Why is everyone gay?

[Ibex]

I'm really enjoying the game, but...

What the hell?

[GriffinBnash]

oh be nice!

[psychotron666]

Most companions these days are made to be romanced by the player regardless what sex they are, cus there's always someone who loses their ♥♥♥♥ because they weren't able to romance a character because they were straight or gay or whatever.

It's mostly just a thing to allow players to romance any companion. You can pretty much ignore it all, or romance one companion and the rest won't bother you.

[kaymarciy]

If you think this is gay, try (or better not) playing Spellforce 3. "Oh, I'm a homosexual dwarf, but the heartless society doesn't want to accept me. So I'll research the brainwash-technology to show the golry of gayness to the entire world!!!!!!!!"

[Gaardian]

Why you romancing dudes?

[Lathanx]

You met tekehu didn't you?

Of course it was tekehu.

[Buzzerker]

I wondered the same thing when I first played Dragon Age 2. i was like, hell no, I think this tormented Battle Mage sword swinging Elf dude with the weird voice and the white hair, ( which I also heard in Destiny 2 many years later), I think this dude is gay. I was right. Then there's that healer mage dude, a human, he's gay too! I was like, what in the hell man, this dude is gay too? If they tell me the dwarf is gay that means we're not a band of hearty brave manly adventurers, we are the VILLAGE PEOPLE! Except for the fact that I ain't gay because I played as a chick. LOL..the dwarf isn't gay though he's got a crossbow he named Bianca. So he's cool. What a buff little dwarf he is, if I was a chick...Hmmmm.....lol

[Buzzerker]

so everyone is gay in Pillars 2? I did not know that.

[Ibex]

Originally posted by Buzzerker:

I wondered the same thing when I first played Dragon Age 2. i was like, hell no, I think this tormented Battle Mage sword swinging Elf dude with the weird voice and the white hair, ( which I also heard in Destiny 2 many years later), I think this dude is gay. I was right. Then there's that healer mage dude, a human, he's gay too! I was like, what in the hell man, this dude is gay too? If they tell me the dwarf is gay that means we're not a band of hearty brave manly adventurers, we are the VILLAGE PEOPLE! Except for the fact that I ain't gay because I played as a chick. LOL..the dwarf isn't gay though he's got a crossbow he named Bianca. So he's cool. What a buff little dwarf he is, if I was a chick...Hmmmm.....lol

ROFL!

I remember those dudes from Dragon Age Origins. LOL
Back then I was trying to bang the witch on the encampment tho... Fun times.

Yeah, half the roster and NPCs are gay in Pillars 2.

Try to get into any intimate conversations with Xoti, after travelling together for like a week? Nah! Have a chat with Serafen 10 minutes after getting to know him and he's already up for some sword-fighting.

[Dust]

Originally posted by JohnSmith24601:

It's just cheap writing to be honest. In a good RPG game, the companions themselves (or the established world itself for that matter) have their own sets of values and principles. They don't just magically change their personalities based on the player's gender. Like when you play as a female, Eder is straight, but when you play as a guy, Eder becomes gay. That doesn't make any sense and it genuinely feels cheap.

They don't. They're bisexual, or at the very least bicurious. Whether you think it's cheap is up to you, but I don't see why it wouldn't make sense.

Originally posted by JohnSmith24601:

Remember back in Dragon Age: Origins when you hit on Morrigan (the Witch) as a female warden and she said,"ew, gross!"?? I honestly thought that actually fits her character and personality.

I don't think you can do that. Or hit on Alistair as a man, for that matter.

Originally posted by JohnSmith24601:

The Social Justice Warriors are just so weak nowadays that they can't even handle a tiny bit of racism and sexism in games.

Off-topic. Might as well mention the people losing their marbles every time someone mentions female protagonists or lgbt characters while we're at it.

[Dust]

Originally posted by JohnSmith24601:

Excuses, excuses. Why don't we all speak plainly like grown adults? Why must you hide behind such poor explanations of why the characters are the way they are when we all know the truth?? "Oh, they are bi. Of course! THAT would explain why they would hit on both versions of the player. Of cooourse! I'm sure it has NOTHING to do with social justice warriors wanting gay contents!" Please, do not insult our intelligence.

It would explain it, yes, and it could also simultaneously be a commercial move. Developers have always been appealing to certain demographics, it's just that the wind's beginning to shift and more characters that don't belong to the standard that games from the late 80s to the late 00s had upheld thus far are beginning to be introduced in more games. Nothing inherently wrong with that. We're always gonna have ♥♥♥♥♥♥ romances as well as great ones.

Originally posted by JohnSmith24601:

It's not people "losing marbles".

Imitating someone, taking a disrespectful and sarcastic tone and beginning to write in caps when they emit the slightest bit of disagreement with you on this topic might be a sign that yes, some people *are* losing their marbles when it comes to this kind of thing.

[caroraim]

Originally posted by Gaardian:

Why you romancing dudes?

Top shelf post here...

[Ariakas6]

Being gay is forced on us via rpg games. That is the norm nowadays hope it will change in near future.

[Wexmajor]

It might have played better if just one of the blue semi-human dudes was a crazed horny bisexual who hits on and tries to ♥♥♥♥ everything in sight. Both of them being like that is just strange and off-putting. I think Josh Sawyer might have some issues to work through.

[Dust]

Originally posted by Saladrex:

Being gay is forced on us via rpg games. That is the norm nowadays hope it will change in near future.

There are no roleplaying games in which the devs force you to be gay to my knowledge. Maybe some specific itch.io shovelware games, but no RPGs that have gained any amount of public recognition. An overwhelming amount of roleplaying games do force you to be straight, though.

[psychotron666]

Originally posted by Dust:

Originally posted by Saladrex:

Being gay is forced on us via rpg games. That is the norm nowadays hope it will change in near future.

There are no roleplaying games in which the devs force you to be gay to my knowledge. Maybe some specific itch.io shovelware games, but no RPGs that have gained any amount of public recognition. An overwhelming amount of roleplaying games do force you to be straight, though.

Which tbh realistically should be the case. Gay people are roughly 5% of the population in any given timeframe in the world. It's just 5% of the world population is still like 350 million people, so the market grows higher (specifically in more 1st world countries where gaming is more popular as well)