On Gay Themes In Videogames

shadowcabbit writes "Gamespot's most recent GameSpotting covered a wide range of topics, but probably one of the most intriguing among them is the examination of homosexual themes in video games. The article raises a few interesting questions, such as 'how much longer until an explicitly 'gay' game comes out?', but oddly focuses on male homosexual relationships, claiming them to be a way to entice female players; and mentions that while the main purveyors of homosexual content in games are Japanese companies like Squaresoft and NEC (who made the infamous Chou Aniki series), U.S. producers are starting to slip in some risque content, citing Temple of Elemental Evil's 'gay pirate' Bertram, and Will Wright's The Sims not balking at same-sex couples adopting a child character." We've previously covered another article on a similar subject.

About FF7...

[Anonymous Coward]

Of course Cloud is gay! He spurned Aeris for a date with Barret! It's like turning down Jessica Alba for Mr. T! I mean, like WTF?

Try XBL!

[Anonymous Coward]

Gosh, the author obviously hasn't played Xbox Live very much. If I'm to believe what everyone I've played against says, nearly everyone on XBL is gay.

Re:Put gays in games...

[Cornflake917]

The reason I don't answer your points because doing so would be like trying to explain something like the birds and the bess or the Theory of relativity to a very young child. It would take too long and be very frustrating.

Re:Well...

[Anonymous Coward]

Hi, Anonymous Coward here again. I'd like to apologise for my comments in the above post.

It's true; the only reason I made those comments was because my repressed homosexuality made me uncomfortable, but now I've come to accept it.

Jeez, what an asshole I used to be. Please forgive me.

Re:Congrats

[Chasuk]

Simply by asking that question, I can calculate using the Secret Gay Quotient Calculator[TM] that you are already 26.895431% gay.

:-)