MiloP said:
The only issue I had with the gay thing is that Kaiden suddenly turned bisexual, despite being completely straight in ME1, as far as I recall. That just seemed like a forced way to have a second choice of sausage to nosh on.
Cortez, though, he was awesome. Wasn't stereotyped in anyway and all around just a great supporting character. Totally would've gone for him had I not been a FemShep.
OT: This seems to be a collection of people who don't want their children to know that gay people exist - now THAT is just bad parenting. It could be argued that they just don't want to show their children some hot sexy man time, which is fine, but maybe YOU SHOULDN'T BE BUYING YOUR CHILDREN M-RATED GAMES. Just a thought.
Well, actually he was stereotyped. All other arguements aside (which I am not going to get into) they took the non-person route with him.
Basically when a developer team has no real idea of what to do with a character but are required to put it in, they focus largely on family. The token black guy, hispanic, or whatever else caring for and being entirely motivated by family gives an illusion of depth, while really doing very little for the character or storyline, typically because the writers have very little to say about the subject the character is meant to address in the context of their story.
Cortez is a garbage character, his sexual orientation aside. He's pretty much a pilot stereotype whose only real character trait is QQing about his dead husband.
Kaiden and Anders being gay is a politically correct insersion into the game as it made no real sense for either of them. Both were previously established characters who were modified to fit the bill they wanted.
People tend to forget Kaiden's fairly macho posturing towards the ladies in ME1 and how if he was bi- originally that probably would have come out before then. Anders was similar in his first appearance in "Dragon Age: Awakening" given some of the comments he made, really there was kind of a joke about him being gay because of the ear he wore his earring in, but I seem to remember reading that it was an art malfunction and statements from Bioware confirming that Anders was not gay, at least originally. This was when "Awakening" was new.
Now, regardless of the subject overall, compare that roster of characters to say Leliana or Zevran who were both bi-sexuals in the core "Origin" storyline, or say Isabela who was an NPC in "origins" and rounded out to be playable in "2". Those characters are comparitively well rounded and designed from the very beginning to be gay/bi and are of a substantially higher quality which reinforces my belief that the later characters added to ME3, and some of the ones in "2" (like Anders) were done for the sake of political correctness. I'm considerably more receptive to say Fenris' bi-sexuality as part of the character than that of Anders because what they did with Anders contridicts his earlier portrayal as a playable character in "Awakening" and also statements by the developers which were a bigger deal at the time the game was released (and mostly people loling about his earring and the simple fact that he acted like a total poonhound, staring up statues of Andraste and such without even making so much as a commment about another guy... and personality wise, if he was gay or bi he definatly would have, he's almost totally irreverant).
sooooooo essentially this is the same story as the one that came out a few months ago about homosexuals in The Old Republic? I thought some of the quotes in that article were absolutely hilarious. From the preacher that was leading the protest: "It turns out that the Rebels aren't the biggest threat to the Galactic Empire, but instead it's homosexual activists!" That quote immediately gave me the image of a bunch of gungans marching around on the streets beneath Palpatine's window chanting "WE'SA HERE AND WE'SA QUEER!!!"
