Comparing homosexuality to cinematics is a poor comparison, because cinematics isn't a condition with which human beings are born.
I'd rather say we compare it to putting a female in the game, or a character who is black, or blind, or a hermaphrodite, or who - hell, I don't know - talks with a very, very deep voice. Those are all things that people are born with - they did not choose to be or have any of those things, just as homosexuals do not choose what they're physically attracted to.
The reason people get upset about threads like this is because it perpetuates the notion that homosexuality is a poor "choice". True, the game designers can choose to make a character homosexual, but in real life a homosexual does not have this choice. And what with more gays coming out, asking for normalcy, acceptance, and integration into everyday society (including video games), to gripe about the reality of them existing in video games is parallel to griping about females or ethnicity in video games. It's offensive and rightly so, because it insists on exclusivity. "Straights only - or don't ask, don't tell." Give me a break...
Think of it in these terms: Women exist. The designers put them in games. Deal with it. A variety of ethnicities exist. Designers put them in games also. Deal with it. And the same can be said for homosexuals placed in video games....
Besides, I think the devs are pretty casual about it. It's not like they have the homosexuals in these games marching down the street, waving their pride flags. Sheesh.
Modifié par The Wolf Man, 27 avril 2013 - 07:07 .