Would you play a game with a gay main charater?

[SageRuffin]

So long as I can say that the overall experience was fun if not awesome, I could care less.

 

[nicholaxxx]

why not? It's not like by playing a homosexual character makes me as a person gay. but most likely it would transale into a moral story kind of game 'it's okay to be gay', or it would be used for offensive jokes and whatnot. other than that, it wouldn't affect the game either way so it really doesn't matter

 

[natural_fighter64]

I think Persona 4 did a very good job of introducing a gay team member. It can be argued that he wasn't in fact gay but the fact that he had bi-curious thoughts about the male members of the team shows that he is borderline. Also, what about that cross-dressing female detective, eh? Persona 4 sure had some odd characters.

 

[A Random Reader]

I shall ditto the people who say that they would play it if the game didn't suck.

 

[lovest harding]

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.

The fact that you said that is demeaning. Who's to say that she isn't 1) a good comic artist and will be received well and 2) that she is mature enough to handle criticism?
The assumption that she isn't either of those things simply because she's a gay woman, is an insult.

What is perceived as 'shoving their gayness into the faces of others' is a knee-jerk reaction.
Gays and lesbians are told to be quiet about their sexuality while everyone constantly makes fun of it and bad-mouths it. What is the natural reaction? To respond and defend.
The idea of just shutting up and down will do nothing but force millions of people into a closet that they fought to be free from.

Do you honestly, think people will accept homosexuality if it falls off the radar?
They won't. And to think otherwise is ignorant (no offense).

You seriously need some schooling:
First take a logic/reasoning course - because no one EVER said she WILL do any of those things, I just said the some other people do it and it is wrong. You have absolutely nothing in my post to deduce that from. And actually thinking I am out to insult her is what is more ignorant - which can exactly be deduced from your reply.

Second take a History course - you would know that the most openly gay society that ever existed were the ancient Greeks - where every man was pretty much expected to be bisexual - and homosexuality as a topic was not on the radar then in any sort of controversial ways it is on the radar today.

Thirdly - if someone makes fun of my sexuality I would laugh about it and move on - the fact that you bring up saying gay people are offended left an right just shows how insecure they are about their sexuality. Maybe the problem lies in building up that security without having to step all over straight people and sensor free speech, demand special treatment, and criminally disrupt church congregations. Have you thought about that???

I responded to that for someone else as well.
That was not my intent and I apologize to her if she feels that way.
My intent was to show that I inferred your words to be thinly veiled assumptions that showed what I was saying before.
I didn't intend the idea to be as confrontational as it ended up, I got carried away. I'm sorry for that.

Because it was expected. Society (in the U.S.) is religious (in a strange sense) now. The societies are completely different identities, so I'm not sure what you mean. Expand, please?

The very idea that that your sexuality is what you are is why the gay population is offended. If a person is nothing more than gay, and gay is meant to be bad/evil, then the insult is defamatory on a complete level. It's not just an insult to who someone has sex with. Society places an expectation that all a gay male or female is is gay.

Please, expand into specifics on how free speech is impaired.
And expand on what the special treatment is.

There have been instances of disrupting church congregations. There have also been instances of the religious stepping on the rights of homosexuals. These are not the majority of instances that can be used to accuse all of either side of doing one thing or another. It's a two way street.

 

[GrandAm]

If that character is gay but does not affect his motivations in the game? Sure why not. If in Halo Master Chief was gay, but the game was the same and MC's motivations were the same (to save humanity) I wouldn't have a problem.

If it was a game where I had to play stereotyped "gay" things to progress, I don't have a desire to play it. Gay people can and do everything straight people do as far as family, friends, and lifestyle. They just find the same sex instead of the opposite attractive. A gay protaginist could fight to save his/love just as a straight character. In the end it depends on whether or not the game is good, regardless of gender preference. But if the game keeps presenting the gloryhole scene as if the majority of gay people engage in that I wouldn't want to play it.

As a straight man I wouldn't want to save a woman as my "love" interest if I keep running across her in a gloryhole situation. Why would gay people? Why would I want to play that character at all? Generally I don't like extended graphic scenes of male homosexuality. Not because I'm a homophobe, but because it leaves me flacid and bored. Two attractive chicks going at it is cool by me, but I know many straight women that wouldn't care and are bored by it. Indeed in movies where such scenes happen, and are gratuitious to the main story I have a tendency to fast forward them to get back to the story. Plus since gay men exist they wouldn't find anything particularly exciting about it. I like hot lesbian scenes but the overall majority doesn't. Straight women and gay men. Many women tolerate it, but most I've meet find it boring. Gay men, by definition shouldn't positively like it.

