dumbthingswhitepplsay:

spookysage:

jaclynhyde:

sharky-malarky:

vorked:

Well look at that.

Tumblr doesn’t realize that there are tons of games where you play as colored people, gays, and so on.

Hell, in Skyrim, Fable series, Oblivion, Dragon Age II… So many more.

I mean seriously, you are NOT being overlooked. They just want to appeal to more people and making games about a gay person about being gay would not attract many sales at all, it would also most likely destroy a company. THAT is why you are not given the exacts of what you want.

Here is a list of games with homosexual characters and playable adventures where you CAN be LGBTQ.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LGBT_characters_in_video_games

I am not trying to be mean, I am not being anti-anything. I just want the people of Tumblr to stop thinking everyone is after them or withholding material because of a certain lifestyle.

wow if i knew all i had to do to get donations for my projects was to say IT HAS BLACK PEOPLE AND GAYS then i would have posted my design notes months ago

then again i havent done any work on it in weeks so i should probably shut up haha

That’s a cool list, but, er, how long would the list of straight/cis characters in video games be? And how many of those characters listed are actually treated like characters (or are playable!) instead of jokes? That list has fucking Birdo on it. Do you really think we should shut up because there’s our great representation of a trans character?

Yes how uppity of me for thinking this game is a nifty idea, I should just hush up and settle for what there is now! Talim in Soul Calibur is Filipino, so clearly that should take care of any desire of mine for ethnicity in a video game (because screw those other guys, I got mine), and lesbians… pah, I’m sure there’s plenty of those too, games gotta have eye candy for the real audience!

But hey how else are you gonna get money from these gullible morons, right? Slap some some of that “social justice” bullshit on there about how the game’s being made by these sillies who dare to want games to treat them like characters that aren’t the sideshow they so clearly are and they’ll just fork over the money!

I just want to point out two things in the original post:

Mention of the Fable series as part of equal representation (lol u rong), 3 other games, and a magically “so many more”.

And then the word colored.

also birdo is trans why don’t we all shut up we get tons of equal representation

i mean

BIRDO GUISE

TOTES EQUAL

also let’s notice how all the queer people in games actually fit onto a list…

The only reason Fable’s on there (and I say this as a person who LOVES Fable) is because it’s one of the only games that lets you play a pre-established character (not one you design in advance, I should say) who is not male, and doesn’t punish you for DARING to have romantic interactions with same-gendered NPCs…and that’s it.  It most certainly isn’t on that list for having trans* characters, or for other particularly positive representations of LGBT people (Reaver is, like, the textbook definition of the Depraved Bisexual).

And Fable’s not any better in its treatment of POC.  Albion’s a pretty damn whitewashed place when it comes to characters of any actual importance - Garth is the only POC I can think of in Fable 2, as is Page in Fable 3.  Are they awesome?  Yes.  They are also the ONLY supporting characters who aren’t lily white - including the hero, who can be completely customized…except for that.

It sounds to me like these people who think marginalized people aren’t “being overlooked” in video games think that not being treated like absolute shit = equality.  And that’s nonsense.  For once, god forbid, there’s a video game that’s not going to be about a straight white cis-male - but OOOOOH NOOOOO that’s going too far!

(Source: thearkhproject, via karnythia)