Would you play a game with a gay main charater?
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Um... I am more than sure that somebody has mentioned this but... GTA: Gay Tony (abridged title, of course)... I'll play it.
Nothing wrong with playing a game with a gay lead role. Not like it will change the play value of the game itself. If the game sucks, it sucks; no matter what sexual preference the lead has.
Nothing wrong with playing a game with a gay lead role. Not like it will change the play value of the game itself. If the game sucks, it sucks; no matter what sexual preference the lead has.
I'd give it a whirl if it was a decent game, the gay thing wasn't just tacked on for novelty value and it was a well-rounded character. I wouldn't care if it was integral to the story or not, some people are gay, big deal.
If I remember right, in the opening thing; it wasn't his brother, it was his lover in the original.FROGGEman2 said:
AGH! That would be so much better! Brother? Pphhh, who cares! Lover? Hell yeah!Megawizard said:
(Also his blover was ho-o-o-ot.)
I think you have a point here, but you have to be careful how you apply it. I could relate to or admire a homosexuals non-sexual traits i.e- Leonardo da Vinci's skill at art and engineering or Wilfred Owens talent for poetry. Likewise, same applies to a video games characters non-sexual traits. Homosexual traits, for hetrosexuals like me i could not see as being anything i could relate to on a deep level. I would be interested in curiousity level, but not really an emotional one. Like everyone else here, i too think that the homosexual character should not just be there to brew contraversy to blow up sales figures, but rather serve a sort of purpose or point to the game. It would annoy me if the gay character was sterotypically gay, i would rather the game presented them as a normal character, because thats who they are- normal people. Assasins Creed 2 did this quite well in their treatment of Leanardo da Vinci . (Altough granted Leonardo's talents were not normal)VanityGirl said:
The problem for you is that homosexuals will always be a minority, the mainstream media will always usually focus on hetrosexual relationships. However, with homosexuality now out in the open and accepted, i would not be surprised if some forms of media decide to cater for the homosexual minority with a few films aimed at the homosexual audience.Evolution Revolution said:
Well, yes depending on, I like serius games so he can be gay but not FLAAAAMING! Like in a firefight the character starts talking "ooooh I just LOVE the decoration in this room!", but a lesbian however, well I dunno girls are girls, if a man is gay it shows much more 
If it fitted the story. I wouldn't play a game that's made simply because you don't find many gay characters. As long as the game has substance rather like any self respecting game does. Most of the games I enjoy I'd still enjoy if the main character was gay.
Actually, I recently realised that I play games to be different people. In Dragon Age: Origins, my main character is a girl, and it helps immersion, for me.
Does anyone else do this?
Does anyone else do this?
Wait.. okay. So, Soap from Call of Duty is straight though right? Please tell me he is straight.
And just to throw my 2 cents in on the "I couldn't relate to a homosexual as much" argument. That's a load of rubbish. How does what hole a guy likes to put his penis in dictate if you could relate to him or not. We can relate to all human beings. I'm sure everyone has related to a character of the opposite sex, or another race. I don't think having a homosexual character would stop immersion at all. It might even help it.
Yes. I agree 100%. Being someone different in a video game helps draw you in. For instance, I always play males in games although I am a female. I often play evil in video games to add immersion - and I'm not an evil person.FROGGEman2 said:
And just to throw my 2 cents in on the "I couldn't relate to a homosexual as much" argument. That's a load of rubbish. How does what hole a guy likes to put his penis in dictate if you could relate to him or not. We can relate to all human beings. I'm sure everyone has related to a character of the opposite sex, or another race. I don't think having a homosexual character would stop immersion at all. It might even help it.
I would; I think it'd lead to some interesting moments, so long as the character's sexuality wasn't his/her sole defining character feature. I think gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender folks get kind of a bad rap (at least in the U.S.), so positive portrayal in a video game would likely help cultural acceptance- if only a wee bit. Besides, some games have allowed the Gay Option for years.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GayOption
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GayOption
Eh, sexual orientation in a game usually doesn;t sway my view one way or th other, but if I had to choose, probably not. It would make it harder to relate to the character, and it would break immersion at one point or the other, since there's no point making the main character homosexual without doing anything with it (which was the whole problem I had with Dumbledore in Harry Potter, but that's a rant for another time).
Ppppph, of course he is straight, just like all Russians are pure evil.Kortney said:
I find that it helps immersion. If you can differ the character from yourself, the character will gain his own personality, and then I find that it's easier to immerse myself in the fantasy.
Of course, as if I cannot sympathize with a person based purely on their sexual preference? Silly. A controversial difference usually incites me to care more for a protagonist.