Gears 5 panel gets awkward after fan asks what Kait's sexual preference is

A Gears 5 panel got E3 Coliseum off to an awkward start, after an audience member asked for details on the sexual preference game's protagonist Kait. John DiMaggio responded by asking the fan: "Who gives a f***?"

[Christopher]

Nothing awkward here. That's a perfectly reply to a pretty obvious troll of a question.

[IMissJimRyan]

I don't think it's perfect because it's hide the answer. We know that much of the gamer community is very insecure about their sexuality. If the producer responded that the character is heterosexual, life would follow and nobody would say anything. Now if he asserts that the author created her homosexual, they would be accused of making political propaganda in the games.

What we have now is that the homophobic behavior, which is dominant in who would buy this type of game, is satisfied. Without defining the sexual preference of the character, it is defined that it is what the buyer accepts. That is, heterosexual. Since this propaganda is already normalized.

In exchange for money, he is an accomplice of a retrograde and medieval behavior.

One really brave demeanor would be to define what your character is. Live and let live. As it should be in all situations and not hide reality to not bother the prejudiced.

[Christopher]

***it's hide the answer***

The answer is it's not pertinent to the story.

Isn't this exactly what people want? To not have sexual preference a factor unless it matters?

[Cupid_Viper_3]

@Locomorales
"I don't think it's perfect because it's hide the answer."

I'm sorry I can't agree with that. Now, I am one who normally stays away from convos like this on N4G because often times the thread derails into insanity, so this may be my first and only reply on the topic.

I don't think her sexual preference matters unless the game's story includes some sort of romantic angle. And without that, then I don't think that question needs an answer in the slightest.

There are times when a character's sexual preference is necessary to the game's story, TLoU being one example. Other times, I don't think it's necessary. Say if you're playing a game strictly multiplayer game with no real story and just random characters, then their sexual preference being brought up will feel forced. Like, what does that bring to the game at hand? Does it push the story forward?

But at the same time, we have straight, gay, and bi game developers out there who are making games. And if said developer wants to create a fictional character that he/she feels best represents him/her, then, by all means, they should. So we should keep that in mind as well when we discuss these things.

And no developer should be FORCED to answer a question about a character's sexual preference either. If the developer doesn't want to answer it, then that's that! You're not entitled to such info, please keep that in mind.

[Lord_Sloth]

The point is the answer is irrelevant. Nobody cares who she likes fiddling her diddle.

[Salooh]

The developer decided that he don't care about what is dominant or not, that's not brave to you ? XD. Well, he don't care about your LGBT dominantation plan. You have to put an LGBT signuture on everything. Not everyone care, he is busy trying to make a good game. These issues doesn't matter in gaming. Get over it.

[jeki]

"The point is the answer is irrelevant. Nobody cares who she likes fiddling her diddle."

I have to disagree. If no one cares why does the question enrage anti-SJWs (alt-right culture warriors, I don't know what to call them)? When someone asks a question about gender or sexual preference I see them go crazy, screaming that it doesn't matter, going on the attack, calling the person asking an SJW or a leftist. If it's not important why don't they just roll their eyes when someone asks a question like that?

[carcarias]

Hmm, I'm not sure you're right regarding the bit about if she was hetero, everything would carry on and no one would say anything. Quite the opposite in fact, in this day and age with the sort of gaming sites we've had for years now.

I'm not too interested in arguing the point but I would respectfully point out that part of the reason people are pleased to hear this response is precisely because there's a good chance that if he had confirmed she was hetero, then there would have been a wave of outrage articles from all the usual sites bemoaning it and asking why, exactly, she had to be hetero.

People don't want that politically correct BS drama, so they're glad he gave the response he did.