Getting back to Halo it is why you didn't see Cortana making out with some other female AI construct. Or even Master Chief.

It really depends on the story and how graphic it is presented.

 

[Dr. Gorgenflex]

If it was a GTA, Fallout or Mass Effect type game sure, as long as the game is good. But there is no real purpose for having a gay character at this point in history.

 

[Uncreative]

Doesn't really change how good a game is.
Only reason it might stop me is if it made the mistake games with straight or asexual mains have made; Sucky stories that won't shut the hell up and let me play the game.
And that's less to do with sexual orientation and more bad writers, really...

 

[lovest harding]

Alright. Well, I'm afraid I cannot wait for a response anymore.
It's sadly time for bed.

It was a good discussion, thanks everyone!
Especially, Mcupobob. ^^

 

[Cmanaway]

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.

The fact that you said that is demeaning. Who's to say that she isn't 1) a good comic artist and will be received well and 2) that she is mature enough to handle criticism?
The assumption that she isn't either of those things simply because she's a gay woman, is an insult.

What is perceived as 'shoving their gayness into the faces of others' is a knee-jerk reaction.
Gays and lesbians are told to be quiet about their sexuality while everyone constantly makes fun of it and bad-mouths it. What is the natural reaction? To respond and defend.
The idea of just shutting up and down will do nothing but force millions of people into a closet that they fought to be free from.

Do you honestly, think people will accept homosexuality if it falls off the radar?
They won't. And to think otherwise is ignorant (no offense).

This is a very tricky subject. I'm gay and while I suppose it would be nice to be able to have a leagally recognized domestic partnership in this country, I'm not going to go out and scream to people about it. At the same time I do respect the people that do so because they are standing up for themselves and what they believe in. Women did it, African Americans did it, and now gay people are doing it.

I agree that having somebodies sexual preference shoved in your face(be they gay or straight) can be annoying, but to think that homosexuality fallin off the radar is goin to fix anything is probably incorrect. Most of the gay people I know don't shove their sexuality into other people faces and they still get ridiculed(sp?) when people find out they are gay. Honestly the only way to fix it is to find some middle ground that makes both sides happy, and that probably won't happen any time soon. And everybody is just goint to have to deal with that.

If you woke up tomorrow and suddenly 90% of the world was gay and said that straight people were going to hell for their choices, made fun of them constantly, and didn't allow them all of the same rights that it allowed the gay memebers of society, wouldn't you have something to say about it? I'm not trying to say that changes need to be made now, or that straight people have to accept gays, because they don't. It's just something to think about.

All of that being said, I would have to agree with the majority of you. If the game was good, and the sexuality asspect of it wasn't shoved in your face, yeah I'd play it.

 

[Gmano]

Yeah, sure, as long as there is no male-male sex scene that I have to watch...

They are people to, and, for that matter a (relatively) untapped plot line.

 

[crobulator]

it does not matter to me either way.

 

[Gigano]

Yeah, of course, why not?

I would have no interest in a game which consisted mostly of gay actions (or straight ones for that matter - not really into those kind of games), but I'd have nothing against if Nico Bellic had been stated as gay and threw glances at men or drank hot coffee with them in cutscenes - just as long as the gameplay remained the same.

 

[Littlee300]

Add a skirt for that gay character, and a wind that blows it up every once in a while, and you have
GAME OF THE YEAR!

 

[IxionIndustries]

I would. I mean, as long as it didn't really focus so much on the relationships itself, then I'd be fine with it.

 

[ffs-dontcare]

Yes I would, as long as they didn't parade their sexuality in front of me all the bloody time.

I hate it when straight male protagonists continually remind the player of their machismo and such, so it only makes sense that I hate it when gay protagonists do the similar thing.

 

[an874]

As long as its not a character made gay just for the sake of being the first gay character, i.e. not making it the focus of the characterization, there shouldn't be a problem unless your hampered by a strong enough homophobia.

 

[link141]

Yes why does that matter.

 

[Xanadeas]

It'd be nice to play a character I can identify with... Most open ended sand box games such as GTA or ANY J-RPG which WILL have a male lead and a female love interest... I always hated that. They always get kidnapped and I'm supposed to care because I love them and want to be in a relationship... Uh, no. I don't love them, really I could care less. Except for Aeris/th. T_T