Guild Wars 2

Yojimaru.4980:

narwhalsbend.7059:

There’s a male/male couple in the Sylvari personal story.

Whom you never hear or see again afterwards, or never even know about if you don’t pick that personal story. Meanwhile, there are two female homosexual couples who are very important to the story, and one widowed lesbian Charr in Diessa Plateau whom you can talk to to learn her story.

I’m not one to shrilly demand that Anet create an important gay male npc, but a little love would be nice…

Brutalistik.6473:

Rox and Braham shipper here lol. Nevertheless who here believes lesbians characters are easy to implement in stories or games than gays?

raises hand I certainly think that, because it always seems like any game that does include same-sex relationships plays it safe by only allowing lesbian relationships. ~.~

Arshay Duskbrow.1306:

People seem to be ignoring that the game’s biggest romance is Rytlock/Logan.

(Also Jennah/Anise is a thing.)

I would applaud Anet if they actually had the balls to make Rytlock/Logan a thing, because it’s certainly more interesting than the eternal limbo that Logan and Jennah are stuck in.

(Much like Rytlock/Logan, Jennah/Anise is only a thing in people’s heads.)

Writing certain stories shouldn’t be done purely because of showing a small part of the community that Anet has “balls”. The female characters that are heavily implied to be homosexual that are important to the story are not important to the story because they’re homosexual. They’re important because of the backstories and decisions they make that writers of the game write. They might as well both married to charr, it wouldn’t detract from the part of their relationship that’s actually important, you can be friends without being lesbians.

Such pandering might ruin the game’s story to me. A characters sexuality should only be mentioned if it’s relevant to the story, and I’m not sure I entirely trust Anet to do this with proper subtlety. Trying to include the fact that a character is some kind of minority in the spotlight is the absolute worst way to go about this. Write compelling and interesting stories, not by going down a list check-marking all the quirks you think the game just HAS to have.

I think if they ever take us to Crystal Desert (which I would love) or Cantha, or anywhere, it would be because of dragons. Kral is somewhere in the Crystal Desert, so we might go there come LS Season 3?