[Sirk7x]

What the literal hell are you talking about. It's like asking what she likes to eat for breakfast, what her dog's name was when she was a child, or what her masturbatory habits are. If it's not integral to the story, it does not matter. If people are so controlled by their egos that they define their entire lives on labels, they're the ones with a problem. Perhaps the creator doesn't have it in mind, because he or she doesn't give a crap either. It's like asking if Link is gay. Does it matter? Who cares. Creators have no obligation to define anything about a character other than what is implicitly shown within the game's contents. If they want to expand the universe, cool. By pandering however, to any group for political reasons, then they've sold out, simple as that. God, why do people care about this shit? Gay people are the same people as everyone else. If anything, not defining characteristics allows fans of the character to imagine them as they see fit. If anything, the more proper answer to that's fan's question should have been "That's really none of your business to ask." Upon watching, that's exactly what he said, good on him.
He could have said that she likes to f*** dogs and has three dicks for all it matters.

[Lord_Sloth]

@jeki

Because it's always asked when it isn't stated in the game. The fact is Kait's sexuality ISN'T relevant. Captain Marvel's isn't relevant. In an action game about shooting up aliens this guy decides it's necessary to ask about her sexual orientation? No thanks. It was possibly the most meaningless thing he could have possibly asked.

[rainslacker]

I think he gave the answer. It's not important. Maybe it's not explored? Maybe it's made known, but isn't really that important to the plot....like you know some characters are not gay, but it has no effect on the character or story.

He's more likely to get more heat because of the way he answered it than he was to get for answering it in either way. Even if he doesn't answer now, the heats going to come if she's homosexual in game. It can't be avoided. He seemed more like he was annoyed by the question, or maybe he's just trying to get attention or maybe he's just a crass a**hole who isn't good at responding to people in a respectful way.

BUT, if he truly believes what he said, despite the way he answered, I actually have a lot of respect for him, because he basically told the SJW crowd to F off.

He said it wasn't important. That seems like what most people who have been fighting SJW's or these devs who make a big deal about it in games where it's not important have been saying for years, and it's refreshing when the rare developer comes along and publicly says the same thing because he isn't afraid to say he doesn't care or it doesn't matter.

@Cupid

"There are times when a character's sexual preference is necessary to the game's story, TLoU being one example."

I have to disagree. It's not that their sexual preference is important to the story, it's that people make the sexual preference more important than it is. A good respresentation is one that can take any preference, and make it just part of the character, and they could deliver the same story regardless of what that is. That scene with ellie in the trailer would have worked just as well on a relationship level if she had kissed a boy. it was made into a bigger thing because she kissed a girl....with different sides giving it a different meaning in what it conveyed. The change in importance of her being a homosexual just undermined whatever story element about her relationship that scene may have been trying to convey, and it's why I feel such things are mostly distracting, because a relationship is a relationship. Bill in the first game was no less a crass hardened loner type like you'd see from any homosexual of a similar personality because he was gay, but him being gay didn't undermine the nature of his loss when it was revealed.

There are some stories where sexual preference is more relevant to the narrative, but a love story or romantic interest can be that regardless of preference.

That said, it is possible her sexual preference is important to the story, but the trailer doesn't really delve that deeply into that aspect of her character, and her sexual preference was more a superficial aspect of what the trailer was trying to convey.

@jeki

It enrages the "anit-SJW" because it's a stupid question to ask, especially when the question is usually followed up with outrage at answers that somehow make it important.

The question is, why is this even a question that needs to be asked?

[Michiel1989]

@loco "We know that much of the gamer community is very insecure about their sexuality" no we dont know that, This had nothing to do with said person questioning or being insecure about their sexuality, he either wanted to troll them or force his personal agenda on them (which is basically the same)

[FanboyPolice]

Hides the answer?

Dude, the right answer is WHO GIVES A FCK.

As Morgan Freeman replied when he was asked how to stop racism, "stop talking about it".

[averagejoe26]

@Christopher

The problem is, even when it is pertinent to the story, the bigots still come out to play.

Take TLOU2 for example.

[RememberThe357]

Yeah maybe for the dude asking the question though. Guy in the hat really got after him.

"Maybe she's a switch hitter, who the f#ck cares!" His whole response was brutal and awesome.

[rainslacker]

These kinds of questions are often used to bait developers into saying something that will incite a war.

