Homosexual Video Games

[aresk]

So, in my daily perusing of webcomics, I decided to check on the oft disliked Penny Arcade. The strip, as most of you know, references J.T. attempting to sue a bunch of people. Yeah, yeah, nice and interesting. Well, in reading the Gamespot Article about it, I was made aware that he's suing Take Two in part because of the game Bully in which the

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[kanissa]

The Sierra game Arcanum lets (women at least) have homosexual relationships, with the prostitutes. I don't know if men are able to, though. Also Fallout 2, but again, I can only speak for female characters. ;)

NWN always bothered me because I couldn't sleep with prostitutes (even though I had to PAY them) and Aaron Gend (or whatever his name was) didn't want "that kind" of relationship with the main character.

[flurid_cube]

I think in KOTOR, you can move pretty far up the relationship chain with Bastila/Carth, but you eventually get a "I don't like you like that" message as well.

[mageraine]

Sims2!

I think half of my houses in that game are of lesbian couples who have *way* too much sex. >.>

[gothic_lupus]

I know men can fall in love with you in Fable, but I don't know about marriage.

[peccavo]

I know in Japan there's an extensive line of yaoi dating sims. Basically, the whole point of the game is to be the guy and date (and possibly screw) as many guys as possible until you've run the course of the game. However, very few are translated into english; of those, they're strictly available as computer downloads. The good people in the US hierarchy have blocked the import of any of such games for normal american consumption.

[soless]

Have they blocked them or have the American branches of the game publishers decided they wouldn't have a market in the states?

[peccavo]

It's been a long time since I've looked into it; thus, I cannot speak definitively on that question. However, there are a large number of precedents for blocking or editing video games that do not properly align with "family values."
If they have decided that there is no market in the US, then their findings are contrary to popular demand, level of direct japanese import, and use of such games as internet downloads.

[kanissa]

A quick look at J-List shows two yaoi H-games available, and not just as digital downloads. I would imagine that very few of these would ever get translated.

http://www.jlist.com/HENTAI/GAYO_1.html

(Sorry, just my two cents :) )