrity, they would keep the original intact. This is just a cash grab.

Remember when the original ME came out and there was an outroar from out of touch conservatives calling the game smutt for having sex scenes.......a decade later and now BioWare censors the game because out of touch liberals call the game problematic. Seriously what happened that people bow down to the censors, where is people's artistic vision, their rebellious attitudes?

Well, Hideo Kojima won't be playing it. Everyone knows he's an ass man.

That change makes perfect sense.

I still remember thinking to myself when playing ME2 how Miranda's ass was so much in your face. This wasn't creative lol. It was merely that the devs liked her ass that much - can't blame them. But it was over the top especially in a serious sci-fi story like Mass Effect.

Thankfully that seems to be the extent of the censorship. Anything more would ruin the legacy of this masterful trilogy.

That ass was one of the best things in the game. That's not to say the game wasn't great but the ass was just that good.

Even without reading the comments, I bet some people are saying they were going to get the game, but will now pass.....Personally I cannot wait

I'm fine with this i play the games for the story and characters i don't spend the game looking at a characters butt like some gamers here have the time to do and these gamers are the same ones that enjoy looking at the underwear of underage characters which is disgusting I'm glad Sony is leading the charge on censoring that.

Up next, EDIs cameltoe has been removed

Violence and blood is okey, but seeing some ass is so horrible again? Wtf is wrong with western snowflake developers.

Well I was excited for this but now I will probably pass on it.

So it’s just a few camera angles lol. What a waste of a article.

Microsoft should've bought Bioware

right so there is no over reaction by society or tik tok, and twitch about Thots nearly exposing themselves for views but a shot camera angle of a clothed Mirandas ass. Oh no the outrage

sigh
fair play. not gonna get it at launch then.

The pearl clutching, arbiters of mortality strike again.

I wasnt planning to get this either way because it's not on switch but that's a terrible decision lol just leave the game as is. Incorporate your ideas into new games not old ones. Your messing with history. The equivalent of whitewashing.

Oh yeah, because shoving Miranda's ass in every cutscene was an 'artistic vision' that the story wouldn't be complete without. To introduce a sexy character with all her assets, for seduction or intimate moments, sure, that serves the story, but every time she gets screen time, no. That's pandering to the horny.

The original trilogy we now know was censored because of fear from Fox News backlash on at least two characters. But now, a change in a camera angle (not character interactions or stories like what happened with the original releases, just a camera angle) and you all cry censorship-boycott?

If only there were some consistency to the things you all claim to stand for.

Corny. Thats part of the character building for Miranda as the 'perfect woman'. Also for your potential romance....in an M-rated game....

Everybody loves ass dude wth?

No problem, modders will fix that

Welcome to the new world....

They do this on purpose to get a reaction out of people. Not really a big deal

No thanks!

Is it a really big deal at the end of the day? No and Yes. No, it won't effect the overall game what so ever. Yes, if we gamers keep saying that games are art or an expression. Would you alter or modernize a Picasso, because you or others didn't like something about it? No, you would stay faithful to it. The reason they cut those scenes is so that other people wouldn't be offended. In that context it is a big deal, because those that modified it did so, not to fix a bug, or something that gimped the experience. But did so out of their own personal views and sensibilities. Censorship plain and simple.

Okay, let's get past the actual subject matter being altered and the poor motivation(IMO) for doing so. The question should be "will taking this action help or hurt our sales of the game?" And I don't see how this change in anyway shape or form helps sell the game. I don't believe there was a portion of potential buyers for this game that were just off-put by the handful of cut-scenes that involved shots of Miranda, which was modeled by the beautiful Yvonne Strahovski, who will now lay down their shekels for the product since the "male gaze" has been subverted.

Conversely, there is a sizable portion of the fan-base and other potential buyers who are repulsed by anything resembling censorship or politically motivated alterations of beloved IPs. The changes can be considered minor, especially to those not invested in the IP, but it won't matter, it's the principle that has been violated. That portion that will be turned off by this story alone, and this will only be the beginning of it, just wait, may not be big enough to seriously damage overall sales but as evidenced by the ratio of commenters in this thread alone that will pass on buying it(at least till it hits bargain bins) it will be a loss that didn't need to happen, especially on behalf of modern squeamish sensibilities.