Now, I think his response can very well do that, but hopefully the E3 press will drown it out....which is really a shame, because I liked his response, and I'd love a chance to show my support of his answer. I feel he could have maybe been more respectful, but he expressed it in a way that many people in the community feel.

The question is stupid. If I were talking about a project I spent years on, and someone asked a question like that where it was about something that had nothing to do with the game, and was never something about the series whether hetero or homosexual, then I'd be a bit annoyed.

It'd be like asking if Master Chief was really a transvestite hiding in the closet using a voice synthesizer to hide the fact that it's really a woman Metroid style.

[Genuine-User]

Comments like the one made by Naruga and Megakooter above you are precisely why I hardly visit this site anymore. Bigoted and homophobic comments are a normal occurrence on this site now, either mods don’t give a shit.

[starchild]

There's nothing bigoted about what Naruga said. (I don't remember the other guy's comment). But it's so typical of people like you to label anybody who doesn't agree with your priorities and world view as a bigot. So very typical. Words like bigot and racist have lost most of their meaning thanks to people like you misusing them.

[sushimama]

But they're not bigoted or homophobic. The comments. You're crazy, better get back in your safe space I think.

[Deceiver_Of_The_Gods]

Your problem, not ours. Get over it kiddo, the world doesn't revolve only around the lgbtfnwoicn123 community.

[ziggurcat]

arguably, the perfect answer would have been to simply say it's not pertinent to the story, not pretend to jerk off like a clown.

[ravens52]

Lord_Sloth. Or if she has fiddle to diddle

[SephirothX21]

It's amazing how people can't separate simple things. The guy asked a question and he got a rude response. His intentions for asking were not made clear so they should just answer it. One reason why a person may ask this is because if the character was gay, it would rule out a love relationship with one of the male characters. If her sexual preferences are irrelevant to the story, then they could just say that in their answer. Instead the guy who responded jumped into defensive mode and behaved like a d*ck.

[timotim]

Ay yoooooooo!!! It got real in there! Leave that kind of talk outta Gears please. Plus if you played Gears 4, you would know the answer to that question.

[Prince-Ali]

Why leave it out of Gears... loool hasn't love and sacrifice been one of the central themes of the whole Gears story since the beginning loool!? And in a world like this wouldn't being gay be the least of everyones concern ..? You guys are weirdoooss lool

[Lord_Sloth]

Stop putting multiple Os in lol and stop using it so much.

[timotim]

🤨 I can't tell if your being serious or not. Love and sexual preference are two different things. And I don't care to be concerned in the least...thats my point. She is a fictional character in a game in the shooter genre...why who she gets down with in the sack needs to be a thing at all...

[Prince-Ali]

@Lord-Sloth
or i'll do what i want when i type and you can keep it moving..?

@Timotim
How are they two different things..? loool they both lean soo heavily against eachother i'd struggle to imagine one could exist without the other... Secondly using that same logic you could easily say the same thing about 90% of any character development trait in anything fictional... just because YOU dont care doesn't mean others dont and it CERTIANLY doesn't mean that it cant be just another character trait! THAT'S my point "LEave that kind of talk outta Gears please" <<<<<< This is the statement i take issues with... Because LORD KNOWS when Dominic found his wife Maria in that bunker which led to his suicide you had absolutely 0% issues with that situation... this rhetoric and logic of "who caress they're just fictional characters' didn't exist then but for a topic like this all of a sudden it's an issue.. It's just stupid logic to have about any fictional character.. the more detail about a character the more alive the characters are otherwise whats the point of anything...

[rainslacker]

Love and sexual preference aren't the same thing. Love is an emotional connection you have with someone that doesn't have to be sexual or based on attraction. Love, at it's purest form used in narrative, is typically about two people finding a connection to one another, not about the nature of the sexual relationship. The sexual relationship is just used to exemplify the height of the relationship.

I love to point to Bill in TLOU. He had a love of his life. He was gay. Him being gay was irrelevant. Same with Joel and Tess. They had a loving connection, but it wasn't made clear they were sexual partners(most likely) until their last scene together, and as you watched them up to that point, it could have been either all business, or business and pleasure, or something more intimate. Joel loved Ellie, and vice versa, and there was no sexual connection there. It's why I'm giving the benefit of the doubt that ND won't make it a hugely important thing in TLOU2, because they are one of the few devs so far that seems to do such things right.

