Oh trust me. I know your frustration better than you do.

I personally don't understand the whole thing of a fictional character in a video game where there is absolutely no romance anywhere having a preference. I don't care whether my character in a game like Borderlands is straight, gay, lesbian, or anything in between so long as I can pop the heads off my enemies.

Don't call them gamers, that gives them credence and insults actual gamers. Call them what they are: insecure babies. There are many, many insecure babies with the exact same opinion that do not play games. They are worse than the gamer bros, because they're out harassing people face to face.

The problem isn't games or gamers or gamer culture. It's ignorant bigots. (yes, I know it's still fun to make fun of gamergate crap, that's why I still upvoted the joke)

Not that I don't deny it, but are these things people think/care about? It's a video game, I can be anything depending on the game I am playing. I don't get mad or wonder why I have to play as a woman in some, hell I was perfectly fine playing last of us 2 which was a woman and gay. I can be a spirit or an alien and that's why games are so great.

Are most video games protagonists straight? Cuz I have played way more games where the protagonist is mute and doesn't show sexual interest in anything at all.

Like... Is Gordon Freeman straight? Doom guy? Kirby? Capt. Olimar? Red? The Prince of All Cosmos? 🤔

I'd say that video games have the most asexual representation of all forms of media.

If you wanted everything in the video game to mimic your real life, just go outside. Video games have always existed as an escape, to put ourselves into a situation we'd normally never find ourselves in, to live a life we can't in the real world. If pretending to be gay for a few hours threatens your sexuality in a way that pretending to be a superhero for a few hours doesn't threaten your abilities, maybe that says more about your sexuality than it does about the game?

Me when I’m forced to play as a bishop even though I’m clearly a rook.

So many non-plumber people who were forced to play as plumber in Super Mario games. So many humans were forced to play as undead and orcs in WoW. Imagine the torture!!!

In a large portion of games I've played, there is no mention of the main character's sexuality at all.

Furries when they're forced to play as a human 99.99% of the time.

The generic white muscled male, who can do anything the plot throws at him (with only a bit of fake struggle), and gets the girl at the end, is so damn overdone in every media. People talk about characters being Mary Sue when John Sue is way more common.

I want variations in my fiction! All kinds of genders, preferences, cultures, opinions, and species. The only rule I have is for the fiction never to encourage cruel acts IRL.

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I don't understand people who complain about things like this.

Just don't play it. Easy as that. No conversation needed. Go play something else. There's only an infinite number of other options that you can spend your time on.

Other than RPGs that let you choose, what games have you play as a gay protagonist?

Idgaf about the orientation typically. But if it's gonna be explicitly called out, then it better be significant to the character's identity, otherwise it's just meaningless attempts for the developer to ingratiate themselves with the LGBTQ without so much as providing a representative character of substance. I can't think of any examples of these off the top of my head, but there were some games and/or shows where I lost interest because every character was whatever different flavor of sexual and I was just like "this contributes nothing at all to the story, who tf cares about that shit?"

The industry has long invented a near-perfect solution:

MAKE IT TWO LESBIAN GIRLS

• They are gay
• They are loved by straights
• Straight girls who see it invariably turn bi
• Yay!

The only side still uncovered is gay men, that's all.

Who has the time to give a shit about this one way or the other?

On the realm of porn games at least, gay men are well served (provided you are also a furry).

I don't give a shit who or what I play as, as long as they're bad-ass

B.bbbb-but if I see it then I might catch The Gay! We all know that the moment you see or hear anything even remotely related to lgbtq+, you checks flash cards immediately burst into dance while singing Queen and waving a pride flag.

I play a woman named Vala (Mal Doran) or Adria in 99% of the games that let me customize. Because every other game I've played is always a generic male character doing generic action things.

"I've seen that movie played that game before" - Jordan Peele, if he were a gamer.

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic had a lesbian character, with a fully developed romance with the player. Devs were forced to nix it, still there but requires a lot of work to unlock. First gay character in Star Wars canon, although I guess Disney owns our imaginations and that doesn’t count anymore.

Jade Empire is another BioWare title that you can be gay in - if you play as a man, there is a male romance option which basically requires a guide to do right. He won’t give you a hint there’s an option until you actively piss off every female romance option.

That was gay gaming until the 2010s. We couldn’t get married until the Sims 3.

Yeah, Hollywood pandering is annoying and most of the time hollow. “The henchman from Beauty and the Beast is gay now!” But being able to make my Skyrim dude marry another Skyrim dude is great. I was early in transition when the Dragon Age with a trans guy came out - in a world where I was this alien in-between thing people didn’t understand, having this world where I could be normal was wonderful. Heck, Old School RuneScape upgraded their quests so you didn’t have to change your character to female for a quest and could be gay - I cried like a silly idiot.

Video games are escapism and queer people deserve escape too. There are enough stories for everyone.

One of my favorite games makes no mention of the main character's gender, and the main character is always depicted in an outfit that is a sort of cross between a spacesuit and worker's coveralls. And it doesn't make one bit of difference in the game.

I can identify with Mario much better than these new “woke” characters because he has no discernible personality and nothing he does ever makes any difference to his world.

The closest to sexuallity the character I'm playing at the moment can get is necrophilia (gay, straight, group sex - up to the player really) and I need to abuse the engine a bit and use my imagination.

Granted, in single player Project Zomboid there aren't any other living humans.

Am I supposed to be offended now because I had to play a RC car in ReVolt? Please.. Games are about having fun, not to make a political statement

This picture fits the comment so well. A calm person in a red flamboyant suit with makeup right next to an emotional but overall average person going on a rant. Well done.

As a bi person, I never face these issues. Everybody is sexy.

What game is he talking about?

I guess a solution for both would be to always have an option but would make it harder to craft certain sort of stories.

How about just playing the story as intended. Not everything has to be individualized.

I'm not trans at all, but sometimes I choose to play as a girl just to make real men mad, such as in laser tag (that's a very obscure TheOdd1sOut reference). The fact that I can't do that in Pokémon Red, Green (the Japan exclusive one), Blue, Yellow, Gold or Silver is kinda silly.

Sounds like a pity contest.

I don't see an issue, if 99% of the people are straight, and the goal of your character is to put the players in their shoes, then making them straight (if sexuality is in the game for whatever reason) is the right choice. Btw I'm not straight

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