J Station X: Gay visual novel and dating sim Eldet raises 440% of its crowdfunding goal, with developer Marccus citing the fact the gamers want "genuine representation."
Joanna Mueller writes: "It can be tempting to give-in and cater to the demands of loyal fans, but Eldet looks steadfast in its mission to focus on story over explicit material."
Cliqist looks at the case of gay visual novel Eldet, and the case it makes for the value of diversity in video games and gaming culture.
It definitely makes a case for it! Would like to see more of this sort of thing.
I don't get the disagrees.. personally I couldn't care less whether or not we see more games like this as I have no interest in playing LGBT orientated games but I support their creation and think it could potentially be great for gaming in general to see more like it and not to mention it would do wonders for gaming's image.
Because some people see it as a form of supporting the 'toxic SJW' communities out there (there exist good and bad to all communities). So, they attack all things discussing diversity, gender, race, etc. as they see it attached to the bad people who represent those things.
I also have zero interest in them, but don't care at all if they exist.
Personally don't think that more diversity is bad, and even encourage it as much as possible. I just don't like it being shoehorned in where it isn't necessary.
This game doesn't fall into the category of shoehorning, and instead is a game built upon the premise that it is about something that falls into the diverse category....which should be fine for anyone, because they can simply not play it if they're not interested, and it doesn't distract from what the game is about.
That being said, it makes the case that diversity is OK, not the case that diversity needs to be everywhere.
It is funny how most gamers complain when content of the games they play gets censored, however, they would outright censor games like this one themselves. Hypocrites everywhere.
Don't be so insecure, you don't have to play, buy, or even look at them. How does it affect you if there are gay games?
He didn't say they shouldn't be allowed to exist. Media pushing the gay agenda always is an offense to the senses, a scourge upon society, and should be rejected outright from the mainstream, always criticized and never allowed to flourish outside of the seedy corners of the Internet. Let it thrive in the darkness with the sick deviants it is designed for, but certainly allow it to exist.
We don't need to accept this trash, only tolerate it since we live in a free country where this sort of thing can and should be, nay, must be allowed; a necessary evil of sorts.
Joanna Mueller writes: "Yes, it is possible to play Eldet without romancing anyone. While Kunal certainly isn't above sneaking a peak at his ripped elven companion, he has a true purpose and will travel to the ends of the world to discover it. The queer themes are present, but they are not themselves the story."
Not particularly interested in the game, but cool to see how they're handling the subject matter.
Here before the hordes of 'real gamers' and 'pandering developer' protestors arrive to say, good work Eldet. You do what you want to do, and do it well.
I don't know - I think it's a little more nuanced than that. Pandering is a thing that exists. Games like this and Life Is Strange don't fall into that though, and a game isn't automatically pandering just because it has ___ type of character.
However, the other day for example, there was an article complaining that Battlefield 1 (a WW1 game) wasn't going to have female soldiers. That's obviously a ridiculous thing to get enraged over. Besides very limited cases, it doesn't make sense. Hundreds of thousands of women didn't die fighting in the Battle of the Somme. It really is a baseless demand for pandering, and its just silly. I try to take cases like these into account, so I can see both sides.
gr8 b8 m8, although i would word it a little better next time to not flat out give away your trolling
Not according to priests (hint: 200 deaf boys raped by a priest - http://scienceblogs.com/dis... or the movie Spot Light [true story]).
Never put your faith in man. One priest doesn't represent a whole religion just like a gay child molester doesn't represent the whole gay community.
@bossbattle
Child molester doesnt represent Adult society. Child molesters shouldnt be compared to gays. There is nothing wrong with being gay. Theres a whole lot wrong being attracted to underdeveloped kids
No, it's not. And it's quite sad to see that, as of this reply, you got 6 agrees and 5 disagrees.
We, as a society, still have a long way to go when it comes to basic human rights.
Nilla_Nate - the fact that you can't accept other people for their way of life, when it has zero bearing on your life.. leads me to believe that you, in fact, are closer to where "Satan" wants you. The fact that you hate people and judge people, makes you further from "God." Good job, "buddy."
Which none of that is true, anyway. :)
No, butt sex with another dude is an abomination, and has nothing to do with love. The LBGT movement is all about acceptance and celebration of deviant forms of sex. There is no "love" involved.
Real Talk.
They want to classify DNA that has certain genes that cause schizophrenia as abnormal, but not when it comes to LGBT genes. Turns out with recent research of the last few years that LGBT are people with weird genetics, abnormal chromosomes that affect sexual orientation. Scientists in the past thought there was no specific indicator, that it's normal and there was no such thing as a "gay gene," but that's not true.
My theory is that they really want to push gay marriage recently to further classify it as a normal thing before people start figuring what's wrong and start looking at the research that gets no attention. Yea, schizophrenics, people with DNA that cause chronic depression, let's classify them as people with mental disorders, send them to the therapists, but LGBT people? F that, they're normal, they're like us...no they aren't. It's even deeper than simple genes that cause anxiety or depression really. Messed up chromosomes and I've heard about how some people have extra chromosomes that makes them look manlier or more like a woman, but these G genes are more secretive.
But look, I can't really blame them for being born like that, but regardless, it's an abomination, it isn't normal. It will never be normal, not even in scientific standpoints can it be. I'm sure people will start saying stupid things like, then what is considered normal? Well, the majority of people don't got weird extras or a shortage of what the average person has. Like, you can't consider weird brain chemistry as normal, cause then, you'll be considering killers and rapists as normal, too...those sociopaths.
I know I'm gonna get hella heat for this post cause this is a line here, but whatever man. Even in a scientific standpoint, you can't say it's normal when very, very deep within, they're too different. Why us humans can only breed with opposite genders, how it was meant to be since day 1, the normality, how it's supposed to be. By the way, this is gonna piss people off if you understand what I'm saying here, but...cancer is not normal but is it now normal cause it's rising, should we accept it? To be honest, I find it funny that some people think illogically even with concrete research. You want to judge certain thinkers as abnormal, then the same ones with way messier, deep within genes as not.
This is a place for gaming. Not shooting down people who dont follow your view of whats normal. Can we all just get back to gaming. If johnny loves yimmy and marissa loves alice. Who cares we can all still play video games
I do, that's why I wrote the article. You don't and that's fine, but some people are interested, judging by how quickly the game reached it's funding goal.
Sigh. Don't worry about it man. All games deserve coverage. I don't get how an article praising the nuanced, not-in-your-face side of something that some people hate, still receives hate by those same people. You did well. Don't let the dumb comments or downvotes tell you otherwise.
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