[FalconofLucis98]

The way you type is so annoying.

[Spurg]

loooool....that response was a 10/10

[RpgSama]

As a Sony fan, BRAVO to John DiMaggio!!!!!

[DaDrunkenJester]

You dont need to be an Xbox fan to love John DiMaggio

[frankiebeans]

or just as a person

[averagejoe26]

Wut?

It's people like you who keep the childish console wars alive.

aS a SoNy FaN hurr durrr

How old are you?

[NiteX]

When did people start doing that stupid shit with the extra o's? Is that from some meme?

[jznrpg]

Laugh out our oily ogre oceans loud?

[2pacalypsenow]

🤦🏻‍♂️

[Brave_Losers_Unite]

Exactly who gives a crap? Its always SJWs and anti SJWs who cry the most.

[Chaosdreams]

Anyone extreme creates an issue for all those who know how to live in the middle.

[The-Matrix-has-you]

@ Chaosdreams
Couldn’t have said it any better than myself!

[meep316]

SJWs deserve to be called out, they are like useful idiots for hatred and they don't even realize it. They are also infecting schools, media, and everything in life with their bs and tribalism.

[JokerBoy422]

You're a smart person. Stalin loved "useful idiots" too.

[meep316]

yes, many of the professors and teachers pushing this crap actually identify as marxists. I dont agree with identifying as a certain type of person let alone identifying as something like a marxist...

[Prince-Ali]

People like you are dangerous as hellll! loool... How can you be sooo against something you claim to not care about and that has LITERALLY 0 affect on you!?

[JokerBoy422]

I can only wonder who downvoted me lol

[meep316]

@Prince-Ali what are you even talking about? Of course it affects me when people spread hate around me. Its scary people react this way. The worst part is when they go around trying to censor everyone for "wrongthink". For example, when people try to stick up for EVERYONE instead of being tribal they are instantly labeled racist and/or bigots in this day and age.

[rainslacker]

I hope this guys response becomes a meme we can easily link to when this topic comes up.

[Prince-Ali]

Then why is it that its always you guys screaming out how much you dont care louder than everyone else who would even mention this stuff..?

[starchild]

Because that's a complete straw man. Most people were quiet for years as these SJW intersectionalists insideously worked their agenda into most areas of our lives. We're tired of it and we're not going to sit passively and let them spread their nonsense uncontested.

[Inzo]

So basically the people who dont play games.

[TheHateTheyGive]

Oh millennial's never cease to amaze me

[meep316]

Age doesnt even matter. Can we just stop with the labelling and lumping large groups of people together? I mean for one thing its the older generations who have indoctrinated people to act this way in the first place. Just think of all the times older people criticize kids because of how everyone gets a medal etc... the kids didn't make it this way.

[jznrpg]

Stop labeling and lumping people together ... it’s the old people’s fault

[GruntboxWizard]

Ok boomer

[harmny]

You're a millennial too. Unless you are 39. In that case you're old

[TheHateTheyGive]

39, 12/26/1979

[Reefskye]

Millennials are anyone born before or after 1983 so calling out unless Ur older than me 35 then your calling your self out

[Einhander1971]

Exactly who gives a flying ****

[Prince-Ali]

If i did would that prove your point wrong...?

[Inzo]

Your profile pic would suggest you don't even care for the game let alone the character's sexual preference.

[HeisenbergX]

BESt anwser ever

[KwietStorm_BLM]

You had the opportunity to go to E3 and directly ask a developer a question..and that's what you came up with. Ctrl alt del.

[OzzY-waZZy]

Good answer until the jerk off part. That was too much imo. Still I like the "WGAF"

[rainslacker]

Maybe he's just as aggravated over all this stuff as many in the community are.

While I think he could have been more respectful, at least not emote as much as that was kind of awkward I guess, the truth is, this issue has been made into a much bigger thing than it needs to be, and if I worked that long on a project to be asked such an inane question, I'd be pretty annoyed too if I was tired of the conversation in the grander scheme.

