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A.) This "game" positions itself less as a game, and more as a piece of art. Which leaves it not only open to, but invites, critique. It presents a far future, where we are technologically advanced, but very specifially refuses to cater to homosexuals. This is stated explicitly which indicates that even in our far future, homosexuality is not accepted (in the realm of the game.) This is a huge bias being presented in this work of art.
B.) The lack of homosexual (if we are to assume that a basic convorsation must be linked to sex) communication hurts the gameplay, as it reduces the - already small - pool of other players to interact with online, crippling a huge part of the experience.
This is a "game" meant to be analized. There is little "game play" beyond trying to derive meaning from the limited experiences, and trying to understand the idea of communication, and relationships in a void - finding connection in a disconnected world.
I would encourage you to try the experience, and then comment on whether you think two male characcters should be able to communiate online (or two female characters, for that matter.) I would be interested in hearing why you feel the "hetero-communciation" makes a stronger experience, for gameplay - or narrative.
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But this thread is interesting actually. That's one of of the first things I wondered. The fact you mentionned you don't know about who you're talking to, that person may be represented as a feminine or masculine avatar, but you never know about the "real" gender, just like you never see the man's head, the woman's eyes, or even the whole characters when you have to interact with the chessboard.
It is perhaps, meant to show a bigoted future, where the corporation that makes this communication possible, has a political agenda.
It is also possible that it is simply because your pre-defined character, who you have chosen to play, has been predefined to be heterosexual. If you read a book, you can't choose if the lead character is homosexual or not, and you usually don't complain about it, because that's just the story that is told.
Not being able to play a homosexual character is not really a problem, because sometimes, some traits are pre-defined. Just like you can't choose to be a pacifist who refuses to carry a weapon when playing "Call of Duty", simply because the character is predefined to be a soldier. This is not a problem, because this is the vision for this game.
Just because the player character in a game is predefined to be one thing, it does not mean that the game, nor the creators of the game, are bigoted. They have just made a choice, conciously or unconciously, to make the player character what it is.
Your second point, on the chracter simply being hetero-sexual doesn't hold up, because of the official site: http://tale-of-tales.com/bientotlete/
There it states, "* T. Beach and U. Bridge are heterosexual programs. Users stationed in the Desbaresdes belt and current or former citizens of the Chauvin system are advised to use with caution. Furthermore, the U. Bridge grid is limited to a maximum of two simultaneous users. Users with Stretter condition are recommended to consult their physicians before engaging. S. Thala LLC rejects all responsibility for inappropriate use."
The character may be heterosexual, however the homosexual exclusion still exists.
It's also interesting that this software links the simple act of communicating with random phrases to sex.
And of course it makes no effort to overtly state that the future world is bigoted. It is one of those subtle things you notice by looking closer at the whole thing. Just like a movie taking place in the 40's. It may not overtly say "hey, this is a movie about repression of women". It may not even be one of the central themes of the movie, but if the movie is made realistically, it this repression of women shows when you look at it closer.
Many people would view the exclusion of homosexuals as bigotry (myself included), however there are a great many who see that as a normalized state.
Nothing in my reading of this media text has led me to believe that the developers, or in world characters, view the exclusion of homosexuals as a negative thing.
This led to my interpritation of the text.
However, looking at the text on the website, it is clearly meant to present everything from the viewpoint of the in-world developers. This means that we have no idea what the actual real-world developers think, and therefore, we cannot really jump to any conclusion. Just because you write a realistic 40's novel, it doesn't mean that you share the 40's mindset. And just because you write an interactive story where the predefined player character is heterosexual, it doesn't mean that you are bigoted. It just means that the character you have written a story about isn't homosexual.
If not...who cares.