More games need LGBT characters

[Demon of Elru]

I myself am straight however I believe games should be including an LGBT character. Including he lead playable character. Bioware has this right though its more neutral as you can pick. Games need to make some of their characters permanently gay. Its 2017 now and this idea that LGBT people should not be represented is asinine. Games with a fixed character such as "HITMAN" for example (not saying Hitman should do it since he's already established) should write their characters to be LGBT with no option to change it. Whats fair is fair and frankly too bad if you are uncomfortable with it. I'm straight and I have no problem with it.

[MollyMo]

Did he just use hitman and lesbian in the same sentence?

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No just no.

[Ymir]

Absolutely not.

[(matratze)]

I couldn't care less which gender a fictional online character prefers.

[Demon of Elru]

Publicado originalmente por Valyatine:

Absolutely not.

Publicado originalmente por ☠Soul Assassin︻芫══↼:

No just no.

Homophobic I take it?

[WERElektro]

*in before the lock*
Well... I agree.... kinda.
Didn't they make Tracer from Overwatch... well... "queer" (or lesbian or bi or whatever you may call it)?
The outrage on the Overwatch forum was hilarious.

[Demon of Elru]

Publicado originalmente por Big Metal:

Sure why not? The film industry has already ruined movies with this PC crap, might as well ruin gaming too.

So its "PC" to include real life?

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Publicado originalmente por Demon of Elru:

Publicado originalmente por Valyatine:

Absolutely not.

Publicado originalmente por ☠Soul Assassin︻芫══↼:

No just no.

Homophobic I take it?

No just tired of it being shown every where. Gays exist so what i don't need to see it everywhere i look.

[WERElektro]

*grabs popcorn*
This is getting really dumb interesting.

[Danksama]

We don't need to obligate game devs to do this, they can do it at their leisure

[Ymir]

Publicado originalmente por Demon of Elru:

Publicado originalmente por Valyatine:

Absolutely not.

Publicado originalmente por ☠Soul Assassin︻芫══↼:

No just no.

Homophobic I take it?

No. Why force a story to contain a LGBT character just for the hell of it?

If a game developer actually wants one or several in their game, and has a story about the person(s) they want to be played or shown, just great, fantastic even, but to force it is just stupid.

[Autistic Whales]

No we shouldnt. It doesnt matter in the slightest.

[Commander Makara]

There's plenty of LGBT characters in games. Should you want them to be.

The problem is that the general concensus seems to assume that characters are straight unless they are exaggeratedly defintiively portrayed to be otherwise.

Which in my opinion is wrong. The current trend to appeal or show csome "modern acceptance perspective" in characters by exaggerating TOKENISING and titlation of "ooh lesbian kiss", "gay captain" etc. is just abhorrent and derogatory. I honestly believe people will look back on the state of this subject NOW in 50 years and shudder at how false and blatantly awkward this approach is, in the same way as looking at the reefa-smiking, roller-blading, portable-radio-listening jamaican token black was in the 60's TV and movies.

You see it on TV- gay characters MUST have this "gay dialogue" or scenes of shigfhly suggestive romantic interest identifying the orientation ---- It's just as bad as stereotyping gay men as all "FABULOUSLY camp rainbow fairy queens" or lesbians as either "ultra hot pornstar models getting it on for the viewwer's pleasure" or "butch sadist with her feminine saphho"
Please don't encourage games to do the same.

Here's a thought. Let's look at the Halo Master Chief. Ol' MC rarely has any time for romance, to be fair he's been hardwired not to think of it - some subtle innuendo fvaguely lirtatious cortana jokes aside, there's abosluitely no sexcuality there whatsoever.
Not only was this by design to focus on the action hero aspect rather than drown with sentiment and romance interests, but this rather flat, dimensionless shallow character-shaped hole left plenty of room for the PLAYER to fill - this really helped with 'immersion' for gameplay sake.
So sure, take it further if you like and you have a transgender, bicurious Master Chief if you so wish - NOBODY can say you're wrong, nowhere is there any definition that MC is straight.

Lara Croft, too is generally ambiguous in this regard, too crafty to know when she's flirting or just fishing so if you like, she's Lara Croft the lesbian - (I'm pretty sure there's plenty of entire websites devoted to this so clealy someone's already thought of it)

IN SHORT:

Games donät need any changing to make gay characters happen. PEOPLE need to stop making base assumptions. The default to straight is kinda implicative that LBG and trans is 'not normal'.

[First&Only]

games are made for fun and not to make social or political or gender rights based arguments
play games for the spirit in which they are meant and lets focus on equality in the real world where LGBT rights are not fairly acknowledged.

[blue]

but if it's representative of the actual population it's fair that it's rare