Tuesday, December 02, 2003

Being Gay in Game World.

One of most important aspect of computer games is that you can immerse yourself in a virtual world and forget about real world. For me, as a closeted gay boy, this is a part of living in a digital closet. But even in this digital closet you can't be yourself. Most of role playing computer games are about saving world and the Fair Princess. In a large group of these games few quest are about doing a favor for girls. In recent games after female categories are avaiable for playing these do me this favors and thank you my love quests are divided between boy and girls characters. Also in some games a brothel is added that have both girl and boy characters in it. During my whole gaming experience only two games allow a male character to approach and choose a male partner. The first one is fallout 2. In fallout 2 you can enter a farmer house and tempt his girl to marry you. But to my amusment you also can tempt his son and sleep with him and actually MARRY him with contest of his father! You can guess what I feel after that, when during the game my boy-wife can accompany me during my quests. The other computer game that allow you to be gay, is recent Divine Divinity by larian studios. In Divine Divinity there is a brothal that as a male character you can choose a male partner and the comments of owner when you do this is quit beautiful. In contrast with these two games is Nevewinternight. In this game when you enter the brothel as a male character, only girls talk to you and give quests to you and the boys refuse even talking with you. I think in a computer game the player must have the option of choosing his/her sexual identity and it's a very important aspect of gaming.