Gay, bisexual and transgender people need better representation in videogames - this has to happen. Basic decency dictates that everyone, regardless of race, gender and sexuality should be treated equally, and video games, by continually pushing against that, are starting to look out of touch and creatively stale.
For decades now they've been made by straight white men for straight white men, and if the plummeting sales figures from 2012's fourth-quarter tell us anything, it's that the heterosexual guy market is reaching saturation. If videogames are going to thrive, not just as a diverse, intelligent art form, but also as an entertainment industry, they need to get queer.
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I agree it'd be stupid to throw something into your game just to appease a group of people, but in this case, Gay Perry's gayness actually added a lot to his character - I could totally see something like this working in a game.
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The whole point of the article was stating making games that -included- a demographic, not to appeal to -only one- demographic.
Why is it such a problem to -include- people if it makes sense, or could advance the am in some way?
I'm sorry, but how on earth can you state a speculation, which is pretty baseless, as fact? Have you any evidence that a Gay character, or a Gay storyline would be forced, at all, outside of point blank ignorance?
Sexuality, and characters having love interests has been in gaming since... well, the first time games had any real form of plot. Just don't see why it should be exclusively SWM only, even if they are the biggest demo.
Diversity in all shapes and forms make for better games. It hasn't got to be "forced" just because it isn't a common appearance.
Now, on the flip side, even if it were thrown into games, it isnt what would make them good or bad or profitable. It just isnt. So, dont lecture us about how gaming will never survive if we dont accept something. If that something survives, it will make its way into games because both will co exist in our culture. Its like forcing ppl to buy green cars. I have nothing against them except that many r death trals and i would nevef travel with my child in one. Make one that ppl want and it will sell. I am tired of ppl telling me what i want or what i should buy if i were a good person. Especially when it is usually coming from the most crooked ppl on earth.
You gotta pay to stay and be basically Jailed on the Gay Planet if your character is Gay.
(setting up a possible Death Star attack by right wing Neo-Cons)
EA = STUPID
Let the Gay Gamers be FREE!
It's no longer cool to be bisexual anymore, now it's all about pansexuality.. God the state of the world is fucking stupid.
Pansexual makes literally no fucking sense and is only yet another way for people to act as if they are above one another but at the same time acting as if they care more than the next person does...
Oh are you gay, bi or straight? No I am a pansexual, I love everything.. I mean seriously what the fuck?
So basically you are bisexual, there are only two genders and only one case where a person can have two sexual organs on one body.. Doesn't matter if they had surgery or not they are still genetically a male or female or possibly a hermaphrodite which classifies a person who likes all above a bisexual.
There is no such thing as pansexual and kids wonder why people look at them like complete idiots when they say that, it's idiotic.
It's like the smug version of bisexual, nope I am too good to be bisexual.. I am pansexual.. God that shit is stupid. It urks the fuck out of me that so many kids are claiming to be pansexual now..
What a statement, I swear the stuff this generation of kids has come up with has been the worst...
All I know is that as insecure as I am the last thing that I would want is a woman that was attracted to men and women.
Haha ;)
Thought you could rant on the internet? How about exploring for the meaning rather than blaming it on "todays hipsters".
As said you are either born a male, female or both. Just because you feel a certain way does not change your genetic structure now does it? So if I am girl and I strap on a dildo and want to walk around like a man, that makes me a male is what you are honestly trying to tell me? You are trying to tell me the way you feel or think about yourself genetically changes you?
That is the dumbest point that all pansexuals try to make to justify it's moronic meaning, well there are trans genders. Like I didn't see every word of what you said coming simply because I have taken a crap load of my own time to try and understand this new trend pansexual is, after reading tons of definitions it occurred to me it doesn't even exist.
Not like I didn't already cover that, just because you get surgery done does not genetically change your gender, it only psychically changes it.
So the whole idea of pansexuality is beyond stupid. All pansexuals are just bisexuals. You can't just give random meaning to people just because they feel differently than their genetic gender normally would. Genetics are genetics they aren't swayed by feelings.
