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Old December 3rd, 2009, 10:50 PM
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It's when the male elf assassin and the strapping warrior peel off their clothes and start making out that you know you've left the realm of traditional video games far, far behind. This ain't Super Mario Brothers.

It's the prelude to a same-sex love scene in the recently released role-playing game Dragon Age: Origins that has many heralding a major step for the video game industry – and has thrown into relief the homophobia within the gaming community.

“It's not trying to be over the top, it's trying to show a gay relationship in a positive light, which is certainly a big change,” says Paul Hunter, managing editor of NextGen Player, a Toronto-based gaming blog.

But while gay and lesbian characters are slowly gaining a place in video games as more than just stereotypical caricatures, the sex scene in the sword and sorcery game, released last month by Edmonton-based company BioWare and available on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 platforms, has drawn hateful comments online.
Homosexuality in video games is nothing new. I remember in the Sims game you could get two men or two women in the hot tub together and eventually get them to fall in love -- although it is a bit harder to do than for two people of the opposite sex.
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Old December 3rd, 2009, 10:52 PM
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Ah yes, I heard about this. You can play as a female and romance a certain female character too, if you play your cards right.
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Yup. Played that story arc first time around. We'll know we've made progress as a society when this sort of thing doesn't make the news.

ETA: Good recap by the guys at Penny Arcade -- http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/7...31_L2biL-L.jpg (language warning)
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Old December 3rd, 2009, 11:21 PM
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I plan on pursuing the gay male romance once I'm done playing my lesbian elf.
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I want to play with a Lesbian Elf.
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Well if people dont like it they dont have to play!!

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lol. You people wouldn't like my lesbian elf, she's really snippy: "Are you done yet?" "Can we just get on with this?" "What are you staring at, human?" :P
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Baldur's Gate 2 did the gay romance arch ages ago; just saying.
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Yeah, but there wasn't an official gay romance in that, those were added in mods.
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Old December 4th, 2009, 02:07 AM
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Yeah, but there wasn't an official gay romance in that, those were added in mods.
Yeah I know there were added ones, but I thought there was a lesbian romance in the standard version - oh, yeah it was a mod.
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