Yeah, and they are usually celebrating made up holidays for the fringe of society.
Hilariously this season of The Boys hits that on the nose hilariously hard.
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Isn’t Crow LGBT? And Mathias Shaw? Finn? The two dudes that give you profession stuff in Valdrakken. The 2 male souls from the Night Warrior questline?
Season 1 - Frenchie hints at being bi.
Season 2 - Frenchie actually talks baout being a throuple with Cherie and Jay.
Season 4 he kisses a dude and everyone thinks he’s gay now.
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In these trying times, lettuce gravitate towards the wisdom of Hideo Kojima for our bacon, and our tomato.
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here here. agreed! well said.
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What a terrible community. One of the first replies is incredibly bigoted.
As long as she’s bi and I get to romance her, I’m good with that.
Most people like to consume content where they can see themselves represented. It is not only about looks but way of thinking or life as well. We all want a good game no one is saying that they don’t. The issue with diversity is that the more you add the less that one group sees themselves represented. That leads to resentment because when you are used to seeing “yourself” everywhere all the time and now you don’t it can be hard.
Representation isn’t a concern for me and most people. It only matters to certain groups, most of us just want a great game. It wasn’t a concern in the '90s, the '00s, or the 2010s, and it remains so today for me.
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Yeah, but that isn’t what these types of things care about.
And they don’t want to be represented how they are but more like how they want to be perceived. If we could represent them as they are in reality they wouldn’t want to see it.
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Hold on. I can explain that one.
I’ve mentioned several times on this forum about the diversity in Dragon Age Inquisition and how it is NOT forced.
The game is so good, but so good at this matter that you can play it from start to finish without even noticing the NPC’s preferences. You can play the entire game in ‘combat-only’ mode.
No NPC tries to tell you what they like or do in their free time initially. If you want to know that, you need to go to the NPC, ask, dig deeper; most of the time, you need to have a friendship level with the NPC to know their preferences, life story, doings, etc.
To this day, it’s the greatest example of how to make a game without forcing anything on the player in this aspect. Not even heterosexuality; you can’t know what each one likes unless you go out of your way to find out.
It will always be FORCED when an NPC initially approaches you and starts telling you their preferences, or asks (quest) for something that involves/hints about their preferences, etc…
Let’s think about real life: you go out on the street, visit a store, or work at a company, it’s not normal for people around you to start telling you what they like (in a sexual aspect), right? It’s not very normal for that to happen… if it does, the person is considered intrusive.
In Dragon Age 3, it’s basically like that.
It’s funny that in Dragon Age 2 there’s a quest where you’re required to ‘sleep’ with an NPC of the same gender… regardless of which character you play.
In Dragon Age 1, there are desire demons and an NPC who is extremely invasive, but that’s part of the storyline or the individual personality of that NPC.
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I just got done doing a quest for Selistra. And before that I was doing quests for Chromie.
Last week I did a quest where I helped two male centaurs get married.
Then when I started my Dracthyr there were was a gecko that needed to rescue her girlfriend from toxic gas. Literally one of the first quests a dracthyr player is exposed to.
I don’t know if you’re just blind or maybe you’re being intentionally obtuse for the sake of bait-posting, but there is a disproportionately large amount of representation in WoW nowadays, just throw a rock and you’ll hit something within your line of sight.
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It was not a concern for your demographic or you personally in those times but I can tell you it was a concern for others.
I am just going to pick this little part of out your post because WoW has a history of doing this with couples. My seeker and loremaster titles are not just for show I read everyone of those quest. There are number of quest that we do to help a NPC find lover, show love, paid last respects to a lover. Look at the events of Cata with Thrall and Aggra or Tyrande reuniting with Malfurion, we see preferences everywhere. The issue only comes up when those preferences are outside of the norm. Then we get complaints of it being forced when this was the case all a long. It is a double standard that people either willfully ignore or don’t care to address.
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To be honest I find those annoying too xD
But I don’t take issue with representation, I’m just a prude
Your perspective is intriguing. Reflecting on the media from my teenage years in the 90s, diversity was prevalent but it felt natural, not contrived. Shows/actors and personalities like MadTV, In Living Color, Lethal Weapon, RuPaul, Queer as Folk, Sigourney Weaver, Danny Glover, Xena, and many others who weren’t white males, provided entertainment for me and many other Americans.
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A well written character with a complex backstory can be any gender/race/sexuality/etc depending on the story, which is (hopefully) as equally well written.
Just like irl there are reasons for why certain people are in certain places at certain times.
I am astonished how you don’t find it more insulting that these types of characters are being implemented to check off boxes.
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Huh? What does she have to do with this?
She’s incredible! If you consider what I’ve written, you’ll understand why I brought her up.
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Right? Frenchie is bi.
Who cares lol.
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I would rather not have to do any quests related to partners, spouses, or finding love. Ever. It has nothing to do withe representation or being a prude. Straight, gay, whatever. I genuinely do not care, nor do my characters. Like. I don’t like you as a character. Your significant other can burn in a fire. I don’t want to help you. Tyrande and Malfurion in Val’sharah was the epitome of this. After that first time, when I didn’t know better, I avoided that whole zone just to not have to listen to Tyrande screech about her beloved.
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