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Post by Perpetual Nirvana on Mar 2, 2012 20:32:12 GMT -5
So my question about canonically gay video game protagonists led to discussion of slash pairings? Okay then. Sort of, because it's damn hard to think of one where it's the protagonist, not just a side character or a multiple choice answer. Though I just now finally thought of one: the female main character in Fear Effect was at the very least bisexual. Yes, Hana! I forgot about her. Which is weird because I just got Fear Effect 1 and 2 off the PSN not long ago.
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Post by Michael Coello on Mar 2, 2012 20:44:41 GMT -5
Not a protagonist, per say, but one of the cabbies in Crazy Taxi 2 was gay.
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Post by Mozenrath on Mar 2, 2012 20:50:36 GMT -5
Sort of, because it's damn hard to think of one where it's the protagonist, not just a side character or a multiple choice answer. Though I just now finally thought of one: the female main character in Fear Effect was at the very least bisexual. Yes, Hana! I forgot about her. Which is weird because I just got Fear Effect 1 and 2 off the PSN not long ago. I just thought of one that is so incredibly obvious, I am kicking myself for not suggesting it earlier: The main characters from Cho Aniki.
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Post by Mozenrath on Mar 2, 2012 20:53:35 GMT -5
Also, in Streets of Rage 3, you could play as a homosexual stereotype named Ash with the use of a Game Genie who had been removed from the game proper.
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Post by Orange on Mar 2, 2012 21:02:07 GMT -5
as someone who considers himself a member of the FGC, this crap got so out of hand it makes me lose faith in humanity. yes, one guy is accountable for thousands of people... give me a break. y'know, I've literally been losing sleep over all this drama. like I can keep telling people "we're not all like that I swear!" I could point them to all the articles about people trying to make the community better from inside, but no one cares. Everyone just wants to make up their mind about the one thing, go away, and then complain about the next thing. By tuesday everyone will forget about this and complain about some jackass making homophobic comments about mass effect 3. tis the way the world works I'm afraid. Already happened(somewhat). YouTube Users Are Currently Mostly Hating Mass Effect 3’s Gay Male Sex SceneLOL @ insecure males.
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Post by El Cokehead del Knife Fight on Mar 2, 2012 21:16:41 GMT -5
Also, in Streets of Rage 3, you could play as a homosexual stereotype named Ash with the use of a Game Genie who had been removed from the game proper. He was Razor Ramon HG before he existed. And I fricking love Hard Gay.
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Post by Mozenrath on Mar 2, 2012 21:22:42 GMT -5
Morrigan I guess would arguably be the main character of Darkstalkers, and being a succubus, she seems to regard males and females alike as fair game, though how much of it is an actual sexual or romantic interest is unclear. It's possibly merely predatory.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2012 21:17:17 GMT -5
It says something that the most prominent, positive gay character in games I can think of is freaking Zangief, and Capcom goes well out of their way to do anything but imply there.
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Post by Yami Daimao on Mar 3, 2012 21:19:20 GMT -5
I'm too lazy to read all of those paragraphs of tiny words right now, anyone wanna summarize it for me?
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Post by Tarik Dee on Mar 3, 2012 21:31:52 GMT -5
I'm too lazy to read all of those paragraphs of tiny words right now, anyone wanna summarize it for me? Men gamers want to rape female gamers, sometimes males too.
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Post by Perpetual Nirvana on Mar 3, 2012 22:04:32 GMT -5
From what I gather, sexual harassment of female gamers, female fans of fighting games in particular, was brought up and one guy, who honestly comes across as an aggressive sexual predator, pretty much said it was perfectly acceptable and it was just part of the community. The guy apologised on twitter, claiming he didn't properly express what he meant. Later, on another gaming show, the controversy was made light of sparking more anger.
If I read the first post correctly, that's pretty much it.
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