[OzzY-waZZy]

True, that's why I said the "who gives a f!" part was cool. The emote was inappropriate and too far. Don't care enough about it really lol.

[Pancit_Canton]

It's either binary or hexidecimal.

[Fluttershy77]

What a weirdo

[Relientk77]

I agree with his answer no one gives a crap.

[Tazzy]

Its a video game character it shouldn't matter what a weird question to ask as an Xbox One X owner I hope the Coalition makes it better than Gears of War 4 I didn't like the robots being added and the ending sucked.

[ninsigma]

Finally an industry person saying what we've all been saying!

[Sophisticated_Chap]

I loved that response!

[ReelBigMike]

This is definitely not awkward. I'm not one of those people that dismisses stuff like this with "it doesn't matter" or "who cares?", but since there's really no answer they could've given that would've been wrong, this seems like a total non-issue.

[MegaKooter]

Remember when you could just play games and have fun?

[Ninver]

Remember when you could hit on a bird without them calling the cops?

[SpineSaw]

Sounds to me this was a setup question. Setup by Microsoft and the Gears developer to make the focus after the panel Q&A about a stupid question and not about Gears 5 and looks like it worked. From what we've seen so far from Gears 5 and it's not been much for a game releasing in just under 3 months it's not looking like a great game and a step down from Gears 4 which was also not great. Now with that said that can change or maybe it is a great game and I just don't see it but for me the e3 2018 Gears 5 vid that Microsoft showed where Kate was running around crying was more than I needed to tap out on Gears 5 and I've not seen or heard anything new about Gears 5 to change that IMO.

[rainslacker]

MS is crafty at times, but playing the politics game is dangerous, and they know it. They aren't going to do something like this as if it backfires, it's going to backfire big. The guys attitude is likely to get a lot of bad press, and while that may distract from the lack of game play shown, that lack of game play doesn't require such a big gambit to try and distract from it, because they have time to remedy that in the future. Any negativity about that right now will pass when they finally do show game play, and in the mean time, it's just console war nonsense which doesn't mean much.

[TheGamingArt]

Thank god. That was the proper response.

[jjb1981]

All the SJW sphincters clenched in unison. It sounded like a wet sponge being squeezed but in Dolby Atmos. Who TF cares? I mean, really. Only people that thrive and get off on controversy perpetuate this nonsense.

[mijayire]

Switch-hitter lol

[TheDreamCorridor]

What impact does her sexual preference to the story of the game?

It only has an impact on the strange idea that this player and players like 'em have within their oddball brains.

Grow and stop pretending that gender or preference are even remotely important to a story like this.

[Prince-Ali]

Its sooo insane to me how much you guys in these threads call topics like this stupid and call 'SJWs' toxic but cant see how ridiculously toxic you guys are in these threads spouting your garbage!

[Salooh]

Dude, if the developer made a gay character, that's his/her vision. Let the game speak for it self.

But it's stupid to annoucnce these things and rub it on people face because we all already know that this topic is sensitive. Not only that, why is it important to ask these questions when the developers didn't even see the importance in introducing it in the game? When you are asking the developer, you are pressuring the developers to follow your way of thinking to avoid hate against the game, by expecting a yes or no answer, you are infecting unnecessary hate against the game, this way you are deciding the fate/vision of the game.So becoming neutral is best and logical in this media especially in this game because it is not made for this nonesense.

In this case, you want the character to be gay, the developer don't care. So now you hate the game. It is your fault for caring about these things in a media that is made for all audiences...

[Prince-Ali]

But why the hell is is sensitive if the rhetoric you guys love to share is that "I DONT CARE... WHO CARES ABOUT THIS".. do you not see the oxymoron there..? You both dont care but care enough to complain about people that do care..? do you really not see it lool...?
Im NOT specifically addressing this video im addressing the overarching narrative and toxicity of the people that argue about this case in the wider conversation here... i mean literally look at the thread here just as a small example of the general tone and opinion of people towards this topic...
Do you get what i mean or...?

