The supreme urt wasn’t jt pyg Fire Emblem when led favor of same-sex marriage today. Gay unns have been around for que some time vio gam. Let’s look back at marriage equaly’s rich history the virtual world.
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CREATG A SIM GAY?
If this digal petri dish was to accurately mol all aspects of human life, om work to play and love, was natural that would facilate gay relatnships. “The tts to see if the sex of the people tryg to romantilly teract is the same, and if so, the rult is a somewhat vlent negative teractn, clearly homophobic.
“Anyone who is aaid that might offend the sensibili of other people (but of urse not themselv) is clearly homophobic by proxy but don’t realize sce they’re projectg their homophobia onto other people. Genr preference Exampl of lbian, gay, and straight relatnships The Sims 4. Notably, Sims 3 was only rated 12+ before the “gay propaganda” law me to effect.
The argument here is that the gay uplgs The Sims 4 are harmful to children and equat the game wh vlent tl, such as seri Grand Theft Auto or Call of Duty. The Sims has always led the way wh gay ntent vio gam. Intertgly, the var tl The Sims anchise ci wh changg velopments Wtern gay equaly.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY MARRIAGE IN VIO GAM
Sims 3 gay proposal. Acknowledgement of the gaymer fan base ntu to grow, wh Ntendo recently apologisg for not allowg gay marriage their recent Tomodachi Life simulatn game and pledgg to allow this gameplay optn for the next stalment the Tomodachi seri. In nsirg the evolutn of gay reprentatn, not jt The Sims anchise but also wir viogame ntent, the velopment wh the Rsian classifitn system is signifint.
The Sims has always had the potential to reprent tradnally “othered” dienc the vio game dtry, such as the gaymer. Bee the ntrol has been given to the player the creatn of their Sims, EA is able to avoid stereotypil tras how gay and lbian characters are picted, while not alienatg potentially nservative gamers. At last year’s LGBT-foced gamg nventn GaymerX San Francis, Bware’s David Gair (rponsible for the Mass Effect and Dragon Age seri) stated that “people at the top [aren’t] fundamentally bigots; they’re fundamentally palists”.