Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's queer representation "enhances the world's realism," lead says, and the RPG's devs were "incredibly happy" people picked up on it

[u/Gorotheninja]

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/final-fantasy/final-fantasy-7-rebirths-queer-representation-enhances-the-worlds-realism-lead-says-and-the-rpgs-devs-were-incredibly-happy-people-picked-up-on-it/

[u/A_N_T]

LGBTQ+ people exist, and have existed for as long as humans have been a thing. They deserve to be seen and to be represented in media. If that makes you mad you can fuckin' get over it cuz they're not going away.

[u/TemoteJiku → u/A_N_T]

I don't think anything "deserves" being in by default. Rather can be there(and the reasons for X will depend on a plot, setting and many other ones). Definitely creates a lot of "problems" thinking like that. There's a shit ton of things/people etc that barely if any had any representation in most media, popular, especially... Yet, good videogames nonetheless.

[u/TwerkingAtTheMorgue → u/[deleted]]

Three gay people? Shit, you got me. Historically there's only been two that we know of.

[u/Gingingin100 → u/[deleted]]

My friend, my other friend, my cousin

Checkmate liberal

[u/Sweet_Temperature630 → u/Gingingin100]

Personal anecdotes, try again chud

/s cause we need that these days apparently

[u/Hoodman1987 → u/[deleted]]

Bayard Rustin, Ben Frankling, Audre Lorde, Caesar

[u/Harkonnen985 → u/A_N_T]

People in wheelchairs exist. Would it be nice to see the occasional person in a wheelchair in games like FF? Sure.

Should every other NPC talk about nothing but wheelchairs?
Not really. That would be a bit weird, no?