[Salooh]

It depend on the topic, for example:

If the game was originally created along side LGBT characters or entirelly created for LGBT audience, then yes you are right if you see this reaction. The developers are attracting a specific audience which is fine..

But in reality the issue is more complex, no contradiction here in this page, we don't care if the content is gay, but we do care when that contant is used for agenda like in the case of the last of us 2, in part 1 it was only hinted that ellie was gay, we were fine about that, we didn't care much, we expected her to announce that she is gay and do some stuff in Part 2, but when they showed the first story trailer of the second part and it was all about her being gay, that was annoying, it felt like agenda, why ? Because they suddenly switched the target audience by focusing heavely on LGBT stuff when the story wasn't really about LGBT, then they spit on their audience by saying get over it, we didn't care if ellie is gay, we cared about that bad and weird behaviour in e3 from the developers because the LGBT stuff felt forced because the story of the first part wasn't mainly about that stuff.

Yes, the developers have a right to do whatever they want as long it's not offensive, but we have a good reason why it didn't felt like a pure vision. Still, we got over it a bit since that's what the developers decided to do.

But in this case in this page, when you ask the developers to answer these type of questions while they never showed interest in the past, you are forcing them to pick a side instead of letting them make what they want, when you force us to watch this irrelavent nonesense agenda, that is bad behaviour so we care when we see bad behaviour.

In Gears, we don't mind if the developer wanted to make the main character gay by showing a story event inside the game, but making the story mainly about her being gay is repulsive when the original audience of gears are not interested in that stuff, that is called agenda.

[Inzo]

When you start shoving your ideology and agenda down people's throats to pander to a very small but vocal minority thats when it gets toxic. Where were the people who oppose this dev when IGN and Polygon called Deacon "another gruff white male"?

[Hungryalpaca]

Sorry her sexual preference has absolutely nothing to do with shooting aliens. Do we need to know what kind of shoes she wears when she’s not fighting? Nope. Do we need to know if she’s allergic to nuts? Not really. We we need to know her workout routine? No

The answer is it’s irrelevant. Who she prefers to take to the bedroom has absolutely NOTHING to do with the game unless it’s part of the story. The better question to ask would have been is there a love interest rather than does she like dicks or vaginas. And that’s not even why people play gears. Grow up.

As for the toxicity, that’s you. All you do is go from thread to thread looking for people to attack. It’s pretty pathetic. You’re a very sad Individual.

[ShockUltraslash]

Look at the devs trying to act al tough and ending up to be cringey.
Of course this matters. The political stance of the developers is integral to what the consumers purchase.
Why purchase a game when you are not the target audience?

[Antifan]

As long as there's no homo gay stuff in my games, I'll continue to purchase.

[jjb1981]

I dont care to know what the developers believe in or what their stance is. If the game is fun, I'll purchase it. I'm not thinking about their beliefs when I'm fragging demons and sawing the hordes in half. Gaming has become a sideshow for driving that SJW agenda.

[Hungryalpaca]

Nope. The general consensus is this was great. Most threads say this, the audience laughed. You’re just a stick in the mud.

People do NOT want to know what a developers political stance is. It only becomes integral once they become outspoken about it because of fears of it seeping into the medium. Which has been happening and pissing people off across the political spectrum.

I’m a lefty and I can’t stand when developers start preaching. If a dev gets up there and starts saying the game will represent a current political climate, left or right, I’m out. They’ll more than likely just make some dumb commentary that gets the crux of the issue completely wrong and take me out of the experience.

People don’t want this. It’s only a small group of fringe weirdos who do.

[tigertron]

Marcus Fenix calling out the BS!

[lazyboyblue]

Cringe. But it was a pointless and creepy question.

[ReVibe]

Homie obviously hasn't discovered rule34.

[Cmoney007]

I don’t even understand how certain people can enjoy games anymore when they worry about some agenda? Any player should want interesting characters, a fun story, and solid gameplay. If you feel the game is not going to fit your needs, then how about making your own game instead of trying to force other people to change their game in a certain way that is only right in your mind?

