NSFW Love Connection: Other Notches On Our Digital Bedpost (Spoilers?)
Last week we revealed Dragon Age's equal showing of romantic possibility in this exquisite man to man love scene (Spoilers!). While this is arguably the most tasteful representation of our relationships we have had a long road leading up to this artful tryst.
Ring King
While not officially a "sex scene" there is most certainly something "up" in the pre fight prep scene in Ring King on the NES. I remember playing this game at a friends house and we would always giggle when our fighter got a helping hand from the water boy. My friends mom told us he was just "adjusting" the fighter's belt. I have no doubt she was correct.
Make the jump kids for the full monty!
The Sims
When I was in college my sociology professor had us build a family in The Sims for a project. My family consisted of a smooth skinned young man and an older, hairy "daddy-type" in leather chaps. My particularly dense teacher was impressed with my showing of a single dad and son living on their own. When I told her that they were in no way related and pointed out the single bedroom her face became flush with color. This condition persisted each time I spoke to her for the rest of the semester. While the file with my game is long gone I thought I'd show a more current possibility of Sims love.
God of War
Although it's not strictly gay it is suggestively bisexual. I'm sure when these two vixen were not fighting over Kratos' smoldering blade of chaos a hand or two may have occasionally dipped into the wrong crevasse resulting in some arousing experimentation.
Fallout 3
Mass Effect
Everyone remembers Mass Effect's moments of lesbian love. While cold and short it gets the job done in a respectable fashion.
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Posted to Hot Stuff, Video Games on 22 November 2009
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Lesbians get to have all the fun in video games. It's not fair.
Probably because straight guys think lesbians are hot.
@Zacq I agree, a lot of the gay content that gets added to games (Fallout 3's removed) strikes me as less sensitivity to other sexualities and more frat boy pandering. Dragon Age has made some strides in the very, very interesting relationships you can have with both Leliana and Zevran, but it's still not quite far enough as far as I'm concerned.
I guess I won't be happy until I can have a main character that all the boys fight over because he's so dreamy. XD
It's kinda sad that the single story-driven male gay romantic interest that anyone can come up with, Zevran, is the typical promiscuous elf twink. Even then BioWare has him talking about his female conquests and how he was in love with some other broad he killed, blah blah blah. In many ways his interest in men is only practical for him--he states that in Antiva he had to have an open mind, and he's basically forced to do as you say since you let him live. How charming. I do not see how this is such an interesting relationship... it seems pretty shallow to me.
And we are given no alternative, while several heterosexual options are provided (notice that while there are exclusively heterosexual characters, there are no exclusively homosexual characters). While it is good to see some LGBT representation in Dragon Age, it is sorely lacking in equality and diversity.