It changes nothing about their genetics or the actual meaning of the terms. Pansexual is made up nonsense as said to make people feel above all other sexualities as if they care more about everyone else than the next person.
You have fun trying to give meaning to the pansexual when it basically is bisexual or just as you put it a more smug way of being bisexual.
I can't help the term was created by actual hipsters, don't blame me for making up such a ignorant word or noticing that others have made up one.
Funny how the only people who ever claim to be pansexual are always hipsters also.. Which helps nothing.
Last I knew there is only two genders, regardless of "cis", "trans", or "androgynous". Unless there is some secret gender out there "pansexual" is just some cool way to say bisexual.
It's just a way to make you sound even more pretentious and make people go "Wow, you're so cool and open minded" when this person has probably had a drunken make out session with the same sex once or twice in their lives, maybe never. Hell during the 'bi-sexual craze', I knew a guy that claimed to be bi and when I asked if he'd been with any guys or found any attractive he said "No, but I'm sure I will". Ah, I can see why he was studying Philosophy at Uni, the pretentious dolt.
not sure why you're so aggro, and don't see the point of your rant. I learned in basic psychology that humans always try to find a social identity; they have a need to belong, creating in groups and out groups in the process. if people choose to identify themselves in such a manner then let them be. I honestly don't get what your issue is. if anything I think we need to congratulate these people on being so open-minded. I don't want to go on and on about this but I'll leave you with a quote in Obama's inaugurational speech which I thought summed up this whole gender topic:
"for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well"
I also want to congratulate you on jumping on the bandwagon and misusing/butchering the word hipster. I again, don't understand the link you created between not being fond of mainstream activities/culture/artistry and sharing your love between all people regardless of the sexuality.
*I am neither a pansexualist nor a hipster (but I do, like most people have the proclivity to not like/follow the mainstream)
>_>
No, it doesn't. Homosexuality and the gay agenda (or LGBT) most definitely does not have to be force fed to anyone.
Videogames are fictional and don't have to represent reality, current culture, or be politically correct.
The creative industries are not bound to political correctness. I refuse to accept that anything at all has to be forced into the gaming industry unless a game developer feels it absolutely necessary to a game's story or design.
If homosexuals and hipsters want games made their way they can crowd fund and produce their own games, there's no excuse for crying discrimination anymore.
That'd be a test wouldn't it? Set up a site for a Gay themed game and see how many investors you get, I'd wager you might get enough to produce a very short flash game.
*runs and hide under his bridge*
I am a black guy, and I play many games that do not have any black in the games. But I don't think the white developers are anti-black. Every thing does not involve social issues. I am sure that if they were more gay writers and developers, in popular studio's, you would see even more gays in games. Yet if those games do not sell because the focus did not interest enough gamers to be profitable, even then, those developers will have to pull back on that focus just to stay in business.
Developers need profit. People who fail to understand this should open their own studio and prove them wrong, or just STFU.
But then people come along and say 'Games need to be less sexist' or 'Games need to be more gay' and I ask "Why?". Would it change the overall experience of Gears of War if Marcus and Dom had a sexual relationship only for Marcus to reveal that he's a post-op transsexual and he did it because he wanted to get by in mans world. You'd still chainsaw things in half and shoot shit up.
If the creators feel they want to explore these themes in their games then awesome. But if people bitch and moan at game and developers like God of War, Gears of War, Call of Duty and other games then they should probably realize that developers are creating that they want (except COD, that's for cash) and got into the industry to make the games they wanted when they were kids.
"...AAA material has revolved mostly around heterosexual power fantasies - shooting zombies, racing cars and playing soldier."
When I was little, my older sister had a friend who was gay, and I remember hanging out at his house playing Doom with them on his PS1. I wouldn't be surprised if he dug Gears of War today.
EVERYONE likes chainsawing stuff.
Also, I'm sure if this article was to replace the gay men with gay women, most of you would have NO problem with it. Shit like this is why nobody takes gamers seriously.