I've been watching this whole thing since the beginning, I have barely seen anyone make that complaint. In fact, I've seen plenty of people point out that having a character this poorly written and this forced is idiotic because there were several items, spells, and events already in-universe to set up gay and trans characters.
I want to hope so, I really do, but gamer culture is prettyyy bad when it comes to trans people. Like even if the person isn't "pushy" about it, the moment they find out things have a bad habit of well, having their opinions pushed on that person. They can be talked down in a 1v1 but eh, that doesn't work with mob mentalities.
Oh look, biased media outlet's being biased and continuing the narrative that have been continued for a few years now.
How dare gamer's complain about something.
How about you craft some arguments yourself instead of just posting bullshit articles by bullshit sites?
What's next, going to start linking us Jezebel articles?
Last edited by death87; 2016-04-06 at 10:11 AM.
Even if the character was handled better people would still complain.
sauce plz
Because I don't remember there ever being anything like that in the gaming community.
(Also, while I know it's a VN and not a game, Luka from Steins;Gate is very much loved by enthusiasts and considered the "waifu" of many straight men..... But he's a guy!)
Showerthought: A trans person coming out like that without good reason strikes me as odd. Because I doubt many trans people want to be seen as trans. I think it's more likely they want to be seen as the gender they identify with. Just a thought ofc.
Last edited by mmoc30052307fd; 2016-04-06 at 10:15 AM.
I agree with you really. It seems absolutely fine to me, though of course the Baldur's Gate way would be to offer a negative response as well (i.e "Yawn, what a dull tale. Lets talk about something else."). The options range from positive to entirely neutral and in that depart from what this game is acclaimed for. The impact of three lines of dialogue in a game that comprises millions of them is entirely negligible and should be treated as such. This qualifies not as shoe-horning, nor as it being forced in anyone's face. All those responses are phobic, since these lines would not have attracted attention if they were attached to a different story ("I made up my own name because my father used to beat me and I didn't want to have anything to do with that part of my past anymore").
To my mind, however, the fact that three lines of dialogue most players probably never read are ruining a game's review scores because of some kind of herd-mentality inspired projection of individual uncertainty is the really staggering thing about this. It's just mind-bogglingly idiotic that thousands of hours of work are being devalued.
Last edited by Ratyrel; 2016-04-06 at 10:19 AM.
I haven't actually watched that show/game yet, but it seems like that character is a very feminine guy, not trans. It is a weird distinction. Idk, I would use this controversy as a pretty good example given it seems like a typical plot device where someone explained their past. I watched the video, I don't see what the fuss is about. It was typical of a character but this one happened to be trans, people need to calm their tits.