Homosexuality in games

[Remleiz]

I'm fine with people having alternative lifestyles. But the thing is, I don't really want it shoved in my face either.

Are you refering to how some gay characters are over the top stereotypically camp?
Or do you just not want a game where the main character is gay?


p.s this isnt a rip on you, this is an honest question

It's actually not a games only philosphy and it's not inclusive to homosexuality either. I don't care what drives your existence or how it does so. Just let me do my thing and you can do yours. But rape, murder and puppy abuse are where I draw the line.

Ah i get ya now
sorry didnt fully understand what you meant lol

 

[tklivory]

*snipperooni*

I'd like to add that I don't believe that every gamer is a straight male. Just a majority of said group. And also that Princess Peach is annoying as hell and if that was something that supposedly represented me, I would be pissed off about it also.

Excellent reply, thank you.

Yeah, Princess Peach is a bit annoying as a representative. xD

Now some minimal rebuttal:

I think the *perception* of gamers is that they are mostly male, true. But the actual gamers I personally know are 40% female (real gamers by your definition), and of mixed orientation. But then, comic books used to be kids' funny books, too, and unfortunately are still *perceived* to be so by the general public (although hopefully Watchmen will put a hole in that myth a bit).

Anyway, in my previous post, I didn't mean to imply that a game should be released where the 'point' of the game was the character's orientation. I was merely trying to say that the character's orientation should not necessarily be heterosexual, even if that information is not important to the plot. Take Dumbledore: are the Harry Potter books really changed because the author outed him as gay? No, but the disappointing lambasting Rowling received upon the announcement concerning a character whose orientation had _nothing_ to do with the overall story merely highlighted the huge gap between the acceptance people preach and the acceptance people practice.

Do I want a game about men who jump into bed with each other all the time? No, unless it made the game better. However, I'd like to think that gamers could accept an incidental menage a trois with three men or three women as readily as they accepted the menage a trois with one man and two women at the beginning of God of War. (fabulous game, ah) I accept that society in general has a long way to go until mixed orientations are part of standard narrative practice, but I don't particularly want to see the *perception* of what we are as gamers dictate everything that is developed to play.

One last tangent: pray that the casual gamers, who spend more money than hardcore gamers, don't dictate everything! I can see it now: "PuzzleQuest - Grand Theft Auto"

 

[Adair_the_Skull]

If its interesting to the story, but I feel like that for all sexuality in games. It has to fit somehow, if not it just ends up sounding like "LAWLS, boobies" or "LAWLS, Gay"

 

[SharPhoe]

I'm all for gay characters, as long as their sexuality isn't their defining feature. Gay is a sexuality, not a type of personality.

QFT.

 

[JemJar]

I'm all for gay characters, as long as their sexuality isn't their defining feature. Gay is a sexuality, not a type of personality.

You clearly haven't met some of my friends.

Despite the major props for Monkfish's words Silver makes a valid point - I know plent of gay and lesbian people and quietly, behind closed doors my best friend (a lesbian school teacher) and I tend to describe certain people as either gay people or gay people.

Some of the homosexual community do define themselves by their homosexuality, some don't and the latter are those you wouldn't have to know about - valid points already made: you wouldn't know if Freemonz or Master Chuff were gay and it shouldn't really matter.

Having said that, it'd be nice if homosexual relationships were more viable in games, without it just being porn (can men get over that? you don't want lesbians, you want bisexuals - get it right) and a game with a gay romance plot would be quite nice given the vast number of (largely poorly written) straight romance plots. Where you invariably play the man. And the girl needs saving. And is largely useless.

 

[fenixrising]

not gay, but birdo was a cross dresser
you can be actively gay in the fable games, i'm straight and i still married blokes, just cos i could