Coin Arcade: Gender equality and LGBT representation is as important as ever in popular culture and the gaming world in particular as developers work to provide more choices and improved realism. This means providing a lifelike depiction of the world and its environment as well as its choices. Naturally, that includes more minority and gay characters. These are a few of our favorite games and characters who can finally get the respect in real life that they got in the game.
Interview with Stephen Russell, Actor for (Nick Valentine, Codsworth, My Handy) in Fallout 4 which is a vast open world role playing game set in the apocalyptic wastes of Boston, the Commonwealth. The career goes further with other Bethesda games from Starfield to Prey to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Replaying Skyrim after 13 years is a reminder of the progress made in western RPGs over the last decade, but also what's been lost.
RPGs are often huge, sprawling endeavours. With limited playtime, we have to choose wisely, so here's the best western RPGs available today.
"I started playing games yesterday" the List... Meh!
How about a few RPGs that deserve some love instead?
1 - Alpha Protocol - Now on GOG
2 - else Heart.Break()
3 - Shadowrun Trilogy
4 - Wasteland 2
5 - UnderRail
6 - Tyranny
7 - Torment: Tides of Numenera
And for a bonus game that flew under the radar:
8 - Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
Ah, if only video game characters could be in real life!
You are not forced to click and comment. In before all the "shoved down my throat" and "In my face" hypocrites.
Meanwhile, "Shocking Butterface Now Famous P0rn Star!" "23 Hot Girls Caught Doing Dumb Things" "You Couldn't Expect More From an Ex-Porn Star Than" ...and many more right above my comment and on every story on N4G.
Can someone please tell me why those are just totally fine and not in your face, but every time there is a gay story, it is an agenda and forced on you?
Good conversation guys... it's refreshing to see people on N4G talking about this without the torches and pitchforks.
With regards to the all-important question of fantasy gay couples, I suppose Sera (Dragon Age) and Ciri (The Witcher)might hit it off... they'd probably argue about which of their universes is worse, but they'd eventually agree that life in a medieval fantasy sucks.
Two years later and they're living on the Citadel (Mass Effect)... Ciri's gotten mopey 'cause she misses her 'family', whilst Sera's having an affair with a girl named Jack.
Something ends, something begins... Dammit, where did I put those tissues?
All this talk of messed-up fantasy lesbians has given me a massive, throbbing tear duct.