Revisiting Mass Effect After I Came Out: A Trip In And Out Of The Closet Share Filed to:ashley williams Video games give us a chance to live out fantasies beyond imagination — becoming magical heroes, travelling distant galaxies, owning a house. But they also give us a chance to see ourselves, exploring aspects we might not be as comfortable doing so in our real lives at a given moment. Mass Effect was one of those games for me — but revisiting its new remaster in 2021 is going to hit differently compared to the journey I first took 14 years ago. The Mass Effect trilogy is Bioware’s third-person shooter/roleplaying sci-fi saga, in which players are cast as Commander Shepard, an elite soldier who discovers a galaxy-ending threat of invasion and gathers a team of myriad specialists to confront it.