But Not Too Gay (Gay characters in videogames)

Well, considering most people in the wasteland are more occupied with not getting their heads lopped off by a deathclaw or getting irradiated by eating centuries-old food i doubt many people can put through the effort of being prejudiced. To other humans, anyway.

It might help that most of the gay characters in New Vegas are singlehandedly capable of turning a squadron of heavily armed psychopaths into piles of shredded organs really easily.

Every player character in Persona 4, except maybe Rise.

edited 3rd Dec '10 10:12:12 PM by Mullon

Never trust anyone who uses "degenerate" as an insult.

There's little indication that the post-war sensibility is the same as the pre-war society anyway, or that the pre-war society maintained the 50s stance on homophobia and/or racism for that matter.\\Also New Vegas deals with homophobia too, just talk with Major Knight with Confirmed Bachelor as a perk.

Mostly subtext, though. With a few exceptions.

edited 4th Dec '10 12:07:52 AM by joerc45

Teacher's pet.: Pillars of Moral Character.

Yeah, Veronica talks about it a little, too. From what I can tell, the main argument against homosexuality in the Brotherhood is that there just aren't that many of the Brotherhood left, and it would be preferable to have the remaining ones breeding (because that's the main way they get new soldiers).

I'd imagine that there's still a bias against gay men in many of the factions, but it's not very severe. The guy in Westside has some nasty things to say about the gay prostitute that boards in his place, but there's no real malice behind it.

Keep in mind that the end of the world came in 2077; while architecture and advertising remained consistant since the 1950s in that universe, civil rights seem to have advanced (nobody seems to care about people being black, and the only thing that's a strike against asians is if they're Chinese communists).

"The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules." - E. Gary Gygax

florian cravic (bernie crane) in gta 4

my plan was perfect but there was one thing i overlooked, one thing i failed to calculate. he's a dumbass

A lot of the 'boys' from Bully, Captain De Santa from Red Dead Redemption, Tony "Gay Tony" Prince from GTA IV.

Seems like Rockstar like adding homosexuals to their games. Good thing.

Well, one's a job and the other's mental sickness! Also, what does that guy who wrote the article mean by "downplaying homosexuality"? It's political correctness gone mad, a lot of people don't act like they're teapots or raging dykes just because they consider it stupid - and rightly so! If the game makers went the other way, I can bet a bottle of whiskey the LGBT community would be all over them for "making fun" of homosexuals and waved the "homophobia" cue board exactly the same.

"what the complete, unabridged, 4k ultra HD fuck with bonus features" - Mark Von Lewis

StarFox Leon is one of the uncommon quintessential Camp Gay character Nintendo character... in Japan, though you can see it appear in Brawl.

Here's something I discovered on iTunes that's relevant to this topic: "Mini Gay Boyfriend." (Official site at http://www.minigayboyfriend.com .) It's basically a cartoonish, worksafe Romance Game. The player selects a love interest, and the rest of the game is a Simulation Game, or a Dating Sim that emphasizes gameplay and interaction. It does not appear to be a visual novel.

Cloud and Seph.

Here's one no one mentioned so far: Colonel Volgin from Metal Gear Solid 3. Seriously, how much gayer can you get? He identifies spies by grabbing them in the balls and enjoys sessions of "Beat up the prisoner with my bare hands while making comments about how soft their skin is"...

Plus you can totally turn it against him by wearing his lover's face when you fight him...

Well, for one thing, he's actually bisexual...

Except he's bi.

He is? I thought Eva was just a façade for the troops to look at...

Oh wait, he beat her up too...False alarm I guess...

It may be a Game Mod and not a commercial game, but Noemi Laporte of Blue Planet is by far the most effective GLBT character I've ever seen in a game. She has actual depth, personality, and humanity, her sexuality is worked believably into the plot, and she's not exploited as a sex object for male fantasies.

While it's only tangentially related to games by being a manga adaptation of a video game, it would have been incredibly ballsy if they had dared to make Ruby an actual flamboyant homosexual and portray him seriously and sympathetically.

Well your threadshitting is evidence that you care enough to pull off a drive-by cheap shot at us.

edited 17th Jan '11 10:25:21 PM by WoolieWool

Out of Context Theater: Mike K "'Bloody Pussies' cracked me up"

Cammy Is pretty much the butch lesbian stereotype in a Leotard of Power.

edited 27th Jan '11 7:01:39 PM by IWasJustPassingBy

Don't ask what's wrong with me, because I don't know either.

Riku and Sora from Kingdom Hearts. There is no possible purpose for that beach scene in KH II than to cement them as a gay couple. Far as I'm concerned, that shit is canon.

^How? What aspect does she have you couldn't say for The Boss?

edited 27th Jan '11 7:17:21 PM by IndigoDingo

Only in the eyes of yaoi fangirls.

edited 27th Jan '11 11:04:06 PM by Rebochan

The hell with that. What other reason is there for the existence of that scene?

Okay, first, it's been a long time since I played KHII all the way through and there's an asston of beach scenes.

Second, believe it or not, being a couple actually requires acting like one. Like you know, kissing and shit. Not simply being on speaking terms with someone, friend or foe.

The one at the end. Believe me, I am taking this seriously, and not just saying any character who talks to another one wants to fuck them. The scene at the end had them trapped on a beach somewhere in non existence (I don't know, it didn't make sense then and it doesn't now), alone, forever. The two just stare into the others eyes, and say they're glad they could be together.

...ah, that one.

...no, not even close.

I'm with Rebo on this. Rika and Sora are just really, really good friends I am thinking. Like Frodo and Sam.

If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah

• Watches scene at the end of Return of the King where Sam climbs into bed with Frodo*

Good friends. Sure.