[Rekkr]

Anyone who cares for sexual preference for a fictional character is just a damn idiot or a Pervert! I play games for the adventure to get away from reality for a bit. Keep your sexuality to yourself I don’t want to know about it.

[jznrpg]

There is a space for sexual preference in games if it is a story about 2 people involved sexually it will automatically be hetero or homo . If people want to label it as something else that’s fine but those are the choices . Only if it is pertinent to the story should it really matter . Nothing is stopping people pretending their character is gay or straight or whatever in games where it isn’t or shouldn’t be known. If a Dev doesn’t tell you a sexual backstory then it is meant not to be known and you can fill in the blanks if you want

[quent]

My game controller doesn't care about gender politics

[Rekkr]

Mine too.

[sprinterboy]

I remember my 1st day at college and we had a Q&A session in class to get to know the lecturers and one guy said to a male teacher, are you male or female, that guy literally went through college with zero friends.

[BadElf]

Thats not DICE up there, thats for sure

[blacktiger]

DICE makes a better game

[Hungryalpaca]

Hell no they don’t. BFV was terrible. The game did poorly because it’s not good. It also can’t even stick to its own theme. That’s not a WWII game.

[nibblo]

John's reply was classic.It's rare to hear someone in the gaming industry voice what we are all thinking.

[masterfox]

And you know what's the hypocrisy of this?, is that Gears 5 putting this character for the way it looks is pretty obvious the developers or whoever had the idea it definitely had a sexual preference to a certain gender or kinda gender, effing hypocrites.

[quent]

So I take it you cancelled you're pre-order of tlou2 ?

[masterfox]

no because they aren't hypocrites like this panel. You know I really don't care what gender or kind of gender they are going for, what I hate is freaking dishonest people, putting that main character the way she looks in a freaking Gears of War game and saying that they really don't care is a freaking blatant lie!, is pretty obvious they put that character just to please a certain demography, seriously it pisses me off dishonest people, that guy in that public was right to ask that kind of question is an obvious question, but those hypocrites at panel OH NO!! WE GOT SOOO OFFENDED!!!! FREAkin bunch of hypocrite liars!!

[Kaedro]

This is the best answer I have ever seen! I'm not into Xbox and gears but those developers just earned my greatest respect!

[Phoenix76]

Haha Bender told that guy to "bite his shinny metal ass" with that reply

[TheColbertinator]

Looked like a plant to me. One of those paid to ask some irrelevant yet scene causing questions.

[chiefJohn117]

Wtf this look like the last of us? THIS IS GEARS! we don't give AF about that.

[blacktiger]

last of us had a gay characxter but nothing from developer, not like league of legends they had to add gay because of pressure, b ut naught dog jus made the game without anyone knowing. So you missunderstood friend or you're a homophobic

[chiefJohn117]

Wtf does that have to do with anything I said? WE DON'T GAVE AF lol. Simple as that.

[Dizzy11523]

I will be buying this game. Last of Us 2, not so much.

[blacktiger]

y

[Nosferatu_dude]

because its hard for you to handle two girls kissing?

[blacktiger]

Damn! He's fired for sure,

[StormLegend]

Goog response to a terrible question. But you Guys don't need to bring up the last of us in this thread. She was confirmed gay in the dlc of the first game without someone asking.

[AK91]

RIP John DiMaggios career

[stokedAF]

Awkward how? That was a great answer to a stupid and irrelevant question.

[Xaevi]

That's the right attitude to go about that question regardless of whether or not he meant it seriously. Like who and what you want, no one around you cares. Your personal business is no one's business, and that goes for fictional characters aswell

[QuePasa87]

Awesome answer. I'm tired of that being a topic of discussion.

[Cobra951]

Kait's sexual preference is people Kait finds sexually attractive. Why does that have to be awkward?

[frostypants]

His answer was perfect.

[Inzo]

I miss the good old days when you just saved the princess and moved on.

