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Most games don't bring the characters sexuality into it at all so I wouldn't consider 99.99% to be particularly accurate. That said I'd prefer if they left romance out of it all together. I'm equally annoyed by having to deal with it in a game regardless of which end of the spectrum it is. Just let me fight/build/solve puzzles/whatever. If I wanted to date someone I'd be doing it in real life.
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I did learn a lot of modding with my commitment to play gay characters at least. Thanks compulsory heterosexuality for teaching me to Google things like “Carth gay”!
One of the first mods I tried to mess with was The Underground for Morrowind (which Skyrim’s Dawnguard is 100% a rip off of btw) because it forces you into a het relationship as part of the storyline. Unfortunately, it was such a crashy mess that just changing all the gender checks didn’t help.
People assume heterosexual is the default and get pissy at anything else, they’re completely spoiled. I can’t really think of any video games which force you to be a gay dude, unless you’re playing like Dream Daddy? The Last of Us Part 2 has you play as a lesbian, and I guess the usual crowd did have a meltdown over Abby not looking like a Princess.
I'm not even gay, but the first time I played Life is Strange (the first one) and when the option to...
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the option for Max to kiss Chloe showed up, I immediatly went for the kiss (well... the first time was a dare and that was barely even a kiss)
Their relationship is just so sweet.
I chose to sacrifice Arcadia Bay cuz fuck the dumb corrupt town. Max&Chloe is the canon ending to me. (The butterfly killed Arcadia Bay, #notmax'sfault)
My favourite characters are those who don't fit the 'norm'.
My Dune character is a bearded lady with purple hair. I've had my purple haired lass in multiple games now.
People complaining about representation in games... Most of the time we are playing as murder hobos, and inclusivity is their big whinge?
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The best thing? To have no fucking preference. Oh the writers wamt me to be a gay main character? Bet.
Oh the writers want me to be a straight homicidal manic? Bet