Just some altered camera changes. I'll manage. Day 1 buy. Been wanting this collection for years and at 60fps.

No more 'Ass Effect' then sadly.

Maybe the PC modding community will fix that in time :D

I agree with everyone about censorship and how it is stupid to do this, but I read the original article and analyzed the quotes in question. Came with conclusion to this quote: “Kevin (character and environment director Kevin Meek) actually called out some camera cuts that were just… why was that focusing on Miranda’s butt? So in some cases we said, ‘Okay, we can make a change there’. But ultimately, to change an entire character model or something like that wasn’t really… it was a decision that was made as part of many creative decisions and just showing it at the best possible fidelity that we could going forward is really the choice for all of the art that we had.”, that
I'm uncertain about the camera changes because the quote in question seems to be cut and lose some context of the interview, and the developers seem to back paddle on making changes based on last part of the quote.
I will withhold my judgment on changes like this until I see proof of the changes through gameplay or images of the game.

A total assumption on my part: (pun not intended)

Like most modern companies, employees are given standard goals to work toward in the year. A big one these days is "Inclusivity/Acceptance "which is obviously not a bad thing in and of itself.

I imagine this is something quick and easy the dev team can use/quote in their mid or end-year Performance Reviews to say "Hey, look what I did to meet this goal".

https://youtu.be/0khHh82iNv...

Here you go.

This will get modded back within a day so the content is not a problem. The problem is the message they are saying with this, that it's not okay to have provactive shots of women anymore. Which is what people are concerned over, rather then being able to see it. It's the same with any censorship outcry.

Eh i get it. It's weird that Miranda is genetically engineered to be this sexual masterpiece. Miranda herself struggles with this. So for the game then to proceed to sexualize her anyway, in at least some respects does contradict her character arc. But then again so does the player proceeding to decide they're going to take her to the bone zone.

Point in case, we're flawed as humans. we always will be. who cares.

VIVA LA ASS!!

Fuck Sony and Microsoft for bowing to sjw's (Mostly Gay Men) for all this censorship.

I absolutely love censorship!

The internet has begun to melt.

Is anyone really surprised? SJW agendas rule the world right now...

100% sure there will be a mod on pc to restore those scenes, just like it happened in sfv, ill wait to play it until then, stop censorship.

The trick is not to censor dat ass, but to make more Shep ass angles to even the playing field. Equality people lol.

I won't pass this one, but its annoying to have censors here and there.

Damn. I was hoping for VR support so I could motorboat Miranda’s ass!

They went in the other direction...

Easy pass.
I honestly couldn't care less if it was being changed for legitimate reasons.
I'm not paying money to support pandering to the woke sjw crowd.
Everything is offensive now somehow and it blows my mind.

Censorship and God awful overuse of lens flare, I wanna thank the devs for helping me save some money.

Miranda's sex appeal is part of her character. Censoring some camera angles just seems stupid to me. No, it's not the end of the world. But I still disagree with it.

Cry me a river you whiny little shit heads. Oh my god! A scene without a butt shot. And y’all call us snowflakes. Haha losers.

It's not censoring, it's editing and it happens in EVERY SINGLE GAME OUT THERE.
This decision could have been made before the original game came out and you'd have been none the wiser. Thousands of decisions like this are made with every single game.

Who is it that they cater to, are people really this sensitive? It's a game were we are shown naked bodyparts of both male and female characters and people of both sexes can be played with different sexual preferences. The original games are still in my collection so no worries, I will not be needing this "upgrade".

as a trans gamer, I'm glad they're censoring the problematic areas of the game

why the fuck are they changing it now considering what they released in the first time around ill still with the version i have now fuck you EA/BW

I haven't played these so I'm hoping whatever can be modded back can happen and then maybe I can jump in on those versions

Remember the fox news attack on mass effect when they hired a stupid psychologist that never even played the game to attack it Ea is just trying to avoid that backlash the game got the first time so they are censoring it they are bending the knee to the feminazis.

The new 2021 cancel culture at it's finest. This is the future people, mass censorship.