Still, it’s a game to feature women in a same sexual relationship for the Playstation. As the majority of gamers are perceived to be young males, this game was an obvious ploy to ensure sales were good. It’s more socially acceptable for two women to be together rather than two men. Fear Effect 2’s advertising campaign heavily alluded to the fact two main characters Hana Tsu Vachel and Rain Qin are lesbians and I feel this was done to sell more games rather than make waves in the gay rights movement. This game doesn’t represent gay women positively at all. Few can spring to mind yet with leaps and bounds gay rights have made recently (we can get married now you know) why the lack of pride in gaming? Its 2016, gay people should be presented in videogames, here are the stand out games I could come up with that feature either gay characters or story. And even fewer gay / lesbian sex or relationships have been portrayed in videogames. In other forms of media, different forms of sexuality is depicted explicitly in music, films and books but again not as much in video games. In videogames, relationships have been included since the very birth of gaming (looking at you Ms Pac Man). More often than not, you’ll find being gay is just a preference, we do have individual interests and don’t all conform to the stereotype (though, I do love Kylie) and the same goes for gaming.
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Gay men are often stereotyped as being promiscuous, camp, Kylie lovers misrepresented in TV and movies.