This gamer: chooses a female character so I can stare at her ass the whole time.
On an unrelated note, I am really enjoying Stellar Blade.
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I was playing Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 and legit didn’t realize there was a romance option with Hans Capon until the cutscene where Henry locked the door, at which point, I was quite startled, and then realized that the dialog options with a heart next to them are romance and not just being a good, supportive friend. I am not gay and did not really want to see that myself, but do applaud the inclusivity. 🙈 I can imagine gay people feel the same having to muddle through the straight romance options in other games.
The one thing that bugs me about cyberpunk 2077 is the main story has an unskippable (straight) sex scene, I know they're almost a meme in gaming culture but I'm not here for that kind of content.
You think that's bad? I was playing Leisure Suit Larry and it was almost like sex was the focus of the game. I almost didn't complete my play-through because of all that diagusting smut.
Yeah, I have no interest in seeing stuff like that in games, tv shows, or movies. Fade to black quickly while they're kissing, we get it, let's move on. If you want to watch porn then watch porn, I'm trying to game or follow the story.
Only time it should be shown is if it advances a specific plot point in some way or form but 99% of the time it's not that.
Gets man bro protagonists in the last 100 games:
Gets 1 female protagonist: WOKE GIRLBOSS BS!
One female protagonist that's written exactly like a male and is basically just a skin swap*
Funny how men can’t write female characters but that’s still the woman’s fault lol
This character is ambidextrous because we just flipped the sprite
Broke: This character is ambidextrous because we just flipped the sprite
Woke: Link is right-handed because we flipped the entire game
I went out of my way to wait and play the GC version of Twilight Princess because I didn't want to play in a mirrored world with a right-handed Link. No waggle controls was a bonus.
I am pan and I have played a few games where a character is revealed as gay and got the same response from me because it just felt forced. The token gay person. Or, in at least one, most of the characters are gay and it's not strictly about gay stuff. They're just there for brownie points and tend to also be incredibly shallow characters who are only defined as "gay." I don't feel that is representative of anything but some empty corporate suit saying "we want your money, fag."
Zagreus in Hades is obviously Bi (or Pan) the whole time and no one cared, why, because it's not forced, I think it's kinda expected actually, so it just feels right. Same with Lucifer in the Lucifer TV show.
And sometimes a character is just gay and you find out in notes or something and it's like, neat, and then you move on.
On the other hand you have a random trans character in Hogwarts Legacy. It's a magical world, you have potions and spells to change not only your gender but you can even be a tiny mouse or a massive dragon, what's the point of that?!
You had me in the first half. She was there, but she didn't force you to listen to her story. She just existed. Like, sure, she was clocky; that's just how it is for girls who transition later in life. She mentions that she's been on a journey, and if you, the player, choose the appropriate dialogue option, she'll tell you her story, which, oddly enough, might be the less realistic thing. There are a lot of trans people who would prefer not to share that, because there are a lot of not-trans people who will change their tune and use information about a person who no longer exists to hurt the person they've transitioned into.
Zagreus (and Melinoë presumably) on the other hand are not obviously pan until you, the player, start pursuing same-sex relationships. Given that Hades and II are based on Greek mythology, it might come as no surprise, but it's not like there's an aspect of facial or body shape that obviously identifies someone as being lesbian/gay/bi/pan like there tend to be for trans people (especially femmes and women, ESPECIALLY in a world without cosmetic surgery, hand-wavey magic aside). She didn't hurt you, so be happy that some people did feel seen and move on with your life.
Don't get me wrong, maybe I came out too strong, she doesn't bother me, and if it makes someone happy then I'm happy. I just think it's bad storytelling that's all.
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What kind of games are y'all playing? In the games I usually play the sexual orientation of the characters isn't mentioned at all. So for all I know they could be straight, gay, bi, pan or whatever.
The last game I remember playing where the protagonists wife was mentioned (implying he's not gay) was Max Payne, 25 years ago.
The engineer in Factorio doesn't care for men or women, all he cares for is that the factory must grow. And afaik it's never mentioned wether Jebediah Kerman is into Bob, Bill or Valentina. None of the thousands of enemy soldiers I have shot in various shooters ever told me whom they're in love with. And all the Sims I might have killed by burning down the city were just numbers for all I know.
Character driven story games place at least some emphasis on sexuality and relationships in many games. Cyberpunk, The Witcher, Mass Effect, Baldur's Gate 3, The Last of Us.
To be clear, you define the sexuality of your own character in BG3. Every companion NPC, on the other hand, will have a boner for you if you take them on adventures and do stuff they like, regardless of your character's race, sex, or religion.
Ok, maybe I just play the wrong games. I haven't payed any of those.
There's never a wrong game! Play what you want.
It's definitely a genre thing.
Sim games, platformers, management games, multiplayer shooters etc very rarely bring it into the equation because in those games then either:
A) There's no named protagonist at all
B) The protagonist is 'You' so as little as possible is depicted about them to be unobtrusive
C) The protagonist notionally exists and has a name and depiction, yet they are so irrelevant to the story that no details about them are provided.
Narrative-driven games are a totally different beast.
Bro playing Gear Simulator wondering why gears don't have names, feelings, gender, or sexual preference.
Bro playing Farming Simulator 21 suddenly wondered why he was farming to make all that money, who answers when he calls out, "honey, I'm home!"? When he lives on a map that has no home, just more fields.
Story-driven games are expensive, inferior books. Fite me.
I agree. Story is great don't get me wrong, but gameplay is king. Never sacrifice the latter in reverence of the former.
The Last of Us 1 & 2 are the first ones that comes to mind. And both games are really fucking good because of it, not in spite of it.
You're talking about games that don't have a narrative, of course the characters aren't going to have sexuality.
Oh it's OK. The main character is a woman.
Genuinely struggling to think of any game where you play a gay man... Like as a forced thing, not an option like Fable 2.
Hmmmm... Wasn't there a Grand Theft Auto DLC with a gay main character?
Other than that, I can't think of any either.
If I remember correctly you work for Gay Tony, rather than playing as him.
Ah OK. Yeah, never played it.
Dev: "This man is ripped in the apocalypse"
Gamers: "Yeah that makes sense, you'd probably be more out and about"
Dev: "This woman is ripped in the apocalypse"
Gamers: "what the actual fuck"
Not even ripped or anything. Just "doesn't wear makeup and get hair done professionally during a zombie apocalypse" seems to piss gamergate jackasses off.
The opening of Gears Of War 3 where the humans live on some boats subsisting on vegetable patches and the male soldiers are still built like they eat an entire cow a day raw.
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Yeah but they were just groomed to lefty sympathies by Shigeru Miyamoto
Someone should overlay the graph showing the rise of the acceptance of left-handedness over time, with a graph of Zelda releases over time.
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