[leejohnson222]

Perfect answer, it's a computer game FFS, the character does not freely exist in any other place. So they don't require a preference. Stop injecting identity politics and sj crap into escapism and fiction

[PCgamer98]

Why the hell is a non existent character's sex preferences is so important to some people nowadays? Does the gameplay gets affected if he/she is gay or straight?

[LightofDarkness]

I'm quite left leaning politically and I think that while he could've responded with a touch less derision, his message is perfect. Unless it affects the story somehow, it need not be explored. Not every game has to plead to the LGBTQ+ demographic, nor should they feel pressure to do so. There's a difference between having a well-written character with these traits that determines their motivations and having these traits forced into the character in a misguided attempt at point scoring (looking at you, JK Rowling).

[AWBrawler]

Good ole Jake the dog

[Antifan]

ResetEra will ban anyone who like Gears 4 now.

[Laskin]

"Not the hero we desrve, but the hero we needed..."

Thank you, John.

[NonPartisanGamer]

Excuse me. Is no one going to talk about the amazing jack off gesture? This guy is gold.

[traumadisaster]

Without knowing context of the environment, it may be ok he responded with a back-alley answer, that may even be that devs MO, he seemed comfortable answering that way. Certainly was funny.

I don’t think of sexuality when I see a female character, I think what’s going on in that society that she is in that role. Can she perform as well as a male, what skills does she have that put her in that place, either she exceeds others or she doesn’t and was placed there due to lack of personal.

I assume she will be an excellent soldier but what I remember from gears you have to saw through monsters, so there is a strength difference in males that would make that more efficient.

There was a game Remember Me that was awesome but some of her kicks would have just been blocked by a guy double her weight. Same in movies, you have 125 lb women flipping 220lbs men like it’s nothing, yet you see the stuntman jump into the flip to help make it work.

I’m fine with it for good fun, but my logic center does que up when it’s obvious physics are being stretched, which brings me out of it a bit. In contrast there has been a Jason Bourne movie where close hand to hand fighting and blocking seemed incredibly real and made me lean in as it was lots of action following physics.

[Enigma_2099]

DiMaggio is the MAN!!!
But seriously, if it doesn't involve romance, love, sex, or f***ing, who cares?

[Jamaicangmr]

Doesn't/Shouldn't matter....

[demonicale]

Such a great reply!!!

[Zerobalance]

Kait does look very sexy, was never too fussed about the Gears games. But with this new character I will play the game.

[Circuitburnout]

About time a dev responds honestly to these BS questions.

[Donnie81]

This is ignorant. She was JDs gf so she likes dudes. Gay people are a vast minority of the population and need to realize the world isn’t obligated to give them any special treatment because of a choice they make.

[CrimsonWing69]

Why are fictional characters’ sexual preferences even a thing to ask about? It’s like asking them what kind of nuts do they prefer to eat.

[GrizToof]

It was the correct answer to that question.

[megaworm25]

Fact: You can only have strong Women characters if they are gay. If you disagree with this Factual statement you are Homophobic, A Real Nazi, Part of the Patriarchy or the most evil thing on the planet som one who believes in free speech( the horror i know)

[blacktiger]

does anybody ask that for movie? or novel?

[BondJames]

Hhahhaha sjvv destroyed

[FernDiggidy]

lmao

[SIdepocket]

Awkward?

Looks like everyone had a good laugh at his joke.

[cellfluid]

It's a logical question because these companies are pushing a gay agenda!!! Which is all about genetics being disconnected.. The illuminati is hard @ wrok for you idiots who think it's only a game!!!

[esherwood]

LGBT and democrats are the most intolerant people out there

[gamesftw250]

Slow news day eh

[noob_zero]

sigh

[SegaGamer]

It wasn't awkward at all. The guy in the audience was clearly joking, probably taking the p out recent nonsense questions about video games, and the reply was funny.

[jjb1981]

The response to this article is Hugh. Mongous. 😏

[KillBill]

This is literally a video about a guy simulating jerking off and cursing and N4G thinks they need to mark all the comments for being inappropriate for replying with perfectly suitable language to the issue at hand.

[SovereignSnaKe]

Fucking fabulous! THIS and Keanu have been my favorite moments from E3 this year. ^_^