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[kingfisher1112]

www.videogamer.com/pc/star_wars_the_old_republic/news/charlie_brooker_and_stephen_fry_support_ea_in_anti-gay_row.html
Well, Fuck. In ME3, one may have noticed same-sex relations. Naturally, massive shitstorm. Hate mail is going to EA in copius amounts, and now Stephen Fry, undoubtedly an awesome dude, is backing EA up. So who Is right? The Hate mailers, or Stephen Freakin' Fry? You decide.

[Kilroy the Grand]

Do you honestly think that this is anything other than an attempt to direct attention away from the fact that people thought those games were trash? I played DA2 and it was fucking abominable.

Besides how bioware displayed homosexuality is a fucking joke. "You gay? Okay, let me talk to you twice more than we can fuck"

[nenjin]

My gripe isn't that they have homosexual relationships. My gripe is that sexual relationships between characters almost seem like requirement out of Bioware games these days, homosexual or not. It's becoming a bad cliche.

As for parents pissed that their children playing Star Wars have to be exposed to homosexuality....I find that pretty silly. Violence and running around with 40-year-olds in an online space, boning half of your party in Dragon Age, that's perfectly fine for the children. Gayness? UNACCEPTABLE. The hypocrisy stinks so bad you can smell it from Hoth.

[Heron TSG]

Besides how bioware displayed homosexuality is a fucking joke. "You gay? Okay, let me talk to you twice more than we can fuck"

From what I've seen with other games, it's common for that to happen regardless of sexuality. (Especially Skyrim. "You got a medallion? Alright, let's get married, I'll stay home and cook and we can sleep together starting tomorrow, 'kay?)

[RedKing]

Do you honestly think that this is anything other than an attempt to direct attention away from the fact that people thought those games were trash? I played DA2 and it was fucking abominable.

Besides how bioware displayed homosexuality is a fucking joke. "You gay? Okay, let me talk to you twice more than we can fuck"

Baby steps. Think of the first black and Hispanic characters on TV. Or the first gay characters on TV. Painful stereotypes. But hey, at least they admitted they existed.

[Flying Dice]

Honestly, it was like that for all the relationships. I haven't played any "Bioware" games in a long time, mostly because how they've become a series of mold-stamped vending machines for limiting dialogue, illusionary freedom, and of course the "ten minutes of conversation and a favor = sex" thing.

[Kilroy the Grand]

I fail to see how a dearth of homosexuality in games makes stereotypes okay. Look at new vegas, arcade gannon was gay, but that wasn't his sole defining feature.

Skyrim doesn't really count, because the characters were already flat and shallow.

[Cthulhu]

There was also the shuttle pilot.  He was gay, and it was taken in stride.  I don't know if you could romance him, but I didn't try to either.

And yeah, we Americans have always been weird as hell about violence and sexuality.  Hilariously lampooned in the episode of South Park where the kids buy deadly weapons.

[Zangi]

My gripe isn't that they have homosexual relationships. My gripe is that sexual relationships between characters almost seem like requirement out of Bioware games these days, homosexual or not. It's becoming a bad cliche.

As for parents pissed that their children playing Star Wars have to be exposed to homosexuality....I find that pretty silly. Violence and running around with 40-year-olds in an online space, boning half of your party in Dragon Age, that's perfectly fine for the children. Gayness? UNACCEPTABLE. The hypocrisy stinks so bad you can smell it from Hoth.

I like how in a number of MMOs these days, there are whole Homosexual Guilds being formed on a good number of servers.  LBGT or some such acronym names.

Really, if those people have problems, they shouldn't let their kids play MMOs at all, just in-case they get unwanted exposure to them...

[Shinotsa]

Hey, ME3 actually did a good job with the shuttle pilot. And they actually had humorous dialogue about both sexualities. I remember some good ones walking by the asari and human female couple who were having an affair while the human's husband was at war. I actually liked ME3 until the end, I felt like they actually repaired SOME of the damage of the second game.

Arcade Gannon was an awesome character. I'm really amazed that Bethesda was capable of that.

Let's not talk about Dragon Age 2. I was so excited to get started on the game after I beat the first chapter. I figured I'd get away from all the copy/pasted dungeons and maybe find another big city. Then they just reused everything. I never got to the third chapter, if there even was one.

Anyhow, back on topic. The games may advance relationships fairly quickly, but let's face it, we all aren't going to sit through multiple movies with our love interest, slowly working our way up to a sexual relationship. They just put it on fast forward, much like most movies do. I don't see what all these people are complaining about though. Sure you get come onto pretty quick, but that's exactly what can happen in real life, and it happens with the women too. There's no double standard. They simply put the relationships on fast forward and let you pick what kind you wanted. You could always turn them down if you weren't interested.

Ninja: You could romance the shuttle pilot. There was a purely gay option for both sexes. He was for men, and Specialist Traynor was for the ladies. Such a shame too, though it's not like I haven't hit on a lesbian before without realizing it. Awkward.

[kingfisher1112]

Sigh, it just annoys me that EA has been a massive Dick lately, and then people will say Oh, they are just redirecting. EA is shit. Seen that. EA deserves hate mail for being a dick. Not because of this.

[MorleyDev]

To recycle an old meme, I don't want to live on this planet anymore. I'd say people acting like this makes me ashamed to be human, but really it's about on par with what I've come to expect from humanity.

Arcade Gannon was an awesome character. I'm really amazed that Bethesda was capable of that.

Obsidian Entertainment did that, not Bethesda. Interestingly enough Fallout 2 had the first gay marriage in a video game.

[Shinotsa]

Fallout 2 really did? I suppose when the world's gone to shit society has more important things to worry about. Than whether or not people are conforming.

*looks around*

Oh, I guess not.

[RedKing]

I fail to see how a dearth of homosexuality in games makes stereotypes okay. Look at new vegas, arcade gannon was gay, but that wasn't his sole defining feature.

Meh, YMMV. Mr. Shank in Borderlands (General Knoxx DLC) was pretty much one drawn-out joke about being a closeted gay (or bi) tough guy. Hilarious dialogue, but not exactly forward-thinking.

[kingfisher1112]

Remember, not that anyone has done this, DON'T MAKE INFLAMMATORY POSTS. Seriously, it solves nothing. Forewarning peoples.