the only thing that makes me :facepalm: is the amount of homophobia in this thread. :shakehead:

I think every minority group and lifestyle should be implemented into TES to make sure everyone feels included and validated. Furthermore, I believe there should be a government agency to ensure that each group is receiving the appropriate amount of representation in every facet of the game.

i dont care if its in there per say as long as they dont overdue it like they did with fallout new vegas. two of your companions were gay and you only get 4 to choose from, 5 if you include the useless dog. more than a few of the npcs you encountered in quests were gay. its like they were trying to shout out as loud as possible "hey, look over here......we put tons of gay people in our game."

to be honest i prefer my games to be as asixual as possible simply because if you have a girlfriend there is nothing that a video game can do better. i even stopped doing the "conquest card game" in the witcher because it was just tedious. the only sixual encounter in a video game that was worthwhile and entertaining was Fisto! in new vegas. that was hilarious.

That's not a good argument for including homosixuals

New Vegas pulled it off really well with the companion Arcade Gannon. No stereotype, no 'LOOK HERE I AM A GAY NPC IN THIS GAME', it was just subtle, as it should be. When you think about this character, 'He is gay' is not the first thing that will come to mind.


If it works somewhere, I don't mind if they add it. If there's no point, don't force it.

Didn't we already have more than several hints at homosixual people in previous TES games? (Crassius Curio, etc)

Overall, it's not an issue for me if it's included, it's not an issue if it isn't. TES games aren't about six anyway.

RPG = role playing game, it would add diversity to what role you could play out... But it won't affect my buy as I won't be going down that road wether it's included or not.
But it would be nice to see Bethesda push the limits of role playing, and show to people that sixual orientation doesn't matter.

It's called humor. Did Morrowind need it, did it further the storyl... wait, it actually did in Morrowind. Put it in Skyrim.

Where?

Ohhhh... are we playing the modern political correctness game whereby if you don't give special attention and privileged to a subset of people then that means you hate them?

I would like more references to same-six relationships. It doesn't have to be blatantly sixual, any more than opposite-six couples in TES are blatantly sixual. Just something that's there, not erased.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GIFT

Theres no need for variations in the look of one specific set of armor really, but it adds to the variety and immersion doesn't it? Also I don't think the lore says anything on the subject.

Religion and Politics are in TES, so why not? It would allow peeps to enjoy their role playing experience if they choose to go that route, or it could make it more realistic for some folks. Either way I don't care if homosixuality is in or not.

Hey, i like soccer. I hope that is in game as well. :banghead:

100% completely agreed. People need to grow up, it has been in the last two games, and it'll probably be in Skyrim.

:facepalm:
Disastser striking in 10...9...

Some references to homosixuality in lore/culture, character backgrounds, etc. would be interesting, if only for the sake of variety and depth. But beyond that I can't see sixuality of any kind playing much of a role in an Elder Scrolls game.

You agree on what? The level of homophobia in the thread? Fine... just show us where all this rampant homophobia is.

In Oblivion:

Step 1: Grab a lettuce.
Step 2: Drop the lettuce on the ground.
Step 3: Walk in the direction of the lettuce.
Step 4: Use the adoring fan's corpse as the goal.

So if Skyrim is like Oblivion in it's physics engine, you've got your soccer.

I really don't care about this issue. If it's there, cool. If it's not, whatever. Just leave me to my indifference. I'm not homophobic, I have homosixual fraternity brothers, whom I will call brother all my life, but I just don't care if it's in Skyrim or not.

There should be a "Not relevant to Elder Scrolls" option, because it isn't.

Exactly

I don't see how it would be more "realistic". This is Nirn, not modern day Earth. I don't really know what the position is of the major power groups in Tamriel on homosixuality. I mean, Tamriel clearly displays influences from many cultures, some of which openly embraced homosixuality and others that were quite against it.



Right, because we don't want overt, explicit, references to and scenes of controversial things that may damage Bethesda as a company means we hate gay people. I forgot. Oh, we also hate gay people, apparently, because we don't quite think homosixuality would necessarily make things more "realistic" in the context of the game...

People seem to be pretty darn obsessed about finding out if this crap's gonna' be in it or not, which is where the whole adamant thing comes from.

EDIT: Where on earth is this homophobia thing coming from? We're all :facepalm: ing because we're sick and tired of people making a huge-ass issue of this.

mods please close this... its gonna get bad

This.