![]() I mean helloooo, how long have we known her? Like, 5 minutes?) Shortly after that, Kian is coming out as gay and first I thought: “ Really? I don’t kiss the girl that allegedly has known as since childhood and likes us a lot, and suddenly I’m gay?!” But as I have read right now, the kiss does not change his sexually orientation in any way. There is a scene in the game when we can choose whether or not to kiss Anna. He does not talk openly with everybody about his sexuality. But in Dreamfall Chapters, Kian has had a couple of realizations. Especially in the army, an outdated image of the male soldier might still exist: tough and strong, fighting on the war front, while the family is waiting at home, and under these circumstance it is extremely difficult to take a stance against sexual discrimination. Homosexuality in the military probably still is a sore topic, even beyond the times of don’t ask, don’t tell. Masculinity as such is still as much a basis for discussion as it was 20 years ago. I am somebody who had played The Longest Journey and Dreamfall years back, so I was already invested in the relationship of Zoë and Reza (although – as we know from Dreamfall – Reza is not who we think he is, but that’s beside the point) but also in Kian’s story! He had been raised a soldier and up until a certain point, he did as he was told as good soldiers are supposed to. The love stories in Dreamfall Chapters are not so much on the side as in Fallout 4 -–although not as central as in Life is Strange. ![]() But have you ever followed up on that story in your head? How will Max and Chloe feel about being alive in exchange for a whole town including family, friends, and frenemies, and many others, buried beneath rubble and ashes? Do we really have to sacrifice the lives of thousands to let our homosexual relationship live? In the end she loses her life – if we don’t decide to sacrifice Arcadia Bay for our best friend or girlfriend. She loses Rachel, in the most gruesome way imaginable. What about Chloe, though? Everything goes down the drain for her. The side quest is not so much on the side than the main quest… even if we may ignore the romance with Chloe in favor of Warren. It’s quite different with Life is Strange and Before the Storm. But well, Fallout 4 is not really famous for its romantic side quests. I mean, in Fallout you can start distinguishing the romantic partners in regard to their “liveliness” or their “kinda-yeah-maybe-sorta-liveliness”. I cannot think myself into the mind of a homophobic player but right now I’m asking myself whether the game wants to reward the indifference towards species or gender in choosing friends or romantic partners – when you even want to go that far. In RPGs like Fallout 4, we at least have the possibility to flirt with NPCs of any gender or to start a romance with them – but tbh, many will have chosen the romance opportunity less out of romantic feelings towards ghouls and robots and more out of reasons regarding the gained perks. So why are there comparatively few LGBTQ stories? Games can cross borders still existing in reality. We play men, women, or un-gendered species and identify with our (sometimes created) character, although they might not go hand in hand with our actual sex or gender. ![]() When do we even see them (assuming we didn’t choose homo- or bi-sexual answers in RPGs)? Games provide us with the perfect possibility to play parallel universes. Tbh, its reality only came to me as I read a comment on Steam about it: When will there finally be a happy ending for gay and lesbian protagonists? Do we really have to sacrifice a whole city to get our LGBTQ happy ending?Īctually, it already starts there: gay protagonists. The problem I want to address here is not a new one.
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