I was so ticked when they changed him to be right handed just “because that’s what most people are”

Ignoring them clearly hasn't worked, because too many who actually pull the levers pay attention regardless.

Those evil left-handers, always pushing their sinister agenda!

Sums up so much about society right now ^

I etymologically saw what you did there

This is supposed to be a role playing game. I'm not left handed how are they expecting me to be immersed in this game? It totally breaks the realism!

Don't worry. When we start the war against you guys it won't be via video games.

I'd say a vocal minority do. A common form this takes is resentment over perceived "shoe-horning" of "politics" into games that "leads to bad games".

The thibly-veiled bigotry becomes clear when the shortcomings of the game are attributed primarily to the diversity representation, rather than anything else, with the assumption that it would have been better without it. "The writing is bad because they wanted to make a political statement above all else."

This becomes especially apparent when you consider that those same people would never blame bad writing in a game on making all the characters in a game heterosexual.

Some people are just straight-up haters, no veil necessary.

I can sympathize a little with people who had a romantic expectation for a character that they might have fantasized or self-inserted and feel disappointed or even betrayed by having their expectations subverted, especially if they had a strong attachment, as in franchise characters. But they also need to get over the fact that not everything has to be made for them. 95% of whats out there is already made for them.

Gamers, posters, gaming press people, also idiots...

It covers an awful lot of people.,

When you're fine with taking a quote from a subset of a group and applying it to the group itself, you can make any group of a large enough size say anything!

""""gamers""""

It's really complicated, and on per-game basis

nobody talked much about gay romances in baldur's gate

but every bigot whined about Dragon Age Veilguard

tbh, i think lgbtq+ topic is just being used by stu#ios as a scapegoat, so the people would whine about it rather than how shallow the game is with or without "them gays".

Not the majority, I'd wager

Since gamergate "gamers" in this context stands for the most vocal and bigoted group of people.

One female protagonist that's written exactly like a male and is basically just a skin swap*

Zagreus in Hades is obviously Bi (or Pan) the whole time and no one cared, why, because it's not forced, I think it's kinda expected actually, so it just feels right. Same with Lucifer in the Lucifer TV show.

And sometimes a character is just gay and you find out in notes or something and it's like, neat, and then you move on.

On the other hand you have a random trans character in Hogwarts Legacy. It's a magical world, you have potions and spells to change not only your gender but you can even be a tiny mouse or a massive dragon, what's the point of that?!

I don't like it when fiction makes a minority "special" like only queer people being protagonists who can save the world, because it still singles them out. It doesn't matter if it's something positive. We are all one, nobody is special or less than a person because they were born with this or that characteristic.

Remember that quote from Rick and Morty? "Nobody exists on purpose. Nobody belongs anywhere. Everybody's gonna die. Come watch TV."? Add "nobody is special" and we are cooking.

Then the epic protagonist can save the world even if they aren't really special, and still happen to be queer. Not because they are queer, not despite being queer. They are simply who they are. And they are someone who saves the world.

gosh, fucking finally people are stopping to get so polarized on the topic.

I hope, this way of thought would become more popular asap, so the studios would finally realise that they should pay the fucking scenarists and let them just do their job, instead of coming up with stupid requests amid the working process about making character be x, no matter how much it breaks the initial idea, making a piece of media into some kind of caricature, misrepresenting both lgbtq+ and the talent of a given scenarist, making just a mediocre product for the first, while also polarizing bigots even more, cuz obviously, "this game sucks cuz they spent all ihe money on them damn gays".

Fucking corpos...

Ah fucking damit, sorry for rambling

The opening of Gears Of War 3 where the humans live on some boats subsisting on vegetable patches and the male soldiers are still built like they eat an entire cow a day raw.

Not even ripped or anything. Just "doesn't wear makeup and get hair done professionally during a zombie apocalypse" seems to piss gamergate jackasses off.

Yeah, that doesn't really track, tons of people fetishize so-called 'muscle mommies', lol.

Go on...

Broke: This character is ambidextrous because we just flipped the sprite

Woke: Link is right-handed because we flipped the entire game

Someone should overlay the graph showing the rise of the acceptance of left-handedness over time, with a graph of Zelda releases over time.

Here's a couple random ones, outside of the obvious (Link from The Legend of Zelda).

Some of the character models in Warcraft 3 were left-handed, like the Footman and the Grunt. The weird implication in this is that in the Warcraft universe, left-handed is the default, because while the common Footmen were lefties, the heroic Paladin was right-handed.

Some of the party members from early Final Fantasy games were left-handed: Leila and Leon from FF2, and Kain and Palom from FF4. Because of the 2D sprites it didn't show very well during battles, but it did affect the way their equipment was arranged in the menus.

Doomguy

Hmmmm... Wasn't there a Grand Theft Auto DLC with a gay main character?

Other than that, I can't think of any either.