“I don’t understand why this is a big deal. Also, I don’t like gay people.”

To “loosely” go along with one of Gita’s comments, I personally would be less likely to play a game if I knew the character was gay.

I think you should familiarize yourself with the idea of representation, and look around online to see how people respond to feeling represented in media they like. It does matter.

Yeah this guy’s a bigot plain and simple should probably dismiss his other comments to prevent this thread from being bumped up.

The better question is do care if she is? We as the player are supposed to relate to the characters we play as in video games.

I think it is important for media where the message that “anyone can be a hero” to actually live up to that thesis.

Blizzard explicitly confirmed multiple LGBT heroes in Overwatch at Blizzcon. From Michael Chu:

Extremely forced? They didn’t give her a “Cheers love! The gay’s here!” saying to spam during matches. This is actually pretty tasteful.

Very odd seeing them embrace this so fast, its like they know all their fans are perverts making love stories.

f.) always have swamp ass.

Being forced to constantly play a gender you don’t want to in video games. I can’t imagine what that is like.

“...but hey, it’s a Metroid game...“

Well, it’s a game with the Metroid branding slapped on...not quite the same thing.

First time in my life that I hear the phrase “Better than Super Metroid”.

Also the rise of the cell phone

Holy FordFocus Batman

I think if I spent thousands of hours making a game, I would code it so that the game re-formatted the hard drive that it was installed illegally on.

Hating feminism is textbook misogyny, dude.

Later tonight, this guy will lie awake wondering why he can’t get a date.

Thank you for proving my point. You’re not just bigoted you’re ignorant as well.