Sunday, April 11, 2004

Gay Marriage in Computer Games.

Yes. It's true. As Clive Thompson wrote in The Game of Wife: Gay marriage comes to video games, there is actually a gay marriage in Temple of Elemental Evil. In one of my past posts I wrote how much I became excited when I realized that I CAN approach and marry to a farmer boy in Fallout 2 and how that game became a life experience for me. And I am sure that I am not the only who search, furiously and desperately, to find my images in computer games. There is a large community of gaymers. Matthew D. Barton in his Gay Characters in Videogames seems a little shocked to find a gay character in a RPG. I think his solution to create an avatar for all sexual preferences and body types is perhaps the best thing that can happen in computer games. From now on you can choose to rescue the PRINCE and marry HIM and live with HIM ever after. That's really a dream come true. With release of SIMS 2, we actually can have same sex marriages , so it's time for fantasy world to change. Maybe someday we can play as a Frodo who's in love with Sam!


TOEE