Brokeback Dragon Age

Koku Gamer has an editorial regarding the uproar over the potential gay relationships that can be developed in Bioware's CRPG, Dragon Age: Origins. Coming on the heels of the alien sex uproar that occurred over Mass Effect, this one just makes me yawn.

Personally, I don't care what people do in the privacy of their own homes (as long as it isn't hurting anyone), so it's kind of a non-issue for me. It seems to me that if this were a concern for Bioware, and I haven't read anything indicating that it is, then it seems to me that an easy fix would be just to toggle this option in the gameplay options. Problem solved. Anything beyond that is just bitchy people.

Speaking out against offensive content in video games is so passé and rather than feeling as if they are beating a dead horse, it feels more like a dog chewing on a bone – there really isn’t much meat there but they do it by nature. The relationship between the video game industry and mainstream news is clearly strained at best. In almost all instances where a program’s host has a discussion with a developer, it is routine for the host to belittle or even yell at the developer for destroying today’s youth. The developer usually takes it on the chin and tries to prove that he is a normal member of society with few major defects. Luckily, the damage done by the host is only temporary as their listeners are typically not gamers so winning their dollar was not possible anyways.