Would you play a game with a gay main charater?

[z0nbie]

It wouldn't bother me at all... I mean ... as long as the story is good, who cares ... if they made a video game based off the comic book "The Authority" for instance ... I wouldn't even care that the two top characters were gay ... just that I was able to dismember and tear every enemy in sight with my bare hands... maybe it's just me though

 

[Deathsane]

Not if there one of those in your face gays and no sexual scene at all other than that I couldn't give 2 shits.

 

[Abengoshis]

Of course I would play it. As long as the game was fun.

 

[The_Echo]

Sure, why not? So long as they don't shove it down my throat that he or she is gay. If the game has a solid plot and gameplay, I couldn't care less for the sexuality of the protagonist.

 

[Lightnr]

Hey maybe you would get more opinions, OP, if you actually had a POLL

you just made a fagatrocious topic, even more fagatrocious.
+2 Wii Fit points.

 

[OmegaCheese]

Well, as long as there isn't high sexual content, I'm fine with that, I just don't want to be scarred by gay sex. It's fine as long as I'm not witnessing it, EVERYONE HAS RIGHTS!

 

[Mcupobob]

Hey maybe you would get more opinions, OP, if you actually had a POLL

After I posted I relized a poll would be a great idea but now its too late, stupid mistake on my part sorry.

 

[Lightnr]

Sure, why not? So long as they don't shove it down my throat that he or she is gay. If the game has a solid plot and gameplay, I couldn't care less for the sexuality of the protagonist.

Shove it down your throat...... I'm sure they wont.... but you never know.....

... depends on who they want to please.

 

[Helba1984]

I did play Army of Two.

Anyways, it depends. Simply being gay wouldn't bother me, and if the gameplay was good I doubt I'd care, but if they made an effort to match the stereotypical flamboyant drama queen gay profile, it might irritate me too much to put up with.

Agreed. It wouldn't bother me unless they made it a send-up like the Ganguro fairy in DQ or as a shock-value thing to raise controversy or sales.

If they kept it low-key it wouldn't really bother me.

 

[joshthor]

the big question is why? i may be just guessing but i would assume the vast majority of gamers are straight guys. as such if the game was all up in your face about the main character being gay it would alienate alot of people who might play it, and if it wasnt all up in your face about it people might think its just about the publicity. either way, i dont think i would play it. EXPECIALLY if it was an RPG

 

[Firia]

I was wondering would people now adays be ready to play a game with a gay main charater? or lesbain main charater as so not to discrimnate(mispelled).

I'm a gay woman and I'm writing a comic book with a lesbian main character. Her sexuality is not even a remote focus of the story, but this detail does have me wondering how the story will be received.

 

[JulZ45]

it depends. if the games good yes if its sucks then no

 

[NeutralDrow]

As I said in the last time this question pops up, of course. In fact, I already have.

For a certain definition of "main", naturally.

Aside from that, why not? Probably the main way to show that a character is homosexual would be to give them a love subplot, and I can see many ways that would work brilliantly.

 

[Mcupobob]

it depends. if the games good yes if its sucks then no

welcome to the escapist thx for chosen my thread for your first post

 

[Disaster Button]

I don't really care whether the protaganist is a guy, a girl, a rabbit, a bi curious demon made of scarves or a whorebot. As long as its good then I'll play. Although it'd be pretty cool to play a bisexual character.

Have we ever had a robot as a main character in a game? because I think that'd be freaking sweet.

 

[Angerwing]

Anyways, it depends. Simply being gay wouldn't bother me, and if the gameplay was good I doubt I'd care, but if they made an effort to match the stereotypical flamboyant drama queen gay profile, it might irritate me too much to put up with.

Exactly this. It's not the sexual orientation that makes me uncomfortable, I have no issue with that. But if it's not done tastefully, then it's just offensive, and THEN I'd be uncomfortable playing it.

 

[Lightnr]

I was wondering would people now adays be ready to play a game with a gay main charater? or lesbain main charater as so not to discrimnate(mispelled).

I'm a gay woman and I'm writing a comic book with a lesbian main character. Her sexuality is not even a remote focus of the story, but this detail does have me wondering how the story will be received.

I don't know but just make sure your work doesn't flop because it sucks and you accuse people of being ignorant when it really is your work that needs improvement. That just worsens the gay cause. Actually, I think if most gay people did not shove their gayness into the faces of others and yell ignorant when someone asks them to stop, gays would be much much much better received in society - just as all the replies on this thread suggest.

I am pretty sure if I went and shoved my straightness in gay peoples faces and went on and on about how great it is to be straight they would as me to stop as well - and they would have every right to.

 

[lovest harding]

With all these responses, I'm noticing something.

If you said, as long as the character wasn't gay just because:
Most characters are heterosexuals just because.

If you said, as long as it was pertinent to the story:
Being heterosexual is almost never pertinent to the story.

And one person said that being gay makes a hero not as badass:
Let's say Master Chief was gay (I'm gonna get murdered for that) and that not once in the game did it ever mention he was gay. But then the creators came out (a la J.K. Rowling and Dumbledore) and said he was. Would that make him any less badass?
If a character is badass, they're badass. Whether they end up kissing their female or male interest in the end is irrelevant to that.

Personally, I think all characters should be asexual (if it's a game that doesn't allow romance as an option, like the BioWare games).
Sexuality/sexual orientation shouldn't be the character. If any game makes a point of forcing a character into a sexual situation (without choice) it's just unneeded.
Albeit there are exceptions, such as Indigo Prophecy (where the sexuality adds another layer to the characters) or God of War (where his heterosexuality is important because of what happened to his family, although the gratuitous sex scene was just obnoxious).

To answer your question, I would.
As I said, sexuality/sexual orientation shouldn't be the character. It can be used as a layer in the character's personality, but too much of it is just painful.
And to be honest, I doubt we'll see a gay player character (who was built from the ground up to be gay). The action and shooter games are getting less and less character and story driven while the RPGs are getting more player choice based (as those are the main genres to use character's to their full capacity). The only game I see that would ever come close is GTA. And that game is stuck so far up it's own THIS IS WHAT MEN ARE! ideal that it'd never portray a player character as a gay man.
Especially when the one relatively deep gay character they created was still quite stereotypical on the surface (the pink/purple glasses, running nightclubs, partier, etc.).

Yeah. This is my first real post. I thought I'd make it count. xD

 

[xenos60]

To be entirely honest, the main character's homosexuality would make me feel rather uncomfortable. I'd probably stop playing with 2 hours (or less if he was shoving it in our faces).Honestly though, I'd be fine with a lesbian. That may sound biased and cliche; but I am a guy and I am being entirely honest.